Youngbreezy said..
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Amazing to see this at such an early phase in the parawing genre. I think there will be big things to come

Pretty epic

I wonder how he got going on such a small foil and board. I'm thinking he probably got towed up on foil then deployed parawing

I'm pushing my foils smaller and smaller and just got up pretty easy on a 685 DWP armie foil with a 3M Maliko in 20-35 knts. I'm guessing I could have gone smaller board and foil in the gusts. But for a foil to ride the speed of jaws....i'd be very surprised if that was not ski assisted.

leepasty said..

MidAtlanticFoil said..
I'm pushing my foils smaller and smaller and just got up pretty easy on a 685 DWP armie foil with a 3M Maliko in 20-35 knts. I'm guessing I could have gone smaller board and foil in the gusts. But for a foil to ride the speed of jaws....i'd be very surprised if that was not ski assisted.

Nice what size board and your weight?

67kgs (before wetsuit, jacket, and backpack with 2M and 4M pw) and a 55L ML.

Mark _australia said..
Oh but wasn't the first foils ridden at Jaws by Laird H?
20 to 30 years ago
far harder to ride

so yeah Kai is a Fkn amazing waterman but a foil with any power source at Jaws is not new

but like the evolution of wing thread, people seem to not realise this is not a thing that suddenly arrived 5 or 10yrs ago

the first foils ridden were impossible and I am in awe of the guys who did so

It was so much better back in the day bla bla

Why not celebrate the fact he rode into solid Jaws with a bit of fabric and string that if wrapped around him in a wipeout would be a major issue. Start a thread celebrating the old boys pioneering with heavy lumps of metal in boots that never took off due to the fact they were crap.

Foiling only really took off after Kai did the 2 for 1 video so he is a pioneer of the sport.

Hilly I never said it was better back in the day.
i also said Kai is amazing

Mark _australia said..
Hilly I never said it was better back in the day.
i also said Kai is amazing

Yeah the old days were legendary with laird and the boys tow foiling jaws. It was a bit too legendary and didn't seem practical or possible for the average person though. It was really Kai's work around 2018 that sparked the big blow up in foiling and helped bring foiling to where it is today.
What is notable about this is it's the first time someone has parawinged into jaws. Yes I am suspicious he might of needed a tow up but the act is still proof of concept. From what I understand we don't see many people winging at jaws (other than the obvious reasons) because the wing creates too much drag meaning they can't out run the wave properly. The parawing being completely collapsible could open up a new realm of self towing that we can't get winging, kiting or windsurfing. I think once we can get them quickly and reliably packed down and locked up we will see them used alot more in solid surf.

Am I missing something here? If he was towed up by a jetski instead of the parawing, what's the point of this at all? (Besides getting money from ozone into his bank account)

Schmedium sized day so Kai showed up to play at Peahi with his full toy box and dropped in on just about everything judging from clips of that day.

Honestly, I more impressed with the performance of the ozone parawing, it looks incredibly stable in this conditions. Yes, he folded fast, but even until this point the parawing is behaving perfectly.

Youngbreezy said..

Mark _australia said..
Hilly I never said it was better back in the day.
i also said Kai is amazing

Yeah the old days were legendary with laird and the boys tow foiling jaws. It was a bit too legendary and didn't seem practical or possible for the average person though. It was really Kai's work around 2018 that sparked the big blow up in foiling and helped bring foiling to where it is today.
What is notable about this is it's the first time someone has parawinged into jaws. Yes I am suspicious he might of needed a tow up but the act is still proof of concept. From what I understand we don't see many people winging at jaws (other than the obvious reasons) because the wing creates too much drag meaning they can't out run the wave properly. The parawing being completely collapsible could open up a new realm of self towing that we can't get winging, kiting or windsurfing. I think once we can get them quickly and reliably packed down and locked up we will see them used alot more in solid surf.

You raise some very good points
I think you mean winging not foiling
if windfoil was being selected as the Olympic class in 2019 I don't think Kai did for foiling what people are attributing to him. Lot of other players and disciplines. He did for winging though

Now what he's done for parawing is bloody amazing.
I just take issue with some of the threads that ignore pioneers and I was having a grumpy day after the threads about how to put inserts in your board incorrectly.. Hollow boards again .. and how a harness line is so bloody new. I apologise to all