gcdave said...Im open to the experience of spraying buckets on a foil in waves.
Oh,wait...
There's guys riding jaws on them and no doubt some guys somewhere working out the mechanics of staying in the pocket and maybe even chasing barrels. There will be more and more ripping in the critical part of the wave. But there won't ever be buckets of spray....foil doesn't work when it breaks the surface. Suspect you know that and are just trolling. ..so consider hook taken.
Think of it this way...the wave energy is IN the water....it is a pulse flowing through the liquid. Surfers ride on TOP of the water surface, because no one can swim fast enough to ride in the wave. That's what dolphins and orcas do and it's rad. They are inside the waves energy. In a way that is what foils do too. And that's pretty cool, #sopitted or not.
Foil wave riding won't ever resemble surfing and nor should it....different animal altogether. In fact, riding in waves on a foil on a downwind is the closest I've felt to powder snowboarding. Weightless carving. And you don't measure success on a powder day by barrels or big spray, but by the carving, fluid speed. Maybe it's the same here. Have to revise expectations for success looks like.
