I’m in need of a new whatsapp foil group to waste time in. If anyone’s wants me to post ikite screenshots in their thread just let me know 
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LAFC chat got u down?
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You are welcome to join the Austin FC chats, as long as you come with extremely low expectactions.
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Yo, I want in. Originally from AR, have family near Beaumont. Wanna foil Texas. I am a low performance Winger, SUP, and Dock Starter living in SoCal.
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How are you buying used gear these days?
Just being poor and not buying anything. But this site is good. http://usedwatersports.com/
Then the hood river facebook groups have tons of gear that I was looking at for my trip. That’s where the deals are. Ended up being able to borrow a smaller double skin parawing though and didn’t have to spend money on gear I would have no use for down here in LA.
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This is me! I haven’t changed a thing in 2 years. My old busted gear is FINE. Any time I swap setups for the new hotness it feels ok but not amazing and my boys report back that my gear is not lacking!
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Thats me and F4, dropped 3.5k and was like "it’s good, but not earth shattering " sold it for what i bought it for. F4 does have good marketing, drop a shit load of foils and let the influencers hype them up! I went back to my AFS. Now i rather not buy any gear and use what i have.
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Few of us are rich-enough that money is no object. I think the industry is going to consolidate b/c there’s not enough money chasing all this R&D.
When I was in hood river my mind was blown. A literal LINE of people to get on and off the water every time you came in or out. The money is not in surf. It’s in lakes and rivers.
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Good point, but we have to be careful estimating the market size from the people at an S-tier destination - everyone wants to go there. Joe Sixpack is happy to pump up a SUP to mill about on the water at your average lake.
very true.
But if you look at the parallels with road and mountain bikers - it constantly amazes me how many $10K+ bikes I see on any given Sunday.
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That’s a really good example.
I’d argue there aren’t that many parallels at all and that you shouldn’t be amazed. Any ‘ol schmuck with a credit card can role into a bike shop, drop $10k on a bike + gear, and then actually hop on and ride the thing without needing to develop any additional skill set.
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Yes and Parawing will be taking over and has already
Which hood river fb groups have a lot of gear?
Northwest foiling is pretty good. Used parawing group has a lot but mostly Europe.
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