FOIL BOARD ARRANGEMENT TIPS- FOIL BOARDS, FOILS, FOIL POSITIONING, FOOT PLACEMENT, FOOT STRAPS
Just how to set up your foil board to be well balanced for optimum performance.
Aloha good friends! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue World Surf. Today. I'm mosting likely to speak about establishing your foil equipment. It's a concern we get a lot: How do I establish the foil, where to position it, where to place foot straps, how to position your feet on the board, what type of board to obtain. I'm also going to talk about what sort of equipment to utilize as a novice.
And as a advanced foiler and for various sports- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. I have a wing foil board and also a susceptible complete board. I'm mosting likely to talk about the boards, utilize the foils used. And then I'm also mosting likely to talk about foot placement, exactly how to find out where to place your feet and just how to connect a foot strap to your board.
This video is going to be a little bit longer. We have a great deal of information on our web site and also on YouTube too. So down below in the summary, I'll place a lot of links to various other video clips and links that will assist you further along the road. The last video I uploaded was an meeting with Kane De Wilde and also he has a great deal of actually excellent insight on foil setups and more.
And also he stated, he constantly suches as to try lots of various setups and also figure out what works and truly feel it out. Which makes a great deal of feeling to me. The more. You can test points the more, how points collaborate as well as exactly how to optimize your configuration as well as having a excellent setup, especially the foil working well with your skill and how you use it is super crucial.
Having a good foil established up and also the ideal board as well as after that a excellent wing, all those points with each other will automatically just make you better right away. So these days I mainly right into wing foiling. This is the board I utilize one of the most below is my my four six by 78 liter wing foil board. What I talk about here today relates to all four sports, including prone browse foiling, wing foiling, as well as standup foiling.
I began hindering about 5 years back. As well as if you recall through the YouTube background of video clips, you'll see, I first began on an 8'0 Defend foil board that I just placed a Tuttle box right into and that functioned well to start on and discover on.
And then afterwards I 'd built a specialized foil board. That was a 7'6. As well as quite soon I seemed like it was too huge and also the tail was dragging and so on. So I sliced off the tail just to see what happened and also made it into a 6'11, and after that that worked really well. And I figured out, yeah, having that much shorter swing weight and also the shorter board truly assists when you're foiling up on foil.
And then I have actually been progressing considerably, been examining smaller and smaller sized boards. And also currently what I make use of for wing hindering is a 4 six, which is quite little. As well as for vulnerable browse foiling I use a similar size board. This below is a 3'10. I utilize this mostly for practicing my dock Starts, which I'm not very good at yet, but servicing that, attempting to dock begin as well as pump.
And after that for standup foiling, I use this board right here. It's a 5 8 by 114 liter board for standing up falling. I just require much more security.
The wing master board is terrific for wing flooding, yet it's not steady enough for me to stand paddle on maybe a lighter weight. A paddler with really excellent balance could be able to stand paddle on this. Typically talking, this board is going to be too tiny for the majority of people to stand up paddle for long. Something like this, the 5'8 Truly wonderful. Stand-up foil board likewise works well as a wing foil board since wing filing, you have the wit lift of the wing. You do not need rather as much security as you do for standup and bouncing while you're standing up for getting started as well as wing hindering and standup hindering.
I advise obtaining a larger, stable board. So in our variety, we have the 6 '11 as well as the 7'6 Easy Foiler models. Those are truly good boards for learning just how to Stand paddle foil as well as wing foil. And afterwards as you get better as well as you're comfortable standing and you can perhaps switch your feet around as well as do all the essentials on a bigger board, then you're ready to go some to something smaller sized, perhaps something similar to this five, 8 Carver foil board, or for a bit more advanced for, as well as these Wingmaster boards are awesome. This is not going to be your initial Wingfoil board, it's going take a bigger board to very first find out the fundamentals on, as well as then you can work your method down to a small board like this. For me, it was several boards in between. And, undoubtedly I have as a brand name and I developed these boards. I do a lot of R & D and also made a lot of boards gradually working my means down.
Probably similar to a couple of inches in a couple of litres at once. I didn't begin on a large board and ended up on this ideal away. There's a lot of action in between. And you do not have to take that many steps, yet I would claim in between a beginner board as well as the really innovative board, there must go to least 2 or 3 boards.
To get to that factor where you can compose a truly tiny board. Do not think you can just start wing filing on a little tiny susceptible board. This is it's possible. I have actually seen individuals do it prior to that are extremely skilled professional athletes and already great filers. I've seen individuals find out just how to wing complete on prone.
The boards, however if you're an average Joe do not also attempt it. It's going to be way too tough to attempt to find out on it, small board. As well as for me it wing for the important things I liked to have a little more volume. So I'm, my weight is 195 extra pounds. I'm 6'2" and 195 pounds which is approximately 90 kilos.
