The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is built on our Sigma foundation to provide stability, fast turning, and solid bar feel. Featuring the new Evolutive Profile, the 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is power-oriented in the large sizes and control-focused in the smaller sizes. The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite Geo-Tech construction maintains the designed shape even in the gustiest conditions and ensures a long lasting kite. The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is for riders who demand performance over the broadest range of conditions. It incorporates the newest design DNA for incredible stability, direct bar feel, fast turning, and easy jumping. The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is LWR compatible.
2011 Naish Bolt Kite Features
- Molded Trailing Edge Reinforcements
- New Reinforced Strut Zippers
- New Improved Velcro Closure
- Load Spread Wing Tip Construction
- Sigma Outline for easy relaunch
2011 Naish Bolt Kite Details
The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is versatile, stable and predictable. The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is for riders who are looking for an all-around kite, with superior stability. The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is built on the Naish Sigma foundation, to provide stability, fast turning and solid bar feel. Featuring the new Evolutive Profile, the 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is power-oriented in the large sizes and control-focused in the smaller sizes. The Geo-Tech construction maintains the designed shape even in the gustiest of conditions — ensuring a long-lasting kite. The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite is for riders who demand performance over the broadest of conditions. It incorporates the newest design DNA for incredible stability, direct bar feel, fast turning and easy jumping.
The new simplified bridles provide direct and light bar feel, and the degree of Naish Sigma angle has been increased to improve turning characteristics and linear bar feel. Designed for beginner through to advanced riders seeking a stable, easy-handling kite. The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite now boasts an even larger sweet spot, ideal pull through the turns, and enhanced smoothness. Beginners will enjoy the smooth and responsive steering, light bar pressure, and depower capability. Advanced riders will appreciate the balanced feel hooked-in or unhooked. The easy re-launch will help beginner to advanced rider get back up and going in a moment.
For 2011 "Geo-Tech Generated C-Shape" and simplified bridles provide a more direct bar feel. The amount of Naish Sigma has been increased to improve turning characteristics and linear bar feel. Naish’s new Sigma design concepts and Geo-Tech construction define the natural evolution of using new technologies to adapt to the ever-changing performance requirements of modern kites. Visually striking while providing amazing canopy tension, these kites have unmatched stability and wind range, precise handling, light and linear bar pressure, and unbelievably easy water re-launch capabilities. One glimpse, one ride, and you will never look at Kiteboarding the same again. The 2011 Naish Bolt Kite uses two new patented design features: Sigma Outline and Geotech. Both increase performance at different levels, and their combination creates an amazing step forward in kite performance.
Now, more than ever, the sport of kiteboarding has been simplified with the smoothh and predictable All-Terrain performance of the new 2011 Naish Bolt Kite.
Naish Sigma Outline
The Naish Sigma shape improves the kite performance at every level. The Sigma Outline is an advanced engineering design that increases the efficiency of our kites. The Naish Sigma Outline is a radically re-shaped leading edge that moves a large portion of the centre canopy behind the tow point. The result is a perfectly balanced kite that delivers significant performance improvements in the areas of overall stability, bar pressure and feel, turning, and relaunch. The Naish Sigma leading edge enables the rider to turn the kite at any speed with absolute control. This Naish Sigma leading edge produces a ‘hinge’ point at the centre of the kite. Unlike conventional kites that use a maximum of 30% of the kite area to generate turning forces, the Naish Sigma cleanly deforms from the centre to produce a highly effective turning shape (comprised of nearly 50% of the total area) that responds more quickly and accurately to rider input.
Naish Sigma Water Relaunch
When Naish Sigma kites are on the water with the leading edge facing down the reduced area of contact compared to a conventional bow kites allows the kite to be almost instantly re-launched. During water relaunch the kite pivots on either shoulder point. The rapid recovery gives the rider confidence to try new moves with out the worry of losing time and ground.
Geo-Tech Design
The principle of the Geotech design is to keep the tension of the canopy in between the struts on the leading edge side of the kite. Geo-Tech is extremely simple, as it requires fewer seams. The Geo-Tech concept provides constant tension in the kites canopy by incorporating straight line segments in the leading edge. With the constant canopy tension, the overall foil profile is perfectly controlled and defined, which allows the kite to remain extremely stable through the entire range of depower and considerably increases the wind range. Wind pressure is not necessary to maintain the canopy profile, and at low angles of attack Geo-Tech keeps the canopy from collapsing. By maintaining a consistent aerodynamic leading edge Geo-Tech provides a wrinkle free canopy, large depower range, and stability at broad angles of attack where historically kites with a large depower range have experienced distortion. The tension of the canopy between the struts is amazing compared to any kite without Geo-Tech. It is very noticeable when the kite is depowered (i.e. when the angle of attack is very close to the wind direction). The result is a kite that keeps its easy steering ability even when it is sheeted out. The tension in the canopy also gives the kite an overall cleaner profile during every moment of your riding session for better upwind, jumps, and overall performance. Combined with Sigma shape, Geo-Tech creates the most precise and controllable kites ever, which maintain this feeling and control through an amazingly broad wind range.
Geo-Tech Segmented C-Shape
The mix of C-shape characteristics coupled with the stability and canopy tension of Geo-Tech construction. The centre of the kite is flat with a large angle at the S2 strut. The improves turning by allowing the kite to twist at the S2 position, while keeping the centre of the canopy with clean airflow for consistent power in the turn.
