FOIL BOARD SETUP TIPS- FOIL BOARDS, FOILS, FOIL PLACEMENT, FOOT POSITIONING, FOOT STRAPS
Exactly how to set up your foil board to be well balanced for optimum performance.
Aloha good friends! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue World Surf. Today. I'm mosting likely to discuss establishing your foil gear. It's a question we get a great deal: Exactly how do I establish the foil, where to place 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 speak about what sort of equipment to use as a newbie.
And also as a more advanced foiler as well as for various sporting activities- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. I have a wing foil board and a susceptible full board. I'm mosting likely to discuss the boards, make use of the foils used. And after that I'm additionally going to speak about foot positioning, how to identify where to position your feet as well as just how to attach a foot strap to your board.
This video clip is going to be a little bit longer. We have a lot of info on our website and also on YouTube. Down below in the summary, I'll put a great deal of web links to other video clips as well as web links that will assist you better along the method. The last video clip I posted was an meeting with Kane De Wilde and he has a great deal of actually good understanding on foil arrangements and so forth.
And also he claimed, he constantly suches as to attempt great deals of different arrangements as well as figure out what works and really feel it out. And that makes a great deal of feeling to me. The more. You can evaluate points the a lot more, how points interact as well as how to maximize your setup and also having a excellent configuration, particularly the foil working well with your skill as well as just how you use it is incredibly important.
So having a excellent foil set up and also the ideal board and then a good wing, all those things together will immediately simply make you better right now. These days I mostly right into wing hindering. This is the board I utilize the most here is my my 4 6 by 78 litre wing foil board. What I discuss right here today puts on all four sports, consisting of vulnerable surf hindering, wing hindering, and also standup hindering.
I began hindering concerning five years back. And also if you look back via the YouTube background of video clips, you'll see, I first started on an 8'0 Defend foil board that I just put a Tuttle box into and that functioned well to start on and also find out on.
And then afterwards I 'd built a devoted foil board. That was a 7'6. As well as quite quickly I seemed like it was also big and the tail was dragging and so on. I cut off the tail simply to see what happened and also made it into a 6'11, as well as then that worked really well. And I identified, yeah, having that much shorter swing weight and the much shorter board really assists when you're foiling up on foil.
And after that I've been proceeding progressively, been testing smaller and smaller sized boards. As well as currently what I use for wing hindering is a four six, which is quite tiny. As well as for prone browse hindering I utilize a similar length board. This one right here is a 3'10. I utilize this primarily for practicing my dock Starts, which I'm not very good at yet, yet servicing that, attempting to dock begin and also pump.
And after that for standup hindering, I use this board below. It's a 5 eight by 114 litre board for standing dropping. I just need a lot more security.
The wing master board is fantastic for wing flooding, yet it's not steady sufficient for me to stand paddle on possibly a lighter weight. A paddler with actually great balance could be able to stand paddle on this. Typically speaking, this board is going to be also little for many people to stand up paddle for long. So something such as this, the 5'8 Actually great. Stand-up foil board also functions well as a wing foil board due to the fact that wing filing, you have the wit lift of the wing. So you do not need quite as much stability as you provide for standup as well as jumping while you're standing up for starting as well as wing foiling as well as standup foiling.
I advise obtaining a larger, steady board. In our range, we have the 6 '11 and also the 7'6 Easy Foiler designs. Those are truly great boards for learning how to Stand up paddle foil and also wing foil. And then as you get better and you fit standing up and also you can maybe switch your feet around and also do all the fundamentals on a bigger board, after that you're ready to go some to something smaller, maybe something similar to this 5, eight Carver foil board, or for a little more advanced for, and also these Wingmaster boards are awesome. Yet this is not going to be your first Wingfoil board, it's going take a bigger board to initial learn the basics on, and after that you can work your way down to a little board similar to this. For me, it was lots of boards in between. And, certainly I have as a brand name as well as I created these boards. So I do a lot of R & D and also made a lot of boards gradually functioning my method down.
Possibly similar to a few inches in a couple of litres each time. I didn't start on a large board as well as finished up on this appropriate away. There's a great deal of action in between. As well as you don't need to take that several actions, however I would certainly state in between a novice board and also the very innovative board, there must go to least 2 or three boards.
To get to that point where you can create a actually little board. So do not believe you can simply start wing declaring on a little small prone board. This is it's feasible. I've seen people do it before that are incredibly talented athletes and already great filers. I've seen people learn exactly how to wing complete on susceptible.
The boards, but if you're an average Joe do not also try it. It's going to be way as well tough to try to learn on it, little board. And for me it wing for the thing I suched as to have a bit a lot more quantity. So I'm, my weight is 195 extra pounds. I'm 6'2" and also 195 extra pounds which is approximately 90 kilograms.
