I am sure this has been covered, but couldn´t find anything in my search.
I am struggling a bit with proper frontside bottom turns, and to a degree backside top turns. On my heel edge I feel I can really push and drive through turns pretty much as hard as my legs can take it and it feels great, however I can not work out how to do the same on the toe side. Typically when I come out a bit in front of the wave to really try to crank a bit of a bottom turn, something always goes wrong, (I think typically it breaches) and I end up in the water. Same sort of happens on a backside turn top, that I have to really take it easy through the turn.
Any tips from anyone, or any good threads/Videos to check. Thanks
Font side bottom turn. This has worked for me. Really concentrate on pushing hard with your front foot, while almost unweighting your back foot. Years ago while kite foiling, I had the same problem with heel side to toe side jibes. Pushing hard on my front foot through the turn fixed it.
Same thing happened when I started to prone. Could be aggressive on heel side turns, but would breach on toe side. Started really concentrating on pushing with front foot. Can now be aggressive toe side with no breach.
Coming from a surf background, I think we Subconsciously get back footed without realizing it.
You’re leaning over so hard you’re breeching the outside wing tip most likely. Stay lower to the water to keep the foil deeper in the water and you’ll have less chance of that happening.
I never beach on turns unless they’re frontside and this is the latest thing I’ve been focusing on. I think it’s a lot easier to gauge your height on a backside turn because you can see your altitude and anticipate what’s going on underneath the board while setting up for it. When you turn frontside those concerns are out of your POV. It’s as simple as “out of sight, out of mind”.
Thanks guys for al the top tips. Cant say I am turning like Mr Bennetts now, but definitely having less bottom turn crashes which is a step in the right direction.
The thing that helped a lot was concentrating more on the height and by doing that, having more focus at that point and as @JF4246 says more front foot pressure.