NEW Slingshot Wakefoiler
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just when you think wakesurfing can't get any worse. They drop this .
That's looks about as much fun as rearranging my sock drawer. |
Wow.. never thinking that someone would love doing airchair so much that want to do it stand up haha..
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It is not really new.
Foil boarding is a true sport that derives from surfing and now kiters also use foilboards. It is not easy at all and it is really fun. You should try before denigrating it. See what Laird Hamilton does on a foilboard and on a wave and then we can talk again. By the way, Laird Hamilton is a legend in big wave surfing. It has nothing to do with airchair, it is an extreme sport practiced on waves or with a kiteboard. Personally I have been foilboarding since 2006, both behind a boat and with a kite. |
Laird Hamilton is a kook.
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God, living in paradise, surfing jaws at every chance, best picture in all of surfing at Teapoo , real kook, no it's called celebrity and there all different, JEALOUS? |
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I'm real proud of my wife about this as she has become very tough about this issue and she doesn't even get in the boat anymore when it happens, she just toughs it out. But she now bears scars each time, including the occasional bleeding. I don't want to take her to a hospital and then beg her forgiveness for taking something she loves too far |
Well,
You are right, that's the main problem with foils and that is what scares me. When I said that is it an extreme sport I just referred to that problem, the foil hitting you whan you fall. It is not so frequent as one might think but it could happen. The solution is to use a board with inserts for wakeboard bindings (in the very first days I used a board with step-in snowboard bindings and snowboard boots (yes, in the water: the boots did not last long). The use of wakeboard bindings totally prevents the foil from hitting you when you fall. Using the foil with straps or even barefoot is all another story: I am still working on it but, as I said, I am scared. I am now trying to use the foil also on a Standup paddle board. Go to www.gofoil.com and you will understand what I am talking about. |
I forgot,
as far as the price is concerned, the kit you indicated includes both the foil and the board. Take into account that the foil of Slingshot is not an all carbon foil (that would cost at least 1,700 USD). Thus, I do not think that the combo of Slingshot is expensive with respect to the those of other manufacturers. Simply, the foil is expensive (I do not think they sell many of them, at least for the time being). |
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Yes, I ma going to try the tow-in version for wakesurfing. I am not sure that using thre straps ois less dangerous than using the board barefoot.
I already use the foil with the board with straps for kiting and I must admit that I am always a little anxious. No problems at all up to now, but I am not as comfortable as when I use the board with wakeboard bindings. |
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If you follow surf culture at all, you know |
Your first mistake is trying to compare open water , big wave surfing to wakesurfing. Your second mistake is comparing open water foiling to that behind the boat on a surf foil.
But hey nice try. I still stand by my previous post. |
I dunno, I got to ride one and thought it was a lot of fun and didn't hit the foil falling.
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Hi Swatguy,
No mistake at all and I explain to you why. Foiling behind a boat (even a jet ski) is the first step to learn to foil in open water, waves. It is obvious that open water, big wave surfing is not comparable to wakesurfing and that open water foiling is not comparable to that behind a boat, but to learn you must start from something and behind a boat is the easiest and most common way to learn. Then if the boat creates a decent wake you can also succeed in foiling without the rope and this is more similar to foiling in (small) waves than you may believe. As far as foiling in large waves, I will never do that, it is not for me, it is for a small bunch of people who are very far from the average joe. Just my opinion, I am not saying that you have to like it. |
Swatguy, we have them at the shop now and I'll definitely have it in the water as soon as it warms up again.
You may have to come try it at least. Maybe it's actually fun. |
Vince
How the hell are ya? I refuse to give in and swap.......buuuuuut I'll take you up on that in the spring for sure |
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Boat but still do surf transfers and other maneuvers. I see the straps savingyou from contact cause it has not left your vicinity but the straps still on feet holding at distance from torso and head or coming off and cause of the push off that will create - I think it will be far enough away and already losing its momentum to reduce the contact possibility. But slingshot not selling a strap version are they?? I'll never do a mod and this price should cover straps |
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I bet it is fun but the moment I started wake surf higher level maneuvers I immediately started getting hit by the board, so much so I now do a double forearm and hands covering of my face and head. I guarantee with no straps and stronger maneuvers this will be an issue. I popped actually for the good, but it hurt a lot at contact, a ganglion cyst on my wrist. My wife was slightly cut and bled by fin and scrapped by board damage on one surf fall, trooper kept going, I send her to the hospital and this and I went too far. |
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I'm good, man. Working in Malibu/Axis land these days. You'll have to come up and ride next season, I never pull wakeboarders anymore. Everyone but you has followed me to the surf side! |
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I knew I was watching snowboarding flows n a sky ski and confirmed at end, your ready for those slams and they are going to be serious cause your not coming out of those flows like you might a wakeboard so please send me your vids and I'll stick to far back ropeless pumping . Not as much fun as ropless unless your doing what he's doing and I'm sure you can!! So please vids of the fails , on a good note the foil won't hit you!!!!!!!! |
I tried a kitesurfing foil at surf speeds a couple years ago. It is incredibly squirrelly with the prop wash right behind the boat. I had better luck moving back about 60 ft.
Honestly not that fun, it's incredible for kitesurfing because it's so efficient, but not that great behind the boat. This may be a slightly different design than the ones built for kiting but I can't imagine it would be a vastly different experience. |
Any foil gets squirrely in the prop-wash - you have to stay out to the side. That being said, for that price, I'll go find a nice used sky-ski which are buckets of fun.
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