Does anyone kitefoil

Or is everyone happy with their lot with no questions or anything to share?
I haven't kitefoiled for a long time due to windwing and look here for motivation to kitefoil again.

What Gorgo said (but at lower skill levels )
About to try down wind foiling on SUP but the paddle up on foil is not happening yet. Am planning on using smallest kite on short lines to try building on foil pumping skills (way off ATM)..
Down wind swell runs with kite (Peaks) give me a high..
The PITA is 70+% time working upwind for down wind blast.. Mindset change required = make whole run downwind like surfing run..
cheers
AP

If you're exploring ultra light wind foiling with a Peak and a wing board then a leash is useful. The chances of the board getting flicked at you are low, and the chances of you getting separated from the board are relatively high.

There's not a lot of benefit to kite foiling with a wing foiling board, or even a kite foil board with a wing foil attached. At those super light winds the lack of power and cumbersome nature of the board and foil makes dealing with all that stuff really difficult.

If there's enough wind to get a little bit of power to stabilise everything then there's enough wind to get going with a normal kite foiling board and foil, and it's much easier because you can whip the kite around and make power and get going.

A big wing foil tends to rear up when you try to water start with a kite. I've had to stand with both feet on the nose to keep the foil down. A high aspect wing foil is a bit easier because it can take a bit of speed on the surface before you get up on the foil. It's doable and sort of stupid grin inducing to be puttering around on an inappropriate foil.

A floaty wing board is too big to water start. With a Peak it's easy enough to have the kite sit there while you climb up on the board and get to your feet. There's no power from the kite so standing upright is hard and getting going harder again. It seems to work to stay on one knee and get some speed up before standing up and riding away.

It's worth doing purely for something to do when the wind is too light to do anything else. I used a climbing harness to avoid the risk of dinging my very fragile light wind SUP foil board with the harness hook.

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warwickl said..
Or is everyone happy with their lot with no questions or anything to share?
I haven't kitefoiled for a long time due to windwing and look here for motivation to kitefoil again.

Hi Warwick here's some motivation

Carry all your foiling gear, board and kite under one arm down to the beach having driven there in a very reasonably sized vehicle that easily fits and carries your fully assembled foil and board inside. This is because your board is around 1m long & weighs 2-3kg and your foil setup is smaller than most wingfoilers use in lighter winds.

Lay out your small kite and lines, no pumping required for Flysurfer Peak & Hybrid kites, hot launch, walk to deep enough water and with one flick of the bar launch yourself up onto your foil.

The wind is only around 10 knots ... great Heaps of fun kitefoiling in light winds with an inexpensive 5m or smaller kite. Have a relaxing foil for a kilometre or two upwind and then ride the foil downwind working every bit bit of wind chop with the kite just floating above you. Make a few sharp turns around some wingfoilers who couldn't see where they were going, practice pumping if you've got a suitable foil, race a TT rider or two who are mowing the lawn with humungous kites and repeat to your hearts content.
If the wind picks up to over 20 knots try a 2.5m kite, even more fun

I think some kite foilers have been using kites which were designed for TT or Surfboard riding which are nowhere near as much fun as simpler, lighter, small kites which are designed for foiling. Also many haven't experimented with the latest foil designs in the smaller sizes from many manufacturers which can give you a totally different feel to the foils you may have used in the past.

As KBGhost has mentioned there are foils like the Triton which have a fantastic loose, manoeuvrable feel and ride so smoothly, unlike conventional foils. And your board length can be 80cm and cost less than $600 for a Naish Microchip. No swing weight there!
The Flysurfer Peak & Hybrid kites minimise setup and pack down time, no pumping, simple bridles, low maintenance, long lasting, reasonably priced, plenty of instant power/depower in a small package and drift unmatched by any other kite.
And everything can be cheaper than wingfoiling gear

And if you have the money and desire you can get a racefoil setup with a high aspect kite and try to achieve 40 knots on the water without killing yourself.

Hope you have some fun kitefoiling now

Nicely summed up by Dr Surf! Winds blowing now so I'm going to have to grab the foil-board and a tiny Peak4 & get out amongst it!

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horey69 said.
Think I just need to take more risk (side note I'm 54 so risk isn't that attractive).

I'm not so sure that risk will become any more attractive when you get older, young fella??

I've kitefoiled maybe once in last year.
my wing kit is in a container stored away.
im back on my 2004 Wipika TT (125 x 39)
and if I go out it's with either my Notus 10 or Pivot 9
feeling young again. Well at least for first few minutes till knees say "we're too ****** old for this ****".

I live in HK and kite foiling is the only thing I do. It's awesome.

My preference is 10m Slingshot Ghost, or 7m Slingshot UFO, with a Phantasm 92cm with a few different wings. I use footstraps on a 110cm Dwarfcraft board as I do a lot of jumping, rolls, freestyle shennanigans, etc.

I don't think I could go back to twin-tips unless it was 25+ knots, and that just doesn't happen here!