There's two kinds of flying foot switch. Front foot and back foot. The one you see in all the videos is front foot. You keep the front foot in position and move the back foot forward. That's quite hard and takes a lot of timing to get right. The back foot switch is where you position the back foot i...

To me the sweet spot kite size for foiling is 1/2 the size of the surf kiters and down to 1/3 the size of TT. I can get away with going smaller but I normally only do that when the forecast is for the wind to pick up. I generally prefer to have a bit of power to play with. Power adds stability when ...

I have been using countersunk 316 hex head screws for years. The screws last fine but the hex head gets chewed out. Using a high quality wrench helps but that just delays the inevitable. It's only a minor nuisance. You can buy a bag of screws for a few dollars and keep them in the car. When the wren...

My "faster" foil is a J Shapes Freeride. It's about 750cm flat area, 5.9:1 flat AR. Projected are is more like 680cm and 4.9AR. 95cm mast. It's plenty fast for blasting around. Not breathtakingly fast in pure speed conditions. It's all pretty stable and getting bucked off at speed is not a huge conc...

I'd like to go faster. I am hitting terminal velocity in the mid-20 knot range with my surf kites and freeride foil. What gear will give me the biggest speed boost? I was thinking of buying a foil kite then getting a race foil and board. Answers to a similar post in another thread suggested a foil k...

I have had aluminium. I now have carbon. There is almost zero chance I would return to aluminium. The only way I would consider aluminium is if my current gear got destroyed and I was not able to replace it. Even then I would go to extreme lengths to buy something similar to what I have before I set...

I aspire to go fast, but 80% of the times I ride are more suited to a slower more forgiving foil. I am a long way short of exhausting the possibilities and the skills to be perfected on my slower surf foil. My suspicion is that there is more speed to be gained from getting a high-mid performance foi...

Right... the safety line is about 10m long and it is fixed permanently to one of the front flying lines (which are 21m long). The attachment point for the safety line is a little loop that seems to be spliced and/or sewn into the front line, obviously in a way that does not decrease the strength of...

I was going to ask about 316 torx screws as well. All I could find was 304. They are working fine so far. My masts have 304 stainless barrel nut inserts. They have about 300 hours each on them. There's a little bit of surface corrosion on some of them but they work fine. The real benefit to me of hi...