FOIL BOARD ARRANGEMENT IDEAS- FOIL BOARDS, FOILS, FOIL POSITIONING, FOOT POSITIONING, FOOT STRAPS
How to set up your foil board to be well stabilized for optimum performance.
Aloha buddies! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue World Browse. Today. I'm mosting likely to speak about establishing your foil gear. It's a question we get a whole lot: How do I establish the foil, where to position it, where to place foot straps, how to place your feet on the board, what kind of board to get. I'm also mosting likely to discuss what sort of gear to make use of as a novice.
And as a advanced foiler and for different sporting activities- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. I have a wing foil board and a prone full board. I'm going to speak about the boards, utilize the foils used. And after that I'm additionally going to talk about foot placement, just how to find out where to put your feet and how to attach a foot band to your board.
This video clip is going to be a little bit much longer. We have a great deal of information on our site and on YouTube. So down listed below in the summary, I'll put a great deal of web links to other video clips and also web links that will help you even more along the road. The last video clip I posted was an meeting with Kane De Wilde and also he has a great deal of truly great insight on foil setups and more.
And he said, he constantly likes to attempt lots of different arrangements and identify what works and truly feel it out. Which makes a lot of sense to me. The more. You can test things the more, exactly how points interact as well as how to enhance your arrangement as well as having a great arrangement, especially the foil functioning well with your ability and also just how you use it is very essential.
Having a excellent foil set up and the ideal board and after that a great wing, all those things together will automatically just make you better right away. These days I mainly into wing hindering. This is the board I make use of one of the most here is my my four 6 by 78 litre wing foil board. What I talk about here today applies to all four sports, consisting of vulnerable browse foiling, wing hindering, and also standup foiling.
So I began foiling concerning 5 years ago. And also if you recall with the YouTube history of video clips, you'll see, I initially began on an 8'0 Defend foil board that I just put a Tuttle box into and that worked well to start on and also learn on.
And after that afterwards I 'd built a specialized foil board. That was a 7'6. And also rather soon I felt like it was also big as well as the tail was dragging and so on. So I cut off the tail just to see what occurred and made it right into a 6'11, and after that that worked truly well. As well as I found out, yeah, having that shorter swing weight and also the much shorter board actually assists when you're hindering up on foil.
And afterwards I have actually been progressing progressively, been testing smaller sized and also smaller boards. And also currently what I make use of for wing hindering is a 4 6, which is quite small. And also for prone surf foiling I utilize a comparable length board. This set right here is a 3'10. I use this mainly for exercising my dock Starts, which I'm not excellent at yet, yet dealing with that, trying to dock begin and also pump.
And after that for standup foiling, I use this board right here. It's a 5 eight by 114 litre board for standing up dropping. I just need more security.
The wing master board is wonderful for wing flooding, but it's not secure sufficient for me to stand up paddle on perhaps a lighter weight. A paddler with truly good balance may be able to stand paddle on this. Normally talking, this board is going to be too small for many people to stand up paddle for long. So something similar to this, the 5'8 Actually great. Stand-up foil board additionally functions well as a wing foil board since wing filing, you have the wit lift of the wing. You do not require fairly as much security as you do for standup as well as bouncing while you're standing up for obtaining began as well as wing foiling as well as standup foiling.
I suggest obtaining a larger, stable board. In our array, we have the 6 '11 and also the 7'6 Easy Foiler models. Those are actually excellent boards for learning just how to Stand up paddle foil and also wing foil. And afterwards as you get better and you're comfortable standing and also you can possibly change your feet around and do all the fundamentals on a larger board, then you prepare to go some to something smaller, perhaps something like this 5, eight Carver foil board, or for a bit more advanced for, as well as these Wingmaster boards are incredible. This is not going to be your first Wingfoil board, it's going take a bigger board to initial find out the essentials on, and after that you can work your way down to a small board like this. For me, it was several boards in between. And also, obviously I possess as a brand name and I developed these boards. I do a great deal of R & D and made a great deal of boards gradually working my way down.
Probably just like a couple of inches in a few litres at a time. So I didn't begin on a big board and also wound up on this right away. There's a lot of steps in between. And also you do not have to take that lots of actions, however I would certainly state in between a novice board and also the really innovative board, there ought to go to the very least 2 or three boards.
To reach that factor where you can create a actually small board. So do not believe you can just begin wing filing on a little tiny vulnerable board. This is it's possible. I have actually seen individuals do it prior to that are incredibly skilled professional athletes and already great filers. I've seen individuals learn just how to wing full on susceptible.
The boards, but if you're an average Joe do not also attempt it. It's going to be way as well difficult to try to learn on it, little board. And also for me it wing for the thing I suched as to have a little much more volume. I'm, my weight is 195 extra pounds. I'm 6'2" and 195 pounds which is approximately 90 kilograms.
