Downwind Tutorial Volume 2.1 | Fiji Islands | Wingfoil Out Deflate Downwinder
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Some Steps To Follow:
Go get gear that works, I don’t care what brand it is. I don’t care what other people are using. All that matters is that it works. I want reliability then usability, and sendability.
Choose gear that will get you on foil, and matches your conditions if you can. Make it something big & easy and then master it.
If deflating get a good size dry bag, don’t go small. Trust me here.
Use the smallest hand wing that still functions.
Wing up wind to a distance that will leave you with some energy at the end of the run . Check it’s a usable spot, flag a few bump rides, if it’s not happening re evaluate.
Deflate (if my wing got wet, I’ll wing more to dry it) work on packing away a dry wing.
Now it’s time to DW! With a slight handicap on your back, you'll get used to it with time.
Take your time paddling up… no need to rush. Enjoy it, embrace the moments of still being on water, pre foiling. This is your new craft! It’s not just being on foil… it’s how to get on foil reliably, and that’s learning your full craft! The board itself! On water! Go figure…
This is why you should choose a board for getting on foil, not a board you want, for up on foil, which a lot of people choose making life very hard for themselves… they now have a high performance foiling board, not a get up on foil board.
You are now a stand up paddler, that has the ability to get on foil, but it starts with stand up paddling!
Go easy on yourself.
The wind should be pushing you home, so worst case is you will get home sooner than you want and you can repeat the process.
If you get on foil don’t rest on your laurels, keep focused and paddling until you are fully established on familiar ground.
Now try relax.
Don’t chase DW! Fade off a bump, across wind* earlier than you think* with speed and mast height, trim off the back of it and then hook back into another bump from behind, following it as a peak.
Chasing across wind is ok, maybe even optimal.
Try to make ground towards your destination.
I don’t go straight downwind often. I cut left and right and make ground downwind at 45’s, so go both ways.
Don’t go uphill unless it’s free travel using speed and momentum, do not slog pump up the back of bumps. This is how to make DW hard/impossible.
Sometimes doing a turn is functional! If you find a good energy source you’re allowed to cutback towards it. Turn on or near something steep, finishing on the steep, so you can regain speed easily. Finish turns high on the mast and or high on a bump.
Turns use more energy I find, and is higher level Downwinding… if at an earlier stage of DW trim down the line of the valleys, it’s much easier to sustain… but follow the same rules! Finish the trimming along a bump/wave with pace and mast height. Exit early to achieve this. Don’t over use the position/bump, leaving things too late to move to the next energy source. Be decisive.
Be Good be safe!
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Rider weight/height 83kg 188cm/6’2
Ppc carbon adjustable medium paddle
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Axis 72cm ultrahigh modulus pro mast
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Thanks for taking note and commenting, I appreciate it 🤙🤙
Great video. Some of the best, clearest explanations on how to DW, where to be and where not to be. Can’t wait to try this out.
@@BrookStein that’s what I like to hear! Let me know how it goes 🤙🤙
Thanks you for the rolling commentary, Enjoy the time you have left.
@@joebenjamin6139 thank you 🤙🤙 it is going to be hard to leave.
Thanks for the vid DD. Can you share the location? Apols if I missed it.
Fiji 🏝️
Lots more info in the descriptions 🤙🤙
Awesome video again ,This video highlights to me that I need to stand taller on my board. I'm always bending like kitesurfing rather than standing tall like you in these videos.
Have an awesome week, but how can you not in those surroundings 😊
@@christomo I’d probably bend more if my knees still worked 😅 I have two bung knees and have had 2 hip reconstruction surgeries.
Tall is at least good for seeing afar!
Thanks mate you too!
Great lines, loving you work 🤙
Cool, thanks 🤙🤙
Amazing. Thank you so much for putting this together.
Thanks, no problem! 🤙🤙
Narrow up that stance and you’ll surf better and pump more efficiently for sure. 😊 great vids bro!!
@@davewestfoils that will be full circle for sure! I used to ride with a narrow stance and was told by a couple pros to widen it, about 18 months ago…
I’m constantly still working on it though and will heed your advice.
I’ve had some nasty bails with a narrow stance recently… I can’t save it as quick.
Thanks for the shoutout 🤙🤙
@@downwind_drifter I’m so curious who told you to widen it???
Look at every single pro downwinder these days. All narrow. Mines narrow and I’m trying to narrow it more.
@@davewestfoils yea I know… narrow is in.
I’m often a bit of an odd one when it comes to these sorts of things… I’ll send you message on Insta or somewhere.
Agreed. Can u pause the vid and draw the lines intermittently?
Great video. Is the place you are staying in a resort or private house…looks like the perfect place to learn downwinding…
@@mathewmacpherson857 thank you.
It is a house not a resort and It would be a great place to learn but really anywhere that has a bit of water that has 4km of fetch is pretty good! With the right gear that is.
I do a lot of bay runs that have only 4km of fetch and if it’s above 16kts it’s awesome! If the wind is coming from the ocean I can do a sustainable run of most any length from 11kts, but I can push it a bit and have to burn some energy from 10kts.
