From a garage workshop in Hood River to one of the most trusted names on the water — the story of the brand behind our Code kites.
Slingshot Sports was founded by brothers Tony and Jeff Logosz in 1999 in Hood River, Oregon — a stretch of the Columbia River Gorge that wind and current turned into one of the world's premier windsurfing and kiteboarding spots. Before that, Tony ran Logosz Works, a small custom windsurf board shop. In 1998, one of Jeff's friends told him about a rider named Lou Wainman, who was riding upwind on a board with a kite behind him — something nobody had done before. A year later, the brothers registered Slingshot and switched entirely to kites. The company has lived by one principle ever since: test, take apart, rebuild — chase the next adventure instead of chasing trends.
The kite frame is built from FrameLite — a high-tenacity, biaxially-woven polyester with a dense emulsion coating that barely stretches in any direction. At just 160 g/m², the material balances flexibility, stiffness, and weight — the kite stays responsive without losing shape session after session.
The canopy is 4×4-weave ripstop nylon — the same logic used in climbing gear: a dense grid of threads stops a tear before it can spread. In practice, the kite holds up to season after season of hard use without losing canopy tension.
Multiple attachment points on the rear lines let you tune the kite to your style: heavier or lighter bar pressure, faster or softer turning. The same Code V2 can be dialed in for a mellow beach freeride session and for hard freestyle.
The Code V2 isn't chasing records. It's a kite built around predictable pull, a confident boost, and a soft landing — session after session, not just on the best day of the season.
Jeremie Bourlando is one of the youngest riders ever to podium at Red Bull King of the Air, and a three-time junior world champion. He's not yet twenty, and he's already redefining big air — a direction Slingshot calls New School Big Air: instead of the classic "send it, jump, spin" formula, Bourlando builds tricks around board-offs, unusual rotations, and double loops with grabs, turning a jump into a full combination rather than just height. He rides for Slingshot on the Code NXT, the Sentry V3 bar, and the ERA board — the same technology lineage behind the Code V2 that we sell.
"It's not about jumping higher than everyone else. It's about making the jump worth watching" — the New School Big Air philosophy Bourlando brought to kiteboarding.
