Contact   Imprint   Advertising   Guidelines

Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Forum for kitesurfers
Mas Kite
Rare Poster
Posts: 1
Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2020 6:04 pm
Kiting since: 2000
Weight: 105
Local Beach: Acassuso
Style: all
Gear: LF
Brand Affiliation: None
Has thanked: 0
Been thanked: 0

Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby Mas Kite » Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:23 pm

We would like to receive information, reviews, coments and more.....

Kiteaddicted
Rare Poster
Posts: 34
Joined: Sun Aug 28, 2016 6:20 am
Local Beach: Pt Chev, Auckland
Favorite Beaches: Te Atatu, Auckland
St Kilda, Melbourne
Style: Freeride
Gear: Airrush Switch twin tip
Naish Global Surfboard
9m Slingshot Rally
12m Airush Union
18m Airush Lithium Zero
Brand Affiliation: None
Has thanked: 3 times
Been thanked: 1 time

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby Kiteaddicted » Thu Jul 09, 2020 12:21 pm

I learnt on a 12m DNA and switch board. Great kite to learn on and still have the board. Cranks upwind and my mate changed his axis board after trying mine.

ScoopZ
Medium Poster
Posts: 188
Joined: Thu Mar 01, 2018 5:36 pm
Kiting since: 2010
Local Beach: Scotland.
Style: Catching bumps/carving.
Gear: Ozone 2014 Cats - 10/12.
Airush 5'6" Cypher
Airush Sector 60.
Has thanked: 29 times
Been thanked: 24 times

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby ScoopZ » Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:17 pm

The bar ends are small, the lines can flop off easily when you're trying to set up.

Surfboards are quite light, even in flytech construction from 4/5 years ago.

User avatar
elmarco
Medium Poster
Posts: 88
Joined: Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:28 pm
Brand Affiliation: None
Has thanked: 5 times
Been thanked: 20 times

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby elmarco » Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:00 pm

The service, quality, people and brand mission are spot on.
Their gear performs exactly as advertised.
I've been kiting for nearly 20 years (wake, surf, freestyle & foil) and gone in stages dealing with different brands, mainly, Airush, Liquid Force, Cabrinha, Slingshot, Naish & Best. All of those brands have their strengths and weaknesses, but Airush has come out on top from my personal experience.
There are a lot of good kite brands out there, but there's also a handful of shitty ones. Airush, no doubt, is in the circle of one the best kite brands out there.

Good luck with whatever you're up to.

User avatar
alexeyga
Very Frequent Poster
Posts: 1094
Joined: Thu May 31, 2007 12:41 pm
Kiting since: 2006
Weight: 200
Favorite Beaches: Ocean shore!
Style: Freeride dongling
Gear: Eleveight / Shinn / North / Axis / Slingshot / Airush
Location: Montreal, Canada
Has thanked: 3 times
Been thanked: 35 times

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby alexeyga » Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:28 pm

Kites: among the most durable on the market, if they suit your needs. For me they killed the Union as of V4 - so I'm on something else now.
Bars: not the best in terms of gimmicks - but very solid, dependable, easy to service and maintain. I've been running a pair of Airush bars for the last 4 seasons, sill on original lines, but with new trimmers and chicken loops. Don't plan on changing these any time soon.

Good stuff over all.

Coloradokiter
Medium Poster
Posts: 184
Joined: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:07 pm
Has thanked: 27 times
Been thanked: 4 times

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby Coloradokiter » Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:01 pm

We use Airush gear in our school. We do not do retail so we really depend on how our gear holds up. Airush has not let us down for since we changed over 4 years ago. There is a lot of good manufacturers around but we really are pleased with Airush.

Gpet78
Medium Poster
Posts: 76
Joined: Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:00 am
Brand Affiliation: None
Location: Greece
Has thanked: 10 times
Been thanked: 0

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby Gpet78 » Thu Jul 09, 2020 8:40 pm

I can only comment for the kiteboards and I have owned 4 Airush TT boards and 6 TT boards from other copmpanies through the years and I can say that the Airush boards are very very durable and can handle a lot of abuse, and they are also well designed and the models I owned ticked many boxes for all around TT performance.

ciscokitesurfer
Frequent Poster
Posts: 259
Joined: Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:40 am
Local Beach: Altona
Favorite Beaches: Pacasmayo
Style: wave, cruise
Gear: Neo
Brand Affiliation: None
Has thanked: 0
Been thanked: 2 times

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby ciscokitesurfer » Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:51 pm

Owner of a Ultra 12 meter kite. I will never sell it. So far the best kite for light wind. I have a liuthim, very good kite but there are so many brand with very good kites. Also, past owner of DNS, create kite for bigginers. The bars are ok.

PeaBody
Medium Poster
Posts: 75
Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:45 pm
Style: Free-ride
Gear: Anything to fly
Brand Affiliation: None
Has thanked: 8 times
Been thanked: 8 times

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby PeaBody » Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:38 am

Never had an Airush board but love the kites.

Have had Naish, Flexifoil and Wainman in the past but moved to Airush Varial x, then went to Waves and now on Lithium V11... great for free-ride, and foiling, a great all rounder. Never had any issues with the bar and lines, strong construction and great quality, does everything I want it to.

What are you looking for recommendations on?

HALF
Frequent Poster
Posts: 233
Joined: Fri May 04, 2018 2:50 pm
Kiting since: 2018
Weight: 94
Gear: 15m FS Soul2, 12m Reedin Supermodel, 9m Cabrinha Radar, 9m Flysurfer Speed5, 14m Airush Ultra v2
Airush Switch 144, Naish Monarch 138, Naish Monarch 136, Airush Slayer v2
Has thanked: 36 times
Been thanked: 44 times

Re: Airush - Any recommendations about the products?

Postby HALF » Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:13 am

Board quality is great, my first board was an 2010 airush switch, and i still use it to this day, bulletproof construction.
I am using a 2019 Ultra v2, so i cannot comment on the durability, but it is a great performing kite.


Return to “Kitesurfing”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], bragnouff, Brent NKB, Camineet, droffats, Faxie, Google [Bot], jackovitale, JeffS, Trent hink, Yahoo [Bot] and 579 guests