Finger blasting!
Foil Drive is insanely good!
It is now an established foiling discipline in its own right!
It is probably one of the fastest growing disciplines and certainly the most exciting for anyone who wants to ride waves.
FoilDrive is unmatched for its ability to get you into waves on days when there is no wind.
For wanna be prone foilers it is a tool which will speed up your progress and for many riders it will replace prone foiling all together.
Ultimately we are here to ride waves on foil!
I used to think that foildrive, was cheating! I didnt want one! Maybe to some extent it is, but ultimately we are here because we want to ride waves on foil, right? To do that sometimes we use a wing, or tow in with a boat, sometimes a FoilDrive!
The thing with FoilDrive is that YOU can have one yourself and be independent of anyone else. A boat may not be feasible, you need a driver and a place to launch it and you cannot wing-foil when there is no wind.
But you can FoilDrive in all conditions, on your own or socially. FoilDrive gets you on foil and into waves in all conditions.
If you would like to learn to Foildrive we have the NEW Foildrive Fusion available for lessons and demo sessions.
A foil drive session is COMPLETELY different.
I will motor out the back, way outside of where the waves are breaking, get to my feet and turn onto an unbroken wave. Then I can carve turns running left and right, making top turns off the back of the wave and running out in front, I can try cut backs and
I can pull off the wave before it even breaks and then motor back out again and catch another!
This feels more like snowboarding than surfing and a FoilDrive gives me the ability to catch as many waves as my legs can handle in a 1.5 - 2hr session!
There is absolutely no way I could progress my foil surfing as much as I have WITHOUT a FoilDrive
Why?
Well, having spent many hours over several seasons attempting to prone foil and master linking waves I can attest to the fact that unless you have the perfect wave to chip in, which backs off allowing you to pump back out, then the process of learning can be really slow and frustrating.
Sometimes, I might only get one wave in a session that breaks well enough to allow me to peel off and pump back out. Providing I stay high enough on the mast then I can connect the next wave and maybe one more. After that my legs are cooked and I am back to waiting for the next suitable wave to chip in.
