@misterbennetts just got an axis ses, 100l axis carbon board and f1 wing. Need to get on the swell! Kitesurfed for 20yrs , just gonna have to be a learner again! Still looks odd though!
Dang mate, you make it look so so easy lol - motivated me to keep trying - Freaking most beautiful water ever and hilarious you zippin around pumping through standing still crowds ha ha
At this point just call it high performance surfing. The lines being drawn is basically the same or more radical. Even the hardest anti foilers can't deny the facts!
Looks like fun, especially in small surf, the regular gutsy not getting many waves. But can it compare to taking a super late drop and pulling in on an overhead wave? Something I’ve never seen a foil board doing.
@@mitseraffej5812 it’s funny you say that, because I talk about this all the time. I surfed professionally for 10+ years and foiling gives me even more of a rush than dropping in a overhead wave and getting barreled (which used to be my favourite thing to do). Don’t get me wrong, I definitely miss getting stand up barrels, but to get that feeling from one good stand up barrel, you can get that on foil almost everyday. Foils were never designed for riding barrels, they were designed to harness untapped energy, unrideable on any other craft. It just so happens that they work amazing on surfable waves and actually amplify the surfing feeling by an infinite number - that’s why I stopped surfing nearly 5 years ago. You should try it one day, it will change your life! 🤙🏼
@@misterbennetts I would so love to try foiling, unfortunately I am now old and decrepit. The boards I started on were the first of the short board designs. Single fin with the wide point up front, they were absolute pigs. How things have changed. Arthritis and multiple joint replacements knocked me out of the water ten years back in my mid 50s. I still grieve the loss and have a fantasy of being towed into some gigantic mutant wave as a way of euthanising myself. Maybe I should do it on a foil🤪
Prob took me 1 month to figure that out but I literally went every day, sometimes twice a day. I also was on some very shit low aspect early gear which was super inefficient. If you get a good high aspect setup, you should be able to figure it out within 1-2 months going a few times a week. 🤙🏼
@@misterbennetts thanks Adam, coming from 20+ years of kite and windsurf. I will not let the foil beat me 😂😂 loving the challenge. But it gets me angry so bad also 😂😂😂 thanks mate 👍
@@gillesweber5574yeh I felt the same. I almost gave up after a few weeks. But then it clicked and I haven’t surfed since I started foiling 4 years ago 🤙🏼
Yeh man, so much fun experimenting. There’s about 3 different setups I ride depending on conditions. The F-One, Takuma and Armstrong gear is what I’m liking at the moment 🤙🏼
This is truly amazing mate, shredding! How's the 140? I use the chopped V currently but was thinking about 205 and 180,,,,,, maybe 205 and 140 would be a better combo? Or 140 and 180 lol too many choices.
Mr. Bennetts, you had mentioned in your other takuma video that this foil is good for top turns. I definitely see it in this video. In regards to the takuma pumping ability, I was using the massive Mike pedigo fly line productions tail wing and it was quite an improvement with the takuma pumping.
Unfortunately that tail wing only works on the older takuma foils. They just don’t pump because they have a low aspect ratio. Around 7 I believe. But the 800 does surf good 👍🏼
They tore it down and built houses. I would say “there”, but I’m saying “here” because I live right on site where the slides were, it’s called Oakwood Shores now.
I have never really wanted to surf... I have actually tried it but found it boring. Time spend ducking though waves, paddling out repeatedly, even if you fail to catch a wave left me wondering how it was worth the time. Watching Foil boarding is the first time in my life I have wanted to go in the ocean... the idea that you can go out and come back almost fully dry from the knees up after catching 10 waves in a short period of time has massive appeal. Yes, I understand you can fall, get wet ect... but you can show up to the beach, run in, launch off and with in 1 min you are on your first wave, then crest over the top, pump to the next wave and repeat until tired and head back in... THAT is more like skating or biking... where the event is not some where way out in the future, and you don't even know if the wave you want to catch is coming so you just sit, waiting... because working your way back out from a crap wave sucks on a surf board.
it’s never too late. I foil almost every week with one of the guys in Ballina. He’s 72 and is out tow foiling behind his ski almost every day. The feelings you get from it are out of this world!
@@misterbennetts Hi Adam, i can't believe it, it's crazy. I've got a HA 725 on my wingfoil with a HA190 stab and when my speed is not high enough i get down and when i try to pump i have not enough lift to push the water as you do. what's the secret ?
@@jeromegeorges9983smaller stab and a shim in the front bolts of the mast. Opens up the top end, reduces drag (meaning you can get to where you want faster with less energy wasted) and the shim in the base plate gives back a lot of front foot pressure so you can push against it without it slipping 🤙🏼
@@brenofernandes1204 it's not that at all, people should not ride foils in among regular surfer's.There is plenty of open beaches were foiling can be done . Regular surfer's & foils don't mix. It's a super dangerous mix.
Everyone else sitting around bored asf! --- You carving, having time of your life! ♥IT!!
So much fun!
