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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #30 on: July 21, 2016, 07:23:56 PM »
Just watch on vimeo.  Light weight kids are on it.  Easy.

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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #31 on: July 21, 2016, 08:51:10 PM »
^ is private

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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #32 on: July 21, 2016, 11:04:31 PM »
^ is private

Like he said. Just watch it on Vimeo.
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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #33 on: July 25, 2016, 10:45:11 PM »
The "Downwind SUP foiling" is what looks most exciting to me.  It looks like it could make Downwind SUPing more possible in areas not DW-SUPed before. Or at least i hope so. (is it Okay to say SUPing?)

I'd like to know if you could DW-foil on the hood river?

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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #34 on: July 25, 2016, 10:55:03 PM »
What happens when you fall off? I have this vision of falling off, and having the thing foiling on it's own and dragging me around.
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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #35 on: July 26, 2016, 03:18:37 AM »
What happens when you fall off? I have this vision of falling off, and having the thing foiling on it's own and dragging me around.

I would think that without the weight of the rider balancing it, the board would just fall over if you fell off. Plus the leash would pull it over the moment there was any pull on it.



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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #36 on: July 26, 2016, 04:08:13 AM »
What happens when you fall off? I have this vision of falling off, and having the thing foiling on it's own and dragging me around.
It does in a way. If you crash at speed, it has stored energy and that thing comes flying up and out of the water. On a small board it's more spectacular. The big down wind board will tame the beast some.
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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #37 on: July 26, 2016, 05:01:45 AM »

I'd like to know if you could DW-foil on the hood river?

Oops, I just found the downwind foil thread. (been away too long)  I think I might find the answer to my own question there.   
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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #38 on: July 26, 2016, 03:33:10 PM »

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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #39 on: July 26, 2016, 03:37:26 PM »

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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #40 on: July 26, 2016, 05:48:09 PM »
What happen when your flying along and you foil hits a fish lol

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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #41 on: July 26, 2016, 08:13:40 PM »
What happen when your flying along and you foil hits a fish lol

Then you just got yourself lunch  ;D

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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #42 on: July 28, 2016, 12:19:38 PM »


I guess armchairing is a bit what we are doing here, but I find it a bit odd that people that have never tried a foil are chiming in on how hard it is. We are doing a sport that many people said the same thing about some years ago. I am not saying SUP foiling will be that big since there are some natural limitations, but to do this is just going to be as hard as you think. Foiling is really not that hard. Note my experience is on old school tow in foils and kitefoils, but at leasts I've been foiling.

The way I read comments is that people think it will be hard to balance...well like surfboards, once you have enough speed it stabilizes itself, and pumping is a matter of getting a rythm, like on a skateboard or when you paddle. Obviously there is some training involved, but definitely not impossible. I've ridden quite a few waves with foil boards.

I do not think it will not be more taxing then paddling. what you are forgetting is that there is barely any resistance, which when you paddle on the surface you have plenty of. 

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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #43 on: July 28, 2016, 04:28:15 PM »
I foiled a few hundred years ago on the sit-down contraption. Don't remember what it was called, and then later on a wakeboard. I didn't think it was particularly hard to do in a basic sense, but making it do more than just go seemed difficult, and I did a lot of faceplants.
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Re: Kai Lenny Surf Foil - Happening Fast Now
« Reply #44 on: July 29, 2016, 12:43:51 PM »
I foiled a few hundred years ago on the sit-down contraption. Don't remember what it was called, and then later on a wakeboard. I didn't think it was particularly hard to do in a basic sense, but making it do more than just go seemed difficult, and I did a lot of faceplants.

Well the first iterations were also much much harder to control, and it took a toll on your shins. I never tried the sitdown one.
I also used the secon gen, which was not even close to being as sesnstive to movement as the earlier ones. The newer ones are even more stable and easy to ride.

Riding waves with a kite on a strapless board foil is reasonably easy. Compared to regular surfing you just have to be a little earlier in initiating the turns. I do not think it will be that hard to adopt, but obviously there are a lot of breaks that just aren't suited for it. I mean half the spots I ride are way way too shallow for a foil...

Its also more gear to carry and set up.

 


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