The more you downwind, the more you begin to get a good feel for how good or bad the conditions will be based on the forecasts, what kind of foil you need to use for different conditions and can normally make the right call pretty easily. But what about those getting into the sport? In this blog I'm going to try and touch on the tools I use(d) to understand how the forecast and actual wind translates to the bumps that are out there and in turn how I then cho(o)se my foils. 

What a busy 2 weeks for the French leg of the newly announced Downwind foil world tour. I’ll do my best to wrap up my experience of these amazing events and how my races went.

Another year and another whirlwind race season (or 9 days in my case) in Hawaii. A wonderful convergence of amazing people in some of the best downwind conditions in the world. Being in Hawaii during the race period is one of my favourite times of the year as I get to catch up with friends and make new ones thanks to this amazing sport. This blog took a while to write as I couldn’t really find the time to sit down and put my thoughts down for a while and really just wanted to enjoy some cruisey foiling for a couple of weeks. 

Ok, I never wrote a 3 foil quiver blog for March because March wasn’t great for wind so I didn’t have much to write about and ended up a bit busy in April and May. However in April I received not one, but 2 parawings to see what all the hype was and to finally follow up on my last parawing blog post. Both of these parawings work great, so I’m not really going to go into the differences between them (I’ll leave that for the parawing connoisseurs). Now that I’ve had a good amount of time on them, I plan to talk more about the usage of parawings from a downwinding and learning to downwind lens rather than ‘which is best’. The parawings I have are the Flow D-wing 4.2m and the Ozone pocket rocket 3m.