Hugh, I think you should try to swap your H5 wing for Ken's H2 (on the rest of your setup) and you will like it. It's about 30% increase in wing size and it would feel pretty good. Also my last wing you tried was 548 and since then I got 590 and 633 wings which are easier to ride and are worth trying, we just need to mount them to board you like.Hugh2 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:35 amSo, any beginner should read the two posts above by Flyboy and Grigori, because learning on a tall mast today simply makes no sense, especially for anyone who is not young and crazy. When you have the option of starting on a short mast for a few extra bucks it makes all the sense in the world to me. But Foil is also correct that the Hoverglide set up is so stable, once you learn on that, you later have to make yet another learning transition to lighter gear. I have yet to make that transition, because each time I try one of Grigori's carbon foils I simply get tossed off it, so have not been willing to fork over the cash to get one that I can persist on. Given my age, ability, and lack of patience, I am now happy to stick with the Hoverglide. Indeed, I decided to go the other direction, to a large stable old rubberized surfboard to which I mounted my Hoverglide foil. For me this allows two things. First, I don't bother with getting the board on its side for starting, I let it sit as normal, lift my feet onto the board with the kite high, and then dive the kite to lift me onto the board and away onto the foil (just like I water start with a regular surfboard). Second, I can now do touchdown gybes instead of crashing and having to restart to go the other direction. I realize this is limiting my progression to true foiling transitions, but I don't care!
The short mast I agree with.
drsurf wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 4:25 pmThe short mast I agree with.
However enjoying the journey to be able to foil comfortably??? I f%#@ng hated the journey! How is it enjoyable to be repeatedly falling off your foilboard and dropping your kite when you were ripping it on a twin tip and surfboard for years? Not to mention trying to avoid all the sharp and pointy bits when you jackknife, or those viciously out of control downwind runs when you pull out of a gybe toeside with the kite low and powered up with 1m swells directly ahead of you
Now I can foil comfortably, the journey is starting to become more of a distant memory. But no so distant that I forgot what I wrote above!
Also seeing others on the start of the learning curve does bring back those dreadful memories. So I offer my sympathy to those poor people learning with clichés like "a bit more practice and you'll be foiling for more than 2 metres" or "you'll avoid falling on the foil after the first time you do it and cut yourself up"
Have fun, Dave
I didnt even think about Shinn. Do you have a lot of experience /beginner experience and has anyone else tried Shinn Foils?Windigo1 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:34 pmThe Shinn foil is ridiculously easy to learn on. With the Jackson 145 board P wing and 60cm most people are riding in less than one hour often 15 minutes. It makes a great lightwind foil after that. You can ad a faster wing and long mast when you are ready to go faster.
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