He obviously reviews what he gets sponsored with without getting to try new wing design. Have not scene one free-fly shot showcasing the glide.

Thanks for your comment! That is a fair point. I tried to compare to 2 top brands, Naish and Sabfoil. My hope is that most people have those on their radar as high competing foils so it would be a helpful benchmark. I'll do my best to get access to more foils to proivde a wider array of options in the future.

@@scp8412 I don't even know who free-fly is... Is this a foil you think competes as being one of the best in terms of speed, stall speed, stiffness, and glide?

@@westcoastwingfoil just meant gliding downwind on foil without using wing power.

Thanks for your input! I always appreciate alternate perspectives. Just to clarify, you're wing foiling a 400cm2 front wing in 7-10 knot winds on a lake? That would be really imprrssive/ surprising and definitely require a lot of work and pumping skill. Also to me the upside (speed) would be marginal compared to a slightly larger front wing. I agree with the larger hand wing. I have a 7m and love it for light winds! But with a small front wing (higher stall speed) you still have to jibe faster which is more difficult especially for beginners/ intermediate riders and the larger sail doesn't make it easier (other than giving you more power). I love Sabfoil. Road it for a long time and still have one. I actually did use GPS from my GoPro Max to see my top speeds in different wind conditions and found I was achieving higher speeds on my F4. This also gets reinforced by pro riders on the world circuit... F4 is placing in top spots very frequently. I appreciate you challenging some points raised and do agree that some items are up for debate and a bit subjective. My goal is to help riders improve through my experience but I don't pretend I'm going to be right about everything. Thanks again for your input and perspective. 🤙

@@westcoastwingfoil Hi, no big misunderstanding there! I can (and I really can't say that I am an expert) wing with a 750 cm² front wing as stated above. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone nor on all conditions but when you have 15 kts its really no magic going on there. The -400 applies for your graph/chart for front wing cm² recomendations and thats where I disagree heavily because I had much trouble starting out on a 2500 cm² front wing I couldn't get enough weight on my front foot and found out some fellows had the same issue. In my opinion subtract 400 cm² for beginner advanced expert in every category that would be much more realistic. I went away from big hand wings I also had a 7 m² and to me they don't make much sense because I am 1,8 m tall so pretty much average and heavily impaired on pumping with such a big wing. I drive a 4 m² hand wing in almost every condition now and that works fine for me even in very low wind. You are very right about small front wings and problems with learning manouvers but on the other hand you can reuse the energy when already driving very fast which you can't with a big slow front wing. Same thing with wind lulls and gusts. But I concentrated on the matter of speed only and therefore just watch a video of @Dengordo on his 600 or 700 cm² front wing you will see what a big difference that is compared to your 1450 foil even if it is a very good one (which I don't know / haven't tried it). I quoted DenGordo here because he races and is out for speed AND he tracks his gps also so you can compare numbers furthermore his videos are kind of entertaining. I don't want to support any brand. I simply cannot imagine that with all the extra drag of a 1450 you could anyhow reach anything like that even not with a 1050. SInce you gave no gps stats I can only guess it from the spray of your mast and so on. Thank you for your very kind words I also only want to help other riders. In the end a foil system is always a compromise and it matters very much what you intend on doing with it. My guess is: Most people out there want a foil that can pretty much do everything (waveriding/ go fast/ responsive/ go well against (heavy) wind / jump/ efficient/ go long distance).