BANDIT BRAINCHILD
The kite features a new hybrid bridle system, offering greater control, precise handling and a more direct connection. Riders will appreciate its crisp bar feel and consistent steering pressure, as well as its predictability across the wide wind range, whether in the low or high end. The aspect ratio has also been slightly increased — the highest ever on a BANDIT — which optimizes airflow for smoother, more responsive turning and enhances depower efficiency. The depower system is also further refined with a focus on accessibility, allowing for a more precise positioning within the wind window. Lighter fabrics from Brainchild ensure improved responsiveness without compromising the overall feel and performance that have made the BANDIT a legend. The overall shape, flight characteristics, and versatility remain timeless, ready to meet the needs of every rider in every discipline and every condition.
TRIGGER V2 BY BRAINCHILD
With its five-strut, high aspect ratio design and outstanding light weight, the TRIGGER by Brainchild is super responsive and efficient, while featuring a very intuitive and direct handling. With its light steering pressure, this kite is a joy to fly, and it remains incredibly easy to always know where it stands with closed eyes. The fixed bridle system keeps the shape stable in the air in the entire wind range.The TRIGGER also stands out for its ability to send controlled loops with the right amount of boost. It catches you perfectly after every trick, and makes looping safe and easy for everyone, while allowing pros to perform double loops with ease.The TRIGGER by Brainchild features a new and exclusive panel layout concept, where the panels on the wingtip areas are all joint together into one panel, as well as the main panel between the tip and the S2 strut. This new panel design enhances the aerodynamic behavior of the kite, as well as reduces the amount of seams, therefore decreasing the weight even further.An exciting new opportunity is here with the advent of a new kite manufacturing facility in Northern Macedonia in Southeastern Europe, headed by Ralf Grösel. The production facility, named Brainchild, is distinguished by its adoption of state-of-the-art assembly technologies and an unprecedented commitment to sustainability, offering an environmental record unmatched in the kiteboarding world.Brainchild uses new, state-of-the-art, extra-light materials as well as innovative techniques like PROWELD – where all the segments of the leading edge are welded together rather than stitched, which leads to an overall increased stiffness of the kite and even further weight reduction. Moreover, the kites are now digitally printed instead of using typical screen-printing processes. The freedom offered by this printing process allows us to explore new and unique graphics and colors.
TRIGGER V2 TEC
The TRIGGER perfectly embodies this philosophy, positioning itself as both a podium and an accessible kite, promising to become a bestseller and be talked about this autumn. With its five-strut, high aspect ratio design and light weight, the TRIGGER is super responsive and efficient, while featuring a very intuitive and direct handling. With its light steering pressure, this kite is a joy to fly, and it remains incredibly easy to always know where it stands with closed eyes. The TRIGGER also stands out for its ability to send controlled loops with the right amount of boost. It catches you perfectly after every trick, and makes looping safe and easy for everyone, while allowing pros to perform double loops with ease.
