How to tack | WING FOIL onboard video series

I cant understand why this incredible video only has 297 likes?!?! The best Wingfoil videos !!! Are helping me so much in this incredible journey! Thank you!!

You Guys are legends! Thank you so much for taking your time so generously and giving people such solid advice completely free! You're both saints and will be repaid in life 🙏🏾

I did a big tack practice session yesterday hand had really great success with active wing steering on entry. I found that it really helped me punch it upwind and initiate my turn. What you've just shown me is that i need to change hands faster to get the power on. You guys are heroes!

Agree, pushing the back hand up to release all pressure on the wing was key for me to learn tacking. I spent a session trying tacks and near the end my friend Eric said "Duke shove up with your back hand during the tack" and it immediately clicked! Now that I am proficient in tacking both ways I actually find them preferable to change directions compared to jibes!

I found a few things messing my toeside tacks up that I have started cleaning up: Speed is important, indeed. You really do want to crack into the wind. The challenge for me was I needed to master luffing the wing out overhead - the advice about pushing away with the back hand is important for flying it neutral as you go directly upwind “through the eye of the wind”. I starting giving myself more time than I thought by focusing on the carve and cleaning that up instead of worrying about the wing once it luffs. This goes with the first point around gaining speed as well as pushing the wing away. Once you’ve let go of that back handle, though, you can almost ignore the wing if you have enough speed to glide through much of the turn. In order to get that carve down, I found practicing toeside s-turns helped calibrate the toeside pressure necessary to form that kind of arcing turn I wanted. I found that focussing on keeping the wing towards the nose of my board really helped the wing to pull me through the turn instead of decelerating me. I was finding that my tail “seemed” to breach but that was just due to effectively air-braking midway through the turn from having the wing too far back. Once I grab the back handle I focus on pushing the wing forward - this really helps accelerate you out of the turn. Even when I have the wing luffed overhead I’m trying to direct it towards the nose. When I was carving upwind I found my pitch control was kind of off. This is something I found improved by keeping the wing forward - I found it hard to fly level if the wing was too far back because it forced my balance onto my back foot. The other way to gain insight and cue yourself up is to actively try pumping through the upwind turn. I saw someone doing this on a 14 mph wind day and trying it really taught me pitch control during that upwind carve - reminded me of touch and goes when I first learned to fly the foil level. By pumping I learned a lot about my pitch stability and control in this new direction. It’s different enough from the sensation of gybing that it’s worth deliberate practice during an upwind turn.

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Great videos, thank you! I had ZERO wind sport or foil experience but competitive surfer since age 11. My first sessions were horrendous, and I'd go home frustrated and watch all your videos. 4th session + 1 boat session and everything just clicked - I'm at 5th or 6th session now and can get up on foil effortlessly even in light wind, go upwind confidently in both directions, jibe off-foil and switch stance off foil. Note to other beginners: I think balance is much more important than experience - wind awareness and wing control can be learned thanks to you guys, but training balance if you don't already have it is much harder.

Thanks to your Videos, im now able to jibe, now i give the tack a try.. great explained 👍🤙 Greets from the Apls Tirol

Top tutorial !!! Great job guys 🤙

Thanks ! Gwen tu déchires ! J espère passer mes tack bientôt, je vais d abord essayer le toeside, car j ai commencé par l autre côté et j en ai marre de me ramasser 😅

great!!! as always!!!

Damn this looks like a lot of fun, I live 30 seconds from the water and looks like something I’d enjoy. I have zero surfing experience though! Binging through your tutorials 😂

Great video guys, question on leash, noticed wing lease is on wrist, but no board leash. I've been using wing leash to waist and it seems to get tangled on arm when attempting a tack. Will try wing leash on wrist.

Great tutorial. I've been practicing this for the last two months, and it's starting to click now, I love the move despite the slow learing curve. Ps. How is it that you guys get away without any board leash? When I tried this, I was unable to keep up with my board after falling into the water.

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I usually use an underhand grip on my front hand. Just before I tack I switch it to an overhand grip. I can’t do it underhand grip. Maybe I missed that bit in video, do you have a preference/recommendation? Great video.

Am I right in that when tacking, it's easier to have your front hand with the palm facing away from you so that the wing pivots easily in the correct direction and when jibing, you want your front/leading hand to have the palm facing you? If so, how do you efficiently switch your front hand when riding when you've decided to do a turn and your hand isn't facing the correct way? Is this possible? I'm still a newb and haven't tried jibing or tacking yet. Just at the visualization stage now :).... If this is a rule of thumb (or hand lol), I think a short video talking about this would be great!

Big Thanks for this great tutorial and your tipps! It looks so nice easy but it isn't:-)