Tried the new 12M X-Bow 2 yesterday and traded my 12m Cross-bow in today.
This new kite is mint! Used it today with surfboard and twin tip. Compared to the old one it is faster(-feels like the 9 old crossbow), has more bottom end (feels like a 14), bar pressure is between the old crossbow and the new link (which has no bar pressure).

Hangtime: Wooooooh
Simplicity: cool
Price: bend over

Ok, today I had an inversion with my 12M Xbow II and tried what I thought would work....and it did!

15-20 knots, kite inverts and hits the water....all turns ugly as the kite would not "fix" itself after numerous flys up and hit the water attempts (the "bounce"). The kite became a soggy mass. I tried pulling one of the outside lines but I had to pull to much line and felt unsafe with all the line near me. So, I moved the saftey to the ring on the one line. All one has to do is stay cool, unclip safety from chicken loop, then grab the plastic depower thingy, pull it toward you and clip the safety in to the ring. Then I popped the quick release and out goes the bar while kite killing to one line. The kite was then on one line for long enough to correct itself. Finally, realed in the leash line, got to the bar and just made sure I was well away from the leash line while holding the bar, lines feed out and kite goes up sans invert...perfect! Pull down on depower plastic thingy again, unclip the from the ring and clip in to chicken loop........ and voila kite 100% and off again.

PS I wear gloves.

Hey gruezi, so did the kite mid flight invert? I have never seen one do it, my switchblades never have. Obviously it happens, anyhow just to clarify an inversion is that when the kite actually turns itself inside out or is it just when the kite ends up flying upside down but still keeping its correct form? Both seem like inversions to me but read on previous post some debate which was what.

myself have only had a couple of inversions in the waves by being pushed towards the kite from a wave hence line slack and this was in a session where the wind sometimes past the top end of the kites recommendation.

Wasn't a mid flight invert as has happened with Xbow 1.

Hit water and flipped, can't recall all the details as I wasn't looking at the kite.

Anyhow, the inversion I'm talking about is the kite going inside out and then flying like that. You know the one, where the wind is hitting the canopy on the opposite side of where it supposed to.