Steve Tobis

No podium, no product. What Steve Tobis gave parawinging is the record of learning it. The Maui-based ENSIS team rider is one of the sport’s early adopters, and while most sponsored footage shows clean runs and finished technique, Tobis filmed his actual learning curve: the failed launches, the tangles, the sessions that went sideways. The community keeps citing his session footage for exactly that reason: it shows what the first months of parawinging really look like for a skilled waterman, not a highlight reel.

That counts for more here than in most sports. Parawinging is barely two years old. The modern parawing (Boardriding Maui’s Maliko V1) launched in August 2024, and the first sanctioned races only happened in April 2026. Almost nobody has been doing it long, so candid early-adopter documentation makes up a large share of the total instructional record. Riding on Maui, the sport’s birthplace, Tobis was positioned to get on the gear early and show the unpolished reality of it.

What is and isn’t documented

Three things are confirmed: Tobis is based on Maui, he rides for ENSIS (the Swiss brand whose Roger parawing Balz Müller also races), and his candid learning-curve footage is widely referenced. That is the full extent of what we can state with attribution.

Not documented: his specific parawing model and sizes, his board and foil setup, competition results (nothing under his name in the 2026 SFT Downwind Parawing rankings), or attributable quotes. Rather than fill those gaps with plausible guesses, we leave them blank until they can be verified. New to the discipline? Start with what parawing foiling actually is, then watch how experienced riders handle stashing the wing mid-ride: the skill that defines the sport, and the one every early adopter, Tobis included, learned the hard way.

This profile expands as verified information turns up. Setups and sponsorships change fast in a sport this young; treat everything above as point-in-time for 2025–2026.