That was your best production yet. Great editing. The musical accompaniment taking us around the world was great too. Hope you were breathing through your nose!!! Thanks for sharing.
5 star footage at 9:50-10:20 mark. I had to play this section 3x to hear what you were saying - on the 3rd I had to close my eyes. Amazing light at that angle - it shows potential lines, small and medium waves almost like a filter was added to increase the contrast. BTW - it's not only Dave who wants to see you narrow your stance. Use the force and step into the uncomfortable. Keep it up
Great message thank you 🤙🤙 I just checked… the closed captions pretty much got it right somehow. Different Dave! 😁 and yea, no filters used on any of these vids. There’s some fancy footwork coming up soon I think!
@@1rovingeye Ha, yea nah. Dave West is not my Dave… I see the confusion! Oops funny. I have another mate named Dave who was following all my vids. I’m just letting him know I still appreciate him, he’s a good guy, who I havnt see for a while. He did a downwind coaching trip with James Casey… so many parallels 😅
Yea it would have been maximum 9kts on the inside there and with hind site likely 12kts out to sea… I can get started with the 2.8m from 6kts but it’s tough and I’m using all my tactics! And then I’ll be fighting to stay on foil and only just holding ground from dropping downwind… Every kt up from that makes a big difference as well as gusts. I’m most happy from about 12kts up with the 2.8m but 10-11kts is still comfortable 🤙🤙
@@Alfonso_111 the dragonfly is in New Zealand… travelling with two boards was enough! Very different boards, both have a partially rounded bottom though.
Yea narrow board helps heaps to keep some forward speed. I can actually get up with a wing board in very similar wind strengths to the dw board. Im really working the foil more than the board and will go about it in different ways depending on the board. The dw board I’m mostly trying to get true forward speed to lift off. A wing board I’m trying to create clearance and initiate wingless pumping, with the wing as an assist. A lot of it is feeling the pressure in the wing and being able to use that pressure as efficiently as possible. I find out there on the water, that I can either feel pressure or I can’t and wing size doesn’t make too much of a difference to me. The smaller 2.8 meter wing allows me to pump freely, a big wing like the five meter, I’ll only be able to do short snappy pumps so that restriction in movement with the big wing equalises both sizes outcomes… Once up though the bigger wing will be more helpful unless there’s lulls… when there is lulls no size wing is good and a bigger wing is much heavier to hold up!
@@dcharlton07 currently I’m preferring the 1180 for these conditions. I view the 1180 as a surfier foil. I started out here with the 1201 as it is more of a dw weapon. Overall they are quite similar in performance… with the spitfire winning in turn and the 1201 with glide… but the cross over similarity’s are the middle 80% of both
@@km.69surfboard I havnt. Personally, I’ve never had to go that small even on the biggest day! I imagine it’s a weapon out there though for those that can wield it. Actually I hadn’t thought about winging, it would likely be in my quiver if I was winging dw 🤙🤙
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Keeping balance, seeing waves, performing differential and Integral calculations, while narrating coherently, amazing brain 🧠
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Lovely message, thank you 🤙🤙
That was your best production yet. Great editing. The musical accompaniment taking us around the world was great too. Hope you were breathing through your nose!!! Thanks for sharing.
Always through the nose! Even though only one nostril works…
Thanks for sharing the Stoke 🤙🤙
Awesome run,and great drone footage and commentary 👍 have an awesome weekend guys
Back at you 🤙🤙
Nice music, some cool Asian instrumental selection going on. 😇
@@michellesong1582 just for you 😁
Best you save me some coconuts! 🌴
Dave! Welcome back! I’m happy to have Casey’s sloppy seconds.
5 star footage at 9:50-10:20 mark. I had to play this section 3x to hear what you were saying - on the 3rd I had to close my eyes. Amazing light at that angle - it shows potential lines, small and medium waves almost like a filter was added to increase the contrast. BTW - it's not only Dave who wants to see you narrow your stance. Use the force and step into the uncomfortable. Keep it up
Great message thank you 🤙🤙
I just checked… the closed captions pretty much got it right somehow.
