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How much are you foiling vs. surfing
- Thread starter grendel95
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right on! got a few more months of healing from an injury. hopefully by feb i’ll be back in the waterkeoki said:
I've been at it for a few months and it's really difficult to break the good surfing habits you've developed: weight near the back of the board, lean back to slow down, weight centered. All of which seem reversed riding the foil, so for me any time I start riding on instinct everything goes wrong. I'm starting to develop foil habits and I swap between surfing and foiling pretty well.keoki said:
The board design itself has quickly minimised into the smallest planing volume, which is more for show than go.
The foils and masts are all much the same. The shorter masts don’t allow for much pumping so they’ll stay the same.
The foil design itself is where advances will happen. If you get on a foil that works in proper tubing waves, something that can work in average beach breaks up to Pipe or Chopes, then you’ll see more than hopping around on smallish waves.
It’s a great derivataion of surfing that I’ll never abandon because it’s so diverse.
This means I did not foil once last winter. Foiling is great however in summer to beat the crowds (going to peaks with nobody out) and make the most of wind swells. And in 2018 I foiled 8 times, so less than once a month compared to my 2/3 weekly SUP sessions.
I guess this is because I also Windsurfed, and foiling is reminding me a lot of windsurfing (the speed, danger, reading non-breaking waves, straps, ...), so I have a lot of "déjà vu" feeling on a foil. Once the basic technical challenge is overcome (SUP foiling is easier to learn then surf foiling) I did not had a specific motivation. At nearly 60, I do have the stamina to attempt pumping back to the peak. So, if the conditions are decent, I just SUP/surf. Foiling is just a part of my quiver now, for specific conditions, like my longboard or my small wave fish.
also started making myself one, but figured I should figure out how to ride one first
(I know, my bay is a disaster)