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RUMREEFWARRIOR
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wynsurfer
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Yes! This does look like a lot of fun. Only a matter of time before I get started foiling as I hate big sails and am selling all my light wind gear. |
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grantmac017
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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Is that a slingshot, if so which wing? |
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RUMREEFWARRIOR
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:25 am Post subject: |
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No, its a Go foil, The Maliko model, its made for down wind surf foiling, but works perfect with the sail, and I like the shorter mast 24.5in, gives you more control riding waves. |
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wdsurf
Joined: 22 May 1999 Posts: 335
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 8:55 am Post subject: Go foil box |
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What box does the go foil use Tuttle or deep Tuttle? |
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RUMREEFWARRIOR
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Yes the Go Foil is a "Deep Tuttle" |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Looks like he's riding the swell in front of the actual wave, or out on the shoulder, but never the wave face.
Kinda like kitesurfing, where you don't need a wave or windswell to jump.
Wave riding is riding the face of the wave, not out in the flats. |
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RUMREEFWARRIOR
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Ya the dang Go Pro makes all the waves look flat. sorry I wish I had better film but I don't have Kia Lennys film crew following me around. I am actually riding the face of the wave, you need wave power that's the only way to stay going without any sail power. Its exactly the same thing as the surf foiling videos when on a wave except a sail is attached to the board. |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Camera's do make the image distorted.
But coming from 25 year's of full time surfing, it appears to me that only windsurf wave riding is close to actually surfing the waves.
Kitesurfing in waves is just using the wave as a reference point, as kite power overcomes any wave that comes along.
Foil surfing rides the undercurrent of an incoming swell, so it doesn't need a wave at all, as foils ride under the wave, and can just as easily ride windswells that never break.
Try surfing, then tell me foiling is the same thing. |
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wdsurf
Joined: 22 May 1999 Posts: 335
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:40 am Post subject: Waves |
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maybe so ziertab but I know reef warrior and I know firsthand he knows waves |
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