RIP Jason, we are still in disbelief ourselves! we lost a top level rider and a good friend.

You all probably dont give a damn but does anyone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid lost my account password. I would love any assistance you can give me.

@Ryder Ahmir Instablaster =)

@Crew River i really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@Crew River it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D Thank you so much you really help me out :D

Nice to hear from you Jeff!

Хернёй занимаются от нечего делать. Как можно нахваливать продукцию с таким пиздецом по качеству?

Nice - good to know!

They are already working on improving and polishing the bridles. This is V1.0 of a kite - we believe these issues will be resolved in the future

@@OurKiteLife Then there should be a lot of potential given your impression of the kite.

Thanks! We would love to do a review like that, but it’s not always easy to get our hands on a new kite to review.

Good question! We didn’t test for that so couldn’t tell you

A few people have mentioned Kitech in the comments - we are going to look into it :) thanks!

If they improve the bridles would you reconsider?

thanks, the video took about two months to make, so by the time we finished we didn't pay much attention to music as we just extended it through the whole video - will make sure to vary it in the future.

We’d be up to give it a try! 🙂

No idea that slingshot made a foil kite - will have to look into that

@@OurKiteLife в моем разговоре с Романом немного касались темы того как другие бренды с ним взаимодействовали. А вообще Роман работает над многими проектами. Например уже несколько моделей крыльев рдб под его авторством.

@@OurKiteLife да слингшот это были эльфы

@@OurKiteLife kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8p3f6mDy-DNnX0.html

More hang time on elf as compared to other two kites. Sonic is smaller however

@@OurKiteLife Do Elf kites have markings on the bridle for mixer tests?

@@berkkadakgil3083 I was told that they do, but personally I forgot to check for them during this review

@@berkkadakgil3083 They do - I asked Elf to put mixer test marks on all kites they send to Canada

We were borrowing the kite for the review so we haven’t flown it since, and no one from our crew switched from Flysurfer to ELF

we did, we just didn't capture that part on film as we were busy helping him.

Thank you

Haven’t heard of these kites before but we will look into them now!

@@tomek_kot thanks Tomek, we are waiting to hear back from them

thanks Rodrigo, yes we have tried pansh kites and few others own them here. If you like playing around with bridles, trying to tune them, yes it is possible to make them work. Out of the bag they will get you on the water, but it may not be the most enjoyable experience compared to other brands. I would personally rather consider older kites if you are on a budget, like speed 5's or even speed 3's as they would probably work better.

@@OurKiteLife I've a 18m Pansh & is useless, tried shorter lines all one length, the original has power lines 20cm longer than the back lines, it flew better with all same length 23 slingshot bar.

Thanks for the suggestion - we will look into them. Haven’t heard of the company before.

Ha well you guys havent yet experienced the best ! Seriously I found these online and started importing into New Zealand for friends etc. We all think they are the best for Kite foiling over any other kite tgat we have ever used. My friend just sold ALL of his Flysurf Souls to upgrade to Kitech FRS kites. They are hand made in Hungary eith lots of care and attention to detail. They now use the same materials as FS from beginning of 2020. Get in touch with Attila at Kitech. He is the owner.

@@SailingREHAB thanks will do

@@SailingREHAB just wrote them an email

isn't it just for racing? to be fair none of us really race, so would it be a fair comparison?

@@OurKiteLife yep, it is :)

​@@OurKiteLife i have elf joker version 5 15 meters was made in 2015, AR = 7, freeride lightwind machine kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l5qKjNiH0bzLaIk.html

Doing well and new video coming soon 🙂

@@OurKiteLife 🫶🏼

we actually have one rider on the beach who has it

@@OurKiteLife soul vs smile will be interesting review

Search "elf kites" on Facebook/Instagram

Soul is Speed6 :)

Speed 4 12m plus strapless wave board 30l. Fun for me from 10 kt 😍

Do you wear a life jacket when you kite?

@@OurKiteLife I find your response a bit argumentative... ..do you ever kite in 25-30+ knots in open ocean conditions?.... with big Swell and 4-5 foot relentless breaking chops everywhere where your dropped foil will get munched up in seconds, let alone the break zone) ... if u did you would realize how much more safety an inflatable kite offers one as opposed to foils. It is not just about staying afloat and keeping your head above the water( most impact vest will offer that anyway) .. .. its also about how often u will encounter a situation like that where u will need to swim back with a heavy, messy collapsed water soaked/filled foil gear.. or even having to dump the gear and hoping u will be able swim back safely ( which may take hours ) in conditions i described above ..... and all that in the presence of the BOSS. Add on top all the lines and possibilities of getting tangled up in them and the kelp! Also the violent reaction of foil kites to turbulent air.. (collapse in holes with massive explosive pop when a gust follows... inflatables are not subject to that as much.. they maintain their structure).... Furthermore with inflatables, self rescue is much much safer as one can ride the kite.. rather than get dragged by the kite with most of the body submerged in the water (again ..while every breaking chop further collapses the foil ... leading to having to swim back with a collapsed, messy, rolled up, heavy foil... or no kite at all) Yes Foils have their advantages in performance in the right conditions... but safety is not one of them. There is Zero question that inflatables are safer.. in multitude of ways ....Life jacket or not.

@@Leowavekid fair points, can't really argue as we mostly kite in flat to small chop in winds of up to 25 knots. Even if it is 25 knots, here in rest lakes all the wind is upstairs meaning not much shore break. Foils work for us, and I can picture them not working that well in high waves if u drop them. Good point

Foil kites have been around since the very beginning, and only recently have they started being used for hydrofoiling (last 5 years). We've used foil kites since 2007, Speed 1s, Speed 2s, etc... Later we switched to North Rebels till about 2017. We had 3 16m kites for low wind. Eventually, a rider on the beach bought a 15m Speed 5 which completely outperformed Rebels as compared to older versions. The Speed 5 had very nice handling and faster turning speed. A month later we switched from Rebels to Speed 5 15 for low wind kite, but we still used rebels (7, 9, 12, 13) for everything else. Then the Soul came out, and completely outperformed Rebels for our style of riding. Fast forward to today and most of our local riders have switched to foil kites. If anything, there's a perception in the kiting world that all kites have to be inflatable on water, which is false in our view. With regards to safety, foil kites can be more difficult to swim with, if you don't know what to do - but same can be said about LEI's kites. It comes down to personal preference, and here in Ontario, where the wind is typically low, foils make sense to us. What kites do you fly Travel Guide and why?

That is an extremely outdated point of view. In many cases current foil kites are safer in light wind and even easier to relaunch than inflatable. And performance inflatables in big sizes is not even close to the foil kites - foils have much better upwind, hang time, and jump height!

Give the new foils a go, a few of us flew foils, and this summer more flew foils. After watching me pop a foil kite that was down for 30 minutes or so back into the air, a few more souls started appearing. Foil kites stay in lighter air and do handle mountain gusts better than tube kites. In the end, if there are so many people flying these sleeping bags, they might be onto something, give it a go and make your own opinion. Btw my 15m and 8m bar and lines pack up into the size of a 12 m tube kite, and I wear flip flops in the snow.

@@alekseydes yes.. ...but no where near inflatables as far as safety is concerned.. and i think that is what Travel Guides main point was.

@@Leowavekid exactly right!