I am ready to jump into foil surfing. But real water sports quoted me $3000 to get the Armstrong foil and bored. It seems like it’s a lot of money does anyone have any other ideas or do I just need to pull the trigger.
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Yeah where do you live? Buy the "iwa" and "Iwa chopped tail" from kaser. Then buy a gofoil mast. Then buy a used board. Less than a grand to get started? Tthe instagram guys on armstrong have moved on from them. Armstrong stuff does look amazing though.Considered the best you can get right now ... so kinda like buying a BMW for your sweet 16. I am more of a easing in guy, start with the Ford Pinto with baling wire holding up the muffler, go from there. Personally I'd go used to start. I went with Slingshot for my beginnings: functional, a bit heavy, lots around and way cheaper. But now, a couple years later, there's lots of good early gear available. Contact Kaser in the GoFoil firesale thread, see if he has a complete set up for you. That is a great learning option.
i don’t count the kai as a “double” set as it’s not useful for an adult in waves. Never seen anyone successfully use it. The iwa and the 200 work for surf though..
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double set $850 (buddy got triple set for $900)
Go Foil complete set Iwa - Kai - Maliko - sporting goods - by owner...
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Strongly disagree. When the waves are chest high or bigger and have some juice, the kai wing is unreal. It is a go-to. Are you sure you're not talking about the nalu? That's more a tow or kite wing from what I hear.i don’t count the kai as a “double” set as it’s not useful for an adult in waves. Never seen anyone successfully use it. The iwa and the 200 work for surf though.
Nice quiver, how do you find the gap from 1550 to 1050, I have the 1550 & looking at getting a smaller wing like 1050 or the HS1250 when it's released.I'm on the Armstrong prone board and 1050/1550/2400 wings currently. I didn't start on it, as that is a huge investment up front if you are just getting into foiling. I started on an older Cloud IX with a foilmount on an older surfboard. It's always a gamble getting into foiling, as you may or may not like it (although I haven't really heard many stories of people not getting fully hooked).
Once I got foil brained, the insane costs seemed more reasonable haha. The Armstrong gear has definitely elevated my abilities over the last year or so.
Have you any experience with the Axis 660 (similar size to the 1050) & could compare?Surprisingly the 1050 seems to perform a bit larger than it sounds, maybe due the higher aspect ratio. I also have the 1200, but its slowly gathering dust, so I may sell it, just a bit too much overlap with the 1050. For me at 65kgs the 1550/1050 is the perfect two wing quiver for prone foiling in the surf. My first session on the 1050 in head high waves was my best session to that point. Once it gets waist or lower, I hop on the 1550 with either the 50 or 60 fuse.
I've been winging with 1050 more and more and it's sick! Last session I started with the 2400, swapped to the 1550, then 1050. Wind was 15-20mph in a slick, so the water was flat, 5m Swing. Flat water made getting up on the smaller wing much easier than in choppy water.
I need to try the 1200 and 1050 back to back to see if the 1200 has a place in my quiver.
No axis experience. Just v1 cloud IX wings a while back.Have you any experience with the Axis 660 (similar size to the 1050) & could compare?