TARGET
The TARGET is a mid-aspect ratio kite, bringing incredible stability, power, lift and user-friendliness. The aspect ratio has been tuned perfectly for each size, and on the smaller ones, the chosen aspect ratio brings a super dynamic and powerful feeling. This kite is very direct to steer and reacts instantly on the lightest bar impulse. It delivers confidence-inspiring and intuitive handling, so you will always know where it sits. It will effortlessly go anywhere you want it to at any time and position itself perfectly for any maneuver. The TARGET is the true definition of power on demand, bringing you the power, lift or boost you need in the exact moment you want it. With its huge power potential within the bar throw, you can easily control your riding speed. Sheet in and get infinite power as the kite accelerates as fast as your foil goes with a very comfortable pull. Sheet out and it immediately loses any traction so you can cruise around effortlessly. The wingtips are perfectly stable, allowing tight turns right at your fingertips. The profile and weight distribution of this kite were carefully designed to deliver the best drift stability possible. No matter how far it travels in the window, it will always float back without collapsing. With this profile offering plenty of stability even in gusty and turbulent conditions, you can trust the TARGET with eyes closed. After each gust, it will easily return back to 12. You will also enjoy a reduced lateral pull for a more comfortable ride. The TARGET offers easy upwind abilities, control in gusty conditions, downwind angles, strong performances in the high end, and overall, a ton of freedom on the water. Thanks to its high-speed air intake valves and their optimized shapes, this kite inflates really fast, and the wingtips fill almost instantly so you can be on the water before anybody else. Relaunching is always possible, even in very light wind and when an inflatable kite wouldn’t be able to rival. The TARGET is built from a long-lasting and robust 38g canopy material offering increased waterproofness, with insignia half-circle reinforcement on every attachment point for outstanding durability. Perfect for light to mid wind ranges, the TARGET is available in six sizes: 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15 m². Riders who like to play around, do a lot of looping and narrow carving will love the smaller sizes of the range from 6 to 9m². Their huge power potential and late backstall allows you to ride with a 9m² already in 7-8 knots! Even high jumps are possible in very little wind. These sizes are super reactive, fly fast and offer great drift capabilities and easy handling. The bigger sizes are just as fun and will suit everyone who likes to freeride with the lightest breeze and who wants to have maximum lift and hangtime on jumps. On the 13 and 15m², the stability of the kite at the zenith has been fully optimized for ultra-low winds. While developed with foiling in mind, the TARGET also excels with a twin tip or for snowkiting. On a twin tip, the hangtime and lift is unbelievable, and this kite will take you back upwind easily and in no time. Navigation is intuitive and super easy, even in 9 knots. On snow, the TARGET accelerates fast and is extremely dynamic and responsive, bringing the maximum boost and lift for jumps and loops. Aim high with the TARGET, F-ONE’s new foil kite.
BANDIT 17 TEC
Our CODE-TEC fabric offers an exceptional combination of lightness and strength. With less elongation and higher tear resistance, the CODE-TEC provides greater structural stiffness, minimizing deformation under load. This leads to a more precise and sharper feel, as well as a more reactive handling, all while ensuring your kite maintains its shape in any conditions.This material has been central to the new BANDIT TEC’s design, marking the entry into a new era of this emblematic F-ONE kite. Sporting renewed graphic design as well, the BANDIT TEC is once again more versatile than ever, adapting perfectly to all disciplines: strapless, foil, Big Air, freeride, wave, etc.Responsive and precise, this BANDIT TEC boasts exceptional handling, with enough support through the bar to let you feel every movement of the kite without forcing.In strong winds, the kite positions itself at the edge of the wind window, maintaining a constant forward traction with no side pull. The result is remarkable upwind performance, without the need for too much edging, saving energy and freeing up your board.In the low end, the BANDIT TEC offers you maximal support, distributed evenly over the harness and back, taking the strain off your arms. You can ride effortlessly and steadily, enjoying a light bar feel at all times, making every session super satisfying.Jumps are a real pleasure with this BANDIT TEC. The stable support through the harness, combined with its maneuverability and responsiveness, makes it easy to nail the perfect takeoff. The boost is powerful and vertical, giving you impressive amplitude and height. Kite loops are also made easier thanks to the kite’s responsiveness. Traction is perfectly balanced, allowing you to land smoothly whatever the wind strength.Combining performance, lightness, maneuverability and responsiveness, the BANDIT TEC excels in all disciplines, anywhere, anytime, in every condition, and no matter your level. A real pleasure to ride with, this new kite highlights once again our ongoing commitment to innovation, quality and accessibility.