To ensure that converts into 90 liters of quantity to drift me. The first 90 liters of volume will certainly drift my body weight. And after that certainly you also have to include the weight of the foil and also the board itself. And also and also primarily if you want it to float you, you need to have equivalent amount of flotation to your body weight. So the volume actually depends on your body weight. And afterwards for a beginner, I suggest obtaining a board that has sufficient 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 hindering for standup hindering, you might obtain something also a bit bigger. Perhaps for me, I would pick like 140, 150 litres and also adequate width and also size and stability to be able to send a paddle on and also learn on. And after that as you improve with the balancing as well as catching waves as well as getting up on the foil, after that you can move smaller and also the foil does include stability to the board.
Having a foil board is mosting likely to be extra stable than a regular standup paddleboard, but it's a particular type of balance that you need to get made use of to it. Doesn't. Simply immediately make stabilizing simple. It's simply a little delay, so it reduces the activity of the board a bit because foil beneath.
It resembles having a keel under your board. Next let's talk about the foils themselves. I've been doing this a long period of time. I use rather a little foil now for wing foiling, specifically like for waves as well as things like that, trying to go much faster. This is an gain access to high element aspect for us.
The Axis 810, a wing span or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. As well as the predicted 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 truly liked this, a front wing. Likewise I have a 760, which is a bit more surfy, which is also a truly great but for starting on, When I started, I used a truly big 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 rates as well as flies out a bit reduced speed, yet it simply maintains gliding. If you're doing a shift, if you filth it up a little, you have actually obtained means more time to glide out of the turn as well as stay up on the foil. And also it just raises less complicated and also lower speeds.
So it's this much easier to utilize a bigger foil when you're starting out. And also even as you proceed, relying on the problems you're flying having a huge foil is just makes everything a bit easier. And and also it allows you to do more methods as well as things like that. So these smaller sized foils are not for everybody, but as you get better, having a smaller sized foil.
As well as a thinner account, simply enables you to go quicker, do tighter turns, be more manoeuvrable and going faster really aids in the waves due to the fact that a lot of times when you catching away from the outside, it's still moving truly quick and you need to have the ability to stay on top of that rapid moving swell. And afterwards having a faster, smaller wing, will this aid you be able to stay on par with those waves versus if you're simply riding wind swell or just on a level water, a Lake or something like that?
Having a bigger wing is nice due to the fact that you can simply fly a bit more slowly. It's not a big deal. And afterwards it simply gives you even more time. To stay on foil, easier to get up on foil and lighter winds. There's a lot of advantages of using a bigger foil. When you're starting out, definitely get a bigger size foil something, 2000 square centimeters.
Or we additionally have 1,800 square centimeters, plus size, something like that. And then in regards to mass length, I like to make use of a 90 centimeter mast. I have actually tried much longer mass which's having a actually long mass behaves for downwinders it resembles that, however it does make the whole thing a little bit a lot more tippy on the shorter mass.
You need to follow the waves backwards and forwards as the wave goes up, you have to dip your nose up and down as well as longer. Mass permits you simply to fly directly over to the smaller sized chops. That's nice, yet I have a truly in-depth video clip and I'll put the link down below to that on picking the best foil for your needs.
So see that too. That's some truly good details if you're not sure what kind of flow you're mosting likely to require. And so on. So next, I'm going to speak about putting the foot on the board and also where to put it. My car is pretty small, so I have to take the foil off the board and put it back on. Each time I utilize it.
And also because of that, I bought this, the influence vehicle driver, which is a truly nice device to have truly makes it very easy to put the foil on and off. And for me, yes, I usually simply maintain the bolts in the board and I tightened them down, so they can't glide. I just loosen up these four bolts. You do not intend to leave them in the board loose since it can slide out.
And then if they drop out while you're bring the board as well as the grass or something like that, these are simple to shed. I always make sure these are tight enough, so they can't slide out by themselves. And I said, the mass plate that has, that enables you to slide the screw onto it. And then I like to just tighten them down. Okay. Bit, obtain them all in area.
Once they're all located, after that you can crank them down. You certainly intend to make certain they're limited on there since you don't desire these screws to relax while you're riding.
So now I obtained the full on the board. As well as the following concern is just how do you place the foil on the board? Which really, it really depends upon the foil itself and the board, the dimension of the board Kindle while came up with a good approaches. Have a good starting factor of where to put your foil. Which's just, if you raise the whole configuration from the thickest point of the foil, the think is pointing to the initial concerning a third back on the account.
That's where the center of lift is so that the front wing creates a lift center of lift is right here at the thickest part. If you lift up your setup from that point, your board should be pretty much level. So if your board is level. That implies the center of gravity of your whole system is straight underneath the facility of lift of the foil.
