Defi Wind SuperStars was held a few days ago in Saint-Tropez and some of the biggest names in all 3 mentioned sports competed.
These are overall results: my.raceresult.com/266738/

Kitefoil still seems to be unbeatable compared to windfoil but wingfoil is still far behind. Thought it might be an interesing topic for those who are chasing high speeds on foils.

What are your thoughts? If anyone has some first hand information it would be more than welcome.

foilsurfR said..
Defi Wind SuperStars was held a few days ago in Saint-Tropez and some of the biggest names in all 3 mentioned sports competed.
These are overall results: my.raceresult.com/266738/

Kitefoil still seems to be unbeatable compared to windfoil but wingfoil is still far behind. Thought it might be an interesing topic for those who are chasing high speeds on foils.

What are your thoughts? If anyone has some first hand information it would be more than welcome.

Did you find the top speeds on that website? I couldn't.

Not much to say, it's been discussed before on here, how each discipline weighs up against the other.

but I'd love to see a drag race between the worlds best in each discipline, and throw in speed orientated "normal gear" for kites and windsurf as well. Could be done down one of those well known speed strip beaches, with the foilers further out, and the normal gear sailors closer to shore for the flat water.

as for the wingers, I doubt we'll see any real speed matches from them till someone develops a more solid structure for the wing. But if they can manage that, maybe they'll start getting some decent speeds. Coming off at high speeds would still hurt, but crashing/things going pear shaped, would be much less a factor in the back of the riders mind when they go for speed than the other disciplines.

Don't forget the physics.

A sail has all of its power in the horizontal direction. We sail in the horizontal direction.

A kite and a wing have a lot vertical component (kiters jump higher than anybody else). Sure, you can lay the kite and wing down, but they never are quite as horizontal as a sail.

It will be fun to watch the development of the gear going forward.