SUP Foil | Flat Water Start | for Beginners | PART 2/3

[@Philippe.C.A-R]

I had no idea that inspector Clouzot retired to teach foiling! 😊

[@YujiTakeuchi-z5p]

Nice tutorial, please upload more beginner videos for us still struggling in the flat water paddle up😅

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@YujiTakeuchi-z5p I will 😉

[@socialwebwiki]

Awesome!

[@IRWE905]

Excellent! Please more tips :)

[@DerekGeorge-c9l]

This is great, thank you! I especially appreciate the focus on pumping the board and the frequency of pumps and sinking the board. That is very helpful. I have a question: I have a Gong Hipe Cruzader 7'11 and the Curve H 4xL that I use with the Fluid 52 Stab (and Titanium Fuselage) for light winging. I use the Gong HM86 mast for this. I am 85kg and 185cm. My question: Is it possible to use this HM86 mast for flat water paddle up? It has the same dimensions as the HM79. Does 7cm more really make it that much more difficult? I spent a lot on the HM86 Mast and I am mostly wingfoiling (which it is great for!). I want to practice some paddle ups but I am not ready to buy a HM79 Mast also!

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@DerekGeorge-c9l thank you for your feedback! I‘m happy it helps! 😄👍 You have a good setup to get started paddle up 👍👍 I haven’t tried the HM 86 yet, but I think it’s working fine as well 👍

[@matija3791]

Great Tutorial!

[@markreadett7412]

Great info 🤙THANKS

[@slappysurf]

Thanks for the vid! You can mount your camera to your SUP paddle to give you only 1 thing to hold on to.

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@slappysurf 👍 I don’t have this mount yet, was uncomfortable to hold both the paddle and the camera 😅

[@olshov111]

Great lesson, thank you very much! I think on the hard board it would be slightly easier !

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@olshov111 yes!

[@wingfoilrentals]

In the beginning of the video (in the water) did you have the foil mounted for balance??

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@wingfoilrentals yes! That’s how I’m going forward without paddling, just jumping on the board will “activate” the foil 👍

[@wingfoilrentals]

@@Ludo_freefoiler would this same technique be possible on a flatter hull, with hard rails?

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@wingfoilrentals 🤔 I’m not sure what you mean? You mean not with a downwind board (long and narrow)?

[@wingfoilrentals]

@@Ludo_freefoiler my DW board is a newer design. It’s 8 feet, 21.5wide, but has a fast flat slalom hull for speed takeoffs. The rails on the hull side are squared off, there’s no chine. Exceptionally stable

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@wingfoilrentals very interesting! I have never seen such a hull yet… do you have a video of it so that I can see how it looks?

[@kaikaiser1497]

Thank you for the great and detailed video. One question: does the backfoot needs to be placed directly above the mast, or slightly more forward on the front edge of the mast? Does this depend on the specific board, foil, and mast placement? Or do those few centimeters not make a significant difference in performance?

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@kaikaiser1497 thanks for your message! Those few centimetres will not make a big difference. Important is to have a good feeling and a good response from your foil when you push down on your legs. Try to position it a bit more forward and backward and see where you have a better response. Where when you push down your foil it will then climb the most.

[@БратьяКейт]

Hi man! Do you travel by airplane with you foil? I want to buy while im in France but I really afraid of breaking it

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@БратьяКейт Hi! I never flew with my foil so far… if you do so, keep the package when you buy it and add some bubble wrap to protect it as much as you can…

[@skimdk9820]

Merci pour cette vidéo. Est ce que tu gardes le même écartement des pieds pour pomper que pour le take off ? J'ai vu que certains rapprochent les pieds en reculant le pied avant. Peut être au troisième épisode ..

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@skimdk9820 👍 j’ai gardé le même écartement. Plus les pieds sont rapprochés plus le pumping est efficace mais moins c’est stable. Je ferai plus attention lors de la première session à ce que je fais 👍

[@skimdk9820]

Ok merci!

[@olivierdecroly661]

great ! is your pump technique the same as for smaller board ?

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@olivierdecroly661 thx! Yes, but the smaller the board it, the more you need to pay attention not to sink the nose of the board, otherwise it will slow you down because of the resistance of the water. For this kind of downwind board, this is for my weight almost impossible to put the nose in the water, so I can push very hard without concern

[@walterbunso3675]

An inflatable isn’t supposed to do that. They supposedly don’t release. Very impressive

[@Ludo_freefoiler]

@@walterbunso3675 yes a rigid board is better! But an inflatable like this one is working well 👍