Go Foil powered by a kite for waveriding

[Pedro Marcos]

Anyone tried this?

It should allow you to kite with a very small kite size and at wave speed.

[rightguard]

I'm sure it's not what you mean but I ride the gofoil... but it's his kite foil not the SUP foil

[HendrikVdP]

Gunnar does it, he commented in another topic and it also intrigued me

Just wait for his reply and he'll tell you how and why

[gmb13]

Yes. Basically using a SurfFoil like the GOFoil is great in waves. It's is basically like going from using twin tips to using Surfboards in waves. It's just so much easier and more intuitive.

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Gunnar

[ulx]

I am waiting to use my Takuma surf foil with a kite. I suppose it might work very well. But I haven´t tried the foil yet unfortunately.

I have not unhooked with a surfboard (or otherwise) for years but have been thinking that with such a huge foil it might actually be fun to ride it with a tiny kite unhooked. I guess I will give that a try, too. I just have to remember to take my hook-harness with me to the beach then.

[gmb13]

I am waiting to use my Takuma surf foil with a kite. I suppose it might work very well. But I haven´t tried the foil yet unfortunately.

I have not unhooked with a surfboard (or otherwise) for years but have been thinking that with such a huge foil it might actually be fun to ride it with a tiny kite unhooked. I guess I will give that a try, too. I just have to remember to take my hook-harness with me to the beach then.

The Takuma works great with a kite. We do our teaching on these. So easy and smooth. Everyone learns. Unhooked down the line is really fun, but sketchy as the winds you normally will be wave foiling in a re quite light, and most kites wont like being unhooked and drifting down the line that underpowered.

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Gunnar

[Europ2]

(...) and most kites wont like being unhooked and drifting down the line that underpowered.

Gunnar, would you have a few recent kites in mind that are OK with drifting unhooked underpowered in low wind ?
Are mostly "wave kites" designed to drift naturally the best candidates for this ?
F-one in 2010 released the Source a 2-line sup kite ... without much success.
Maybe is it time for this type of kite now ? The vid really starts at 1:24
Perfect for foil teaching, at 5:04 water relaunch is the "old way" , as during the "pre-bow" era...

[gmb13]

No. The Source type kite will not do it either.

You are also misunderstanding what I am saying. Modern Wave kites will drift with just fine ridden down the line on a surf foil when hooked in and you can trimm the angle of attack to keep the kite from backstalling during bottom turns or sections where you are heading towards the kite. When unhooked you do not have that option and are very likely to drop the kite.

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Gunnar

[juandesooka]

No. The Source type kite will not do it either.

You are also misunderstanding what I am saying. Modern Wave kites will drift with just fine ridden down the line on a surf foil when hooked in and you can trimm the angle of attack to keep the kite from backstalling during bottom turns or sections where you are heading towards the kite. When unhooked you do not have that option and are very likely to drop the kite.

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Gunnar

My understanding is that unhooked wave riding was more of a thing before there were kites with effective depower. If you had a kite with constant pull, to ride the wave without the kite's power you'd unhook, then hook back in once finished surfing. But now that kites are designed to turn off power and drift, not really much need to unhook (though I am sure some riders still do, just for fun or to get 90% depower to 100%).

GoFoil: it sounds to me like this is going to be the next "wave" in foiling. As somebody noted in previous thread, foiling seems to be coming full circle in reverting back to large surface area low aspect wings designed to lift in very slow speeds. This should allow something more towards surfing, because if you are outrunning the wave's speed, you can really ride the wave. I thought the canard was going to be the answer for surf oriented foiling, but the feedback seems to be that the higher speeds needed negate much of the benefits (though the tight carving rear foot bias is awesome). Maybe the next gen larger canard wings will do it, we'll see. For now, I'd sure like to try the go wings....what would be super cool is a single foil that could be attached to sup, surfboard, or kiteboard, for maximum cross platform play time potential.

[gmb13]

No. The Source type kite will not do it either.

You are also misunderstanding what I am saying. Modern Wave kites will drift with just fine ridden down the line on a surf foil when hooked in and you can trimm the angle of attack to keep the kite from backstalling during bottom turns or sections where you are heading towards the kite. When unhooked you do not have that option and are very likely to drop the kite.

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Gunnar

My understanding is that unhooked wave riding was more of a thing before there were kites with effective depower. If you had a kite with constant pull, to ride the wave without the kite's power you'd unhook, then hook back in once finished surfing. But now that kites are designed to turn off power and drift, not really much need to unhook (though I am sure some riders still do, just for fun or to get 90% depower to 100%).

GoFoil: it sounds to me like this is going to be the next "wave" in foiling. As somebody noted in previous thread, foiling seems to be coming full circle in reverting back to large surface area low aspect wings designed to lift in very slow speeds. This should allow something more towards surfing, because if you are outrunning the wave's speed, you can really ride the wave. I thought the canard was going to be the answer for surf oriented foiling, but the feedback seems to be that the higher speeds needed negate much of the benefits (though the tight carving rear foot bias is awesome). Maybe the next gen larger canard wings will do it, we'll see. For now, I'd sure like to try the go wings....what would be super cool is a single foil that could be attached to sup, surfboard, or kiteboard, for maximum cross platform play time potential.

That already exists. We sell the Takuma Concept V100 foil for exactly this reason.

It is fun to kite, SUP and Surf with. Yesterday I witnessed one of my recent KiteFoil students paddle a wave with a old 2007 Cabrinha 5'9" Waveboard and get up foiling on it. This was his first session surf foiling and 3rd session foiling overall.

The cool thing about the Alumast on this, is that it is modular and you can put any length up to a meter on this foil. although I am happy with 65cm for Kite Wave foiling.

As it's a plate system foil, you can easily mount it on anything you want.









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Gunnar