Not pretty but getting there

Right on. You'll be there no time. My first Parawing sessions were in 30+ rough water conditions, way overpowered. That lit was easy get to foil, thought ehhh, no problem this parawinging. But... after that was a total S show screaming downwind out of control, full catapult to yard sale ejects repeatedly. I perfected putting my face under water screaming F bombs at the top of my lungs to the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Pretty sure I woke up sleeping Humpbacks miles away. Gusty, lully, light days- sometimes still do.

Get your hand a little bit more forward on the bar.

Thanks all , the struggle is real that's for sure. Back in the Broadwater yesterday . time to work on a few things.

Rob your cracking it there you just need more wind by looks of video hard to say by visual ofcoarse but my rule of thumb go FD or supfoil if below 16/17 kts forget it PW,the PW fun starts at 18kts if you can try a axis minidart 90/100L cheat code if you ask me but I'm bit heavier than you Lol 100kgs +

pitbulldoug said..
Rob your cracking it there you just need more wind by looks of video hard to say by visual ofcoarse but my rule of thumb go FD or supfoil if below 16/17 kts forget it PW,the PW fun starts at 18kts if you can try a axis minidart 90/100L cheat code if you ask me but I'm bit heavier than you Lol 100kgs +

Yeah I'm just grabbing what I can wind wise , I have picked a really bad time of year where I live to take up the Para so if it's over 15 I'm in the water for now anyway.

Thanks Ian , I'm learning something new everyday in the Para world , now I know what the front and back of the bar is and yeah plenty of pain to come and looking forward to it

Piros said..

BWalnut said..
Looking pretty comfy! Question: I saw your harness line is attached to the bottom of the bar. Are you hooking in with it right there?

I actually haven't hooked up yet I don't have the harness belt on in that clip but yes that's how it comes set up to hook in.

Cool. I haven't seen a bottom of the bar loop before. Let us know how that works when you do it. I'm always hooking my loop into the front of the bar with the paras I've tried.

Makes me feel human seeing these vids and being on the Ping-ing journey myself. You're smashing it, considering the added camera f#@k around. The Lime bike shuttle is the light-bulb moment for me. Wonder how Lime would feel about board racks on the GC?

Piros said..
Finally got a solid 20+ today after work in flat water and finally hooked up . OMG what difference clean strong wind makes . I popped up instantly on the 3.5 switch and FMD the harness was just so good and comfortable I actually really enjoyed myself . Linked together a heap of gybes , still haven't stashed yet as I was just reaching and pointing up wind hard as I could but great day , just frothing and loving it .

Stoked mate!!

I'm about 15 days in to my parawing journey... I think the one advice I'd give/follow is that you need to burn some good winging days to learn on the parawing. It's much easier to learn in good conditions than try to learn as a side activity when the conditions falter (which I had been doing... sometimes going for 10 minutes at a time). Finally put in four days in a row, and that really helped... still have struggles sometime (usually from taking too small equipment).

What I'm using most of the time now for my 87kg:
-KT Super K Pro 90l
-Duotone Glide 2.0 D/LAB 900

also sometimes use:
-Duotone Skybrid D/LAB 70l
-Duotone Crest D/LAB 800
-AFS Silk 850

The larger 900 foil seems to have a lot more low end pump and can get me foiling with less board speed. The 90l board vs 70l is nice when the wind is lighter, but riding a 70l super light board also feels great. Actually finding I'm having some really great winging sessions on the larger gear with my 4.5.

I've been fairly conservative going too far out into the Bay here as the far side is the shipping channel and we have strong currents, but I have stowed three times onto ferry wakes with two successful redeploys.

I'm really liking using my wing harness (ION Rogue) for a harness and board leash point... I'm a foot switcher, so leashing to a stash belt that you need to rotate all the time was leash hell. Also, I found Ozone stash belt made for a poor harness... need to get it pretty tight to be useful as a harness, and then it was harder to rotate. Now just use my regular harness and put the stash belt on top and I don't even have to rotate it to the back to sail normally (although the bag does hang over the hook just a tiny bit but no big deal). Having a real harness that has support and a spreader bar that doesn't need to be super tight to work has been a big improvement.

My friend captured a vid of me on a ferry wake... sloppy wake, sloppy stow, and sloppy redeployment, but it all worked out... it was about a 2min ride in all. 1 min to stow (there was a lot of cross chop from other boat traffic, so didn't know whether I could lock into a spot on the wake to get it done or not), a fun little section to ride, and then a sloppy redeploy (had to shake out a line wrap, but was glad I was able to do that on the fly).... had to leave immediately and get int he car and pick up my kiddo from school otherwise I would have ridden the wake longer.

riding handsfree is as amazing as I had imagined. IG video below

www.instagram.com/p/DW63nXwjfxC/

Beginners question: is it easier/better to get on foil one or two-handed (hands on the bar)?

Are there benefits to a one handed launch? Using free arm to counter balance (the chop when slightly veering downwind and wobbly board). One handed is harder pumping though.

Piros said..
Not pretty but getting there

Far out that looked hard Rob.Hats off to you for doing a vid as well and managing everything else.So I'm wondering at 70 whether it's all worth it?I still crash winging at times ??

I meant heel side one handed. Is there any benefit / point?

Foot switching isn't a problem. I always switch back to heel side

Hilly said:-


Two handed heel side. One handed toe side.

Ah that might explain when I do ride Heel side and not switch one handed the Para ends below the board or behind me.