Baa haa haa - see it for what it is - and I'm not seeing Jack Sh**

Show me a foil launching out of a lip (not board).. otherwise its just regular 'Swell' riding

with front straps for sure!

back strap you can spare. Just keep straps loose and use good ones that twist. you will always get you of them if needed.
Much less crashing staying in the right spot on the board!

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SaveTheWhales said...
Baa haa haa - see it for what it is - and I'm not seeing Jack Sh**

Show me a foil launching out of a lip (not board).. otherwise its just regular 'Swell' riding

If you open your mind to experiencing different sensations then you will expand the number of enjoyable sessions per year dramatically

Im open to the experience of spraying buckets on a foil in waves








Oh,wait...

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Plummet said..


If you open your mind to experiencing different sensations then you will expand the number of enjoyable sessions per year dramatically

Before I learnt to windsurf - I saw lawn mowers

Before I learnt to kite - I saw lawn mowers

Do intelligent people really expect me to learn to foil - to know another freakn Lawn mower when I see one!

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gcdave said...
Im open to the experience of spraying buckets on a foil in waves.
Oh,wait...

There's guys riding jaws on them and no doubt some guys somewhere working out the mechanics of staying in the pocket and maybe even chasing barrels. There will be more and more ripping in the critical part of the wave. But there won't ever be buckets of spray....foil doesn't work when it breaks the surface. Suspect you know that and are just trolling. ..so consider hook taken.

Think of it this way...the wave energy is IN the water....it is a pulse flowing through the liquid. Surfers ride on TOP of the water surface, because no one can swim fast enough to ride in the wave. That's what dolphins and orcas do and it's rad. They are inside the waves energy. In a way that is what foils do too. And that's pretty cool, #sopitted or not.

Foil wave riding won't ever resemble surfing and nor should it....different animal altogether. In fact, riding in waves on a foil on a downwind is the closest I've felt to powder snowboarding. Weightless carving. And you don't measure success on a powder day by barrels or big spray, but by the carving, fluid speed. Maybe it's the same here. Have to revise expectations for success looks like.

Slightly off topic but no lawn mowing here

Vid link not working. Was it this one?

It was Adam Worthington doing some huge old school airs

Oops thanks kami. Dunno what happened to the link. Yes that was the vid