what size for this season?

9 meters...? That seems a tad small... The wind must get nuclear up here. Was thinkin 13-16m. What say u.

At your size, I am guessing your 15m is gonna be your "go to" kite in our area.
I think Dennis rode his 14m Sonic nearly every time out last season.
Most ride-able days here last season stayed under 28 knots.
Thing is, when it goes over that, it can REALLY go over that, so most riders (regardless of size) have a 12 and a 9 along with the 15. I rode a lot last year (160 pounds, rode nearly every ride-able day) and only needed less than my 11m Instinct twice.
The prior season though... man... we had a lot of big wind days.
If it were me, I think I would get a 10m or 12m, depending on the low end of the particular kite and just hop off once it went nuclear if you can't get two kites. You might be able to grab an 07 7m waroo cheap for high winds.

I bet the 9m waroo is the most common kite too, btw, but you are a pretty big guy.
Bleighty, what do you think?

[TampaBay Noob]

well, I'm not Bleighty...but, I think being that he's 215 and already owns a 15m he should go ahead and pick up a 12m. He should stay on the upper-size of kites. He should be able to hold down the 12m in quite a bit of wind. I don't think he would need a smaller size than a 12m unless he plans on going out when it's 30knots. I weigh 174 and I can hold down my 16m waroo in roughly 20knots. 12m should suffice....IMHO

[bryanleighty]

i weigh about 200lbs and have a 9, 12 and 16 waroo.. rode the 12/16 about even last season.. maybe a bit more on the 16 only cuz i've tried to squeak out as much lightwind as possible.

at 215 a great size would be a 13/14 with a good low end..

for a c kite a 15 would be choice..

im looking forward to checking out the 14 royal era.. might be a great kite to add to the quiver.

Cool, you guys are thinking what I was. I don't weigh 215, but I watch all you guys a lot. The bigger guys didn't seem to hop on much less than 12/11's last year, except maybe a couple of times.

Seems like the 200 pound plus guys could hold on to an 11m or so up to 30 pretty easily. I don't know about 35 to 40 though, like Sean said.

Yeah, I would be thinking about a 12m like you guys said.
I think the low end on a couple of the kites this season (without losing top end) is gonna be sick, so maybe even a 10m for 20 to 35 (at 215 pounds).

Bryan, at approximately what wind speed to you feel like you wish you had rigged the 9m? At what wind speed is the 9m still pretty fun if you compensate with a larger board? At what wind speed are you screwed on that 9 and have to hop off?

[inferno]

Originally Posted by Skyway Scott

Bryan, at approximately what wind speed to you feel like you wish you had rigged the 9m? At what wind speed is the 9m still pretty fun if you compensate with a larger board? At what wind speed are you screwed on that 9 and have to hop off?

im 200lbs and have ridden the 06 9m waroo in solid 17-18 on my big board, it gets fun in solid 20.....