The Elips is our ultimate kite for performing in waves.
This surf kite paradoxically draws its DNA from big air. The madness of kite loops applied to wave riding!
We extracted the best from a wave kite and a kite dedicated to loops to design the Elips: the radical wave kite.
Particularly stable, powerful, compact, yet with an incredible rotation potential. It's perfectly positioned in the window to provide the ideal power at the precise moment of the surf move.
Capable of completely disappearing, yet also capable of pushing a turn to the extreme, it's exactly where it needs to be to tear the waves apart.
Powerful, you can ride with smaller sizes. The kite is even faster and more agile.
Developed and validated with Airton and Francesco, it's their number 1 kite in the waves.
Its 3-strut design is the best compromise between rigidity and lightness, offering tremendous versatility. The 3 struts provide excellent responsiveness while maintaining profile stability for control. These qualities enhance its range of use and performance. It's a reactive and lightweight wing that responds perfectly in maneuvers, a big advantage in waves but also in larger sizes that remain agile.
This balance between stability and lightness promotes the overall equilibrium of the kite in all its uses, which is essential for progression. This kite is typically designed to smooth out errors and encourage trying new things.
With 3 struts, it's also the best design for traveling with a kite that does everything while remaining lightweight in luggage.
The Elips is a hybrid C shape: a modern and dynamic design that maximizes performance while remaining simple and lightweight.
The turning radius is reduced, resulting in a precise and lively kite that enhances both feeling and performance. This balance between agility and profile stability allows for very healthy original settings, ensuring an exceptionally clean bar return that enables effortless micrometric control. The direct feeling remains, allowing you to connect intimately with the kite.
The new reduced diameter bridles minimize drag while maintaining impeccable mechanical characteristics. The kite flies much sleeker. Your Elips adapts to your preferences thanks to adjustments on both the rear and front bridles:
- Outward for more power, less bar presence, a slightly wider turning radius, and more stability for freestyle.
- Inward for a less powerful kite in the front/harness, faster turning, and more depower.
- The central adjustment for perfect versatility.
The new short bridling system enhances feedback, resulting in a much more direct feeling. Combined with a pulley-less system, it yields a precise and swift kite. The Elips is a demanding kite designed for experienced pilots.
The wingtips play a major role in your kite's behavior. By combining strong tension perfectly distributed across the entire kite and precisely calculated tip twist, we have endowed the Elips with exceptional responsiveness.
This kite offers endless possibilities for top-level performance.
The Elips's moderate ratio offers a very stable feeling that allows for fun in all conditions, especially in gusty winds and windless spots, as well as in full onshore conditions.
With this compact kite, we have the best balance between power and maneuverability, perfect for wave riding.
The power of the kite is applied even at low speeds. You can feel well supported in the air. The feedback is clear and allows for easy adjustment. This linearity in the kite's power is combined with a bridling system that allows for instant depowering. Everything is under control.
Everything about this Elips is designed to make you feel confident to push it to the limit.
It's an incredibly instinctive and safe kite that just begs to be moved in every direction.
The highly curved leading edge facilitates the rotation of the kite on the water to position it on one ear for easy relaunching. This ability is essential for quickly getting back into the waves, for example. The Elips also relaunches easily in reverse by pulling strongly on both back lines, which is essential for avoiding troubles in the set.
Technical sheet
Buying guide
The wave queen, she will definitely appeal more to a lover of aggressive turns and surfing.
The Elips is a kite that turns. With an endlessly adjustable turning radius and outstanding stability, it excels in surfing. Rather powerful, it's a kite mostly ridden in light wind conditions to favor maneuverability. But it's also extremely stable in high winds, no worries there. Its program is more about taking the most efficient small kite possible on a surfboard, but it will also be great on a twin tip if you want to switch things up.
Display : the freeride kite for rapid progression.
Vertigo : high-performance kite for all disciplines from unhooked to surfing.
Ayto : the ultimate 5-strut kite for big air and kite loops.
Unik : lightweight mono-strut freeride kite for light wind, foiling, and waves.
Strutless : super light kite for light wind and freeride/freerace.
Strutless Revo : ultra-light and maneuverable kite for foiling and surfing.
Elips : the ultimate kite for waves.
The Elips has a very stable and easy-to-control high wind range. However, it's a kite that you'll mostly ride in light wind conditions for its power and maneuverability work wonders in light wind.
Choose your kite following our recommendations below. Wind ranges always depend on your weight, skill level, and the board you're using!
