KITE REVIEWS
Ten Pinna v2; low-hanging fruit
When the wind really picked up -close to 30knots- our biggest test rider came back to the beach within 5 minutes of riding the...
Best Kiteboarding; don’t call it a comeback
A frequent reaction when we were testing the latest Best kites: "Do they still exist?". So yes, they do. Best is still around. But...
Duotone Dice 2021 poppycock details
The Dice is around for 7 years now and most people will know its nature just by watching any kite video from Lasse Walker. ...
Surfr. The poor or the smart man’s WOO?
Since a few months there is another option next to WOO and PIQ: The Surfr app. Why would you choose for another new device...
Duotone Dice ’21 on a (small) diet.
As requested some insights on the changes from a '20 to '21 Dice. In short it has been on a diet. But not on...
The nervous Switch Nano
As we are getting closer to the 1500 Euro mark for the latest A-brand 9m there is a growing request on a serious answer...
Crash for less; the Decathlon Orao
The 750 Euro Decathlon kite is probably the cheapest kite you physically can get in a shop and very attractive for beginners on a...
Naish Pivot 2020. The crown without the king.
With a warm feeling we give the Pivot the biggest compliment it can dream of; the chance that this is a perfect kite for...
low cost excitement: the Ventum Xcite and Xplore
Ventum's main motto; keep kiteboarding accessible. In other words keep things affordable by saving on stuff like dealers and shops. But the real added...
BOARD REVIEWS
The transformable twintip: inobo
Fresh and out of the box thinking gives the kite industry a push in new directions with new opportunities. So we are proud to...
Spleene RS 38 (138*42,5cm twin tip) 2017
The German designed Spleene 2017 RS 38 twin tip has been marketed as their freeride&freestyle board. The figures of the RS 38, with 42,5 cm...
Encore Inferno and Paradise, custom twin tips
Numerous shiny, outstanding colors to style your board from the -friendly prized- new brand Encore. We took two twin tips of them out for a test,...
Decathlon Tribord Zeruko twin tip
The cheapest board we have ever seen. Just 300 Euro's, including pads, straps, handle and fins. Is it just for beginners? Is it crappy...
Lieuwe, Dutch handcrafted twin tips
Recognisable by the wooden look and -of course - the orange logo, the Dutch brand Lieuwe delivers handcrafted custom boards. We see more and more people riding with...
Unlimited designs by Saul Custom
"A board must be my friend, my partner, not the one I have to fight with. I want to trust my board and be sure...
Twin tip F-one Acid and Trax 2016
Carbon or no carbon? That is a relevant question when it comes to the twin tips of F-one. Both the Acid and the Trax...
Impression Airush Livewire Reefer 140 * 42 cm 2016 (with Reefer boots)
Massive, deep multiple channels, surprising big rocker, extremely wide: made to shred some kickers and sliders. This, in combination with the stylish wooden colours of...
Twin tip Clash Reincarnation 2.1 (prototype)
When we were heading for Tarifa (Spain), the playground of Alvaro Onieva, we felt honoured to be able to test his prototype of the...
ACCESSORY REVIEWS
The WOO, the Surfr app, the youngster and some stunning data
14 years old, flying 30m+, living 2 hours from a kite spot and touches the 100 km/h mark during a kite loop. Crazy! If...
Independent harness stress test – the naked truth
What a feeling to deliberately abuse and demolish half a dozen brand new harnesses. For a good cause though; make kiting another step safer....
Harness stress test – how we did it
July 2020 we finally performed our stress test on six different major brands of harness hooks on a test bench. Although the test was...
Is your harness weaker than your lines?
Angry. Disappointed. Hurt. Feelings that are hard to mix with a fun sport like kiteboarding. But when you come down the hard way -literally-...
WOO 3.0 issue solving suggestions
We love the WOO game (although it needs the 3.0 versions to make sure you are not set back about 25%). Each time we...
The save-your-back board bag from Forty1kitesurfing
Board bags on an airport trolley. Not a good combination. Bags tend to fall off. Often the bag will fall one way and the...
Car keys and salt water
Imagine yourself on a perfect day on a ideal spot. On a holiday with 25 knots, waves, sun and you brought all your kite...
Duotone lines
Erik, Patrick, Lars, Glen, Fab, Flow and Yuvy. All readers of our reviews. And all of them suffered from the same issue; wear out of...
North Click bar 2018
We almost didn't write this review. Why? We were waiting and waiting for the second version of the Click bar to reveal any faults....
OTHER REVIEWS
Duotone’s ‘leaking’ inflate
If the start of something beautiful -inflating a kite- is overthrown by the sound of a leak it is bound to trigger feelings of...
An eye for an eye
You don´t know what you got until it´s gone. That applies to many things in live but especially to our eyes. They make us...
Tracer Sky Mount (holder for an action cam in your kite)
It seems something very useful and easy; your own personal camera hanging above you, so you and your buddies get filmed on the water. But...
Comparing line strengths
A nightmare for every kiter is a broken line. To make things worse it happens often right in the middle of a perfect session. Then...
Pre-review: The WEZR Sensor. A device for a better wind forecast.
A key impact on our kite sport; the weather. More precisely: the wind. Every kiteboarder has its way to get his wind prediction information; either...
Review Woo Sports: tracking of jump height and air time -part 2-
After our first test of the Woo we were left with some questions; we found a good relation between 2 Woo's on one board, but...
Review WOO Sports: tracking of jump height and air time -part 1-
It is just for sale for a few months. The Woo Sports is a small waterproof device which measures and records automatically the height and...
Why testing North Dices & F-one Bandits?
We think the type of kites like, Bandit and the Dice (but also similar on-can-do-it-all kites like the Rpm of many others) cover 90%...