Jon Modica - Cabrinha AWSI 2026

What we talk about

• Why Cabrinha launches its products the day before AWSI, and why the days before the show matter for dealers and media
• Small local retailers matter: Jon asks them what actually works before new products get designed
• A year of the new foil system: sales ahead of forecast, new interest from wake boat riders, and foils now Cabrinha's second most important product after kites
• The foil families, Prestige, Domani, Whippet, Rebound and Origin, with new Prestige sizes and the job each one is meant to do
• The new Domani for speed and energy control, and how to size it against the Prestige, for example going from an 1150 Prestige to a 960 Domani
• The Nomad parawing, developed with Element in Switzerland for power, upwind ability and stability, with small double skin wingtips and a light all carbon bar
• Parawing materials borrowed from paragliding, how fast wings wear compared with kites, and Cabrinha's careful approach to new products
• The new stiff 14mm Design Works mast and two newer mast connection systems

About this episode

We sit down with Jon Modica from Cabrinha for our 153rd episode!Jon discusses their new foil, the Domani in great detail as well as how they've come about the new Nomad Parawing.