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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2019, 09:13:25 AM »
FRP ...has it.  WingWing. 

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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2019, 10:33:10 AM »
Call it what it is, wingsail

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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2019, 11:37:01 AM »
Change the whole forum category to Wind Wing and lets all just call it that, until it catches on.

All us old Windsurfers will just have get over it being a sail brand. The rest of the world doesn’t have this issue.

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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2019, 02:00:26 PM »
Mmmmmmmmmmm - Wings!

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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2019, 07:56:28 PM »
Call it what it is, wingsail
Not a sail. So... ...no sale.

I like wind wing, though it seems a little off. The windsurfers on foils call their sport windfoiling. If we use wind wings on foils will that be wind wing foiling? I feel my inner Elmer Fudd trying to take over.
« Last Edit: October 16, 2019, 08:00:26 PM by PonoBill »
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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2019, 11:52:57 PM »
Winging...

Foil winging...
Standup winging...

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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2019, 04:57:19 AM »
I'd vote for Free Wing.

It's the simplicity and spontaneous nature of the sport that drew me in. Always wanted to do wind sports but the cumbersome equipment was off-putting.

Now FreeWing Foiling, FreeWing Surfing or just FreeWing Cruising became immediately available to me just by adding the Free Wing.

Maybe by adding Free to the wing it will encourage companies to lower the entry price so that kids or maybe just the kids in us will take to it.

Addition: When we refer to activity, the wing doesn't even have to be mentioned. You'll be a free foiler, free surfer etc.
« Last Edit: October 17, 2019, 05:23:35 AM by burchas »
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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2019, 06:36:22 AM »
woah!  Free Winging, I like that one.
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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2019, 07:19:20 AM »
Freewing +1

Perhaps it will improve my chance of getting one into my garage! “It was Free”

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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #24 on: October 17, 2019, 08:12:40 AM »
What ever is decided,  I'll continue to call it "wingding".

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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #25 on: October 17, 2019, 11:32:37 AM »
nuther contender from frp

freewing

tough call vs

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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2019, 11:45:14 AM »
My vote would be for "Wind Wing".
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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #27 on: October 17, 2019, 11:53:17 AM »
Wind Wing is good and fits in many ways.

But "Free Wing" ...  Is really kind of perfect! It's got my vote also.

"Wingy Dingy"  will be around  regardless of what else it's called  :D
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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #28 on: October 17, 2019, 12:49:59 PM »
Yeah, I like free wing, and it's descriptive enough to work. No mast, no strings=free wing. Hand Wing sounds like an adolescent sex act.
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Re: Hand Kite
« Reply #29 on: October 17, 2019, 01:17:56 PM »
I like really like a chicken wing  ::)

 


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