Surfing Waves

Everybody better start getting your legs used to pumping. And get ready for all the questions on how to install a Foil on their boards. Me,........... I'm looking for a good helmet. Guys getting hit by the foil are getting cut up bad.

Oh great, now you don't even have to pump with your legs or even use a paddle. Damn it !

There won't be any of those things at the breaks I usually like to surf

My idea is for an unpowered, easy to dismantle version that is basically like a bodyboard with an innertube around it for easier wave catching.
Something that anyone can ride in any bump and also fits in the trunk of one's car. There's probably ways to optimize the wing keel such that no sharp edges are present on the wings and tail, to make it safe for beginners, and also more stable.
This would really bring surfing to the masses , and in conditions which would preclude the use of regular surfboards.

As a member of those masses - i.e., enthusiastic kook crowding the line-up with no idea what he's doing - I might warn that you should be careful what you wish for. (At least where I live, it looks like the masses have gotten ahold of surfing for awhile now, anyway.)

They won't get mass appeal because they are more expensive than regular boards, they are more difficult to ride than regular boards, they are more dangerous to ride than regular boards, they are more difficult to transport than regular boards, they can't do cutbacks and off the lips like regular boards

Get dropped in on by one of those and your board will be cut in half.....

waikikikichan wrote:Oh great, now you don't even have to pump with your legs or even use a paddle. Damn it !

Interesting lack of wave riding footage..

waikikikichan wrote:Everybody better start getting your legs used to pumping. And get ready for all the questions on how to install a Foil on their boards. Me,........... I'm looking for a good helmet. Guys getting hit by the foil are getting cut up bad.

I'm impressed by the non-motorised foils, how they keep 'm going with almost no wave to work with. Also this is the first time I see a prone takeoff with a foil @23s, but they cut the action where it gets interesting. So I guess doing prone take offs is still a problem with foils.

Off course I don't like the big danger the sharp edged foils are bringing to line ups, but if they can only use them in those weak waves, it could be practical to spread out the surfing crowds. The prone guys on surfable waves and the foils on the weak stuff.

But to mix foils into crowded lineups with powerfull waves would be asking for troubles, way too dangerous!

Tudeo wrote:

waikikikichan wrote:But to mix foils into crowded lineups with powerfull waves would be asking for troubles, way too dangerous!

Worse than SUPs or the dreaded surf kayaks for sure.........

I sure could have used a foil yesterday, wave would break offshore, you had to paddle while it was breaking on you just to catch it, then by the time I stood up it would reform and all but flatten. I tried to pump the ole'Bic like crazy, but it would stall regardless.
And of course the inshore break had no face.

Do they still give you the same euphoria as surfing on a real board?