Yo buddy, I hope you are well. Another great video, The commentary is always helpul . The training of the eye we get from watching you follow the valley of darkness has helped me so much. I now see where you're going, and find im learning to pick my own lines better when im on the water. I've had my straps off as well. Great advice. Thanks for sharing. The drawings will be a great help as well. Thanks for sharing. Personally I love these and the tech talk ones as well . Good glides and have fun .😊
I love watching these videos. They help me hold on until the next downwind session :) I have a question related to the stabilizer trim: when flying a plane (I'm an amateur pilot) you would use the stabilizer trim to control the pitch attitude and relax the controls, meaning if you want the nose to hold on a certain attitude (up or down), you would first act on the joke and then trim the stabilizer to maintain that attitude. But it really doesn't add anything but drag to the equation. Is this the same with downwinding? Meaning, trimming the stabilizer would help you be more comfortable with your feet, but you could achieve the same by just but repositioning on the board or pushing more or less with the front foot? Thanks and keep doing these great vids!
I’m not a pilot 😅 It sounds like the rear trim /shim will act similarly. With positive shimming you’ll get more drag with some lift being the benefit. I will often positively shim a smaller rear to try extend its range but like you know at the cost of glide and speed. I like my system to be in sync with the environments speed and energy and that’s how I’m making my choices, it has been a lot of trial and error
Love ur Vids, yes please draw what u mean with that bump and follow ups. Drohne behind u lets us see more waht ur talking about. Still drem of such good conditions at my Lake... Be good
@@downwind_drifter My lake is in Switzerland Lake Zürich, not right direction all the time. Today there was perfect condition on Lake Neuchatel. I'll go there in the future...
Curious to know why you are using +0.75 shim on the 40 Skinny? Do you need more front foot pressure on the 40 Skinny? Would upsizing to the 45 Skinny remove the need to shim the 40 Skinny? Also, what is your experience of -negative shimming a 45 Skinny and does it make it faster? Does this shimming experience in downwinding translate across to WingFoiling?
I only have two rear foils that fit the bill here… the 40 and the 55. To make them spread a bit to cover the in between sizes im using the shims. I could have just used the 40 for this run and it would have suited, I went the wrong way with the shimming. I slowed what would have been better left alone with the 40. Im still exploring and building experience with the shims, so I’m happy to explore them. It’s not always easy reading the conditions from the beach, especially from sea level. I do another run after this one and we’ll see if I change the shim. I can’t remember but I’d like to think I did. So yea, Im not so much trying to create lift or front foot pressure it’s more about trying to sync my speeds to the oceans speed for that day. Putting a 45 on would somewhat compare to a 40 with positive shimming. The 45 in my opinion would feel better. Adding some negative shim will reduce the drag from the rear and will increase the slick. The problem is a rear foil is there for a reason and foils act differently at different speeds. Not easy to dial. It will all translate to wing foiling especially if surfing bumps 🤙🤙
@@downwind_drifter Thanks for your feedback. I have been playing around with shims but not come to any conclusions yet - so am interested in what others feel when they shim.
@@Stev-0_The_Foiler_69 my advice is if you’re around my weight - don’t shim more than .5 positive - don’t shim more than .25 negative Over shimming negative for me causes my foil to pull downwards at top speed… less than ideal. Over .5 positive creates more drag than it’s worth for my preference.
Baby giraffe legs 🦒😂 another great edit with both the go pro and the drone
@@alisonventures2780 they get me around… beautiful capture with the drone this one 🤙🤙
Yo buddy, I hope you are well. Another great video, The commentary is always helpul . The training of the eye we get from watching you follow the valley of darkness has helped me so much. I now see where you're going, and find im learning to pick my own lines better when im on the water. I've had my straps off as well. Great advice.
Thanks for sharing. The drawings will be a great help as well.
Thanks for sharing. Personally I love these and the tech talk ones as well .
Good glides and have fun .😊
Excellent report 🤙🤙
I’ll have to learn some more editing tricks!
Really liked the combo of audio and drone footage!
