Exactly how to establish your foil board to be well balanced for optimal performance.

Aloha good friends! It's Robert Stehlik with Blue Planet Surf. Today. I'm going to discuss setting up your foil equipment. It's a question we get a lot: How do I establish the foil, where to put it, where to place foot straps, exactly how to place your feet on the board, what kind of board to obtain. I'm likewise going to speak about what sort of gear to make use of as a beginner.

And also as a advanced foiler as well as for different sporting activities- this is my stand-up paddle foil board. Then I have a wing foil board and also a prone full board. I'm going to talk about the boards, use the foils used. And then I'm also mosting likely to talk about foot positioning, how to find out where to put your feet and just how to affix a foot strap to your board.

So this video clip is mosting likely to be a bit much longer. We have a whole lot of information on our web site and on YouTube. So down listed below in the summary, I'll place a lot of links to various other video clips and also web links that will certainly aid you even more along the road. The last video clip I published was an interview with Kane De Wilde as well as he has a lot of truly excellent insight on foil arrangements and so on.

And also he stated, he always suches as to try great deals of various configurations as well as figure out what works and actually feel it out. And that makes a great deal of sense to me. The more. You can examine points the extra, just how points work together as well as how to optimize your configuration and having a good setup, especially the foil working well with your skill and just how you use it is super essential.

So having a great foil set up and the best board and then a good wing, all those things together will automatically just make you much better right away. So nowadays I mostly into wing foiling. This is the board I utilize the most below is my my four 6 by 78 litre wing foil board. What I discuss below today relates to all four sporting activities, consisting of susceptible browse foiling, wing hindering, and also standup hindering.

I began hindering about 5 years ago. And if you look back through the YouTube history of video clips, you'll see, I initially began on an 8'0 Stand up for foil board that I simply placed a Tuttle box into and that worked well to begin on as well as find out on.

And after that afterwards I would certainly built a devoted foil board. That was a 7'6. And pretty quickly I seemed like it was also big and also the tail was dragging and so on. I sliced off the tail simply to see what occurred and made it right into a 6'11, and then that functioned really well. And I figured out, yeah, having that much shorter swing weight and also the shorter board really assists when you're foiling up on foil.

And after that I've been progressing gradually, been testing smaller sized and also smaller boards. And now what I use for wing hindering is a 4 six, which is rather small. And also for vulnerable surf foiling I use a comparable length board. This one below is a 3'10. I use this mainly for exercising my dock Begins, which I'm not very good at yet, but dealing with that, attempting to dock start as well as pump.

And afterwards for standup hindering, I utilize this board here. It's a 5 8 by 114 litre board for standing up dropping. I simply need a lot more security.

The wing master board is fantastic for wing flooding, however it's not stable enough for me to stand up paddle on perhaps a lighter weight. A paddler with really great balance might be able to stand paddle on this. Yet typically speaking, this board is mosting likely to be also little for most individuals to stand paddle for long. So something such as this, the 5'8 Really good. Stand-up foil board additionally functions well as a wing foil board since wing filing, you have the wit lift of the wing. You do not need rather as much stability as you do for standup and also bouncing while you're standing up for getting started as well as wing hindering and standup hindering.

I suggest obtaining a larger, stable board. In our range, we have the 6 '11 and also the 7'6 Easy Foiler designs. Those are truly excellent boards for finding out exactly how to Stand paddle foil as well as wing foil. And then as you get better and also you're comfortable standing and you can possibly change your feet around and do all the fundamentals on a bigger board, then you prepare to go some to something smaller, maybe something such as this five, 8 Carver foil board, or for a little advanced for, and these Wingmaster boards are remarkable. But this is not going to be your initial Wingfoil board, it's going take a larger board to very first find out the essentials on, and afterwards you can work your means to a tiny board such as this. For me, it was several boards in between. As well as, clearly I own as a brand name and I created these boards. I do a whole lot of R & D as well as made a lot of boards slowly working my method down.

Most likely similar to a couple of inches in a few litres each time. I really did not start on a large board and finished up on this right away. There's a lot of action in between. And you do not need to take that many steps, however I would certainly say in between a novice board and the very innovative board, there ought to go to least two or three boards.

To reach that point where you can compose a really tiny board. So don't believe you can just start wing declaring on a little small susceptible board. This is it's feasible. I've seen individuals do it prior to that are very skilled athletes and also already great filers. I've seen individuals find out exactly how to wing full on vulnerable.

