You may only need a couple desirable options for Kitesurfing. But the cool thing is that once you learn to foil. You're a foil border. You may want to use the foil on your SUP, Windsurf Board, Surfboard. There are no limits with our system. Not buying twice is great feature.
Well if I'm looking at this correctly, 4 of the 5 wings look like they're aimed at SUP'ers and poleys. The one on the right looks identical to my current Hover Glide wing, other than the colour. So no real extra wing choices for kiting, unless you prefer blue to green
. On a positive note, the new fuselages look better. I hope Slingshot plan to release at least 1 more alternative wing for kiters.
Hey DukeSilver,
The masts are aimed at all riders. You can upgrade to a carbon fiber mast and carbon fiber fuselage.
The current Hoverglide wing is the H5 on the end.
You could use the lower aspect H1 or H2 for kiting as well for slower speeds hoverever the H5 seems to be suited to most peoples abilities. (including my own)
The beauty of it all is that once you know how to foil on a kite, you can foil on anything, so you could adapt your foil to run on a surfboard, SUP, or even wakesurfer.
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Hey DukeSilver,
The masts are aimed at all riders. You can upgrade to a carbon fiber mast and carbon fiber fuselage.
The current Hoverglide wing is the H5 on the end.
You could use the lower aspect H1 or H2 for kiting as well for slower speeds hoverever the H5 seems to be suited to most peoples abilities. (including my own)
The beauty of it all is that once you know how to foil on a kite, you can foil on anything, so you could adapt your foil to run on a surfboard, SUP, or even wakesurfer.
How much do the wings weigh?
The h5 foil which is 100% carbon construction weighs about 5 kg with a full length 35.5" Aluminium mast and aluminium pedastal connection.
Or about half that if you upgrade to the carbon fibre mast.
You don't notice the weight when riding apart from the fact that they are less twitchy.
