FOIL BOARD CONFIGURATION TIPS- FOIL BOARDS, FOILS, FOIL POSITIONING, FOOT POSITIONING, FOOT STRAPS
Just how to establish your foil board to be well stabilized for maximum performance.
Aloha buddies! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue Earth Browse. Today. I'm going to speak about setting up your foil gear. It's a question we obtain a whole lot: How do I establish the foil, where to place it, where to place foot straps, exactly how to put your feet on the board, what kind of board to get. I'm also mosting likely to talk about what type of equipment to make use of as a newbie.
And as a advanced foiler and also for various sporting activities- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. Then I have a wing foil board and also a prone full board. I'm mosting likely to discuss the boards, make use of the foils utilized. And afterwards I'm likewise going to discuss foot placement, exactly how to determine where to put your feet and just how to attach a foot band to your board.
This video is going to be a little bit much longer. We have a great deal of information on our website and on YouTube. Down below in the summary, I'll put a lot of links to various other video clips and also web links that will certainly aid you further along the means. The last video I published was an meeting with Kane De Wilde and he has a lot of really great insight on foil setups and so on.
As well as he claimed, he constantly suches as to try great deals of different configurations as well as figure out what jobs and truly feel it out. Which makes a great deal of sense to me. The more. You can test things the extra, how things work together and also just how to optimize your arrangement as well as having a excellent arrangement, especially the foil working well with your ability and exactly how you use it is extremely vital.
Having a great foil established up as well as the best board and also then a good wing, all those things with each other will instantly just make you much better right away. These days I mainly right into wing foiling. This is the board I utilize one of the most right here is my my 4 6 by 78 litre wing foil board. What I discuss below today puts on all 4 sporting activities, including susceptible browse foiling, wing foiling, and also standup hindering.
I began hindering regarding five years earlier. And also if you look back through the YouTube history of videos, you'll see, I initially started on an 8'0 Stand up for foil board that I simply placed a Tuttle box right into which functioned well to start on and learn on.
And after that after that I 'd developed a devoted foil board. That was a 7'6. And rather soon I seemed like it was as well huge as well as the tail was dragging and more. So I chopped off the tail just to see what occurred as well as made it right into a 6'11, and after that that functioned truly well. And also I found out, yeah, having that much shorter swing weight and also the shorter board really helps when you're hindering up on foil.
And after that I've been advancing considerably, been examining smaller sized as well as smaller sized boards. And currently what I utilize for wing foiling is a four 6, which is quite small. As well as for susceptible surf foiling I make use of a comparable length board. This one below is a 3'10. I use this primarily for exercising my dock Begins, which I'm not great at yet, yet dealing with that, trying to dock beginning as well as pump.
And then for standup foiling, I utilize this board here. It's a 5 8 by 114 liter board for standing dropping. I just need extra stability.
The wing master board is great for wing flooding, however it's not steady sufficient for me to stand paddle on maybe a lighter weight. A paddler with actually great balance might be able to stand up paddle on this. Typically speaking, this board is going to be as well little for a lot of people to stand up paddle for long. So something such as this, the 5'8 Truly wonderful. Stand-up foil board likewise functions well as a wing foil board due to the fact that wing declaring, you have the wit lift of the wing. So you don't require rather as much stability as you do for standup and also jumping while you're defending beginning as well as wing hindering and standup hindering.
I suggest obtaining a larger, steady board. In our range, we have the 6 '11 and the 7'6 Easy Foiler versions. Those are really good boards for learning exactly how to Stand paddle foil and also wing foil. And afterwards as you improve and you fit standing up and also you can perhaps change 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 bit more advanced for, and these Wingmaster boards are amazing. However this is not mosting likely to be your very first Wingfoil board, it's going take a bigger board to initial find out the fundamentals on, and after that you can function your means to a small board similar to this. For me, it was lots of boards in between. As well as, clearly I have as a brand and also I developed these boards. So I do a lot of R & D and also made a lot of boards slowly functioning my method down.
Probably much like a few inches in a couple of liters at once. I didn't begin on a big board and also ended up on this right away. There's a lot of action in between. As well as you don't have to take that lots of steps, yet I would certainly say in between a newbie board and also the really advanced board, there need to be at least two or three boards.
To get to that factor where you can create a really tiny board. Don't think you can just begin wing declaring on a little tiny prone board. This is it's possible. I've seen individuals do it prior to that are incredibly gifted athletes and currently great filers. I have actually seen individuals learn how to wing complete on susceptible.
