Under 20 sessions on my Wizard 125 and i76 but It's starting to come together a bit. One bugaboo is breaching when overpowered. When I get to the "oh **" moment as I'm WAY up there, I jam on the front foot as hard as I can. My rear foot comes forward. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Someone told me to try to pull up on the rear footstrap. I haven't even put rear straps on yet. Is this a strategy that works for you? Thanks for ideas to prevent the dreaded breach!

Put your weight forward in the harness and really max out the mast foot pressure. If you still can't get it to stay down move your footstraps or mast foot forward a bit.
And back yourself to use the back straps, adds so much more control.

I pull up a little on the rear footstrap while leaning forward and putting weight on the front harness line and front arm. I think its more to keep balance when leaning forward.

I find the rear straps on my 125 to be pretty much useless. Last weekend I tried them in powered 5.4 conditions and found the board was way less pitch stable than with my back foot in front of them. I would only be interested in them if I cared about jumping, which I don't given that I ride an Infinity 84cm wing. I will be pulling mine off soon so the board can serve double-duty for wingfoiling.

Hey marc5, I think you will find that with more experience you will be able to anticipate when it is about to go up and breach. Then you can more easily and gently correct the pitch. It's all muscle memory and the feeling of the things on the water.

Even after 170 sessions, my pitch is never dead-stable. Since I foil in mostly gusty conditions (Columbia Gorge), I have gotten used to constantly correcting the pitch to avoid breaching. Just part of the game. A long mast gives you more "room" to make corrections.

I guess it all comes with muscle memory, i'd describe it as unweighting the back foot. The real trick is to be able to do it then catch it before you touch down without starting to hobby horse.

When you pull up on rear straps, where does your weight rest?

Moving both hands forward on the boom will drop the nose in powered up conditions ??

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nimo1972 said..
Moving both hands forward on the boom will drop the nose in powered up conditions ??

Only if you transfer weight into the harness.

I am not a skilled foiler.
A combination of controlled sheeting out and quick sheeting in controls height quicker than a weight shift....for me so far. 90 foil days.
A flat sail for powered conditions, less outhaul for med to light winds.

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Subsonic said..
I guess it all comes with muscle memory, i'd describe it as unweighting the back foot. The real trick is to be able to do it then catch it before you touch down without starting to hobby horse.

Yeah. I don't pull up on the back strap but I do find my self lifting the back heel probably in an attempt to de-weight the back foot