That translates right into 90 liters of volume to float me. So the initial 90 liters of volume will float my body weight. And afterwards naturally you additionally have to add in the weight of the foil and also the board itself. And and basically if you desire it to drift you, you need to have equivalent amount of flotation to your body weight. The quantity truly depends on your body weight. And after that for a beginner, I recommend obtaining a board that has sufficient volume to float your body weight, plus maybe 20%. For me maybe as a beginner, I would use a boy that's at least about 120 liters, maybe more that will be good to float me.
For weighing foiling for standup hindering, you might get something also a bit bigger. Perhaps for me, I would certainly select like 140, 150 liters as well as sufficient width and also length and stability to be able to send a paddle on and discover on. And then as you improve with the balancing and also catching waves as well as getting up on the foil, after that you can relocate smaller sized and also the foil does include stability to the board.
Having a foil board is going to be a lot more stable than a regular standup paddleboard, yet it's a specific kind of balance that you need to obtain used to it. Does not. Simply immediately make stabilizing easy. It's simply a little delay, so it reduces the motion of the board a bit in that foil beneath.
It resembles having a keel under your board. So next let's talk about the foils themselves. I have actually been doing this a long time. I utilize fairly a small foil now for wing hindering, specifically like for waves and also stuff like that, trying to go much faster. This is an access high facet aspect for us.
The Axis 810, a wing period or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. And also the projected surface is 1022 square centimeters, that's about 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.
I really liked this, a front wing. I blog link 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. When you're starting something like the Carver foil, We have the group plan at Carver for is a great forum for learning.
It's 2000 square centimeters. It's secure turns up at low speeds as well as flies out a bit lower speed, however it simply maintains gliding. If you're doing a shift, if you muck it up a bit, you've got method even more time to glide out of the turn and stay up on the foil. And it simply raises simpler and reduced speeds.
So it's this much simpler to use a bigger foil when you're starting out. And also even as you advance, depending upon the problems you're flying having a large foil is just makes whatever a little less complicated. And also and it allows you to do more methods and points like that. So these smaller sized foils are except everybody, yet as you get better, having a smaller foil.
And a thinner profile, just permits you to go faster, do tighter turns, be a lot more manoeuvrable and going quicker truly helps in the waves since a great deal of times when you capturing far from the outside, it's still moving truly quick and you need to be able to keep up with that rapid relocating swell. And after that having a quicker, smaller sized wing, will this assist you have the ability to stay on top of those waves versus if you're just riding wind swell or just on a flat water, a Lake or something like that?
Having a larger wing is nice since you can just fly a bit more slowly. It's not a big deal. And afterwards it simply provides you even more time. To stay on foil, simpler to get up on foil and also lighter winds likewise. There's a lot of advantages of using a bigger foil. When you're starting out, definitely get a bigger size foil something, 2000 square centimeters.
Or we additionally have 1,800 square centimeters, plus size, something like that. And after that in regards to mass size, I like to use a 90 centimeter pole. I've attempted much longer mass which's having a really long mass behaves for downwinders it's like that, however it does make the entire point a little extra tippy on the much shorter mass.
You have to follow the waves up and down as the wave goes up, you need to dip your nose backwards and forwards as well as longer. Mass allows you just to fly straight over to the smaller sized chops. That's nice, however I have a really thorough video clip and also I'll place the web link down listed below to that on picking the very best foil for your requirements.
Watch that. That's some truly excellent info if you're unsure what type of circulation you're going to require. And so forth. So next, I'm mosting likely to discuss placing the foot on the board and where to place it. So my cars and truck is quite small, so I have to take the foil off the board as well as put it back on. Every time I utilize it.
And also for that reason, I acquired this, the impact motorist, which is a actually wonderful tool to have truly makes it very easy to place the foil on and off. And also for me, yes, I generally just maintain the screws in the board as well as I tightened them down, so they can not slide. I just loosen up these four bolts. You do not intend to leave them in the board loose because it can slide out.
And after that if they leave while you're carrying the board as well as the yard or something like that, these are simple to shed. So I constantly make certain these are tight sufficient, so they can not slide out on their own. And also I claimed, the mass plate that has, that enables you to glide the bolt onto it. And then I such as to simply tighten them down. Okay. Little, obtain them done in location.
Once they're all situated, then you can crank them down. You absolutely intend to make sure they're limited on there because you don't desire these screws to chill out while you're riding.
So currently I got the full on the board. And the next inquiry is exactly how do you place the foil on the board? And that actually, it truly relies on the foil itself as well as the board, the dimension of the board Kindle while thought of a good approaches. Have a excellent starting point of where to place your foil. And that's simply, if you lift up the whole setup from the thickest point of the foil, the think is indicating the first concerning a 3rd back on the profile.
