Slingshot SST V6
DATE TESTED: 2021
Ben Wilson brings a fresh and experienced set of eyes to the new V6, the most significant redesign in the product line’s legacy.
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Ben Wilson brings a fresh and experienced set of eyes to the new V6, the most significant redesign in the product line’s legacy.
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Replace your LEI quiver with a couple of Koalas and enjoy wider wind range, smaller pack size, no pump and equitable performance.
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Duotone have pulled off a pioneering lightwind masterpiece with a commanding use of the Aluula material.
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Now fine-tuned to make it even more universal, user-friendly and dynamic. A perfect kite to span disciplines.
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The Switchblade’s generous hangtime and floaty characteristics show why this 5-strut kite is so reliable.
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This predominant paragliding brand step into the world of kite design and bring some fresh ideas to kite engineering.
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Say hello to the highly sought-after smaller sized Contra - notably smooth, nimble and lightweight.
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Focused on waveriding with numerous tweaks, F-ONE bring you their next-gen Bandit S2.
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Now leaner and meaner, the RPX is a great update of a kite with a formidable lineage.
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The XS is a 5-strut kite, honed extremely well for Big Air focused performance riding.
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The BOOST is the flagship freeride kite from Flysurfer’s LEI range. The German kite brand keeps on pushing the R&D using their technical background in...
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North have given the larger sizes of their Reach all-rounder a comprehensive rework this year, with a sensible optimization for light wind. It is a...
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One of Slingshot’s longest running models, the RPM, has been around for over a decade and has stood as a formidable World Championship winning freestyle...
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The Flite has been the lightwind kite of choice from Canada’s favorite kite brand, and this year we see the introduction of the new composite...
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Last year the Bandit went off in two defined directions. This was an extremely successful exercise for the long-standing kite range, meaning F-ONE could develop...
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Ocean Rodeo have changed the game materials-wise with the introduction of the ALUULA fabric, and with the HL-Series have implemented the fabric in an interesting...
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CORE have an interesting way of dealing with larger lightwind kites in their product range. Rather than homogenizing it all into one lightwind-specific model in...
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Long established Slovakian kite brand CrazyFly have had the Infinity range in the brand for a few years now, and build the kites in their...
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This is the third iteration of the CORE Section from the German brand, and they’ve really built some pedigree into the latest model. The Section...
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New Zealand currently seems like a development hotbed for all things wind-related and North Kiteboarding’s product development is firmly rooted over there with a plethora...
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Canada’s favorite kite brand have been not so quietly developing the new ALUULA airframe material for a while now, and we have been eager to...
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Naish are a brand synonymous with wave riding with a rich Hawaiian heritage stretching back to the very inception of kiting, and have always been...
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The SST has been a feature of the Slingshot range for several years now and the 2020 sees the fifth incarnation of this benchmark wave...
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The Neo has been an industry benchmark wave kite with a solid competition history in both pure wave and strapless freestyle, as well as some...
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RRD have dabbled with strutless and single-strut kites for several years in the Emotion model, and have produced some classics along the way. The Emotion...
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With the popularity of hydrofoiling literally soaring, the mono-strut concept continues to spread through the kite industry like wildfire, and the X Lite from Fehrman...
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It is no secret Tony Logosz is a man that loves foiling, and last year Slingshot released their first single-strut foiling-specific kite in the form...
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Polish powerhouse Nobile, perhaps most famous for their twintip boards, have developed an increasingly complete kite and hydrofoil line up. The One, slightly unsurprisingly, is...
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Tony Logosz at Slingshot has been hydrofoil obsessed for much longer than most, and produces an enormous range of cross-discipline flying equipment in the Slingshot...
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The Contra has been in the Cabrinha range since the dawn of time, I remember vividly a friend’s 16.5m high aspect C shape with a...
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There have been 12 (that’s right, 12!) versions of the RRD Passion throughout its history, which is enough to make anyone who has been involved...
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The Juice has been the mainstay in the Duotone product range for a while now as the lightwind-specific LEI. This year they’ve shaved off 25%...
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The Dash has been a mainstay in the Naish camp and sits alongside the Torch as a modernized freestyle-orientated performance kite for higher level or...
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Nobile’s R&D department have clearly been active through the pandemic, and with the Game Changer it appears they’ve decided to give their freestyle flagship 50/Fifty...
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The out and out boosting model seems to be an essential addition to most major brands this season and we could certainly be seeing a...
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So far North’s new kite range has been quite discipline-specific and focused on the task in hand, with the Orbit aimed at boosting, the Carve...
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Season 25 yields another variant of the Pivot, making it among the longest standing flagship kite models in the Naish range. It goes without saying...
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CrazyFly have now established their Hyper model into something of a boosting benchmark. There are relatively few high-aspect five-strut kites left on the market, so...
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