everyone seems to have slight variations, but whatever works for you 
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its easy to pack a 3m. when the lines get longer and there are more battens, more canopy and the battens are longer (and potentially stiffer or flexier), its a whole another thing. also rider height and the length of the arms also has something to do with it.
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Im sorry, im a visual learner. Would have to see it in person or a video to fully grasp. I usually only stow and pack in mu pouch on my last wave in. Unless im DW. Im have to watch those videos you stated.
I just hold them. I’ll have the A, B and C lines in my left hand. As someone stated above preventing those lines from spinning and catching your trailing edge.
If i know the wave is going to be long. I’ll fold the canopy in my hand. If the wave is short, ill just hold all the lines in my left hand.
I dont want to bore you with videos but this is what i mean. Just bear the 45 seconds video and go to the end. If i’m just riding and know i need to re-deploy the Parawing. I’ll collapse the parawing like everyone else by grabbing the A line, but then i immediately grab the B and C lines. I’m just holding all the lines and PW in my hand and not fold the PW into a ball. Just surf and re-deploy. Sorry if that sounds confusing.
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Future of parawinging (?): 1:Parawings that can be trimmed might become the new standard within 3 years. 2:Nylon frontstiffeners might disappear, i think soon it will all be Nitinol. 3: Companies that do not adapt fast to new trends will go out of business, because the evolution goes even quicker than with windsurfing in the early eighties, but without the amount of buyers to support all the companies, so it is either adapt or disappear. 4:For most models there will be upgrade kits with hookshape bars and joke systems, some even with pulleys, we see the first homemade pulleysystem versions being shown now on youtube for flysurfer pow and people will start exploring deep into this so more and more possibillities will be found for all brands and all models, so the companies will follow and serve us ready made kits to install. 5:Boards will all have great similarity to the very rockered shapes of slingshot project drag and kt arc. Deckshapes might overall become more like KT arc and starboard fyre. 6:it is no rocketscience to build hollow boards so more small brands might appear, and we might even see a new wave of DIY boardbuilding. 7:we might increasingly reject draggy systems, especially in the high end of the market, so the double track will gradually lose ground, but because everyone still has this system it might take a decade for the whole market to adapt to something less draggy. What the new standard will be is still unclear, adjustable Tuttle is appearing, there are tests with Radix, I presume that eventually something like a crossover between Tuttle and Radix might gain ground, with the depth and headshape of Tuttle, and with the screwmechanism similar to Radix, and a flange similar to Radix. 8:People will increasingly wax their lines to keep the slick feeling similar to new lines that come straight from factory. 9:We will all be regularly refreshing the water-repellant stuff on our parawings. 10:for foils there will be standardized measuring of lift, roll, drag etc… 11:For parawings there will be comparable standardized measurements of max upwind angles, amount of pull to start, amount of pull at certain speeds and angles. Comments?
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Some folks mentioned they wanted to see videos of the different techniques. Here’s Gwen’s method using the BRMs - it’s the only method I’ve used because it’s quick and redeploys with no issues. Go to 8:04 in the video below:
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Ha! amen. I just got a 5.7 & wow that’s a lot of real estate to handle!
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Still prefer using center A line technique. I find the pw is more at risk of spinning if I pull in from the back lines. Intresting seeing the range of techniques. I am definitely hooked on a simple approach but as others have said, if its working for your doing it right.
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Although a tense situation I love reading these stories. Just another situation that you usually don’t hear about and good to take learnings from.
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who would have guessed that the tables would turn and the downwinders would be waiting for the reviews and advice from the winger brigade. Here is my advice for the wingers who are now trying to learn to read bumps and learn to pump: if you cannot reliably pump for one minute or more and stay on foil for multiple kilometres without thinking about it, then you need to set a rule: NEVER redeploy the parawing while on foil. Always pump until you can’t pump anymore. SUP and prone teaches you that what feels like stall speed is actually about 30% above stall speed, and that what feels like your max effort is also well below, and what feels like an unrecoverable touch down is actually easily recoverable, and what looks like a tiny ripple is actually plenty of energy for some glide.
(SUP was great for this because you knew quite deeply and viscerally that staying on foil was worth more than life itself once you managed to get going after a few hours of struggling, but I am glad that is now no longer a thing)
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great tips … Thank you Josh
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interesting that he doesn’t switch feet
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Probably cause switching feet is for nerds 
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I think it’s a surfer thing. I don’t think Adam Bennetts switches either.
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here is an updated and more detailed breakdown of Gwen’s technique:
Pw makes it easier than ever to ride toe side for those of us who never learned to switch feet, can one hand it, stand naturally, lean into it
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I can’t imagine riding several kms/miles upwind without switching feet, just too uncomfortable for long tacks.
We have a few locals who don’t, but because of that they car shuttle. Those who para back upwind to the start always beat them back.
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I have not switched feet since my windsurfing days. Kitesurfing, kite foiling, wing foiling, and now pw. I am very comfortable riding to side and can do so for long runs. My upwind angles are very similar heal side and toe side.
It’s definitely a hangover from surfing, I am just the most comfortable in my natural stance.
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