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Stretchy said..
This is a windfoiling forum so you're going to attract a few wing haters. It'd be interesting to ask the same question in the wingfoiling forum, I expect you'll get a very different response. I dumped windfoiling for winging with zero regrets personally, but full respect to windfoiling, it's also awesome!

Yeah I know! I'm not trying to compare it. Everyone has a different reality, place to sail, wind, etc. so the main thing is being in the water as much as possible (or as my wife kind of supports)

No reason to hate any sport. Maybe curling, I don't know, never played

As windsurfers we are never the first choice to new ones, like other board disciplines. First was kite, now wing.
I'm not worried at all for that, but I do wonder how many around here practice both, windfoil and wingfoil.

For sure where I sail it's growing, maybe 30% of windfoilers are learning or already can wing decently.

I'm a newbie winger, but since I also ride waves, when it's 20+ knots and with waves, I'd go for the windsurf wave board.

And between 8 and 20, 90% of the time Windfoil (Patrik 9.0 and 8.0 HA and Aeon foil with 100cm Starboard race board)

How is your % or windfoil vs wing?
How many sold windfoil and stick with wing?

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berowne said..
Manilo 25kt on a big foil - I only managed about 25/26 on my F4 course racing foils, but it has kind of fallen out of favour around here.

Agree with subsonic, leverage helps. Short of this, railing the board so you can control the lift,... because you need power to point but then it isn't as easy to control off the wind. Let us know how you go!

Yes I think I have room to improve a bit still on downwinds. Railing more to Windward and trying to keep the apparent wind. A friend (one of the big fast guys) told me to hang more over out of the board, not just hang below the boom. Take my body out, like when going upwind.

I have a 750 FW too, but racing it's critical when the wind fluctuates too much. Below 15 knts, the 900 wins (better VMG). It should blow steady 15-16+

I really love this post. From time to time I come back and read it again.....

I'm struggling to hit 25 on the foil. I'm on a Aeon with 900 course race fw, 115 fuse, 8.0 or 9.0 Patrik HA Sail, and Starboard foil 100 board. I can get 24 consistently, sometimes 24.5 and 24.7 top speeds

In downwind I'm not the slowest, but there are two guys who are much faster, hitting 26 and 27 frequently. And when sailing together and we go downwind, I can't hold their speed.

They have the same foil as me and sail (9.0)
We do have different human sizes
They are taller, 1,90 mts (I'm 1,75), and heavier 95-100 kg (I'm 82).

How much do you think weight and height affects?