The boards, however if you're an average Joe don't also try it. It's mosting likely to be way also hard to try to discover on it, small board. As well as for me it wing for the important things I suched as to have a little bit more quantity. I'm, my weight is 195 extra pounds. I'm 6'2" and 195 pounds which is about 90 kgs.

To ensure that translates right into 90 liters of volume to drift me. So the first 90 liters of volume will certainly drift my body weight. And afterwards of course you additionally have to include the weight of the foil and the board itself. And and also essentially if you desire it to drift you, you need to have equivalent amount of flotation protection to your body weight. So the quantity truly depends upon your body weight. And after that for a beginner, I advise getting a board that has adequate quantity to drift your body weight, plus maybe 20%. So for me possibly as a beginner, I would certainly utilize a kid that goes to least around 120 liters, possibly a lot more that will certainly be good to float me.

For considering foiling for standup foiling, you could get something also a little bit larger. Perhaps for me, I would choose like 140, 150 liters and also adequate width and also length as well as security to be able to send out a paddle on as well as find out on. And afterwards as you get better with the balancing and also capturing waves as well as getting up on the foil, after that you can move smaller and the foil does include security to the board.

Having a foil board is going to be extra steady than a normal standup paddleboard, however it's a specific kind of equilibrium that you have to get utilized to it. Doesn't. Just instantly make balancing easy. It's just a little bit delay, so it decreases the movement of the board a little because foil beneath.

It's like having a keel under your board. So next allow's speak about the foils themselves. I've been doing this a long period of time. I make use of rather a small foil currently for wing foiling, especially like for waves as well as things like that, trying to go faster. This is an accessibility high facet element for us.

The Axis 810, a wing span or 810 millimeters or 32 inches. And also the forecasted surface 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.

So I truly liked this, a front wing. Additionally I have a 760, which is a little extra surfy, which is also a truly wonderful however, for beginning on, When I began, I used a really large foil, the 2000 square centimeter foil. So when you're starting something like the Carver foil, We have the team strategy at Carver for is a excellent discussion forum for discovering.

It's 2000 square centimeters. It's steady shows up at low speeds as well as flies out a little bit lower speed, but it just maintains moving. If you're doing a transition, if you muck it up a bit, you have actually got method even more time to slide out of the turn and also keep up on the foil. And also it simply lifts up simpler and also lower speeds.

So it's this much less complicated to utilize a larger foil when you're starting out. And even as you advance, depending upon the conditions you're flying having a huge foil is simply makes whatever a little easier. As well as and it allows you to do even more tricks as well as things like that. So these smaller sized foils are except everyone, yet as you get better, having a smaller foil.

And a thinner profile, just permits you to go faster, do tighter turns, be extra maneuverable as well as going faster really helps in the waves because a great deal of times when you catching far from the outside, it's still relocating really rapid as well as you need to be able to stay on top of that quick moving swell. And after that having a quicker, smaller sized wing, will this help you be able to stay up to date with those waves versus if you're just riding wind swell or just on a flat water, a Lake or something like that?

Having a bigger wing behaves because you can simply fly a bit more slowly. It's not a big deal. And afterwards it simply gives you more time. To stay on foil, easier to get up on foil and lighter winds. There's a lot of advantages of using a bigger foil. When you're starting out, definitely get a bigger size foil something, 2000 square centimeters.

Or we also have 1,800 square centimeters, large size, something like that. And then in regards to mass size, I such as to use a 90 centimeter pole. I have actually tried much longer mass and that's having a truly lengthy mass behaves for downwinders it resembles that, however it does make the whole thing a little bit a lot more tippy on the much shorter mass.

You need to adhere to the waves backwards and forwards as the wave increases, you need to dip your nose up and down and much longer. Mass permits you simply to fly straight over to the smaller sized chops. That's nice, yet I have a truly detailed video as well as I'll place the link down listed below to that on picking the very best foil for your demands.

So watch that too. That's some really good info if you're not sure what sort of flow you're going to require. And so forth. Next, I'm going to talk about putting the foot on the board and where to put it. So my car is rather tiny, so I have to take the foil off the board and also placed it back on. Each time I utilize it.

As well as because of that, I bought this, the influence driver, which is a actually nice tool to have actually makes it very easy to put the foil on and off. And for me, yes, I typically simply maintain the bolts in the board and I tightened them down, so they can not move. So I just relax these 4 bolts. You do not intend to leave them in the board loose because it can slide out.

And after that if they leave while you're lugging the board and the turf or something like that, these are simple to lose. So I always see to it these are limited enough, so they can't move out on their own. And I said, the mass plate that has, that enables you to move the bolt onto it. And after that I like to simply tighten them down. Okay. Bit, obtain them all in location.

