Neo bridle setting

[johan h]

Does anybody know how the Neo A (high depower, freeride) and B (medium depower, wave) bridle settings effect the low end and up wind performance of the kite?

[atomic-chomik]

Ok ill try. From my experience, the wave setting creates a more grunty kite-more bottom end, better drift(increased AOA?) but less top end before it starts pulling too hard. The free ride setting(A)- goes really good upwind, jumps good, better top end.
They both go upwind well, but you have to adjust accordingly which is another discussion.

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[unbob]

Just to be clear, if I'm not mistaken, the blue attachment point is the "high depower, freeride" setting and the yellow attachment point is the "wave/default" setting.

I've tried both settings and the most apparent difference I've noticed is the blue setting helps in gusty wind to "soften" any high "punchy" gusts. I'd say it makes the kite "kinder & gentler". However, in my experience this is a subtle - not huge difference. Otherwise, no big difference in performance.

[vela99]

The wave setting makes the kite sit deeper in the wind window due to front bridle positioning.
So more grunty but less high wind. Because of this it also does not fly as far to the wind window edge as in the freeride setting resulting in slightly reduced upwind performance.