We dont have "slowly increasing" winds like you have, so taking a small big kite and staying with it, is not used here, as it is low pressure systems mostly.
Wind might just as well drop slowly, instead of increasing.
Then we have summer winds, which can be seabreeze.
Meaning the wind will always drop when going out after work, but can last many many hours, or after 15 minutes - depends on when you can leave work, and whether it lasts till 17 or 19 o'clock (always dies in this period)
So the opposite situation, you ride with one size, and might need a bigger one eventually - but once out you ride on with the given size, as when you get "warmed up" you can ride in even less wind, and it feels smooth to end a session like that.
And rigging up in a fading seabreeze makes no sense, as when you have wasted time on this (bigger kites takes longer to rig than the small ones), you need to rig up another size, or have to stop as wind is dead now.
Whereas having a size that gets too big when wind increases, low pressure system or weekend seabreeze starting, I go ashore and rig down no doubt - takes only 1 or 2 minutes to set another smaller size up.
Because it is single skins, superfast to put down and leave and set another one up, or pack down and set another one up - with dual skin kites I would not do this, not as complex as tubes no, but still not as "just do it" as single skins.
Different conditions, and different preferences
Have been thinking about WHY I love the 6 m2's so much:
Because they were literally a game changer for me !
Earlier, I needed wind for a 7 m2 tube for anything that was fun in terms of carving fast and free, meaning 15 knots.
In this wind you could also start on a freestyle windsurf board, or a TT, and almost on a surfboard, and wingfoil is in its sweetspot
Whereas now, with a 6 m2 Peak you are powered just fine in 10 knots, and can carve freely and fast, while everyone else having "other kites" that being Souls or tubes, ride with 10 m2 or more, and they can do nothing except riding back and forth - just like me earlier with tubes in this wind
When wind picks up so 6 is too big, wingfoil is an option, and other boards will soon be fun also - but in the 6 m2 wind, weather is usually splendid and there is no doubt at all that you, and everybody else, is kite hydrofoiling.
This "gamechanger" (sorry for the worn out expression, but for me it was) in terms of being able to ride even more freely and fast turning or drifting in less than half the wind strength powerwise, is soooooo amazing for me.
Difficult to put in words, but I have found out thats why I love the 6 m2 - it has moved all the previous foil fun down by a huge margin, instead of needing quite some wind.
Yes, the 5 is even better, and the 4 again better, and the 3 - but in terms of my pleasure overall, the 6 wins hands down
Wheres the 8 is a dog, compared to 6 and down....
But 8 is used a lot because it takes up no space and easy to rig and pack, and moves wind limit down, so almost always my choice instead of pumping a light tube or picking a dual skin bigger kite - both being a lot more hazzle in terms of respectively pumping and deflating.
Being out with friends, also on Peak 6'es is great, and the "WOW" from everybody else who got "other" much bigger kites, when they see us having a blast super lively turning back and fourth - somehow another pleasure ha haa (maybe not that likeable to have it that way, but this is how it is...
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Even non kitesurfers find it impressive and amazing - earlier it was the fact we could ride in crazy low winds with really big foil kites, now it is the fact we can ride in low winds (a tad more but still low) and zip around on our hydrofoil boards on flat water or waves, and zip around with the kite too.
I know I am odd, but I think thats why I love the 6 m2's
Peter