(Even More) How To Squat Start!! 🚽🚽 AWKWA Wingfoiling 101 Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- In this follow up to our first "Stop Trying to Knee Start!! How to Squat Start Instead" video, we take a further look at some additional benefits of this approach (which I neglected to mention in the original) to getting going on a wingfoil board, along with updated (and some prior) footage and camera angles.
The first video, "Wingfoiling 101 - Stop Trying to Knee Start!! How To Squat Start Instead 🚽 AWKWA Wingfoil Series", can be found by clicking on this link: • Wingfoiling 101 - Stop...
The response to the first video has been truly overwhelming! I am gratified by all of the comments and feedback so far. Thank you to all who took time out to watch (even those of you who disagree with this method)! I hope it has helped those of you who have been struggling with knee starting, or are just not able to make it work and were considering giving up, move forward in your wingfoiling journey!
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Thank you so much for the video. It saved my wing-foil progression. When I stared to intensify learning my left knee had pain every time I knee started. I use your squat start now in the second session and can avoid the pain. I modified it a little for my needs. When getting up on the board I knee just with the right foot and bring the left food immediately in squatting position. So I do not knee with left knee at all. For now I continue to knee with the right knee. That way I can handle quite some chop. I think with some practice I will squat also with the right knee in chop. Another thing that helps me in chop: use the hand that is closer to the back of your board to hold the wing. Use the wing as an additional stabiliser to balance. When you are balanced and ready, starting the wing is one quick action. Since you pull it up with the back hand you can grab immediately the front of the boom of the wing with the proper hand. This way you can even give some pressure with elbow while you grab with your back hand the back of the boom.
I tried that technique, and it worked very well. Thank You for the video.
Great points! I am a beginner (only 3 attempts to date) and I will try this method.
Hey Jerome. Welcome to the wonderful world of winging and thanks for watching! The first vid breaks it down a little bit more mechanically (and probably too repetitively haha) on how I exactly do it, which might be more helpful. Hopefully, it puts a useful tool in your bag to get up easier!
@@awkwa Thank you! I will watch your other video again. I have a solid background in surfing, but only a few months prone foiling and less than a handful of times trying to wing foil. I have also been wing skateboarding less than a year so hopefully the experience handling the wing will help. Favorable winds this coming Saturday so I will let you know how it goes!
@@jeromesurffoil7033 Oh yeah, if you're a surfer, you'll nail this. It's basically just surfing post "pop-up" but with a wing to give you momentum and stability instead of the wave! I've surf surfed very little but with a wakeboarding/wakesurfing/windsurfing background, this was just more intuitive for me. Definitely no substitute for getting those wing skills down instinctually, so that's awesome about the skateboard. I learned the wing basics on a mountain board and, while it worked well, I think a skateboard with looser trucks on pavement would've helped me learn to gybe quicker. And, yes, please do!!
I think this works on flat water and a high volume board. But it would be hard if the water is choppy. I put soft footstraps on my board and I put my front knee on them when I’m getting up. It offers padding and most of the weight is on the front knee.
Thanks for the comment, Jake. I actually have done this method in wavy or choppy conditions and, particularly when I wasn't able to get up on foil consistently yet, and felt it saved my bacon and got me back to my car more than once. Interesting method and good idea to help take some pressure off the knee(s). Glad to hear you've found a method that works for you, as that is what counts!
I agree. When the chop is on it's difficult to stand no matter what technique you are using. I find it can help to get a little speed on the board first from the kneel before standing up... similar to the way it's easier to balance on a moving bike than a stationary one.
I had a laugh when I saw your board shorts. In our posse we have that one nerdy guy who likes to wear them over his wetsuit too! You're only the second person I've ever seen do this.
Re wear and tear on your wetsuit knees... I use neoprene knee braces available from Amazon that I wear over my wetsuit for just this reason. They cost $40 and still look new after 18 months of use.
Also, I noticed your footwear and had a chuckle. For about $15 you can often find cheap sneakers at thrift stores. They typically will last a season or two before they have to be replaced. I have a pair of used Nikes that look almost identical to your footwear.
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Thanks for the tips! Even in chop, I'm only on my knees briefly, thankfully. Lol where do you think I got those Speedos I'm wearing in the video?? Great pair, loved them, especially in the warmer months. Soles were bombproof, and I wore them until there were holes in the pinky toe side haha This Winter I've taken to wearing actual booties (Mystic), which have worked great and, frankly, probably provide more board sensitivity, although not nearly as much protection on the shore as I'd like. Gotta make those tradeoffs... Good advice, though-- for people who come out for the first time and don't have aqua shoes, their old or worn sneakers is exactly what I tell them to bring, and they always thank me later!
Hi, it is hard to figure out the size of board you use. What size (volume) of board we see in the video? I’m just trying to see if I’ll be able to apply this technique with my board. Thanks
Hi Francis. The orange board is 120L and the red/white one is 112L. The smallest I've used this technique so far on is an 88L, which is the smallest board I have. We have light and inconsistent winds in the warmer months, which is why I like to use a bit larger board to get back to the car! Like with anything else wingfoiling, the smaller the board the trickier anything you're trying to do will become. Do let us know if you try it and how it works out for you!
any start will work on flat water