Im a big fan of a long waist leash. Not only does it stay out of the way and allow maneuvers like the behind the back tack and jibe, but it frees up both arms for paddling out in shore break or onshore wind. It also keeps the wing further away from the board when you let go of it. When I use a board leash o use the North calf leash to keep them separate. But even if you are using a wrist leash, you could try adding a dynema cord extension of a foot or two. That might keep the leash hanging low enough to not get stuck. You should also try different types of leashes (bungee, webbing bungee, and coil) to see which works best. Maybe even the Kaohi invisa-leash. The other thing that might help is a leash with a swivel on it.

The first thing I would suggest is stop trying to turn 180 degrees. It’s much more difficult to rebalance and find the wind again if you are fully toeside on the complete opposite direction. Instead, end your jibe motion while still heading slightly downwind or on a broad reach. This will allow you to ride more flat to the water. Then you can find the wind again and once you have your balance then carve upwind or switch feet. Also, are you starting your jibe with the front hand facing up? That will allow you to flip the wind and switch hands with no hiccups and makes completing the jibe easier. If you can get someone to take video of you jibing, you can upload it to the WFC forum on the wingmanfoil.com/forum and I will analyze the footage. I offer free online coaching there.

During jibes or just in general? Not sure I know what you’re describing, but if you explain it in more detail I might be able to help.

Makes things a lot easier!

The main lifting wing (the front foil) creates a point of upward lift called the center of lift. The weight of the rider and board creates a center of gravity forward of that point. So without a stabilizer, the nose would pitch down due to the center of gravity being in front of the center of lift. In conventional aircraft design, the tail wing is angled down which creates an opposing downward force to the center of lift and pushes the nose up. So it doesn’t increase lift, it counteracts the downward force created by the center of gravity being in front of the center of lift. It also causes the airplane to ride at a higher angle of attack. So there is now more drag due to the tail and also riding at a higher angle of attack. The added drag will reduce glide and also top speed and efficiency. The benefit is an increased pitch stability. So no, in conventional design, a larger stab will not increase glide because it is not adding lift, it is opposite the lift and adding drag and increasing the angle of attack adding more drag. So to increase glide you’re better off moving your weight back or foil forward and using less tail of less shim angle. But what if you put your stab on upside down (which I did accidentally the other day)? Now we have a “lifting” tail. As expected, I had to ride with tons of back foot pressure because my center of gravity was now in front of the centers of lift with no counteracting force. Did this increase my glide? I don’t know. It was too hard to ride to really tell. But I doubt it. I might do a video experimenting with this though. There are some aircraft designs with lifting tails such as the Rutan Proteus or XB-70, but things get pretty confusing once you start talking about tandem wings and lifting tails. Disclaimer: I am not an aerospace engineer or even very knowledgeable about physics.

Let me know if you have any questions. Have a good trip!

Thanks!

I don’t know. It’s just what they call the event cause that’s when it starts getting consistent I guess.

@@wingmanfoilclub true....April and May are volatile...and the steady pattern kick in early June...

I definitely think about it. Haha. Eyes and neck are definitely some vulnerable areas. But Andrew Sayre almost went to Davey Jones’s locker from a foil to the calf. So definitely sand those tips and trailing edges!

Exactly!

No problem if there’s wind. It’s actually more stable cause you’re under water. Haha. But you need enough wind to pull yourself up through the water.

Absolutely, and I meant to add the following caveat to this video: “You don’t need any of this new junk.” My wings are close-out $250 wings. My board is close-out used $500 years old design. My foils are decent but you don’t see me out there buying the latest and greatest now that I have decent ones. (And I bought some of them used for a deal.) The trend has been to push expensive race gear or the best downwind foil. But this sport was always about fun and people are forgetting that. I have plenty of fun on my old gear and outride quite a few people in the process! I wasn’t even going to make the video this year because of how commercial the sport has become. But people demanded I go.

Thanks

Nice! North beach is a fun place to wing when it’s windy enough to get some swells. It can be tough to learn there because of the onshore wind (maybe try A&M first). Drag Jeff out with you and get after it!

GoPros are waterproof when closed (unless there’s a bad seal). If it’s not working after the wash I don’t know what to tell you.

@@wingmanfoilclub I had the battery in my shorts

I would probably just buy a new battery instead of introducing corrosion into the GoPro.

You too. Great to meet you. One small clip of you in the Instagram video

Thank you!

If I’m not hurting myself am I even foiling?

Welcome!

