2019 Slingshot Hover Glide FWIND - Infinity 76

Quick review of this awesome big wing foil - picked it up from Jesper at simmerstyle.com.au

Quality of the product is impressive, the carbon wings are lighter than last year. It's a great looking piece of kit.
Setup is super easy and it flies without any shimming or adjustments necessary.

The inverted gull wing shape Infinity 76cm 1534 cm2 front wing is huge - it has great lift as you would expect, so super early foiling.

Awesome stability and predictability at low speed make it a perfect choice for learning to foil.
A mate was getting stable relaxed 200m+ flights with no bad crashes in his first hour of windfoiling - and that was with a pretty full-on 20 knot breeze and big chop.

The big wing is also amazing for more advanced riders for freeriding big chop, downwinding ocean swells and riding small waves - you can really pump the swells and feel the energy in the water. It's super maneuverable and turns in a flash.

Cranks upwind at crazy angles even with a wave sail - to counter the lift from the big wing you throw your weight over your front leg which settles the foil to a predictable stable height - flying over big ocean chop is effortless.

Carving swells back downwind is for me the most fun of all, pumping the foil with my feet while luffing the sail, feeling every boost from even small waves. This is where the big wing really shines as it maintains height even when you lose wind power.
I've done 21 knots which is respectable for such a big wing - handy to have decent speed to fly upwind but downwind there's actually no point going fast - the fun is staying on the swells not out-running them.

The foil is so predictable the wind range is huge - I've used it with a 5.3 wave sail in a single ocean session where the wind increased from 10 knots to about 24 knots.

Big wings with small sails make all those choppy waters that were a pain to sail with conventional slalom/freeride gear awesome fun and when the waves are too small for conventional wavesailing I'm still having a blast.