Hello All
I was out the other day on my 2012 9 metre Starkites Taina and my mate was on his 2011 12 metre Cabrhina Switchblade.
We are both at around about the same level, if he is not a little better than me. We also weight about the same.
What I did notice was that I was able to stay upwind and boost just as high as he was on a kite that's 3 metres larger.
Oh I forgot to mention we were both on similar size twin tips.
So my question is have I been using too large a kite all this time? As normally I would have been out on a 12 as well.
The wind was about 17 to 23 knots, but it was wind with a pretty fast tide which must have taken a bit of power out of the kites.
I much prefer the speed of a smaller kite espcially now I'm getting into more tricks using kiteloops.
Regards
Paul