Hi,
I hope you can help me regarding the following issues:
1) I plan to change my/our complete kite quiver from cabrinha to naish because I think the Park will better fit to my/our riding style (unhooked, kiteloops AND waves). Last year I rode the Nomads, but now they seem to be more like a real freestyle/wakestyle kite as the drifter covers waveriding.
What's your advice regarding sizes? Me (73 Kg) and my girlfriend (52 Kg) will share a 4 kites quiver and we are both experienced, riding twintip and surfboard (Naish global 5'7 and 5'10)... Last year we were happy with 5, 7, 9 Nomads and 11m Switchblade.
I am not sure if we should take 5, 7, 9, 12 (11) or 6, 8, 10, 12 Parks? How is the windrange compare to cabrinha Nomads?
2) We will be on a longer kite trip (4 months!) starting end of August from Europe. Do you have any idea when Naish will release the 2013 lineup? I would like to avoide buying the 2012 park models in June/July and seeing the 2013 models a month later... What I have in mind is, that Naish releases their kites around July/August? Maybe one of the distributors can help! It should be Naish's interest to get 2 more happy clients. We are very loyal as we rode cabrinha for 10 years and changed the quiver almost every year...
Hope you can help! See you on the water!
J