NORTH ATMOS HYBRID 138
DATE TESTED: 2021
The Atmos Hybrid continues its role as North’s intermediate freeride and Big Air board. It has a parallel outline more usually used on freestyle boards,...
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The Atmos Hybrid continues its role as North’s intermediate freeride and Big Air board. It has a parallel outline more usually used on freestyle boards,...
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If you’re an intermediate to advanced rider, crossing styles between freeride and freestyle, the Nobile NHP split is a board designed for you. Lovers of...
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Lieuwe have crafted the Shotgun to be a sophisticated ‘jack of all trades’, performing well in freeride, Big Air and freestyle. This fast board has...
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Over the past few seasons Naish have made a number of great improvements to their premium crossover board, the Motion, giving a forgiving and more...
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The Naish Traverse is a ‘new school’ all-rounder; crossing disciplines was the primary goal as Naish set out to design the Traverse with the help...
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Brunotti tell us that this is the Dimension on steroids, and whilst we do not advocate the use of performance-enhancing drugs, we certainly advocate performance-enhancing...
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The Dimension is Brunotti’s all-round board that will work for you in all conditions. It is comfortable to ride and gets going very easily especially...
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The F-ONE Trax HRD Lite Tech is the ultimate all-rounder – from cruising to Big Air, this board has got you covered. Not only is...
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The Apex v7 is a longstanding board in Airush’s line up, and for 2021, at the hands of Dave Kay their twintip designer, it has...
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Fresh to the 2021 collection, the Nobile Gamechanger is a board dedicated to freestylers and wakestylers. Its sintered base makes it durable enough to handle...
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For 2021 the Monarch remains Naish’s pro performance freestyle twintip. Standing true by the hearts of its followers, it has a new top shape that...
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Lieuwe have a wealth of experience building premium and custom kiteboards. After more than a decade of shaping they are truly masters of their craft...
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The Lieuwe Oceana is a true ‘rider’ board. For the Big Air riders and freestylers, this is a board that exceeds expectations across both disciplines,...
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It is no secret that our test team have been fond of the WTF!? freestyle board, and this year is no different. Few performance boards...
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Aimed at the freestyle market, the Master V4 had the highest rocker out of the boards we received from Eleveight. Its construction, while solid, is...
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New in the twintip lineup for 2021, the CrazyFly Legend has replaced the Bulldozer as Posito Martinez’s pro model board for freestyle and wakestyle riding....
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The Brunotti Pro X was one board we wanted to keep a little longer as it would have been great to try it out in...
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Now into its second year, the Switch is a highly versatile freeride board in Naish’s exceptionally large twintip range. Great for those that share gear...
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Carrying the Prime through into their 2021 equipment line up, North Kiteboarding have maintained the easy riding, progression enhancing style that should rightfully make it...
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The Eleveight Process is the definition of a freeride progression board. This is the board that we all know we should get to improve our...
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North have given the larger sizes of their Reach all-rounder a comprehensive rework this year, with a sensible optimization for light wind. It is a...
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One of Slingshot’s longest running models, the RPM, has been around for over a decade and has stood as a formidable World Championship winning freestyle...
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The Flite has been the lightwind kite of choice from Canada’s favorite kite brand, and this year we see the introduction of the new composite...
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Last year the Bandit went off in two defined directions. This was an extremely successful exercise for the long-standing kite range, meaning F-ONE could develop...
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Ocean Rodeo have changed the game materials-wise with the introduction of the ALUULA fabric, and with the HL-Series have implemented the fabric in an interesting...
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CORE have an interesting way of dealing with larger lightwind kites in their product range. Rather than homogenizing it all into one lightwind-specific model in...
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Long established Slovakian kite brand CrazyFly have had the Infinity range in the brand for a few years now, and build the kites in their...
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This is the third iteration of the CORE Section from the German brand, and they’ve really built some pedigree into the latest model. The Section...
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New Zealand currently seems like a development hotbed for all things wind-related and North Kiteboarding’s product development is firmly rooted over there with a plethora...
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Canada’s favorite kite brand have been not so quietly developing the new ALUULA airframe material for a while now, and we have been eager to...
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Naish are a brand synonymous with wave riding with a rich Hawaiian heritage stretching back to the very inception of kiting, and have always been...
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The SST has been a feature of the Slingshot range for several years now and the 2020 sees the fifth incarnation of this benchmark wave...
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The Neo has been an industry benchmark wave kite with a solid competition history in both pure wave and strapless freestyle, as well as some...
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RRD have dabbled with strutless and single-strut kites for several years in the Emotion model, and have produced some classics along the way. The Emotion...
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With the popularity of hydrofoiling literally soaring, the mono-strut concept continues to spread through the kite industry like wildfire, and the X Lite from Fehrman...
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It is no secret Tony Logosz is a man that loves foiling, and last year Slingshot released their first single-strut foiling-specific kite in the form...
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Polish powerhouse Nobile, perhaps most famous for their twintip boards, have developed an increasingly complete kite and hydrofoil line up. The One, slightly unsurprisingly, is...
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Tony Logosz at Slingshot has been hydrofoil obsessed for much longer than most, and produces an enormous range of cross-discipline flying equipment in the Slingshot...
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The Contra has been in the Cabrinha range since the dawn of time, I remember vividly a friend’s 16.5m high aspect C shape with a...
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