It's truly important to mention that fun is the main objective when you get to try your first water-board-sport. Sup, then sup-with-sail, possibly sup-with-wing. And from there on, anyone can decide what they like and how far they wanna take it. When we were young, we were just fooling around on BIC Dufour, Highfly etc., sometimes without sails, just with peddles....like a sup! Joy and fun is where it's at.

Interesting, now lets put a foil in it next time!

Starboard Airplane would be a more dedicated Windsurf inflatable and interesting to compare

Bin mal mit einem 10er Starboard Whopper mit Abrissgummikante 36 kmh gefahren. Das geht schon aber es klebt natürlich wie nix und man merkt jede Welle. Das wichtigste ist Spaß auf dem Wasser egal womit 🤙

At least you wore your impact vest.

Loved this, awesome review! 😄

Every now and then I'll take my windsup out (exocet 11'8) with retractable daggerboard and have a great time on an 8.0 or 9.5. It'll get planing with a better than stock fin, and reliable for all the float. And it won't leave you stranded downwind with the daggerboard. The downside is just that it's big and heavy.

I have the rrd 150 inflatable windsurf board. a lot of fun in light wind....can get it up planing and was able to keep up with traffic with others on hard roads.

Da musst Du eher ein Starboard WindSup Touring mit den Abrisskanten nehmen. Hatte ich heuer auf dem Comersee mit 5,5 Gun SupSail und war voll am Gleiten. Das ging richtig ab und hat richtig Spaß gemacht. Sonst hatte ich nur das Wingzeug dabei - war eine schöne Abwechslung. Ich benutze das Windsup auch für Touren bei leichtem Wind (meine Frau Paddelt und ich segel so mit)

Nice one. I am thinking for a few years now that brands should develop inflatable freeride board for beginners, with footstraps and proper fins. So that people can enjoy their first planning runs without having to carry this huge board around. They could also use as sup when wind is off. Hopefully they can get addicted to planning then and start getting in the crazy hassle of having carbon boards all over their garage.

I saw the action on the water. You really pushed hard but it didn’t look that funny 😂 And really a difference to your other runs with the new Slalom Board 😮 Thanks for sharing it I’m the guy with orange sail at 1:50

You wind surfed in the wrong position, with large boards (don't mind if inflatable or not) feet toward the stern and shoulder toward the bow, mast arm stretched out, hold the boom not too close to the mast, rather move the mast hand closer to the wider area of the boom

great to address this im old school and these rubber things make me Cringe

does look fun..

Noch viel spannender die Frage: what happened to the left boot?

Hi Nils! Cooles Video. Deine Aussagen über den Einstieg ins Surfen kann ich persönlich bestätigen. Ich habe vor ca. 6 Jahren (mit 45 Jahren) auf einem Naish Crossover Wind-SUP das Surfen gelernt. Heute habe ich 3 Hardboards und foile auch seit 2 Jahren. Auf meinem Kanal habe ich einiges dazu eingestellt. Mein Abo hast Du mit diesem Video sicher ;-)

The right comparison in planing should be without the daggerboard fin...

Looks like it wants to either have more weight on the nose, or for the mast step and the sailor position to be moved forward. It was sticking almost 45 degrees out of the water at some moments... Like, a level board is a fast board, and so on. Would be interesting to see how it'd behave with a drybag full of camping/touring gear on the nose:) Also, have you tried removing the front fin? That should allow one to steer/trim the board with one's feet (a daggerboard makes that really difficult at speed, actually more like completely changes/reverses the way the board responds to feet steering).

Nice video! I am planning to buy a SUP board with a support of sail, and maybe later a sail. What kind of SUP is that you can install the sail on it? 👍

Thanks for trying Nils. What about testing a much better inflatable windsurf board like the JP Magic air, Starboard airplane 242/255 or even the brand new STX 242 under the same wind conditions? You may reach the 30 knots speed then.

Did you try without the center fin?

But will it be frustrating for learners?

I have tried an inflatable SUP with a sail and as a beginner I struggled to keep it sailing straight (I think it always wanted to turn downwind), controlling the direction of sailing and turning. Any ideas why I had those issues?

Why not put the sail on a canoe?

where do you put the mast foot on an inflatable sup? Is it a special sup?

Moin Nils

That looks like the very thing that would keep people out of the sport. You can't say that was easy or fun.

it would plane with no dagger ;)

Ah, du hast die Fußschlaufe hinter dem Mastfuß nicht benutzt! Das bringt bestimmt noch einen halben Knoten extra!🤣🤙