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Aloha buddies! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue Planet Surf. Today. I'm going to discuss establishing your foil equipment. It's a concern we get a lot: Exactly how do I establish the foil, where to position it, where to place foot straps, just how to place your feet on the board, what sort of board to obtain. I'm additionally going to talk about what type of equipment to use as a beginner.

And as a advanced foiler as well as for different sporting activities- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. After that I have a wing foil board and also a susceptible full board. I'm going to speak about the boards, utilize the foils utilized. And afterwards I'm also going to discuss foot positioning, how to identify where to place your feet and just how to attach a foot strap to your board.

So this video clip is mosting likely to be a bit much longer. We have a great deal of information on our website as well as on YouTube also. Down below in the description, I'll place a great deal of web links to various other video clips and also links that will assist you additionally along the way. The last video clip I published was an interview with Kane De Wilde and he has a lot of truly excellent insight on foil setups and so on.

And also he stated, he always likes to try lots of different setups and also find out what works as well as actually feel it out. Which makes a great deal of sense to me. The even more. You can evaluate points the much more, how points collaborate and also exactly how to optimize your setup as well as having a good configuration, specifically the foil functioning well with your ability as well as just how you use it is very crucial.

Having a great foil set up and also the best board as well as after that a good wing, all those points with each other will instantly just make you better right away. These days I mostly into wing foiling. This is the board I use one of the most below is my my 4 six by 78 litre wing foil board. What I discuss right here today relates to all four sporting activities, including susceptible hydrofoil browse foiling, wing hindering, and standup foiling.

So I started foiling concerning five years earlier. And also if you look back through the YouTube history of video clips, you'll see, I first began on an 8'0 Defend foil board that I simply put a Tuttle box right into which worked well to start on as well as learn on.

And after that afterwards I would certainly constructed a specialized foil board. That was a 7'6. As well as pretty soon I seemed like it was also large and also the tail was dragging and so forth. I cut off the tail just to see what occurred as well as made it right into a 6'11, as well as then that functioned truly well. And also I figured out, yeah, having that shorter swing weight and the much shorter board actually assists when you're foiling up on foil.

And after that I've been progressing progressively, been checking smaller as well as smaller sized boards. As well as currently what I use for wing foiling is a 4 6, which is pretty little. And also for vulnerable surf foiling I use a comparable length board. This one right here is a 3'10. I utilize this mostly for exercising my dock Begins, which I'm not very good at yet, but dealing with that, attempting to dock begin and also pump.

And afterwards for standup foiling, I use this board here. It's a five 8 by 114 litre board for standing falling. I simply need more security.

The wing master board is great for wing flooding, but it's not steady enough for me to stand paddle on maybe a lighter weight. A paddler with actually excellent balance could be able to stand paddle on this. Generally speaking, this board is going to be too little for a lot of people to stand up paddle for long. So something such as this, the 5'8 Truly nice. Stand-up foil board additionally works well as a wing foil board since wing filing, you have the wit lift of the wing. So you do not require fairly as much security as you provide for standup and jumping while you're standing up for beginning as well as wing foiling and also standup foiling.

I suggest getting a bigger, stable board. In our range, we have the 6 '11 and also the 7'6 Easy Foiler designs. Those are actually great boards for finding out exactly how to Stand up paddle foil and also wing foil. And then as you get better as well as you're comfortable standing and you can possibly change your feet around and also do all the essentials on a larger board, then you prepare to go some to something smaller, maybe something like this five, 8 Carver foil board, or for a bit more advanced for, as well as these Wingmaster boards are awesome. This is not going to be your very first Wingfoil board, it's going take a larger board to very first discover the essentials on, as well as then you can work your method down to a tiny board like this. For me, it was many boards in between. And, undoubtedly I possess as a brand as well as I made these boards. So I do a lot of R & D as well as made a great deal of boards slowly working my method down.

Possibly much like a few inches in a couple of liters at once. I really did not begin on a large board and ended up on this ideal away. There's a lot of steps in between. As well as you do not have to take that lots of steps, yet I would certainly claim in between a beginner board and the very advanced board, there must go to the very least 2 or 3 boards.

To reach that point where you can compose a really little board. Do not assume you can just begin wing declaring on a little tiny prone board. This is it's feasible. I've seen people do it prior to that are incredibly skilled professional athletes as well as already very good filers. I've seen people learn just how to wing complete on vulnerable.

The boards, yet if you're an average Joe don't also try it. It's going to be way as well difficult to try to discover on it, tiny board. And for me it wing for the thing I suched as to have a bit extra volume. So I'm, my weight is 195 pounds. I'm 6'2" and also 195 pounds which is approximately 90 kgs.

So that converts right into 90 liters of volume to drift me. The very first 90 liters of quantity will certainly float my body weight. And after that certainly you also need to add in the weight of the foil and the board itself. And also and also primarily if you want it to drift you, you require to have equivalent quantity of flotation to your body weight. So the volume truly depends upon your body weight. And afterwards for a beginner, I recommend obtaining a board that has adequate quantity to drift your body weight, plus maybe 20%. For me maybe as a beginner, I would use a boy that's at least about 120 liters, maybe more that will be good to float me.

For considering foiling for standup hindering, you could obtain something even a bit bigger. Maybe for me, I would choose like 140, 150 litres and also adequate size and size and also security to be able to send out a paddle on as well as find out on. And then as you improve with the balancing and also catching waves and also getting up on the foil, after that you can move smaller and the foil does include stability to the board.

Having a foil board is mosting likely to be a lot more stable than a normal standup paddleboard, but it's a particular kind of equilibrium that you need to obtain made use of to it. Does not. Simply instantly make stabilizing very easy. It's simply a little bit hold-up, so it decreases the motion of the board a little in that foil underneath.

It resembles having a keel under your board. So following allow's speak about the foils themselves. I have actually been doing this a long time. I use quite a small foil now for wing foiling, specifically like for waves and also things like that, attempting to go faster. This is an gain access to high facet aspect for us.

The Axis 810, a wing period or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. And also the projected surface area is 1022 square centimeters, that has to do with 158 square inches. So this is fairly a small front wing, yet since it's rather high facet as well as it's actually quite, has quite a bit of lift and a great deal of slide.

I really liked this, a front wing. Additionally I have a 760, which is a little bit much more surfy, which is likewise a actually nice but for starting out on, When I began, I utilized a really large foil, the 2000 square centimeter foil. When you're starting something like the Carver foil, We have the group plan at Carver for is a great forum for learning.

It's 2000 square centimeters. It's steady comes up at reduced speeds as well as flies out a little lower speed, however it simply maintains gliding. If you're doing a transition, if you muck it up a bit, you have actually got means even more time to glide out of the turn and also stay up on the foil. And also it simply lifts up less complicated as well as reduced rates.

It's this much easier to use a bigger foil when you're starting out. And also as you proceed, relying on the problems you're flying having a huge foil is simply makes every little thing a bit easier. As well as and it permits you to do even more techniques as well as points like that. So these smaller sized foils are except everybody, however as you get better, having a smaller foil.

As well as a thinner profile, just enables you to go faster, do tighter turns, be much more maneuverable and going quicker actually aids in the waves because a great deal of times when you capturing far from