C4 V6

Because some had to start it.....!!!!!

just a heads up as i had issues with my new c4.

if your use to doing unhooked kiteloops by unhooking the kite close to zenith then fishpoleing it your going to get a very flat spinning powerless pull from the kite. what youll need to do is unhook at 45 as the kite takes quite a bit of time unlike others.

UNLESS and here is the best part that took me forever to find/figure out

if you set the kite on "freeride bridal setting" (center bridal lines closest to leading edge knot)

AND

set steering lines closest to trailing edge (lightest bar pressure)

then the kite will unhook kiteloop just fine by unhooking at 12/zenith and fish poleing.

i really do enjoy the c4 in the "freeride with lightest bar pressure" settings. it still allows me to work on shifty3's blind judges while still letting me do kl3's

so yeah +1 for there easy begginer mode from me! just wish i knew that EXACT combination sooner would allow me to do this.


now as for the new kite :D it looks much more the same so thought i would just throw all that in there incase someone buys one and thinks there to **** to do any of there old tricks.

ps actually while im talking **** may aswell try attempt to explain how the bridal setting works. because i thought i understood it but didnt. basicly by setting the bridal to freeride (pulling it in tighter and closer to leading edge) what that inturn does on the front bridal line where your center line attaches that will actually be pulled in closer to the center of the kite (length ways so closer to middle of the leading edge).

now that being said setting up the steering lines closer to trailing edge means there is a larger distance between the steering line connection points and center line conection points there for giving you a greater range of angle of attack.

correct me if im wrong on those last points

One of our boys just picked his up, should have a write up soon.

Also we have extra 5th lines in stock which will fit straight onto 2014 and 2015 bars (not kites) as well.

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They use the same bridle attachment points which are all re-enforced. I just double checked and the 2015 C4 has exactly the same reenforcement as the V6. Ozone definitely wouldn't tell us it is OK if they didn't make sure themselves :)

Can anyone who has actually ridden a V6 comment on how go? Especially on the 5 line setup compared to other dedicated C-kites such as Torches and Razors.

Been out on the C4 V6 with 5-line setup all weekend. Wind has been really all over the place and pretty strong, so haven't had the best wakestyle sessions in terms of landed tricks haha but I sure got to try the performance of it. Both for lighter stuff to unhook in and in real full on 35 knots on the 9m, boosting like crazy.

First impression on the 9m in 20 something knots was that it was really fast and even a bit flimsy in the air when unhooking, didn't really want to stay still. However that was easily solved when I figured out I had it setup to "fast turning speed", so I changed the steering lines attachments to the inner most knots on the wing tips which slowed it down a lot. After that it was like a whole new world. Kite stayed perfectly still when unhooking but was still really easy to loop and was pulling consistently through the loops.

Everyone switched to 7 meters when wind got to 35 knots but I was easily holding down the 9m (I'm 74kg) with minimal depower and went for some big boosts. Man that thing throws you up in the air like a rocket. Not as much hangtime and float as a bridled non-c shape but still massive fun.

In terms of unhooking I can only say that it gives enough slack for the most of us. I couldn't say if it slacks more than X or Y kite, because seriously I don't need it. I'm nowhere close to landing doubles so for me it's not the slack that's missing it's just skills haha. So someone might say "hey this kite slacks even more" but if you're not planning on signing up for the PKRA (or whatever it's called now) anytime soon then I'd say you'll have plenty of slack to go on the new C4. Previous years C4's with the bridled 4 lines gave some slack, but honestly it couldn't really compete with a proper C-kite. This year with the new 5-line no-bridles setup I'd say it's a whole other ballgame.

Can't say much about the bar pressure yet, haven't been out in steady conditions. But the build quality feels rock solid. Good reinforcements on the line attachment points that looks like they can take a real beating, especially on the 5 line conversion points (where the force won't be distributed between multiple points as it is with bridles). The pump valve and one-pump strut hoses/tubes are some of the best I've seen. It doesn't feature a mega oversized inflate valve as we've seen on some brands lately, but it has a full width inflate valve which doesn't limit airflow and pumping up is quick and easy. Switching to 5 lines was straight forward enough, there's a quick video on their website and if you've done it once I don't think you need to watch it again. All bridle lines (6 on each side) have little markings on them so should be easy to reassemble as well. Canopy looks sturdy enough, it's the D2 material so shouldn't be any issues. The chicken loop is huge haha, reminds me of the old Hadlows, but this one actually has an equally long chicken stick that works really well.