please if you can let us know more on the surfboard and twintip use of you try it into...derek440 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:58 amWithout wanting to diverge too much the Marabou2 hybrid has done exactly that - injected some waveriding magic in the v2 over both the single skin Shaman and the old Marabou1. This magic comes in the form of a higher perforamance profile and better fabric plus lots of additional bridle attachments points on the canopy plus stiffener battens not just on the LE but also from running the back of the LE inflatable area to the trailing edge. All of this results in changes in riding performance that make it more like a LEI in some ways but with the benefits of a SS/hybrid foil kite. The difference in performance from MarabouV1 (and probably for surfboard waveriding) are like night and day, its that much better. Yesterday I had a surf/rollers foil riding session on the 6m Marabou2 and was going upwind directly into the cross-shore swell and then gybe and riding downwind along/across the rollers and got the feeling I could have been doing the same thing on a surfboard, but would not have previously done that on the Shaman (like peak) or the Marabou1. Also in Sardinia when testing the 10m Marabou2 a few weeks ago I crashed the kite into the shore break at Poetto beach, leading edge down and whilst getting the board a wave broke through the kite, pretty much worst case for putting the kite in the water, but small shore break thankfully, I wound the lines in on the bar, put the kite LE up whilst still in the water and unwound and it launched and drained perfectly and had another hour in that session, win!bragnouff wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:30 amTrue, my initial response to Archer started with assuming the Hybrid flies similarly to a Peak... Which is a pretty reasonable assumption as this is actually the way FS is marketing it. Light, nimble, easy and drifty like a Peak, but with reliable relaunch.
But maybe they injected some waveriding magic into it and forgot to tell us about using it on a surfboard. Could be in for a surprise! Since you have some Hybrids in your hands, we're looking forward to hear more about that.
Seems like a head to head comparison when both are readily available will be very interesting.
On the flysurfer website they mention that the 'peak' power of the Hybrid is less. I.e. that spike in power when you whip the kite in a loop. I would guess that is why they have sized up when doing a comparison charts. You just need a bigger size to give you the same inertia for that waterstart.Gerwinnaar wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 12:43 pmI am looking forward tot the real life wind range comparison of the Flysurfer Hybrid and Peak 5. I really like my 6m peak 5 (and it gets me on foil in 10knots)but according to the indicated windrange chart to replace the 6m peak 5 should be replaced by a 7.5m hybrid, which sounds bigger and slower, especially since some think the 8m peak 5 does not offer the peak awesomeness (but it’s still better then 12+ LEI light wind kites).
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