Bandit 8m or 9m in combination with 11m?

[johan h]

Want to buy a f-one Bandit next to my 11m Bandit. Should I take a 8m or 9m. Is the low end of the 9m much better compared to the 8m?

[Havre]

I don't know the Bandit specifically, but 11-8 seems to be what many shops recommend for girls and fairly light weight riders looking for a 2 kite quiver.

People are different. For me 11 - 8 makes more sense than 11-9 because of the overlap. But I don't mind trimming the kite while others prefer to have smaller gaps between kites to be closer to always riding the "perfect size".

Are you expecting to ever be realistically overpowered with the 9? Low end for me would be less relevant because at the low end for a 9 I would have swapped to my 11 in any case.

I got a 12 and a 9. Wouldn't really be much of a problem replacing my 9 with an 8. 9 and 11 would be to close to make any sense for me personally with my Enduros.

[Da Yoda]

I'm a big advocate of the 3m gap on the bigger size with a three (or two) kite quiver (e.g. 6,8,11 or 7,9,12).

[andylc]

13 (Breeze) 10 7 (Bandit 12) is my quiver and there’s enough overlap between 10 and 7 to expect similar between 11 and 8. If you prefer being perfectly powered most of the time then you could have 2m between each size but 3 work fine for me.

[kiteswede]

Which year bandit are you considering?

Probably 8 is best but 2018 bandit 8m are more focused on boosting/jump than surf, 7m is more surf that year. 2019 i guess is more like bandit s. Not 100 percent sure.