Then let's say this, you project that to here then on the other side navigate to this web-site of the board, if you look at that same point on the deck, This should be pretty much in between your feet. So if your feet are too far onward, you're mosting likely to have to put more weight on the back of, on your back foot. If your feet are as well far back, then you need to lean more on your front foot.
So preferably you want to have your feet just as stabilized so that the facility of lift is right in between your feet. And afterwards if it's also the center of gravity of the entire system, it'll just feel way much more well balanced. The weight of the system as well as the facility volume all balance out that really assists. And also this is basically true for all sides boards, that whether it's a huge standup foil board or a smaller prone board that balancing out is a truly great starting point on where your foil will certainly function best and where you can stand as well as capture the wave and in the ideal place, or remove and also place your feet in the ideal place.
Essentially where the quantity and also the weight of the board and the weight of the entire system. Every little thing is nicely balanced out. Kay. Following let's discuss your foot placement. My feet are about equally balanced out between the front and the back of the center of lifts. If you forecast the facility of list of the front flow between your feet, it's mosting likely to be basically in between your feet.
And some individuals have their back foot additionally onward, yet after that they also moved their front foot for their back. If you have a smaller stance or wider stance, if you put your back foot further back, you need to put your front foot further forward. So you constantly want to discover that equilibrium. If your stance is also much onward, you're mosting likely to always have sore a sore back leg.
Cause you're constantly leaning back at higher speeds to just manage the foil you're going to or pumping and more. And it's going to put a whole lot even more pressure on your back leg. If your back leg is always sore, Probably you just want to move that foot further back on the board so that when you're riding and at normal speed, your weight should be just right over the foil and you shouldn't have to put more weight on one side or the other.
It's a little hip activities included in regulate the elevation of the foil. That's really important to have the center of lift of the foil underneath the board bounce between your two feet. As well as ideally before you put foot straps on your board, You intend to figure out without foot straps where your feet are, typically maybe take some video with a GoPro or something like that to find out where do I put my feet on the board. When you starting, I don't advise utilizing foot bands. Our boards have this little arch bar here that's right over the mask to make sure that it provides you a good, responsive feel for where your back foot is. And after that the front foot, typically I oriented with this logo design of the blue earth logo design a little bit front or back as well as.
You do desire the weight to be either both feet right over the facility line, or if you're. The front foot is a bit off sideways. Your back foot needs to additionally be just as off to the side. Whether you're on the center line or slightly off center, you just want to make sure that your body weight is over the center line of the board.
Otherwise you're mosting likely to turn the board and also with a wing, in some cases you can get away with both feet being off to one side when you're powered, however then as soon as you release the power and also you're just on the foil, then the board. Wanting to topple, like if you, both of you feed off as well far off the side, it won't fly well without the power of the wing.
Very same point. If you're talking behind the watercraft, you can escape leaning on the side, one side, having your weight on one side, create you leaning against the rope. As soon as you let that rope go, you need to have your say your weight centered right over the middle of the board and over the middle of the foil.
Otherwise you're going to topple. It's best to start riding your board without foot straps, figuring out the placement where you put the feet, and then once you know where to put your feet, another good way to transition to foot straps is using foot hooks. We have these Eva foot hooks. I'll put the link down to video for that too.
Those ones you can attach to the board and also kind of wedge your feet against it. And that's handy without having your feet in the straps or having to move your feet right into straps and so forth. The foot hooks are a good step in between no straps and going straight to straps. And then when you wish to begin making use of straps, ideally I would state use the front strap just at first, obtain comfortable with the front strap.
And afterwards once you fit with that. You can add a back band. And also essentially if you intend to leap, if you're wing, flailing, as well as you want to leap, you have to have foot straps on your board. Okay. So to take the foil off, exact same point backwards, I just put it inverted. I loosened up the screws. And afterwards I tighten them back down, not as well limited, but so they can slide about in the box.
So put them at the end of the box. Simply tighten them know a little bit, very same in the back, take the foil off. Okay. So it's quite important to maintain these little bolts tight in the board so they can not slide out. Okay. So next I'm mosting likely to look at just how to attach these. Footprints to the board. This is our blue earth deluxe foot store.
It's like a neoprene covered foot strap. They behave and cushioned. They have Velcro adjustability. So they're nice and rigid. And you desire your straps to stand by them selves. The feet can slide in easily. A few of them actually lightweight, slim straps can collapse. And then it's really difficult to obtain your foot in.
You have to locate the strap as well as wiggle your feet in. I like to use straps that have more padding they're softer, easier on your feet. Much easier to glide in and out