The equipment featured in these Learn Wingfoiling Zero to Hero tutorials are:

• Starboard Wingboard Foil
• Starboard x Airush FreeWing Air
• Starboard Foils

Rigging Your Wingfoiling Setup | Episode 1

In the first episode of Wingfoiling Zero to Hero, Zane Schweitzer demonstrates how to rig up your wingfoiling setup for first-time riders. In this wingfoiling tutorial, you will learn:

• how to rig up the hydrofoil
• how to mount the hydrofoil securely to your wingboard
• how to safely inflate the FreeWing to the correct PSI

Entering the Water Safely with Wingfoiling Gear | Episode 2

In the second episode of Wingboarding Zero to Hero, Zane Schweitzer demonstrates how to safely enter the water and get flying. In this wingfoiling tutorial, you will learn:

• walking to the water with your gear safely
• getting into the water and out into safe depth for the foil to clear the bottom
• mounting the board and Controlling the wing
• engaging lift into flight mode

Wingfoiling How To Upwind, Jibing & Tacking | Episode 3

In the third episode of Wingboarding Zero to Hero, Zane Schweitzer demonstrates how to control the board with some basic techniques for riders starting wingfoiling for the first time. In this wingfoiling tutorial, you will learn:

• holding line upwind
• jibing
• tacking

Wingfoiling How To Wave Ride | Episode 4

In the next episode of Wingboarding Zero to Hero, Zane Schweitzer demonstrates how to control the board with some basic techniques for riders starting wingfoiling for the first time.

In this wingboarding tutorial, you will learn:

• how to ride waves with your wing and foil
• how to wingfoil surf
• how to wingboard wave ride

Wingfoiling How To Donkey Kick and Backwinding | Episode 5

Zane Schweitzer takes it to the air to show you how to do some of the most popular wing foiling aerial manoeuvres that you’ve probably seen online.

In this wingboarding tutorial, you will learn:

• how to do a wing boarding donkey kick or cross-up
• how to backwind in wing boarding

Wingfoiling How To Wave Ride, Aerial & 360 | Episode 6

In the next episode of Wingboarding Zero to Hero, Zane Schweitzer takes aerial tricks to the next level. In this episode of wing foiling aerial manoeuvres you will learn some of the more progressive tricks to do in the air.

In this wingboarding tutorial, you will learn:

• wave riding and launching off a wave
• wingfoiling aerial
• wingfoiling 360

How To Attach a Harness & Harness Lines to Your Wing | Episode 7

In the 7th Episode of Wingboarding Zero to Hero with Zane Schweitzer, he explains how to attach a kite harness and harness line. Zane then takes it out to the water to show us how (and how not) to wingfoil with harness lines. Attaching yourself to your wing with a harness reduces the load on your arms so that you can ride longer.

*Note getting started in riding with harness lines and being attached to the wing can be dangerous and should only be performed by experienced wing riders.

In this wingboarding tutorial, you will learn:

• how to correctly attached lines to your wing
• how to attach the lines to your harness once riding
• safely factors to consider when riding attached to your wing when riding with a harness and harness lines

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“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

Lesson One: 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

Lesson Two: 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

Lesson Three: Learning to Wing Foil

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

Lesson Four: Wing Foil Progression

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

Lesson Five: Know Your Gear

The correct gear is paramount to a good Wingfoil experience. When you’re just starting out, the correct gear will help you to improve your rate of progression.

In this video from the FreeWing how-to series, we will look at all the various aspects of wingfoiling equipment required for winging and dive into details on various aspects of this gear.

In this video, we cover:

• Board Selection
• Leashes
• Straps
• The Foil
• Front Wings
• Foil Mast
• Rear Wing
• Foil Position
• Foil Straps

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