"Right on.".🔱🐧🍸🚖🍍🥥🍹🥤🥂
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Epic! love how almost every surfer is "not surfing" and you ripping it up everywhere!!! bet their like " well its not REAL surfing " :))
Haha, that is legit what people think 🤙🏼
@misterbennetts just got an axis ses, 100l axis carbon board and f1 wing.
Need to get on the swell!
Kitesurfed for 20yrs , just gonna have to be a learner again! Still looks odd though!
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Always Action, Power & Style 🙌🏽 let us know when your coming to Maui 🤙🏽 and can leave that fullsuit at home Bra 😆
Haha thanks. Will do. Look forward to getting over there soon!
Great tune to go along with that smooth sailing mate.🤙
Thanks man. Good fun!
Oh man you guys have such a different experience of winter up north. Bring on our 2 months of vicco summer!
Haha yeh we basically didn’t have a winter!
Dang mate, you make it look so so easy lol - motivated me to keep trying - Freaking most beautiful water ever and hilarious you zippin around pumping through standing still crowds ha ha
Haha so fun mate! Love it!
At 2:50 there's all these shark biskits just bobbing around waiting... And you are carving it. HellooooOoooo!
Haha yeeeehaaaaa!
Adam you're my master, thanks for sharing this crazy powerturns evrywhere, so inspiring🤙 It changes my way to foil🙏🙏🙏
Amazing. Stoked I can help you in some way! 🤙🏼
Fabuleux ! Thanks for sharing.
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so good!
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Ripping the bad out of it ❤ such sweet gliding turns you can only hope for surfing your shorty. I'm hooked
That’s why I stopped surfing haha. Yew!
Epic spot and riding! Hope get to shred there one day 🤙🏽
It’s paradise! 😃😃😃
At this point just call it high performance surfing. The lines being drawn is basically the same or more radical. Even the hardest anti foilers can't deny the facts!
TRUTH!
Yeh I wish they could just experience it just once. Would open their minds for sure!
Looks like fun, especially in small surf, the regular gutsy not getting many waves. But can it compare to taking a super late drop and pulling in on an overhead wave? Something I’ve never seen a foil board doing.
@@mitseraffej5812 it’s funny you say that, because I talk about this all the time. I surfed professionally for 10+ years and foiling gives me even more of a rush than dropping in a overhead wave and getting barreled (which used to be my favourite thing to do). Don’t get me wrong, I definitely miss getting stand up barrels, but to get that feeling from one good stand up barrel, you can get that on foil almost everyday. Foils were never designed for riding barrels, they were designed to harness untapped energy, unrideable on any other craft. It just so happens that they work amazing on surfable waves and actually amplify the surfing feeling by an infinite number - that’s why I stopped surfing nearly 5 years ago. You should try it one day, it will change your life! 🤙🏼
@@misterbennetts I would so love to try foiling, unfortunately I am now old and decrepit. The boards I started on were the first of the short board designs. Single fin with the wide point up front, they were absolute pigs.
How things have changed. Arthritis and multiple joint replacements knocked me out of the water ten years back in my mid 50s. I still grieve the loss and have a fantasy of being towed into some gigantic mutant wave as a way of euthanising myself. Maybe I should do it on a foil🤪
Beautiful surfing.
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So steezy🤙
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super awesome 😁
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Crazy 🤯🤯❤
So fun!
Insane
Yes my man! 🥳🥳🥳
Mind blowing mate 🤙 how long did it take you to connect waves? I find that so hard, and such a challenge that I wanna go prone foiling every day 😂
It you go every day with a surf background it seems to take about 3-4 months
Prob took me 1 month to figure that out but I literally went every day, sometimes twice a day. I also was on some very shit low aspect early gear which was super inefficient. If you get a good high aspect setup, you should be able to figure it out within 1-2 months going a few times a week. 🤙🏼
@@misterbennetts thanks Adam, coming from 20+ years of kite and windsurf. I will not let the foil beat me 😂😂 loving the challenge. But it gets me angry so bad also 😂😂😂 thanks mate 👍
@@gillesweber5574yeh I felt the same. I almost gave up after a few weeks. But then it clicked and I haven’t surfed since I started foiling 4 years ago 🤙🏼
@@MensGroup....wow I can actually attest to this as correct. Took me about 3-4months
First impressive foil surfing I've seen. Can this standard be replicated with a wing or does that require a different foil ?
Thanks man! Yeh for sure it can be replicated with a wing, but it’s always more awkward with a wing cause it always gets in the way 🤙🏼
Love seeing you ride so many different foils, all to an equally high level. How do you pick which one to ride each day? 😆
Yeh man, so much fun experimenting. There’s about 3 different setups I ride depending on conditions. The F-One, Takuma and Armstrong gear is what I’m liking at the moment 🤙🏼
Wow , who's getting all the waves !!!
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This is truly amazing mate, shredding! How's the 140? I use the chopped V currently but was thinking about 205 and 180,,,,,, maybe 205 and 140 would be a better combo? Or 140 and 180 lol too many choices.
