Demonstrating the Importance of Technique | Foil Drive Masterclass 

Very useful. I’m 95kg and was struggling with my standard wingfoiling Fone kit. Upped my foil to a 1300 Seven Seas and using an overhead swim technique I got on my 54l rocket wing S, and it was easier than the wider bigger rocket 75l rocket wing which I prefer for winging. Glad I don’t have to buy a new board! The 54l carbon rocket wing s cost me £2k and it was too small for my weight winging to be fair….but is going to turn into a great foil drive board it seems….

Thank you! I normally hybrid wing on my 75L board and FD+. While on vacation, I've been hybrid proning with it. I watched your video this morning, and it inspired me to try my 25L winger board. Success for me and a friend!! We had a great day in very small swell.

Very helpful! At 100kg, it's great to see a fellow big dawg on small boards and foils with the FD Gen 2.Thanks for all great information and getting a head of the opinion train.

Super helpful and great job setting expectations. So glad you didn’t have 65kg person demonstrate all that and left me wondering if it would work for big guys.

Thank you so much for making this video. It totally gives me direction what boards to buy.

Great instructional and perfect timing, thank you. My Gen2 arrives tomorrow and hopefully this education has stopped me making one!

🙏helped me a lot in the beginning. Now I've figured out that on a smaller board it helps while doing the double arm strokes to gently press your feet down on the water surface to help control the pitch in a good flat angle (like you'd do on a boat with trimming the motor😊) And, mounting the system further back in the tracks will make you plane more easily BUT when free foiling might be off centre, weird feel. The further you mount it forward in tracks the harder you get it on a plane, but you may find the sweet spot somewhere along the "road"😅. So some playing around with the mast position can help. thanks for making Foildrive 😀

Some tech interest there for me. I wing surf, 3D print last 13 years since I designed my first 3D printer motherboard and wrote it's software and all the wings I ride are my own designs. So very similar skill set, including I spent many years designing RC jet boats and jet units using brushless motors. I'm 115KG and so it's interesting to see it lifting you with various non beginner foils. I'm pretty happy with the winging coming from wind surfing and kite boarding but it's nice to see discussion of your "pre-spool" (folding prop would be a big point of difference vs fixed there) I've seen what I think are some fairly recent units, if you aren't yet moulding them, I'd suggest a medium hardness polyurethane 2=part resin. I suppose the 3D prints are adequate if not exposed to shear forces against the layer adhesion, PETG+ is pretty awesome to work with, has a bit of shrink but the adhesion is great and if you print it in white, much better temperature stability than PLA. There are some tricks in my wings that are being adopted by a few other companies for the outer wing profiles that affect stall angles after I linked some old but very inspired wing research on kite forums back in early 2021. The controller location vs the water is also interesting. With lots of cheap chipsets embracing radio inc ESP32 series with wireless and bluetooth and Arduino and LORA, that's an area I haven't experimented with under water yet. Ultrasonic might be an option too. The big trick with radio is FM and phase locked loops, I'm sure it can be adapted to ultrasonic and foils aren't noisy, so long as your prop's ballanced I guess the motor vibrations up through the mast aren't too bad? It's convenient that the maximum mast vibrations near the motor under load will be absorbed by the water around the mast.

Brilliant! Thanks Paul!

Great stuff. Thank you. This is "super" helpful for prone surfers, and pump foilers, down winders. I'm guessing it's a bit different for wing foilers as we need at least one hand on the wing unless we are being really fancy. I am not fancy yet. In watching this, I think really low volume sinkers (volume for one's weight), long boards are not a go unless you're using straps even though the Gen2 Max has the power to get you flying. I'm starting on a 6' 2" x 21" 100 liter that should be cake and have an 85 liter 5' 6" x 26" (traditional wing board) and will be curious about how technique evolves with FoilDrive users and wings.

Great video Paul .. gonna try your pop up technique as I have been doing front foot first ... your method looks better.

So smart to do the master class tutorial.

Terrific masterclass 💯, thank you Paul 👍

Great video. Very helpful information!

At "41 minutes 35 sec you introduce a 5'8" 30 liter foil board which i have since identified as a TWIG Pro Model. I was very impressed how you were able to ride it with the "foil drive". They don't make these boards any more. Is there any manufacturer out there making similiar boards?

Masterclass indeed mate, love its magic

I noticed you changed the foildrive and mast from one board to the other at 29:14 without it coming apart. How do you keep the mast and foildrive system from not coming apart? Thanks

Great video Paul. How much do you weigh, out of curiosity?

Do you need the foam inserts if your board has no carbon inside? And is that any special foam?

Hello.... i tried to reproduce your technique on a 60 liter board, however the foil drive didn't deliver enough power to get me up. Therefore, Im wondering if the "app" was set differently than yours for this activity. Can you please post your settings that you used on the "remote" and /or app, so I can reproduce your results?? Thank you

So cool. I know nothing about this. How much with board and all?

Have you ever tried to mount a foil drive on to a wake foil board? Will the signal transmit through the board?

I have the same question as someone else. What electric screwdriver is that and what torque setting? I think this is your best video. Well done

thank you great vid....so much great info at around 34 min re using to much power

Please a video about integrated mast vs carbon mast with universal motor.

Can you do a masterclass on how to get up into waves?

My Foil Drive Gen 2 arrived a couple of days ago. Not yet got it in the water. I think post this there’s a video re the controller settings and how when the controller gets in the water the prop will stop (sensible safety). So if on a small board, where you need to keep the controller on the board to transmit, won’t the both front arm swim stroke to get a boost, stop the motor?

Genial el vídeo! Me surge una duda, piensas que una tabla con menos volumen y un poco más larga, sería más fácil despegar que con una mas corta pero con más volumen? Yo estoy en tu rango de peso y con una tabla de 80 litros 5,3' no consigo coger velocidad y he siguiendo todas tus indicaciones... Tabla plana, peso adelantado...

Super interesting ! could you give reference of your electric screwdriver please ?

Thanks a lot ! So should you design a board for the gen 2 ?

What length distance from board down to motor? 20cm?