I learned on a little peninsula 🤙🤙
From where did the paddle appear? What was the wind speed when you used the 2.8? This is a supersmooth video - love it
@@martinnovation1 I strap it to the wing. I can use the Ppc 2.8 surge from about 9-10kts, that’s with a lot of tactics and experience… from 11-12kts I’m having a ball 🤙🤙
Thanks for getting in touch😎
Could you elaborate what would have been different if you had a larger Spitfire type foil? Wondering if you would have a closer matched of the wave speed, for example, with great turnability.
@@1rovingeye it would actually end up a lot like the new 1300v2 but with less lift.
If conditions were smaller Id like a bigger foil essentially to slow me down to match the swells pace, and would hopefully allow me to stay on foil at that pace.
At some point there is a bit of a crossover.. this is just my thinking and experience! But at some point as the front foil gets bigger it will often need to be flown rather than ridden… you can no long make it freely respond to your movement, you have to consciously fly that foil in a way that allows tit to function… you can then start pushing it to its limits in a way that the foil will still stay functional.
Some people don’t like that. They will comment that it doesn’t turn, and it won’t, not the way they want it… they want it to do want they want to do above water. It does in fact turn but in alignment with the foil itself and the designs performance.
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@@downwind_drifter I’d like to understand this ride vs if you had of taken the Armie1180 instead on this exact run . Please 🙏
@@wingfoilrentals I’ll need time for this one!
@@downwind_drifterit’s important. And observing your videos does away with all hype. So please 🙏 do your best with this answer because it’s Armstrong’s current love foil fest no matter what criticism gets postured
@@wingfoilrentals SF 1180 has 31% more surface area than Armie 1180. I bet Armstrong will come out with a HA 1500 to respond to Codes' 1540S
I have a terrible habit of standing too far forward as well. My back leg is twice the size 😂
@@TylerHolowell it’s less than ideal! Are you working on changing it or have you accepted that, this is how it is?
In my defence. I was on the water foiling 6weeks or so, after a major hip reconstruction on my front/left leg side. That was the timeframe for allowing light activities 😅. I learned to foil again favouring that hip. I’ve only just thought about that now.
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@@downwind_drifter I don’t realize it until I see myself on video. Starting to make changes and notice positive results. When you have so much lift with big foils you can form bad habits because you have the lift no matter where you stand. With the longer downwind board it’s way more detrimental when you have your feet too forward so ive really been trying to form good habits! That makes so much sense with your surgery. I see you have your feet in the right spot more often than not now that you are RIPPING.
@@TylerHolowell nice, yea it does seem to stem from big foil usage.. and I think it’s having big foils in overpowering conditions.
It forces your front leg forward to gain emergency leverage that is needed when you get hit with excessive lift surges.
If you don’t have a foot forward enough to gain required leverage in the situation you’ll explode out of the water.
The problem then is, if you keep a forward foot in front of you with enough leverage to easily control any forces you might face, then it’s no longer performing the task of supporting your weight. Because if you then use it to take some pressure you will pitch down.
I’m trying to shift my pitch control to me leaning or in case of quick shifts-lifting my rear foot.
This means in turns you get to lean in to the turns rather than trying to lean to counter balance.
Having all your weight on that back leg is great for muscle building that thing! But makes things much more squirly! As you are only planted on one weight bering leg (the other is hovering waiting to correct pitch)
I’ve just realised it’s like mongo skateboarding! 😬
@@downwind_drifter the fact that you just said it’s like pushing mongo 😂 nooooo!!!! I will not look like a kook!!! 🤣
@@downwind_drifter why not simply add more shim to the stab? I mean…just a little more.
What is your weight?
@@yerdna62 all specs in the description, but 83kg last I checked 6’3
First 😎
Yea you better be…
We tie offa bright orange buoy on the upwind edge of the reef, 🪸 it marks the downwind side entrance to the channel (cross-on) ….drifting in too light conditions when being found on the wrong side of that bouy is treacherous 😢
@@wingfoilrentals a buoy would be great here, especially when the sun is glaring on the water. My foils look like Edward Scissor Hands’s face currently!
On the video home run, my first run here, I pumped in over some very shallow reef when I got the entrance wrong… I just went full swing!
@@downwind_driftersaw it…yeah well then there’s the sea snakes 🐍 and other friends to nibble at your shredded shins too 😂
@@wingfoilrentals I saw my first shark here the other day, it was about 3-4ft, it was actually an emotionless experience… I was glad to see it, as I hadn’t seen any. I was thinking maybe they are seeing me and I not them! But it was pretty obvious in the water.
I’m not scanning for them anymore.
@@downwind_drifter watching the boys in Byron bay, that’s some serious ocean and all I can think is shark 🦈 on each video they post. Different waters to you, the tropics, biggies are down deep likely at 40m colder depths. but I’m no shark expert
@@wingfoilrentals I’m not much of a leg dangler!
Deep is good, I can’t imagine much going on for them near the surface.
I’ve seen some really big turtles recently, I’m not sure how skittish they are. I’ve avoided them so far but I’m tempted to stop and try hang out! but I don’t want to stress nature out anymore than it already is!
I’ve made friends with two puppies and a cow so far here. It used to be two cows… life is short.