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Free-Foil 125

Rider: Diony Guadagnino

Location: Los Roques, Venezuela

Amazing riding on such a big board.

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miamiwindsurfe said..

Free-Foil 125

Rider: Diony Guadagnino

Location: Los Roques, Venezuela

Videos like this make it hard to go for the race kit on windier days and make me want to grab the freeride foil instead

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boardhead said..
Amazing riding on such a big board.

That what separates normal humans from pros. But board is not big, specially for he's size, 125l 75x190 I think

Great riding !. that looks fun. We don't have any of those here (Waves of unusual size )

I love it! That's what I am working towards. It's great to see talent riding a board with sensible volume!

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boardhead said..
Amazing riding on such a big board.

Not such a big board - I have the same. Specs as stated elsewhere (although, iirc, it's about 195 long) . It behaved nicely for me yesterday in gusts close to 30 kts despite my being overrigged by about 2 sail sizes. Very fun to ride but takes a bit of power to get it off the water.

Looks like he is using Taaroa foils. I like the staggered wing bolts in this design. The freeride wings have a user friendly looking moderate aspect ratio. This video shows they can turn. The fuse looks pretty long with good wing projection out in front of the mast.
Diony Guadagnino in this video is just killing it!

Those conditions are epic. Side offshore winds with a bit of swell is my favorite foil conditions with waves usually not that big and clean. Still makes those mushy 2-3ft days feel like wave sailing maui on a mast high day.
He can definitely do it on a smaller board say <170 long and 115L

I wish we saw more videos like this it's either race foiling or the pros hitting the lip on a 8ft+ wave.

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miamiwindsurfe said..

Free-Foil 125

Rider: Diony Guadagnino

Location: Los Roques, Venezuela

looks hard work compared to using a wing.

Hilly,
That's incredible wing foiling, thanks for sharing! Not sure why you need to bag on windfoil though.

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utcminusfour said..
Hilly,
That's incredible wing foiling, thanks for sharing! Not sure why you need to bag on windfoil though.

Agree. Diony on same brand (Tillo) wing board www.instagram.com/p/CcVt3KkD5Uu/

If he had wanted to wing, he could have. Something, something, horses for courses.

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utcminusfour said..
Hilly,
That's incredible wing foiling, thanks for sharing! Not sure why you need to bag on windfoil though.

Not sure I bagged it. Just looks hard to fit into waves.

Okay hilly, no biggie.

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miamiwindsurfe said..

Free-Foil 125

Rider: Diony Guadagnino

Location: Los Roques, Venezuela

looks hard work compared to using a wing.

Video is Diony's first attempt riding waves on windfoil.

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azymuth said..

hilly said..

miamiwindsurfe said..

Free-Foil 125

Rider: Diony Guadagnino

Location: Los Roques, Venezuela

looks hard work compared to using a wing.

Video is Diony's first attempt riding waves on windfoil.

Windfoils are awesome for going fast and linking swells downwind. They just look hard work riding steep breaking waves. Diony is doing it as well as I have seen anyone do it. The same skill set would transfer to similar but different craft that would be more suited to waves.

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hilly said..

azymuth said..

hilly said..

miamiwindsurfe said..

Free-Foil 125

Rider: Diony Guadagnino

Location: Los Roques, Venezuela

looks hard work compared to using a wing.

Video is Diony's first attempt riding waves on windfoil.

Windfoils are awesome for going fast and linking swells downwind. They just look hard work riding steep breaking waves. Diony is doing it as well as I have seen anyone do it. The same skill set would transfer to similar but different craft that would be more suited to waves.

Neither he's board or foil is a dedicated for windsurf foil wave riding and wave not the greatest, still video shows fun potential, I asked Alex( Tillo ) for another video with cleaner, bigger wave, hope Diony will make one soon. My custom Tillo board (wave foil?) might be ready this weekend and my foil is more tune for wave riding, shorter fusilage for one, etc.. But my technique is far from pro level of course. i think we could be as good or better than wing in most conditions, we'll see

Miamiwindsurfe
Post some pics of your board when you get it.
Always interested to see what people are riding

IMHO Wingfoiling on a swell/small wave with the wing flagged and Windfoiling on a swell are both a lot of fun. I believe on a Wing you get more of a pure "surf" feel using only the power of the swell while on a WF I enjoy using the both power of the wind and swell to turn the board or have something to hang onto when carving heel side.

