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Please lettuce know what gear for buzzing again

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Created by 0llie 2 months ago, 10 Nov 2024
0llie
NSW, 176 posts
10 Nov 2024 9:18PM
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Been a bit bored on the reo/ whip combo, last 10 years
I remember the days at secrets with my ozone cat /shinn dundee when the doctor broke loose,
Those days were special , sun glinting off the waves etc big power boosts nice floaty carves, I miss it

Looking for a board kite combo that's angry aggressive /buckle up etc
For the new season any suggestions?

Mark _australia
WA, 22732 posts
10 Nov 2024 8:15PM
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MOzCustoms board and RRD Religions.
proper bottom to top wave hacking..
and not fragile stuff with experimental construction thats more about graphics than utility

KPSS Used
NSW, 402 posts
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11 Nov 2024 12:18PM
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Ozone Reo V7 in standard construction or the Ultra X, and the new Ozone Code V4 were made for exactly what you're looking for is my 2c worth.

bjw
QLD, 3647 posts
11 Nov 2024 1:57PM
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Kinda sounds like you need the Enduro for boosting and riding waves ?

0llie
NSW, 176 posts
11 Nov 2024 6:15PM
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Yea bjw on the money.
Something that's can go big, carve just have a ball,
Thinking an old slingshot fuel or similar

How good are the new enduros ?

theDoctor
NSW, 5784 posts
11 Nov 2024 11:55PM
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for free ride
ozone edge
suprising how it can still tear up the waves, turn, drift and loop
and boost to the moon on your way back out

0llie
NSW, 176 posts
12 Nov 2024 8:32AM
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theDoctor said..
for free ride
ozone edge
suprising how it can still tear up the waves, turn, drift and loop
and boost to the moon on your way back out


The Godfather !
What board will pair nicely to an edge?

Phoney
NSW, 605 posts
12 Nov 2024 10:27AM
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theDoctor said..
for free ride
ozone edge
suprising how it can still tear up the waves, turn, drift and loop
and boost to the moon on your way back out




+1

I did all of my long downwinders in Brazil on an Edge. SB and TT. The Enduro backstalls and falls out of the sky, sh1t kite for wave riding imo.

towradgi
NSW, 430 posts
12 Nov 2024 5:33PM
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My 2009 ozone instinct sports 9 and 11 metre in waves and surf do all that is required that a hotshot wants drift, boost, quick turning ,easy upwind, light bar ,bombproof fabric ..

0llie
NSW, 176 posts
12 Nov 2024 7:47PM
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Phoney said..

theDoctor said..
for free ride
ozone edge
suprising how it can still tear up the waves, turn, drift and loop
and boost to the moon on your way back out





+1

I did all of my long downwinders in Brazil on an Edge. SB and TT. The Enduro backstalls and falls out of the sky, sh1t kite for wave riding imo.


How is it possible an edge can hunt the wind and stay further forward in the window but be good at slack line drifting on a wave? Thought kites were good at one or the other but near impossible to be amazing at both due to physics

KPSS Used
NSW, 402 posts
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13 Nov 2024 7:49AM
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0llie said..

Phoney said..


theDoctor said..
for free ride
ozone edge
suprising how it can still tear up the waves, turn, drift and loop
and boost to the moon on your way back out






+1

I did all of my long downwinders in Brazil on an Edge. SB and TT. The Enduro backstalls and falls out of the sky, sh1t kite for wave riding imo.



How is it possible an edge can hunt the wind and stay further forward in the window but be good at slack line drifting on a wave? Thought kites were good at one or the other but near impossible to be amazing at both due to physics


Well my experience differs substantially to some of the posts above. All I can guess is that the people writing that the Edge is great in waves, are not really surfing the waves, they must be just kiting in the ocean and get on an unbroken wave and kite along the unbroken face well away from the pocket?
The Edges will end up in the drink if you try to ride them down the line, downwind. Riding waves downwind is very different to riding on a wave thats not breaking and riding on that wave upwind.

For what you have described you want from a new kite the Ozone Enduro V5 would be perfect, but if you actually ride a surfboard most of the time then the Reo V7 would be a better choice and if you want the best possible drift, sharp turning, light bar pressure, fast/short depower throw, then get the Ultra X version.

daggy
WA, 528 posts
12 Dec 2024 6:58PM
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Dude, i think you answered your own question.
Get off the surfboard and back onto a good twin tip.
Find your shinn and a nice boosting kite and go get some adrenaline back into you.

IanR
NSW, 1280 posts
15 Dec 2024 11:51AM
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If your looking to get onto a kite that works well in the surf and doesn't feel like a learner kite get a demo of the Core Nexus 4
They have improved the drift of the kite considerable over the Nexus 3 but it has not reduced it's ability to jump big and float well
If you fly the kite aggressively it will reward you with incredible performance.



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