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.

BWS 8m

Real simple bar system with plastic sheathing, above clam cleat aka ozone so immediately I liked it.

Bloody fast, with excellent feedback all the way through the power delivery. Drift unreal, can't see how much better you could get it, man these wave kites have got good! Steers when depowered. Power delivery linear and smooth but little apparent wind build up, that being said who wants that in the waves.Yet it still will fly nicely through the window, you just gotta redirect it a little and go again. Jumping, forget it. This kite has one purpose...waves.

But they have built a fly and follow wave kite, an immense improvement on the older BWS (i may offend some but this is my review so get fcked....thankgod it is different) in terms of how it flies and quality of build all round. It just looks right hey. For serious wave riders you need to add this to your demo list now. Really impressed hey. Did I say it turned bloody fast...on/off type power.

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