Looks like a duotone foil and sk8 had a baby
Hoping its like 8.5 AR
They would be wise to copy the code S like they did the code R
Video here. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1KHfSyW86L/
listening to Adrian talk about the process behind this foil on the GFP was not inspiring of confidence. He basically won’t do anything that isn’t justified by first principles understanding of it. It seems like it still has some work to be done before launch though.
Admitted it took a little bit, but it seems Axis did well with the Fireball and now Tempo. I would guess Axis is putting in that same rigor and the surf foil should be pretty good.
yeah fast is fine because you can measure and reason about it. the feeling is less tangible and measurable. I’m hopeful. It at least looks to have some curves to it which seems positively correlated with feeling despite the obvious dislike of them lol
From a French forum, here the sizes
1010 (1076cm2)
950 (949cm2)
890 (835cm2)
830 (728cm2)
780 (643cm2)
740 (590cm2)
Should be online in few weeks
Area or wingspan?
Wingspan with a nod to area (until we get Uniform system of Measuring Wings - #10 by Matt)
First number is the wingspan I guess
Im bad at AR math. What would the aspect ratio be if wingspan is 830 with area 728cm2?
(83 x 83)/728 = 9.46
pretty soon Axis is going to realize that marketing with wingspan is just not a good idea any more. Every single other foil is using area. Riding a 740 Axis surf wing seems totally different than someone riding a 590 - and completely misleading and confusing
All the numbers are made up and meaningless. Small medium and large should be adopted.
As an Axis rider I find area a bit irrelevant when looking at wing sizes. The two figures that give me the better idea on how a wing will ride is span and aspect ratio. For instance the Axis Fireball 1750 has an area of 1525sqcm, the Axis PNG 1010 is 1732sqcm, so by that measure the PNG will have more lift.
It’s not until you compare span and aspect ratio that you get the real picture. The 1750 has a AR of 20.12, and the 1010 and AR of 7.13, two wings of similar area but actually totally different.
Axis: span
SABfoil: span (but they do lie occasionally)
Gong: SMLXL + span
Ketos: span for large foils area for smaller foils
Alpine: span for large foils area for smaller foils
Indiana: SMLXL
Modern foils characteristics are more determined by span than area and once your span gets large it’s definitely the thing you notice most about the foil so to me it makes the most sense.
I stand corrected, thank you
