Really enjoyed this. I am eighty years old and have maange 23 kts but want to hit at least 25. Where I sail, Calima lake in Colombia is gusty which doesn`t help! the idea of hanging from the boom with bent knees to keep control seems to be one thing I need to try. Thanks!
Great video Nils. I’m 2 years into my chasing 30knot campaign the this video was really useful. I’m only at 21.5k but just invested in full race gear which should easily get me there just need to learn how to use it. Keep up the great content.
Great video! Thank you for the tips. Addition: 5:01 “Rake” is NOT “angle of attack” though… angle of attack is decided on the fuselage by the way you design or shim the wings. The Fuselage is always travelling horizontally that’s why you can bring up the nose of the board by adding angle (rake) at the box by shimming the mast. So the rake does not change the angle of attack on the wings.
Great video Nils ...I'm also chasing speed on foil - have made 24 knots but increases come slow. I have been waiting for a "foil faster" technique video thanks for delivering! I see you have no back straps. I ride the same board and always take my back foot out and put it just in front of the backstrap and a closer to the centerline for speed runs ..having the back foot in the strap feels fine and gives me good control for upwind and across the wind but for me a little scary and not good control for downwind speed runs. I saw some PWA riders had a releasing harness hook - after some searching I found it. A well designed harness hook that will release when you catapult /crash ( like a ski binding). Its made by an engineer in France the website is "free ride addicted". This piece of safety equipment really helped my speed and confidence - not nearly as scary to push for speed knowing I will release and not get whiplashed in a crash. I started sailing with it this summer and it works very well
Nils, what about the board. Leaning the board over the the wind (windward rail lower) Do you not use the rear strap? 5.8 in 15knots, what size wing? Are you using fin sail or foil sail?
Nils, great tips. Your tips came very timely as I seem to plateau at 21 knots with the equipment that I have. I’d like to improve in technique before investing on more modern equipment - getting used to new equipment will take time specially when talking about foiling where a tiny adjustment gets so much amplified the faster you go
Hi, yes i fully agree, i also tried to improve my technique first before finally jumping on good gear, i was using old Formula boards and fin sails for a few years...
@@WindsurfingNils one point of you could cover is back straps vs no back straps on windfoiling: I can get my back foot in but it feels way more unstable while not seeing any benefit from it. I see that you are not using them as well, yet from other videos, I can see people using them.
When you’re on very good foil the improvement is substantial. Jump on an AEON foil and you will be blown away by how easy it is to ride and so fast with control. I’m Hunting for 30 as well, and on patrik kit.
Fantastic video Nils. I'm not intersted in speed foiling, the impacts look far too expensive, but there is a lot of good info here that is relevant for free ride foiling too.
very understandable, crashes can be extreme as we also see in pwa this week, luckily i have not broken any foil equipement in the last two years (*knocking on wood)
Great content, thanks Nils. For the part on mast angle, can this rake adjustment be done for masts that don't have this feature built in? For example, has anyone of you retrofitted a piece that goes on top of the mastbase inside the Tuttle box for this purpose, still maintaining a tight connection? I would be curious to know, thanks.
Thanks Nils, i am curious to get your answer to the following question. I agree that me can increase or decrease lift by changing the mast foot position, the fuselage length, the stab angle , the wing size, the footstrap position, etc… My question is which of these variables do you choose to change first, second, third etc… and why? Thanks for the great videos!
@@WindsurfingNils Can you myabe make a seperate video about this? There is a lot of video's out there with the same information: if you change a variabele then this happens and so on for all variabeles. But there are a lot variabeles and they also influence eacht other also. What i miss is a step by step tutorial how to get to the right trim. What are the biggies to get right first and what feeling are you looking for, so on. And then the fine tuning for more speed.