The boards, but if you're an average Joe don't even attempt it. It's mosting likely to be way too tough to try to learn on it, tiny board. As well as for me it wing for things I suched as to have a bit extra volume. I'm, my weight is 195 pounds. I'm 6'2" and also 195 extra pounds which is roughly 90 kgs.
That equates right into 90 liters of quantity to float me. So the very first 90 litres of quantity will certainly float my body weight. And after that obviously you additionally need to include the weight of the foil and also the board itself. And as well as primarily if you want it to drift you, you need to have equivalent amount of flotation protection to your body weight. So the volume actually depends upon your body weight. And then for a newbie, I suggest obtaining a board that has sufficient volume to drift your body weight, plus maybe 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 evaluating foiling for standup hindering, you could get something even a bit bigger. Possibly for me, I would choose like 140, 150 liters as well as enough size and length as well as stability to be able to send out a paddle on and also discover on. And afterwards as you get better with the balancing and capturing waves as well as getting up on the foil, after that you can relocate smaller and the foil does include stability to the board.
Having a foil board is mosting likely to be much more steady than a routine standup paddleboard, however it's a particular sort of balance that you have to get used to it. Does not. Just automatically make balancing very easy. It's just a bit hold-up, so it slows down the activity of the board a little bit in that foil beneath.
It resembles having a keel under your board. Next let's talk about the foils themselves. I have actually been doing this a long time. I use rather a small foil now for wing hindering, particularly like for waves and also stuff like that, attempting to go much faster. This is an gain access to high aspect aspect for us.
The Axis 810, a wing span or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. And the projected area is 1022 square centimeters, that's about 158 square inches. So this is rather a little front wing, however since it's rather high element and also it's in fact fairly, has a fair bit of lift as well as a lot of slide.
So I truly liked this, a front wing. Also I have a 760, which is a bit extra surfy, which is additionally a truly good however, for beginning on, When I began, I used a really large foil, the 2000 square centimeter foil. So when you're starting something like the Carver foil, We have the team strategy at Carver for is a wonderful forum for knowing.
It's 2000 square centimeters. It's steady turns up at reduced rates as well as flies out a bit reduced rate, but it simply maintains sliding. If you're doing a transition, if you filth it up a little, you have actually obtained way even more time to slide out of the turn and keep up on the foil. And it simply raises simpler and reduced speeds.
So it's this much easier to utilize a bigger foil when you're beginning. And also also as you advance, depending upon the conditions you're winging in having a large foil is simply makes whatever a little simpler. And and also it permits you to do more methods and also points like that. So these smaller foils are except everyone, however as you get better, having a smaller sized foil.
And a thinner profile, simply enables you to go much faster, do tighter turns, be more maneuverable as well as going much faster actually aids in the waves because a lot of times when you capturing away from the outdoors, it's still relocating truly quick as well as you have to be able to stay up to date with that quick relocating swell. And after that having a much faster, smaller sized wing, will this aid you be able to stay up to date with those waves versus if you're simply riding wind swell or simply on a flat water, a Lake or something like that?
Having a larger wing is nice due to the fact that you can simply fly a bit a lot more gradually. It's not a big deal. And afterwards it just offers you more time. To stay on foil, easier to get up on foil and lighter winds. So there's a lot of benefits of using a larger foil. So when you're starting, most definitely get a bigger size foil something, 2000 square centimeters.
Or we also have 1,800 square centimeters, large size, something like that. And afterwards in terms of mass size, I like to utilize a 90 centimeter pole. I have actually tried much longer mass which's having a really lengthy mass is nice for downwinders it resembles that, but it does make the whole thing a little bit more tippy on the shorter mass.
You need to adhere to the waves up and down as the wave increases, you need to dip your nose up and down as well as longer. Mass allows you just to fly right over to the smaller chops. That's nice, however I have a actually in-depth video and also I'll place the web link down listed below to that on picking the most effective foil for your needs.
Watch that. That's some truly great details if you're not sure what kind of flow you're mosting likely to require. And more. So following, I'm going to discuss putting the foot on the board as well as where to place it. My car is pretty small, so I have to take the foil off the board and put it back on. Every time I use it.
And because of that, I got this, the influence driver, which is a really good device to have really makes it easy to place the foil on and off. As well as for me, yeah, I generally simply maintain the screws in the board and also I tightened them down, so they can not slide. I just loosen up these four bolts. You don't wish to leave them in the board loose because it can move out.
And afterwards if they leave while you're lugging the board as well as the yard or something like that, these are very easy to shed. So I always make sure these are limited sufficient, so they can not move out by themselves. And I claimed, the mass plate that has, that allows you to glide the bolt onto it. And afterwards I like to just tighten them down. Okay. Little, get them done in location.