Thanks man! The 140 is a game changer. It really opens up the top end and carves like crazy!
the best of the best
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Great vid. Is the foil e powered ?
Thanks! No it’s not. Powered by the waves and my legs 🤙🏼
Masterful
Yew yew
Insanely good conditions. Shredding
Man it’s been so good!
Ripping! Do you use a larger foil for waves like the long smaller one at the end? Cheers
Nah I use the same size foil for all those conditions 🤙🏼
Wow!!!
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Wow! Where is this?
Looks like Byron and Gold Coast ( the Alley)
And there's deffo Angourie in there
It’s all in Byron 🤙🏼
If you fall off out the back is it easy to get back on and get going again?
Yeh as long as there’s a breaking wave. It’s the same as surfing, you need that initial wave to get up on foil. 🤙🏼
@@misterbennetts Nice one. Tx :)
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Sick! What Armstrong setup are you using?
HA725 🤙🏼
@@misterbennetts You rip on that! I use the MA625, which is amazing too. I might need to try the HA725. Looks fun!
The new 680 is way better. You should try that!
I will!
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It's almost enough to give up your surfboard to try this...!
That’s exactly what I did. Haven’t surfed in over 5 years!
Buttery♥
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Mr. Bennetts, you had mentioned in your other takuma video that this foil is good for top turns. I definitely see it in this video. In regards to the takuma pumping ability, I was using the massive Mike pedigo fly line productions tail wing and it was quite an improvement with the takuma pumping.
Unfortunately that tail wing only works on the older takuma foils. They just don’t pump because they have a low aspect ratio. Around 7 I believe. But the 800 does surf good 👍🏼
Wow…
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what foil are you using?
Armstrong HA725 🤙🏼
At least the drop ins are getting off the wave after they drop in
Unlike California or Bali
Haha yeh the beauty of the foil is being able to give way and just find the next wave 🤙🏼
They tore it down and built houses. I would say “there”, but I’m saying “here” because I live right on site where the slides were, it’s called Oakwood Shores now.
I don’t get it. But good for you!
Yes it is!
Yew yew!
which beach is this?
Byron bay 🤙🏼
Where is that filmed?
Australia 🤙🏼
Where is this?
Byron bay 🤙🏼
Dreamyyyyy
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I came here for the huge sprays and the barrels
and this clearly did not disappoint ~lol
Lol
I have never really wanted to surf... I have actually tried it but found it boring. Time spend ducking though waves, paddling out repeatedly, even if you fail to catch a wave left me wondering how it was worth the time. Watching Foil boarding is the first time in my life I have wanted to go in the ocean... the idea that you can go out and come back almost fully dry from the knees up after catching 10 waves in a short period of time has massive appeal. Yes, I understand you can fall, get wet ect... but you can show up to the beach, run in, launch off and with in 1 min you are on your first wave, then crest over the top, pump to the next wave and repeat until tired and head back in... THAT is more like skating or biking... where the event is not some where way out in the future, and you don't even know if the wave you want to catch is coming so you just sit, waiting... because working your way back out from a crap wave sucks on a surf board.
it’s never too late. I foil almost every week with one of the guys in Ballina. He’s 72 and is out tow foiling behind his ski almost every day. The feelings you get from it are out of this world!
Good luck with that plan. It is dificult to learn and you are gonna get very wet. Efoil will help
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what front wing?
HA725 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
@@misterbennetts Hi Adam, i can't believe it, it's crazy. I've got a HA 725 on my wingfoil with a HA190 stab and when my speed is not high enough i get down and when i try to pump i have not enough lift to push the water as you do. what's the secret ?
@@jeromegeorges9983smaller stab and a shim in the front bolts of the mast. Opens up the top end, reduces drag (meaning you can get to where you want faster with less energy wasted) and the shim in the base plate gives back a lot of front foot pressure so you can push against it without it slipping 🤙🏼
Wow sick! Is it like a 3d printed shim or just a bit of plastic stuck in the front?
Also was it the 140?
how annoying to be in the lineup with this guy.
This guy always gives way to surfers and he’s having the most amount of fun 😃
Not even close to power surfing keep outta the line up
No one said it was power surfing my friend 🤙🏼
sorry Kelly
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Still riding in with others surfers,that's pathetic
Firstly, the ocean is for everyone. Secondly, I’m riding waves that are unrideable on a surfboard.
@@misterbennetts not when you on a foil. Plenty of places you can ride foils,where there are no regular surfer's, But we all know,it's look at me.
@@PaulBevear so now surfers are angry because they see someone catching more waves that they cant...
@@brenofernandes1204 it's not that at all, people should not ride foils in among regular surfer's.There is plenty of open beaches were foiling can be done . Regular surfer's & foils don't mix. It's a super dangerous mix.
@@PaulBevearanyone with no common sense on any craft are a dangerous mix. Should see how many surfing injuries I see every week in Byron. It’s nuts!