oh man I have the worst luck. my v3 Mantis I destroyed a year ago on it's first session, and then I bought it a year later and on the first sesh the trailing edge ripped off the strut mid-sesh. same wing, second session (1 year apart). pretty funny. at least the bladder repair wasn't that bad. Stoked yr stoked on the Ventis! I still ahve mine but I'm considering selling it cause I can make the 5m sizes work now with the dw board and new HA foils in close to the same winds. 6-8mph I'm not sure if I've done that... but now that I'm kinda into paddling more, that's a paddle day for me. soooo much to learn there! well, I hope you get some more wind soon bud! sending windy vibes and wishing you an awesome rest of your weekend!

I totally agree! the v4s are so similar and slightly better in a few ways but in general I think the v3s are amazing. I'm proud to have mine! I'm thinking about getting a 3 or 3.5m to fill out tha part of my quiver. thanks bud, I wish you an awesome rest of your weekend!

awesome day for sure, you were ripping it up!! can't wait to shred bigger waves with you, hopefully soon!

Chris! what's up bud?!? it was a great day, actually a Monday, but I think it was a holiday. I'd love to try that Neutra... I just looked it up and it def speaks to me. I think I saw someone on one of those recently around here so maybe I can try it. I'm really getting dialed as to what my preferences are: great drift, good power, decent performance. so anything that checks those boxes makes me pretty happy! I hope all is weel bud. lets catch up soon. I wish you and yr crew and awesome rest of your weekend!

awesome to read this, thanks! I'd say my favorite part of these in general, both the v3s and v4s, are the handles. right now they are my favorite hard handles out there. and I've only ridden the 5m sizes and they are really nice... the can feel a little heavy in the light days but I can leverage them around with my forearm pretty good one-handed and I'm kinda getting used to that. I def could upgrade to a v4 this year, but they are very similar to the v3s. def recommend an upgrade if you can grab even a v3 cheap. I'd love to try a smaller size... I could use a new 3 or 3.5 so I may consider one of those... thanks for the comment, and I wish you an awesome rest of your day!

I have a 7.0 V2 that is super sloppy due to the handles and windows. I also have a bunch of smaller V2s and those are all good. So glad they improved the handles. Thanks for the review!

sup bud! sorry for the delay on responding to you... it's been a week! so sounds like you are going for a big upgrade! exciting!! sounds like you are fine with the prone setup, but I bet that 880 will be great for prone, as will the 205 surf tail. the 180 and 140 are great with the HAs... so you may want to consider the 140 cause that would be a decent difference compared to the 205. for winging, and your weight, consider the 780 cause that is an excellent size. at your weight even the 680 would be sick. for prone and winging. they have more lift than you think. I prefer both the 680 and 880 in my quiver, for very different reasons. trust me, I want to be on that 680 as much as possible, but I have no hesitations grabbing the 880 on a small or light day, cause it's glide and pumping makes connecting bump to bump so easy. but the 780 is right in the middle and if you only get one, that's a great one to get. you are lighter than I am by 10 pounds FYI. I'm loving the 1180 for surfing so far, I've yet to do a dw run with it but it should be decent. my plan is to use it for that. you are a little lighter, so that's a plus. I need waves to get it up to foil, I haven't been able to get that up to foil on the flat yet. the 1675 is annoying for me cause it's so big, but it's ability to stay up in light wind bumps is pretty crazy. I've ordered the new 1350, which should bridge those two, I'm excited to have that one. So if you are getting into DW, the 1675 is def going to be the easiest. but you can wing with the 1180 on light days and surf with it too so I get the appeal. I love the 1180, just saying it could be hard to dw with it at first. both the 1180 and 1675 are great with the 140, and the 220 too. I think I'm preferring the 140 right now with the bigger ones, like the pump cadence on the 1675 with the 140 makes it a little easier, but the 220 glides better. and I do love that surf tail, it makes me a more solid rider and I'll ride it on crazy days with big swell when I don't wanna fall a lot, but in general I'm using the 140 and 180 for pretty much everything these days. ok hope that helped... volley back any other questions if you have them and I wish you an awesome day!!!

@@OCEANBOUND1 Thank you so much man, I really appreciate the advice. So I got a little lucky with the timing and found a HA780 and a surf 205 on marketplace, STOKED. So I'm covered on prone/wing. Now for the DW board, if I'm going to be messing around in the small waves with a paddle, hopefully connecting one or two of them and light wind days - Should I go 1180 or do you think I should try the APF?? and what would you pair that with, 140 or 180? Ive already got the 205. Thank again, we had fantastic wind down this side all weekend, the boys were sending it! cheers!!

yessss! that was amazing. you were too far out to get that much good footage of you... one of these sessions I'll get ya!

Woot woot! So much fun…