dude if thats ur pic, you're fooling yourself if you think you are 95 kgs.

dude ... thats my sister i'm hurt!

Robbo I thought you meant Pic of kites... I see we are on the same wavelength now[}:)]

I have flown one. It is a weapon, but it requires heaps more hands on than a Rebel does, so I dont think it is the kite for you, if that is the parameters you are setting yourself.

If you are a North fan, a Vegas would be better.

It does boost though, but it will bite.

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Originally posted by ltim

Jock - that thing is a mobile bomb shelter!

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you talking about my avitar ( that my ex after she had lost 80lb had too leave her she got too skinny for me )

If you are happy with your rebel why not get a 10 or 8m rebel?

It's got plenty of bottom end and plenty of boost. More than rebel anyway.

I haven't come across a kite in the last few years that is difficult to keep parked, so am not sure we are taling about the same thing.

I just found that it is super fast and reactive so therfore can get to places you do not want it to be before you know ie after you have been dumped by a wave or stuffed up a trick.

Kind of like what used to happen on old c kites.

I am not bagging the kite it just doesn't suit my style (or lack there of)

I'm 94kg and I've got a 14m Rhino 07 and a 9m Rhino 07. For me the 9m is good from about 20knots. I think it all depends on what type of riding you do. If you want to do some unhooked stuff and kiteloops, as well as big jumps, then I would definitely recommend the 9m rather than the 10m, particularly if you already have the 14m Rebel. As far as 'hands on' flying goes, I put my 9m on the slower setting and it's very stable in the air. The boosting is excellent.

Joe

yeh! I got the first unhooked session today, did a few s-bends and railys. Very good. The s-bends were powerful, I was flying so that my body was horizontal and could have easily landed blind but chose not to since I have some troubles with my shoulder and didn't want to do anything stupid =)
Kiteloops are excellent when hooked in, since it's so easy to make the desired arc and thefore the desired power and pull. Very easy to do high jumps with back loop kiteloop combo as the kite goes quickly enough to get up again and eases the landing.
To me the 10meter R07 is very close to one kite quiver, after having Skywalker light wind 135cm and Jaime Pro L boards. I weigh 75kg. Of course one at my weight needs a bigger kite when riding in chop/beach break etc. where you need grunt as this kite gets its 'grunt' from the speed.
Summa summarum; very easy nice kite. Haven't had a chance to test its relaunch capability after the kite is on its back 5th line deployed.

Rusty, moving the back lines to the forward (slow) setting, made the kite a little less responsive, which suits my riding style. But the 9m still flys really fast and therefore boosts really well. My 9m 07 Rhino definitely boosts better than my 10m 05 Rhino.

Joe

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Originally posted by hanikai

Cabrinha Xbow 2. Power, Depoer, Control, Stability. Nothing beats it for any conditions imho.

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Did you see a pimp my kite as the tittle at the top of the page?

I'm tired of people thinking that a 4 line, bridled kite, with pulleys is the answer to everything. Some of us like 5-lines "hybrid" or "c-shape". Big thanks out to the companies that support us and a huge thumbs down to people who try and sell us something else.

I for one am saving the coin for a 10 and 14 rhino or rebel, and have no desire to buy a kite with a bunch of spaghetti hanging off it. I find threads like this informative. It's to bad people who think it's ok for a kite to invert to barge in and talk about something irrelevant.

Start a "my kite inverts and i don't care" thread and leave us poor simple 5 liners on our own, WE DON'T CARE!