Posted by Eppo in "The 4 kite review" thread... thanks for kicking off some 2014 season review discussion.

My school maths teacher couldn't spell or use punctuation (as Eppo can), but he was a sticker for order (I became an accountant). Hence why this post has been split into its 4 component parts:

"Just an awesome winter day, starting at 13 to 15 steadily increasing to 17 to 19 and at times a little above. Not a huge swell but enough to see what drift capabilities are there.

Rode a total of 5 kites today, but 4 of them were newies.

Only be brief as none of them are my focus this year, but it may serve to give a little info to those who are. I will do it in order of riding them. All of them were on my cruiser Pro.

LF Envy 9m

Has a decent bottom end, was only 13 to 16. Power delivery is smooth and linear. No pulleys this year. Not a fan of bars with such a long depower, unless you are 9 foot tall why do you need all of this. Below bar depower, fine works okay. Ends are stupidly big with a real cut in each side which could be a freestylers nightmare with a leash wrap, stupid, they need to look at this in my humble opinion. Swivel good worked every time and I was looping the sht out of the kite.

Got some obvious pop for those wake stylers, gets real decent once the wind kicked in. Decent feel through rotations and loops. Drift really decent.

Matt from BWS was down there I got in his new BWS and he took it for a spin. Delayed steering in general with no steering depowered and seems to stall a little waiting to turn. Moons, matt, sam all on SBs said the same thing after riding it. My brother was less forginving in his comments so i will just leave it there. For a serious wave kite I don't know. For those that want to ride waves and extend themselves into some wake style (unhooked once just to see and it was very stable) a decent option. There a better.

Any spelling errors I just can't be bothered fixing..."