HOW TO: Wake Foil pt. 2 - Catching the Wave
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Foiling behind the boat is a ton of fun, but can be a little tricky to get started. In this video, which is part 2 of my intro to foiling, I break down some of the basic tips that have been the most helpful to me with learning to ride a foil behind the boat. This video focuses specifically on catching the wave, if you are brand new to foiling and need instructions on getting up, you can find my first video here: • HOW TO: Get Started Fo...
Once you're up and riding on the foil, the next step is getting into the wave. This is the point where more challenges come in, but it's also where foiling gets really fun and exciting.
The main keys for me are starting out wide away from the wake, slowly working your way in, and keeping the foil flying super low.
Hope this video is helpful for the next steps once you're up on a foil! Getting out foiling is rad because there are endless challenges and improvements to be making constantly, hope you find this process as fun as I do!
If you have any other questions about any of this, feel free to leave those below. Thanks for watching!
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Keep going with these foil tutorials! The advise you give really makes it easier for me to explain foiling to beginners in our store.
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Very cool!
great tuto, you must keep on making videos for us, you have real potential on youtube!
Thank you!!
Another great video Jake! For those of us with the shift mast, at what point would you say we should look to advance to the longer options? Thank you!
I’d say as soon as you are comfortable riding the board with the rope, and slightly flying the ing you can move up to 17! Then once you catch the wave a bit, moving up to 20 will give you more margin for error while riding in the wave.
Hey Jake! Thanks a bunch for the content! Just curious what is the boat set up? Are you engaging the surf system? Any ballast? And what is your speed preference? To that, what does faster or slower boat speed correlate to on the foil?
Hey! I usually run about half ballast, but you can definitely leave the boat pretty light, even empty when learning. I do engage the surf system on the side you’re foiling on.
My speed is usually around 11.6-11.8.
The faster you go, the more sensitive the foil will be, so it can be a little tougher to learn. Once your comfortable, though, speeding up a bit let’s you have more freedom with pumping around, recovering, and letting you really engage the wing in turns.
So starting off around 10mph is a good place to learn to control the foil, then once you’re letting go of the rope speeding up a bit can be helpful.
Wakethief question please : i am a wakefoiler + pumpfoiler on a Lake. I want to catch a wave from a passanger ship, my pumping speed is normaly 10mph, the ship is crusing about 7 mph. How can i catch the waves without sinking ? ? ? Thx Peter
Hey Peter, I haven’t done this specifically. 7mph is pretty slow, but if you are able to keep momentum moving side to side (carving the wave left and right) you may be able to keep your foil’s speed high enough to keep lift, even though you’re only moving forward at 7mph
How fast is the boat going?
When you’re starting to catch the wave, typically somewhere between 10-11mph !