Introducing the SuperModel V4 2023: The Ultimate Do-It-All Kite
Get ready to take your kiteboarding to the next level with the SuperModel V4 2023. With a completely new frame construction and advanced features like the Hybrid Torsion Frame, CNC sewing, and Super Segmented Wingtip, this kite is faster, lighter, and more responsive than ever before.
Designed to be the ultimate do-it-all kite on the market, the SuperModel V4 2023 delivers incredible stability, forgiveness, and precision in all conditions. Its unique profile allows for maximum glide and power in jumps, while the Wingtip shape provides instant response for quick turning and great punch when sending a jump.
Thanks to the Hybrid Torsion Frame and FlexLite material, the SuperModel V4 2023 responds faster to bar input and allows for more torsion in the entire kite, resulting in faster turns and improved finishing. Plus, with high density triple ripstop canopy made by Teijin and super stiff bridles made with pure dyneema lines, this kite is built to last.
Whether you’re riding a twintip, a waveboard, or a foil, the SuperModel V4 2023 is the kite for you. So why wait? Upgrade your kiteboarding game today and experience the ultimate performance and versatility with the SuperModel V4 2023.
Damien Girardin about SUPERMODEL HTF:
For those unfamiliar with SuperModel, can you introduce the kite to us?
SuperModel is designed with the goal to have it react and fly to perfection. The main focus is the way it performs, feels, turns, forgives, and is predictable, no matter if we are riding a twintip, a waveboard, or a foil. The end goal being to take your riding to the next level and making your sessions more fun.
One key characteristic of SuperModel is how it swings out of the turns. This specifically will allow you to keep more flying speed in your kite to create more power, while staying very light. This means you can ride a smaller kite, and have more constant pull during your turns while riding waves, you will finish your kite loop with confidence, you will land your jumps smoother, and you will be able to steer your kite in marginal wind when riding underpowered on a foil.
Our unique profile provides incredible stability to make the kite super forgiving while delivering the most glide in jumps. Our Wingtip shape supplies instant response for quick turning to give great punch when sending a jump to easily get high quickly, because in the end, we all like to jump as high and long as possible.
Great! Now lets talk about HTF, can you explain the concept? When you steer your kite to make it turn, you are essentially creating torsion in the kite. The torsion starts at the wing tip and propagate to the entire kite and Leading Edge. HTF is the result of analyzing how kites turn, and using a Hybrid LE construction to create a Torsion Zone down in the Wing Tip area, made from our new FlexLite material. This allows for a much quicker response to steering input by quickly creating more torsion into the entire LE and subsequently the entire kite.
The second part of HTF is the use of our FlexLite to build SuperModel’s struts, creating what we call “Flex struts” that will allow the entire canopy to twist easier.
And what is the difference between the two materials? FlexLite is made of a 150 Denier polyester yarn that is then more tightly weaved than regular Dacron material that is made out of a 300 Denier weaved polyester yarn. The thinner yarn means that when it’s weaved the fiber is more flat at the microscopic level, making the material more reponsive because the fibers are quicker to respond to pull and compression that happens in the material when a kite is steered.
In what ways does it affect the flying characteristics?
In the end, the work done to the Leading Edge and the strut of SuperModel HTF translate into a kite that will not only respond faster to the rider’s input on the bar but will aslo allow for more torsion in the entire kite, for a kite that will turn faster and have an even better finishing of the turns. That will make your kiteloops that much easier, will allow to re-direct your kite quicker while riding a wave, will allow to jump higher thanks to improved pop, will allow to generate more power in underpowered conditions because the kite will keep on generating more speed through the turns. it really benefits every aspect of kiting.
What line lengths and bar width would you recommend flying Supermodel on?
Line length is a personal setting, we recommend flying all sizes SuperModel on 24m.
For bar width, I prefer the 14m to 9m on the wide bar setting (at 49cm). The 7m and 8m could be flown on either 49 or 43cm setting depending on personal preference. Shorter setting will reduce the amount of leverage you have when steering the bar for a slower turning
speed. This can be beneficial for less advanced rider and also freestyle riders. 6m to 4m are recommended to be flown on the 43cm bar width setting in order to get the intended flying characteristics.
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