Yeah in super light stuff you need to have good pumping skills with 800 to be able to waterstart. Definately not easiest, but starts super early with good technique. But once going it will work so well.

With my limited experience with 671 it feels like power hungry foil. For stronger winds or with huge foil kites in light wind. 800 is nice for lightwind kitefoiling. For me it becomes a bit big at some point when wind is 14-16kts ish. Might also buy the 740 thats in the middle. One minus with 800 is...

It depends on the kite as well as the kiter. A good kite can do different loops, but only if it is flown by a good kiter. I flew bunch of kites and for foiling I know how did UFO/Ghost/Reo/Razor/Rally/Turbine/SST/Kahoona/RallyGT behaved in tack/360 with a loop. Some kites are generating way more po...

Nobody needs to make loops or downloops - so if "fear" from the powerspike, just dont loop the kite. And see powerlooping as an advantage in marginal or lighter winds, or just for fun blasting downwind :thumb: But as said, a kite with power in loops has disadvantages when foiling. 8) Peter I agree ...

How about 300kg for front lines? I have no clue what kind of loads you get when pushing hard. Not race level push, but pretty fast freeriding at times.

Sk8 looks like a good foil. Any idea of the thickness? I am looking for something similiar from sabfoil. Been riding 800, its slim with maximum thickness of 13,7 mm. Like it alot, but it has few flaws like it doesn't like breaching at all and a little bit big when wind starts to pick up. Wanted smal...

Yeah its rated pretty fast! The red devils are faster though

I have seen comments that some like 769 for kiting. But not much more than that. I am also interested about the kiting performance. How does it compare to 740, older design with less thickness? Can you breach these medusa pro wings without ventilation?

Budget also plays a role.
1 strutters are nice, haven't tried ufo yet. 1 strutters go for cheap in sale's. Maybe 10m would be good for that range.
Many seem to prefer ufos, a bit more expensive.
Those are for sure simple and good picks.

I would concentrate on relaxing the body and letting that board be the last thing that rotates. It's long time since I have done any kiteloop jumps. What I remember is that really engaging core muscles help to fight the kiteloop so it doesn't pull me, more of I control what happens. But yeah maybe ...