Have a brain injury. Feel super uncomfortable when i get jolted super hard. Getting tackled, etc. Anyway what are the forces of the jolts you get from wind gusts when winging? I have heard from.a mate that kites that the jolts from that would be too much for me but what about the wing? Super weird question I understand and if you respond thank you in advance for the response. I can handle shortboarding and duckdiving if that's anything to go by.

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Have a brain injury. Feel super uncomfortable when i get jolted super hard. Getting tackled, etc. Anyway what are the forces of the jolts you get from wind gusts when winging? I have heard from.a mate that kites that the jolts from that would be too much for me but what about the wing? Super weird question I understand and if you respond thank you in advance for the response. I can handle shortboarding and duckdiving if that's anything to go by.

Do not think the wing will be a problem at all.Our "sails" are the gentlest and most balanced of all boardsailing disciplines.Low power,symmetrycal,direct control...

Falls from up on foil would worry me more ,but if you can take surfing falls and getting tumbled by a wave then you should be good too.

Overall it is an easy on the body sport unless you want to push it.

If there are lessons available just sign up and try it without investing too much.
Good luck!.

From my experience, I have very knackered knees. I feel winging is more comfortable than windsurfing, gusts kiting I do not find an issue. with the wing it's your arms Controlling the gusts so very occasionally I will get a yank of the wing, if it's too much you let go.
what would concern me more was the wipeouts, you are traveling at speed and can hit the water hard. Much like a tackle.

Helmet will help and impact vest. Choose a slow foilwing to reduce crash forces i.e low aspect wing. The windwing itself is unlikely to jolt you much as you can easily depower it. Secure the windwing to your impact vest or waist rather than having the lead on your wrist.

In 12-15kn winds, even with a big 2400 foil going relatively slowly compared to others, i've still picked up enough speed that falling from a height above the water has given me some good jolts/impacts to the back and head when I've hit the water. Some of the "best" crashes have been from foil breaches or hitting fish in the lake - foil breeches stopped happening in those conditions once i got better, but the fish thing i can't control :-(

As others have said it's the foil breaches that can whip you over the front would be my concern, having said that on a slower foil in flatter water should be ok.

sounds like a bad idea for you. learning to foil involves lots of unexpected/awkward crashes. even at slow speeds you are going 10-15mph and falling from standing 2-3ft above the water.

I would watch this video of one of the posters here learning to dockstart. He's going under 5mph, but these are the types of falls that happen when learning to foil. Watch the vid and decide for yourself whether your brain can handle these types of crashes.

Helmets and impact vests make high speed crashes with the water worse. The increased mass and drag mean you hit harder and stop faster. They're really only useful for impacts to hard things like boards and foils. I stopped wearing a helmet kite foiling because of the frequent neck strains from high speed crashes.

Wing foils are generally so slow that the risk of whiplash injuries is very low.

What is a problem is that everything is tied to you with a leash so the risk of hitting, or being hit, by equipment is relatively high. Most of the impacts are low speed but it can be really annoying having stuff bumping and bouncing off you after a crash.

By far the most damaging impacts I have found are getting pitched off a wave and hitting the leading edge of the wing, or having a wrist jarred from being stuck in a handle. There's pictures on here somewhere of a guy with a broken wrist and I have had a couple of wrist damaging crashes that took weeks to get better.

One particularly unpleasant crash is the stalled foil backflip. Things get a bit slow and crossed up during a turn and the foil rises up high and you get pitched off backwards. The resulting full body back flop is not pleasant.