HOW TO : WING FOIL UPWIND !!!

“Hello, Wingfoil upwind is a common concern for almost everyone at the beginning. The first reason is the lack of experience that many people have flying on their “bad” side. Becoming ambidextrous takes time. Count on a few or more sessions. To come back from where you are going, there are several things to do : 1 / Know where the wind comes from. It sounds stupid but this new sport will occupy your brain and you will naturally go downwind. So we take references and aim for a crosswind. 2 / Turn back. If you have done 500m in a 90 ° direction of the wind, crosswind, you must follow exactly this path in the opposite direction. So go back to where you started. 3 / Do not waste time in handling the Wing because it is a huge loss of ground. You’ll end up drifting at a crazy speeds. 4 / You want to fly : ok. But trying to fly will cause you to want more power to compensate for your lack of technique. So you end up going down wind and it works, for the moment and it soon becomes a bad reflex. A Wing works mainly with apparent wind, so at very sluggish speeds you will catch up with your wind speed instead of generating it quickly as you would through these phases of launching.> 5 / Walking is not dramatic, when you have the choice to walk back, but some spots will not allow it. So always try to be ahead of the wind to stay autonomous at sea. 6 / Retreat your Wing slightly, and trim a little. Often people who cannot upwind have the Wing in front of them and very shocked. It acts like a sail of windsurfing : if you back it up it makes you luff. 7 / Get your stance right, backing them up helps with upwind while putting them on the wind side of the board just makes you fly badly and late. Your feet should be on the center line of the board or its frame or real close. 8 / You have a fetish side: do it on your upwind side. Enjoy your talent on this side to get all you can. Do not be fooled by the excitement of  flight while sailing downwind. 9 / You cannot fly only on one side, so if you have already lost to the wind, do not try to fly: concentrate on the heading to return to your starting point at a turtles speed. 10 / Last resort : Paddle prone. You put the Wing on its back, the Board facing the wind with the Wing behind, you lie on the Board and you put your feet  over the Leading Edge of the Wing and you paddle. 100m won is still 100m won 😉 11 / Ultimate solution: you somebody who is generous to assist you and helps you drag your gear back up the beach and whispers sweet words into your ear to inflate your ego : but then what the hell are you doing, it’s not complicated !!!! !!!!! lololol+” Find this topic on the forum. Conseiller : Patrice Guénolé et GONG-GALAXY.