Carving tiny river wind swells in 10-12 knots.

So different from last week's storm foiling, almost as much fun.
How good is foiling

Thanks again to Lindsay Preece (Ironbark Photos) for the amazing vid quality.
Music sample - Bill Laurance, U-Bahn

Slingshot Infinity 76, Wizard 105L, Simmer Blacktip 5.9m

Awesome video. Gotta love that feeling of carving upwind. I think I need to swap my 125 for a 105...

Light wind Superstylin

Quite a few questions on other threads about technique to control the lift of the Infinity 76.

I've added slomo to the end of the video to show how it's possible to keep your feet in the straps and move your weight to control lift - always seemed easier to me as there's no need to think about foot placement.
The slomo is a bit jittery because of the frame rate but hopefully you can see the weight transfers - front to back foot and inboard/outboard.

Worth a try maybe - if it doesn't work for you take the rear straps off

Great video JJ, and really nice to see you rippin in the light stuff.

Last week we had a west wind and there is only one launch area we can use which is completley inaccessible for windsurfing due to the severe gusts and wind shadow close to the beach (even the kiters struggle).

Just like your video I was on a 5.8 (i84 and W125) and it was so quiet and peaceful just ripping up pieces of small swell for miles.

The wind would spike to around 15 knots and drop off to 6-7 knots but I didn't touch down for an 1.5 hours, its just amazing the glides and the fun factor to have in such light winds, cannot get enough of it

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CoreAS said..
Great video JJ, and really nice to see you rippin in the light stuff.
Last week we had a west wind and there is only one launch area we can use which is completley inaccessible for windsurfing due to the severe gusts and wind shadow close to the beach (even the kiters struggle).
Just like your video I was on a 5.8 (i84 and W125) and it was so quiet and peaceful just ripping up pieces of small swell for miles.
The wind would spike to around 15 knots and drop off to 6-7 knots but I didn't touch down for an 1.5 hours, its just amazing the glides and the fun factor to have in such light winds, cannot get enough of it

Nice one Dean - yeah, it's difficult to express how much fun it is to play with the energy from even tiny wind swells.