FOIL BOARD CONFIGURATION SUGGESTIONS- FOIL BOARDS, FOILS, FOIL PLACEMENT, FOOT POSITIONING, FOOT STRAPS
How to establish your foil board to be well stabilized for maximum performance.
Aloha friends! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue World Browse. Today. I'm mosting likely to discuss setting up your foil equipment. It's a inquiry we obtain a great deal: Just how do I set up the foil, where to place it, where to place foot straps, just how to place your feet on the board, what sort of board to obtain. I'm likewise mosting likely to discuss what type of equipment to utilize as a beginner.
And as a advanced foiler as well as for different sporting activities- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. After that I have a wing foil board as well as a prone full board. I'm going to talk about the boards, utilize the foils used. And after that I'm likewise mosting likely to discuss foot placement, exactly how to figure out where to position your feet and just how to attach a foot strap to your board.
So this video is mosting likely to be a little much longer. We have a great deal of information on our site and also on YouTube. Down listed below in the summary, I'll place a lot of web links to other video clips and links that will certainly aid you additionally along the means. The last video I published was an meeting with Kane De Wilde and he has a lot of truly excellent insight on foil setups and so forth.
As well as he stated, he always likes to attempt great deals of different arrangements and find out what jobs and actually feel it out. And that makes a lot of sense to me. The more. You can examine points the extra, exactly how things collaborate and just how to enhance your setup and also having a good configuration, specifically the foil functioning well with your ability and also just how you use it is incredibly important.
Having a excellent foil established up as well as the right board and also then a good wing, all those points together will instantly simply make you better right away. So these days I mainly right into wing hindering. This is the board I use one of the most below is my my 4 six by 78 liter wing foil board. What I talk about here today applies to all 4 sporting activities, including susceptible browse foiling, wing foiling, and also standup hindering.
So I started hindering concerning five years earlier. And also if you look back with the YouTube background of videos, you'll see, I initially started on an 8'0 Defend foil board that I just put a Tuttle box right into which functioned well to begin on and learn on.
And then after that I would certainly developed a committed foil board. That was a 7'6. And also pretty soon I felt like it was as well big and also the tail was dragging and so forth. So I sliced off the tail simply to see what happened and also made it right into a 6'11, and after that that worked really well. And I determined, yeah, having that much shorter Clicking Here swing weight and the much shorter board really assists when you're foiling up on foil.
And after that I have actually been advancing progressively, been checking smaller sized and also smaller sized boards. And currently what I utilize for wing hindering is a four six, which is pretty small. And for susceptible browse hindering I make use of a similar length board. This below is a 3'10. I use this mainly for exercising my dock Starts, which I'm not very good at yet, yet servicing that, trying to dock beginning and pump.
And after that for standup foiling, I use this board below. It's a 5 eight by 114 liter board for standing up dropping. I simply require more stability.
The wing master board is great for wing flooding, but it's not secure enough for me to stand up paddle on maybe a lighter weight. A paddler with really good balance could be able to stand up paddle on this. However generally talking, this board is going to be also tiny for lots of people to stand up paddle for long. So something like this, the 5'8 Truly wonderful. Stand-up foil board also works well as a wing foil board due to the fact that wing declaring, you have the wit lift of the wing. You don't require quite as much stability as you do for standup and also bouncing while you're standing up for getting began and also wing foiling and standup hindering.
I recommend obtaining a bigger, secure board. So in our variety, we have the 6 '11 and also the 7'6 Easy Foiler models. Those are really excellent boards for finding out exactly how to Stand up paddle foil and wing foil. And then as you get better as well as you fit standing and you can perhaps switch your feet around and do all the basics on a bigger board, then you're ready to go some to something smaller, maybe something such as this 5, 8 Carver foil board, or for a bit more advanced for, and these Wingmaster boards are outstanding. This is not going to be your initial Wingfoil board, it's going take a bigger board to initial discover the fundamentals on, and also after that you can work your method down to a tiny board like this. For me, it was many boards in between. And also, obviously I have as a brand and also I made these boards. I do a whole lot of R & D as well as made a great deal of boards slowly working my method down.
Most likely similar to a few inches in a couple of liters at once. I didn't begin on a huge board as well as finished up on this appropriate away. There's a great deal of action in between. And you do not have to take that several steps, but I would claim in between a novice board as well as the really advanced board, there should be at least 2 or 3 boards.
To get to that point where you can compose a truly little board. So do not assume you can just start wing filing on a little tiny vulnerable board. This is it's possible. I've seen individuals do it before that are very talented professional athletes and also already excellent filers. I have actually seen people learn exactly how to wing full on prone.
