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DEFI WING 2026 IS ON FIRE AND SO ARE WE 🔥 What a start in Gruissan, France! After taking Race 1, @nico_spanu and @zfoils WINGFOIL kept the momentum: Race 2: P2 by the narrowest of margins Race 3: BACK TO P1 🏆 That is 1st - 2nd - 1st after two days of racing. An extremely tight second place shows just how dialed this setup is. Nicoló: “Yesterday I used the 5.5 with the front 430 in both races. The wind was very gusty: in the first race there was light wind with some pretty strong gusts, while in the second race it started off very strong and I struggled a bit, especially because I was using the 5.5 while the others were on 5.0s or even 4.5s. Then the wind dropped slightly, I managed to recover, push at my best, and win the race. In the end, I got a first and a second place. We’ll see how it goes today, but for the overall result I’d rather wait until the last races before talking about the final standings” Consistency is king at DEFI. And this 5.5m² + 430cm² combo is proving it. Massive thanks to @defiwing for hosting the world’s wildest wingfoil marathon. Race day 3 loading… #DEFIWind2026 #ZFOILS #WingfoilRacing #Gruissan

HISTORY MADE AT DEFI WIND 2026! 🏆🔥 Race 1, Gruissan, France and Z-FOILS WINGFOIL takes the win! Massive respect to @nico_spanu 🇮🇹 for an insane performance in mild conditions. 20-25 knots of Tramontana wind, 5.5m² wing + 430cm² front foil, and pure speed to P1 in the world’s biggest windsurf, kite & wingfoil marathon. This is what happens when precision engineering meets world-class talent. Z-FOILS. Built to win. Race 1 Setup: Rider: Nicolo Spanu 🇮🇹 Wing: 5.5m² Front foil: 430cm² Wind: 20-25 knots Location: Gruissan, 🇫🇷 #DEFIWind2026 #ZFOILS #Wingfoil #Gruissan #defiwing

Sun, salt, and another solid day testing on the water 🌞🇧🇶 - - @futureflyboards @north_windsurfing @zfoils @brunotti @insta360nl @bonairetoerisme #OnTheWater 🌊 #TestDay ⚙️ #BoatLife 🚤 #SaltLife 🌴 #MarineLife 🌊

Aruba Hi-Winds is living up to the name this year. 🌬️ Just secured 1st place in the opening race despite the difficult conditions. It’s going to be a long week of racing, but I’m locked in and ready for the battle. 👊 #arubaHiWinds #vayu #zfoil bigwind #teambonaire

Congratulations to @nico_spanu on his Defi Wing 2026 victory ✌️🏆🔥 Our team sees great potential in the recently started cooperation and everyone else has to be ready for the next results! 💪 It all seems so incredible to us: 658 competitors, one competitor with ZFOIL and he dominates this competition by a large margin! A lot has been asked about Nico’s equipment: As for the foil, he used a Z FREERACE foil, 430cm2 front wing, 160cm2 rear wing. Instead of a standard mast, a slightly stiffer and better 108 cm UHM RACE MAST was used* * The mast and fuselage mounts are the same on the RACE foil and FREERACE foil. Anyone can add a RACE mast to their freerace foil. #wingfoil #defiwing #defiwind #foils #racefoil

World Champion 🌍🏆 🔥🔥 After a long 10 days, I can finally call myself World Champion in the foil speed discipline. It’s hard to describe what this feels like after so many hours of training, testing, and working closely with the brands to make this happen. Seeing all that work come together makes this title extra special. Congratz to @nico.f465 and @cyril_evrard250 for completing the podium And ofcourss a thank you to everyone involved in this journey, and especially to the organisation and @pos_worldspeedtour for making this event possible and for all the hard work behind the scenes. This is only the beginning 🚀 @bonairetoerisme @brunotti @north_windsurfing @zfoils @futureflyboards @cyril_evrard250 @nico.f465 #worldchampion #speedsailing #windsurffoil #windsurfing #speedfoil worldchampion speedsailing windsurffoil windsurfing speedfoil

This is what 70 km/h over 500m looks like 🚀 Join me on a full speed run 💨👀 - - 🎥 by @videociel - - @brunotti @bonairetoerisme @pos_worldspeedtour @princebaldini @zfoils @futureflyboards @north_windsurfing @videociel #speedsailing #windsurfing #windsurffoil #highspeed #500m

🚀 The racing season finally kicked off! And I couldn’t be more happy... World Championships in Leucate/France are underway and we already finished the first foil race. The last seasons have been mentally tough for me in foil competitions. From winning my first PWA race on the foil down to barely finishing TOP20. Going into the last event in Japan November last year, I knew I won’t perform well, but I went to finish the season. It was so demotivating. 😔 It would’ve been the easiest for me to say “bye-bye” to foiling after last season, but I decided that I didn’t want to leave it at that. I hardly spent time on the foil this winter and didn’t get a proper race training, so coming back to the race course was almost a bit scary. During the winter @zfoils stepped in, I tried their foil (we made a YouTube Video about it) and ultimately I decided to race on it this season. Stoked to make the move from a test to a true partnership. Thanks for the trust Herki and Timo. 🫡 🏁 Today we finished Race 1 in super light wind, where I managed to finish 5th. I still need to spend a lot more time on the foil to get 100% confidence, but it’s great to feel competitive again. For now it’s just one race - and surely the ride will continue to go up- and down. But I hope I can slowly build the momentum again. I definitely prefer when it’s 20 knots fin action, but I can now enjoy the foil racing again - even in 8 knots. 😅 The new @jp_australia_com 85 HF Slalom and @neilpryde_wind Flight Evo are a great combo with the Foil. If you want to up your own foil game get the foil now at @surfcenter_com 😜 📸 @lars_wichmann01

Dreamy session in📍 Porto Pino, Sardinia #windsurfing #windsurf #windsurfgirls #sardinia #foiling

How to adjust rear wing angle on windfoil? Adjusting the rear wing angle on awindfoil is a useful skill that allows you to increase or decrease the foil’s lift. As a result, the foil’s wind range increases, and often there’s no need to change the front wing when wind conditions change. Also correct angle adds stability. Here is an explanatory diagram showing how to do it correctly. *tools needed: TX30 #windfoil #zfoils #pwa #windsurf

Stoked to try out the new @zfoils PWA race foil!! 🦈 A full review of my experience is now on my YouTube Channel… ☝️But in short: the glide through the water was something else. Very stiff, so feels super controllable on the reach and in the jibes. Great how they managed to pair that with a very competitive price point. In the last years almost everyone in competitions had switch to Patrik foils, because they were most competitive. 💸 However, the price of it made competitive race foiling less accessible. Still an expensive sport, but a good step in the right direction by @zfoils - paired with reduced registered quiver at @pwaworldtour . Timo and Herki from Z-Foils are very passionate innovators. More about that and also my personal foil journey over the last years now on YouTube! For those reasons we also decided to offer the @zfoils at @surfcenter_com !! Reach out if you have any more questions 🤘 🎥 @lars_wichmann01

How to adjust hydrofoil rear wing? Adjusting the rear wing angle is a useful skill that allows you to increase or decrease the foil’s lift. As a result, the foil’s wind range increases, and often there’s no need to change the front wing when wind conditions change. Here is an explanatory diagram showing how to do it correctly. *tools needed: 3mm hex (A;B) TX30 (C) #wingfoiling #hydrofoil #foiling #kitefoil