The choice of your bar size will have a direct impact on the overall feel of your kite. Remember that the longer your bar, the easier it will be to turn your kite. This detail is important when using larger kites, especially in very light winds, to maintain good responsiveness. The longer leverage compensates for this natural loss of responsiveness.
On the contrary, the smaller the kite, the faster it will turn! So, using a smaller bar allows you to balance behaviors and calm down kite reactions. Therefore, consider these factors when choosing the size of your bar and adjust the control to the feeling you like and the conditions you encounter.
The key size is the 52cm bar. It is the most versatile bar to choose if you want to have only one bar for a quiver of 7-9-12 or 8-11 or even 8-10-13.
When you are equipped with an extended kite quiver, it's best to also have a range of bar sizes to maintain a balanced feel when switching from a small kite to a larger one. Also, note that having two bars reduces wear on parts by half!
Here are our recommendations:
The above recommendations are based on the behavior of GONG kites. Since our bars are compatible with a wide range of kites, you can adapt your choice based on the type of kite used.
Your Feel-X bar comes standard with 80cm front lines, 19m of lines, and 3m extensions already mounted. The original setup is the most versatile and will be your best choice for 90% of your sessions.
One of the main advantages of the Feel-X bar is its great tolerance provided by its shape. By playing with its lengths, or even modifying them with our extensions (sold separately), you further enhance its versatility!
Note that 22m and 19m are not extreme line lengths and remain a fine adjustment to your piloting sensation.
Equipments
All our kites are obviously compatible with our FEEL-X bar but also with 95% of the bars on the market. If in doubt, get yourself a complete set (x4) of pigtails: PIGTAILS.
Don't forget to bring a pump ;-)
10 years of spare parts.
GONG makes durable kites: that's the basis of our specifications. Never disappoint.
GONG ensures the longevity of its durable kites: offering you all the components of our products for 10 years is a challenge that we gladly take on. Because we are convinced that a good kite today is still a good kite in 5 years if it is well maintained. And this maintenance is good for the planet because it will allow many young people to equip themselves second-hand at very affordable prices.
To ensure a long life for your kite, it will need maintenance.
If unfortunately the part is not in stock, we will order it to have it as soon as possible.
Delivery
We indicate a preparation and shipping time of 3 working days. In reality, the majority of orders are shipped within 24/48 hours.
The delivery time, i.e. delivery time of the package to your home, then depends on the delivery location and the carrier.
We work with reliable and efficient carriers. 99% of shipments go perfectly and quickly. In the case of the remaining 1%, rest assured that we will do what is necessary with the carrier.
Unlike other sites, shipping costs are not hidden behind the price of our products. You know exactly what shipping costs you, and you are not disadvantaged if you choose to collect your order at our GONG Space Center.
Shipping costs are calculated based on the weight and volume of each package, and your delivery address.
Delivery tracking is managed directly by the carriers to whom we have entrusted your packages. They will contact you by email or SMS to allow you to choose delivery methods and follow the route of your package.
We work with the best transport societies to deliver to you throughout Europe and the world within very short deadlines. We chose them for their quality of service and their compliance with deadlines.
For mainland France, 80% of your orders arrive at their destination in less than 48 hours of processing.
For Europe, delivery times vary from 3 to 6 working days, depending on the country of destination.
For the rest of the world, delivery times depend on transit time and customs clearance time. This delay depends on customs and can last from a few days to a few weeks depending on the destination and seasonality.
Please note, transport time is added to preparation/shipping time. Two companies collaborate on your order (GONG and the carrier). Each one masters its activity and is committed to optimizing its deadlines so that you are delivered as quickly as possible and at a reasonable price.
Preserving the environment is an absolute priority. This is why we do everything possible to reduce our ecological footprint.
The most important thing is to sell quality, durable products that will be repairable and will please you for a long time.
For our shipments, we use:
Scotch craft paper.
Final packaging in high-end cardboard.
For rigid boards: Flexi-Hex, very high resistance ecological packaging.
This means:
Reusable and recyclable packaging.
An almost total reduction in single-use plastic.
Maximum protection and impact resistance for rigid boards thanks to the innovative Flexi-Hex honeycomb design (35mm thick).
Upon delivery, check the condition of your package in the presence of the carrier. A complete explanation email on the procedure to follow will be sent to you when your order is shipped.
Despite our requirements and all the care we take in the packaging and protection of your product, transport hazards may occur, and your product may suffer more or less significant transport damage.
Note that the products are protected in their carton. If you have any doubts, simply refuse delivery and contact us.
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