To ensure that converts into 90 litres of quantity to float me. The initial 90 liters of volume will certainly drift my body weight. And after that certainly you likewise need to include the weight of the foil and also the board itself. And and generally if you desire it to drift you, you need to have equivalent quantity of flotation protection to your body weight. The volume actually depends on your body weight. And after that for a novice, I suggest obtaining a board that has enough volume to drift your body weight, plus maybe 20%. So for me perhaps as a newbie, I would make use of a boy that goes to the very least around 120 litres, possibly more that will certainly be great to drift me.
For weighing foiling for standup hindering, you might get something even a bit larger. Possibly for me, I would select like 140, 150 liters as well as adequate size as well as length and security to be able to send out a paddle on and also discover on. And after that as you improve with the balancing and also catching waves and getting up on the foil, after that you can move smaller sized and the foil does include security to the board.
Having a foil board is going to be extra steady than a regular standup paddleboard, yet it's a certain sort of balance that you need to obtain utilized to it. Does not. Simply instantly make stabilizing easy. It's simply a little hold-up, so it reduces the activity of the board a bit in that foil underneath.
It's like having a keel under your board. So next let's discuss the foils themselves. I have actually been doing this a long time. I use rather a little foil currently for wing foiling, especially like for waves and stuff like that, attempting to go faster. This is an accessibility high aspect facet for us.
The Axis 810, a wing period or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. And the forecasted surface area is 1022 square centimeters, that has to do with 158 square inches. This is quite a small front wing, but because it's pretty high aspect and it's actually quite, has quite a bit of lift and a lot of glide.
So I actually liked this, a front wing. I have a 760, which is a little bit more surfy, which is also a really nice but for starting out on, When I started, I used a really big foil, the 2000 square centimeter foil. So when you're starting something like the Carver foil, We have the group strategy at Carver for is a excellent discussion forum for understanding.
It's 2000 square centimeters. It's stable comes up at reduced rates and flies out a little bit reduced rate, but it simply keeps moving. If you're doing a change, if you muck it up a bit, you have actually obtained way more time to glide out of the turn and also keep up on the foil. As well as it just lifts up simpler and also reduced rates.
It's this much easier to use a bigger foil when you're starting out. And also even as you advance, relying on the conditions you're flying having a large foil is simply makes whatever a bit less complicated. And and it enables you to do more techniques and points like that. So these smaller sized foils are except everybody, however as you improve, having a smaller foil.
As well as a thinner profile, simply permits you to go faster, do tighter turns, be more maneuverable and also going faster really helps in the waves because a great deal of times when you catching far from the outside, it's still relocating really fast as well as you need to be able to stay up to date with that rapid moving swell. And afterwards having a faster, smaller wing, will this aid you be able to keep up with those waves versus if you're simply riding wind swell or just on a flat water, a Lake or something like that?
Having a bigger wing is nice because you can simply fly a bit a lot more gradually. It's not a big deal. And after that it simply gives you even more time. To stay on foil, easier to get up on foil and lighter winds. There's a lot of advantages of using a bigger foil. So when you're beginning, certainly obtain a bigger dimension foil something, 2000 square centimeters.
Or we additionally have 1,800 square centimeters, large size, something like that. And afterwards in regards to mass length, I such as to use a 90 centimeter mast. I have actually tried longer mass and that's having a truly lengthy mass is nice for downwinders it's like that, however it does make the whole point a little a lot more tippy on the much shorter mass.
You have to follow the waves backwards and forwards as the wave increases, you have to dip your nose up and down and also longer. Mass enables you simply to fly straight over to the smaller chops. That behaves, however I have a truly thorough video and I'll put the web link down listed below to that on picking the very best foil for your requirements.
Watch that. That's some really excellent details if you're not sure what sort of circulation you're mosting likely to require. And more. Next, I'm going to talk about putting the foot on the board and where to put it. So my car is rather small, so I need to take the foil off the board as well as placed it back on. Every single time I utilize it.
As well as therefore, I acquired this, the effect motorist, which is a really good tool to have truly makes it simple to put the foil on and off. As well as for me, yep, I typically simply maintain the bolts in the board as well as I tightened them down, so they can not glide. I just loosen up these four bolts. You don't intend to leave them in the board loose because it can slide out.
And then if they drop out while you're bring the board and the grass or something like that, these are easy to shed. I always make sure these are tight enough, so they can't slide out by themselves. And I said, the mass plate that has, that allows you to slide the bolt onto it. And then I like to just tighten them down. Okay. Little, get them all in location.
Once they're all located, then you can crank them down. You absolutely want to ensure they're tight on there due to the fact that you don't want these screws to chill out while you're riding.
Now I got the full on the board. And also the next concern is just how do you position the foil on the board? Which really, it really relies on the foil itself and the board, the size of the board Kindle while thought of a good approaches. Have a good beginning factor of where to position your foil. Which's simply, if you raise the entire setup from the thickest factor of the foil, the think is indicating the initial regarding a 3rd back on the profile.
