Keen to hear from anyone who's used both wings.Ive been using the 1200 lately while the swell has been bigger and loving it for bigger waves , but I'm also curious about the hs 1050 and what the differences are.

Yep Im deciding if I need to put it on my shopping list, having said that I have been using the 1200 with 232 tail and +1ttf and it's an absolute weapon, it's like the small brother of the 1550 in handling, and great in bigger swells , haven't found its limit yet but I need to take it tow surfing next big swell and see how it goes.But the 1050 has got me curious.

Absolutely love the 1050, smoother and faster and so maneuverable, keep trying to use it on the wingding in too little wind though which doesn't end well . The 1200 was my favourite before I got this one.. Great for towing though, and as a windy wingding wing :)

Sorry , how much do you weigh

A HS1200 would be nice, for my local & even @ 72kg I don't think a 1050 wouldn't get much use - just paddling in....(similar size to the Axis 66).

Got whacked in the front leg today on the 1550 and now I'm limping, maybe if I was riding the the smaller 1050 it would have missed me .......good enough reason to buy one I recon.

I surfed my 1050 for the first time - Foil Bay in Sydney on the weekend. Too big really as well-overhead sets were closing out the entire bay, so it was all about sneaking around the ledges for the scraps, with a few throwing the board and diving for the bottom on the clean-ups.

My only comparison for decent sized prone surfing is with the GF Kai 1.0. The 1050 is lots faster, and it handled a couple of decent takeoff drops without breaching. Something I've not managed to do before on the Kai - foiled a wave from the southern most ledge right through the middle deep water across to the northern side left-hander without a single pump. It carried phenomenal speed - over the back of double-ups where even a pumped Kai would stall out. I wasn't brave enough to do a full noise turn, but on the smaller inside sections the 1050 will go on-rail without lots of mid-turn loft adjustments. Another first was staying on my feet and landing a breach when a goat boater was giving me a hoot.

I'm 75kg, and my pumping was only good for 50m or so before touchdown. Anyway - totally stoked with the 1050, it's a great prone wing for overhead surf.

By the way what tail and fuse were you running ?

kobo said..
By the way what tail and fuse were you running ?

60cm fuse and 232 tail on a 0 shim. Still yet to try the +1 that Alex from Stonker recommended - should make it even faster!

Foil Bay is where you'll see Casso and Jezza SUP foiling almost daily - those guys have amazing stamina, I'm sitting arse deep on my 35 litre prone board getting exhausted just watching them!

Jeffs256 said..

kobo said..
By the way what tail and fuse were you running ?

60cm fuse and 232 tail on a 0 shim. Still yet to try the +1 that Alex from Stonker recommended - should make it even faster!

Foil Bay is where you'll see Casso and Jezza SUP foiling almost daily - those guys have amazing stamina, I'm sitting arse deep on my 35 litre prone board getting exhausted just watching them!

That's not overly descriptive. You've said yes, it exists and people go there. Are we talking about brown water?

Anyone out there tried both the HS1050 & Axis 66 and could let me know how they compared please ?