Duotone DRIVEN Magazine No.04

Our philosophy at Duotone is to ride as small of a kite as possible for the waves. After all, we believe that you want to surf the wave while concentrating as little as possible on the kite. The D/LAB construction also allows our wave kite, the Neo, to generate more power in the low end. For a 10 square meter kite, this is a huge advantage. You simply get on the water much earlier with this kite. And another very specific wave characteristic has a particularly positive effect on the Neo D/LAB. When wave surfing, you virtually always ride into the kite on the wave. The lines lose tension during the bottom turn, making it very difficult for a kite to react to steering input in this state. So you have to send the kite very actively towards the wave so it doesn’t fall out of the sky. This causes the kite to fly back and forth in the wave. When there is a lot of wind, you can fly the kite straight up. But especially with little wind, you must send it very aggressively toward the wave. Because at the top turn, you have to get the kite back in front of the wave so that the kite doesn’t pull you out of the wave. However, the Neo D/LAB needs much less energy at low line tension to give it an impulse to climb. So you don’t have to fly it as far toward the wave, and you don’t have to fly it as far forward. The sinusoidal motion you make with the kite in the wave is much less. You can keep the kite much steadier overall and concentrate better on surfing the wave. NEO D/LAB “Needs much less energy at low line tension” D / L A B 54 D R I V E N