The Vertigo is our performance kite with twin tip DNA and total versatility. No need to choose between power, precision, hangtime, responsiveness or drift: this kite has it all.
The Vertigo boosts all programs. Designed for twin tips, it has the glide and maneuverability that we love in many aspects of kiteboarding.
This 3-strut kite, both rigid, lightweight, and reactive, is particularly smooth. Its handling is gentle and fast thanks to its shape that really glides. You don't feel any resistance, it's super pleasant.
Nevertheless, it provides the necessary power for a twin tip, namely for boosting. The bar feedback is clear, and the actions are direct for the most radical moves.
Transitioning from a twintip to a surfboard, from a foil session to sending jumps, unhooking easily—this is all that Vertigo offers.
Its dominant freestyle DNA opens up many possibilities, especially when unhooked. You have power on demand, without ever feeling like your arms are getting ripped off. And it relaunches easily.
This freestyle kite is capable of everything!!!
Its 3-strut design represents 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. You have a reactive and lightweight kite that responds perfectly in maneuvers. A significant advantage in waves but also in larger sizes that remain agile.
This balance of stability and lightness promotes the overall equilibrium of the kite in all its uses, which is essential for progression. It's typically the kite that smooths out errors and encourages trying new things.
3 struts also make it the best design for traveling with a kite that does it all while remaining light in luggage.
The Vertigo is a hybrid C shape: a modern and dynamic design that maximizes performance while remaining simple and lightweight.
Its turning radius is reduced, making the kite precise and lively to enhance the feeling and performance. This balance between agility and profile stability allows for very clean original settings, resulting in an incredibly smooth bar return for effortless, micrometer-precise control. The direct feeling remains, allowing you to connect seamlessly with the kite.
The new reduced diameter bridles minimize drag while maintaining impeccable mechanical characteristics. The kite flies much smoother.
Your Vertigo adapts to your preference thanks to adjustments on both the rear and front bridles:
- Outward for more bottom-end power, less bar presence, a slightly wider turning radius, and more stability for freestyle.
- Inward for a kite with less power in the front/harness that turns faster and has more depower.
- Central adjustment for perfect versatility.
The new short bridle system enhances feedback, and the feeling is much more direct. Everything becomes more intuitive to synchronize with your kite.
The 3 pulleys enable crisp turns that lighten steering, enhancing performance across all criteria such as maneuverability and depower, for instance. This allows the kite to remain powerful, with the profile maintained, while enabling strong sheeting at any time.
The tips play a major role in your kite's behavior. By combining perfectly distributed tension and precisely calculated tip twist, we've provided the Vertigo with great responsiveness while maintaining maximum control.
The specificity of the Vertigo lies in having relatively large-surface tips with almost no internal twist. This results in maneuverability that relies more on surface area than on ear closure, allowing the kite to maintain a lot of speed in the turn.
The Vertigo's moderate ratio provides a very smooth feeling that will allow you to perform in all disciplines and situations.
With this compact kite, we have the best balance between bottom-end power and docility.
The kite's power kicks in even at low speeds, giving a solid sensation of being supported by the air. The feedback is direct, making it easy to find your groove. This linearity in the kite's power is combined with a bridling system that allows for instant depowering. Everything is under control.
The Vertigo is designed to make you feel confident and ready to push your limits.
The highly curved leading edge facilitates the kite's rotation on the water to position it on one ear for easy relaunch. This ability is essential during progression and truly enjoyable afterward for sending it hard without hesitation.
Technical sheet
Buying guide
Clearly the kite of a skilled twin-tip rider who wants a kite capable of excelling in all programs.
The Vertigo is primarily a twin-tip kite, offering the perfect power and remarkable maneuverability. Perfect for jumps and tricks.
Its flying principle is to be "unbraked." So, it's a kite that glides perfectly. Ideal recipe for unhooked riding, for example.
But it's also what makes it great for surfing. It positions itself easily wherever you want in the window, it drifts, it turns.
In summary, it's the 3-strut twin-tip kite that also knows how to do everything else.
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 Vertigo has power and moves really well. A skilled rider will easily exploit the low wind range. And with its 3-pulley bridles and "open" tips, you'll have a really important and enjoyable high wind range.
Choose your kite according to our recommendations below. Wind ranges always depend on your weight, skill level, and the type of board you're using!
Keep in mind that the longer your bar, the easier it will be to turn your kite. Also, remember that the smaller the kite, the easier it will turn. So, the smaller the kite, the more you need a smaller bar to balance behaviors.
Conversely, the larger your kite and the more you use it in light wind, the slower it will be. A longer bar will have a greater leverage effect to compensate for this natural loss of reactivity.
Therefore, consider these parameters to choose the size of your bar and adapt the steering to the feeling you like and the conditions encountered.
If you want smooth and progressive steering, then you should “undersize” the bar. If you want more reactive but less forgiving steering, you should choose a longer bar.
For example, if I want smoother steering with my 9m2, then I will go for a 46cm bar.
If I want hyper-reactive steering, then I would go for the 52cm bar.
Oversizing the bar will have little interest and paradoxically will result in a feeling of heaviness in steering in the case of the 62cm. This one will be perfect, even essential in light wind. But in stronger winds, it will be slower to untwist and manipulate.
Between the 46 and the 52, there is no sensation of heaviness. These are two very close bars.
Note also that the 52 is perfectly usable on all our kites. No kite will not work or perform poorly for this reason. The 46, 57 and 62 are just optimizations for perfectionists.
It should also be noted that two bars generally age only half as fast as a single bar for the whole quiver ?
The key size is 52cm; it is the most versatile bar that you should choose if you want to have only one bar for a quiver 7-9-12 or 8-11 or even 8-10-13. If you want to add a second bar to your quiver, here are our recommendations with GONG kites:
The recommendations below are based on the behavior of GONG kites. Since our bars are compatible with a large number of kites, you can adjust your choice according to 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.
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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