Some of my thoughts/back ground are:
I have only been trying WWF maybe 50 times over a couple of years, so not really any good, while most of the wingers I ride with in Maui do it 300+ times a year. And less than 5% of them can ride like Keahi, although that's still a big number here.

Wingers generally depower when transitioning while I like to power on when jibing or carving. Neither is better just different types of fun. Hence unlike the video Villo Vid I like to have enough wind to easily water start, otherwise there is too little power in the sail when doing the downwind heel carve to really hang on the sail. While the wingers want the smallest wing possible to get up on so its easier to flag.

What I am discussing is riding an on shore reef swell (Not on the steepest part of wave) with side on wind. When on the swell I usually start riding the swell up wind doing one 180 degree toeside "jibe" then pick up the swell for one 180 degree heel side carve. Then repeat. Similar pattern to the wingers.

I am only good enough to link 4 or so hard carves on a face before I move ahead of the swell. Probably because I don't turn back up the face enough when going down the line. However I can float on a swell forever with smaller gentler turns and turning on the sail power only rarely.

Why I do it, I love the G force feeling of carving powered up with the addition power of coming down hill off a swell, (a head high swell is plenty big and gives both the speed of the swell plus the speed of going down hill). This applies both to heel side and toe side. On heel side you can hang on the sail while on toe side its like a powered up jibe with the extra boost from the swell.

So Hilly if you mean sheeting in and hanging on a sail to cave an aggressive turn on a Windfoil is more work than snapping your knees on a Wing then I agree. However when I waterstart my windfoil quickly and ride 3 swells before my winger friends can find a gust to get going on I would say that looks like much harder work to me

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Hess said..
IMHO Wingfoiling on a swell/small wave with the wing flagged and Windfoiling on a swell are both a lot of fun. I believe on a Wing you get more of a pure "surf" feel using only the power of the swell while on a WF I enjoy using the both power of the wind and swell to turn the board or have something to hang onto when carving heel side.

Some of my thoughts/back ground are:
I have only been trying WWF maybe 50 times over a couple of years, so not really any good, while most of the wingers I ride with in Maui do it 300+ times a year. And less than 5% of them can ride like Keahi, although that's still a big number here.

Wingers generally depower when transitioning while I like to power on when jibing or carving. Neither is better just different types of fun. Hence unlike the video Villo Vid I like to have enough wind to easily water start, otherwise there is too little power in the sail when doing the downwind heel carve to really hang on the sail. While the wingers want the smallest wing possible to get up on so its easier to flag.

What I am discussing is riding an on shore reef swell (Not on the steepest part of wave) with side on wind. When on the swell I usually start riding the swell up wind doing one 180 degree toeside "jibe" then pick up the swell for one 180 degree heel side carve. Then repeat. Similar pattern to the wingers.

I am only good enough to link 4 or so hard carves on a face before I move ahead of the swell. Probably because I don't turn back up the face enough when going down the line. However I can float on a swell forever with smaller gentler turns and turning on the sail power only rarely.

Why I do it, I love the G force feeling of carving powered up with the addition power of coming down hill off a swell, (a head high swell is plenty big and gives both the speed of the swell plus the speed of going down hill). This applies both to heel side and toe side. On heel side you can hang on the sail while on toe side its like a powered up jibe with the extra boost from the swell.

So Hilly if you mean sheeting in and hanging on a sail to cave an aggressive turn on a Windfoil is more work than snapping your knees on a Wing then I agree. However when I waterstart my windfoil quickly and ride 3 swells before my winger friends can find a gust to get going on I would say that looks like much harder work to me

100% agree with you. Both freefoil and wingfoil, two ways to enjoy the swell. I have a Goya Airbold pro 105, and fits me perfect in this conditions.