@@jeroens4681 not answering to interrupt but I think what Nils said is get your foil set-up right first, so angels and especially the trim of the stabilator so that you don't get too much lift. If you fix the boom hight a bit lower like asked the last step left is the mastfoo position. There I would recommend start far enough front and only come back if the stability is not there, i.e it would be too much in the front. Harness lines is a no-brainer exept in Formula Foil. For Slalom it's long lines and that's it. So summary, I wouldnt play too much with the foil set-up but rather have that optimal and then play with the other variables. And be safe out there. Foiling crashes are horrible
Nils how important is the lean angle of the board? I notice the pwa racer’s drive the windward rail downward and sail with the board on an angle as opposed to flat ( bottom parallel to the water) Also can you put a percentage of pressure between front and back foot? Do you want more weight on your front foot for going fast … like 66/40 ? I always thought it best to have my foot pressure balanced 50/50
One thing I recently found out: in lighter winds the sail feels like its dropping down towards the tail, and I countered that by leaning towards the nose. That position feels really awkward and produces a lot of tension in the lower back. Recently I managed to grip both hands a bit further down the boom towards the clew and shift the sail more upright an towards the nose. Felt instantly better on the back, it was easier to stay on the foil and it felt more like the rig was pulling me instead of pushing the gear forward. The same motion then helped me to accelerate in the gust without the nose wanting to come up. Don’t know if anyone can relate, it was one of those a-ha moments where you feel you figured out something important.
Hi. I heard this same move from a IQ-foil rider saying that for her it was better to bring the stability into the middle, i.e kind of handing below the boom and the sail not so much backwards. So yeah, I think the stability of the package in the "center" is part of the forces being neutral helps the balance
Thank you Nils. I am quite old and your comments are excellent. The only thing I did not understand is why the harness lines have to be more to the back of the boom. I am very light (69 kgr) and because of this I cannot achieve speed more thn 18 knots in winds 3-4 beaufor. But your video is extremely useful to me. Be healthy and all the best.
@@MissileGuidance let's say you are nicely powered up on a smaller sail. In the sense that you can get planing comfortably. A bigger sail would give you more air resistance and thus slow you down. This is how I would explain it. If you are on a far down wind reach, however, you need a bigger sail to keep the pressure in the sail.
One thing not mentioned is can't angle to control ride height. Most fast riders seem to use this. My feeling is this allows faster response, but I have a long way to go with this.
)@@WindsurfingNils Racers are almost never flat (roll axis), not as extreme as the kites but not flat. There are also constant micro adjustments visible (looking almost instinctive), and one impact is to lessen the vertical lift; there's seems to be less time lag than when moving weight forward. Combining both looks like the way to go, a work in progress for me.
@@francyloverossiI fully agree with you. I am on my first year foiling. I started out without the back footstrap. At some point, I just tried to add the back footstrap. Immediately I felt a huge improvement of my foiling control. Also I can relax much more in both footstrap. I don't catapult as hard in both footsteps. My speed is also better. I don't understand how Niels dares to go 30+knots without being in the back footstrap 😱
Sehr interessant, vieles macht man irgendwie intuitiv z.B. in die Knie gehen, vorderes Bein belasten, aber den Einfluss der segelgrösse werde ich mal stärker ausprobieren, ist halt schwierig bei sehr böigen spots ein zwei nummern kleiner zu fahren, dann gehts nur on/off. Danke für deine viele wertvollen tips, obwohl mein Foil überhaupt nicht für speed geeignet ist, aber egal gilt ja auch fürs handling und technik allgemein🤙🏼
I have an SB SuperCruiser 1700, and my lift speed if I levitate is a minimum of 10km/h but to start the board need speed around 16km/h. But the Foils designed for dock start could handle it, mean aspect 10 and 1000cm3 width 130cm, this is around IQ foil surface :) why you can? because you don't even need a sail :)
@@WindsurfingNils considering the aeon foil, becker is using the 1.0 shim …. A lot of guys in the pwa and ifca are using it with a lot more like 1.5-1.75. theoretically it is a bit slower with big shim, but practically it is other. While adding more shim, you can achieve more front foot pressure, this allows you to rail the board statically in the perfect position, while the front foot pressure is a bit more you can push the speed over a long distance. I think so you are able to get fast over the whole reach… maybe it is a little bit faster for the gps as you explained, but in a race, the gps is not that important. Or do you disagree? I am open minded ;)
Foiling for high speeds for the average weekend warrior is something very interesting to hear about. Keep on pushing 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Really enjoyed this. I am eighty years old and have maange 23 kts but want to hit at least 25. Where I sail, Calima lake in Colombia is gusty which doesn`t help! the idea of hanging from the boom with bent knees to keep control seems to be one thing I need to try. Thanks!
