I saw this and had a lol and thought there is a car analogy meme in this somewhere
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Just my $0.02 living in the Bay Area - most wingers are on too small of a front wing and too long of a mast for their goals.
What they buy:
Mast: 90+
Front Wing: <700 sqcm
Semi-sinker boards
What they say they want to do:
-Ride swell
-Learn to Pump
-Master transitions (tacking, 360’s, backwinding)
-Maybe start to Paddle DW
What would serve most people best:
Mast: 80-85cm
Front Wing: ~1,000 sqcm
Mid-length board
3.5-4.5M parawing
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Isn’t that because everyone in the Bay Area has more money than they know what to do with, and end up throwing money into Mikeslab?
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I may have all those foils, the question isn’t what to buy, but which one I should take out given the conditions. (the 500sqcm one I just ordered of course)
Obviously there’s plenty of business types out there on the water, but also college students, folks in the trades, creatives, and really all types of incomes getting creative and sharing the stoke!
parawing is not ideal for tacking, 360’s, & backwinding
Yeah that’s true - I guess if they wanted to do everything in the list they might want to add:
To Sup:
-Supfoil board
-Paddle
To flatwater-freestyle
-3.5M wing, 4.5M wing, 5.5-6.0M wing
You can totally tack & 360 parawings. It’s super fun. Backwinding is another matter 
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The parawing tack is definitely harder than the wing tack, and I’ll have to report back once I nail the 360’s, haha.
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Loving my PWs, but when I’m back in proper waves I’ll likely go back to winging. There’s something about tacking on and off waves rapidly that just scratches a certain itch…