15-18 knots of wind, gusty, 16m lines on a 50cm ozone race bar. Delta Hydrofoil race foil and board.
Good kite, nice and simple. Launches easily, fills incredibly quickly, bridle is simple to rig up. Tuned perfectly right out of the bag.
Good sheet and go pull, less depower than my race kites, but good bar feel overall. Absolutely no funny business with tip tuck or deformation, very steady and stable in the air. I was a little bit surprised by how slowly it turned, dropped it on the leading edge during a downloop, but it relaunched very quickly by grabbing both rear lines and reverse launching it.
Boosts well, puts you back down on the water very easily, didn't over fly my head or get behind me during the landing.
Overall, steady and easy to fly, fast downwind but a little slower upwind than my race kites.
Fun kite for someone to get into flying foil kites, a hydrofoiler who wants to learn maneuvers and needs the extra float of a foil kite during the transitions, or for boosting without worrying about having to redirect the kite strongly to prevent a collapse. Good all around freerace type kite, very impressed.
The most noticeable difference from my race kites was how much less depower was available in the bar throw, even with the trimmer fully pulled. I was on the 11m model and felt very overpowered a few times, then switched to my 15m Elf Joker 7 and felt perfectly powered for the conditions, so it's definitely one you could rig a bit smaller than normal.
Very interested in how the 15m performs in the light stuff!