Okay we're doing an unboxing. Not really you've got your product there, you've got
your product there, got your long masts got your short masts, you've got your wings behind you.
Yep we do, got them ready. Your packaging that it all comes in. Yep.
Hey guys Jon and Guy from Surf FX and we're going to show you guys the Armstrong foil range,
pretty awesome bit of kit this, easily the lightest and probably best quality foils we got.
Very impressive yeah 3, I just weighed them myself 3, well 2.8 average 2.7 to 2.9, I think it worked
out on the 1050, really nice, so a kilo under. So full carbon, titanium fittings. And Fuselage. Yeah
titanium core in the fuselage keep it stiff and light, even the little shims, so there's multiple
shims that you get with these and the shims do make a big difference. Massive, so don't listen
to your mate if your mate says ride plus one and you ride a zero and you like it ride the zero,
I was told to ride the plus one and I rode to zero and I love the zero it's a different for everyone
back foot front foot boards are different, your boxes in the back of the board different,
smaller wings with Army prone boards you've got to move forward, stuff like that but play around
with the shims. They come adjustable so adjust it and try it. That's 100% you might be a back foot
surfer and these are more back foot anyway so um muck around with it yeah. So lots of range in the
wings there's new, these high aspect ones like I just had here there's a few of these. Oh 50.
Coming more and more, nice and fast it's a bigger 1550 so you got different range of wings for
different applications and lift. This is becoming really popular 1850 we're getting a lot of guys
winging on these wings even prone guys bigger guys you know 85, 90 kilo guys, I'm loving the
the the lighter wing the bigger wings for smaller days, this thing's amazing it's probably suited to
more your intermediate to advanced rider but the 1250 is amazing I wing it a lot in like, I can
get going 12 knots and for the prone it's... I'm only 75 kilos love it like it's my favorite wing,
a mate rides the 850 he's a mad dog but uh yeah you can prone the 850 if you're a mad dog.
The packaging that these guys come with, nice wing covers front and rear bags in
general have a look at this so this is the bag that the it all comes in a nice case,
open it up inside you've got little compartments that hold all the fittings again we're talking
titanium hardware pretty cool. Yeah it's best set so great Army you did well yes
why not. Just extra bits because hey everyone's going to lose the screw somewhere yeah, wings
in the wing bag rear wings nicely bagged up. Rear wing quickly touch on 232 most everything
everyone's using 232 and there's some guys recently ordering 300s with us,
300 is great like actually great for heavier guys and guys learning to wing, learning to prone.
And these are choppable. You can cut em. So they even have a dotted outline here with some scissors
on it, not that you're going to use scissors and chop shop logo so that you can trim these wings
down to customize them, again adjust it and suit yourself although there's no going back once you
cut it. Just be careful you might cut it and you might reorder another one. Yeah so you can
modify your heart's content on the wings, masks come in a really cool bag. Which is amazing
because they're not getting damaged when we get them a lot of our brands sometimes have problems
so this cover we've found super padded hey. Really nice and padded all the way to the top
of course you can... it's open on the bottom, so you can have it just wrap it around the
fuselage when its open. We might show, uh we probably need to take the bolts out but
That's your mast cover and it splits down the, splits down the back as well
they come pre-shipped with the hardware again titanium hardware for the washers on the top
and bottom but just the weight of these is just. Amazing. It's pretty full on it's just nuts and
the weave like I don't know, if you're watching this you're probably going to tech out on the
weave of this just the quality of the carbon work that they have here. Amazing, they even
put a little stopper on the end, stop it getting damaged, the fittings when you put it through
uh it's amazing so. So the Armstrong stuff we're pretty we're super happy with it and
you in particular have been riding it a lot so what are your favorite wings?
