I'm struggeling to get enough power from waves to actually flag out the wing. When I do get a little power from the wave I mostly end up overtaking it and lose speed.

Is the problem that the waves are too small, should I turn more to stay in the right part if the wave, or am I using the wrong foil(using axis 999 mostly, but feel like I've had a little more success with my HPS1050).

Bennis123 said..
I'm struggeling to get enough power from waves to actually flag out the wing. When I do get a little power from the wave I mostly end up overtaking it and lose speed.

Is the problem that the waves are too small, should I turn more to stay in the right part if the wave, or am I using the wrong foil(using axis 999 mostly, but feel like I've had a little more success with my HPS1050).

You have to surf the wave - bottom and top turns. This how you sync up with the wave's speed and power

Have you surfed before? Huge point of info there. If not you have a lot more to learn than if you're an experienced surfer just learning to foil.

You need to stay at or near the top of small wind chop and turn back and forth across the top. If you go down to the bottom you lose all lift. Watch downwind foiling videos and see how they pump and join bumps. You need to do that. Waves are different.

especially when new to wave/swell riding matching your foil to the conditions is important. some foils want to go too slow and some want to go too fast for the speed of the swell. as you get better you can do things to keep yourself on the wave like s-turning, pumping, pumping forward to the next swell or cutting back to the one behind you. For small swell, sometimes a shorter mast is easier as you can keep the foil in the sweet spot of the wave without your board having to be so far out of the water.

This is from yesterday... didn't know where to post it but here seems like an OK spot!

MokesMax said..
I love that video! it's like all the Foilers say "SQUIRREL!" When they see the wake and converge on it

Good one! I had a different analogy involving flies.

if you watch the whole video you can see there's a big pink ONE container ship coming into the bay at the same time... that was the one we were all gunning for. My bar pilot buddy said that the pilot on that boat likes to go fast, and those ONE ships seem to put up a great wake. Under the bridge there was an overhead bow wake but not much coming off the stern. I sailed up to it and there were probably 10-15 wingers on, but after a minute or two most people had bugged off.... something happened and the wake sucked. Some of us spotted the pleasure boat on the other side of the bay and caught this ride which was pretty fun. GPS says the boat was going in the ~12kn range which is very easy and comfortable. The good one the day before was going a much brisker 17kn which was more about just locking in and going straight and keeping up. All good!