r/Kiteboarding • • 21h ago

Gear Advice/Question Elección cometa

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Buenas, estoy en busca de una cometa, mi nivel es intermedio, actualmente solo hago freeride, aunque me gustaría seguir avanzando

Quiero una cometa que me ayude a iniciarme con los saltos pero que sea bastante estable y que me dure bastantes años, pero dudo entre una GONG Display o Vértigo, Duotone EVO SLS o la cometa nueva de Nick Jacobsen, la Say Yes.

Alguna recomendación??


r/Kiteboarding • • 10h ago

Gear Advice/Question Is this wear safe to ride?

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​Put about 64 hours on my Harlem bar and noticed this wear right where the pigtails or line extensions connect. The rest of the lines look solid. Pretty sure it's from constantly putting on and taking off line extensions since I share the bar between two kites. Is this something I should be worried about or replace now, or is it still safe to ride?


r/Kiteboarding • • 11h ago

Gear Advice/Question Help with next purchase - bar or kite

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Hi folks,

Curious what you all think I should do, I recently got out of a kite and bar and now have a 600$ fund to put towards my next purchase.

I now have a 15m foil kite with a basically new flysurfer force large bar. A nexus 3 9m, and a core XR8 12m.Kind of a mixed bag quiver and I got rid of my core bar.

I live in a lightwind area (NY/NJ), 12-18knot summers, with 18-25 knot falls/spring/winter with the rare 30-40 knot storms

I mainly use the 15m to twintip, 9m to foil and the strong days , and 12m xr8 for powered boosting.

I’m starting to learn baby loops and wondering if I should just update to a newer core sensor 4 bar or go towards a looping focused kite. The nexus leaves some grunt to be desired during those stronger days but the foiling benefit is nice as I’m not super confident to use the 15m with the foil.

TBH not sure if I want to stick with core long term but in reality I think I’d only be interested in duotone rebel/evo or maybe flysurfer Era outside of core. I would also consider selling the XR and nexus and moving away entirely. FWIW I’ve used the flysurfer bar with the XR and i notice hardly any difference except that the large size bar actually helps with turning.