Different Dave! 😁 and yea, no filters used on any of these vids. There’s some fancy footwork coming up soon I think!
@@downwind_drifter Ha - I'm not Dave but I recognize the reachout to Dave West.
@@1rovingeye Ha, yea nah. Dave West is not my Dave… I see the confusion! Oops funny.
I have another mate named Dave who was following all my vids. I’m just letting him know I still appreciate him, he’s a good guy, who I havnt see for a while. He did a downwind coaching trip with James Casey… so many parallels 😅
Really enjoy your videos. I am curious. How strong was the wind? It doesn’t look very strong yet you can use the 2.8 wing. Cheers
Yea it would have been maximum 9kts on the inside there and with hind site likely 12kts out to sea…
I can get started with the 2.8m from 6kts but it’s tough and I’m using all my tactics! And then I’ll be fighting to stay on foil and only just holding ground from dropping downwind…
Every kt up from that makes a big difference as well as gusts.
I’m most happy from about 12kts up with the 2.8m but 10-11kts is still comfortable
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@@downwind_drifter Impressive
@@SebastianCruz-f7iplenty of experience now 😅
Thanks for the messages and sharing the stoke 🤙🤙
What happened to your KT Dragonfly? This proto of yours looks uncannily similar 🤣
@@Alfonso_111 the dragonfly is in New Zealand… travelling with two boards was enough!
Very different boards, both have a partially rounded bottom though.
I’m impressed you can get up with a 2.8m wing. It looks like light winds. I struggle with a 5m wing in 10-15knot winds. How do you do it?
Besides his skills, it’s the narrow board
Yea narrow board helps heaps to keep some forward speed. I can actually get up with a wing board in very similar wind strengths to the dw board.
Im really working the foil more than the board and will go about it in different ways depending on the board.
The dw board I’m mostly trying to get true forward speed to lift off.
A wing board I’m trying to create clearance and initiate wingless pumping, with the wing as an assist.
A lot of it is feeling the pressure in the wing and being able to use that pressure as efficiently as possible.
I find out there on the water, that I can either feel pressure or I can’t and wing size doesn’t make too much of a difference to me.
The smaller 2.8 meter wing allows me to pump freely, a big wing like the five meter, I’ll only be able to do short snappy pumps so that restriction in movement with the big wing equalises both sizes outcomes…
Once up though the bigger wing will be more helpful unless there’s lulls… when there is lulls no size wing is good and a bigger wing is much heavier to hold up!
@@vividorrrr🤙🤙 spot on!
@@vividorrrryes thanks. I have a 8’x21 down wind board so gotta work on my skill 😂
@@downwind_drifterthank you for the replay!! Awesome videos
Amazing video! I noticed you haven’t been on the 1201 in a while. Do you prefer the spitfires?
@@dcharlton07 currently I’m preferring the 1180 for these conditions. I view the 1180 as a surfier foil.
I started out here with the 1201 as it is more of a dw weapon.
Overall they are quite similar in performance… with the spitfire winning in turn and the 1201 with glide… but the cross over similarity’s are the middle 80% of both
hi was wondering have you ever tried art v2 999 for downwinding on a good day?
@@km.69surfboard I havnt.
Personally, I’ve never had to go that small even on the biggest day!
I imagine it’s a weapon out there though for those that can wield it.
Actually I hadn’t thought about winging, it would likely be in my quiver if I was winging dw 🤙🤙
Am I the only one getting some really weird low frame rate on the waves?
@@halfeld 😬 I hope so
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@@alisonventures2780 hope you found some time to breathē
@ I try to, my brain often feels like the beginning of this video. Thanks for the reminder
@ well… you’ve seen who’s brain made this one.
Great shots Alison - I hope I'm tagging the right person
@@1rovingeyeindeed you are 🙂