Its a different sensation man. I'm firmly in the learning phase right now. But when proficient It will be another discipline i will draw on when conditions are optimal. It widens the grin factor for powered awesome sessions.

Imagine if you could do most of what you can do on the water now but magically floating above it like Jesus. Then consider that you be can powered to all fark in 12 knot.

The sensation of blasting above the water is pretty darn sweet. The upwind angles you can go at open up a range more spots than you would even consider on a TT or SB. Conditions that were previously **** (small swell chop days) become a lush sweeet session.Imagine fangin above that hidious chop at twice the speed as your normal board charging upwind on a day you would normally do the walk of shame?

What I really wanna know is what's the go with the people thinking their chosen style/dissaplin is the only one worth doing???

You have fun foiling then foil.

You have fun riding surf board with or with out straps then do that.

You wanna ride in boots the ****en go for it.

But trying to tell someone that their not having fun the Correct way seems a lil weird to me.

Looks like 17-18 knots this arvo. I'm gonna punt some strapless airs on my SB then try some board offs on my TT??????

I also think its funny how theres all different size and shaped boards for it. Again its something i know nothing about but it seams like the board doesnt ever go in the water so wtf?

When I first saw foiling, I thought it was the stupidest lawnmowing boring thing ever. Now I have only used my foil in the last 5 months.

It basically turns bad conditions into great conditions. If you have light winds with waist high swell without it breaking, you can ride that on your foil for 200m no problem, carving left to right like you are on fresh powder on a snowboard, then swing around with a jibe and go 45 degrees upwind to get back to your starting place in one pass.

If you have strong winds then its incredible the feeling of just shooting 1m over all the whitewash at high speeds, then hitting a sharp jibe and just carving anywhere you want.

Plummet said..
Its a different sensation man. I'm firmly in the learning phase right now. But when proficient It will be another discipline i will draw on when conditions are optimal. It widens the grin factor for powered awesome sessions.

Imagine if you could do most of what you can do on the water now but magically floating above it like Jesus. Then consider that you be can powered to all fark in 12 knot.

The sensation of blasting above the water is pretty darn sweet. The upwind angles you can go at open up a range more spots than you would even consider on a TT or SB. Conditions that were previously **** (small swell chop days) become a lush sweeet session.Imagine fangin above that hidious chop at twice the speed as your normal board charging upwind on a day you would normally do the walk of shame?

What Plummet said :) its a great stoke unlike the others which are also amazing. Love a TT on a windy day or in waves, love a foil on not so windy days. Its a feeling you have to work quite hard at to get but IMO - worth it

bjw said..
I must disclose that I am not affiliated with any Foiling companies, I am not sponsored or paid to say this.

It looks boring.

I thought so too before I tried it

Please all just stay away from foiling. It is crap. I want to keep enjoying having places to myself while others sit on the beach just talking about kiting in 10-15 knots.

And it is funny like people tend to pigeon hole others. It is not that those who foil can only foil.

And foiling is where the money is? I don't think so. Money is made with kooks who are sold a kite they will quickly outgrow which is when they are sold another kite, and board.

bjw said...
I must disclose that I am not affiliated with any Foiling companies, I am not sponsored or paid to say this.

It looks boring.

Someone commented at my local " it's the roller blading of kiting"....
I'm all for it..... it's taken guys out of the lineup and put them out deep. 'Spread the load'. They also can take a ridiculous up wind tack, so 'shouldn't' end up on same path. Plus they are totally distracting and entertaining all the local sharks!

must be great for the environment. Collecting all the plastic bags in the ocean.

Well - im not braggin but have been recently in 5 knots.. a late session and people rolling their eyes thinking, unbelievable !

The neighbors were very unpleasant



Baa haa haa - but i am looking into one...

I saw a vid of kai lenny surfing small ocean swell on one with no kite. That looked fun. Probably way harder than he makes it look tho. But getting towed behind a kite i dunno. Foils have been around for years and nobody cared about it now all of a sudden everybody is like omg its the best thing ever.

INTHELOOP said..
very addictive and never ending progression on a fast foil!

Try it!

Yeah if you're loaded $$$

There are three types of kiters now:

* the twin tip local (happy to just manage a jump or keep himself upwind),
* the landboard/buggy nazi (always grumpy for some reason - must be the small kite without depower syndrome),
* and the deep water foiler (laughs at everyone else cause he can go upwind, upside down, any which way in 5knots).

But I have to admit: once you try or have had a run on a foil - it is addictive and most likely you'll only want to go back to twin tips just for the jumps or tricks. But riding up the coast at 60km/hr or 30knots in 22knot winds - that's crazy but that's why it's addictive.

DylanJamo said..

INTHELOOP said..
very addictive and never ending progression on a fast foil!

Try it!

Yeah if you're loaded $$$

There are three types of kiters now:

* the twin tip local (happy to just manage a jump or keep himself upwind),
* the landboard/buggy nazi (always grumpy for some reason - must be the small kite without depower syndrome),
* and the deep water foiler (laughs at everyone else cause he can go upwind, upside down, any which way in 5knots).

Dammit. I'm all three of those kiting groups.

PS you forgot the strapless sb rider and the wake styler in boots crashing his kite all the time.

glendog said..
Because riding without jumping or tricking is flippin boring. This is a big circle convo. Hahaha but im not sold.

Good, don't foil.

Everyone is into something different, like Kemp & Dafish have said already.

I personally don't see any point in wakestyle, totally boring to me, but it won comps for a decade because it's technically difficult to land a triple spinny roll with double bar pass to blind. Even if it looks like every other wakestyle flippy spinny thing done 1m off the water. But I know other guys see that as the core of kiting, for them, so I don't see any point in knocking it. Whatever floats your boat.

But it's worth mentioning that there's a whole lot of styles of foiling emerging. Surf. Big air. Race. Speed (distinct from Race). Freestyle.

You can jump big because you have the ingredients: speed, load, and a built in ramp better than any TT pop.





But you can also do tricks if that's your cup of tea. Look at the kite flying in these vids, 3.5m kite in gusting 40kts.

Greg Drexler of BRM blows me away pushing freestyle foiling. Check here how he's flying it like a rev. I've never seen anyone do this in 15 years of kitesurfing.


Have a look at the transition at 2:20 - kite roll under on the water, there's 3 or 4 of them in the vid, it's deliberate. Again, totally unique.