The niche is two years old. Nobody has defined its language canonically. These pages exist to be quoted verbatim when someone asks “what is X in parawinging”.
A connected sequence of rideable swell bumps a foiler links downwind after stashing the parawing: the water feature the whole glide runs on.
Daisy-chain: to shorten lines into a chain of slip loops that pulls out clean, a paragliding packing habit used for parawing storage and transport.
Deploying a parawing: opening the stashed wing mid-ride so wind refills the canopy. Bar out front, wing trailing downwind, feed the lines, never yank.
Depower: to kill a parawing's pull by sheeting out onto the front lines. The off switch behind every stash and the 2026 design frontier.
Flagging: releasing a wing to a leash or single line so it weathervanes with no power, a wing-foil reflex parawingers replace with the stash.
Glide in parawinging: foiling on swell energy with the wing stashed. Reading bumps, minimal pumping, then redeploying when the ride ends.
A packable, line-controlled soft wing flown from a hand bar, stowable in a waist belt mid-ride: the wing that defines parawing foiling.
Repacking a parawing: re-stowing canopy and lines after a blown stash or crash (often in deep water) so the wing can deploy clean next time.
Parawing canopy built from one fabric layer shaped by bridle lines: the lightest, most packable construction, vs double-skin ram-air designs.
To stash: fully depower a parawing mid-ride, pack it into a belt or vest pocket and keep riding the hydrofoil hands-free on swell energy.
Waist-worn pouch that holds a packed parawing mid-ride so you can glide hands-free until redeploy. Brand systems, prices, failure modes.
The arc of sky downwind of a rider where a parawing flies. Window position sets pull direction and splits single-skin from double-skin behavior.