Is there a Parawing method similar to stink bug method for winging?

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Ingenuity
Ingenuity
42 posts
42 posts
7 Jul 2026 2:29am
Looking for a consistent method of getting up on a parawing standing. Unable to find any video talking about this topic. I struggle with an old hip injury with the parawing pulling sideways. Not an issue with winging pulling upward.
BWalnut
BWalnut
WA
1200 posts
WA, 1200 posts
7 Jul 2026 2:45am
Easy button for me when I was first learning was to hook in to my harness while still sitting on the board. Let the parawing park itself to the side hands free. Then get to your knees and grab the bar and start steering. At that point you're kneeling like after doing a stinkbug and should have no issues from there.
Velocicraptor
Velocicraptor
880 posts
880 posts
7 Jul 2026 4:10am
I kind of do a modified stinkbug start on the parawing. Not that much different than winging. Fly the parawing from the A lines in the downwind hand while crouching on the board. Use the upwind hand to stabilize myself and get to a high kneeling position. From that position I fly the parawing with one or two hands until I'm ready to launch. If Im well powered I can get some lift from the sail and go straight to my feet with both hands on the bar. If its unstable due to surface conditions or if I don't have enough power in the sail, I use the upwind hand to help push off my board and get to my feet - leaving that upwind hand off the bar can also help give me a little more stability.
Jve
Jve
55 posts
Jve Jve
55 posts
7 Jul 2026 4:23am
I straddle the board, lean forward and stabilize myself with the free hand, bend the knees and put my feet on the board behind me and then push on the feet and stabilizing hand to get my knees up. From there just keep the stabilizing hand on the board and when ready stand up, one foot at a time. Feels very easy.
bigtone667
bigtone667
NSW
1561 posts
NSW, 1561 posts
8 Jul 2026 6:10am
The difference for me between winging and parawinging is parawinging gives you a free hand on a stink bug start.

I place the non-flying hand across the board and use the power in the parawing and kick with my legs to lift my chest into the middle of the board. I then throw my rear leg over the back of the board.
I then use the power in the parawing and my free hand to do the equivalent of soft one arm pushup to get my body upright and my other leg onto the board.

If I am sorting out tangles, I will often sit on the board and then rock forward supporting myself with the spare arm and power in the wing to hook my feet/ankles on the rear of the board to lift myself onto my knees. What Jve has already described.

The important thing is using the free power you get from the parawing.
MProject04
MProject04
669 posts
669 posts
8 Jul 2026 7:36am
Ingenuity said..
Looking for a consistent method of getting up on a parawing standing. Unable to find any video talking about this topic. I struggle with an old hip injury with the parawing pulling sideways. Not an issue with winging pulling upward.




Greg from Omen Foils has the best video out there. Everything in his video just works. Hope it can help.

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