Once they're all situated, after that you can crank them down. You most definitely intend to make certain they're tight on there since you don't want these screws to relax while you're riding.
So now I obtained the complete on the board. As well as the following inquiry is how do you place the foil on the board? And that actually, it truly depends on the foil itself and the board, the size of the board Kindle while thought of a excellent techniques. Have a great starting point of where to place your foil. And that's simply, if you raise the whole setup from the thickest point of the foil, the think is pointing to the first concerning a 3rd back on the account.
To make sure that's where the facility of lift is to make sure that the front wing creates a lift center of lift is right below 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 mass of your entire system is straight below the facility of lift of the foil.
Then let's say this, you project that to here then on the other side of the board, if you look at that same point on the deck, This should be pretty much in between your feet. If your feet are too far forward, you're going to have to put more weight on the back of, on your back foot. If your feet are as well far back, then you have to lean more on your front foot.
So preferably you wish to have your feet equally stabilized to make sure that the center of lift is right between your feet. And then if it's likewise the center of mass of the whole system, it'll just really feel way more balanced. The weight of the system as well as the facility quantity all cancel that truly helps. As well as this is basically real for all sides boards, that whether it's a large standup foil board or a smaller prone board that balancing out is a actually excellent beginning point on where your foil will certainly function best and where you can stand and also capture the wave and also in the ideal location, or remove and also place your feet in the ideal place.
Generally where the volume as well as the weight of the board and the weight of the whole system. Whatever is perfectly cancelled. Kay. Following allow's speak about your foot placement. My feet are about equally balanced out between the front and the back of the center of lifts. If you predict the center of list of the front flow in between your feet, it's mosting likely to be essentially in between your feet.
And some individuals have their back foot even more onward, but after that they also relocated 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 wish to discover that equilibrium. If your position is also far ahead, you're going to always have aching a aching back leg.
Trigger you're constantly leaning back at greater rates to just regulate the foil you're going to or pumping and so forth. And it's going to place a great deal more stress on your back leg. So if your back leg is always sore, Most likely you simply intend to move that foot better back on the board so that when you're riding and at typical speed, your weight should be just right over the foil and you should not need to place more weight on one side or the various other.
It's a little hip motions added to 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. And preferably prior to you place foot straps on your board, You wish to determine without foot bands where your feet are, typically perhaps take some video clip with a GoPro or something like that to determine 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 right here that's right over the mask so that it offers you a nice, responsive feel for where your back foot is. And then the front foot, generally I oriented with this logo of the blue world logo design a bit front or back and also.
You do desire the weight to be either both feet right over the facility line, or if you're. The front foot is a little bit off sideways. Your back foot must likewise 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 going to turn the board and with a wing, sometimes you can get away with both feet being off to one side when you're powered, however after that as soon as you let go of the power and you're simply on the foil, then the board. Intending to topple, like if you, both of you feed off too away the side, it won't fly well without the power of the wing.
Very same point. If you're talking behind the boat, you can escape leaning on the side, one side, having your weight on one side, trigger you leaning against the rope. Yet as soon as you let that rope go, you require to have your hydrofoils claim your weight centered right over the middle of the board and also over the center 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 place the link down to video for that as well.
Those ones you can affix to the board and also sort of wedge your feet against it. Which's helpful without having your feet in the straps or having to slide your feet right into straps and so forth. So the foot hooks are a excellent action in between no straps and going straight to bands. And afterwards when you intend to start utilizing straps, ideally I would certainly state use the front strap just in the beginning, get comfortable with the front strap.
And then when you fit with that. You can include a back band. As well as basically if you want to leap, if you're wing, flailing, and you wish to leap, you have to have foot straps on your board. Okay. So to take the foil off, same point in reverse, I just put it upside-down. I loosened up the screws. And then I tighten them pull back, not as well limited, yet just so they can slide about in the box.
So put them at the end of package. Just tighten them in on a little, exact same in the back, take the foil off. Okay. So it's pretty crucial to keep these little screws limited in the board so they can't slide out. Okay. So next I'm going to go over just how to connect these. Footprints to the board. This is our blue planet deluxe foot shop.
It's like a neoprene covered foot band. They're nice as well as cushioned. They have Velcro adjustability. They're nice and stiff. And also you want your straps to stand by them selves. The feet can slide in easily. A few of them actually light-weight, slim bands can collapse. And afterwards it's truly tough to obtain your foot in.
You need to discover the band as well as wiggle your feet