Carving bumps upwind and downwind (video)

Cheers to my nephew Thom for filming with his iPhone
SSW 20-25 knots
Simmer Tricera 4.5 and 4.7
JJ and Mr. Smooth

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2keen said..
Love the dolphin like foil out at 2:01

Channelling my inner Sandman

Very nice! Did Simon replace his SS Infinity with a SABFoil? Could you give more infos about it?

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PatK said..
Very nice! Did Simon replace his SS Infinity with a SABFoil? Could you give more infos about it?

I think Simon is riding the sabfoil BP 799 in the video.

Great video JJ you guys make the Winger look like he's standing still
We are worlds away but do have similar conditions (only colder here).

Got in a nice 4.7 session yesterday and channeled some of this energy and good vibes into my riding. Our wind chop is smaller but still fun to make some curves happen. No matter how many times I do it, still surprising how much range a 4.7 has on a foil 10-25 kts.

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Guru4 said..

CAN17 said..

PatK said..
Very nice! Did Simon replace his SS Infinity with a SABFoil? Could you give more infos about it?

I think Simon is riding the sabfoil BP 799 in the video.

Great video JJ you guys make the Winger look like he's standing still
We are worlds away but do have similar conditions (only colder here).

I feel sorry for the winger. Makes me wonder why so many drop the sail for the wing. I doubt you'll see these 2 guns on a wing.

there are two main reasons for skilled windfoilers to try winging

1) to realize how easy wing foiling is
2) So people stop asking you if/when you will try winging

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I feel sorry for the winger. Makes me wonder why so many drop the sail for the wing. I doubt you'll see these 2 guns on a wing.

Having mostly moved over to winging I can tell you why! In the same conditions you have more options:

1) Ride the waves unpowered in a pure surfing style without a sail interfering with your view of the wave

2) Ride the waves in a powered up style (see Alex Aguera in )

3) Get big floaty jumps on the way out!

I've wind foiled on decent waves but it really doesn't compare to 1)

We've got a group of wingers here and a few kite foilers. We have many foiling days year round, but the conditions on any given day can be highly variable. They spend a lot of time in the water in the lulls. They stay pretty close to the launch area for that reason. Windfoiling with 114 board, I can always get home and stay out of the cold water. I like to travel far downwind/upwind. I have been down wind when the wind died. Slogging for a half hour is not fun, but at least I can get back.

I envy you guys with consistent winds and ocean swell.

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thedoor said..

Guru4 said..

CAN17 said..

PatK said..
Very nice! Did Simon replace his SS Infinity with a SABFoil? Could you give more infos about it?

I think Simon is riding the sabfoil BP 799 in the video.

Great video JJ you guys make the Winger look like he's standing still
We are worlds away but do have similar conditions (only colder here).

I feel sorry for the winger. Makes me wonder why so many drop the sail for the wing. I doubt you'll see these 2 guns on a wing.

there are two main reasons for skilled windfoilers to try winging

1) to realize how easy wing foiling is
2) So people stop asking you if/when you will try winging

Even when I wind foil I get asked why don't I wing?.. I'm like well I do both, but this particular day and given this wind direction wind foiling is far better, then I get a confused look?

@simonp65 I think it depends on the day (wind and swell direction), sometimes I get more quality swells rides on a wind foil than wing.

If the wind switches to cross onshore winging kinda sucks and you spend an enormous amount of energy trying to get out of wind shadows and because you're generally foiling at slower speeds you don't always have enough power to get over the swell line and end up in no mans land within the given set.