ADDIKT TEC
The ADDIKT stands out for its outstanding low-end efficiency, perfect traction, and enhanced maneuverability, as if you were riding a smaller kite. Its depower is also immediate and smooth, guaranteeing stability at all times and offering precise steering even when sheeted out. This kite handles all gusts and lulls perfectly and becomes inconspicuous in the surf and in all your movements.With its unrivalled drift, the ADDIKT opens up a whole new range of possibilities: ride underpowered with support to minimize kite disturbance in the surf or opt for an overpowered ride in total control for strapless jumps.Our CODE-TEC fabric offers an exceptional combination of lightness and strength. With less elongation and higher tear resistance, the CODE-TEC provides greater structural stiffness, minimizing deformation under load. This leads to a more precise and sharper feel, as well as a more reactive handling, all while ensuring your kite maintains its shape in any conditions.Whatever your approach, the ADDIKT will follow your every move, allowing you to make the most of every wave in all conditions and with complete freedom.
BANDIT LIMITED EDITION BY BRAINCHILD
From the very first tests of Brainchild-produced kites, we discovered a new potential for reactivity and in-flight performance, prompting us to consider a new version of our famous BANDIT. After studying and adapting our designs to this innovative technology, the BANDIT has evolved considerably, offering a whole new range of sensations. The high end of the BANDIT Limited Edition by Brainchild benefits from a significant improvement in comfort and control. An innovative feature of this kite is, when sheeted out, its unique ability to move towards the edge of the window, significantly reducing the amount of traction felt. The difference is clearly perceptible when riding upwind in strong winds, with a noticeable reduction in the traction exerted on the back and legs. In the low end, the kite is optimally positioned in the window, offering stable, constant traction and a better upwind angle. This configuration also works wonders when sending the kite back to 12 for a jump. This BANDIT’s ability to climb high and to offer a floaty hangtime, combined with its exceptional handling and turning quality, make it an ideal kite for kite loops. Finally, the bar feel is lighter and more precise throughout the entire wind range. Brainchild Productions is a new kite manufacturing facility in Northern Macedonia in Southeastern Europe, headed by Ralf Grösel. It is distinguished by its adoption of innovative assembly technologies and an unprecedented commitment to sustainability, offering an environmental record unmatched in the kiteboarding world. Brainchild uses new, state-of-the-art, extra-light materials as well as innovative techniques like PROWELD, where all the segments of the leading edge are welded together rather than stitched, which leads to an overall increased stiffness of the kite and even further weight reduction. Moreover, the kites are now digitally printed instead of using typical screen-printing processes. The freedom offered by this printing process allows us to explore new and unique graphics and colors. Even lighter, more responsive and more powerful, the BANDIT Limited Edition by Brainchild makes every session more dynamic and enjoyable, everywhere, any time, in every condition.
DIABLO V5
For the development of the DIABLO V.5, we spent a lot of time analyzing the current and potential future racing formats to determine what characteristics an Olympic race kite would require and how to get our riders to the top. As with all advancement, we looked hard at our previous kites, their strengths and weaknesses, and how we could use all our knowledge to move forward. Enter the next level of performance with the DIABLO V.5. We worked on a greater internal pressure, which means a very solid and stable kite dealing with high angles of attack and fast maneuvering. This kite offers maximum performance with the highest stability. Its new, simple, and clean technical design has reduced the weight of the DIABLO V.5 compared to the V.4. The high-performance construction also reduces material stretch. By removing the mesh over the vents, the V.5 inflates much faster and wingtips will pop out almost instantly. Our drainage system lets water and sand drain automatically. Using Technora bridles and a clever internal make up, we have reduced the total bridles keeping the same strength with less drag. This improves your angles and therefore your overall performances. We will constantly strive to improve the performance of our sail within the limits of what is allowed by the IKA for approved models (IKA: International Kiteboarding Association). That’s why we have a new bridle available on all production-models from January 2022 on, or on order. These V.3 bridles have again been enhanced and are truly targeted at elite competitors. They will bring a better upwind angle, more stability, more control when sheeting in, and offer the possibility for a high or low mode. Keeping up with the current racing landscape, the DIABLO V.5 works brilliantly on very short lines to give you the maximum performance. Using a new profile and arc, we have created a kite that can cope with any conditions so you can focus on racing. VMG, speed after maneuvers, fantastic angles, get ready to reach your best performances in every race.