# Episode: Matt Costa on Wave Fundamentals and Foiling (2021)

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**Created:** [September 2, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/episode-matt-costa-on-wave-fundamentals-and-foiling-2021/518 "2022-09-02T12:29:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Matt](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Matt)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/episode-matt-costa-on-wave-fundamentals-and-foiling-2021/518/4 "2022-09-06T19:00:11Z")

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Some additions to the Oceanography thread I’ve been following:

1. A great video primer that covers the elemental stuff covered in the podcast. I’d watch this prior to the podcast (skip tsunami bit):  
[Big Ocean Waves - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LmiIzw7zTHY&themeRefresh=1)
2. Two chapters from a useful book
  - [Waves at sea](https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/10-2-waves-at-sea/)
  - [Waves on the shore](https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/10-3-waves-on-the-shore/)

3. Wave train: An explanation on why you need to catch the last wave in a set on DW is a combination of the following two videos:
  - Staring at the section “Wave Train Movement” - [Waves and Wave Dynamics (OCE-1001) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/bbmbbFyfXVg?t=2231)
  - Explains why the wave train loses it’s front wave (somewhat) - [Phase Velocity versus Group Velocity: Wave Dispersion - YouTube](https://youtu.be/EIqKG5TiSYs?t=105)

(I’ve struggled to find a satisfying explanation “why” this happens concept where sets of waves run through the ocean like individual conveyer belts (how I think about it))

Here is a cool aerial shot showing some sets doing some cool things

 ![ob_klein_ocean_beach_dec_2018_16930-768x511](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/progressionproject/original/1X/15c2248aa62d53c104e34e610e74f9cbd36ad8ca.jpeg)

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