Riders
The people pushing the sport: racers, educators, shapers. Every profile carries the full setup and a library of attributed, timestamped tips: quotes you can trace to the source.
🇲🇺 Dmitry Evseev
This site's author and athlete: 2026 SFT Downwind Parawing World Cup runner-up (Men #2, Lake Garda) and 1st Master. Mauritius-based; home wave Manawa.
🇨🇭 Balz Müller ("Radiculo")
Balz Müller profile: Swiss freestyle pioneer on the ENSIS Roger parawing. His light-wind approach, single-skin range honesty, results and quotes.
🇺🇸 Bowen Dwelle
Profile of Bowen Dwelle: writer of the first Foiling Magazine parawing feature and The Inertia buyer's guide. Gear picks, quotes and tangle-risk tips.
🇺🇸 Cynthia Brown, "Cynbad"
Maui pioneer Cynthia "Cynbad" Brown ran rescue-parachute downwinders before parawings existed and collaborated on the Ozone CynSack stash bag.
🇳🇱 Bowien van der Linden
Bowien van der Linden: 4th overall in the 2026 SFT women's Downwind Parawing ranking, Duotone-associated Dutch racer who also races SFT pump foil.
🇦🇺 Daniel Paronetto, "Foil Rat"
Melbourne parawing educator behind the LabRat Foiler Podcast: his big-gear learning method, safety kit rules and Ozone/Code setup, with sources.
🇺🇸 Kai Lenny
Kai Lenny at Hookipa: parawing to build speed, stash, then surf a SUP longboard hands-free. What the session proves about parawing crossover.
🇫🇷 Manon Dupé
Manon Dupé profile: Leucate 2026 women's parawing winner and 2026 SFT women's ranking leader. Results, training base, what she rides.
🇦🇹 Viola Lippitsch
Viola Lippitsch: 3rd at the first-ever SFT Downwind Parawing World Cup in Leucate, 3rd overall women 2026, pump-foil crossover racer from Austria.
🇫🇷 Alan Fedit
French downwind and wing foiler Alan Fedit took 3rd at the first-ever SFT Parawing World Cup in Leucate 2026 and sits 6th in the overall ranking.
🇫🇷 Axel Mazella
Axel Mazella profile: Olympic-level French kite racer turned Ozone R&D rider who develops the Pocket Rocket parawing; top-10 in the 2026 SFT ranking.
🇫🇷 Bastien Escofet
GONG rider Bastien Escofet won the Cabarete SFT Parawing World Cup (11 of 12 races) and leads the 2026 overall men's downwind parawing ranking.
🇸🇮 Aljaz Valic
Slovenian founder and designer of Triple777 parawings: paragliding-competition roots, and the teased LTX next design.
Dom Zimmermann
Ozone's Head of Design, the designer behind the Pocket Rocket, Pocket Rocket V2 and PowerPack parawings.
Finn & Jeffrey Spencer
Duotone downwind experts who co-developed the Duotone Stash parawing with designer Ken Winner.
🇺🇸 Greg Drexler: "Mr Parawing"
The inventor of the modern parawing: Maliko V1 (Aug 2024), BRM design lineage, the 2026 S3 range, and his no-pump pitch for the sport.
🇬🇧 Guy Bridge
UK Armstrong team rider who parawing-foiled 400 km of the English south coast: Devon to Folkestone in 19h48m on the water.
🇦🇺 James Casey
Australian downwind authority (Coach Casey): why he calls parawing the easiest door into downwinding, and his 'less is more' ocean-reading rule.
🇺🇸 Luca Vuillermet
Young American racer: won the opening race of the first-ever SFT Downwind Parawing World Cup in Leucate, a top-10 name in the 2026 men's ranking.
🇺🇸 Gwen Le Tutour
French-American foiling coach, YouTuber and Wing Foil Pro Center owner who teaches parawing as 'the tool that allows you to get into the magic.'
🇫🇷 Mae Haas
French racer Mae Haas took 2nd in the women's division at the first-ever SFT Parawing World Cup in Leucate and is 2nd in the 2026 overall ranking.
🇨🇭 Matt Kaufmann: "Matt on Foil"
Swiss gear tester behind the Up On Foil Podcast: 18-parawing ranking method, his F-One Frigate verdict, and his blunt warnings for beginners.
🇺🇸 Steve Tobis
Steve Tobis profile: Maui-based ENSIS team rider who put his real parawing learning curve (failed launches and all) on video.
🇺🇸 Scott Drexler
BRM co-founder and visual storyteller: the kite-foiling brother behind Boardriding Maui's parawing imagery, and what is and isn't documented.
🇫🇷 Tom Pansard
17-year-old from Marseille who won the first-ever SFT Downwind Parawing World Cup at Leucate 2026, the men's title at the discipline's first stage.
Patrick Rebstock
Patrick Rebstock profile: Ozone ambassador logging ~14-mile freeride parawing runs on the Pocket Rocket, with hard-earned safety and swell-reading advice.