fluidity wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:42 pm
I don't ride the Axis wings but a lot of the locals do. From what I've heard, you want the ART series and at your weight, the two smaller ones. Second to smallest would be your go-to foil. I make my own foils to suit the black Axis fuselage but my current ones are optimised for low speed efficiency, not high speed glide. I'll probably do another series early 2023 but they will still have some stall resistance optimisations and breach resilience that Axis currently don't have for their market.
If you ride footstraps for jumping then you might be better off with the HPS though, ART are thin and a friend who is around 110kg has snapped one. He got a replacement, no issues but they are glide oriented.
Hmm, are you sure the two smallest will work for everyone as their foilwing for higher wind?
For me it would be too small, at 78 kg.
I know two really good riders, who use supersmall foilwings, so a few like these.
The Axis ART 699 is only 543 cm2.
And the 799 is 707 cm2.
That is not much, eventhough the higher AR will give a tad more lift yes.
Some has such good technique that they hardly never come down in transitions, and like to go fast, and here supersmall wings works.
Peter