This website for one of their other projects (41' foiling motor yacht) seems to say they are a Swiss engineering company: https://foiler.com/en/home#Enata
I have seen a lot of their videos were in Dubai though.
Jzh_perth wrote:
I don't want to speak out of turn, but I know a couple of the Flysurfer Pro riders and they are normal guys with jobs like the rest of us.
Yeah, the guys I've met have been fairly regular guys who spend all of their disposable incomes on kiteracing, but get deals on their gear. It's not unusual to see a guy pull up in a $3000 car and pull out $10,000 worth of brand new race kites and foils
It's no secret Enata is owned by Maxime Nocher's family. It looks like it's limited to riders that train with him for the most part currently. Who knows if/when that will change...
They using a "turbo" setup like a diablo and the very same bridle lines as the diablo. After coming from fone and flying the diablo, maxime I'm guessing was doing his research ? I like the idea of a pure race kite and a not so but quite fast maybe for other terrain type kite. Agree with mossy on that it's very sonic/race maybe chrono/r1 . Prices are, well, they taken the top spot in "f*** me how much!" But then they are proven in the arena I guess so can ask any price tag they want. We seen how quickly the pros change their sponsorship and quiver. Maybe they believe people will see up and buy theirs?
They using a "turbo" setup like a diablo and the very same bridle lines as the diablo. After coming from fone and flying the diablo, maxime I'm guessing was doing his research ? I like the idea of a pure race kite and a not so but quite fast maybe for other terrain type kite. Agree with mossy on that it's very sonic/race maybe chrono/r1 . Prices are, well, they taken the top spot in "f*** me how much!" But then they are proven in the arena I guess so can ask any price tag they want. We seen how quickly the pros change their sponsorship and quiver. Maybe they believe people will see up and buy theirs?
They took one of the foil kite designers that worked for f one with them, which is why the designs are similar. It's a Banga hydrofoil essentially too after they bought a stake in the company so it's not like they had to start from scratch with in house r&d as a start up, which is probably a good thing for performance. Apparently the initial Enata race kite was originally intended to be the DIablo v3 but after their departure Diablo went back to the drawing board to tweak the design. But all this information is a half year out of date so I could be wrong. I'm also not 100% whether it was Maxime's or Mazella's (i get there names confused sometimes and both ride Enata gear so I could have been wrong about that too) family that brought the bank to invest. It's one of those two but I haven't been in the loop with everything going on race wise for a while. If you asked around from people in the know you could find out.
They using a "turbo" setup like a diablo and the very same bridle lines as the diablo. After coming from fone and flying the diablo, maxime I'm guessing was doing his research ? I like the idea of a pure race kite and a not so but quite fast maybe for other terrain type kite. Agree with mossy on that it's very sonic/race maybe chrono/r1 . Prices are, well, they taken the top spot in "f*** me how much!" But then they are proven in the arena I guess so can ask any price tag they want. We seen how quickly the pros change their sponsorship and quiver. Maybe they believe people will see up and buy theirs?
They took one of the foil kite designers that worked for f one with them, which is why the designs are similar. It's a Banga hydrofoil essentially too after they bought a stake in the company so it's not like they had to start from scratch with in house r&d as a start up, which is probably a good thing for performance. Apparently the initial Enata race kite was originally intended to be the DIablo v3 but after their departure Diablo went back to the drawing board to tweak the design. But all this information is a half year out of date so I could be wrong. I'm also not 100% whether it was Maxime's or Mazella's (i get there names confused sometimes and both ride Enata gear so I could have been wrong about that too) family that brought the bank to invest. It's one of those two but I haven't been in the loop with everything going on race wise for a while. If you asked around from people in the know you could find out.
This makes sense to me. Would be silly to start from scratch when proven formula already exists. Each new pure bred race kite just pushes performance a little further along.
Still waiting for that moment something new brings a bigger step in performance than double trailing edge cells.
