Enduro V3 Kite

Ozone Enduro V3 Kite

The Ozone Enduro has been a genuine all-time favourite for years, and it's easy to see why. This is the kite you reach for when you don't want to be boxed into one style of riding. Freeride, a bit of freestyle, wave, twin tip, surfboard or foil board, the Enduro V3 does all of it well. Designed with a three-stage Variable Bridle Geometry that lets you connect your back lines to one of three anchor points on the wing tips giving you the exact feel feel and bar pressure you want.

• Mid aspect ratio, Delta Hybrid Open-C shape with squared wing-tips
• Three-stage Variable Bridle Geometry: freeride, wave/foil and freestyle settings
• Large depower range with smooth, progressive handling
• Great for beginner to advanced riders

Performance & Feel

The Enduro's Delta Hybrid Open-C shape, semi-swept leading edge and squared wing-tips are what give it such a broad, easy-going range, offering a great depower alongside genuinely progressive handling. It's not chasing one specialism, and that's exactly the point: whichever board you choose to ride, the Enduro adapts to it rather than asking you to adapt to the kite.

Variable Bridle Geometry is what lets that happen without any faff. Three settings, freeride, wave/foil and freestyle, are changed by simply moving the pigtail to a different knot. The freeride setting, sitting in the middle as the factory default, gives the ideal all-round balance of feel and performance. Shift to wave/foil and bar pressure drops while steering reactivity increases, so turning the kite while depowered on a wave or a foil board becomes noticeably easier. Move to freestyle and you get the opposite: heavier sheeting pressure, more power through kite loops, and more pop for unhooked tricks, exactly what you want when you're throwing handle passes or working on technical moves.

In the air, the Enduro boosts with a genuinely vertical take-off, like stepping into a lift rather than being hauled up fast, and it's intuitive to time and easy to redirect at the top for a controlled landing. To be fair it's not as floaty as a dedicated big air kite, but if you want a rocket-ship take-off with some real hangtime, there's little to fault. Kite loops can be kept progressive and gentle while you're learning, or wound up into something fuller and more powerful once you've got the timing down. In the waves, the Enduro isn't as dedicated as the Reo, but the handling, depower and drift still open up a genuine world of wave-riding opportunity, and gusty conditions are handled with a short, precise depower stroke that gives a big change in angle of attack for a small bar movement.