Yoohoo planing freaks!

I'm wondering if you've ever tacked somehow with so much speed that you were able to plane right back out.

Thinking it needs lots of power, a big board (i.e. freestyle) and somehow carve and pump downwind to keep the plane maybe on a swell or wave?

Sounds challenging and impossible...!?

Got vids? It'd have to be a super quick carve.

Manuel7 said..
Yoohoo planing freaks!

I'm wondering if you've ever tacked somehow with so much speed that you were able to plane right back out.

Thinking it needs lots of power, a big board (i.e. freestyle) and somehow carve and pump downwind to keep the plane maybe on a swell or wave?

Sounds challenging and impossible...!?

What do you mean planing out of tack? I generally swim out of a tack!

Get a foil! Racers plane through foils, at least in training videos when the water is flat and nobody else is around. Some of the best freestylers foil through duck tacks and heli tacks. I saw Andy Brandt almost foil through several duck tacks in the last few days; he touched down briefly at the end, and probably kept planing speed through the entire turn.
Staying on the foil through upwind in a tack is pretty easy. My big foilboard definitely still planes when I touch down during the foot switch, but I'm too slow and clumsy to keep it planing. Even in decent tacks, my speed usually drops to 2.5 - 3 knots. But that's with a slow foil (SS i84). Coming in with a race foil at ~ 2x the entry speed should make it easier to keep planing speeds.

LeeD said..
Just go to a race. The best little guys plane thru even on 12' boards. Gephardt and Teddy for sure. And lightweight freestylers plane thru tacks lots of times.

Post Video's, or it didn't happen.

AusMoz said..
Tacking fast as you can on a board with no grip= crushed nuts!

It's worse with square rails

I've just about managed it a few times but as I have no footage of it, who can believe me?!??

however, on the continent seven website I'm pretty sure there's a video of Jaeger (who arguably has the best non racing tacks in the world) doing one in pozo I think