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I haven’t ridden the Evo ha but I have had a lot of sessions on the s1150 as a lightwind parawing session saver and I love it. Super low stall speed, turns just like the smaller silks, feels very nimble for its size. The one knock on it is that it’s definitely on the slow side. Tail selection can speed it up to some degree but if the bumps have speed and also lack steepness it’s not really the tool.

goldenbreeze said..
Interesting discussion and great to see this sport and gear reach the general public more.

This might be a little off topic, but as a winger that potentially will want to get into pwinging (I can totally see the appeal) - I feel like it makes more sense for me to get better at waveriding with the wing flagged (and try to minimize going for the handle) and just using the foil.

Am i missing something here?

My longest rides flagged have only been 45s-01:00 long - but to be fair I haven’t been exposing myself much to good wave conditions. Moving to NZ in a few months so that’ll change.


Interested to hear what you guys think.

Yes, thats the progression path, but don't underestimate how much stability you are getting from the wing. I'm completely comfortable luffing the wing and riding for very long periods, including pumping and carving hard, but once I started doing the same with the parawing, it was really eye opening to understand that I was getting a ton of stability (and even pull) from the depowered wing. Even pumping, the wing gives a lot of balance and stability - without the wing my pumping feels like on on a balance ball. When Im downwinding with the parawing stashed I feel like Im safety foiling much more than with the wing - and my goal is to be able to ride as aggressively with the parawing stashed as I do with the wing (I'm definitely being humbled!). Learning to ride swell, pick lines and find power with a luffed wing is definitely relevant, but it is WAAAAY easier.

I’m a similar size and riding similar gear and was also out there on the same day. 3m was a lot of power for those conditions but I’m not sure that was your issue. It was mega gusty so timing the gust was important. Don’t even start getting to your knees until the gust is there. The other thing that I find to be a little unique to the gorge conditions is that i need to point my takeoff more downwind than I do elsewhere and really work the wave face energy to get up. If you point too cross wind you are going to get thrown all over the place and your foil won’t be as efficient on takeoff. I kind of figured this out with the parawing but it applied to the wing too.

BWalnut said..
I'm a bit confused. This definitely looks like a single skin but I was told Johnny Heineken was at the hatch with it this week and it's a double skin now? Perhaps they shifted gears on it?

Hard to tell, but could it be that the underside (second skin) in those pics is white and has some transparency? I was always under the impression that it was going to be a dual.