Is your back foot behind the mast? Try moving it forward slightly. Counter intuitive, but having a shorter stance with your back foot right over the mast helps dampen porpoising on water start. Porpoising is caused by over correction. Once riding, wider stance is more stable.

Can be frustrating foiling sometimes. Riding very slow and getting out to deep water helps. Some foils handle it better than others.

Coming soon: show up at the beach and send your autonomous foil board and kite out to go surf the waves while you take a nap.

To revisit this old topic, wanted to share my experience. For the past 200+ sessions, I have been foiling with DIY bars rigged with jerry brown hollow core spectra 300 lb-test lines (that’s pounds, not kg). The ends are a simple splice and small stitch to lock the splice. I ride hard, really load th...

Peter,
You may find that poly sleeved line will eat away at your bar hole faster than plain dyneema. I use a similar KISS setup but with plain 1/4in Amsteel spliced inside itself the whole length with good results and slow wear.

I work in healthcare at a hospital. I got the first dose of Pfizer and no side effects beyond a little shoulder muscle soreness at injection side. No issues. I kited the same day. Will receive the second dose in a couple weeks. The number of previously young and healthy Covid patients with long term...

I just plugged some numbers but I don’t actually know stuff...

6m wing, 175 lb (80 kg) rider. Assuming a generously 1.0 max lift coefficient. You’d need about 25-30knots airspeed to fly at 2-3m altitude.

Doable?

But, as we know with towing weight shift gliders, Lock Out is a $&@#.

In my opinion, based on riding the 3m and 4m. If you’re not riding a surf foil (1000cm2 or greater), then don’t bother with the Peak 4 except maybe the smallest sizes as the usable window with a small fast hydrofoil is so small due to requiring more wind and therefore reaching top end sooner with fl...

Smallest race kite I’ve flown is a 9m and it was fun but by the time the wind was strong enough that I really wanted it over my 11m, the swell is big enough that I wanted my 6m LEI instead to focus on downwind and play in the swell. If you have a flat water spot with winds steady 20-30 then I’m sure...

I’ve bought and sold maybe 4-5 kites on ikitesurf without any issue. Usually, it’s quite fun to shoot the breeze with a far-away kiter and share the stoke via email or phone call.
I’ve sold about the same on eBay with no issues. Facebook too.