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How to Progress from Wing Paddle Board to Wing Foiling
Reasonable Expectations
Most new Wingers (including strong athletes) require at least 20 hours before getting extended flights in a straight line with their wing and foil board (transitions will require more time).
5+ hours with wing and paddleboard (no foil)
5+ hours with e-foil or foil board behind a boat
10+ hours putting the skills together
Unreasonable expectations always lead to frustration. All of your surf, kiteboard, and/or windsurf experience will not magically chan
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29th Aug 2023
Efoiling Land Simulation Drill
Hi everybody. I'm Erik.And I'm Pat.We're instructors for MACkiteboarding, and we're doing some videos on how to hydrofoil, whether it's with eFoils, wakefoils, or wing foiling.Yes, we're going to cover some safety stuff to get you started out with. We want to do some basic boater safety stuff: know your surroundings, be aware of where you're at in the water, obstacles around you, as well as people on the water. You're also going to need a PFD--a life jacket for personal use--and we also
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11th May 2023
How to Fix Uneven Lines on Your Kiteboarding Control Bar
Line sleeving tutorial on how to fix your kite lines:This is Eric with MACkite, and we're going to learn how to check to see if your lines have stretched and how to fix that. If you've had some hard crashes recently and your kite just doesn't seem to be flying right, your lines may have stretched unevenly. It's like when your car is out of alignment and you take your hands off the wheel and it drifts off to the left or right, then you know something's wrong.Make a Simple Sliding Pulley
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30th Mar 2023
Enjoy Your Wing Foil Progression by Keeping Your Ego in Check
The Intermediate Wing Foiler's SyndromeAll extreme sports have a risk of this stage, and accidents are almost always a result of human error, not equipment failure. In snow skiing and snowboarding, it would be skipping ahead to the terrain park after just mastering the bunny hill.Recently I’ve talked with several advanced and expert-level kiteboarders who learned to wing foil this summer. Naturally, they progressed faster than the average beginner since wings are basically kites without the
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13th Sep 2022
Learn How to Kiteboard Upwind With These 5 Beginner Tips
Kiteboarding Upwind Is Your First Beginner Milestone
If you’re a beginner kiteboarder, going upwind means not walking back up the beach after each ride. If you’re jumping, you need to march upwind easily because every flight takes you downwind fast.
Back in the stone age, with 2-line kites, riders would pressure their back foot edging hard to slow their board speed allowing the kite to move to the edge of the window so they could ride upwind. We even used the pickle fork tail like ski brak
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30th Aug 2022