FOIL BOARD SETUP SUGGESTIONS- FOIL BOARDS, FOILS, FOIL PLACEMENT, FOOT PLACEMENT, FOOT STRAPS
Exactly how to set up your foil board to be well balanced for optimal efficiency.
Aloha pals! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue World Surf. Today. I'm going to talk about establishing your foil gear. It's a inquiry we obtain a lot: Exactly how do I set up the foil, where to place it, where to put foot straps, how to place your feet on the board, what type of board to get. I'm additionally going to speak about what sort of equipment to utilize as a newbie.
And as a advanced foiler as well as for various sporting activities- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. I have a wing foil board and a prone complete board. I'm going to talk about the boards, make use of the foils used. And then I'm likewise going to talk about foot placement, how to figure out where to position your feet and exactly how to affix a foot strap to your board.
So this video is mosting likely to be a bit longer. We have a lot of information on our web site as well as on YouTube also. So down below in the description, I'll put a lot of links to various other videos as well as links that will certainly assist you better along the road. The last video I uploaded was an interview with Kane De Wilde and also he has a great deal of really great understanding on foil setups and so forth.
And he claimed, he always likes to attempt lots of various arrangements as well as find out what works and really feel it out. Which makes a great deal of feeling to me. The even more. You can examine things the much more, how points collaborate and exactly how to enhance your setup and having a great configuration, especially the foil functioning well with your skill and also just how you utilize it is super important.
So having a great foil established as well as the appropriate board and afterwards a good wing, all those things together will automatically simply make you much better right now. So nowadays I mainly into wing foiling. This is the board I use one of the most right here is my my four 6 by 78 liter wing foil board. What I talk about here today applies to all 4 sporting activities, consisting of susceptible surf foiling, wing foiling, as well as standup foiling.
I started foiling concerning 5 years back. And also if you recall with the YouTube history of videos, you'll see, I initially started on an 8'0 Stand up for foil board that I just placed a Tuttle box right into and that worked well to start on as well as discover on.
And afterwards afterwards I 'd constructed a committed foil board. That was a 7'6. And also rather quickly I felt like it was also big and also the tail was dragging and so on. I sliced off the tail just to see what occurred and made it into a 6'11, and then that functioned truly well. And also I found out, yeah, having that shorter swing weight and also the shorter board actually assists when you're hindering up on foil.
And afterwards I have actually been progressing considerably, been examining smaller sized as well as smaller sized boards. And also now what I use for wing hindering is a 4 6, which is pretty little. As well as for prone browse hindering I make use of a comparable size board. This here is a 3'10. I use this primarily for exercising my dock Starts, which I'm not excellent at yet, however working with that, attempting to dock beginning and also pump.
And then for standup hindering, I use this board right here. It's a five 8 by 114 liter board for standing up dropping. I just need much more stability.
The wing master board is terrific for wing flooding, yet it's not stable enough for me to stand up paddle on possibly a lighter weight. A paddler with actually excellent balance could be able to stand paddle on this. However normally speaking, this board is going to be too tiny for most people to stand paddle for long. Something like this, the 5'8 Really wonderful. Stand-up foil board additionally functions well as a wing foil board because wing declaring, you have the wit lift of the wing. So you don't need rather as much stability as you do for standup and also bouncing while you're defending getting started and also wing hindering and also standup hindering.
I recommend obtaining a larger, secure board. In our array, we have the 6 '11 and also the 7'6 Easy Foiler versions. Those are actually great boards for learning exactly how to Stand up paddle foil and wing foil. And afterwards as you get better and also you fit standing up as well as you can perhaps change your feet around and do all the fundamentals on a bigger board, then you're ready to go some to something smaller sized, perhaps something like this 5, 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 larger board to very first find out the basics on, and then you can function your way down to a little board like this. For me, it was lots of boards in between. And also, certainly I have as a brand as well as I designed these boards. I do a lot of R & D as well as made a whole lot of boards gradually functioning my method down.
Most likely much like a few inches in a couple of liters each time. So I really did not start on a big board and also ended up on this right now. There's a great deal of steps in between. And also you don't need to take that several steps, yet I would certainly claim between a novice board and the really innovative board, there need to be at the very least 2 or 3 boards.
To get to that point where you can create a actually little board. So do not think you can simply begin wing filing on a little small susceptible board. This is it's possible. I've seen individuals do it prior to that are extremely talented professional athletes as well as currently excellent filers. I've seen individuals learn just how to wing complete on vulnerable.
