Stretchy said..
A lot of active threads on parawings. Maybe it's time?

Nah

Didnt realise it was a sensitive subject. sorry

northy1 said..
as someone who doesnt Para, its a Yes from me!

Ya can't beat'em, ya may as well join'em.

You could see that trend on the StandUp Zone forum - the wing foiling topic was on fire for years. Then the equipment started getting "mature" and the posts tailed off.

Now you can't even log on (did they go defunct???)

airsail said..
But the Para topics are keeping the wing forum alive.

Yes but where i live no one does para...zero in about 60..we don't have the conditions I guess

So for me it's irrelevant and although I appreciate it's frothing, for me it personally it dilutes the value of the wing page as most posts are para.

I know Gav on YouTube also said his biggest views are by far on para. But as I said...winging in waves here and no para.

might as well add a new PW section as it seems like 70-80% of posts are PW related nowadays anyways,doesnt seem like a big deal to have a winging and a PW section separate

northy1 said..

airsail said..
But the Para topics are keeping the wing forum alive.

Yes but where i live no one does para...zero in about 60..we don't have the conditions I guess

So for me it's irrelevant and although I appreciate it's frothing, for me it personally it dilutes the value of the wing page as most posts are para.

I know Gav on YouTube also said his biggest views are by far on para. But as I said...winging in waves here and no para.

No one parawings in waves

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I find it hard to believe that the prawingers are offended by wading through wing/other foil content. For me, the wing page is just a "general foiling" page. I, along with others I'm sure, come here for foil reviews, board reviews, impressions annd discussions across sports. So much gear and technique stuff crosses between these categories it makes no sense to have separate pages. There's a reason those other subs(SUP, Prone) are ghost towns.

and for the record, I don't para but I still want to hear from people that do, esp in regard to downwind, boards, reviews, etc. it's all just foiling.

It would be nice to have a separate parawing section. Since I parawingfoil, I skeep all the wingfoil or kitefoil stuff. I've lost all the awareness for other disciplines except for pumpfoiling.

My vote is for a parawing section. Technically quite a different power mechanism, things like line length, stowing, bridles aren't relatable to winging. Board design is diverging rapidly too.

Not exactly like we're drowning in posts from either sub-category to make it necessary IMO. It's never really occurred to me to be a huge bother to scroll past a few posts that don't pique my interest, but I give the forum a frequent peek- suppose it might be a bigger thing if I were offline/less consistent. I think Anyboard makes a really good point though- there's a lot to be learned in the crossover between the 2 in foils, boards, conditions, locations, technique, reading bumps, wave riding. Think it holds true in theory and application. It's surprised me how much my winging has benefitted/improved from what I've learned parawinging.

I don't PW (yet) but enjoy following the threads. My preference is to keep all together here in one tidy mess.

I would prefer a Foiling root with sub-cat:-Parawing-Windfoil-WingFoil-Sup Foil-Foil Assist-etc...

I'd get MUCH better upwind angles on the parawing without the drag induced by all the wing foil posts.

It's a performance issue...