Awesome Gwen! Holding my breath while watching you dropping the wing but ankerman makes a good job ⚓️ Amazing Session 🏄♂️ Thank you for sharing and greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 Max 🙋♂️
So true about where to drop it- thanks for making that point. Drove across the country to the gorge and someone thought that they should drop the wing right at the hatchery entry point on the best waves. Everyone had to watch out for the guys wing while he was downwind enjoying his vacation. I am still sceptical for other reasons than the wing blowing away.
Thanks for this Gwen! If I want to use it to go upwind and then do sup foil downwind practice (with the paddle). and I mess the paddle ups or try to use a smaller foil and fail to get up on foil. Am I able to paddle without foiling to get my wing or is it going to be moving too fast downwind?
Great video to inspire us to downwind! 🙌🔥 Something I’ve noticed is that for wind swell, your foil needs to be close to the water’s surface to feel the energy. Ocean swell has a deeper range of energy and so you can ride mid-mast or higher and feel the energy vs. the wind swell that’s swirling near the surface. Or maybe that’s just me? Do you notice yourself having to ride higher in wind swell vs. ocean?
Great point! Yes this is true in any smaller size wave that doesn’t carry a lot of energy, riding higher with the foil closer to the surface will help make the most of that energy. In bigger waves, speed is higher and it’s probably better to keep the foil a bit deeper not to breach too often 😅
Hi Gwen, thanks for that amazing content! You make it look so easy. Question: do you reckon a longer mast will be a problem for the take off? Just got an 85cm allure mast with my kujira foil. Amazing setup for winging but could make it more difficult in DW or so I hear. TIA 🤙🤙🇨🇵
Not necessarily, carbon is usually higher performance, but alloy works great too. More than material, the size makes a difference, we recommend shorter masts (70-75cm) to make the take off easier with a paddle and riding small waves easier too since the foil will be closer to the surface
In addition to my previous question, does is make a big difference using a carbon board or epoxy in the beginning? weight is just slightly more looking at the board I'm interested in but price is a lot lower of course... cheers@@DamienLeroyRUclips
Every little bit for sure makes a difference, but I don't believe a few pounds like the difference of Epoxy or Carbon as long as you have the right size under your feet. @@Charlie-fl1tl
Would you drop it like that and go downwind when you are on a place with strong current? I bought the anchorman for cheating the shorebreak when I go into the ocean. But haven't dared to use it yet in the river. I'm afraid I might not be able to paddle back to it. Thought about doing the exact opposite though, drop it and try to pump upwind. Or you think it will still travel downwind towards you even if the current is pushing you in the other direction?
I think it will move with the current, but so are you when you paddle back to it so I think it should be about the same. If wind and current are opposing, the wing may stay in place depending on how strong the current is. I believe the current would affect the movement of the wing more than the wind. Pumping against the wind is pretty hard so unless the wind is very light, we don't pump upwind
Hi Gwen. I am interested in the gragonfly. Which size do you recommend for wingfoilind and swell riding with the wing on swiss lakes with low and gusty winds. My nacked weight is 80kg. Thanks for your vids and help. Patrick
I have tried the ancorman and dropped maybe 10 times and then one time anchor did not catch the water and the wing was flipping down until it hit land. I was on 6.4 m so maybe it was too big wing? Do you have any special technique for dropping to make it catch? I saw that Dave West had similar experience that sometimes it does not catch, which sucks if you are riding off shore..
If you let the wing go first and then the anchor, sometimes the anchor lands on the wing instead of in the water. So the way we show it in the video is the way we recommend. Drop the anchor first and let it fly under your wing, that way when you drop your wing, the anchor goes straight in the water
I've had that happen and figured out a few things. #1 make sure when you pack it up again it's not fouled/twisted. #2 it really helps to let the chute inflate like they show in this video. When I get goofy/overconfident and just chuck my wing it can result in a few flips before it catches. Once I honed my technique I never had issue again.
C’est plus un outil pour apprendre à rider des vagues sans la wing, pour le surf foil ou le DW SUP foil. Le take off en surf foil et le paddle up en DW sup Foil est souvent une barrière pour ceux que essaye d’apprendre. Donc avec ce leash tu peux commencer à avoir tes premières sensations avant d’abandonner parce que tu arrive pas l’étape numéro 1
@@DamienLeroyRUclipsest ce qu'il ne vaut pas mieux apprendre le downwind en gardant la wing derrière soi ? La technique est pratiquement la même pour lire le swell
Oui c’est une des étapes que j’explique dans la vidéo (c’est Gwen qui écrit là). Ce leash permet de découvrir des sensations sans la wing, comme en DW SUP foil. C’est pas indispensable pour apprendre, mais c’est juste une option disponible
In this case, the use of the anchor is for those that want to learn how to DW SUP foil, so they can get a feel for riding the swell without a wing in their hands before learning how to pop up on foil with the paddle.
Awesome Gwen! Holding my breath while watching you dropping the wing but ankerman makes a good job ⚓️ Amazing Session 🏄♂️ Thank you for sharing and greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 Max 🙋♂️
We appreciate you Max! Thank you.
So true about where to drop it- thanks for making that point. Drove across the country to the gorge and someone thought that they should drop the wing right at the hatchery entry point on the best waves. Everyone had to watch out for the guys wing while he was downwind enjoying his vacation. I am still sceptical for other reasons than the wing blowing away.
"clac" tres tres bon! Merci pour le tuto!
Clac et bim 😜
Thanks for this Gwen! If I want to use it to go upwind and then do sup foil downwind practice (with the paddle). and I mess the paddle ups or try to use a smaller foil and fail to get up on foil. Am I able to paddle without foiling to get my wing or is it going to be moving too fast downwind?
