Introduction

Boost your energy for more action with your boom wing!

For any session of more than an hour, using a harness is a welcome relief when you are not a pro or a fitness champion. And generally speaking, it will soon be a habit for all wingfoilers to protect their body, especially their back.

A good harness line completely changes your sessions: you save your energy for the intense phases: jumps, surfs, maneuvers; and save yourself during the transition phases: sailing back to the peak, sailing upwind, long tacks.

Saving your energy during the session also allows you to recover more quickly from your efforts for the up-coming sessions of the week or the weekend! What is the point of riding full on for 1 hour when you can do 3 hours every day for the same effort?

Beyond these rapidly palpable advantages, at GONG we have a history in wing foiling which allows us to have a glimpse at the trauma associated with this activity. If at first the effort without a harness is very good for your body, overdoing it is dramatic: tendonitis, various types of wear, general fatigue, etc.

Be careful when positioning your harness line on your boom. If the rear attachment is placed too far back, it will suffocate your wing. The harness line should be placed further forward than the center of your hands so that your wing retains all its power, does not pass under the board and keeps a great handling.

The spacing of the line attachments is a matter of preferences. If they’re spread it’s easier to hook in with a good distribution of the efforts. This is a very comfortable setting. If you set them closer together you’ll have the finest steering precision. We recommend starting with the equivalent of 2 fists separating the fixing points of your harness line. Go for 1 fist spread when you are comfortable and need more reactivity. You must also take into account that the more you spread the attachment points, the shorter your harness line will be and vice versa.

What harness?

Simply any easy-to-unhook windsurfing hook will do the trick, placed on a harness or on a simple strap for those who don’t want to feel squeezed. Everyone will appreciate the degree of comfort / constraint they want.

How not to damage the board?

Is it better to risk a shock once or twice a year or to wear your back so much that you can’t ride anymore? Frankly, the question is quickly answered. A harness hook will do no more harm to a wing board than to a windsurf board, especially since at GONG the constructions are identical (PVC sandwich). And if you’re afraid of doing damage, put on a small neoprene sock with a finger of an old glove, or a few wraps of tape around the hook.

This product has undergone numerous tests to be both simple and optimized.

The key points of its design

• Perfect ratio between thinness and solidity, a thick line would be heavy and therefore dangerous during tricks. Our solution is lightweight and thin in diameter, but made of dyneema for durability.
• Rigid to facilitate hooking in / unhooking, but not too stiff to leave room for maneuverability. The use of a PU sheath and thin diameters allowed us to keep flexibility.
• No entanglement allowed with the leashes (mainly the wing). A sheathed line does not twist in the wing leash.
• Easy and quick to set up, without knots or rigid parts.

4 sizes are available (length when mounted / distance to the central strut):

• S : 45 cm / 22 cm
• M : 51 cm / 25 cm
• L : 57 cm / 28 cm
• XL : 63 cm / 31 cm

Size advice: if you never used a harness before, we recommend the size XL or L depending on your experience in wing foiling. Experts will prefer a shorter line for more performance but personal preference may vary. Be careful, a short line will be more demanding and will more easily cause catapults.

On small wing sizes the center distance between the handles is reduced so a shorter line will be more appropriate. Example: If L is your size on a 5m² then you should use a size M on a 3 or 2m².

Construction

These harness lines consist of a very strong PU sheath and an almost unbreakable dyneema core.

As for the attachment system of the harness line, we have created an efficient and reliable hook and loop system. Easy to assemble, non-slip to prevent the attachment from turning around the boom: everything has been thought out, tested and validated by our team.

Your benefits are clear:

• An accessory created by the pioneer of wing foiling in Europe.
• Harness line specially developed for wing foiling.
• Very solid but light construction.
• Simple to set up.
• A large range of sizes.
• An incredible price that can only be explained by our direct relationship with you.