2020 EVO - DESIGNER INTERVIEW WITH RALF GRÖSEL

The Evo has always been the ultimate all-round kite; an easy jumper, huge depower, stable, reactive, forgiving and with huge sheet-and-go. Those qualities and performance characteristics satisfy pretty much any rider.

Magazines worldwide say that we have unique handling characteristics in all of our kites and that‘s what I always have in the back of my mind when developing. That‘s our trademark and it‘s not going anywhere.

However, this year I wanted to find a way to make the Evo even more playful with enhanced aerial performance. How did you achieve this and how does it translate into performance?  For the first time ever, I removed the pulley within the kite bridles. This small change has a big impact on handling and in-flight characteristics. The biggest benefit is a more compact Leading Edge frame, which can hold more energy in general, resulting in much higher jumps and a more playful ride.

This is not a major design innovation, but a major design change that opened up the arena of performance potential and more specifically its characteristic within the range of allround kites.