That's where the center of lift is so that the front wing creates a lift center of lift is right here at the thickest part. So if you lift up your configuration from that point, your board must be virtually degree. So if your board is level. That suggests the center of gravity of your whole system is straight below the center of lift of the foil.
So after that allow's say this, you predict that to right here then on the other side of the board, if you check out that very same point on the deck, This ought to be pretty much in between your feet. So if your feet are as well much forward, you're going to have to put even more weight on the back of, on your back foot. If your feet are also far back, after that you need to lean extra on your front foot.
Ideally you want to have your feet equally balanced so that the center of lift is right between your feet. And then if it's also the center of gravity of the whole system, it'll simply feel way much more balanced. The weight of the system as well as the facility volume all cancel that truly assists. And this is virtually real for all sides boards, that whether it's a huge standup foil board or a smaller sized vulnerable board that balancing out is a actually good beginning factor on where your foil will certainly work best and also where you can stand and catch the wave and in the right area, or take off and put your feet in the best area.
Essentially where the volume and also the weight of the board as well as the weight of the entire system. Everything is nicely cancelled. Kay. Following allow's talk about your foot placement. So my feet are about equally balanced out in between the front as well as the back of the center of lifts. If you predict the facility of checklist of the front circulation in between your feet, it's going to be basically between your feet.
And some individuals have their back foot even more onward, however then they also moved their front foot for their back. So if you have a smaller sized position or wider position, if you place your back foot additionally back, you need to place your front foot additionally forward. So you constantly wish to locate that equilibrium. If your stance is also far ahead, you're going to always have aching a aching back leg.
Create you're constantly leaning back at greater rates to just control the foil you're mosting likely to or pumping and so on. And also it's going to put a whole lot more stress on your back leg. So if your back leg is constantly sore, Possibly you just want to relocate that foot further back on the board to make sure that when you're riding and also at typical rate, your weight should be ideal over the foil as well as you should not need to put more weight on one side or the other.
It's a tiny hip activities added to manage the height of the foil. So that's truly vital to have the center of lift of the foil beneath the board bounce in between your two feet. As well as ideally prior to you place foot bands on your board, You want to find out without foot bands where your feet are, usually maybe take some video with a GoPro or something like that to identify where do I put my feet on the board. When you beginning, I don't recommend using foot straps. Our boards have this little arch bar right here that's right over the mask to make sure that it offers you a great, tactile feel for where your back foot is. And then the front foot, usually I oriented with this logo of heaven world logo a little front or back and.
You do desire the weight to be either both feet right over the facility line, or if you're. The front foot is a little bit off to the side. Your back foot ought to additionally be equally off to the side. So whether you're on the center line or somewhat off facility, you simply intend to make certain that your body weight is over the facility line of the board.
Or else you're mosting likely to tilt the board and with a wing, sometimes you can get away with both feet being off away when you're powered, but after that as quickly as you release the power as well as you're just on the foil, after that the board. Wanting to topple, like if you, both of you feed off as well far off the side, it won't fly well without the power of the wing.
Same thing. If you're chatting 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. As soon as you let that rope go, you need to have your say your weight centered right over the middle of the board and over the middle of the foil.
Or else you're mosting likely to topple. It's best to start riding your board without foot straps, figuring out the placement where you put the feet, and then once you know where to put your feet, another good way to transition to foot straps is using foot hooks. We have these Eva foot hooks. I'll put the link down to video for that.
Those ones you can affix to the board as well as sort of wedge your feet versus it. Which's helpful without having your feet in the straps or needing to glide your feet right into bands and so on. The foot hooks are a good step in between no straps and going straight to straps. And afterwards when you wish to start utilizing bands, ideally I would say make use of the front strap just initially, obtain comfortable with the front band.
And afterwards once you fit with that. You can include a back band. And generally if you want to jump, if you're wing, flailing, and you want to jump, you have to have foot straps on your board. Okay. So to take the foil off, exact same point in reverse, I simply put it inverted. I loosened up the screws. And after that I tighten them back down, not also tight, yet so they can move about in the box.
Put them at the end of the box. Simply tighten them know a bit, very same in the back, take the foil off. Okay. So it's quite vital to maintain these little bolts limited in the board so they can't slide out. Okay. Next I'm going to go over how to attach these. Footprints to the board. This is our blue world deluxe foot store.
It's like a neoprene covered foot band. They're nice and also cushioned. They have Velcro adjustability. So they behave as well as rigid. As well as you desire your straps to stand up by them selves. So the feet can move in conveniently. A few of them really light-weight, slim straps can fall down. And afterwards it's really tough to obtain your foot in.
You need to discover the strap and shake your feet in. So I like to utilize straps that have more extra padding they're softer, simpler on your feet. Much easier to slide in and out of as well as they