Local Beach: New Brighton near Liverpool. Open sea with big low tide deep lagoon and regular at Rhosneigr and Newbrough on Anglesey
Favorite Beaches: New Brighton, Rhosneigr, Fleetwood, Newbrough, Blackrock sands lake Como (Italy) El Medano
Style: kite foiler since 2017 Ttip since 2000
Gear: My rule to gear choice is "IF IT DONT BOOST ITS NO USE" Groove Skates 110cm 2022 editions kraken mast systems 103k and 93k. Kraken fuse 703k Duotone SLS Evo's -- 11mtr/9mtr/7mtr/6mtr/ 4mtr RRD. Duotone 2022 click bars x2,my own custom made lines fitted, (modified lines now available for the flite99 shod duotone bars)
Bar lines made up to any length in a choice of strengths, power lines, trim lines, pigtails, leader lines, bridal lines, elasticated lines, I make and fit them all, free fit and tune service, quick turnaround,drop me a message, find me on messenger, Colin Moore.
hate any flutter, and as i spin my kites a lot i need to establish if this is a feature on any size of alpha before i order one
anyone using the larger sizes who can say?
I was on flag beach recently - there was ozone team to shoot HL V2 and alpha. A lot of people fly alphas on beach also. From what i saw it doesnt flap much - much less than other monos. But if you insist on completely noise free kite than any mono will fail on you. Even my Neos and many other 3-struts can flutter in certain turns. If you want completely noise free kite get HL - in my book anything bigger in LEI format than 7-8 - /for big wing foiling/ is useless . 0-12 knts is foil kite territory. HL V2 - looks super nice. Freeride foil kite till 10-12 knts are now better in anything that matter relaunch, hang, drift, stability and even turning speed - if you compare comparable powerwise f.e. HL 7m vs 9-10m LEI - 7 HL is quicker especialy with low line load.
They use new "flysurfer" fabric - i.e. very light and very water and air tight. At least it looks like that. New normal is supposed to be lighter than V1 UL. There wasnt UL yet. New 13 - flyes and turns faster than last year 12 /that was everybody rave about/. I just briefly flyed 9 back to back with my FSR 9 on beach. They turn and feels very similar - /FSR is fastest turning foil I know/ They looks in bigger sizes more hi aspect than V1. I dont ride it on water - was too shy to ask . But from what i saw they are dream kites. As i stated many times i dont like Soul. They are to powerfull and spikey for freeride HF for me. New HL /and suppose older too/ are nothing like that. For me it is nobrainer kite... Guy from ozone team purposely crash them many times and restart them in condition where no tube has even a chance to restart - low onshore wind a waves pushing you towards shore.