Have you windsurfed? That will be a bigger help than foiling experience. Foiling experience just allows you to be used to the sensation and not freak out when you are feeling like you are (actually ~70cm) 10 feet in the air on foil!

On the desktop version if I click on either of the thumbnail photos on the right side on the home page they both go to the Gordons album even though when I hover over my last photo it shows the caption. Figured I'd mention that.

I think people mostly go with carbon for two primary reasons aside from obvious performance gains of it being lighter/stiffer: 1. It's a hell of a lot lighter to haul to the beach. 2. It's got way less inertia so if it mucks you it hopefully won't be as bad. Having carried a few aluminum foils to th...

Well actually it's the heavy logging traffic that has been forcing them to maintain it. Road is always the best when logging is gangbusters.

I stand by that statement. 90% of the people doing it already WSurf or Kite. It will persist as another option, just like adding a foil to your Wsurf or Kite board does.

UnusuallyLargeRobin wrote:WINGING added to logs! I am shocked, just shocked. Did this get approved by Nanmoo? Does WINGING really have a future?? ...still shocked

Why am I being picked on? I don't think I've said anything of the sort.

I love when people write things like "This sail is around $900 +Tax new (in 1994 ). We will sell for $450. This sail is not negotiable but we might drop the price in the summer if not sold."

I can't do "a quick tack", few non expert levels windsurfers can and generally it'll take me twice the distance out in order to be back up to the peak. Meanwhile the kiters are just stacked there immobile. Am I supposed to simply barge through at speed? Hard to not feel jaded when my wave...

Even on a busy day there are unridden set waves. The rotation usually gets stacked up with a big void between last and first, so when you see that happen you just need to do a half tack, offset yourself and then it's all about a little patience and making the most of the non-set waves which are ofte...

For me learning the wing with a skateboard worked very well because the rolling resistance is not dissimilar to being on the foil where pushing a board through water is much more. Less walking up wind and can do it at night. The ukee guys have been mountain boarding on sand with a wing and it's wor...

Has anyone gone out at Long Beach yet? I was looking back at some of my light wind Long Beach windsurfing videos the other day and picturing what it will be like winging, can't wait to try it! Lots of wings at SC, LB and the other spot. Best thing that has happened in awhile as it's displaced some ...

more force 4 wrote:Nanmoo, you remember something about windsurfing still!!

Take the gear out once a year*.




*some years

Try More front foot/mast pressure into your rail and less pushing out on your back foot. You can avoid spinning out with a tiny freestyle fin so don't blame your fins, just adjust technique:-)

firstonlastoff wrote:Why does the THE Red Baron, the windsurfing wizard from Uclulet who can toss a windsurf board or a beer like no other, use an avatar that looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle?

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Depends on the color of the board. Black = less, pink = more.