This is the one to watch. Explains stuff you won’t find anywhere else. (I’ve viewed them all, trust me!) 5.34 learn to ride toe-side and…take off on toe-side Never seen that before. It worked for me! ….and all the other top tips
This video is a pure gem. My jibes always end up like the ones at 5:48, but I would never have figured out the offset problem by myself. Can't wait for my next session to practice all this ! Cheers from France
Man, I rarely comment but I have watched a bunch of your videos through the years, for kite and wing, and it amazes me how consistently clear and yet comprehensive those are. This is the best watersport teaching channel on youtube to my knowledge. Out of curiosity, in what part of the world are those filmed ? Cheers and bravo !
This wingfoiling beginner series has been my go-to even since I started in Dec 2021 and has taught me so much. I sent a monetary contribution to show my appreciation.
Hi Johan. Thanks very much for your support of my channel. Much appreciated. If you have any technique questions in the future feel free to email me, all the best, Alex kitesurfco@gmail.com
Terrific follow-up video. I've been struggling with some of these issues without really knowing the cause, so I greatly appreciate that you explain what is wrong and the result.
Outstanding!! That first fail attempt off the back of the board is totally what happens to me. Not next time though as I know now what I'm doing wrong. Thanks
Yet another great video, thanks Alex! I love how you always manage to break down something complicated into small and clear steps, with good explanation and examples. Also the discussing of “what went wrong here” helps a lot. Keep up the good work!
Great video! I have found it very useful, as always. Adding analysis of other users errors is awesome. I do the the same mistakes as some of the, and I will place the feet more in the centre.
This is excellent video with absolutely helpful tips. Thank you for putting effort to creating such detailed explanations. I would love to see similar video for tacks!
cool detail's to ponder in this video. I'm a beginner, but I'm wondering if the offset stances aren't being created by the footstraps? Being in the footstrap logically throws your stance off the midline of the board because the furthest away part of the strap is mounted on the center line, meaning your heel will now be on the upwind rail, no?
Lol, I posted this right before you pointed this out in the video! As an ex windsurfer my experience has been that there is a moment when pointing downwind you need to really drive through the turn consciously. Otherwise you will lose momentum and while the results are different between foiling and windsurfing either way your jibe will go to hell if you don't drive the board through the downwind transition and stay the course all the way to switch stance.
Great video. Unfortunately most of us probably don't have access to decent wind plus water as flat as what we see in this video. (Not a criticism of the video; just a message to other learners: Hang in there, it WILL come together.)
Hi Nemo. Flat water and gusty wind will make it much easier to focus on your foiling. You might get around the jibe and loose the wind, but you can still focus on foiling. Big chop will constantly change the forces on your foil and takes more skill to handle. In big chop or waves you have to be able to jibe, plus adapt to every lump at the same time. Only when jibing becomes easy should that be manageable.
8:45 I don't think the rider misplaces his feet, I have a friend who rides pretty well for years that way (front 1/3 back 2/3). I think the rider sheets in his wing too early in the turn and too strongly, with his two arms doing the same pull towards the center of the turn, as if he were riding upwind pushing against the board and the foil with his feet. The trouble here is that the board is not at all riding full speed close to the wind but is just getting out of tailwind so cannot provide enough resistance to the feet pressure, that's why it is so violently pushed away. I think the rider sheets in carelessly because his board loses height so he rushes to get power back somewhere and he choses the wing. Maybe he should have preferred trying to dolphin his board instead. I have no clue why he loses so much height because he enters the turn with plenty of speed. Kitesurf College, can you help ?
Regarding equipment. I’m 75kg and I have FOne Gravity 1800. I find that ai need to fight the wing a lot. Like it’s pulling me really hard when I foil. I spend lots of energy just trying to keep the wing in my control and my arms are usually very tired hour or two into the session. The problem for me is that when I switch to toe side, I cannot put my body to control the wing and stop it from overpowering me. I read somewhere unrelated that it could be that my foil is too slow and because of that the wing is so overpowering. Do I just need to keep practicing or should I also change the foil to a higher aspect/faster one?
Hi. That's a big hydrofoil for your weight. Which means it can lift you very easily and you will not need much power from your hand wing. That foil size is still fine for learning in flat water though. It sounds like you're slightly overpowered with your hand wing. What size hand wing are you using and in what wind speed?
I find that foil is easy to get on, and the tops speed is quite similar to speed I need to get on foil. When I depower the wing I loose a lot of speed and start falling. It’s like there is a sweet spot. However the wind is usually not at the sweet spot which I think it’s about 13 knots constant.