@@mattcade2156 yea, I do. Adds some atmosphere. 🤙🤙
Amazing to watch and commentary is spot on thanks DD👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Thanks for sharing the Stoke! 🤙🤙
You can see from the drone the lines you are taking 🤙very helpful
Yea, we are trying to get the best for for this 🤙🤙
That was good mate 🤙👍😃
I like the colours on this one! 🤙🤙
Really good to see a run where you’re a bit slow for the conditions. Drawing on the screen will be really helpful I think. ❤
Yea, I think it’s good to see variation to help put it all together! I’ll try figure out some graphics 🤙🤙
1201 "Goldilocks foil" 🤙
There’s no escaping it. 🤙🤙
I love watching these videos. They help me hold on until the next downwind session :) I have a question related to the stabilizer trim: when flying a plane (I'm an amateur pilot) you would use the stabilizer trim to control the pitch attitude and relax the controls, meaning if you want the nose to hold on a certain attitude (up or down), you would first act on the joke and then trim the stabilizer to maintain that attitude. But it really doesn't add anything but drag to the equation. Is this the same with downwinding? Meaning, trimming the stabilizer would help you be more comfortable with your feet, but you could achieve the same by just but repositioning on the board or pushing more or less with the front foot? Thanks and keep doing these great vids!
I’m not a pilot 😅
It sounds like the rear trim /shim will act similarly.
With positive shimming you’ll get more drag with some lift being the benefit. I will often positively shim a smaller rear to try extend its range but like you know at the cost of glide and speed.
I like my system to be in sync with the environments speed and energy and that’s how I’m making my choices, it has been a lot of trial and error
🤙🤙
I don't actually recommend throwing your board like that
@@TopviewNz yea, I had instant regret!
Are you home? We will dw?
what's the literage and length of that prototype board? thanks!
~ 8ft
~ 115l
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@@downwind_drifter Thanks and keep up the videos, super inspiring!
New term learnt “tucking in”
Yup 👀 🌊
But not sure about the music though 🤭
@@michellesong1582 I said it?
Love ur Vids, yes please draw what u mean with that bump and follow ups. Drohne behind u lets us see more waht ur talking about.
Still drem of such good conditions at my Lake...
Be good
Thanks mate, I’ll get on to learning how to add that edit.
How big is your lake?
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@@downwind_drifter My lake is in Switzerland Lake Zürich, not right direction all the time. Today there was perfect condition on Lake Neuchatel. I'll go there in the future...
Drawing would be great
@@michaelc5378 ok mate
Are you playng music off your watch to your Shokz head phones?
@@Fjordjumper phone 🤙🤙
Curious to know why you are using +0.75 shim on the 40 Skinny? Do you need more front foot pressure on the 40 Skinny? Would upsizing to the 45 Skinny remove the need to shim the 40 Skinny? Also, what is your experience of -negative shimming a 45 Skinny and does it make it faster? Does this shimming experience in downwinding translate across to WingFoiling?
I only have two rear foils that fit the bill here… the 40 and the 55.
To make them spread a bit to cover the in between sizes im using the shims.
I could have just used the 40 for this run and it would have suited, I went the wrong way with the shimming. I slowed what would have been better left alone with the 40.
Im still exploring and building experience with the shims, so I’m happy to explore them. It’s not always easy reading the conditions from the beach, especially from sea level.
I do another run after this one and we’ll see if I change the shim. I can’t remember but I’d like to think I did.
So yea, Im not so much trying to create lift or front foot pressure it’s more about trying to sync my speeds to the oceans speed for that day.
Putting a 45 on would somewhat compare to a 40 with positive shimming. The 45 in my opinion would feel better.
Adding some negative shim will reduce the drag from the rear and will increase the slick. The problem is a rear foil is there for a reason and foils act differently at different speeds. Not easy to dial.
It will all translate to wing foiling especially if surfing bumps
🤙🤙
@@downwind_drifter Thanks for your feedback. I have been playing around with shims but not come to any conclusions yet - so am interested in what others feel when they shim.
@@Stev-0_The_Foiler_69 my advice is if you’re around my weight
- don’t shim more than .5 positive
- don’t shim more than .25 negative
Over shimming negative for me causes my foil to pull downwards at top speed… less than ideal.
Over .5 positive creates more drag than it’s worth for my preference.
@@Stev-0_The_Foiler_69 I go to the .5 positive shim in the next vid, I realised I was a touch slow in the first one and tried to speed up a touch.
yes please draw
I’ll see what I can come up with 🤙🤙 thanks for commenting.