You will have to paddle up wind, the wing doesn’t really go downwind once it’s anchored. You will drift downwind faster than your wing
Where is this?
Great video to inspire us to downwind! 🙌🔥
Something I’ve noticed is that for wind swell, your foil needs to be close to the water’s surface to feel the energy. Ocean swell has a deeper range of energy and so you can ride mid-mast or higher and feel the energy vs. the wind swell that’s swirling near the surface. Or maybe that’s just me? Do you notice yourself having to ride higher in wind swell vs. ocean?
Great point! Yes this is true in any smaller size wave that doesn’t carry a lot of energy, riding higher with the foil closer to the surface will help make the most of that energy. In bigger waves, speed is higher and it’s probably better to keep the foil a bit deeper not to breach too often 😅
Very true.
Hi Gwen, thanks for that amazing content!
You make it look so easy.
Question: do you reckon a longer mast will be a problem for the take off? Just got an 85cm allure mast with my kujira foil. Amazing setup for winging but could make it more difficult in DW or so I hear.
TIA 🤙🤙🇨🇵
Thank you! I do think 85cm is quite harder to pop up than 70-75cm
Have tried Hand Paddles for an easy upwind paddle back to the Wing in bigger waves?
That’s a great idea! 👊😁
Can you recommend hand paddles?
thanks very much! very informative! Does it make a big diffrence if you use a carbon or alu mast for downwinding?
cheers,
Karl
Not necessarily, carbon is usually higher performance, but alloy works great too. More than material, the size makes a difference, we recommend shorter masts (70-75cm) to make the take off easier with a paddle and riding small waves easier too since the foil will be closer to the surface
OK that's a great tip! Thank you!@@DamienLeroyRUclips
In addition to my previous question, does is make a big difference using a carbon board or epoxy in the beginning?
weight is just slightly more looking at the board I'm interested in but price is a lot lower of course...
cheers@@DamienLeroyRUclips
Every little bit for sure makes a difference, but I don't believe a few pounds like the difference of Epoxy or Carbon as long as you have the right size under your feet. @@Charlie-fl1tl
Would you drop it like that and go downwind when you are on a place with strong current? I bought the anchorman for cheating the shorebreak when I go into the ocean. But haven't dared to use it yet in the river. I'm afraid I might not be able to paddle back to it. Thought about doing the exact opposite though, drop it and try to pump upwind. Or you think it will still travel downwind towards you even if the current is pushing you in the other direction?
I think it will move with the current, but so are you when you paddle back to it so I think it should be about the same. If wind and current are opposing, the wing may stay in place depending on how strong the current is. I believe the current would affect the movement of the wing more than the wind.
Pumping against the wind is pretty hard so unless the wind is very light, we don't pump upwind
Hi Gwen. I am interested in the gragonfly. Which size do you recommend for wingfoilind and swell riding with the wing on swiss lakes with low and gusty winds. My nacked weight is 80kg. Thanks for your vids and help.
Patrick
Send us a message through our shop and we will help you there 🙏🙌
wingfoilprocenter.com
The 'AFS pure 1100 is a downwind machine ... great foil
Right! So good!
Excellent !
How much you weight in kg ?
73kg
I have tried the ancorman and dropped maybe 10 times and then one time anchor did not catch the water and the wing was flipping down until it hit land. I was on 6.4 m so maybe it was too big wing? Do you have any special technique for dropping to make it catch? I saw that Dave West had similar experience that sometimes it does not catch, which sucks if you are riding off shore..
If you let the wing go first and then the anchor, sometimes the anchor lands on the wing instead of in the water. So the way we show it in the video is the way we recommend. Drop the anchor first and let it fly under your wing, that way when you drop your wing, the anchor goes straight in the water
I've had that happen and figured out a few things. #1 make sure when you pack it up again it's not fouled/twisted. #2 it really helps to let the chute inflate like they show in this video. When I get goofy/overconfident and just chuck my wing it can result in a few flips before it catches. Once I honed my technique I never had issue again.
Thank you Bryan for sharing! @@BryanPCC
@@DamienLeroyRUclips thanks a lot for this tip, nobody was telling me that, so Ive ended up paddling as fast as I can to catch my wing😂
J'arrive pas à comprendre l'intérêt de ce leash.... autant faire du freefly, super chiant de revenir a la nage
C’est plus un outil pour apprendre à rider des vagues sans la wing, pour le surf foil ou le DW SUP foil. Le take off en surf foil et le paddle up en DW sup Foil est souvent une barrière pour ceux que essaye d’apprendre. Donc avec ce leash tu peux commencer à avoir tes premières sensations avant d’abandonner parce que tu arrive pas l’étape numéro 1
@@DamienLeroyRUclipsest ce qu'il ne vaut pas mieux apprendre le downwind en gardant la wing derrière soi ? La technique est pratiquement la même pour lire le swell
Oui c’est une des étapes que j’explique dans la vidéo (c’est Gwen qui écrit là). Ce leash permet de découvrir des sensations sans la wing, comme en DW SUP foil. C’est pas indispensable pour apprendre, mais c’est juste une option disponible
@@DamienLeroyRUclips super merci pour tes conseils !
Just flag it. Why bother with dropping it other than to promote the anchor… It’s the only thing he talks about.
In this case, the use of the anchor is for those that want to learn how to DW SUP foil, so they can get a feel for riding the swell without a wing in their hands before learning how to pop up on foil with the paddle.
That’s totally different balance and feeling. I was shocked when I first tried it😂