My biggest problem with Wing foil jibes is that I still cut the turn too sharp once I cross downwind and then fall in. My muscle memory from windsurfing jibes always kicks in.. Any tips on getting myself to slow down the jibe and complete the jibe with a wide radius? Any exercises or techniques that I can use to help me keep wider radius throughout the Jibe.. especially after I cross downwind? Thank you for any tips or suggestions
Hello Don. Let me know some more details. Are you doing a heelside stance into toeside stance jibe? And after, do you typically fall off toeside? You probably need to become more aware of and in control of your roll angle. Too much toeside roll (for example in a heelside to toeside jibe) will drop you off the board easily as you shed speed, because you can only keep high roll angles with lots of speed. Practice adjusting your roll while riding, which will make you cave up and downwind. For your first jibes use only a small toeside roll, even if you loose speed you should drop down into a taxi rather than fall off the toeside of the board. You can even reduce that roll in the middle of the jibe but that's a little more difficult to do.
Another possible cause could be that you may be late powering the wing after the jibe. As you exit a heel to toe jibe, you quickly need the wing's power to balance the small toeside roll that you exit with. Otherwise you will fall off toeside.
Best way to learn gybes is on a skateboard in a big car park. I’ve never done a taxi gybe. I’ve also never been winging in water as flat as in this video.
This is the one to watch.
Explains stuff you won’t find anywhere else. (I’ve viewed them all, trust me!)
5.34 learn to ride toe-side and…take off on toe-side
Never seen that before.
It worked for me!
….and all the other top tips
This video is a pure gem. My jibes always end up like the ones at 5:48, but I would never have figured out the offset problem by myself. Can't wait for my next session to practice all this !
Cheers from France
Man, I rarely comment but I have watched a bunch of your videos through the years, for kite and wing, and it amazes me how consistently clear and yet comprehensive those are. This is the best watersport teaching channel on youtube to my knowledge.
Out of curiosity, in what part of the world are those filmed ?
Cheers and bravo !
I watched a number of jibing tutorials and this is the best I've seen. Looking forward to my next session to put it into practice.
This wingfoiling beginner series has been my go-to even since I started in Dec 2021 and has taught me so much. I sent a monetary contribution to show my appreciation.
Hi Johan. Thanks very much for your support of my channel. Much appreciated. If you have any technique questions in the future feel free to email me, all the best, Alex kitesurfco@gmail.com
The best video on jibing! Thanks for valuable information
Another great video! I've been struggling to get my jibes sorted and can now see I've been trying to do too much too soon. Thanks for the tips!
You're welcome, happy to help
A big thank you; as always, perfect pedagogy.
really useful to learn the art of Jibe. Thanks for putting this together
Terrific follow-up video. I've been struggling with some of these issues without really knowing the cause, so I greatly appreciate that you explain what is wrong and the result.
This is truly excellent teaching and breakdown. thanks! and congrats.
Outstanding!! That first fail attempt off the back of the board is totally what happens to me. Not next time though as I know now what I'm doing wrong. Thanks
Needed to see this video FIRST.
Votre chaîne est super pour l apprentissage. Elle m'a beaucoup aidé ! Bravo
Yet another great video, thanks Alex! I love how you always manage to break down something complicated into small and clear steps, with good explanation and examples. Also the discussing of “what went wrong here” helps a lot. Keep up the good work!
Great video! I have found it very useful, as always. Adding analysis of other users errors is awesome. I do the the same mistakes as some of the, and I will place the feet more in the centre.
Amazing video! Some of the things you suggested I was already doing, some are new to me and good ideas!
Brilliant video! One of the best tutorials I have seen.
best tutorial on YT, really good explanations thanks alot
Best video about this I have seen so far. Thanks 🎉
This is excellent video with absolutely helpful tips. Thank you for putting effort to creating such detailed explanations. I would love to see similar video for tacks!
Brilliant I've just started out 👍
Thanks, I hope these videos help you
Thanks!
Great video !
Thanks very much
your tutorial videos are the best 👍👋
Thanks very much
Thanks for the video Alex - very helpful
Cheers, I'm glad it's helpful.
Danke!
Thanks so much Viktor
You are the best, thanks!
Hi! really good video, where`s that spot?
cool detail's to ponder in this video. I'm a beginner, but I'm wondering if the offset stances aren't being created by the footstraps? Being in the footstrap logically throws your stance off the midline of the board because the furthest away part of the strap is mounted on the center line, meaning your heel will now be on the upwind rail, no?
