GEAR: NEW UNIK AND STRUTLESS ARAMID KITES!

Lightness and responsiveness that redefine your kite’s low-end range!

The two new GONG single-batten kites in Aramid construction: ultra-light, dynamic, and durable:

Unik Aramid – the queen of versatility! A powerful kite for twintip, which you can easily undersize for surfing to boost maneuverability, and formidable in kite foil for sending tricks.
Strutless Aramid – more playful than ever! Adding to its trademark glide are liveliness, pivot, and hang time for full-trick sessions.

New tech, new shapes, and new designs 👇

UPE Aramid structure!

Unik and Strutless join the Team Series with an inflatable structure in UPE Aramid. A revolutionary material for its lightness (85g/m² versus 145g/m² in Dacron), extreme strength, resistance to stretching, and durability. Exactly what you need to boost your kite’s qualities:

Ultra-light and dynamic, Aramid offers exceptional liveliness and immediate bar feedback.
Its very low stretch and our precise management of fiber orientation allow optimal control of shape and twist. The kite is lively and responsive but remains alive and keeps its shape over time.
Our extensive experience in sewing and using Aramid in wings and kites ensures it is risk-free from premature delamination.

The gain in liveliness is insane in the lightly powered conditions these kites are designed for – a huge advantage!

More speed and reactivity for an even simpler and more efficient low-end, whether in kite foil, surf, or twin tip:

New shapes

What’s changed: we want loooooops.

Clearly, we want to ride in no wind, in fickle winds, as fired-up and full-send as in the best big-air session.

Drawing directly from our big-air kite developments, we’ve brought these two single-batten kites that touch of madness that turns a sluggish session into a full-send party.

The lift is wow, they loop perfectly, and they are super very predictable.

So why two single-batten kites? Two moods, two atmospheres, but a party on every floor!!!

The Unik is an inflatable single-strut, chunkier, with more ear surface. Super easy, high performance, and low-end power.

The Strutless has a fiber single-batten, sleeker, with glide that puts it high up in hang time while delivering impeccable flight quality in light wind conditions.

Unik Aramid

This inflatable single-strut kite in modern, dynamic hybrid C-shape delivers maximum performance while staying simple and light.

We’re light-years away from the old dull single-strut kites. It’s a beast of a kite that pushes hard. You’re under a kite that only wants to go big.

No need to oversize – it’s got real torque. You feel it perfectly locked into the air. Crashing your kite in light wind is a non-event. And relaunching is child’s play.

And note, even in the high end, the performance is worthy of a good 3-strut. It sits steady, doesn’t flap, and just wants to climb.

UPE Aramid allowed us to enhance its qualities with a lively leading edge combining acceleration and reactivity.

In terms of shape, we have more surface in the center for more power and hang time. The tips are set back for a lively, ultra-precise bar feedback.

For the bridle, the pulley-free setup delivers hyper-predictable, direct behavior.

It’s an ultra-accessible, stable, go-anywhere kite with the perfect mix of torque and maneuverability thanks to its moderate aspect ratio.

Discover the Unik Aramid!

Kitesurfer: Thomas, GONG staff, in Sway Wood Flex, Unik Aramid and FeelX bar.

Strutless Aramid

This open C-shape fiber single-strut kite combines the torque of an open kite with the maneuverability and ease of a C-shape for throwing tricks and moves.

Forget the outdated no-strut kites that flap as soon as you depower: the new Strutless comes straight from our big-air R&D, yeah baby!!! Hello Airton ;-)

With its centered surface, it has insane hang time and mind-blowing maneuverability: you’re holding the kite that will twist your sessions. You’ll never see light wind the same way again.

What makes it so special: its stunning glide. With 30% less drag, it’s the queen of glide. It almost feels like a foil kite – without the hassle.

We perfectly mixed this DNA with that of big-air kites that climb hard, pivot, don’t back stall, and loop like crazy.

And from here, it’s almost the same as the Unik – but with a unique, different feel…:

In the high end, the performance is worthy of a good 3-strut. It sits steady, doesn’t flap, and just wants to climb and floooooattttttttttttttt.

UPE Aramid allowed us to enhance its qualities with a lively leading edge combining acceleration and reactivity.

In terms of shape, we have more surface in the center for more power and hang time. The tips are set back for a lively, ultra-precise bar feedback.

For the bridle, the pulley-free setup delivers hyper-predictable, direct behavior.

It’s a more technical kite, mega stable in light wind, and capable of everything thanks to its moderate+ aspect ratio.

Discover the Strutless Aramid!

Kitesurfer: Tristan, GONG staff, on the Steez Wood Flex twin tip, Strutless Aramid, and FeelX bar.

New designs

The Unik and Strutless Aramid are offered in 4 brand-new, absolutely stunning colorways:

White / Blue
White / Pink
Black / Blue
Black / Pink

Kite foilers: Patrice, GONG boss and shaper, on Kiwii HDCC, Strutless Aramid, HM85 mast, Ypra Surf Freestyle XS front wing, and Ypra Slalom XS stab, and Thomas, GONG staff, on Fronteira HDCC, Unik Aramid, HM85 mast, Ypra Surf Freestyle XXS front wing, and Ypra Surf Freestyle S stab.