Nog een review Thruster 14m2 Vs Torch 14m2 (2006) 
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www.extremekiteskiteboarding.comGot out yesterday for about 2 hours on the 14m Thruster. Winds started out around 12-19mph, averaging around 15mph or so, then dropped to around 10-17mph, averaging around 12mph or so. I was at Villano Inlet with an outgoing tide that helped add a little boost when you hit the current. Here are a few comments:
-Self Launch: sand on the wing tip works fine, but also did it one time like a bow kite...attached my chicken loop to my board buried in the sand, walked up to the kite, stood it up, walked back, hooked back in and launched the kite
-Initial setup: pre-rigged out of the bag, it had too much front line tension. I remember Daryl said something about adding another knot on the back lines 6-8inches up...so I did that. That seemed to make it just about right.
-Speed: Pretty fast for a 14m. Flew it back to back with a 2006 14m Torch, and this kite is way faster.
-Bar pressure: very, very light. Again, compared to the 14m torch, it was probably half the bar pressure. One other guy took a spin and thought it was too light feeling and it took him a while to get used to knowing where the kite was. I thought it was just about right. Just depends on what you are used to. To me, light is good..
-Lift: Winds were very light for really testing the jumping, but from what I could tell with the few gusts that approached 18mph or so, it is pretty lifty. I think this will be a killer jumping kite
-unhooked: Okay, this is what I wanted to test. The other hybrids I flew all worked great hooked in, but when you unhooked, they usually back stalled unless you had lots of front line tension(depower strap pulled in to the max). This kite was rock solid when I unhooked, even in the stupid lulls.
-Bar/lines: Has a cool locking cleat that you slide down where you want it on the chicken loop rope. Took me about 2 tacks to get used to it, but once I did, I liked it a lot. Very similiar to the slingshot sliding stopper in terms of being quick and easy to pull down, lock, unlock etc... different design compared to the Slingshot one though. Only negative was the little rope loop that is attached to the cleat came off. Didn't affect things, other than I just grabbed the cleat directly with my hands to slide it up and down. One other thing is the chicken loop rope is very thin...not sure how long it will last. More to follow as I get more time on the kite.
-Depower: It is a mix between a C shape and a bow. I guess it falls in the hybrid category although I know it is supposed to be a C shape. Bottom line, is if you push the bar all the way out, most of the power is killed. Not all of it, but probably 80%. I like this because you can let go of the bar for a second to unspin the lines and the kite won't fall out of the sky. It still flys for several seconds. Again, this was in pretty light wind, so I am assuming in higher winds it will stay up in the air even longer and will probably have more pull to it. It was nice to drop in on what little waves we had, and you could kill most of the power to try and surf the wave.
-Water relaunch: missed a stupid handlepass and dropped it in the water. I dropped it right where the current was pushing the kite towards me, so it was hard to get tension to flip the kite over. This was also the time the winds were really light, so I was having a hard time getting the kite back in the air. I was close to shore and could stand up. After about 1 minute of trying to get it to flip over, Daryl came by and said "grab this outside line"...I did, and the kite when right up in the air. I was either doing something wrong, or Daryl is just that good!
Overall: I like the kite a lot. It is a good mix for me becasue it works really well hooked in, it should jump really high(need more wind to verify that), it works really well unhooked, you can lock in the power, and it is fast.
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ze hadden het merk wel iets kleiner kunnen afdrukken maar goed het doet misschien niets af aan de kwaliteit 
