How to Wing Foil
We are super stoked to be collaborating with Alex Buss at the Kitesurf College on his debut How to Wing Foil series. Alex has been producing quality instruction for years and has produced tons of tutorials and trick videos on his YouTube channel. With our joint expertise and experience, you’ll be up and foiling in no time!
We’ll be adding all the wing foil tutorials here so be sure to check back regularly. You can choose to watch them in the suggested order or pick the tutorials that are relevant to your progress. You can keep watching them as many times as you need.
If you prefer a hands on session then book a Wing Foil lesson with The Foiling Collective. We run sessions for beginners all the way up to advanced coaching for riders looking to develop their freestyle and racing skills.
Wing Foil: Introduction and First Flights
Time:
00:00 Wing control basics
05:22 Carrying and paddling your gear
06:53 Taxiing on your knees
08:52 Knee taxi jibe (turning around)
09:41 Standing up
11:04 Taxiing while standing
12:24 Standing taxi jibe and footswaps
14:12 First flights on the foil
16:34 Failure to take off
17:52 Foil control and longer flights
21:02 Pumping take off
Wing Foil: Beginner Mistakes
This video reviews clips of people’s first attempts at wing foiling, focusing on the mistakes made and how to overcome them. Most people will encounter these issues while learning to wing foil.
Wing Foil: Foot, Mast & Weight Placement Guide
Time:
00:00 Weight, lift & pitch principles
01:10 3 ways of moving weight front or back of lift
03:29 Target foot position & weight distribution
05:39 Getting into a good foot position
08:29 Mast movements
07:25 Toeside to heelside jibe
09:16 Training steps & tips
Wing Foil: Keeping Balance & Controlling Roll (foiling fundamentals)
This guide explains the key principles which help you stay balanced while wing foiling. This is part of the foiling fundamentals series.
Wing Foil: Crashing & tips to reduce the risks of injury and kit damage
Time:
0:00 Introduction
0:14 Falling with the board or against it
0:53 Front wing size and foiling speed
1:26 Armour & impact protection
1:43 Touching down Vs. Breaching
2:13 Learning conditions
2:46 Taking lessons
3:15 Upwind & downwind crashes
3:49 Footstraps
4:08 How skill & experience keep you safe
Wing Foil: Hydrofoil Stalling, and how to avoid it (foiling fundamentals)
This wing-foil tutorial looks at hydrofoil stalling and how to avoid it.
Wing Foil: Pumping / Light-Wind Take Off (all steps from basic to advanced)
Time:
00:00 Linear wing-only pump
01:13 Cyclical wing pump
01:50 Full-body cyclical pump
02:24 How cyclical pumps help
04:58 Final step: alternating foot pressure
07:08 Full technique run through
09:00 Wing and board angle tips
Wing Foil: Toeside (tips, mistakes and upwind riding)
Time:
0:00 Getting into toeside
1:01 Toeside stance & wing positioning
2:39 Wing positioning mistakes
4:14 Roll / lean mistakes
4:47 Upwind riding
Wing Foil: Jibe/Gybe - Heel to Toe, Common Mistakes, Toe to Heel & Training Tips
Time:
00:00 Heelside to toeside jibe
02:38 Apparent wind issues
04:31 Roll angle issues
05:50 Speed issues
07:25 Toeside to heelside jibe
09:16 Training steps & tips
Wing Foil: How to Jibe 2 (extra tips)
This instalment looks at full preparation to improve your chances of jibing and provides tips on equipment & conditions.
Time:
0:00 Intro
0:35 Full jibe prep
5:34 Review of jibe attempts
11:50 Gear & conditions for learning to jibe
Wing Foil: Switching Stance
Time:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Training steps
01:43 Narrow stance hop method
04:02 Foot placement tips & mistakes
05:41 Wide stance hop method
06:09 Nose hold method (moving back foot first)
08:51 Riding direction tips
Wing Foil: Stinkbug Start & Rodeo Stinkbug
Time:
0:00 Intro to stinkbugs
1:01 Stinkbug walkthrough
3:13 Stinkbug mistakes
4:22 Rodeo stinkbug walkthrough
5:45 Benefits of rodeo version
Wing Foil: Foil Pumping Explained
Time:
0:00 Introduction
0:23 A walkthrough of the technique
3:07 An explanation of how it works
8:50 Tips for practising the technique
9:35 Further tips for wing foilers
Wing Foil: Duck Jibe
Time:
0:00 Walkthrough of the duck jibe
2:54 Duck jibe mistakes
4:17 Wing movement training
4:55 Toeside to heelside duck jibe
Wing Foil: Brief-Backwind Jibe or Race Jibe
This tutorials explains how to jibe into brief backwind, which is sometimes referred to as a race jibe.
Wing Foil: Heineken Jibe
Time:
00:00 Full walkthrough (regular, left foot forward)
01:32 Re-cap (goofy, right foot forward)
02:40 Close view of wing control
03:08 Apparent wind issues
04:54 Wind speed and risk
05:25 Bigger board & wing issues
06:16 Toe-to-heel version
Wing Foil: Toe to Heel Tack
Time:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Walk-through
03:23 Wing steering method & mistakes
06:33 Initial roll / lean angle issues
08:06 Yaw turn & mistakes
08:37 Changing from toeside roll to heelside roll & mistakes
09:48 Roll & foot position guide
10:48 Pitch control & mistakes
11:35 Simple steps for building up to a tack
13:41 Exit speed and course (downwind exit & upwind exit)
Wing Foil: Heel to Toe Tack
Time:
00:00 Heel-toe tack walkthrough (reg stance)
01:47 Re-cap (in goofy stance)
02:41 Wing control & mistakes
06:21 Board roll & mistakes
09:42 Board pitch & mistakes
10:46 Tack training steps
13:11 Exit speed & direction tips
Wing Foil: Training 360s
This tutorial explains how you can join a jibe and tack together to do the simplest kind of foiling 360.
Wing Foil: Wing-Swing 360
This tutorial explains a Wing-Swing 360. This is the most fun & fluid 360 as the flagged-out wing naturally follows you around the trick. This 360 is basically a Heineken jibe blended into a toe-heel tack.
Wing Foil: How to Backwind
Time:
0:00 walkthrough of jibe to backwind
2:34 backwinded wing-control guide
5:50 training steps (how to get started)
8:01 how to exit a backwind
9:14 backwind from toeside & 360 version
Wing Foil: Backwinded 360
This video explains the backwind 360 in detail. Make sure you do some 360 as well as Backwind training first.
Wing Foil: How to BackWing
Time:
0:00 Walkthrough of the trick
2:58 Controlling hand-wing’s power
4:57 BackWING Vs. BackWIND
Wing Foil: How to Jump
Time:
0:00 Walkthrough of wingfoil jump
2:20 Best course for take off
3:16 Take off speed / training
3:57 Syncing the wing & foil
4:41 Accidental rotation
5:17 Pitch for landing
