Hey
Where is the break?
Any good tips how to slow down the foil?
If I put the kite near 11-12 my foil starts to raise from water.. If I keep it down it keeps runnig forward.
Sheet out to maintain ride height as the kite comes overhead, then when you feel yourself slow suitably, sheet back in to repower the kite and ride slowly with the kite high. The bar is now your ride-height control, out=down/in=up.
Yeah, any time your pull vector is in a forward direction the foil wants to go fast in order to keep your ride height stable. As the kite comes overhead and begins carrying your weight, it unloads the weight off the foil and allows the foil to carry you at a consistent height but lower speed because the kite is sharing the work.If I keep it down it keeps running forward.
so true!
It makes sense that large foils like to be ridden slower....and I'm curious do larger foils inherently move slower as well? I guess I'm trying to ask as a beginner, can a larger foil through more surface area create more drag/resistance to help slow things down? Does a larger foil "resist" going faster or can it go into death run just as easy as a smaller foil?joekitetime wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 2:30 pmPut the kite high and go straight downwind (usually folks think they are going downwind when they really aren't).
Put the kite high and point as high to windward if you can.
If your kite is lifting you and the foil out of the water you are flying to big of a kite. Unless your aim is to race, then put the kite all the way down to near touching the water and edge against it, which is the formula to go faster, not slower.
Hope that helps a tad.
Larger foils like to be ridden slower. Smaller foils like to be ridden faster.
Larger foils go much slower and are much less intimidating for beginners.Gestalt wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 4:55 pmIt makes sense that large foils like to be ridden slower....and I'm curious do larger foils inherently move slower as well? I guess I'm trying to ask as a beginner, can a larger foil through more surface area create more drag/resistance to help slow things down? Does a larger foil "resist" going faster or can it go into death run just as easy as a smaller foil?joekitetime wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 2:30 pmPut the kite high and go straight downwind (usually folks think they are going downwind when they really aren't).
Put the kite high and point as high to windward if you can.
If your kite is lifting you and the foil out of the water you are flying to big of a kite. Unless your aim is to race, then put the kite all the way down to near touching the water and edge against it, which is the formula to go faster, not slower.
Hope that helps a tad.
Larger foils like to be ridden slower. Smaller foils like to be ridden faster.
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