The boards, but if you're an average Joe do not even try it. It's going to be way too difficult to try to find out on it, little board. And also for me it wing for the thing I suched as to have a little bit a lot more volume. So I'm, my weight is 195 extra pounds. I'm 6'2" and 195 extra pounds which is roughly 90 kilograms.
That converts right into 90 liters of volume to drift me. The very first 90 litres of volume will certainly float my body weight. And then of course you additionally have to include the weight of the foil and also the board itself. And and essentially if you desire it to float you, you require to have equivalent amount of flotation protection to your body weight. So the quantity truly depends on your body weight. And then for a newbie, I advise getting a board that has adequate quantity to float your body weight, plus perhaps 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 also a little bigger. Possibly for me, I would certainly pick like 140, 150 litres and enough size and also size and also security to be able to send a paddle on and also find out on. And after that as you get better with the harmonizing and also capturing waves as well as getting up on the foil, then you can relocate smaller as well as the foil does add stability to the board.
Having a foil board is going to be much more secure than a regular standup paddleboard, yet it's a particular type of equilibrium that you need to obtain used to it. Does not. Just instantly make balancing easy. It's just a bit delay, so it reduces the motion of the board a little because foil below.
It's like having a keel under your board. Next let's talk about the foils themselves. I have actually been doing this a long time. I utilize fairly a small foil currently for wing hindering, especially like for waves and also stuff like that, attempting to go faster. This is an access high facet facet for us.
The Axis 810, a wing span or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. And the predicted surface is 1022 square centimeters, that's about 158 square inches. So this is quite a small front wing, but because it's pretty high element as well as it's in fact fairly, has a fair bit of lift and a great deal of slide.
I really liked this, a front wing. I have a 760, which is a little bit more surfy, which is also a really nice but for starting out on, When I started, I used a really 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 secure shows up at low rates as well as flies out a bit reduced speed, yet it simply maintains moving. If you're doing a transition, if you filth it up a little bit, you've got method more time to slide out of the turn as well as keep up on the foil. And also it simply raises easier as well as lower speeds.
So it's this much easier to utilize a larger foil when you're beginning. And also as you advance, depending on the problems you're winging in having a large foil is simply makes every little thing a bit much easier. As well as as well as it allows you to do more techniques as well as things like that. So these smaller sized foils are not for everybody, but as you get better, having a smaller foil.
As well as a thinner profile, just allows you to go quicker, do tighter turns, be much more manoeuvrable and also going quicker actually aids in the waves due to the fact that a lot of times when you capturing far from the outdoors, it's still relocating truly fast and you have to have the ability to stay up to date with that rapid relocating swell. And after that having a faster, smaller wing, will this assist you be able to keep up with those waves versus if you're just riding wind swell or just on a flat water, a Lake or something like that?
Having a bigger wing is nice since you can just fly a bit much more gradually. It's not a big deal. And afterwards it simply provides you even more time. To stay on foil, much easier to get up on foil as well as lighter winds likewise. So there's a lot of benefits of using a bigger foil. So when you're starting, most definitely obtain a larger size foil something, 2000 square centimeters.
Or we also have 1,800 square centimeters, plus size, something like that. And after that in terms of mass size, I like to make use of a 90 centimeter pole. I have actually tried much longer mass which's having a really lengthy mass behaves for downwinders it's like that, yet it does make the entire thing a little bit extra tippy on the much shorter mass.
You need to follow the waves up and down as the wave increases, you have to dip your nose up and down as well as much longer. Mass enables you simply to fly right over to the smaller chops. That's nice, yet I have a truly in-depth video clip and I'll place the web link down listed below to that on choosing the most effective foil for your requirements.
So view that as well. That's some truly excellent details if you're not exactly sure what kind of flow you're going to need. And so on. Next, I'm going to talk about putting the foot on the board and where to put it. So my auto is rather small, so I need to take the foil off the board and also put it back on. Every time I utilize it.
As well as for that reason, I bought this, the effect driver, which is a actually nice tool to have truly makes it very easy to place the foil on and off. As well as for me, yep, I normally simply maintain the screws in the board and I tightened them down, so they can not glide. So I just relax these four screws. You do not intend to leave them in the board loose because it can move out.
And after that if they leave while you're lugging the board and also the grass or something like that, these are simple to lose. I always make sure these are tight enough, so they can't slide out by themselves. As well as I said, the mass plate that has, that allows you to glide the bolt onto it. And afterwards I like to just tighten them down. Okay. Bit, get them all in area.
