This is where it gets intresting. First of all, it 'locks' into a fade unlike any kite i've ever flown and rises very easily. With my current tailweight it sits deep and steep. This means flicflac's have to be done with care. Agressive inputs just make the fade rise very fast without the nose dropping down towards the flare. Flicflacs are possible offcourse, but need to be done just before the fade locks in. Backspins can be done nice and flat with some walking forward and backspin-cascades are no problem at all. Double backspins with one input are there as well. Axels are also flat and double axels are within reach when enough slack is given. Next is the backflip. This is where the kite excels. The kite sits deep in the backflip but recovers very easily from lifters, lazy susans and multi lazies. Cyniques are there and don't need to be done agressively. Only a small pop will roll it up from backflip position. Single input rollups are a bit slow compared to todays stretched, wide kites but certainly not difficult. Frontflip tricks like crazycopters and yofades tend to pitch quicker. 540's are a bit of a problem because of the rather slow pancake. It needs loads of slack to set it up for the flatspin. Slotmachines are a bit easier, but also need quite some slack management. With the Taz i had only a few lucky hits, but for me that's normal.

 

All i can say is: build this kite! It's rather easy to build using Tom's website. It's cheap, especially when build with a pultruded carbon frame, and so much fun to fly!
Well done Christian, another sweeeeet open source kite.

Video of first weekend of flying Le Quartz:
http://www.ickytv.org/