The boards, however if you're an average Joe don't also attempt it. It's mosting likely to be way as well hard to try to learn on it, little board. And also for me it wing for the important things I liked to have a little more quantity. So I'm, my weight is 195 pounds. I'm 6'2" and also 195 hydro foil pounds which is about 90 kilos.
So that converts right into 90 liters of volume to float me. So the initial 90 litres of quantity will certainly drift my body weight. And after that of course you also have to add in the weight of the foil as well as the board itself. And and generally if you desire it to float you, you require to have equal quantity of flotation protection to your body weight. So the volume actually depends on your body weight. And then for a beginner, I suggest obtaining a board that has sufficient volume to drift your body weight, plus perhaps 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 evaluating foiling for standup hindering, you may get something even a bit larger. Perhaps for me, I would choose like 140, 150 liters and also adequate width and also size as well as security to be able to send out a paddle on as well as discover on. And afterwards as you improve with the harmonizing and also catching waves and also getting up on the foil, then you can relocate smaller sized and the foil does include stability to the board.
Having a foil board is going to be extra secure than a routine standup paddleboard, however it's a specific type of balance that you have to get utilized to it. Does not. Simply automatically make stabilizing very easy. It's just a little delay, so it reduces the movement of the board a little because foil below.
It resembles having a keel under your board. So next allow's speak about the foils themselves. I have actually been doing this a very long time. I make use of fairly a little foil currently for wing hindering, specifically like for waves and things like that, attempting to go quicker. This is an access high element aspect for us.
The Axis 810, a wing span or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. And the predicted surface area 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. Likewise I have a 760, which is a little much more surfy, which is likewise a actually great but for starting on, When I began, I used a really huge 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 stable shows up at low speeds as well as flies out a bit lower rate, however it simply keeps gliding. If you're doing a transition, if you filth it up a bit, you have actually got method even more time to glide out of the turn and keep up on the foil. And also it just raises easier as well as reduced rates.
So it's this much less complicated to utilize a bigger foil when you're starting. And also as you progress, depending upon the problems you're flying having a huge foil is simply makes whatever a little bit simpler. And also and also it enables you to do even more techniques as well as things like that. So these smaller sized foils are not for everyone, however as you get better, having a smaller sized foil.
As well as a thinner profile, just enables you to go much faster, do tighter turns, be a lot more manoeuvrable as well as going much faster actually assists in the waves since a great deal of times when you catching away from the outdoors, it's still moving really rapid and also you need to be able to stay on par with that fast relocating swell. And after that having a much faster, smaller sized wing, will this assist you have the ability to stay on top of those waves versus if you're simply riding wind swell or just on a flat water, a Lake or something like that?
Having a larger wing behaves because you can just fly a bit much more gradually. It's not a big deal. And then it simply offers you more time. To stay on foil, much easier to get up on foil and also lighter winds likewise. So there's a lot of advantages of using a bigger foil. So when you're starting out, most definitely get a bigger size foil something, 2000 square centimeters.
Or we likewise have 1,800 square centimeters, plus size, something like that. And then in terms of mass size, I such as to use a 90 centimeter mast. I have actually tried much longer mass which's having a truly long mass behaves for downwinders it resembles that, however it does make the entire point a little a lot more tippy on the shorter mass.
You have to follow the waves backwards and forwards as the wave increases, you need to dip your nose up and down and much longer. Mass enables you simply to fly straight over to the smaller chops. That behaves, but I have a really in-depth video and also I'll place the link down below to that on selecting the most effective foil for your requirements.
So see that too. That's some truly great information if you're unsure what type of circulation you're going to require. And so on. Next, I'm going to talk about putting the foot on the board and where to put it. My car is pretty small, so I have to take the foil off the board and put it back on. Every single time I utilize it.
And because of that, I bought this, the influence driver, which is a really great device to have actually makes it simple to put the foil on and off. And for me, yeah, I typically simply keep the screws in the board and I tightened them down, so they can't move. I just loosen up these four bolts. You do not wish to leave them in the board loose since it can move out.
And after that if they quit while you're bring the board as well as the lawn or something like that, these are simple to lose. I always make sure these are tight enough, so they can't slide out by themselves. And I stated, the mass plate that has, that enables you to move the screw onto it. And afterwards I like to just tighten them down. Okay. Bit, get them done in place.
