North CARVE KITESurf / Strapless Freestyle2025

Longer Travel for improved drift and smoother response

The Carve is a statically balanced, stable kite that resists nose diving. Its bridling ensures you’re able to maintain complete drift while sheeted in or out, riding a down-the-line or onshore wave. It features longer, more progressive depower travel. The pressure gets higher as you bring the bar closer to your body. This helps the kite feel smoother and perform more responsively throughout the full depower range. Using the full length of travel helps improve the drift and ensures when you sheet out, it will still react. The Carve provides an extremely direct feel in both bar pressure and steering initiation, with intuitive feedback from the bar in both directions, so you'll always know where your kite is.

Smooth power delivery

N-Dure 2 lightweight durable reinforcement

The reinforcement material at the trailing edge is a 2-ply canopy, with N-Dure2 dacron reinforcement on the wingtips. The two layers of canopy material are softer, allowing the kite to twist better and be more responsive. This re-engineered construction allows the kite to be more responsive in the steering and depower, improves the Carve’s static balance and light wind performance, without affecting the strength and durability. The lighter weight helps with the drift and behaviour of the kite and reduces any tendency to front stall in lightwind conditions.

Improved wind range with more low-end efficiency

For 2025, we’ve improved  its high-end for higher boosts and hangtime, maintaining the kite’s  linear power delivery and low end. The kite is rock solid when it needs to be, yet still has the control and manageability you need for jumps and tricks. Strapless freestyle riders will love the hangtime and catch, which lets you stay in the air for longer, kiteloop with ease and land softly.

Lightweight bladders in ALL sizes

The Carve has lighter weight bladders in all sizes in the range. This helps the Carve to fly more efficiently, so the kite feels even lighter and more responsive in all conditions – and particularly in light wind. It also improves the overall static balance of the wing by reducing weight in the front of the kite. Bladders make up a bigger weight percentage than any other material used in a kite. The new bladder material is 17% lighter than in previous bladders.

Segmented curve arc with direct pivot steering

Highest quality low-drag, no-pulley bridle lines

Refined aerodynamic profile transition panels

This creates a smooth transition from the segmented leading edge to the curved canopy, so the profiles are more uniform throughout the entire wing. The panels reduce inconsistencies in the profile, resulting in a smoother, more efficient kite, with more aerodynamic airflow, drive and stability.

Fast-launching swept leading edge design

The Carve is not swept in the trailing edge like a bow kite, but it has a lot of curvature when viewed from the side, and the wingtips are not particularly wide. This puts a lot of the usable area in the centre of the kite, rather than in the wing tip. So even though the Carve is lower aspect, it is still efficient for its size, and more importantly, the relaunch is super-quick. With less leading edge on the water it doesn't lay flat, so for fast relaunch simply rotate the bar. This helps if you're riding waves and need to relaunch your kite quickly when a set’s coming.

DuraLite seam protection

2x personalised performance tuning options

Kevlar reinforced strut system with bridle deflectors

HyperFlow rapid single-point inflation

N-HTRS High Performance high tenacity ripstop canopy

Durable highest-quality N-DURE2 Dacron inflated structures