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At which point did the foiling switch flick
and you become addicted?
When I landed my first backloop at my place in La Ventana I
was pretty hooked. We don’t always get ramps big enough for
backloops there. With the foil, all of a sudden I was able to do
them in small one-metre swell in winds that I would need my
5.6 to use my freestyle board. The foil really just made
windsurfing in less than exciting conditions super fun again.
What do you prefer: foiling or standard
windsurfing? Which do you find more
fulfilling?
When the conditions are good I still prefer normal
windsurfing. I can do a lot of tricks and boosting backloops
and pushloops along with all the freestyle moves is just too
much fun. The second the wind lightens up or just gets flukey
instead of being bummed I keep the same sail I was on and
just switch to the foil board and I am having a blast in
minutes. I have been learning a lot of new tricks on the foil
and each session I get noticeably better so at the moment
it’s the foiling that is more fulfilling.
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