Aloha! its Robert with blue planet today's video is gonna be all about wing foiling and then talked
a little bit about riding waves on a wing foil board and then also get into other tips about
you know getting started how to learn the basic stuff what kind of equipment to use and so on
so for riding waves basically I found that it's good to use a little bit of a smaller foil wing
you don't want to use a really big wing on the way it's just to be able to control it and have
a little bit less drag and more speed on the wave and then once the waves pushing you you can luff
the sail up the wing basically let go over the back hand and then ride ride the wave kind of
high and just let the wave push you instead of relying on the wing if you do kind of slow down
and you need a little bit more power than you can just grab the boom again or the wing again
and let it pull you slowing down a little bit so the nice thing about wing foiling is that you have
that wing and you can just go back out quickly and you're pretty much most of your session you're up
up flying the foil up on the wing and it's super fun and you know you catch a lot of ways you get
back out again right away and catch another one so it's actually a little bit exhausting but when
you're surf filing or stand-up paddle foiling you end up you know spending most of the time
paddling and it's just a little bit time on the foil so wing foiling you can pretty much be up on
the foil as much as your legs can handle and the legs do get pretty tired after a couple days of
wing foiling for a few hours my legs are toast I definitely need to work out my legs a little bit
more but basically you want to have a high line stay high on the wave too so you have pushed from
the wave and you don't need the wing and then you know carving a little bit of turns and I'm
still really new to this so I just started sir foiling on the wing foil board recently
so I'm still learning myself but super fun to kind of play around with it this day the wind
was pretty light but um it's enough for the five meter duotone wing there's also a little bit of
footage from another day when I'm using the four meter later but here I'm kicking out maintaining
a speed and then there's another way so I'm just driving again into it you really do get a lot of
time on the floor just boiling non-stop if you want to yeah I'm going out got a lot of speed I
think I can jump here but on that touchdown with the board right at the top of the wave I kind of
messed that one up to get back on just on my knees a place the back knee kind in the center of the
board get up on my front foot back foot and then I find that it's good to kind of lift the board off
the water right as you're coming off the back of a wave so as the wave drops away underneath you is a
good time to lift up the board and engage the foil to get up back on the foil takes a little bit more
speed to use a smaller foil wing so if you're foiling on the smaller foil you need a little
bit more speed to get it going but the advantage is that has less draggin you can achieve higher
speeds this is taught badly he's goofy footed so when he's coming in towards the beach he's
riding in you know with this hips facing the wing so I think it's a little bit easier for
him to go that way for me when I'm going heading I'm regular footed so when I'm heading in towards
the beach I'm kind of full side or you know I'm kind of twisted around so we've just been using
the we've spent foiling with our feet in the same position going both directions so without
switching the stance now I haven't really tried that yet but it's quite tricky to switch your
stance because as you shift your weight from one foot to the other while you're up on the foil it's
pretty hard to control the oil up to two that the oil while you're switching the feet around so I
haven't I haven't tried that yet I'm just on right now I'm sticking with my feet and the straps going
the same direction both ways so it's a little bit tricky but hasn't really bugged me like mainly
what gets sore for me is just the legs you know that from controlling the oil especially the back
leg always controlling the flow it's definitely hard work you can see the smaller oil wing that
I'm using is a little bit faster than the one that's Jeff's using just using the 2400 Armstrong
wing which is a really big wing flies at very low speeds and it's easy to control and what's nice
about it is like in the wind swell it's it goes about the same speed as the wind swells so it's
easy to control easy to maintain speed one thing that's hard to do with the really big wings is to
catch waves you know basically the waves the open ocean swells just move a little bit fast for the
big wings here you can see he's driving and even though he kind of takes his time and slows down he
his board never touches the water so he's Jeff's able to drive at fairly low speeds he's got to
control so with that's the advantage of using a big flow wing when you're starting it just makes
things a little bit easier you can it definitely has more control easier to get it going easier to
keep it going and easier to pull off jibes because you can just maintain a lower speed and still stay
up on the foil so Jeff started on the sling wing from slingshot and now he has the f1 swing wing
which he really likes it's a very light wing has nice handling it has like this fabric that
connects the top of the wing to the center strut so it seems to left really well and nice control
I played around with it a little bit it feels pretty good one thing I not crazy about is that
it only has these three little handles so a little bit harder I think to move your hands around and
also you know when you're driving and you have to grab the wing on the other side you have to look
where you're grabbing so what I like about the duotone is having that boom and see it takes a
little bit more speed for me to get the foil out of the water just because it's a smaller wing but
then once I'm up it flies really nice but anyways yeah having that boom you can just grab it without
looking you just kind of know where to put your hands and you can slide your hands back and forth
easily adjust your grip if you need to so that's something I like about having that that boom and
not those little handles the duotone does have some disadvantages too though I find that when
you love it like when you're on a wave and you let go of the backhand it is a little bit unstable so
I always try to keep a little bit of pressure in the wing even when it's left so it doesn't
just flop around and that seems to work with you also I just keep my hand on the front of
the boom instead of totally locked letting it flop and luff as long as there's a little bit
of pressure and keeps the shape then it handles nicely but as soon as you start to love it it
kind of swaps and also is unstable side to side so there's some other wings that are better for
that if the wings upset on the water I kind of push it into the through the wind to flip it over
kind of lift me up get on a front foot back foot and then same thing I kind of look for the back
of a wave that I can kind of pump over and then get back on the foil so yeah those are kind of
the basic things to learn this day is a different day where I'm using the four meter duotone it's
really nice to have a smaller wing the smaller wing size is just easier to control less likely
to touch the water you know easier to move around so it's really nice to have a smaller wing but my
dad said when the wind let gets a little bit light or or something that's it's definitely nice to
have a bigger wing that keeps you powered up the whole time the four meters sometimes if the wind
gets a little bit light it's very hard for me to keep it up on the foil and I have to start pumping
it's more work Jeff has the same setup but this 5 meter wing and the big Armstrong coil so he's
getting pretty comfortable on that and trying to catch the few waves as well so yeah one thing to
note is when you do let go of the back hand on the wing it's you know it handles differently so
it's good to practice that like here the wing tip touches a little bit and flips his wing over and
it's hard to recover from that if your wing gets flipped over so here's another start one thing I'm
I'm my my goal is to learn how to ride a smaller board this one is my stand-up foil board at 5/8
I want to try to learn how to use a smaller prone foil board that's basically sinks and so you have
to get up on it sink it kind of under water and then have the wing pull you out of the water and
propel you forward until you can get up on the foil so I'm just having a smaller board should
make it more maneuverable and more fun to use but definitely having a floating board for now
is really helpful because it allows me to get up easier and then also when the wind dies you can
still glide on a small board without coming on without getting onto the foil you can still ride
the board even if the wind dies so it's always easy to get back if you need to all you need is
a little breeze to push you push you back where you need to go so yeah so those are some basics
on weight and filing if you have any questions please leave a comment down below I answer most
comments and I really appreciate all the thumbs up you guys have been giving us all the views
we've been getting on the wing foiling video seems like people are pretty excited about it I
know in a lot of places it's cold right now and you're waiting to get back on the water in the
springtime so hopefully this will keep you stoked and motivated yeah wing foiling super fun I can't
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