Jousting...

As you can guess the Horue team is based in the mediterranean sea... no waves in summer... and as we say in French "Idleness is the mother of all sins" :-)

Beasho said..
50 Consecutive Waves caught. Pretty much means things can go infinite:

That's some pretty epic fitness. I'm puffing pretty hard after 6, and usually cap it at about 3 plus the pump back out. This given, he does look a little lighter than me . Technique is everything with pumping.

Piros, I've noticed quite a few of the Hawaiian's adopt this further aft stance and aft foil mounting. I have put a lot of it down to the power in the swells. At that size on a regular day east coast Aus would be likely 5 -7 sec. where as Hawaii would be 12 - 13 sec. This is a big deal. I have ridden 19 sec at < 1m and it's amazing on the foil. Then ridden 2+m at 7 sec and you're having to work.

It's all about energy.

JB

blueplanetsurf said..
The difference between angle of incidence and angle of attack:

This is some good information to foils. I often have people asking and talking about wedging their Naish Hover to get the Fuleage parallel to the deck. Somehow, someone has tried to make this a universal trimming guide. Which IMO is incorrect for the following reasons;
1. All foils are different, so how could they possibly all have the same angles of Incidence & Attack.
2. Naish purposely build their Hover boards to suit the Thrust Foils. They have done the work to ensure it is as technically correct as possible.

I have played with wedges on my Naish Hover's quite a bit as I like to try and understand things not only theoretically, but also practically. Against my understanding of the theory, I tried a 4mm wedge on my Naish Setup and hated it. Then stepped down in 1mm increments until I got the my 1mm Wedge. The 1mm Wedge was rideable to a degree, but it's impact of high speed riding and power was amazing. Just 1mm made my gear so hard to control at speed, that I have not ridden with any wedge since nor will I.

Playing with the angles will work in different ways, but like everything, if you increase low speed lift (angle of attack), you are going to sacrifice control (especially at speed). My opinion is you get far better trim and control over your board by moving the mount fore and aft in the tracks depending on conditions and rider weight.

Wedges are an inexpensive way of trialling things, and possibly something you may use on a crappy day (1mm), but I honestly think after some time you'll choose to use the factory angles.

Obviously, on a modified board, wedges may help to achieve the intended foil angles. I suggest working out what these angles are of a production product first, then aim to try and match them for the appropriate sized board.

Ride safe,

JB

blueplanetsurf said..
The difference between angle of incidence and angle of attack:

I'm glad I'm just a dumb arsed surfer & don't have to give myself a headache thinking about these things...Luckily jimmy Lewis' collaboration with GoFoil makes foiling that mush easier & you just have to adjust yourself to the conditions...Great technical breakdown though...

making it look easy Casso..awesome

Piros said..
Nice Casso & flying on that Axis is that the 820 wing

Yep - the 820 with 750 mast.

Casso said..

**** mate you look like your having so much fun on that thing. No crowd either. Those foil things must be amazing...

The video:

We're all doing it wrong.

www.facebook.com/kai.lenny/videos/10156725449134312/

Some more Sydney action...

I tried out something a little different. I wanted to foil the Dead Sea in Israel as I figured the salty water (about 8x saltier than normal ocean) would help me out with lifting the foil! It turned out to be so much harder haha. Check this out anyway was still good fun but saltier water doesn't help at all it just grips to your foil and drags feels like you're towing a leggy as you go

Casso said..
Ahhh, no Colas - they are just painted white. No cavatation on the Axis tips.

Oops sorry, my bad. I should have checked more!