Lol, I posted this right before you pointed this out in the video! As an ex windsurfer my experience has been that there is a moment when pointing downwind you need to really drive through the turn consciously. Otherwise you will lose momentum and while the results are different between foiling and windsurfing either way your jibe will go to hell if you don't drive the board through the downwind transition and stay the course all the way to switch stance.
Great video. Unfortunately most of us probably don't have access to decent wind plus water as flat as what we see in this video. (Not a criticism of the video; just a message to other learners: Hang in there, it WILL come together.)
So what's easier to learn on the jibe? Flat water and gusty wind or big chop and steady wind??? Thanks
Hi Nemo. Flat water and gusty wind will make it much easier to focus on your foiling. You might get around the jibe and loose the wind, but you can still focus on foiling. Big chop will constantly change the forces on your foil and takes more skill to handle. In big chop or waves you have to be able to jibe, plus adapt to every lump at the same time. Only when jibing becomes easy should that be manageable.
8:45 I don't think the rider misplaces his feet, I have a friend who rides pretty well for years that way (front 1/3 back 2/3). I think the rider sheets in his wing too early in the turn and too strongly, with his two arms doing the same pull towards the center of the turn, as if he were riding upwind pushing against the board and the foil with his feet. The trouble here is that the board is not at all riding full speed close to the wind but is just getting out of tailwind so cannot provide enough resistance to the feet pressure, that's why it is so violently pushed away. I think the rider sheets in carelessly because his board loses height so he rushes to get power back somewhere and he choses the wing. Maybe he should have preferred trying to dolphin his board instead. I have no clue why he loses so much height because he enters the turn with plenty of speed. Kitesurf College, can you help ?
Regarding equipment. I’m 75kg and I have FOne Gravity 1800. I find that ai need to fight the wing a lot. Like it’s pulling me really hard when I foil. I spend lots of energy just trying to keep the wing in my control and my arms are usually very tired hour or two into the session.
The problem for me is that when I switch to toe side, I cannot put my body to control the wing and stop it from overpowering me.
I read somewhere unrelated that it could be that my foil is too slow and because of that the wing is so overpowering.
Do I just need to keep practicing or should I also change the foil to a higher aspect/faster one?
Hi. That's a big hydrofoil for your weight. Which means it can lift you very easily and you will not need much power from your hand wing. That foil size is still fine for learning in flat water though. It sounds like you're slightly overpowered with your hand wing. What size hand wing are you using and in what wind speed?
I got a 5m wing and last time it was about 12 knots with 18 gust
I find that foil is easy to get on, and the tops speed is quite similar to speed I need to get on foil. When I depower the wing I loose a lot of speed and start falling. It’s like there is a sweet spot. However the wind is usually not at the sweet spot which I think it’s about 13 knots constant.
My biggest problem with Wing foil jibes is that I still cut the turn too sharp once I cross downwind and then fall in. My muscle memory from windsurfing jibes always kicks in.. Any tips on getting myself to slow down the jibe and complete the jibe with a wide radius? Any exercises or techniques that I can use to help me keep wider radius throughout the Jibe.. especially after I cross downwind? Thank you for any tips or suggestions
Hello Don. Let me know some more details. Are you doing a heelside stance into toeside stance jibe? And after, do you typically fall off toeside? You probably need to become more aware of and in control of your roll angle. Too much toeside roll (for example in a heelside to toeside jibe) will drop you off the board easily as you shed speed, because you can only keep high roll angles with lots of speed. Practice adjusting your roll while riding, which will make you cave up and downwind. For your first jibes use only a small toeside roll, even if you loose speed you should drop down into a taxi rather than fall off the toeside of the board. You can even reduce that roll in the middle of the jibe but that's a little more difficult to do.
Exercises: lots of S turns until you have good roll control. Then low roll jibes and taxi out.
Another possible cause could be that you may be late powering the wing after the jibe. As you exit a heel to toe jibe, you quickly need the wing's power to balance the small toeside roll that you exit with. Otherwise you will fall off toeside.
Of course, if you can get a video of your attempts then I can pinpoint the issue(s).
@@kitesurfcollege ruclips.net/video/V73EAM_k0xM/видео.html
감사 ^^
Best way to learn gybes is on a skateboard in a big car park. I’ve never done a taxi gybe. I’ve also never been winging in water as flat as in this video.
Awkward looking hand work