Slingshot doesn't make a "just a kite" kite — every model is built for its own job. Pick the wrong one and you spend the season fighting your gear instead of riding. Here's the lineup from our catalog: what each model is for and who it suits.
Code V2 — learn, ride, and grow into jumping
The Code V2 is New School Big Air: three struts instead of five, easy handling, and room to grow. It's a relaxed freeride kite, and when you want to go higher, the same kite takes you into serious jumps and loops. It has the widest size run in our catalog, from 5 to 12 m², so there's a size for a light rider and for strong wind alike. If you don't know where to start, start here.
Machine V3 — classic big air
The Machine V3 is Old School Big Air. A rigid five-strut frame holds its shape in gusts, delivering a powerful, stable jump and a soft landing. It's a kite for riders who already jump with confidence and go out in strong, ragged wind, where what matters most is a canopy that doesn't wander around overhead. In our catalog it comes in 10 m².
How do you choose between the Code V2 and the Machine V3? Fewer struts mean less weight and a livelier kite in your hands. More struts mean a stiffer frame and calmer behavior in gusts. The first is the more versatile option; the second is about maximum stability in the jump.
Fuse — for waves
The Fuse is a next-generation wave kite. Its strengths are drift and upwind performance. Drift is the kite's ability to float calmly downwind along with you when you ride a wave toward it: the lines don't go slack and the kite doesn't fall. Good upwind performance saves your energy on the way back to the peak. The result — you stay on the wave, and the kite doesn't pull you off it. In our catalog: 6 m².
Ghost V4 — one kite for every day
The Ghost V4 is a lightweight kite for twintip, surf, and foil. It's easy to fly, so it works for a beginner, while experienced riders will appreciate its low weight and drift. It's the pick for anyone who swaps boards to match conditions and doesn't want a separate kite for each one. Sizes: 8, 10, and 12 m².
UFO V3 — pure foiling
The UFO V3 is a strutless kite built specifically for kite foiling. Minimal weight and drag, maximum drift and upwind performance. A foil doesn't need much pull, but it does need the kite to stay in the air when there's barely any wind — and that's where low weight decides everything. Sizes: 7 and 10 m².
RPX V2 — speed and upwind
The RPX V2 is a race/freeride kite: confident upwind pull and stability in the larger sizes. It runs from 9 to 14 m², and it's the only model in our catalog with a 14 — which makes it the main candidate for your light-wind kite.
Cheat sheet
— First kite and progression in jumping: Code V2.
— Big air in strong, gusty wind: Machine V3.
— Waves and a surfboard: Fuse.
— Different boards, one kite: Ghost V4.
— Foil only: UFO V3.
— Light wind, long tacks, speed: RPX V2.
Don't forget the bar
A kite doesn't fly without a bar. The Sentry V3 Bar is a do-it-all bar for big air, freeride, waves, and freestyle, and it comes in 53 and 45 cm widths. If you're torn between two models, call us: tell us about your spot, your weight, and what you ride now, and we'll suggest a model and a size.