Once they're all located, then you can crank them down. You definitely want to make sure they're limited on there since you don't want these screws to relax while you're riding.
Now I got the full on the board. And the following inquiry is just how do you place the foil on the board? Which actually, it really depends on the foil itself and also the board, the dimension of the board Kindle while came up with a excellent techniques. Have a great beginning point of where to put your foil. Which's simply, if you raise the whole arrangement from the thickest point of the foil, the think is pointing to the very first about 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. So if you raise your setup from that point, your board must be pretty much level. So if your board is level. That indicates the center of mass of your whole system is straight underneath the center of lift of the foil.
So then let's say this, you predict that to below after that on the other side of the board, if you check out that very same factor on the deck, This ought to be virtually 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 also far back, then you need to lean more on your front foot.
So preferably you want to have your feet similarly stabilized so that the facility of lift is right in between your feet. And afterwards if it's likewise the center of mass of the entire system, it'll simply feel way more well balanced. The weight of the system and the facility volume all cancel that actually aids. And also this is basically true for all sides boards, that whether it's a big standup foil board or a smaller sized vulnerable board that canceling is a really good beginning factor on where your foil will certainly function best and also where you can stand and also capture the wave as well as in the best location, or remove as well as put your feet in the appropriate place.
Primarily where the quantity as well as the weight of the board and the weight of the entire system. Everything is perfectly cancelled. Kay. Next let's discuss your foot positioning. My feet are about equally balanced out between the front and the back of the center of lifts. If you project the facility of listing of the front flow between your feet, it's going to be more or less between your feet.
And some people have their back foot additionally ahead, yet then they also moved their front foot for their back. So if you have a smaller position or larger stance, if you put your back foot additionally back, you need to place your front foot even more forward. You always want to find that balance. If your stance is also much onward, you're going to always have sore a sore back leg.
Create you're constantly leaning back at greater speeds to simply regulate the foil you're mosting likely to or pumping and so on. And also it's going to place a whole lot more strain 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 small hip movements added to control the height of the foil. To ensure that's truly vital to have the center of lift of the foil underneath the board bounce between your 2 feet. And also ideally before you put foot bands on your board, You want to identify without foot straps where your feet are, usually perhaps take some video with a GoPro or something like that to determine where do I place my feet on the board. When you starting out, I do not advise making use of foot straps. Our boards have this little arch bar right here that's right over the mask so that it provides you a wonderful, responsive feel for where your back foot is. And after that the front foot, typically I oriented with this logo of heaven earth logo a bit front or back and.
You do want the weight to be either both feet right over the center 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.
Or else you're mosting likely to turn the board as well as with a wing, in some cases you can escape both feet being off to one side when you're powered, but then as soon as you let go of the power as well as you're just on the foil, then the board. Wishing to tip over, 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.
Same point. If you're chatting behind the boat, you can escape leaning on the side, one side, having your weight on one side, create you raiding the rope. However as quickly as you allow that rope go, you need to have your state your weight centered right over the center of the board as well as over the middle of the foil.
Or else you're going to tip over. So it's ideal to begin riding your board without foot straps, finding out the positioning where you placed the feet, and then once you understand where to put your feet, another good way to shift to foot bands is utilizing foot hooks. We have these Eva foot hooks. I'll put the link down to video for that.
Those ones you can affix to the board and kind of wedge your feet versus it. Which's valuable without having your feet in the bands or having to slide your feet right into bands and so forth. The foot hooks are a good step in between no straps and going straight to straps. And afterwards when you wish to start making use of bands, preferably I would state utilize the front strap only at first, get comfy with the front strap.
And then as soon as you're comfortable with that said. You can add a back strap. And also essentially if you wish to leap, if you're wing, smacking, as well as you intend to leap, you need to have foot straps on your board. Okay. So to take the foil off, exact same thing backwards, I just put it inverted. I loosened up the screws. And then I tighten them pull back, not too tight, yet so they can glide about in the box.
Put them at the end of the box. Simply tighten them in on a little bit, exact same in the back, take the foil off. Okay. So it's pretty important to maintain these little screws tight in the board so they can't slide out. Okay. So next I'm going to go over just how to affix these. Footprints to the board. This is our blue world deluxe foot store.
It resembles a neoprene covered foot band. They behave and cushioned. They have Velcro adjustability. They're nice and stiff. As well as you desire your straps to stand by them selves. So the feet can slide in easily. Some of them actually lightweight, slim straps can break down. And afterwards it's truly tough to obtain your foot in.
You need to locate the band and also wiggle your feet in. So I such as to make use of straps that have more extra padding they're