Now it's actually officially online:
https://ozonekites.com/products/water-kites/r1-v3/
Mine arrive in about 2 weeks, so stay tuned for a quick review before christmas.
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Gunnar
Interesting you picked up on this. To me, this is the biggest difference between Ozone design filosofi compared to how other brands put it.davesails7 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 09, 2018 5:08 pmI'm very interested by this description, "OUR UNDERSTANDING OF TRUE RACE PERFORMANCE IS NOT ONLY RAW POWER AND SPEED – IT IS THE COMBINATION OF EVERY ASPECT OF A KITES CHARACTERISTICS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HOW EASY IT IS TO ACCESS ITS FULL POTENTIAL."
I've been on the Flysurfer VMG for a few months. Performance is amazing, but is in no way easy. It is crazy fast, but I crash a lot more often. Interested to see if all kites are going this direction, speed at the expense of ease, or if this statement from ozone is true.
I wouldnt say ozone is the one brand with this philosophy. In the first gen race kites, I found the Flysurfer sonic to be more user friendly than the Chrono. 2nd gen the F-One diablo was definitely easier to fly fast than the R1V1. Sonic 2 was very user-friendly as well.
LOL no, it was Ozone who started this race kite thing (except some Russian small brands for snowkiting) with their Chrono v1. I remember very well first encounter with them, constant collapses after collapses... I felt sorry for those guys who had bought them.
Elf kites were also present on water race-board class by their russian team riders and they did very well on events they participated. I think Elena Kalinina won most of her starts. Dorovin did well too on mens. Sorry if I got the names wrong. But that year women's world champion was riding Speed-series. But Elf riders would probably won the titles if they participated more. That woke Ozone.
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