First time you've flown them? Was it windy enough?

I too found my 2013 Evo to be slower turning than my Rebels. I have learned to be a bit more aggressive with the Evo - love the forgiving nature of the kite though, it's allowed me to try things that I would not have been able to on a more responsive kite.

Your kite is unresponsive due to lack of wind.

sorry to say but its lack of wind - I have a 2014 9 & 11 and these kites are not slow or unresponsive - i use medium setting and quad control , 24 &22 lines
i have found the 11 needs at least 17kts to start coming to life

Maybe he means fly a 11m on a tt upwind comfortably?

Loftywinds said..

burnsy11 said..
sorry to say but its lack of wind - I have a 2014 9 & 11 and these kites are not slow or unresponsive - i use medium setting and quad control , 24 &22 lines
i have found the 11 needs at least 17kts to start coming to life

WTF!? Your 11 needs at least 17knots? There is definitely something wrong there. I can fly my 12mt in less than 13knots, and that's in the tropics even where the wind is less dense.

There is a guy here that flies his 9mt Griffin even in 12knots! And he's powered and going up wind.

at least 17kts to come to life...... - not merrily mowing the lawn on a fridge door or SB

I guess everyone is different j bought a new 12m evo 2014 and did not like it at all was not me so sold it .
Then bought a dice and loved it etc

I flown both the Evo and the dice both I find slow and kinda boring to use. If you want a freeride/wave kite look no further than the new ozone reos

I demoed 10 kites last season before finding what I loved and what suited my style.
Biggest thing I learned was how different kites are to fly. ( You really have to ignore the hype and sales pitch and get it on the water for a decent run in the correct winds for the size of kite you are flying. )

Also any kite in strong wind felt fantastic. Sounds like you're struggling in light winds, but some kites still feel good in those conditions.

Thank you all for the inputs. Good to hear different opinions. antlanglands, yes I'm using the outside setting, never used the inner setting, what difference does it make?

BTW I've stumbled upon this article: www.progression.me/blog/dont-blame-your-kite-she-might-just-need-a-little-tuning/

I will try some tuning and keep you posted. I guess I should try to shorten the back lines right? Someone mentioned to lengthen them, so I'm a bit confused.

Also going to have more sessions with stronger winds.

Just to update, I've checked my lines, and my back lines was longer than my front lines. I've adjusted and the kite is responding much better :)

BTW, there is a nice Tom Court video explaining how to check lines legth.



Thank you all.

Mate, have the same kite, started kiting in may and had the same problems you probably have all the info you need from comments above but ill star anyway. Stuff I figured out: Out the box the back lines were two knots too short which meant I was stalling the kite just flying it in light wind and it was hell too relaunch, aswell as I only kite in shallow onshore I wasnt checking if all the struts were fully inflated because I wasnt using the clips to clip off this leads to some struts being slightly clipped off and slowly inflating from the main LE after I thought I was done pumping (I call this flying a pap snoek) lastly I was trying to go out in 13-15kn because I am too keen (I weigh 85 pies) tropics wind. The solution: went out last week in smooth water with prop inflated kite, lines tuned and set to hard setting aswell wind 15-17kn and had a absolute blast screaming past dudes on 13s well upwind finally loving the kite.