When I get a good one I feel like I’m close to mastering it. Then I take 50 bad wipe outs. Haha

The funny thing is even though that one looks bad it felt great. I was almost able to pull it out. I think it might help to start with the front foot more heelside to make room for the next foot placement

I don’t have any info on that. Probably best to ask the AXIS Facebook group

You’re welcome. Go to my insta if you want to see them in action. I’ve been using them for the last few months cause I found a deal. Not a perfect wing, but pretty fun! Luffs well too for riding swell.

Thank you for watching and commenting!

Epic! Thank you!

You’re welcome!

Fun fact, I edit out A LOT of people’s “ums.” Haha. One reason my videos may seem more watchable and why they are so much work.

@@wingmanfoilclub Thank you 😊 😊 😊

You’re welcome, Jimmy!

@@dcjtv Did you feel compelled to tip because I mentioned your name and said you were faster?? Haha. Boosting now! Uh oh! Thanks so much for the support. I didn’t realize you have the 909. Looks so fun. All the sab foil stuff looked good. Wing and board too. Just sent Radiculo the little stupid part of the video where I inserted his face. He’s stoked to come to Hood.

Awesome. I’ll have to take a look at that.

You’re welcome!

Awwww man. Thanks so much!

This makes me happy! Thank you so much

They were there. I mention what happened briefly in my final thoughts but I tried to get Luca V to show us around but he was off doing team rider things and F-One wasn’t unveiling any new gear at the show because new stuff was unreleased. I figure there’s plenty of f-one content out there with their current stuff.

No no no thank you! Grateful

Welcome!

nyama za kakvo! Thank you so much for the support!

Thank you so much for the support! Amazing!

Thanks. You’re welcome!

Yo. Heard it’s been good down there though! You gotta get the inland Armstrong riders out to join the Malibu Armstrongers!

There wasn’t a lot of competition this year. Just me and Winglife! He’s a cool dude too.

Honestly. So much aloha!!!

Yo. You guys are so nice!!!

Yoooo! You are amazing. Thanks for the support! As much time as I could spend and still get it out by the weekend!

i mean this was epicly informative being new to wing foiling. so thank you. But more confused than ever where to get into the up to date stuff. For a 180 pound person wanting to wing and downwind surf in socal conditions 12-16 kts on good days -what would be anyones go to setup? thanks everyone.

If you’re a beginner I still believe the most beneficial setup is a traditional 120L board, 6-7m good hand wing, and a big foil. Later you can move onto a 90L hybrid board, 5-6m wing, and higher efficiency foil, but trying to learn on that gear will absolutely be no fun and delay your progress unless you have a serious Windsports background. Also traditional learning gear can be found cheap on the used market

@@wingmanfoilclub ok. Awesome info. Appreciate the response. Any 120L brand/model you recommend?

@conorprovan9435 if you go to my website under Wingfoiling -> How to Wingfoil Series you’ll see an episode on beginner gear. It links to a video with Josh from The Foil Shop and then below it in the replies I’ve written a MASSIVE dissertation on beginner boards, wings, and foils. Should answer most of your questions. But anything a couple years old that is cheap and not too narrow should work! wingmanfoilclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58 Edit: You do need to sign up (free) to view the pictures.

They were there but I ran out of steam in the heat and Luca V went to ride instead of talking to me. They weren’t announcing new gear because their new stuff is still unreleased, so nothing new for me to add that isn’t already out in the many team rider videos.

@@wingmanfoilclub Got it, thanks!

Gotta keep my reputation as the hard hitting journalist and no BS reviewer of foiling what with all the brand ambassadors posting their fake reviews. It’s tempting to feed brands a bunch of softballs for free gear, but damn ethics keeping me in the poor house. The KTs do look fun. I will have to do a real riding review with LAfoiler.

I launched the How to Wingfoil Series earlier this year and a few other things but they didn’t really catch on, and I even got a few negative nellys in the comments on some of the stuff I did make, so I haven’t been as inclined to make content. Not to mention I think most gear is “good enough” now and I don’t want to just make videos reviewing stuff to sell to people when their foils are fine. We’ll have to reevaluate where we go from here, but know that I really value genuine viewers like yourself! There was a smaller media presence this year and the show itself felt smaller. It could have just been the heat and lack of wind though. Or maybe foiling has hit some growing pains. The winglife guy is a super nice dude and did a great job.

Thanks. It’s my preferred format for this because people can jump around with the chapters or watch straight through and maybe see a brand they hadn’t heard about.