Neil Pryde Wings

Hi guys just after some pro,s and Cons of the Neil pryde wings cheers Rich

NeilPryde Firefly Pro is fantastic. Big wind range and very playful. Top materials. Can easily keep up with the best wings such as Duotone Unit DLAB. No one-pump, SUP valves. Everything done right.

The only thing that bothers me is that to pack it up you have to fold the trailing edge to the inside, then rolling (like the Ozone Flux v1). My sailor's heart doesn't like folding sails at all.

The 4m is the size I use most often, and it holds up very well with no signs of bagging so far.

They are great wings. I love my Firefly Pro 4.5m - fantastic range, acceleration, and wave behavior. Super light and nimble in transitions. I also still enjoy my Fly II Pro 5.5m and continue to use a smaller 2023 Fly as part of a durability test. The only alternative I would consider is the PPC - but it is heavier and more expensive. At this point, I'd consider getting new wings only if they came with a detachable boom solution that covers 3-5m with a single carbon boom.

I haven't used too many wings so it's hard to provide comparisons, but I've got the NP Fly 5.4 and 4.0 and the Fly 2 3.0. I've done about 500km on them, mostly on the 5.4 and 4.0.

I really like the 5.4 and 4.0. The handles are good, and the padding on the leading edges I'm sure has saved my board from more than one ding. I think they've aged well given my use and I don't think there's any signs of bagging or anything like that. My only issue is the trailing edge flaps when overpowered, and from reading reviews I don't think they are the best wings for overpowered conditions. I also wish the front handle was longer so I could ride one-handed, but I wouldn't call this a complaint about the wing.

I struggle with the 3.0 a bit because I struggle to get foiling with it, but it also feels a bit unstable. I've read that smaller wings generally can feel unstable. My issue is probably more of a skill issue, but in high 20's or low 30's knots of wind I struggle with the stability while potentially underpowered and therefore struggle to get on the foil. I also noticed that they've changed the wing size recommendation between the fly and the fly 2: so for my weight (low 90 kgs) they're recommending a 2.9-3.6m wing for 25-35 kts for the fly 1, but for the fly 2 they're recommending 4.0-4.5m for the same wind strength. Unfortunately I only noticed this after I bought the fly 2: I was probably looking at the recommendations for the Fly 1 when I picked the size.

I'd like to try a firefly but there aren't many around on the east coast of Australia.

I've also thought about picking up another wing in the 6-7m range for light wind and am tossing up between the PPC M1-L or another NP wing. The PPC wings are a lot more expensive (even the L version) and I haven't had a chance to try anything yet, but they're meant to be good wings when overpowered so I wonder if that means they have wider range than the NP wings.

Thanks for all the info

I've been enjoying the 2025 Firefly Pro 5.0 and 4.0. They're exceptionally light, rip upwind and are great all round wings. Fast and nicely balanced. I love the boom, but wish it would detach for travel.

New to the Forum. A quick intro, winging for 3 and a half years, 200 hours mostly free riding, some small swell action, no tricks, or big waves. Tacking, gybing, hooked in and strapped. That's it.
Neil Pryde? Awesome customer service and cracking good wings, agile, fast, light, windows on latest versions are perfectly located, the mono handle is superb, with a large pistol grip, once you're used to it nothing comes close, imo.
I've clocked about 123 hours on the Firefly V1 4.5, and Firefly 4.0 V2, with a few sessions on the Firefly Pro 4.0 V2.
Quality is excellent. Older Pryde versions could be a bit flappy, latest versions are fine, nothing unusual, normal leech flutter when at top end. Thats normal on most wings nowadays.
Recommended!!
If you can afford the Aramid versions, go for it.
Personally not convinced by Dacron for the frame, (that applies to any wing) too many issues on larger sizes, Dacron on smaller sizes - 4 or smaller - aren't so bad, imo.

I am now on my third generation of Neil Pryde wings, from the first Fly (6.0 and 4.7), the Fly II (5.7 and 4.3) and now the 2025 Firefly Pro (5.5 and 4.0).

I have been very pleased with them. Quality has been (very) good, easy to use. The Fly and Fly II are really excellent wings for the improving wing foiler. The first Fly had a bit much leech flutter, the Fly II had improved this quite a bit. I am very happy with my Firefly Pro's. They are quite a bit flatter with smaller leading edge and strut diameter with a very nice boom. Balanced, good speed and nice range. It is a quite different wing to the original Fly, with much better performance overall. The only, very slight, remark I have is that the boom could have an even more rigid attachment to the strut. I have about 30 sessions on my Firefly Pro's.

I have not tried that many other wings, mainly Duotone and PPC (a couple of runs). The PPCs wings I have tried are incredibly stable, like a fixed wing almost. Really impressive, but also with higher pressure and a bit more demanding to get going. So stable, though. And fast.

Overall, I think that Neil Pryde offers good wings and have clearly improved the performance from their initial wing. I like the use of materials, and overall design of their wings.