What would you buy?

If you were looking for a new kite in the low to moderate (4+ mph range) what would you buy?

If looking for a kite in the 2-10mph range what would you buy?

I already have kites to cover these ranges, but am looking for some additional input on what you like to fly and options I might want to consider?

Elixir, Gemini, Rev, others... what's your favorite?

In the 2-30 range I would buy an Illy 2K. I am a believer in the function of the spoilerz that reduce the speed and pull of the kite.

There has been a small learning curve, but now the only dual line kite I take anywhere is the I2k, and 90# linesets. When it blows above 10 I look for the spoilerz to bring me back down to the wind scale.

The Skyburner Heat - My tricking skills aren't to the god level yet but I was talking to John from Skyburner Friday and he was telling me about how the French champion flier was roto-fading it in a 15 without a problem. I was able to do a tornado with it, first try ever with that trick. It will do everything else, as I can do most everything else except that group of tricks. In addition, it flies a dead straight line and performs everything with a consistent manner, making difficult combos easily re-creatable. Easiest kite I've ever flown to get into a fade, and once there, incredibly easy to hold as well as maneuver, until it's time to exit, which it does VERY easily and gracefully. 540s are really cool with this kite. Very fast, but very stable and the timing is exact, not a slow one followed by a fast one followed by something in-between. An excellent kite if you are working on a routine to music. The kite is just amazing. It's what I'll be flying in comp this year. Add to that a wind range of 2 or 3 to 25 and it's the kite to have. Add to that the price tag... just around $200 (under $200 with the 2300 frame) , and it's the kite to have 2 of. Basically everything the I2K claims to do but with personality, which the Prism line doesn't have for me, and at half the cost. (plus no annoying Mylar to tear)

The most graceful kite I've ever flown, hands down is the PBSK Bad Boy. It has a feel and identity all to itself, fluid, smooth, and reactive. It does what you want when you want as if it can read your mind. Many kites enter a spin slowly and increase speed as they go, the Bad Boy with the skyshark frame enters a spin full speed and comes out dead on, letting you recover from failed tricks that would otherwise end with a nose crunching crash with relative ease, as well as building confidence in trying these maneuvers. It will actually turn nose up from a failed 540 2 feet off the ground and barely scrape. Floating tricks like 540s and axels, slot machines and cascades are just breathtaking. As if defying gravity the kite lingers in the air, rotating far too slow to possibly beable to sustain altitude, yet somehow it does, and if timed right, gaining it while in motion. No other kites will win over a crowd of non-kiters like a PBSK will. They make your flying look deliberate. No longer do you get people saying, 'he was doing good flying till just then,' (right when you did the axel or fade) The Bad Boy does these things so smoothly and gracefully that there's no question it was intentional. If any kite could be the definition of Ballet, it's the Bad Boy. It's also one of the easiest kites to do the Flash with, because of how slowly it rotates and how long it remains flat in a 540, then right after that coin toss to fade to pancake to 540 combo it'll track a line like a precision kite. Peter's entire line of ULs are just incredible. Custom graphics and colors any way you want them, every kite is built by hand by Peter himself, not a staff of people working under him, but the actual man. You'll pay for them, but it's an investment in beauty and Zen (AoxomoxoA in kiters terms). My bag wouldn't be complete without one.

The Skyburner Heat - My tricking skills aren't to the god level yet but I was talking to John from Skyburner Friday and he was telling me about how the French champion flier was roto-fading it in a 15 without a problem. I was able to do a tornado with it, first try ever with that trick. It will do everything else, as I can do most everything else except that group of tricks. In addition, it flies a dead straight line and performs everything with a consistent manner, making difficult combos easily re-creatable. Easiest kite I've ever flown to get into a fade, and once there, incredibly easy to hold as well as maneuver, until it's time to exit, which it does VERY easily and gracefully. 540s are really cool with this kite. Very fast, but very stable and the timing is exact, not a slow one followed by a fast one followed by something in-between. An excellent kite if you are working on a routine to music. The kite is just amazing. It's what I'll be flying in comp this year. Add to that a wind range of 2 or 3 to 25 and it's the kite to have. Add to that the price tag... just around $200 (under $200 with the 2300 frame) , and it's the kite to have 2 of. Basically everything the I2K claims to do but with personality, which the Prism line doesn't have for me, and at half the cost. (plus no annoying Mylar to tear)

