Learning Wing Basics & How to Handle the Wing on the Beach. We start at the beach with kit setup and orientation. How to inflate the wing and leave it safely. Then we’ll look at parts of the wing, such as the power and neutral handles, Struts, window and leash.
Where a lot of people struggle is they take to the water too early, and don’t have success in flying the wing efficiently. Here we’ll do some exercises which really sets you up well before we take to the water.
- Wind awareness
- Walking with Power
- Leaving equipment
Learning to Wing Surf, Once we’re comfortable controlling the wing on the beach, we’ll look at combining the kit on the water. We’ll start with a large floaty board, so we can concentrate on honing our wing skills.
- Launching, landing & self-rescue – paddle out
- Kneeling across the wind with a basic turn.
- Hold the neutral handle
- Tack and gybe
- Standing up across the wind with turns
- How the board steers, center of effort and centre of lateral resistance.
- Standing up and basic steer
- Upwind and downwind
- Progressing with powered turns
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