What's in your wave kite quiver?

[NHKitesurfer]

What size kites do you have in your wave kite quiver? What are typical conditions where u ride and how much do you weigh?
(I'd start this in the wave kite section but it does not seem to get as much activity)

[Do-it]

17 flite
12 vegas- 2012
10 razor-2013
9 vegas-2012
7 vegas-2013
7 razor-2013

also have a 12m rebel for boosting sessions -rare
and a Naish charger 9m 2011 that is the loftiest biggest boosting machine I've ever been on- but I like powered loops.

160 lbs
nugget 2014
whip 2013.....

2-7 ft waves
7-20mph summer
12- 25mph winters sometimes more

[adamj2281]

12m OR Prodigy
10m/8m OR Razor

Thinking of moving to a Prodigy in 8m as well,like the Razor for 10m for freestyle/boosting. Love the new 12m Prodigy for drift and stability.

[topmick]

If I have too many kites, I find it difficult to decide on what size kite to take. So this year I narrowed it down to 7 & 10m Switch Element 5,s.

Typical conditions, 15-20 knots cross/ straight onshore.

73kg
5'3 Vader

[SSK]

7,9,11 Cab Drifters
9m 60%, 7m 20%, 11m 20% of the time
Anything with 3 fins and a pointy nose
165lbs
Side/side-on, dredging sand bars, 17-35 kts

[Johnny Rotten]

4,6,9 neo onshore wind generated waves
190lbs
5'2 Vader

Wouldn't change a thing

[juandesooka]

165 lb
Knee to head high plus waves. Side on. Rare side off.

Bws noise pro 6m 8m 10m 12m
I like having all one model quiver. ...no riding adjustments if wind increase or decrease . Just change kite

17m flite for light days

[atomic-chomik]

5 meter rebel
8 meter rebel
8 meter dice
10 meter dice
12 meter prodigy
17m flite

Duke
Big Duke
Surfboard

I just wanna be prepared for whatever comes my way lol.

[or6]

I ride prodigies, 7, 9.5 and 12. Seem to be popular on this forum. I ride a 5.0 hb anti, strapless board.

To be honest, i bought the 12 for holidays. We have windgenerated waves, when it's 12 meter weather, there aren't any waves.

[Peter_Frank]

77kg/170lbs

Big kites not used in waves, wont list these as not the topic....

For waves:

9m2 Takoon Furia
8m2 Takoon Furia
7m2 Takoon Furia
6m2 Takoon Furia
5m2 Takoon Log
3.5m2 Takoon Log

Using normal 5'10 - 6 feet pointy nose thruster fin waveboards.

Waves from 2 feet to 15, local areas, sideshore or even better slightly sideon can be found whatever the wind direction.
Winddriven swells with good fetch in some directions, or crappier windwaves in other spots.
Wind from 0 to 40 knots all year, nothing "dominant" really, but lets say 10 to 25 knots the most common.

The 6 and 7m2 and when lighter the 8, are the most used sizes in waves

All the bigger (not listed) kites above 9 are for hydrofoiling or jumping fun or similar, but a 9m2 is used on rare occasions when light wind in waves/waveboards.

Peter

PS: How the h... can you guys ride waves with 17m2 kites ??? I am impressed I must say, but must be the different conditions we have.
Even with a 9 going DTL in fast turns are not very good IMO, no matter how fast or drifting the kite is, so we hardly ever use these big sizes close to 10m2 here for waves, thus these bigger sizes are used for TT jumping/freestyle or other boards and not used for waveriding here.