Beginners Guide to Winging – How-To Video Series

In this 5 part video series, we’ll take you from zero to hero, starting from the beach to gliding above the water. With tried and tested teaching methods and techniques from foil coach Sam Ross coupled together with clear visuals from our on-water team, we’ll make your learning experience rewarding, simple, and fun.

“What sets this apart from other content is this really shows you how. With easy to follow steps, I’m confident we’ll get you up and flying in no-time.”

– Sam Ross

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

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

Now we’ve mastered wing surfing we’ll look to progress onto wing foiling. We will need to change the kit. The boards are typically smaller and of course, we’re adding a foil.

In this video, we’ll cover the following aspects to learn wing foiling:

• Foil setup, different foil tuning for more and less lift, how the foil attaches to the board, sizes
• Launching, landing self-rescue with foil
• Getting to your feet with a small board
• Riding off the foil
• First flights
• Sustaining flights/adjusting height
• Pumping
• Upwind / downwind
• Gybing
• Riding switch/ foot change

We’ve covered the basics of wing foiling – now we’ll look at how to progress! Smaller kit, Faster turns, riding waves, learning to jump and some basic freestyle.

In this wing foil progression foil video from the FreeWing how-to series, we’ll cover the following topics:

• Foil setup
• Smaller boards
• Foiling turns
• Jumps
• Freestyle
• Riding Waves

We’ve covered the basics of wing foiling – now we’ll look at how to progress! Smaller kit, Faster turns, riding waves, learning to jump and some basic freestyle.

In this wing foil progression foil video from the FreeWing how-to series, we’ll cover the following topics:

• Foil setup
• Smaller boards
• Foiling turns
• Jumps
• Freestyle
• Riding Waves