by far the best piece of advice i've heard so far. brilliantly put together. I think the exact same message as voice over with slow mo hi res shot of the moves and positions would be even more of a gem. thank you for suming up so nicely all these hard learned lessons. please keep sharing your knowledge
So nicely said! I have been foiling for 1,5 year and seen hundreds of useful videos, but this one is a masterpiece you should watch everyday before you wear your wetsuit! Thank you so much!!!
I've been winging for over 4 years and this video brings it all to one conclusion. Thank you. It's like meditation or yoga. A really refreshing video. Thank you for this. Whenever I have a bad session I will rewatch this vid. Namaste
Erudite and insightful commentary. Doing less is a great goal, doing all kinds of crazy machinations to save it is also instructional. Agree that right practice is best .
Been foiling for 2 years and this advise is the best . Tip two foot position has been the biggest thing for me on turning my heel or toe lifted , and it took time to work out why , this almost made me give up as i was falling very close to the foil . I now changed my foot position . Still learning taking step by step , and enjoy every session.
Great advises - thx a lot !! Have been discussing with a mate about initiation of tighter tacks and heard you confirming my proposal to start with redirecting the wing. I´m also progressing with foot switches (my best currently are when coming out of a jibe and there is automatically more up-pressure from the foil) and have been experimenting with front foot pressure, as from my previous watersports I was used to a 50:50 allocation for decades. Well lot to learn - looking forward to more tipps from your end !
Super video, I'll try to keep those tips in mind. You mention you use your garmin watch to track. Which app are you using? I am still baffled that garmin does not offer a standard surfing/foiling app.
any app on it will do - mine is an old watch and I just use the cycling app, then when it uploads to strava I edit and change to surf / windsurf. You can dig into the data regardless of sport.. Garmin has been really good as the watches have buttons that you press - both my apple watches both broke, and before that, the chance of the touch screen working in the middle of winter with a frozen wet sausage for a finger... well, unkind words were frequently exchanged with siri! 🤣
@@ktwo-surf thanks, we are on the same page then. I once accidentally used the 'snowboard' app , but that only recorded the downhill slopes 🙃. There are 3rd party apps 'Windsurf PRO' and 'Windsports', but I would have to customize the settings to make these work for me.
bonus tip for standing inline, you chin is your center of mass. keep your chin over your front foot. even keeled over you will find center of mass with it.
I am an old fart ex-windsurfer who just passed a 3 day wing foiling beginners course. The teacher told me millions of times I must get rid of leaning upwind. Really a bad habit not easy to get rid off.
I started winging 4 months ago. At first I thought “man, this is way harder than it looks” jajaja Don’t get frustrated now I’m foiling better and better and finally having actual fun 😬
Trying not to spoil the last tip, it does very much seem like the next piece of progression seems impossible for a while, until all of a sudden it is no more, and you'll look back and wonder what all the fuss was about :)
Very mature and experienced approach to our not so easy sport. Will be very useful and will apply to level up. To get filmed as advised, I would like to use your set up that you put at the back of the strut of your wing. would you please share the gear necessary for that ?
I’m still wind foiling with a proper mast and sail, but my friend has been winging for over a year and now has a downwind foil board that he ironically can’t wing downwind. He always foils directly into the wind.
Good point about speed converting to glide time for the manoeuvre. There with the gybes but still not the tacks. Also going to check front foot pressure is right. Great advice, as with the earlier RU-vid one on getting going on small boards, helped me move from a 110 to a 75 Hover. Thanks, Mike
That is a prototype freeing pro. I used these wings for a full season, really liked them - nothing else had so much low end power, and it had a ton of top end control, plus they were absolutely bomb proof.
It depends on what foil. For me, Tracer V3 1030 - 85 mast - 65% towards the rear, stab set at 75% towards the rear.. But that is me, everyone has a different setting to get the magic front foot pressure - you cant use anyone else's settings as a guide... too many unique variable to cross compare.
Front foot pressure -- so are you saying to ride around feeling more pressure on the back foot than the front? This seems at odds with most advice out there, but it is what I tend towards as an ex-windsurfer. How do you ever switch feet if you have so much weight on the back foot, which must move first? As I ride switch coming out of a jibe it is a constant effort to get enough weight forward to allow my crappy touchdown foot switch.
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No,I think he meant the contrary. A bit more weight on the front
