Saturday, September 20, 2025

Parawing Session 1 - 9/20/2025

I got in two sessions today at Hickam.  I'm counting them as separate because the wind conditions were different and I ended up using two different parawings.

When I got there, the wind was blowing pretty hard.  No whitecaps, but I think that was more direction and less the amount of energy in the wind.


Same gear as yesterday, but I started off with the BRM Ka'a 4.8


I was mainly trying to figure out how to get better upwind angles with this parawing.  For the most part I held my line 

I was also trying to determine why my jibes on the Flysurfer POW 5.0 are so hit and miss.  I pretty much know it already but it's part swirly/lully wind, and part long lines and big wing.


The more I use the Ka'a, the more I'm finding what it's strengths are - it's probably the most maneuverable parawing I've used to date.  And it's super controllable - goes where you want it to go. 


Lots of correlation between the wind speed and my speed.


Towards the end of the session, I could feel the wind dropping off - so I headed in to swap out the parawing.

W:56/FD:115/PW:39/S:8

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