Best Kiteboarding - GP 2012 C Kite

 The GP C Kite 2012 from Best Kiteboarding will take you back to the future, back to when all that mattered was raw performance and nailing every new trick you tried. The GP is team rider designed, tuned and tested and delivers an unbeatable combination of pop, responsive steering and amazing unhooked feel.

The Reflex leading edge design (patent pending), unique to the GP, works just like suspension for your kite; helping to soak up the gusts and giving you the best unhooked feel you’ve ever ridden. Add in a huge sweet spot, our freestyle specific bar with 5th line relaunch and you have a C-kite package that is destined to be the future of freestyle competition.

Back to the Future - GP Best Kiteboarding

Best Kiteboarding GP C Kite
(Complete with Backpack/Pump)
6m - £889.00
7m - £919.00
9m - £1,029.00
11m - £1,079.00
13m - £1,169.00

GP Bar 2012 5 Line Bar - £339.00
47cm, 52cm - With Lines.

The GP from Best will take you back to when all that mattered was raw performance and nailing tricks. The GP is team rider designed, tuned and tested and delivers unbeatable pop, responsive steering and amazing unhooked feel.

The Reflex leading edge design (Patent Pending), unique to the GP, works just like suspension for your kite; giving the best unhooked feel you’ve ever ridden, especially in the turns, and helps to soak up every gust. The Reflex LE design also gives the GP an extended canopy lift area giving you more lift for jumping and effortless drive for staying upwind in the competition zone.

Designed for new-school and wakestyle riders the GP’s Twin Tune feature gives you multiple front and rear attachment point options so you can dial in more pop, better upwind ability and more responsive handling for competition heats or detune your GP for practicing your latest tricks. With Twin Tune you can effortlessly switch between new-school and wakestyle settings in seconds, allowing you to reinvent your style at a moment’s notice.

The GP is a true C-kite with no bridle, pulleys or sliders. It is designed to work best with the 5th line GP-Bar for maximum control, easy safety and the fastest possible relaunch. The GP-Bar comes with an 8mm spliced center line, Sacrifice Insert System for zero depower line wear and a new Pro-cuff QR to eliminate false releases when competing. Add of these innovations and features together and you have a C-kite package that is destined to be the future of freestyle competition.

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The GP is a completely new C-kite design, how does it differ from previous designs?
The GP isn’t just different to the Yarga and Team Yarga kites that we made before, it’s different to every other C-kite on the market. The GP is a pure C-kite, 5-lines with no bridle, but with all the benefits of a 5th line system for quick and easy relaunch even in light winds. It has Twin Tune; our multiple front and rear line attachment system that allows you to dial in turning speed, turning circle, bar pressure, depower and unhooked feel to match your style and riding.

What makes the GP unique however is The Reflex leading edge design. The LE of the GP has a unique reverse sweep that extends between the T2 and T4 struts on each side of the kite. The Reflex works like suspension for your kite, soaking up the bumps for an unbelievable unhooked feel and also distributing flying line load across the entire kite for amazing pop whenever you load up.

How does The Reflex actually work?
By reversing the curvature of the leading edge we’ve have been able to introduce shock absorption into the airframe, when you load up the kite lines the LE absorbs the extra load and then returns it to you in a controlled fashion once you pop. It’s similar to the way in which you can control the flex of a board by adding concave into the rocker; it becomes smoother and more predictable so each trick becomes easier to make. The Reflex also extends the lift area of the canopy allowing us to extend the canopy   forward at the T1 strut. The extra canopy area gives you more lift when you jump and also provides for improved depower and wind range, so you can ride the same kite all the way through your heat even though other C-kites are being blown off the
water.

Do you need a 5th line bar for the GP?
The GP gets its own 5th line compatible bar. It shares many features with the RP-Bar but is overbuilt and simplified to offer outrageous day long riding comfort and durability.
Who is the GP for? Any rider looking for a freestyle kite to let them tackle the latest new-school and wakestyle moves has to try the GP. With its Reflex leading edge design (Patent Pending), it offers blend of performance and handling that older C-kite design simply cannot match.

GP- Bar  Sizes:  47cm, 52cm

The GP-Bar takes the best of the Redline Performance Bar, strengthens and simplifies it to leave only the features that every freestyle competition rider absolutely must have.

Our Pro-Cuff push-to-release QR sets the standard for ease of use and serviceability; all parts are available as spares so you can keep riding forever. The outer cuff has been modified to eliminate the possibility of accidental releases without increasing the minimum release load. The under bar swivel has been improved with added drainage vents and low profile twist tabs making it smoother to turn and easier to untwist your lines no matter how many loops you’ve thrown.

For the GP-Bar we’ve thickened the center line depower ropes and then braided them together to form the thickest and most durable center line you’ve ever had. Add this to our Sacrifice-Insert-System that lines the bar center with replaceable low friction Delrin inserts and you have the smoothest depower action available.

New low profile molded bar ends with integral line winders help make those one handed loops easier than you expected and a new 3D grip pattern ensures you stay in contact with the bar no matter how aggressive your kite loops.

Low stretch flying lines are 700lb rated, color coded for easy setup and proven to offer incredible durability. The GP-Bar is the toughest and most practical bar we’ve ever built; it’s the unfair advantage we all need.