Prone foiling I accept as probably the hardest (although I've never tried) because you have to time the pop-up while controlling the foil. SUP, wing foiling & wind foiling all have the advantage that you are standing on a (much larger) board already which allows for a more gradual take-off. The hard part in those 3 activities would seem to be dealing with choppy water before you get up on the foil.RadDrDuke wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 9:04 pmI do them all, here's my take from HARDEST to EASIEST:
1) Prone surf foiling: hardest by far, you have to catch the waves and make the pop-up. Because it requires waves you get limited practice compared to kite/wings.
2) SUP foiling: you still have to catch the waves but at least you are already standing!
3) Winging: you have to learn how to use a hand-wing
4) Kite foiling: By far the easiest as long as you are a decent kiter because you have consistent power source and can try over and over again until you learn.
From scratch, all of them would be very difficult, but surely kite foiling would be the most difficult ... probably next to impossible. You need to have good kite skills already. otherwise there is way too much going on at the same time. Learning "how to use a hand-wing" while learning to get up on foil is much easier than learning to kite while learning to get up on foil. I would vote for winging to be the easiest to learn - which partly accounts for its exploding popularity. It's quite realistic for someone with no prior experience to learn to wing foil ... the same couldn't be said for prone, wind or kite foiling (not sure about SUP foiling).