I have been learning to DW Sup foil for awhile now and finally now it is all starting to come together. If you are on the Gold coast and what to learn, then make sure you head up to the Broadwater to this spot. You will need string SE wind and a runout Tide and this spot is epic to learn. Just let me know if you want to know where it is, would be great to see more trying to get into this.
Cheers Angie (Vid below)
Looks like a great spot, shame it's a bit far to go for me, I'm stuck in WA but hey it's not a bad place to be stuck.
Nice camera work! Isn't it odd that we who Downwind foil encourage more people to do it? You won't find surfers saying that. I tell people that "It's NEVER crowded out there" and " The more, the merrier!"
Select to expand quoteangie pangi said..
I have been learning to DW Sup foil for awhile now and finally now it is all starting to come together. If you are on the Gold coast and what to learn, then make sure you head up to the Broadwater to this spot. You will need string SE wind and a runout Tide and this spot is epic to learn. Just let me know if you want to know where it is, would be great to see more trying to get into this.
Cheers Angie (Vid below)
Sup downwinding looks so fun, must take some serious skill to make such a small board work.
what was your sup background?
Select to expand quotethedoor said..angie pangi said..
I have been learning to DW Sup foil for awhile now and finally now it is all starting to come together. If you are on the Gold coast and what to learn, then make sure you head up to the Broadwater to this spot. You will need string SE wind and a runout Tide and this spot is epic to learn. Just let me know if you want to know where it is, would be great to see more trying to get into this.
Cheers Angie (Vid below)
Sup downwinding looks so fun, must take some serious skill to make such a small board work.
what was your sup background?
Select to expand quoteninjatuna said..thedoor said..angie pangi said..
I have been learning to DW Sup foil for awhile now and finally now it is all starting to come together. If you are on the Gold coast and what to learn, then make sure you head up to the Broadwater to this spot. You will need string SE wind and a runout Tide and this spot is epic to learn. Just let me know if you want to know where it is, would be great to see more trying to get into this.
Cheers Angie (Vid below)
Sup downwinding looks so fun, must take some serious skill to make such a small board work.
what was your sup background?
Hard to belive that guy only has ~500 subscribers.
Ripping Angie,
DW foiling is by far the ultimate! Absolutely addicted to it. The Broadwater looks super fun, very much like our Broken Bay run with opposing tide effect.
Jeremy Riggs is a freak, but the flat water paddle up is a good skill to have under your belt. I has taken my a long time, but I finally mastered it.
I can strongly recommend DW. The learning curve is large, the first runs are hard, but the reward is giant and worth the journey.
Ride safe,
JB
Hello
Thanks for this topic about learning SUPfoil dw.
I have a few questions:
1. In my region, coast is a succession of bays, so options are:
a - going from cape to cape, off the bay distance is between 5 and 10km depending on the bay. The landing is not at the very end of the peak, letting a great margin.
b - going from center bay, but the fetch will be low (20-30knots of wind on between 1 and 3km)
c - going from peak to center of bay. Great fetch but length of run is 1km.
I think option (c) is the best because i can have great bumps and short run will not be an issue the first time, I may run it several times
2. About the gear, I plan to use a huge thick front wing (~2200cm2), 65cm mast, big tail wing. I think I am good about the underwater part because I target low period waves generated by the local wind (I don't know the english word, windswell?), not the long period waves generated by wind far off the coast.
But over the water I have a doubt. I plan to use use a 29" wide board (7'11" long). Concretely this one: www.standup-guide.fr/test/drops-furious-7.10?237 which is a shortsup board with foil box added (no issue with the solidity, it has been reinforced). There is a double concave that will probably help for gaining speed.
But I'm afraid it will be too wide. Or maybe as a beginner on short period windswell it will not be an issue?
3. What are the minimum required skills? I have a good level in kitefoil, I can wingfoil, but I'm not very good, low experience on SUP downwind (only 3 runs), in SUPfoil and surfoil I can surf but on an almost straight line. I tried dockstart several times but unsuccessfully. So I'd said wide scope but not deep at all.
That's why I target a short distance in case I end up 100% drifting without flying, so it will not be a safety issue, but I don't want to suffer too much (mentally speaking!).
Thanks
