Some of the 2012 Switchblade's featured refinements consist of a newly repositioned and retuned bridle design, improved kite balance, a lighter overall feel, and a custom tuning feature that enables the rider to choose between the wake and freeride settings. The freeride setting offers lighter bar pressure and the wake setting makes the kite a bit more stable and requires more bar impulse to initiate turning. The Switchblade was also built with a new cutting edge canopy material. This new material is initially treated with stablizing resins and then additionally coated with a Cabrinha exclusive formula which provides the kite with the most durable hi performance canopy possible. Also included with on the 2012 Switchblade kites are Cabrinha's stainless steel bridle guides, which completely eliminates the presence of pulleys on the kite, the SPRINT single point rapid inflation system and Cabrinha's IDS safety system which has become the industries benchmark for kite security systems.
