Learning to foil behind a power boat is a great way to get started

Fri 12 Aug 2022
Author: John Nayler
It's easy to become hooked on foiling. Learning to foil behind a boat is an amazing adventure.
The saying "practise makes perfect" is very true as demonstrated in this video.

Check out this guy struggling at first but then as he tries and tries again he is able to get up on foil and eventually take the most pleasurable, brain exploding step of throwing away the tow rope and foiling on the power boat wake.

Once on foil the riding becomes effortless as the foil glides through the water requiring only a keen sense of balance on the flier.

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