Armstrong UHA - any reviews, anyone had a go on one

in the shops now
interested in feed back - wake thieving, DW

Tons of information in the Armstrong Facebook group already. Both sponsored riders and normies.

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eppo said..
well this was my review of the 770 i put on the armstrong facebook page after my 3rd DW on it.

770 UHA Magic

Just did 18km DW in around 18- 20 knots on the 770 in weed that left every other rider totally despondent and exhausted - was just carpeted in the stuff in lines stretching as far as the eye could see.
I came in just utterly stoked. Weed . what weed!
The 770 / 140 just kept motoring on - sure you had to adjust and at times took of the the U in UHA. But She kept just motoring on and at no stage did i feel i was coming down.

Thanks for the post @eppo, I'm not on Facebook so if its not on here it passes me by, my choice.
Do you have any thoughts on the differences between HAv2 and UHA?
I'm on HA780, 980 and 1180 which I really enjoy riding but also use the DWP755 and 930, maybe not as often as I should.
Mostly wingfoil, parawing early days and SUP Foil and the HAv2 works for everything. Don't get to DW as much as I would like.
As usual FOMO is strong, but the wallet is light

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FarNorthSurfer said..

eppo said..
well this was my review of the 770 i put on the armstrong facebook page after my 3rd DW on it.

770 UHA Magic

Just did 18km DW in around 18- 20 knots on the 770 in weed that left every other rider totally despondent and exhausted - was just carpeted in the stuff in lines stretching as far as the eye could see.
I came in just utterly stoked. Weed . what weed!
The 770 / 140 just kept motoring on - sure you had to adjust and at times took of the the U in UHA. But She kept just motoring on and at no stage did i feel i was coming down.

Thanks for the post @eppo, I'm not on Facebook so if its not on here it passes me by, my choice.
Do you have any thoughts on the differences between HAv2 and UHA?
I'm on HA780, 980 and 1180 which I really enjoy riding but also use the DWP755 and 930, maybe not as often as I should.
Mostly wingfoil, parawing early days and SUP Foil and the HAv2 works for everything. Don't get to DW as much as I would like.
As usual FOMO is strong, but the wallet is light

Yeh took 5km on my first session to dial in its characteristics - then after 30 odd km on the water - was ready for this session. Yeh the stoke is real. Shame ya not on the facebook page there's a ton of nuanced discussion on this wing. but hey as you said your choice - no doubt less social media equals more sanity.

Look to me the UHA is definitely suited to DW - not sure i'd be using it to wing - except if going DW. That being said if someone if cranking upwind on a wing then flag riding the bumps DW - then yeh it's the one. Smaller sizes could serve for an advanced winger but man those new Mas are hard to leave alone. In waves it's a no brainer - i'm saying it now that the new Mas are just as good as the UHA but obviously for different reasons. They also make a sick para DW wing when you really want to turn and burn in the pocket.

Look my bread and butter was the 780ha for prone, wing (although i tended to use a 680 mostly) and DW paddle and para. 880 as the easy to use reliable wing when wind is not as strong or predictable or going DW in a need unknown place. 980/1080 was my light wind wing - and the 980 still serves as a decent slow arc surf wing being under that metre span.

Probably my weed experience explains the weed took the U out of the UHA - which leaves a HA lol. Can defintely feel the pedigree genetics from the HA. Take off is
smother and easier i feel on the UHA though.

Basically they have made a high performance foil that is very user friendly. Not an easy job to do. It's like it has different gears - from a stupidly low access speed generated from this insane concrete like pumping platform that allows you to dig yourself out of swell hollows to the usual high aspect efficient "tap tap" - to generate fantastic glide speed - and having lots of weed in the foil made me access the MA/ Ha mode - when weed was off then one can then open the foil up - different turning to the former foils - it banks like I said like a fighter jet - just shoots you out of a turn.

Id call the DWP a high performance foil without the user friendly aspect mentioned above. Never got along with the DWP myself. But hey each to their own. It would span out on me unless the conditions were ideal.

Which brings me to the fact the carbon layup is seriously "intense" on the UHA and it's noticeable heavier in your hand with equivalent size of the Ha. This has produced a super stiff wing which equals less chance of being spanned out like in the DWP.

and man invest time on the para . that's the ticket man!

.. yeh the 870 from which all the other sizes were based off - most prototypes built at this size - is seriously good.

Other advantage is its wind range. 770
pretty much covers the 780 and the 880 and probably even touches into the 980 part of the spectrum. Hence why i've ordered a 570 . hope to cover the 680 is also use to DW with.

That being said when conditions are really hectic and all
over the place - the Ha and Ma still has its place. Also no matter how stiff they make them - span is span - no getting around it. The 770 had almost the the span of the 980 - so the bigger you go the more you will need to adjust your riding style to allow for this span.


negative . much harder to get enough tip out on a turn to release weed. MAs are much easier and even the Ha for that. You do need to adjust the way you turn .

Thanks very much @eppo for taking the time to post that info. For sure I have never managed to get the best out of the DWP foils and at 60yo and 94kg I probably never will. Might try and sell them on and put the cash towards a UHM. Sounds like the 870 would be the core size to start with, replacing the 980.

Someone of the FB forum a winger made a great call last night. Match the span of your UhA to the equivalent Ha rather than size.

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ninjatuna said..
Great info Eppo!!

What tails are you liking with the UHA's. I figure the darts and the crisp. But have you tried the surf 130 or 170

I'm yet to try the surf tails mate but will eventually. Crisp and 120-140 so far