Sroka FYNIX Parawing Launches With PushBar Depower System

French watersports brand Sroka has announced the FYNIX, a new parawing built around a different way of handling power: a rigid bar that lets you depower the wing by pushing it away from you. Depower itself is not new to the category, as North’s Ranger uses a Depower Tab, but the FYNIX is the first parawing we know of controlled through a rigid bar with a push to depower action, and Sroka claims it is the first with true sheet in, sheet out depower on a parawing. The brand calls the mechanism the PushBar System, or PBS.

What the FYNIX is

The FYNIX is a parawing, the soft, paraglider-style wing that powers a parawing foil board without the rigid frame of a handheld wing. What sets this one apart sits in your hands: instead of a soft handle or a fixed bridle, you control the FYNIX through a 32cm carbon bar, the PushBar, in sizes of 3, 4 and 5 square metres. The depower function depends on hooking the bar into the included retractable harness line: hooked in, you push to depower and pull to power as designed. Flown unhooked, Sroka says the FYNIX behaves like a conventional parawing with no depower, so the harness line is central to the system rather than an optional comfort extra.

The retractable harness line is included, but a harness is not. That makes a harness effectively required kit to get the feature the FYNIX is built around, rather than a comfort upgrade. Sroka sells its own parawing harness, bought separately, and it is a small addition relative to the wing rather than a second major purchase.

How the PushBar works

The PBS is a trademarked name, with an innovation patent pending at France’s INPI. The principle is simple. Pushing the carbon bar away from you releases the rear lines symmetrically, spilling power out of the canopy. Pull the bar back in and the power returns. Sroka frames this as the first sheet in, sheet out depower capability on a parawing, the same intuitive in and out power control that bar-flown kites and, in a different form, hard wings have long had.

Why depower matters in parawing foiling

Anyone who has spent time on a parawing knows that managing power is most of the work. When a gust hits and you get overpowered, your only options are to flag the wing out awkwardly or muscle through it. A true sheet in, sheet out system changes that. You can dump power in a gust and feed it back through a lull without changing your grip or stance, which is what makes wider conditions rideable on a single size. Sroka says the system extends each size’s usable wind range by 2.5 to 3 times depending on size, and its spec table lists 23 to 35 plus knots for the 3 square metre, 14 to 29 knots for the 4, and 10 to 25 knots for the 5. The brand goes further, claiming the 4 square metre replaces a conventional 3 and 4, and that two FYNIX sizes cover around 80 percent of typical conditions. Those are the manufacturer’s figures, not ours, and they are what we are most keen to test once the wing is in independent hands.

Sizes, price and availability

The FYNIX comes in 3, 4 and 5 square metre sizes and sits in the mid-range tier. Sroka set their own price per market rather than converting from one currency, so what you pay depends on where you buy more than it does with most brands. Preorders are open now at srokacompany.com, with shipping starting on 25 June 2026.

We do not publish prices. See our guide to where to buy parawing gear to check today’s figure at a shop that will sell you one.

Bruno Sroka summed up the design goal in the launch materials: “The idea with this product is really to make the practice more natural, more fluid, so that everyone can focus on what they feel and not on what they have to manage.”

A note on the brand

Sroka Company is a French brand founded in 2013 by Bruno Sroka, a three time kitesurfing world champion. It has built its reputation across kite, foil and wind sports, and the FYNIX is its move into the parawing category, carrying the bar-control thinking that comes naturally to a brand with deep kite roots.

Our take

On paper, the PushBar is the most interesting thing to happen to parawing hardware in a while. Sheet in, sheet out depower is the feature most likely to make the sport more approachable, and a proper carbon bar is a genuinely different design direction rather than a tweak to an existing canopy. The open questions are the ones marketing cannot answer: how the bar feels over a long session, how cleanly the rear lines release under load, and whether the wind range claims survive real-world water.

This article is based on Sroka’s press materials and manufacturer claims, not on independent testing. We have not ridden the FYNIX. Once owner feedback starts landing after the 25 June launch, we will follow up with what riders actually find.

If you are weighing up whether the FYNIX fits your quiver, our parawing size guide covers how to read size claims like these, and if you are newer to the sport our guide to parawing foiling walks through the basics first.

All three currencies are Sroka’s own per market pricing from srokacompany.com, sold direct: EUR from the default storefront, GBP via ?country=GB, USD via ?country=US. Each FYNIX figure is the starting price for the smallest size, and the larger sizes cost more in every market. Sroka’s per market prices do not track a single exchange rate, so check what is included at checkout. Prices verified 29 July 2026 and subject to change. Sources: https://srokacompany.com/collections/ailes-de-parawing and https://srokacompany.com/products/parawing-fynix-sroka-pushbar-system