short answer: my favorite thing is a surfboard in waves so foiling is a light wind, small wave, thing for me...Kitedicted wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:13 pmI am up and riding pretty comfortably both directions but have yet to master turning/tacks. Learning was tricky and the feeling when I first got up was really cool, similair to the first time getting up on a twintip. Now I sort of have gotten used to the feeling and while cruising around is pleasant, I'm not sure if foiling is my thing. I don't want to quit too soon. How far into the process did it take for you to get hooked?
It's funny you mention that because thats how I felt twin tipping. The first 10 meter run... I was hooked. On a foil, the first 10 meter run felt like getting drowned while be dragged by a bullFlyboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:34 pmFoiling was addictive from the first successful 10 metre run. An amazing feeling to be riding in the water, rather than on the water. The challenge of learning to master balancing the foil for long runs ... & then the challenge of learning to balance the foil through gybes. I think the discovery that it's possible to carve quite small waves was the biggest bonus.
I'd spent the previous 10 years on a SB looking for waves - good wave days were always few & far between requiring at least 20 knots. Now, with only 13/14 knots I start to get swell/waves that are more fun to ride than the average 25 knot day on a SB. Get to link multiple turns ... & then in one tack ride back to where I started to do it again. Also, the ability to effortlessly cruise around several kilometres upwind & downwind is great. And, of course, way more sessions.
Well ... it's not the 10 metre run that feels like getting drowned while being dragged by a bull ... it's the bit immediately following that! The feeling is so cool that you want to prolong it as long as possible before you get to the drowning part again! Actually, I don't think the drowning part was that bad ... it was the abrupt neck-busting face-plants that were hard to take.
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