SUP Foil Paddle Practice on the KT 7' x 100L Dragonfly and Armstrong APF 1675
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- Опубликовано: 18 дек 2023
- It looked totally flat so thought I would practice stand up paddling my downwind board, which I really struggle with so far. During the session I found a few little lumps to prone into and tried to manage the paddle on pop ups which really threw me off. It was a beautiful day out there and I had a lot of fun being terrible at this, I am looking forward to a lot more stand up practice. I need it! This is a session from earlier in the month, filmed on 12 4 23.
Rider stats: 5'5"/140lbs 169cm/63kg
Gear used:
KT Dragonfly 7' x 19" x 100L
795 Performance Mast with 2 degree base plate shim under the front bolts.
60cm fuse
Glide 220 stabilizer
APF 1675 front wing
Thanks for watching!
That spot is epic! Nobody out. Once you master SUP foil, I think you'll be able to do any foil discipline as it's the hardest.
thanks for sharing. do you think a helmet is necessary on ultra small days?
Also, I could be not seeing this correctly but it looks like the paddle blade is pointed in the wrong direction... I think you need to swivel it in your hands 180 degrees so the paddle faces the other way in the water! That would help with paddling I think.
Hey, thanks so much for watching and for your comment. So, I'm not really a helmet guy, never have been one to wear one typically. I was wing foiling for a couple months prior to prone and kept going back and forth on whether or not to get a helmet but never did. When I started prone, I started having more sketchy falls and what sealed the deal was taking the foil to my thigh a few times. No cuts but man the bruises were brutal, and I am always at this spot alone, so I thought I'd get one and see how I like it. Well, now I've been wearing it just a few weeks and I absolutely love it! I was falling from height with speed a lot and the helmet is really helpful for the head/ear/eye slaps I was getting. I also feel a lot better wearing it as when it's small like this you find yourself going really fast in really shallow water, and you can fall from way up high into shallow water over a reef. Overall, I'd say I'm a convert, I'm loving it.
As for the paddle, I think it's an optical illusion from the camera mount, but I definitely might have been doing it backwards. I only recently made an effort to learn about paddling and I did learn the correct way to position the angle so it's more vertical on the release, but in the heat of battle I often don't pay attention.
Thanks again for the comments and stoke!!
@@FluidFoil You're welcome! What size waves lead to sketchy falls on a foil in your opinion? As an armchair observer, I feel like anything over about 1 foot starts to increase the sketchiness factor.
@@CONVERSAITION In my experience so far it doesn't really feel sketchy at all when it's under waist high and mushy. The foil responds to wave energy in such a way that period of the swell seems to impact sketchiness more than size. Waist high and 18 seconds is way tougher than head high and a mushburger.
Thanks, good tip@@FluidFoil
You did two months in on session. I’d ditch the paddle.
Yo, thanks Henry! Hope to see you in the water someday!
@@FluidFoil where are you. I’m in Lake Hodges.