Just sold my lift setup was riding the 120HA 25HA tail and 32 inch mast for the last few years. I’m leaning towards either Armstrong or the new KT atlas. Any suggestions? I like to prone and wing foil mainly sometimes do dock starts and want to learn stand up down winding.
Code, Kt, Armstrong are all good. Axis also has the most extensive line for all disciplines.
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Any reason for pulling the trigger?
Lift 120 paired with 20 carve has been my favorite set for a few years and recently added 110haX and Havoc 92 to the quiver mostly for sup dw and winging but haven’t tried the new foils yet.
Afraid of missing out some sweet stuff but the cost of switching brands is prohibitive where I live with crazy import taxes and lack of local dealers.
I’m potentially a bit biased as a happy Code Foils rider (I pay retail) but they already have a very well rounded lineup plus a mid aspect option in the future. They just work with very little stuffing around and have a very solid connection system. I’ve also found I can move between different sizes in their range (I use the S series) and due to the scaling pretty much know how each will feel/perform.
The other brands that peaked my interest are AFS (but availability isn’t great here) and now KT (purely because I trust in KDW) but their current lineup does seem to skew towards beginners and are probably missing some smaller sizes which I’m sure will come in time. Unifoil also has some nice options. I started on the progression series but found them to be quickly overpowered for our conditions in Australia but the evo series may be better?
Rest assured pretty much all the foil brands have decent options these days it’s more about being realistic with your sizing for the conditions you will ride in and to pick an aspect ratio that lines up with your style of riding.
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Re tow foiling. Recently got my afs silk stuff back and I was loving the 650silk. Ive been riding only code for the past hundred sessions. Silk is so much more user friendly and easy on waves. But I had a session where the waves were weak and ruined by side off wind. Normally id still be able to ride very well with either code S and R as they have the glide. But with the silk 650/850 I could only go a very short distance and then didn’t have the glide to continue. Basically it was horrible. The pump on the silks are basically unpumpable compared to the code. However if the wave power is there and you don’t need the glide I think I’d prefer it over the code. But that’s only the 650. If the wave got smaller or needed more glide to ride I think instead of going up a silk size it makes way way more sense to go up in AR to the codes.
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