Local Beach: Birdie Beach, Budgewoi Beach, Lakes Beach
Favorite Beaches: Umina Beach, Birdies Beach, Lake Munmorah, Canton, The Swamp, Le Morne
Style: surf, foiling, jumping, lawn mowing
Gear: Kites: BRM Cloud D's, Duotone Rebels, Peaks Wings: Cloud W1 2,3,4,5, Duotone DLAB Unit 4.5/5.5/6.5 Boards: Bit of everything Foils: AXIS and Triton Foils
You are killing it ....... just keep doing what you are doing, it takes a little time for you to learn the muscle memory associated with riding a foil and flying a wing.
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Board leash seems pretty unnecessary for mild wind and flat water with no current. The big thing that makes your foil board run away from you is wave action on the foil.
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This video might help, although the foot change might be tricky at your stage. As for dropping the wing tip, what helped me was Damien's advice on what to do with back hand (@4:15 min in the second video).
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nayy (Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:44 pm) • SENDIT! (Wed Oct 27, 2021 8:44 pm)
Board leash seems pretty unnecessary for mild wind and flat water with no current. The big thing that makes your foil board run away from you is wave action on the foil.
That seems to be very strange advice for a newbie wing foiler. Unfortunately leashes are an integral part of wing foiling and learning how to manage the leashes, and even which kind of leash you like, is part of the learning experience.
Try to stand up straighter. Your stance is not too bad, but being too bent over makes you unrelaxed and brings the wing closer to the water. Standing straighter with your hips a little forward is much easier, you can balance with smaller movements, and raises everything up a bit.
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Once you have stable wind try and and move your shoulders away from the Wing. Right now you are 'broken' at the hips with shouldeers toward the Wing. Once you get comfortable with this new position you will find you can handle stronger winds with the same Wing.
Overall your progressing well.
That seems to be very strange advice for a newbie wing foiler. Unfortunately leashes are an integral part of wing foiling and learning how to manage the leashes, and even which kind of leash you like, is part of the learning experience.
It's always easier to keep things simple when learning so why bother with the hassle of double leashes? Sure, the leash is necessary most of the time when winging but that doesn't mean you can't take advantage of the conditions when they present themselves.
It's always easier to keep things simple when learning so why bother with the hassle of double leashes? Sure, the leash is necessary most of the time when winging but that doesn't mean you can't take advantage of the conditions when they present themselves.
I stopped using board leash rather early after seeing Gunnar's video how to get back to the board quickly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5TCn_F_NS8. The leash was getting in my way too much and was very distracting. I had plenty other things to pay attention to.
Again, it depends on the riding location. I'd use board leash on open sea or larger body of water where large chop forms
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