Great video Nils. I’m 2 years into my chasing 30knot campaign the this video was really useful. I’m only at 21.5k but just invested in full race gear which should easily get me there just need to learn how to use it. Keep up the great content.
Was going to fwd this to you. You beat me to it. Time to grow those brass balls. Just do it.
Great video! Thank you for the tips. Addition: 5:01 “Rake” is NOT “angle of attack” though… angle of attack is decided on the fuselage by the way you design or shim the wings. The Fuselage is always travelling horizontally that’s why you can bring up the nose of the board by adding angle (rake) at the box by shimming the mast. So the rake does not change the angle of attack on the wings.
Great video Nils ...I'm also chasing speed on foil - have made 24 knots but increases come slow. I have been waiting for a "foil faster" technique video thanks for delivering!
I see you have no back straps. I ride the same board and always take my back foot out and put it just in front of the backstrap and a closer to the centerline for speed runs ..having the back foot in the strap feels fine and gives me good control for upwind and across the wind but for me a little scary and not good control for downwind speed runs.
I saw some PWA riders had a releasing harness hook - after some searching I found it. A well designed harness hook that will release when you catapult /crash ( like a ski binding). Its made by an engineer in France the website is "free ride addicted". This piece of safety equipment really helped my speed and confidence - not nearly as scary to push for speed knowing I will release and not get whiplashed in a crash. I started sailing with it this summer and it works very well
Nils, what about the board. Leaning the board over the the wind (windward rail lower)
Do you not use the rear strap?
5.8 in 15knots, what size wing? Are you using fin sail or foil sail?
Nils, great tips. Your tips came very timely as I seem to plateau at 21 knots with the equipment that I have. I’d like to improve in technique before investing on more modern equipment - getting used to new equipment will take time specially when talking about foiling where a tiny adjustment gets so much amplified the faster you go
Hi, yes i fully agree, i also tried to improve my technique first before finally jumping on good gear, i was using old Formula boards and fin sails for a few years...
@@WindsurfingNils one point of you could cover is back straps vs no back straps on windfoiling: I can get my back foot in but it feels way more unstable while not seeing any benefit from it.
I see that you are not using them as well, yet from other videos, I can see people using them.
When you’re on very good foil the improvement is substantial. Jump on an AEON foil and you will be blown away by how easy it is to ride and so fast with control. I’m Hunting for 30 as well, and on patrik kit.
Fantastic video Nils. I'm not intersted in speed foiling, the impacts look far too expensive, but there is a lot of good info here that is relevant for free ride foiling too.
very understandable, crashes can be extreme as we also see in pwa this week, luckily i have not broken any foil equipement in the last two years (*knocking on wood)
Excellent video thank you. Which GPS app watch are you using to keep track of your seed on the water? I have a garmin but can’t find a good app
Thanks for the setup tips, perfectly explained, I still have a downwind problem (big foil lift, I have short Vario Harness Lines)
Great content, thanks Nils. For the part on mast angle, can this rake adjustment be done for masts that don't have this feature built in? For example, has anyone of you retrofitted a piece that goes on top of the mastbase inside the Tuttle box for this purpose, still maintaining a tight connection? I would be curious to know, thanks.