Once they're all positioned, after that you can crank them down. You certainly wish to make sure they're limited on there due to the fact that you don't desire these screws to loosen up while you're riding.

Now I got the full on the board. As well as the next inquiry is how do you position the foil on the board? Which really, it really depends on the foil itself and the board, the size of the board Kindle while thought of a excellent methods. Have a great starting point of where to position your foil. Which's simply, if you raise the whole arrangement from the thickest point of the foil, the think is pointing to the initial regarding a 3rd back on the account.

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. If your board is level. That means the center of gravity of your whole system is straight underneath the center 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. If your feet are too far forward, you're going to have to put more weight on the back of, on your back foot. If your feet are as well far back, then you need to lean a lot more on your front foot.

Ideally you want to have your feet equally balanced so that the center of lift is right between your feet. And after that if it's also the center of mass of the whole system, it'll just feel way extra well balanced. The weight of the system and the center volume all cancel that truly assists. As well as this is basically true for all sides boards, that whether it's a big standup foil board or a smaller sized prone board that balancing out is a truly great starting point on where your foil will certainly function best and also where you can stand and catch the wave as well as in the ideal area, or take off and place your feet in the best place.

Essentially where the quantity and the weight of the board and the weight of the whole system. Whatever is perfectly balanced out. Kay. Next allow's speak about your foot positioning. So my feet have to do with equally cancelled between the front and also the rear of the facility of lifts. If you project the center of listing of the front flow in between your feet, it's mosting likely to be essentially in between your feet.

As well as some people have their back foot even more ahead, but then they additionally relocated their front foot for their back. So if you have a smaller sized position or wider stance, if you place your back foot better back, you require to place your front foot better forward. So you always intend to locate that equilibrium. If your stance is too far onward, you're going to always have sore a aching back leg.

Create you're constantly leaning back at greater speeds to just control the foil you're mosting likely to or pumping and more. And it's mosting likely to put a whole lot even more stress on your back leg. So if your back leg is constantly sore, Possibly you simply want to relocate that foot additionally back on the board to ensure that when you're riding and at regular speed, your weight needs to be perfect over the foil and you should not have to place even more weight on one side or the various other.

It's a little hip motions added to manage the elevation of the foil. That's really his explanation important to have the center of lift of the foil underneath the board bounce between your two feet. And also ideally prior to you put foot bands on your board, You intend to determine without foot straps where your feet are, typically possibly take some video with a GoPro or something like that to identify where do I put my feet on the board. When you starting, I do not recommend using foot straps. Our boards have this little arch bar right here that's right over the mask so that it provides you a nice, tactile feel for where your back foot is. And then the front foot, typically I oriented with this logo of the blue world logo a little bit front or back and.

You do want 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 additionally be just as off to the side. Whether you're on the center line or slightly off center, you just want to make sure that your body weight is over the center line of the board.

Otherwise you're going to turn the board and with a wing, in some cases you can get away with both feet being off away when you're powered, but after that as quickly as you release the power as well as you're just on the foil, after that the board. Wanting to topple, like if you, both of you feed off also 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 get away with leaning on the side, one side, having your weight on one side, create you leaning against the rope. But as quickly as you let that rope go, you require to have your claim your weight focused right over the center of the board as well as over the center of the foil.

Or else you're going to tip over. 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 place the web link down to video clip for that too.

Those ones you can attach to the board as well as type of wedge your feet versus it. And that's practical without having your feet in the bands or needing to glide your feet into straps and more. So the foot hooks are a good action in between no straps and going straight to straps. And after that when you wish to start utilizing straps, preferably I would certainly state make use of the front strap just at first, obtain comfy with the front strap.

And afterwards once you fit with that. You can add a back band. And also primarily if you wish to leap, if you're wing, flailing, and you wish to leap, you have to have foot straps on your board. Okay. To take the foil off, same thing in reverse, I just put it upside down. I loosened the screws. And after that I tighten them back down, not as well limited, however so they can move about in package.

Put them at the end of the box. Simply tighten them know a bit, exact 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. Footsteps to the board. This is our blue earth luxurious foot shop.

It resembles a neoprene covered foot band. They behave and padded. They have Velcro adjustability. They're nice and stiff. As well as you desire your bands to stand up by them selves. So the feet can move in conveniently. A few of them actually light-weight, thin straps can fall down. And then it's actually tough to obtain your foot in.

You need to locate the band and also shake your feet in. So I such as to utilize bands that have more padding they're