Do you want to learn wing foil and are you wondering if it is difficult to learn? Wingfoil is quite simple to learn, it is not dangerous. If it is true that people who come from windsurfing have an advantage in managing the wing, while people who come from sup and kitesurfing have an advantage in balance on the board, it is also true that even people who have no experience with windsurfing, SUP and kitesurfing, can try and immediately start having fun with relative simplicity. Let’s see below some recommendations to start making Wing Foil in simplicity and safety.
The use of the wing is quite simple so even a novice can use it safely and especially those who are not very good swimmers having the wing attached to their wrist can benefit from an excellent life jacket always at hand.
Furthermore, since it is not a particularly dangerous or traumatic sport, it is also suitable for children and people who are a little older or out of shape and in general for anyone who does not want to do too radical sports such as kitesurfing, windsurfing or surfing.
Getting started with Wing Foil in a simple, safe and correct way
Our suggestion for people who want to learn with the Wing Foil is to take a course at a Wing Foil school. The reasons are different, let’s see the main ones:
- simplicity and safety: starting with a professional is certainly easier, faster and safer.
- materials available: the Wing Foil schools have a lot of material available (wings, boards and fins of different sizes), including certainly the one most suitable for your weight, level and for the current weather conditions. Those who start alone can hardly afford to have so much material available, perhaps to be used once or a little more. Wing Foil schools, on the other hand, will be able to give you the material you need.
In any case, regardless of whether one wants to start alone or with a school, the most important thing when you want to learn Wing Foil in a simple, fast and safe way, is to do it with the right conditions, that is:
- suitable Wing Foil equipment: choose the correct equipment to learn, such as a bulky board that allows us to stand on it without sinking,
- suitable weather conditions to start with the Wing Foil: choose suitable wind and sea conditions, so no waves and not too strong wind.
Learn Wing Foil step by step, learn quickly and safely
As already highlighted, Wing Foil is a fairly simple sport to learn and anyone can do it, even those who have never been too sporty and even those who think they are getting older.
Wing Foil is also a safe sport, if you use the materials suitable for our level and if you do it in the correct weather conditions. The most dangerous part for those who practice Wing Foil could be that linked to the use of the hydrofoil (the fin that is positioned under the table and that allows us to lift ourselves out of the water), but also in this case the dangers related to The use of a hydrofoil with the wing are rather relative and in any case not comparable, for example, to those of the use of a hydrofoil with kitesurfing. In fact, in Kite Foil the board is small and when you fall the hydrofoil tends to turn around and come out of the water, and fall on it hurting yourself, it’s not that difficult. With wing boards this does not happen. In fact the Wing Foil boards are heavy and it is really difficult that boards and hydrofoils for the Wing can be turned.
In any case, it is important to learn step by step, without thinking or pretending to be a champion from day one. In the early stages of learning we should learn how to use the wing from Wing on the beach, then learn how to maneuver it on a bulky board without hydrofoil, then learn how to use the hydrofoil pulled by a boat and finally mix everything. By doing so, by learning Wing Foil step by step, the risk component will be very low, making Wing Foil a truly safe sport.