Thanks Nils, i am curious to get your answer to the following question. I agree that me can increase or decrease lift by changing the mast foot position, the fuselage length, the stab angle , the wing size, the footstrap position, etc… My question is which of these variables do you choose to change first, second, third etc… and why? Thanks for the great videos!
stab angle first, i like to go always with the same fuse and roughly same mast foot position.
@@WindsurfingNils Can you myabe make a seperate video about this? There is a lot of video's out there with the same information: if you change a variabele then this happens and so on for all variabeles. But there are a lot variabeles and they also influence eacht other also. What i miss is a step by step tutorial how to get to the right trim. What are the biggies to get right first and what feeling are you looking for, so on. And then the fine tuning for more speed.
@@jeroens4681 not answering to interrupt but I think what Nils said is get your foil set-up right first, so angels and especially the trim of the stabilator so that you don't get too much lift. If you fix the boom hight a bit lower like asked the last step left is the mastfoo position. There I would recommend start far enough front and only come back if the stability is not there, i.e it would be too much in the front. Harness lines is a no-brainer exept in Formula Foil. For Slalom it's long lines and that's it. So summary, I wouldnt play too much with the foil set-up but rather have that optimal and then play with the other variables. And be safe out there. Foiling crashes are horrible
Nils how important is the lean angle of the board? I notice the pwa racer’s drive the windward rail downward and sail with the board on an angle as opposed to flat ( bottom parallel to the water) Also can you put a percentage of pressure between front and back foot? Do you want more weight on your front foot for going fast … like 66/40 ? I always thought it best to have my foot pressure balanced 50/50
One thing I recently found out: in lighter winds the sail feels like its dropping down towards the tail, and I countered that by leaning towards the nose. That position feels really awkward and produces a lot of tension in the lower back. Recently I managed to grip both hands a bit further down the boom towards the clew and shift the sail more upright an towards the nose. Felt instantly better on the back, it was easier to stay on the foil and it felt more like the rig was pulling me instead of pushing the gear forward. The same motion then helped me to accelerate in the gust without the nose wanting to come up. Don’t know if anyone can relate, it was one of those a-ha moments where you feel you figured out something important.
Hey thanks I found your comments interesting - I will try this technique and see what happens
Hi. I heard this same move from a IQ-foil rider saying that for her it was better to bring the stability into the middle, i.e kind of handing below the boom and the sail not so much backwards. So yeah, I think the stability of the package in the "center" is part of the forces being neutral helps the balance
Thanks. This helps me even with my formula foil downwind.
thanks
Thanks for the profound explanation 👌🤙
Thank you Nils. I am quite old and your comments are excellent. The only thing I did not understand is why the harness lines have to be more to the back of the boom. I am very light (69 kgr) and because of this I cannot achieve speed more thn 18 knots in winds 3-4 beaufor. But your video is extremely useful to me. Be healthy and all the best.
Thx, I hope it will help me. At the moment I jibe only in the stroger gusts.
Thanks, really helpfull tips on how to get those extra knots from 25 to 30 🚀🚀🚀
thanks for your feedback, hope it helps to get those extra few knots!
Thanks very much. Good video
thank you
"a smaller sail makes you faster", this makes much sense but is unknown to a lot of freeride surfers.
Hiya
I'm perplexed that a smaller sail would make you faster. Is this for foil only or same with fin windsurfing?
@@MissileGuidance let's say you are nicely powered up on a smaller sail. In the sense that you can get planing comfortably. A bigger sail would give you more air resistance and thus slow you down. This is how I would explain it.
If you are on a far down wind reach, however, you need a bigger sail to keep the pressure in the sail.
