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Naish Wing-Surfer MK4: www.thefoiling...
Naish Wing Surfer Matador: www.thefoiling...
Naish Hover Compact LE: www.thefoiling...
Naish MK1 Wing
Foiling Magazine's Contributing Editor Steve Sjuggerud talks to Ewan Jaspan at the AWSI in Hood River about Naish's wings and foils.
Steve Sjuggerud:
Hi, I'm Steve from Foiling Magazine. I'm here at AWSI 2022 with Ewan from Naish and we've got a lot of exciting new stuff from Naish's new wings, new boards, new foils. Let's get rolling. What do you want to talk about?
Let's get rolling. What do you want to talk about?
Ewan Jaspan:
I think we can start off with talking about our two wings and maybe the differences and why you would choose one over the other. We can start over here with our Wing-Surfer. This is our fourth iteration of the Wing-Surfer. We brought out the first production one probably about four years ago now. This is the MK4. It's pretty much all round wing. It's got a great wind range. That's one of the great things about it. It's got this new to this year, we've got a larger diameter leading edge and strut just to make it stiffer, but it still thins out into the wingtips to keep that wind flow and the balance nice. We've got new semi-rigid handles here, so they're still really controllable. You can control the wing with them, but they're not going to puncture the wing or hurt your wrists or anything.
We've got the added harness line attachment here, new power handle at the back, and we've restructured the windows so that they're not in the way of any folds or anything when you're packing up your wing, but still really great visibility through them. The wing's really stable, laughing out as well-
Steve Sjuggerud:
Absolutely.
Ewan Jaspan:
... which is really important for wave riding. We've added a dump valve on the strut as well for easier pack-down. The reason you'd take this over the Matador, which is our other wing, is really its range of use, its user-friendly ability, its speed, and for freestyle, it's a lot easier to throw around in rotations and stuff. It's got a much bigger top end than our Matador over here.
Steve Sjuggerud:
I'll tell you guys where I live have been using the six meter Matador in the surf as their low end. We have really light winds in Florida and even the top guys, they're using six meter Matadors in the surf. They just say it has a lot of good low end, but they can still throw it around.
Ewan Jaspan:
Exactly. It's got like this, it's got a deeper draft than the wing.
Steve Sjuggerud:
You can even see it from here.
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