We’re joined by international team riders STEFAN SPIESSBERGER and Olivia Jenkins to talk about the new Duotone UNIT WING.
We’re joined by international team riders STEFAN SPIESSBERGER and Olivia Jenkins to talk about the new Duotone UNIT WING.
"The new Unit has everything one can wish for in a wing! It gets super fast, has a very stiff profile, crazy lift and stays extremely stable when flying it behind you in waves. My go to wing right now!"
Stefan Spiessberger
Let's talk about lighter wind conditions for you Olivia, you do a lot of down winding in Maui, how important are things like drift.
Olivia Jenkins: It’s really important for me to have a really stable wing In the sky, especially as I do mostly downwinders back home in Maui during the summer. When you catch a swell, you get on the swell and then release the power and hold it behind you as you would on a wave. Having a wing that is really stable and not flapping around, you can really ignore that it is even there behind.
This is what is really important and it is something I have really noticed with the new Unit, is how incredibly stable it is in the sky when it is just drifting behind you when you are not holding onto the handles. I think that is something that is really cool and that translates when wave riding too. I’ve noticed this a lot in Mauritius where we have been riding a lot of waves over the past two weeks, it’s been really awesome to catch a wave, put the wing behind me and not have to worry about the wing flipping over and then having to spend time concentrating on flipping the wing back when you should be focused on just riding the wave itself, so that is one thing I’ve noticed that has been really awesome with the new Unit.
Olivia Jenkins: I think that’s also an important factor for me too, as a female, I might not have the upper body strength that Stefan does. When I am trying to get myself up on the foil in lighter winds I find I have to pump the wing a lot, but riding here in lighter winds in Mauritius, it’s pretty incredible how much power this wing generates which helps get me up on foil quick. I rode the old unit out here on this trip a few times and comparing the two it’s amazing how much more power is generated when compared with the old wing which has been really great especially in the lighter winds.
Stefan Spiessberger: Also as you said there Olivia, I think especially in light winds the new handles make quite a difference. I have been teaching quite a bit of winging back home in Austria and the Unit previously was a bit hard to fly as the handles weren’t delivering direct response, so I wasn’t recommending the previous Unit for people starting or riding in light winds, but now with the new model, it's something that everyone can use, doesn’t matter if its light wind, beginners or strong winds and jumping, it just works in everything really well.