@@Tobias1949 Ah ok I see now thanks 👍
One thing not mentioned is can't angle to control ride height. Most fast riders seem to use this. My feeling is this allows faster response, but I have a long way to go with this.
don't really understand what you mean
)@@WindsurfingNils Racers are almost never flat (roll axis), not as extreme as the kites but not flat. There are also constant micro adjustments visible (looking almost instinctive), and one impact is to lessen the vertical lift; there's seems to be less time lag than when moving weight forward. Combining both looks like the way to go, a work in progress for me.
Would "the smaller the sail, the faster you are" be true for fin slalom as well?
of course, smaller sails are always faster!
@@WindsurfingNilsuntil they are underpowered…
Thanks for this awesome video!
Hi Nill why you don't use the two footstraps?
i can adjust better the position of my backfoot depending on the course I'm going and I don't feel adding the backfootstrap gives me any benefit
@WindsurfingNils aren't you afraid to catapult? I feel so instable without insert my backfoot in the strap... I can't even close the sail properly
@@francyloverossiI fully agree with you. I am on my first year foiling. I started out without the back footstrap. At some point, I just tried to add the back footstrap. Immediately I felt a huge improvement of my foiling control. Also I can relax much more in both footstrap. I don't catapult as hard in both footsteps. My speed is also better.
I don't understand how Niels dares to go 30+knots without being in the back footstrap 😱
Sehr interessant, vieles macht man irgendwie intuitiv z.B. in die Knie gehen, vorderes Bein belasten, aber den Einfluss der segelgrösse werde ich mal stärker ausprobieren, ist halt schwierig bei sehr böigen spots ein zwei nummern kleiner zu fahren, dann gehts nur on/off. Danke für deine viele wertvollen tips, obwohl mein Foil überhaupt nicht für speed geeignet ist, aber egal gilt ja auch fürs handling und technik allgemein🤙🏼
cool video... 26knots so far... I'm hoping this season I get it! 💪
26 is already really fast, keep pushing 👍
Thanks for such a good video :)
glad you enjoyed it!
Please add a link to those double cleat harness lines.
point-7.com/product/foiling-harness-lines/?v=796834e7a283
Thanks very much.
Ist es moeglich mit einem 11.5m2 Segel in 5 Knoten auf ein iQ Foil oder etwas aenliches zu fliegen?
5 knoten ist schon sehr wenig, vllt mit unter 70kg und sehr großem frontwing möglich...
I have an SB SuperCruiser 1700, and my lift speed if I levitate is a minimum of 10km/h but to start the board need speed around 16km/h. But the Foils designed for dock start could handle it, mean aspect 10 and 1000cm3 width 130cm, this is around IQ foil surface :) why you can? because you don't even need a sail :)
Is the back strap unnecessary?
It is necessarry for high level foiling. Lower level it is not necessary
This season I went over 30knts and the biggest factor was my weight, gained 6kg over the winter, now Im 92-3kg
i am 62 so had a problem
I'm 56kg, as a young adult, so it looks like I have some eating to do
👍
Why aren’t you using the back footstrap because for me its faster
for me it gives more control and flexibility to go on different courses...
Moin Nils (das war knapp!)
hast es ja noch geschafft 😅
i will not bent the knee, dirty Lannisters
🤣
24-26 knots so far on the iq foil… wanna get faster…
I am not agreed with the backwing And shim theory , sorry😅
can you explain why not? 🧐
@@WindsurfingNils considering the aeon foil, becker is using the 1.0 shim ….
A lot of guys in the pwa and ifca are using it with a lot more like 1.5-1.75. theoretically it is a bit slower with big shim, but practically it is other.
While adding more shim, you can achieve more front foot pressure, this allows you to rail the board statically in the perfect position, while the front foot pressure is a bit more you can push the speed over a long distance.
I think so you are able to get fast over the whole reach… maybe it is a little bit faster for the gps as you explained, but in a race, the gps is not that important.
Or do you disagree?
I am open minded ;)
@@giannithoma4324 Totally agree !!!!
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you, Nils!
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Thanks for such a good video :)
thanks for your feedback, much appreciated :)