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Over the last year we've heard many of you talking about how happy you are with your Armstrong foils and boards, so it's been great to have the chance to have a go on what this passionate New Zealand brand have to offer.
We’ve had an Armstrong sweet shop of foiling gear to play with over the last month, and it’s been lots of fun! The man behind the brand, Armie Armstrong has always come across in various online videos as a straight up guy who really knows what should be happening under your feet. So we were really intrigued to see how these foils and boards really performed.
In a previous SUPboarder Pro Wing test we did test the 5.5m A Wing from Armstrong, but in this video we also got to have a go on the smaller 4.5m Wing which was a very well balanced wing that felt light and grunty for its size. But for us the magic of the range was really in the boards and foils that all seem to have one common thread between them… No matter whether you’re riding the smooth CF range, the fast HS foils or the super light boards, they’re all very easy to use regardless of their sizes and uses.
Awesome review! Thanks!! Another board to add to all the possibilities!
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Thanks for the review.. been riding the 5’11 armstrong for sup foiling and now winging for a few months now and love it (I weigh 90kg). Just one question for winging.. noticed you cant really put two front foot straps offset for winging. I see in the videos you are just putting one centre front strap. Is that working for you in Jibing? Also for sup foiling its generally better to put the rear strap offset of mid and the front strap offset of mid, I cant really find a way to do that as the front strap angle is… Read more »
Hi, Well it depends on what style of riding you are really doing. If you are doing alot of switch stance riding which we do because we are winging in a small creek. I find the best foot strap set up is actually having a centre offset front strap. You are correct the one in the video that we were using was the dead centre strap foot strap which also works okay. But if you are talking about gybing and switching your feet through the gybe and staying on the foil then I think having 2 foot straps at the… Read more »
Hi, thank you for all your help getting started, I/we have spent hours watching supboarder videos and are looking to get some more kit to share between us (my brother, gf and me) at the moment are sharing armstrong wingfoiling SUP 5’11 and a CF 2400 (85cm mast, 70cm fuselage) Board: My brother and I are 85kg, gf is 55kg, thinking of getting the 5’5 for the gf in normal wind and me in stronger wind, what do you think the next board should be for us all to have the most fun and be able to use in the… Read more »
Hi Alex. It sounds like you are fully stoked on it at the moment. Which is great to hear. Regs boards and foils it all depends on what you really want to do with your foiling in the end…Jumps ,waves, pumping, perfect gybes and carving moves? What I mean is going for super small boards can be good fun but at the same time you can still jump high and do a lot with the 5’11 Armstrong board. I can see you having a 80L board could be a great jump down for you in the windy stuff and perfect… Read more »
Perfect thank you, we want to learn asap with good gybes, I’ve tried, so far unsuccessfully to go for the foiling switch stance gybes but I don’t think it’ll be long now. I’ve been emailing Armstrong, as there’s no CF1600 on their site anymore, apparently, the CF1600 has been superseded by HS1550 v1 (seems they basically moved the HS v1 over to the CF range), so we’re leaning towards going for the HS1550 v2 and try the fyling V tail wing
Hmm Ok I will give Armstrong a call and find out whats what. Thought there was a new CS foil coming out. I will see what I find out and get back to you. If you don’t hear from me in a couple weeks please drop me another message as a gentle reminder :-).
Hey Alex. I have just spoken to Tris from the OTC in Weymouth the UK Armstrong importer and he agrees with me that the 1600 CF is a great wing and would also be the ideal wing for you. He did say that he has a used CF in stock at the moment, which I think you should go for, because I see why Armstrong have dropped the CF and move the HS over to replace it, but at the same time I think you cannot underestimate how much easier to use the CF wing is over the HS especially… Read more »
That’s some gorgeous kit. For an intro foil would the CF1200 be too small for me (65kg-69kg with wetsuit, etc.)? Or should I not jump the queue and stick with something like the CF1600? Also it looks like Armstrong has replaced the CF1600 with this:
https://www.armstrongfoils.com/1550-v1-1/
A little confusing.
Yeah Chuck, The 1600CF is the foil you want. You could use the 1200 but it depends what conditions you want to be using it in. Surf or wing? How much wind on average? TBH very disappointed with Armstrong dropping the 1600CF. But I think and hope it will be back. The 1550HS is an amazing foil but it is harder to use as a fist time foil.
I have already made Armstrong aware of how disappointed we are ☹️