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A question from a viewer set this one up: sitting on a Camber Pro 210, is the right next move a 100 Surf V2 or a 160 Camber Pro? The honest answer is that it depends on what you want from a turn, and this episode is several sessions of working out what the 160 actually rewards.
First, the missing footage
The plan was to show the wing at its best with a drone flying alongside. The drone went into the middle of the lake and took the footage with it, so what survives is a dock camera on a long lens, which cannot capture the thing that matters: how far and how fast the board moves across the water. A replacement drone with telephoto and wide options was ordered as a result, along with a new rule of swapping the memory card at every battery change. If you fly over water for long enough, you will lose one.
How the 160 compares with a 100 Surf V2
Side by side the difference is obvious: the Camber has noticeably more area and more curve in the profile. Those wing numbers refer to surface area in square centimetres, so a larger number means more lift and a slower, more stable ride. The 100 is faster and produces less lift, which is what lets you carry speed without flying out of the water. The 160 is draggier, so it lives on momentum: it does not like changes in speed and it does not want to be hurried. The upside is that it will happily ride slowly, which makes it a good choice for sessions alongside less experienced riders when a 100 would leave them behind.
You have to mean it
The first session on it was frustrating, because it was ridden like the 100: quick weight shifts, upper body working, board refusing to respond. It felt like dragging a bag of rocks. The change came from riding it the way it wants to be ridden. Step on the rail and commit, because it needs real weight to tilt, and once it is set it stays locked in that arc. You cannot change your mind halfway through a turn. What you get in exchange is long, deep, hard banked carves that hold beautifully, and the ability to build force and pull out of a buried nose that would end the turn on another wing.
Who should buy one
This is not a race wing, and it is not the pick for a course where you need to change line quickly. It is the recommendation for non racers who want the smoothest ride available and are chasing deep, committed carves rather than tight, reactive ones. Going larger than the 160 is hard to imagine given how much drag the shape already carries. Ridden on its own terms, with slower music and no goal beyond riding, it is genuinely lovely.
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