Souls and Peaks have such different characteristics it's hard to draw a comparison. I can use a 5m Peak5 in conditions I need an 8m or 10m Soul. Not so much that the Soul isn't powerful, it's more that the Peak kites are faster and more responsive especially in the turns. You can get enough punch out of the Peaks 6m and under to get you out of the water and up onto the foil.
Really hard to compare low-end of peaks to anything else. They are overall sort of “weak” kites, which you’d think would work against low-end, but they turn so fast and hang in lulls so well that they end up getting you up in conditions that would typically require a much larger kite. If you can barely get up on a 5m peak, you would probably also be barely getting up on a much larger non-peak kite, but you will have a lot less power when up on the peak. This is either a good or a bad thing depending on conditions and preferences. One of my best kiting sessions ever required paddling my foil board out through small waves with my 5m peak hanging limply in the sky in what felt like no wind (5-ish knots?) and then using kite plus wave to get up on the foil. Once up I could link several waves and repeat. No way I could get any other kite in the air in those winds, let alone foiling. But at the same time, if you want power at the low end, peaks don’t provide that. Depends what you are looking for.
I have installed recently my middle/high aspect 850cm2 kiting foil on my ancient 80l North LTD raceboard for winging, and it's working great.tmcfarla wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 4:38 pm... One of my best kiting sessions ever required paddling my foil board out through small waves with my 5m peak hanging limply in the sky in what felt like no wind (5-ish knots?) and then using kite plus wave to get up on the foil. Once up I could link several waves and repeat. No way I could get any other kite in the air in those winds, let alone foiling.
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