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Wingfoiling @ West Wittering

Posted on 19th March 2021 by 2xs

Had a perfect wingfoiling session off the front of the 2XS Club at West Wittering beach this week with Neal and Jess Gent – windspeed was between 12-18 knots. Jess and Neal were out testing their new Ozone Wasp V2 5m wings and it was a perfect session of flat water and small wind swell. [...]

Wingfoiling – what is the story?

Posted on 11th January 2021 by 2xs

Wingfoiling, wingsurfing, foilwinging, in-fact whatever you want to call it in the space of about 12 months this new sport has exploded onto the scene in the UK. We first saw it in March 2019 whilst on a Duotone/Fanatic dealer trip in Tenerife and its hard to believe how quickly it has grown. In the [...]

Dakine T-9 Classic Slider Windsurf 2020 harness // TEST

Posted on 22nd April 2020 by 2xs

Dakine T-9 Classic Slider Windsurf 2020 harness I have been testing one of the Dakine T-9 Classic Slider Windsurf 2020 harnesses since last June - I have used many of the Dakine T series harnesses from the Thermoform all the way up the Dakine T6, T7 and the T8 sliding bar harness. For me I [...]

Kitesurfing with Stu Mahoney @2XS, West Wittering

Posted on 5th February 2020 by 2xs

Hi, I’m Stu and I’m the BKSA Senior kite instructor here at 2XS. As we await the fresh new season to start (and hopefully a windy one) I would like to take the time to introduce myself to the new members amoung you and for the club stalwarts bear with me.. This will be my [...]

NEW KIT // Ezzy Wave Sail

Posted on 4th December 2019 by 2xs

The new EZZY WAVE sail by Graham Ezzy My life is between Hawaii and Europe. Maui is my home, and Ho’okipa my homespot, but in the summers, I’m based in Germany with my wife and I compete on the world tour, which mainly takes place in the Canary Islands. I often drive up to the [...]

TESTED // The new 2020 Quatro Cube

Posted on 20th November 2019 by 2xs

The new 2020 Quatro Cube Late this summer I very gratefully received the latest evolution of the Quatro quad fin, “Cube” to replace my previous year’s version. The question that naturally arises on the release of a new board is ‘how is this different from the previous version of the board’ or more relevantly for [...]

Wing Foiling and Windsurf Foiling

Posted on 11th October 2019 by 2xs

Windsurf foiling and/or Wing foiling - what is the crack? There has been a lot of development in foiling, especially with the 2019 introduction of Wing foils - we get a lot of questions why would you wingfoil? Well I suppose foiling "full stop" is a new sense of adventure on the water - it [...]

New // Duotone Foilwing & Slingshot Slingwing

Posted on 12th June 2019 by 2xs

This new concept is yet another rebirth of old ideas and I suppose there is a bit of scepticism about whether it’s a valid product! By looking at the current social media you would think that everyone is using them, but they’re not, I think there has been some massive claims by Naish, Kai Lenny [...]

Goya & Quatro 2020 Windsurf Kit Preview

Posted on 22nd May 2019 by 2xs

Goya, Quatro and MFC launched their 2020 season range of windsurfing gear, sails, foils, surfboards and SUPs in Tarifa Spain in mid May 2019. The Maui based firm who now have their European distribution on the outskirts of Tarifa brought the Design and Test Team and dealers for a full on test week to try [...]

Duotone Fanatic Ion // Tenerife

Posted on 3rd April 2019 by 2xs

I have just got from a dealer trip in El Medano in Tenerfie with Nik Baker, Jane and Tim Frampton. We all had to chance to test new Duotone windsurf sails (formerly known as North windsurfing), Ion Wetsuits, Fanatic windsurfing/SUP, plus Fanatic new windsurf/SUP/surf foiling. There were a lot of products for the dealers to launch [...]