With crossover from mature paraglider single-skin designs, we felt that we had approached parawing’s full performance potential when the Maliko launched last August. Since then, we’ve continued to give 100% of our focus to parawings, and, informed by feedback from so many passionate riders, along with our own daily riding addiction, we’ve gained important understandings in optimizing performance that are fundamentally different from what had crossed over from paraglider design and are specific to uniquely different parawing riding applications.

Because some advanced riders fly their parawing for less than one minute before stowing it for a 45 minute...