Foiling has been around for years now. You can foil in the surf. You can foil with a kite. But recently, kite and windsurf companies have developed a new tool to use that’s more user-friendly than any wind apparatus before: the wing. The wing is based loosely off the Wind Weapon from the eighties and is a simple way to take advantage of light winds for foiling. It’s actually really fun. But a wing, a foil, and shorebreak just don’t go well together.
Sam Light, a professional kiteboarder, recently put this piece together of his second time trying the wing and foil together. He’s using a Dart V1 wing from Slingshot designed specifically for freestyle so it’s not the most “well-behaved” wing you’ll find on the market. Light is using a foil setup from Ride Engine. It doesn’t go swimmingly. Or, more to the point, Mr Light does some swimming.
As Light tries to get out with his setup, things go a bit sideways when he gets pounded by the shorebreak. He shows how fun and easy going a wing and a foil can be once he makes it out. But he gets bounced hard trying to get back in, too. All in all, a good day in some uncrowded surf that no one else would really want anything to do with. Light makes it look fun. Except for getting pounded in the shorebreak. That doesn’t look fun.
