Some prone but mainly foil drive and I am progressing nicely. I am just looking for cues on what to do with my body, arms, weight, etc when I am carving back and forth to try and help me flow from one turn to the next.
I never had an amazing surf background and now I am now doing more turns and cutback on waves than ive ever experienced and just don’t know good technique from bad. A lot of times I’m bent over at the waist and my stance is very wide.
Please share any tips or cues that you may use or any good footage to study. I have a good amount of snowboard experience too if anything can be related to that. Thanks
proning but also winging I am having problems on my Botton turn.More often than not I hav this feeling of breaching if I try to push it.The times I actually breach its as if the left hand ( im regular) part of the front wing would come out or the tail slip out I am not sure.I have tried to keep my body centered over the board when pushing with the toes but that limits my torque.
I don’t know if a longer mast could be the solution..? I am riding an Armstrong 82cm mast , HA780 140 tail and the same set up with the wind but a ha580
So a toe-side turn and the heel side wingtip breaches? If I’m understanding it correctly, thats pretty common, and not necessarily a bad thing. Possible, but highly doubt its the tail breaching. If you are standing straight and rigid you are going to go down in those situations, so Its really just a matter of keeping the center of gravity low with bent knees and being loose enough to react to it. Also, I find that I have a much higher success rate riding out of that same breach when I’m carrying good speed (sheds the ventilation and regains stability faster). Having that extra stability point of the luffed wing should also help a lot.
One thing you can play with is the pre-turn (or roll) to the heel-side which will shift your weight to the toe side and initiate your roll to the toe-side more aggressively. This should cut your turn tighter. While the more aggressive roll may actually result in more breaching on the heelside wingtip, the breach will be shorter (vs a more drawn out turn which breaches the wingtip for longer).
Some foils are better than others with tip breaches, but I can’t speak to your specific setup (although I’d say your mast length probably isn’t the issue).
Good point on the pre-turn. I think i did this by accident (toe to heel) and it sent me tight turning into a pitching wave backside. This set me up to smack the lip head on and pivot off the top, instead of getting rolled sideways. Didn’t ride away but super awesome to feel yourself whip around so fast… which I didn’t know was possible on foil.
I’ll try and apply the pre-roll technique frontside.. I think that will really help to square up for whitewater hits. cheers!
Thanks a lot! amazing lesson of technic. I have been trying to lower my stance and be aware of my position in the botton turn and it defiinately works.Also the pre turn ,frontside, seems to set me up better for the next phase .