How To Tune Your Foil - Fuse Length, Stabilizer, and Shimming - Wingfoil tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- This is some dense material, but I know a lot of riders out there are as confused as I used to be when I heard words like yaw, shim, dihedral… etc.
I don’t claim to be an expert, but hopefully this video can help you tune your foil so that it’s easier to ride. Sometimes a small adjustment can make a huge difference when it comes to foils and making them feel more rideable and user friendly.
#wingfoiling #shimming #stabilizer
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Pitch, Roll, and Yaw
1:53 - Front wing characteristics
5:44 - Fuse length
8:44 - Rear stabilizer
17:11 - Shimming
24:16 - Final thoughts - กีฬา
Thanks for taking the time to try to explain design performance. I too rode sans stab to test it out, both winging and kite foiling. Just this week I modified (5) fuses, chopped to a nib in order to mount the stab right behind the mast, and on the backside of the front wing (basically just super short). I also prefer low aspect foils (AR4.4) over high ones. I've started playing with stabs. Thanks for showing your cool stabs. My love is to surf, but since I ride small river swell I'm essentially riding 1-2 waves, so I want a super loose carvy surf like foil (think old school style skateboards used for sidewalk surfing). So currently I'm experimenting with that. I can send you photos if interested. I think I sit in my garage, like your video, and explain to myself for hours how all this stuff works.
Awesome. I love when people experiment and try new things as we never know what might be possible until we try.
I always enjoy your informative videos a lot Rob. Big Aloha
Thanks for the kind words!
Nice job covering los of variables Rob. Keep up he good work bro!
Thanks Seth. Who knew we would have to become rocket scientists just to ride some waves.
Nice videos! I'm sharing my experience after a few years of wingfoiling. I shim positively (increasing the longitudinal V angle between the tail and the front wing) when I'm riding at high speeds because stability is crucial, and the board's nose tends to dive (starting around 20 knots?). I shim negatively (towards neutral) in light wind conditions to optimize glide. I won't get into discussing the rake, even though I have thoughts on it, but I'll stop here since I'm not proficient in English.
Interesting! The opposite of what I do. At high speeds I generate a lot more lift and want a negative shim to control that front foot lift from breaching.
@@wingmanfoilclub In strong wind conditions, with a stabilizer set with very little lift, the foil will be longitudinally unstable and prone to generating nose down tendencies (around 20 knots and beyond). Adding rake for a nose-up position.
Nice video. How you stayed coherent through all that without a teleprompter is amazing. 😀 next video: how to wing skate on your roof.
It’s helps that I can edit out all the “ums” and “you knows.”
We’re technically banned from the roof now. When we moved in there was a whole gazebo with dining set and Astro turf. Blew away/got destroyed in a microburst storm. Roof leaked like crazy and has been replaced 2-3 times. So now they don’t want us up there. Which is lame cause it was a big deciding factor on us moving in. The only downside is the access is up a ladder through a small hole in my closet.
@@wingmanfoilclub I think you mean the AXIS ladder.
Terrible.
Black shirt negated the whit background.
Big fan of black shirts. Don’t let them see you sweat!
I like black too. 😊