Great review, I ride HPS's 880 and 1050, 85lt board and I weigh 86kg. Was looking at selling the 1050 and getting the 960 Spitty, in the summer I normally get out with the 1050 and 8m Fone with 8knts of wind. I love the 1050 but looking for some more glide and I have a friend who rides 960 and then 900 and has come from the HPS, highly rates them. Great review

@Wing-Tips

Ай бұрын

I would strongly advise riding them before parting with your money as I only felt the Spitfires were good on a wave, outside of that I didn't feel they added much in terms of glide and I felt a much better option was just buying a skinny tail to go with the HPS - which extended their glide quite noticeably. I have ridden the 840, 900, 960 and the 1180 now and I didn't buy any of them and stayed on HPS as the gains were too small to justify the financial outlay. I can tell you that all the Spitfires are harder to get on foil than their similar sized HPS equivalents, some significantly so (like the 900). If you ride decent waves a lot they are worth it but otherwise I didn't see a worhty pay off for the outlay.

Good review format. No bs 👍

@Wing-Tips

Ай бұрын

Thanks

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@Wing-Tips

Ай бұрын

thanks

@ForidaKhatunSetu

Ай бұрын

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@Wing-Tips

Ай бұрын

@@ForidaKhatunSetu thanks for your input

Ive been looking at spirfire, coming from hps 1050 and 930 (weight around 88kg summer rising to 93ish at Christmas meal;-). I was thinking something like a 1030 and a 900 (for two different wind conditions). If i win the lottery maybe 1100/1180 for super low wind, but nervous which bought me here..

@danielpugh2752

Ай бұрын

Interesting about the rear, I have a speed 430 which the tips broke so filed down to roughly a 400p ISH, so was thinking that for larger wing and skinny for the smaller - seen another review suggesting similar so good to see you pointing out - super handy!

@Wing-Tips

Ай бұрын

The issue for me coming from HPS is that the gains you get are relatively small. The 930 / 1050 combo is a great one and to this day I think the HPS 930 is still one of the best foils Axis has made for versatility and ease of use, it is ceratinly the sweet spot in the HPS range for me at 85kg. There is a reason I still own mostly HPS foils and that is that the benefit from upgrading to Spitfire is not worth the financial outlay. Only if you are constantly surfing reasonable sized swell or waves is there a case for going to Spitfire. If you are mostly riding flat water or very small swell then it just isn't worth it in my opinion as they don't get up as easily as the HPS, so that's a negative and really all you get is a bit of tip breach capability. Spitfires handle chop and disturbed water less capably than the HPS foils as they are higher aspect and more affected by it. Just my thoughts, many love the Spitfire foils but for me they just don't offer enough to warrant taking the financial hit to upgrade (in the sea conditions I usually ride).

Interesting about your body weight since you say it is too big for you. Thank you again for another great review.

@Wing-Tips

Ай бұрын

this is mostly due to the 1180 having a very small operatinal window for me - in very very light winds on a normal style board I could use it. But as soon as the wind got up a bit I wanted to be off of it onto something with less span. The Spitfire 1100 would be a better match for me - I could still make it work in very very light winds and when the wind gets up a bit it feels less over sized.

Great review! My biggest wing is a HPS 1050, which I use with a 350p, advance fuse, Swift Foiling NG board & I wingfoil. I'm a light weight, but wondering if the SF1180 would get me foiling in even light winds than the 1050? Or maybe the SF1180 would become a to bigger wing quickly and not much of an advantage over the 1050?

@Wing-Tips

Ай бұрын

the 1180 would get you up sooner but it will also feel too big sooner - especially in chop as the large span picks up all the energy from the chop. My largest foil is the HPS 1050 which I also ride with a 350P and crazy short advance fuse. I felt the 1180 was too big for me because when the wind gets up a bit and it gets choppy it becomes harder to manage - and that actually for what it costs that is a big chunk of a nice narrow light wind wing board which has a much larger use case. So my reasons not to have one were that it was a very specialised tool and would not see the water that often - and once I have a light wind board (picking it up from swift foiling tomorrow) it wouldn't see the water at all.

@tjboon

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts! Be interesting to hear how the new light wind board is and the difference it makes!

@Wing-Tips

Ай бұрын

@@tjboon sailed in 10-12 knots on a 1000 foil yesterday on the new board - and I didn't even pump my biggest wing, just used a 5m. Granted it was a pretty big pump session to get on foil but it proved to me that I just don't need big foils anymore. Light wind boards are game changers for sure.

@tjboon

10 күн бұрын

⁠@@Wing-Tipsthanks for coming back to me on that :)