It’s interesting that video mentions it’s helpful for front wheel drive cars. Maybe part of the reason guys who like very front foot heavy setups over-exaggerate this turn in foiling?
I think the analog is much closer to countersteering a motorcycle or bike to initiate a turn.
Like a bike or moto, your CoG is balanced above a single point laterally so you need to move that point out from under your CoG to start your lean into the turn. I think everyone riding a bike or foiling is doing this all the time, it’s just very subtle. More advanced riders are aware of it and learn to initiate more aggressively to move between turns faster.
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Yes that is definitely better, good point. Though I wonder if that is more the physics of the turning of bike? Don’t know much about how that works other than it is necessary to do it to lean a road bike over
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“steering is for balancing”
Nice explanation. The Yaw flick is like the steering with handles on the bike, the Roll is like the leaning over of the bike
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Turning one way to turn the other way is not something only for foiling. It’s a great tool for timing connection turns.Skimboading Connection Turn
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Nice backhand wave here, both turns are almost drawn out into two parts.
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