Full review of F-ONE Bandit S4 in Cape Town South Africa

F-ONE Bandit S4
After 4 weeks testing the new Bandit S4 in Cape towns waves, here is our full review and tech talk about the new kite. Cape Town have perfect conditions for testing with a lot of variety both strong and light wind. Check it out give us comment and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this.
The S4 is a must try kite both for Waveriding kitefoil and freeride.
Surfskolan Crew test team Jacob Arild and Dean
Video edit credit for Jacob Victorin

[@fuelbasti]

Loving F-one. Been on Sal and was frustrated with my kites and my waveboard. Mitu gave me his Bandits (guess it was 2017 or 18) and I was addicted. My first Fone was a Mach3 but changed the brands serveral times since than.. I bought the Bandit 2019 model and this kite is fantastic in many terms.

[@kountchev1]

Thanxx for sharing. All nice, in theory at least. I rode S1 for 2 years and a year with the S3s (11, 9 and 7m2). On the lake (Garda) and in waves (Cape Verde and Brazil). What I HAVE to mentioan is the build quality of the S3s: it is a pity. I can send you some pictures of all 3 kites starting to decompose, holes in the canopy appearing seemingly from nowhere. I'm massively disappointed from F ONE. And the backstalling is unnerving, really. And this is not only my opinion. I hope it is "only" a S3-issue..... Changed to another brand. We'll see how F ONE is doing (lighter materials, build quality, loop to just push-in to close etc...). Please consider this comment as a constructive critique, aiming to fix some "suboptimal" issues. Cheers and ride on! J.

[@surfskolancrew205]

Hi Kountchi!
Sad to here that you are not happy with the Bandit S kites. We love them and cant complain about the quality at all. We have been teaching kitesurfing since 2004 working with allot of different brands and allot of them have different weak quality points not to hang out any specific brand.
Now we use F-ONE for 5 years. And the Quality of the kites have been great we still have a few Bandits from 2018 that flys perfect in the school.
The S3 have been great for us and we ride it midd winter in Sweden zero degrees storm sessions.
Best regards the Surfskolan Crew