jdfoils said..
I do both, nearly every day. 👍

I've been getting into parawinging lately.

I've never really done the winging thing. For me there was too much overlap with the freeride windfoiling I already do to justify the extra time and expense.

For me, parawinging fills a few gaps that windfoiling can't. A big one is travel. All of my gear fits in a standard 6'6" surf travel bag, so there's no oversized baggage on flights and it's easy to move around with. It also gives me access to spots that would be difficult or impossible on a windfoil because of shorebreaks and/or rock-off launches.

Even though I already flag out the sail and ride swells on the windfoil, parawing downwinding is on another level compared to both windfoiling and wingfoiling.

At the moment I'm probably parawinging more than I need to in conditions that would work well on the windfoil, that's mainly to build the muscle memory and get more proficient with it. Beyond that, the choice between parawinging and windfoiling is pretty straightforward for me and mostly comes down to the location and conditions and they don't often overlap.