1250 I've just stuck with now um for wing and I'm 75 kilos I wing it in everything,
I've been getting out in the lightest 10-12 knots on it somehow, in the ocean, with swell so I can
get going, with a six meter wing though um prone I'm still loving the 1250 I've proned the 850
because I had two towing and it was amazing I don't like pumping as much as some people but
uh definitely yeah the 1050 we towed the other day because I've been towing the 850 and the 1050 was
beautiful I say and the sunny coast guys they love towing the 1050 I think I agree it gives
you a good pump um yeah it's great I think um one thing I'll say with the prone guys that are
we're finding loving this product is I've recently got a different wing on one of my favorite brands
and the 1250 for me was able to get me the furthest I've ever got back out the back
pumping just fast you leave the wave at high speed and if you stay at high speed you'll get further
than you've ever pumped before 1250 here yeah. That's the one. Seriously amazing. Pumpmaster.
Yeah and if you get the shim right in the right part of your boxes, I wasn't a big uh what do
you call it, I wasn't sort of thinking the box positioning mattered massively but when
I got to these it does, pushed it all the way forward and I just felt so at home and
it was just so smooth yeah really awesome yeah top the little chin you should touch
on really impressive these lock into a little pin in the actual top plate
about a hundred bucks a set so don't lose it. Yeah it's titanium hardware don't lose your hardware.
Everything's been thought of with this brand it's amazing. It does come with lots of extras but yeah
don't lose it. Fuselage, we thought we might have needed a 700 to stop the pitch, we found it was
the shim that was more important to get right, fuselage we went up to 700 didn't actually find
it was necessary so for most guys most people will have the 600. Well most of these are sold in packs
and the standard pack for majority of the sizes you're going to surf have a 600, a 60 centimeter
fuselage and they run a 72 centimeter mast, now you can go bigger with an 85 centimeter mast
um it's like 140 bucks more, there's no difference in price on the other fuselages if you want to
go to different fuselage lengths but really that kind of 72 and the 60 does the most of
the surf applications for sure. Yeah so 85 for wingdings really popular. You can do, there's a
meter one if you want. Yeah some guys have been asking for that as well but 72 for prone mainly,
guys are going up to 80 to 85 for prone now it's getting a little bit more popular um but yeah.
Small waves are still hitting the bottom. Longer fuselage if you're winging we're starting to
sell a lot of wings longer fuse get up in even lighter wind so that's something to consider,
some guys buy both fuses because this market can afford it. Yeah it's high-end. Reasonably
priced. Extremely. Cheaper than most other full carbon. You think it'd be super expensive
it's not too bad uh a lot of the other guys when you add their carbon components
is usually more. Yeah your other brand is actually the same pretty much once you get a... what are
they $2695 AUD yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very reasonably priced it's not too shabby so the wings,
extra wings, they're not massively different to the competitors prices so. It's pretty easy to,
it's not super expensive to build a quiver if you want to get, you know, two or three wings.
Anything else boss? They're right here. Director. The director. They're pretty.
They're pretty they're sexy guys love the uh. The stripeys. The stripey.
Is that is that an anti-shark stripe. Definitely scares sharks off haven't had one bother me yet
and it's seriously intimidating they see it coming it's shark killer Wing foiling this on
a five meter ding board at 75 litres in waves it's insane it's really fun super light so when you are
carving I think you notice lightweight stuff definitely and getting up in light wind it's
amazing what you can get up in, they're thinner they seem to push forward and you can
just make it go up when you need to. Ooh when can I take yours? You can have it I'm quitting. Yesss
Top tip. Hot tip. Well there's also tips, oh my god there's screws in it but anyway
when you get this on and you want to get it off leave it on your board
because you can manipulate this wing. You can give it a wiggle. And it'll pop off you don't
need to use a mallet or hammer just give it a twist until you feel it break that surface.
All about the leverage. It is and you can you can twist your, the boys are showing me how you
pop it out and twist it so it sits flat and this obviously twists and then it packs flat which is
cool. Sometimes a little dab of wax. Yeah yeah if you've got any
maybe slight looseness in the front guys have been waxing it, it seems to tighten it up
on some older wings, older fuses. So there you go, now you know and knowing is half the battle.
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