Heavy, Bumpy, Messy, Rips, Currents and just generally not nice! This pretty much describes the surf yesterday at Foil Bay. But somehow I convinced Casso to take it on, and take it on he did. Casso owned it out there in less than rideable conditions - Awesome effort mate.

Here's a quick edit of how it went down,



Enjoy, Ride safe,

JB

colas said..
Beryl in slow-motion swoops...

Very nice, where we all want to be

Jezza, AA and Casso - by Chappo...

Classic Casso & ripping AA go the Vintage foilers yeeeeeew.

Messing around on a tiny day. 5 sec. SE swell. Amazing I could even get to my feet. Good fun practicing linking up and pumping.

Riding Naish Hover Ascend 5'0" and Thrust Big Wing.

Enjoy,



Ride Safe,

JB

Beasho said..

JB said..
Messing around on a tiny day. 5 sec. SE swell. Amazing I could even get to my feet. Good fun practicing linking up and pumping.
JB

Great stuff. Love the graphics. Really highlights what's going on. Garmin? It looked like you lasted ~ 1:30 in that first clip.

The peaks and valleys of speed show wave catch vs. pumping. Speeds pumping out were as low as ~ 12 kph or 7 mph. This is pretty low to maintain flight suggesting either technique or low weight or both.

Hey Beasho,

Thanks mate, yes the new GoPro Gauges are awesome. They may chew a little more battery (recording with GPS data), but I love reviewing back what's going on. Yep, about 1.5min and few waves .

The swell was 5 seconds, so super gutless, I'm on Naish's biggest wing and 70cm mast, pretty much being very conscious of efficiency as my speed rarely gets high enough to maintain a good pump speed (I usually find about 25km/h you can pump easily off), some of these I 'am pumping stable at crazy slow speeds which was generally inches from stalling. I have been practicing pumping for a while and would like to say it's "Good Tech" , but I am still getting better also. That's the best part of foiling, always learning something new every session.

Thanks for the props,

Ride safe,

JB

Seajuice said..
Good one RAL INN. My favourite waves when getting touched by whitewash on a re building wave. Easier on a prone board than SUP to stay on board. But easier on SUP to get up & running if you survive the hit I think. I use SUP only at this stage.
Excellent commentry for beginners.
Nice video.

Of course they are only French waves.
not real Aussie waves.

Nice video JB and good lesson for newbies to learn foil down winding , keep your early runs short it's a hard long learning process. I've been stuck on a couple of 10k plus runs where I could barely foil so paddled most of the way on a 6-8 Sup. It's a real art to pick up the bumps then link them , it looks oh so easy but it is the hardest foil disciple to learn and totally exhausting.

Had a really fun morning glide at Maroochydore River Mouth during a recent delivery run to the Sunshine Coast.

It's a bit long, but so are the glides

Strongly recommend getting in touch with the Ocean Addicts crew before hitting this location to understand he tides and sand bars.

Enjoy,



Ride safe,

JB

Some solid carving by Mark McCallum on the Naish Ascend 4'8" and Thrust Surf Medium at Foil Bay.

Awesome edit by OCS Creative - Ollie Sharp.

Remember, don't get too caught up in the big wing.

Enjoy,



Ride safe,

JB

How good is this Downwind footage of good mate Jeremy Riggs RIPPING on the Go Foil on Maui's famous Kihei run.
with good mate Bill Boyum on the Surfski for people who don't know Bill Boiyums brother Mike Boyum discovered Grajagan, Java and the original owners of Bobby's Surf Camp early 70's.

Fishdude said..

Downwinder said..
How good is this Downwind footage of good mate Jeremy Riggs RIPPING on the Go Foil on Maui's famous Kihei run.
with good mate Bill Boyum on the Surfski for people who don't know Bill Boiyums brother Mike Boyum discovered Grajagan, Java and the original owners of Bobby's Surf Camp early 70's.

Great video, im always surprised to see how small the boards folks are using to SUP-downwind on. any idea the size of that board?

Jeremy Rigs is a freak of nature with so much talet Jeremey would also be THE BEST Downwind Coach on the PLANET. Jeremy weighs like 65kg featerweight his boards around the 5'5'' mark shaped by Mark Raaphorst.

Casso said..

We all want to know what's in the back-pack?

all cash in that water proof bag?