Imagine standing on a sandspit that juts into the Pacific like a pointing finger, a warm December wind hitting your face at 25 knots, and a turquoise lagoon stretching out in front of you so flat it looks photoshopped. You pump your wing twice, feel the foil lift the board beneath your feet, and suddenly you’re flying — not surfing, not sailing, not kiting. Something in between all three and better than any of them. That’s what wingfoiling in Punta Chame feels like, and once you’ve done it here, every other spot is going to feel like a consolation prize. This narrow peninsula on Panama’s Pacific coast has been quietly turning into one of the best wingfoil destinations in the Western Hemisphere, and the riders who’ve discovered it aren’t exactly rushing to share the secret. But the wind doesn’t lie, the water doesn’t lie, and neither does the line of smiling foilers gliding home at sunset every single day from November through April. In a […]
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Pack It, Deploy It, Fly It: Why Punta Chame Is the Perfect Place to Discover Parawinging
There’s a new kind of rider showing up at Punta Chame these days. They look a little different from the kiters and the wingfoilers. They’re pulling something small — impossibly small — out of a bag the size of a daypack, clipping it to a short control bar, and then, with a flick and a gust, launching themselves up onto foil and gliding across the lagoon with their hands hanging loose at their sides like they’ve been doing this for years. They haven’t, of course — nobody has, because parawinging barely existed eighteen months ago. But that’s exactly why Punta Chame right now is one of the most exciting places in the Western Hemisphere to get into it. The wind is perfect, the water is flat, the community already knows what it’s doing, and the moment you feel that compact canopy pull you up onto foil and then tuck it into a waist pouch while you drift downwind in total silence — nothing in your […]
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