The most graceful kite I've ever flown, hands down is the PBSK Bad Boy. It has a feel and identity all to itself, fluid, smooth, and reactive. It does what you want when you want as if it can read your mind. Many kites enter a spin slowly and increase speed as they go, the Bad Boy with the skyshark frame enters a spin full speed and comes out dead on, letting you recover from failed tricks that would otherwise end with a nose crunching crash with relative ease, as well as building confidence in trying these maneuvers. It will actually turn nose up from a failed 540 2 feet off the ground and barely scrape. Floating tricks like 540s and axels, slot machines and cascades are just breathtaking. As if defying gravity the kite lingers in the air, rotating far too slow to possibly beable to sustain altitude, yet somehow it does, and if timed right, gaining it while in motion. No other kites will win over a crowd of non-kiters like a PBSK will. They make your flying look deliberate. No longer do you get people saying, 'he was doing good flying till just then,' (right when you did the axel or fade) The Bad Boy does these things so smoothly and gracefully that there's no question it was intentional. If any kite could be the definition of Ballet, it's the Bad Boy. It's also one of the easiest kites to do the Flash with, because of how slowly it rotates and how long it remains flat in a 540, then right after that coin toss to fade to pancake to 540 combo it'll track a line like a precision kite. Peter's entire line of ULs are just incredible. Custom graphics and colors any way you want them, every kite is built by hand by Peter himself, not a staff of people working under him, but the actual man. You'll pay for them, but it's an investment in beauty and Zen (AoxomoxoA in kiters terms). My bag wouldn't be complete without one.

The Skyburner Heat - My tricking skills aren't to the god level yet but I was talking to John from Skyburner Friday and he was telling me about how the French champion flier was roto-fading it in a 15 without a problem. I was able to do a tornado with it, first try ever with that trick. It will do everything else, as I can do most everything else except that group of tricks. In addition, it flies a dead straight line and performs everything with a consistent manner, making difficult combos easily re-creatable. Easiest kite I've ever flown to get into a fade, and once there, incredibly easy to hold as well as maneuver, until it's time to exit, which it does VERY easily and gracefully. 540s are really cool with this kite. Very fast, but very stable and the timing is exact, not a slow one followed by a fast one followed by something in-between. An excellent kite if you are working on a routine to music. The kite is just amazing. It's what I'll be flying in comp this year. Add to that a wind range of 2 or 3 to 25 and it's the kite to have. Add to that the price tag... just around $200 (under $200 with the 2300 frame) , and it's the kite to have 2 of. Basically everything the I2K claims to do but with personality, which the Prism line doesn't have for me, and at half the cost. (plus no annoying Mylar to tear)

The most graceful kite I've ever flown, hands down is the PBSK Bad Boy. It has a feel and identity all to itself, fluid, smooth, and reactive. It does what you want when you want as if it can read your mind. Many kites enter a spin slowly and increase speed as they go, the Bad Boy with the skyshark frame enters a spin full speed and comes out dead on, letting you recover from failed tricks that would otherwise end with a nose crunching crash with relative ease, as well as building confidence in trying these maneuvers. It

will actually turn nose up from a failed 540 2 feet off the ground and barely scrape. Floating tricks like 540s and axels, slot machines and cascades are just breathtaking. As if defying gravity the kite lingers in the air, rotating far too slow to possibly beable to sustain altitude, yet somehow it does, and if timed right, gaining it while in motion. No other kites will win over a crowd of non-kiters like a PBSK will. They make your flying look deliberate. No longer do you get people saying, 'he was doing good flying till just then,' (right when you did the axel or fade) The Bad Boy does these things so smoothly and gracefully that there's no question it was intentional. If any kite could be the definition of Ballet, it's the Bad Boy. It's also one of the easiest kites to do the Flash with, because of how slowly it rotates and how long it remains flat in a 540, then right after that coin toss to fade to pancake to 540 combo it'll track a line like a precision kite. Peter's entire line of ULs are just incredible. Custom graphics and colors any way you want them, every kite is built by hand by Peter himself, not a staff of people working under him, but the actual man. You'll pay for them, but it's an investment in beauty and Zen (AoxomoxoA in kiters terms). My bag wouldn't be complete without one.