NicoDC said..
I've been windfoiling a lot the past year. At first with a focus on freerace, now commited to freestyle and wave foil. I've tried winging briefly on land and on a big daggerboard.
At my local lake quite a lot of people wing nowadays. Most of them have huge foils that crawl over the water, barely not faster than I slog. This is the kind of winging I want to avoid. It looks boring and in similar conditions I'm up and jumping on the foilstyle, or cruizing way earlier on the big windfoil board.
The idea is to have a small and playfull wing quiver to use it as an addition in 15-30 knots. Right now I pick my big windfoiler for 5-15 knots, foilstyle in 10-25 and freestyle or wave in 20/22+.
I've been told that for my 80kg a 5m wing is the best option. Really attracted to the gong brand, I can't seem to pick between their curve and fluid. I've read that the curve is great to start with, but I feel like it's more of an 'old school wing' because it's still relatively low aspect and thick, where as the newest models are high aspect and slim. Also these wings seem to need less surface in similar conditions. Would such a wing be to tricky for a beginner?
I felt the same way when I was Windfoiling on small wings going fast and wondering why anyone would think Winging was better. When I started Winging I found it was a totally different feeling, you're not going as fast but you're having a more connected feeling to the foil, its a lot of fun and its a great time. You're having a lot more fun than it looks.
Just some of my observations, not a bad idea to give wings around 1800sq cm a shot, it will be an easier learning curve and you'll have a ton of fun.
DC
