I'm pretty sure everybody has broken something during kiting. It doesnt matter if its a broken bone, board, shredded kite, leash, harness, bodypart, whetever.

Post up a picture, I'm sure I'm not the only one who keeps breaking stuff.






Plenty more to come once I get my camera sorted.

Please note that this is not meant to be a slag fest for manufacturers. All gear can be broken, just some gear breaks more often than others

I will try not to gush but wont promise anything. It is so hard not to. Hookworms proposal of marriage is understandable - this kite is just sooooo easy to live with. I truly love mine too. (sorry gushing already - see).
COMFORT
No.1 of all the advantages (IMO) is the ease of flying. If you are no longer an olympic athlete and looking to get as much time-on-water as possible then the Rev is 'IT'. I have had a couple of 4hr sessions now & still come in pain & ache free. You just dont get tired flying this kite despite its size.
This may be because the power delivery from the kite is so super smooth. Gusts hit as gradual increase in power down at the water end; and; using your throw delivers an equally smooth increase or decrease in power. Lovely
No jerking yourself off on this kite
BAR PRESSURE/CONTROL
Bar pressure is truly minimal. You can hold power on with two fingers. I deliberately tested it yesterday by carving upwind as hard as possible one handed. I just kept going; for literally 100's of metres; till my back leg started to complain from all the pushing . And its low pressure at no cost. I have never understood the 'low bar pressure with good feel for kite position' story. I still dont understand it but the 13M Rev certainly does deliver it???? Right from the start I had no problem knowing where the kite was pretty much all the time. (dont always like where i put it but at least I know where it it is)
LIFT
Lift is amazing. I now know what they mean when they say 'it rips you off the water'. I have now officially been ripped . I am still not much of a jumper (yet - though that is about to change very quickly with this kite) but already the floaty airtime has had me spotting my landing several times in the one boost. Now that's a fun experience
STABILITY
Amazing - this kite just parks and pulls. Just for fun the other day I set the stopper ball onto cruise control and just laid back, no hands, for the full length of half a dozen tacks in a row. (I even did a few little no-hands-load'n'pops and only crashed twice trying ). Flys like a guide dog.
I suspect it will be a big hit with the wave riders.
RANGE
For me - a lowly skilled 70kgs on a 137TT in sloppy choppy water.
Holding ground at 11kts quite comfortably but it needs about 13kts to really give me any freedom to play. NB I never kite the flatside until Im upwind in the slop (snm) but Im pretty sure I would be upwind at about 11kts in flat water?
BAR SETUP
OMG - you just have to see it to believe it. SS have always been super smart with bar setups but they have truly excelled themselves this time round. Everything below the bar, everything free spinning inc the 100% emergency depower. If this is not the cleanest, neatest, most effective, useful bar setup on the market I havent seen the one that is !!
DOWNSIDES
Truly nothing yet. Little niggle (if u must) though. I have noticed that it does not want to point upwind as tight as my old TD1. I am finding that it might take 2 upwind tacks to get up as far as 1 tack might have on my turbo ?? This is a bit odd as the Rev appears to be a higher aspect kite than the turbo ??? very strange - maybe its just me or maybe its just a low end phenomenon as I havent really flown my new kite in any decent wind yet

Cant wait for the arrival of my 9M. NB: I ordered one the first day I rode the 13M. I will post a review of that too asap.
Hope it makes me smile as much as this one did does IS Its gonna be a great season.

ps 10M TD1 for sale in the bought & sold