Parawing

A compact, packable soft wing (no rigid frame or boom) used to get a foiler up onto swell, then stowed to ride downwind — a fast-rising discipline/gear category across the show’s 2025 episodes. Sometimes written “Parawang” by the hosts (Ep 137).

• Design insight from makers: Ewan Jaspan on the NAISH parawing (Ep 123), Gabriel Verrier-Paquette on Slingshot parawing/wing design (Ep 119).
• Framed repeatedly against downwind SUP as a rival way to catch bumps (Ep 108, Ep 109); state-of-the-market rundown from Gav Blake (Ep 105).
• Heavy parawing use reported at the Hood River AWSI trips (Ep 116).
• 2026 market read (Freddie, an Ozone UK rep, Ep 147): parawing is where nearly all his sales are — Ozone’s Pocket Rocket V2 outselling the V1 and back-ordered — while wing sales have “dropped off a cliff.” He half-dreads the F1 Frigate V2 launch pulling attention away. Open question in the trade: does parawing need lessons or only coaching, and does adding it just “water down” what a school can teach rather than grow the customer base.
• Its rise is blamed for killing off downwind SUP paddle foiling “for the masses” (Ep 147) and for shifting the hosts away from wave-hunting spots like Bantham.

Ripple additions (batch 2, 2026-07-20)

• Ep 110 (Tiesda You, Starboard): scepticism-to-interest arc on parawing; Hood River locals swapping downwind boards for parawings; currently an accessory to downwind foiling rather than its own discipline.
• Ep 47 (Julien Salles, F-One / Manera): Manera’s two deflator bags in development — a hydration-style bag and a dedicated deflator bag with drain holes/pump pocket.
• Ep 142 (Dave Kalama): parawing pulled Maui paddlers away from paddle-downwind last summer but a migration back (mixing both) is now underway.
• Ep 123 (Ewan Jaspan, NAISH) — thorough design detail: bridle-length vs stowability trade-off (NAISH targets one-arm-length lines vs Ozone’s longer-bridle approach); canopy material trade-offs (nylon/paragliding-style fabric for tear resistance/packability vs more water-resistant but less tear-resistant alternatives); danger of under-tuned prototypes (front-canopy collapse at power above ~20 knots); sizing/tuning across rider weights (~50kg to 100kg+). NAISH’s ‘Morph’ was roughly the third power wing to market after ‘BRM Flow’.