NSW
241 posts
I've just ordered a Cabrinha 2022 Mantis (5m) and, after purchasing, I watched one of the reviews and he noted it was a great wing but he felt it didn't have as much 'pull/grunt' as some other wings out there.
I don't care, those long 'boom like' handles sold it to me, BUT the smaller wing you can get away with the better so it got me thinking....what's got (currently) or looking to have (2022) a wing that allows you to use the smallest wing possible?
Example, just from looking online, the Naish Matador is supposedly designed just for this purpose?
WA
748 posts
Cabrinha cross v3 will be up there
2383 posts
With handles like that possibly BRM or the newest Unit?
NSW
1030 posts
PPC, Ensis Takuma WR are all from the same designer and are very grunty powerful wings.
It's a personal thing whether you like them or not and whether your arms/shoulders can cope with it.
WA
9790 posts
Not sure grunty is the right description when it comes to say the PPC wings I use. Compared to say the armstrong (V1 mind you not sure of the V2) I've ridden. The PC frame is rigid but it's also a fairly flat profile - so it just starts easy and rips upwind easy. The duotone units I had I would call "grunty" which meant they back winded hard in their top third of the wind range and yeh that can pull on the shoulders. PPC doesn't do that.
453 posts
Takuma WK is the gruntiest wing I've tried (ridden OR, Ozone, Reedin, Cab. Mantis, Cab. X-wing, Armstrong, and Konrad). The Takuma will get backwinded heavily at the top of its range though, so you need to ride one size smaller M2 for a given wind strength.
849 posts
I've heard a good review on the forthcoming slingwing V3. The guy who just won the World Cup was flying one too.