Once they're all located, then you can crank them down. You definitely want to ensure they're limited on there since you don't desire these screws to relax while you're riding.
So currently I obtained the full on the board. And also the next inquiry is exactly how do you place the foil on the board? Which really, it actually depends on the foil itself and the board, the size of the board Kindle while came up with a great methods. Have a great beginning point of where to put your foil. And that's simply, if you lift up the whole configuration from the thickest factor of the foil, the think is indicating the first regarding a third 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. If you lift up your setup from that point, your board should be pretty much level. So if your board is level. That suggests the center of gravity of your whole system is straight underneath the facility 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 as well far onward, you're mosting likely to have to place more weight on the back of, on your back foot. If your feet are as well far back, after that you need to lean a lot more on your front foot.
So preferably you wish to have your feet just as stabilized to make sure that the center of lift is right between your feet. And then if it's also the center of mass of the entire system, it'll simply feel way extra well balanced. The weight of the system as well as the facility quantity all balance out that really helps. As well as this is basically true for all sides boards, that whether it's a big standup foil board or a smaller sized susceptible board that canceling is a actually excellent starting factor on where your foil will certainly work best and where you can stand and also capture the wave and also in the appropriate area, or remove and put your feet in the best area.
Basically where the volume and also the weight of the board and also the weight of the entire system. Whatever is perfectly balanced out. Kay. Following allow's talk about your foot placement. My feet are about equally balanced out between the front and the back of the center of lifts. If you project the facility of checklist of the front circulation in between your feet, it's mosting likely to be more or less between your feet.
As well as some people have their back foot better forward, but after that they also moved their front foot for their back. So if you have a smaller sized stance or bigger stance, if you put your back foot additionally back, you need to place your front foot better onward. You always want to find that balance. If your stance is also much forward, you're mosting likely to constantly have sore a aching back leg.
Trigger you're constantly leaning back at greater speeds to simply control the foil you're going to or pumping and more. And also it's going to place a great deal even more strain on your back leg. If your back leg is always sore, Probably you just want to move that foot further back on the board so that when you're riding and at normal speed, your weight should be just right over the foil and you shouldn't have to put more weight on one side or the other.
It's a tiny hip motions included in control 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 also ideally before you put foot straps on your board, You intend to determine without foot straps where your feet are, generally maybe take some video with a GoPro or something like that to identify where do I place my feet on the board. When you starting out, I do not advise making use of foot straps. Our boards have this little arch bar right here that's right over the mask to ensure that it offers you a nice, responsive feel for where your back foot is. And after that the front foot, normally I oriented with this logo of heaven earth logo design a little bit 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 bit off sideways. Your back foot needs to likewise be similarly off to the side. So whether you're on the facility line or somewhat off facility, you just intend to ensure that your body weight is over the facility line of the board.
Or else you're going to tilt the board and also with a wing, sometimes you can escape both feet being off away when you're powered, yet after that as quickly as you release the power and also you're just on the foil, then the board. Wishing to tip over, 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 escape leaning on the side, one side, having your weight on one side, create you leaning against the rope. But as soon as you let that rope go, you need to have your claim your weight centered right over the center of the board and over the center of the foil.
Otherwise 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 connect to the board as well as type of wedge your feet against it. Which's handy without having your feet in the bands or needing to slide your feet into straps and more. The foot hooks are a good step in between no straps and going straight to straps. And then when you want to start using straps, preferably I would certainly say make use of the front strap only at first, obtain comfortable with the front strap.
And after that as soon as you fit keeping that. You can include a back strap. As well as essentially if you want to jump, if you're wing, smacking, and you wish to jump, you have to have foot bands on your board. Okay. So to take the foil off, exact same point backwards, I just put it upside-down. I loosened the screws. And after that I tighten them back down, not too tight, however just so they can slide about in package.
Put them at the end of the box. Simply tighten them in on a little, very same in the back, take the foil off. Okay. It's pretty important to keep these little bolts tight in the board so they can't slide out. Okay. Next I'm going to go over how to attach these. Steps to the board. This is our blue earth luxurious foot store.
It's like a neoprene covered foot strap. They're nice and also padded. They have Velcro adjustability. They're nice and stiff. And you desire your straps to stand up by them selves. The feet can slide in easily. Several of them really lightweight, thin straps can collapse. And after that it's truly difficult to obtain your foot in.
You have to discover the band and wiggle your feet in. So I such as