When to use what?
With the combination of foiling and normal windsurfing in the PWA World Tour from 2020 onwards, many have wondered what sort of conditions you might like to be riding the foil and when you would be switching over to the foil. Severne riders Matteo Iachino and Tristan Algret have already put in the hours testing out all of the scenarios and give us their take on it in the video clip below.
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