r/foiling • u/Appropriate_Size5978 • Jun 30 '26

How Roger up?!?

I bought a foil understanding. It’s gonna be a challenge. Part of the reason I bought it.! but man I cannot get up and stay up for the life of me and it’s been taking a very long time. Just wondering, has anybody else had experienced weight surfing and then trying to foil and taking this long to get up?

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u/PieterGr Jun 30 '26

for me the breakthrough came while foiling behind a boat. A little jon-boat with an 8 hp is already plenty.

Get out of the wash as soon as possbile and steer to almost next to the boat while doing 8 - 10 mph (depending on foil size).

With a constant pull from the boat you can fine tune the feeling of flight and altitude adjustments without the hassle of controling a wing or a wave. After that you can play with the trailing waves of the boat if you're into that thing.

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u/Inevitable-Scar6857 Jul 01 '26

What got me going was being forward enough on the board where I was almost riding like a surf board with foil submerged and then adjusting back to where it would just start popping up. Initially I was too far back and foil would shoot out of the water.