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Aloha pals! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue World Browse. Today. I'm mosting likely to discuss foil surfing establishing your foil equipment. It's a inquiry we get a great deal: How do I establish the foil, where to put it, where to put foot straps, just how to place your feet on the board, what sort of board to obtain. I'm also going to talk about what kind of equipment to make use of as a novice.

And as a more advanced foiler as well as for different sports- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. Then I have a wing foil board as well as a susceptible full board. I'm going to discuss the boards, utilize the foils used. And then I'm additionally going to speak about foot positioning, just how to figure out where to position your feet and also how to affix a foot band to your board.

This video clip is going to be a little bit much longer. We have a great deal of info on our website as well as on YouTube too. So down listed below in the summary, I'll place a great deal of web links to various other videos as well as links that will assist you further in the process. The last video I posted was an meeting with Kane De Wilde and also he has a great deal of truly excellent understanding on foil configurations and more.

And also he stated, he constantly suches as to attempt great deals of various setups and also identify what jobs as well as really feel it out. And that makes a great deal of sense to me. The even more. You can check things the much more, just how points interact as well as just how to optimize your configuration as well as having a great configuration, specifically the foil working well with your skill and also just how you use it is extremely crucial.

Having a good foil set up as well as the best board and also then a excellent wing, all those things with each other will automatically just make you better right away. So these days I mainly into wing hindering. This is the board I utilize one of the most here is my my four 6 by 78 litre wing foil board. What I speak about right here today relates to all four sports, including prone surf foiling, wing hindering, as well as standup hindering.

I began hindering about five years back. And if you recall with the YouTube background of videos, you'll see, I initially began on an 8'0 Stand up for foil board that I simply placed a Tuttle box into and that functioned well to begin on and also learn on.

And then afterwards I would certainly developed a devoted foil board. That was a 7'6. As well as rather soon I seemed like it was as well huge and the tail was dragging and more. I sliced off the tail just to see what occurred as well as made it into a 6'11, and also then that functioned actually well. And I identified, yeah, having that much shorter swing weight as well as the shorter board truly assists when you're foiling up on foil.

And after that I have actually been proceeding gradually, been testing smaller sized and smaller sized boards. And also currently what I use for wing foiling is a 4 6, which is pretty tiny. As well as for vulnerable surf foiling I use a comparable size board. This right here is a 3'10. I utilize this mostly for exercising my dock Starts, which I'm not very good at yet, however working on that, attempting to dock start as well as pump.

And then for standup hindering, I utilize this board right here. It's a 5 8 by 114 litre board for standing dropping. I just require a lot more security.

The wing master board is wonderful for wing flooding, yet it's not stable sufficient for me to stand up paddle on maybe a lighter weight. A paddler with actually great equilibrium may be able to stand up paddle on this. Normally speaking, this board is going to be also small for a lot of people to stand up paddle for long. Something like this, the 5'8 Really wonderful. Stand-up foil board also functions well as a wing foil board due to the fact that wing declaring, you have the wit lift of the wing. You don't need rather as much stability as you do for standup and also bouncing while you're standing up for getting began and wing foiling as well as standup foiling.

I recommend obtaining a larger, steady board. In our array, we have the 6 '11 as well as the 7'6 Easy Foiler designs. Those are actually great boards for discovering exactly how to Stand up paddle foil and wing foil. And afterwards as you get better as well as you're comfortable standing and also you can perhaps change your feet around and do all the fundamentals on a larger board, after that you prepare to go some to something smaller sized, perhaps something like this 5, 8 Carver foil board, or for a bit more advanced for, and these Wingmaster boards are amazing. However this is not mosting likely to be your very first Wingfoil board, it's going take a larger board to very first discover the fundamentals on, and after that you can function your means down to a small board like this. For me, it was several boards in between. And also, certainly I have as a brand name and also I made these boards. I do a lot of R & D as well as made a whole lot of boards slowly functioning my means down.

Most likely much like a few inches in a couple of liters each time. I didn't begin on a big board and also finished up on this best away. There's a lot of action in between. And also you do not have to take that several steps, yet I would certainly say in between a novice board as well as the really sophisticated board, there should go to least 2 or 3 boards.

To get to that point where you can create a really little board. Don't believe you can simply start wing filing on a little small prone board. This is it's feasible. I've seen individuals do it before that are super skilled athletes and currently excellent filers. I have actually seen individuals learn just how to wing full on vulnerable.

The boards, yet if you're an average Joe do not even attempt it. It's mosting likely to be way too difficult to try to discover on it, little board. And also for me it wing for things I liked to have a little bit more quantity. So I'm, my weight is 195 pounds. I'm 6'2" and also 195 extra pounds which is approximately 90 kilograms.

So that translates right into 90 liters of quantity to drift me. So the very first 90 liters of volume will certainly float my body weight. And then obviously you likewise need to include the weight of the foil and the board itself. As well as as well as essentially if you want it to drift you, you need to have equivalent quantity of flotation protection to your body weight. The volume really depends on your body weight. And after that for a newbie, I suggest getting a board that has enough volume to drift your body weight, plus possibly 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 foiling, you might obtain something even a little bit larger. Maybe for me, I would select like 140, 150 litres as well as adequate width as well as size and also security to be able to send out a paddle on as well as find out on. And afterwards as you get better with the harmonizing and also catching waves and getting up on the foil, after that you can relocate smaller sized and also the foil does add security to the board.

Having a foil board is mosting likely to be more secure than a normal standup paddleboard, but it's a specific type of equilibrium that you need to obtain used to it. Doesn't. Simply instantly make balancing simple. It's simply a bit delay, so it decreases the motion of the board a little bit in that foil underneath.

It's like having a keel under your board. So following let's talk about the foils themselves. I have actually been doing this a very long time. I make use of quite a little foil currently for wing foiling, particularly like for waves and things like that, trying to go quicker. This is an accessibility high aspect facet for us.

The Axis 810, a wing period or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. As well as the projected area is 1022 square centimeters, that has to do with 158 square inches. This is quite a small front wing, but because it's pretty high aspect and it's actually quite, has quite a bit of lift and a lot of glide.

So I really liked this, a front wing. Likewise I have a 760, which is a little bit more surfy, which is additionally a actually wonderful however, for beginning on, When I began, I made use of a actually big foil, the 2000 square centimeter foil. So when you're starting something like the Carver foil, We have the group strategy at Carver for is a excellent discussion forum for learning.

It's 2000 square centimeters. It's secure shows up at reduced speeds and also flies out a little bit reduced rate, however it simply maintains moving. If you're doing a transition, if you filth it up a bit, you've obtained way even more time to slide out of the turn and stay up on the foil. And it simply raises less complicated and also lower rates.

So it's this much less complicated to utilize a bigger foil when you're starting. As well as even as you proceed, depending upon the conditions you're flying having a huge foil is just makes everything a little less complicated. And as well as it allows you to do even more tricks and things like that. So these smaller foils are not for everybody, however as you improve, having a smaller sized foil.

And also a thinner account, just allows you to go much faster, do tighter turns, be more manoeuvrable as