Wake foil in a beautiful sunset in the posh bay of La Baule. Beryl Bisseau shows that he is not contrained by the wake itself...
Wake foil in a beautiful sunset in the posh bay of La Baule. Beryl Bisseau shows that he is not contained into the wake proper...
Select to expand quoteBeasho said..Piros said..
Hey JB where and how do you carry your phone .
Yes - Curious Minds want to know. How do you rig up the iPhone?
I have loved my TRACE but have been having 'issues' lately. 1st one: Battery dies in 45 minutes. Missed the best ride ever on a foil (I estimate 650 meters). 2nd Trace: Gifted by PonoBill. I strip all the data down and find it SKIPS 3 Minutes for every 10 it records - WTF! Who does this type of thing. I literally had to tear open all the data and put a filter line by line to see the missed records. Where it stopped and started. Total BS. This iPhone thing could be a game changer. Especially if it works with the watch. Then it may become my new best piece of surfing equipment.
PS: I know that the ride was > 600 meters because it was far longer than the ride below, which was my "Best Ever" having taken off on the inside of Mavericks. Call it the 3rd bowl. Slingshot in on a 9 - 10 foot face and then fly between the rocks into the inner lagoon. Impossible on any other type of surf craft. This was the short ride. The longer ride I had to cut deeper through the rocks but extended nearly to the beach.
The summary below is from the 1st TRACE, with better data, before the battery died and it missed the longest ride. Then I put on the 2nd TRACE, tuck the 1st in my wetsuit, and take my chances missing 40% of the waves.
Hey Beasho,
I use an iPhone 8 Plus. It is supposed to be waterproof, but I don't 100% trust that. So I carry a box of zip-lock bags in my van and use a fresh inner bag every time. I double bag my phone using the old inside bag from last session on the outside and a new fresh bag on the inside, then I put it into a "splashproof/waterproof" armband unit I got from K-Mart for $7. I get great signal, heaps of battery and very accurate and in depth reports back on my rides.
www.kmart.com.au/product/splashproof-smartphone-pouch/2023830
Hasn't let me down yet, and all the data is ready to go. If you set it up well, you can actually see your ride reports straight after your ride.
Worth a look at for a cheap alternative that is very accurate, plus I guess a great emergency option too JIC.
Ride safe foilers,
JB
Select to expand quoteBigSeppo said..
Nice Colas. I'm tired from just watching. That was impressive.
It is also very interesting to compare how Beryl performs on a longer board in the same conditions and foil: here a 6'4" instead of the smaller previous one (I guess around 5')
The difference in performance is quite obvious...
Also the recovery at the end is insane!
But the longer boards are a mandatory step to learn. I have a friend that tried to learn surf foiling on too small a board and he said it is too hard (even paddling back to the peak is hell), so he is looking for a longer board to put a foil box in.
www.facebook.com/patrice.guenole/videos/10216412792774723/
PS: the foil is the new 399 euro foil by Gong. It is a more lift but slower version of the previous Gong foil, easier to learn on and pump, but with a limited top end speed, a bit like JB explained when he detailed the difference between his L and XL wing sizes. I guess all foil brands will have these different kind of wings in their offering now.
Yeah good video Colas that guy can pump like a Mofo. Great price on that foil $625 Aus but couldn't find any specs on the weight on the web site , I'm guessing about 6kg like the Slingshot or Takuma ?
Couple of months ago....crosschop, backwash, jet skis !
Looking forward to seeing all the new gear starting to surface...
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Not surfing really, but Foil DW.
Unfortunately I didn't have my GoPro charged, so it's only the first few seconds of my 2km run on Pittwater. To those that do not know Pittwater is an enclosed wayerway, and this is just bay chop. I was pretty amazing how well it worked. I think I was faster on the foil then I would have been in the same conditions on a 14'er.
Select to expand quoteGashed said..
Couple of months ago....crosschop, backwash, jet skis !
Looking forward to seeing all the new gear starting to surface....
I was watching the vid going where the **** is that, then I worked it out...you are a ****ing lunatic riding a foil out there!
Fun session last week on Lombok on my 5'10 Jimmy Lewis Foilboard with GoFoil Kai...
Downwind foiling is truly the future of the foil, so fast and so silent and really so easy!!
If anyone ever needs a hand with the Downwind side feel free to hit me up as I am more then happy to share what I have learned!!
Beasho and I had a fun session in total wonk yesterday.
His daughter and I were on SUP, Beasho was on his foil.
After the session I grabbed my point and shoot, to take vids of his last waves.
Not many foilers in New England yet, so it was fun to watch Beasho carve through the chop.
Well the surf was near flat and pretty much un-surfable!
Not on the foil. We foiled for two hours before getting out to get the camera (unfortunate, as it was much better earlier).
Already posted elsewhere, I just add it here to help centralize all foil videos on the site: fun foil (+SUP) session by the Gong staff offshore of its offices in La Baulke, France:
Another DW'er that didn't really come together, but thank you to the luxury large cruiser that came by to give me a glide 
, right up until I was forced to cutback and went too far out of the wake 
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Fun little session this morning with some of the new 2019 NAISH Foiling goodies. Abracadabra is pretty cool, just one key bolt to fix your foil in solid, makes setting up super fast.
This is the new Slingshot Infinity Surf/Sup Foil. Tested it out towing today , it had amazing stability at speed and incredible glide . Our runs went forever .
Always on top of new gear Piros. How does the new Slingshot compare to the old? Lighter?
Plan has always been to go to shortboard once I have the feel for it.
Im progressing slowly on my Slingshot H4 with retrofitted Hpernut 7'8. After Session 21. Gliding OK. Playing around with turning (small). Im wondering at what point I should go smaller - ie Am I holding myslef up now that I can glide.....or should I keep building my foundation skills on the SUP....Im very competent surfer/short boarder....tough call.
The Horue Boyz (n Girlz) in their latest visual feast:
Nice Colas those guys do some great videos.
Steve yes new wings are lighter and much better shape plus mast set up is much stiffer. Yes definitely go as small as you can as soon as you can , the difference in pumping is huge. Everything becomes easier , except paddling for waves but you soon learn the micro pump paddling for waves. The 7-2 Hypernut is cracker to convert to foil. Plus start looking at a prone foil set up , again next level foiling enjoyment. 
