Parawing Session - 2/9/2026

I got home from work and immediately headed out to the beach

The wind was nuking this afternoon - but it was way up and down.

Two Monk Seals chilling today (and I could totally understand - the water was pretty cold).

Tide was low (had to paddle pretty far out to avoid bottom strikes).

And with the wind, there was decent surf pushing through.

Roland was my wingman today -

I downsized to the AFS Enduro 1100/HA40

And I packed three parawings into the dry bag - the Maliko 2.9, the Ka'a 3.6 and the Maliko 4.0

I started with the Ka'a 3.6 - and was surprisingly up and running almost immediately.  This had me thinking maybe I should have this foil bolted on more.  Previous sessions with this foil usually ended up with me paddling back -

You could see the gusts flowing down from the airport area.  When a knock down gust looked like it was headed over, I stopped, backed whatever wing I had up and swapped to the Maliko 2.9

This PW needs wind - but it definitely handled the high 30s (low 40s???)

And I also pulled out the Maliko 4.0

From the wind graph - the wind was definitely all over the place.  Bringing 3 parawings (why not - they fit nicely in the drybag) is likely what I'll do in the future if the wind is forecasted to be this wild.

I did retract the parawing to ride prone a few times, one of which ran for quite some distance.

I did have to fight my way back to the launch point - but I didn't have to perform an epic paddle to get back - it was all on parawing!

We definitely don't get wind like this except for a few times a year!

PF:1/PW:10/FD:14/S:7

Parawing Session - 2/8/2026

The wind was up this morning.  Way up, then way down - hard to pick which size parawing.

This guy was still chilling on the beach (there were 3 on the beach on Friday afternoon).

The waves were small and the tide was at a medium depth.

No.34 with the 80cm UHM mast and the Enduro 1300/HA43

I don't think this graph is entirely correct - seemed way stronger

Based on what was blowing when I pulled up, I initially put up the Flysurfer POW 5.0

But got quickly overpowered in a pretty epic gust.

After the gust pulled through, I considered staying out on the POW 5.0 - but figured since I brought other PWs, might as well try something else.

Kalani was there and he put up his Triple 7 PT Skin 7.3 - he went in at the same time to size down.

Lots of north in the wind.

Pretty short stint out - so I'm not counting this as a separate session.

I debated which wing to bring out - and decided to pack two.  I packed the Maliko 5.1 and the Maliko 4.0.  I used a dry bag that I got from Marlon and I could have packed the Maliko 2.9 in there also.

I squished the excess air out and the bag was pretty streamlined.

The only downside was I couldn't stash the wing I was using completely away.

I started out with the Maliko 5.1 - and was fine until one of those nuking gusts ripped through.

I switched to the Maliko 4.0 and that stayed up the rest of the session.

That was the swap out at 20 minutes in.

The 4.0 was so nice to fly -

There were a few waves where I was able to retract the PW and ride - but the waves were pretty small outside of those few instances.

Towards the end there was another knock down gust and I figured I should call it quits before I got hurt.

EPIC session!!!!

PF:1/PW:9/FD:14/S:7