U-Turn Butane

Out of the bag the build quality is evident, I have had several top brand kites and this one is exceptional! The stitching, internal bracing, bridal connections, everything.

So I take it out to the park, steak the handles and run out the lines. I baught the coramid lines U-Turn sells. They seem to to be thinner than spectra lines, something about special braiding and polishing process. The lines were within a mm or two of each other. Really nice, and they felt nice too.( I know your already thinking "what a kook!" It gets worse.) Finally after cheese'in over the kite and lines I laid out the kite and connected it to the lines. The wind was light but the kite stood up ready to go. I went back to the handles, unstaked them and gave a pull. WOW the kite took off with such speed and power it scudded me 15-18 ft. I weigh 215 lbs. That's not easy to do in light wind! O.K. I got the kite up to neutral. It was super stable, like weirdly stable.

I did a couple little figure eights, then a couple bigger ones, fun fun. The wind was picking up by now. Wanting to see what this thing had I dove it right through the power zone. The power was crazy, I slid so fast my feet got hot. The Butanes handling is really, really nice! It does just what you tell it to, exactly. Then I did some nice jumps, floaty and controlled, some bigger that expected.

About now I'm somewhere between little kid at Christmas and one foot in the grave. With the wind still picking up and getting gusty very gusty and my wife calling I decided to pack it up and call it a day.

When I got home I checked the stretch on the lines, they were the same, the same! My wife asked if I liked my new toy, the answer took about 45 minutes ( she loves that or that's what I tell myself). The Butane is a very high performance kite at an intermediate price. They aren't cheap but man are they worth it. Really I could not be happier with it so far. Can't wait to get it out again.

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