To ensure that's where the facility of lift is to make sure that the front wing develops a lift center of lift is right here at the thickest component. If you lift up your setup from that point, your board should be pretty much level. If your board is level. That indicates the center of mass of your whole system is straight underneath the center of lift of the foil.
Then let's say this, you project that to here then on the other side of the board, if you look at that same point on the deck, This should be pretty much in between your feet. So if your feet are too much ahead, you're mosting likely to need to place more weight on the back of, on your back foot. If your feet are as well far back, then you need to lean a lot more on your front foot.
So ideally you want to have your feet similarly stabilized to make sure that the facility of lift is right between your feet. And then if it's additionally the center of mass of the whole system, it'll simply feel way much more well balanced. The weight of the system and the center volume all cancel that truly assists. As well as this is pretty much true for all sides boards, that whether it's a large standup foil board or a smaller sized vulnerable board that balancing out is a actually good starting factor on where your foil will certainly function best and also where you can stand and also catch the wave and in the best area, or take off as well as put your feet in the ideal location.
Basically where the quantity and the weight of the board as well as the weight of the whole system. Everything is perfectly cancelled. Kay. Next allow's discuss your foot placement. So my feet are about equally cancelled between the front as well as the wing foiling rear of the facility of lifts. If you project the center of listing of the front circulation in between your feet, it's going to be more or less between your feet.
And some people have their back foot better forward, however then they likewise moved their front foot for their back. If you have a smaller stance or wider stance, if you put your back foot further back, you need to put your front foot further forward. You always want to find that balance. If your position is too far onward, you're going to constantly have aching a sore back leg.
Create you're constantly leaning back at greater rates to simply control the foil you're mosting likely to or pumping and so on. As well as it's mosting likely to place a whole lot even more stress on your back leg. So if your back leg is constantly sore, Possibly you simply want to move that foot further back on the board so that when you're riding and also at typical speed, your weight should be perfect over the foil and you should not need to put even more weight on one side or the various other.
It's a small hip motions added to regulate the elevation of the foil. That's really important to have the center of lift of the foil underneath the board bounce between your two feet. And ideally prior to you put foot straps on your board, You wish to find out without foot straps where your feet are, normally maybe take some video with a GoPro or something like that to determine where do I place my feet on the board. When you beginning, I don't suggest making use of foot bands. Our boards have this little arch bar below that's right over the mask so that it provides you a good, tactile feel for where your back foot is. And afterwards the front foot, generally I oriented with this logo design of the blue planet logo a little bit front or back and.
You do want the weight to be either both feet right over the center line, or if you're. The front foot is a little bit off to the side. Your back foot needs to additionally be similarly off sideways. Whether you're on the center line or slightly off center, you just want to make sure that your body weight is over the center line of the board.
Otherwise you're going to tilt the board as well as with a wing, occasionally you can get away with both feet being off away when you're powered, but after that as soon as you release the power and you're just on the foil, after that the board. Wishing to tip over, like if you, both of you feed off too far off the side, it won't fly well without the power of the wing.
Very same thing. If you're speaking behind the boat, you can get away with leaning on the side, one side, having your weight on one side, create you leaning against the rope. Yet as soon as you allow that rope go, you require to have your say your weight focused right over the center of the board and also over the center of the foil.
Or else you're mosting likely to tip over. So it's best to begin riding your board without foot bands, finding out the positioning where you put the feet, and afterwards once you recognize where to place your feet, another great way to change to foot straps is using foot hooks. We have these Eva foot hooks. I'll place the web link down to video for that as well.
Those ones you can attach to the board and kind of wedge your feet versus it. Which's handy without having your feet in the bands or needing to glide your feet right into straps and more. The foot hooks are a good step in between no straps and going straight to straps. And afterwards when you want to begin utilizing bands, preferably I would state utilize the front strap just at first, get comfy with the front strap.
And then when you're comfortable keeping that. You can add a back band. And primarily if you want to jump, if you're wing, flailing, and you intend to jump, you have to have foot bands on your board. Okay. To take the foil off, same thing in reverse, I just put it upside down. I loosened up the screws. And after that I tighten them pull back, not too tight, but just so they can move around in the box.
So place them at the end of package. Just tighten them in on a bit, very same in the back, take the foil off. Okay. So it's rather essential to maintain these little bolts tight in the board so they can't move out. Okay. Next I'm going to go over how to attach these. Steps to the board. This is our blue earth deluxe foot store.
It resembles a neoprene covered foot strap. They behave as well as cushioned. They have Velcro adjustability. They're nice and stiff. And also you want your straps to stand by them selves. So the feet can move in conveniently. A few of them truly light-weight, thin straps can collapse. And then it's really tough to obtain your foot in.
You have to locate the band as well as shake your feet in. So I such as to make use of bands that have more padding they're softer, less complicated on your feet.