Flatwater SUP Foil Paddle Up - First Impressions

After finally finishing our Selfmade Downwind Boards we could finally test this sorcery. And Oh Boi it's really hard and exhausting. Not only is it super hard to balance on the thin Board, but also the Paddle Stroke is extremely strange if you didn't SUP Paddle before. It's a completely new Movement that takes a lot of patients to master and a few sessions to not feel very weird in your Back. Bein lend so far forward especially feels pretty wrong and makes balancing on the Setup way more complicated.
But when the third Session came I got lucky and managed to pump up a Beautiful Vampire Boards 7,6 with the Leviathian 1550, which turnt out the be the ultimate Cheatcode for this ypplication. It generates Lift immideatly and doesnt require so much speed for lift oft which does indeed make it a fairt bit easier to get it out of the water. And then once it was flying with the marginal weight of the Vampire Board pumping stays fun, even though my breath was gone before even flying...

Eqipment Used:
Vampire DW Foil Board 7,6 & 8,0
Sabfoil Levithian 1550 & p73 Mast

[DS-zsge]

Great video! As you already own Gong gear, have a look at their new Sirius series, it goes up to 1, 85 m.

[landlesup]

nice!! 🙌I got a Sunova Aviator DW Elite 6'3 and the Leviathan 1350 setup, so far just a few take offs but getting there! so exhausting tough!

[BenBeholzVlogs]

Great video bro 👌 Keep pushing it your way 👊

[martinpfortner]

Hallo Leo, awesome video, thanks for sharing. How much is your Body Weight ? Vielen Dank

[damandanyk]

Awesome can’t believe how long you glided on that last one! Amazing

[IchGukNurZu]

Did you take it in consideration to make it a catamaran style board for more stability? Not super broad just a little, even maybe adjustable for the start to find the right width?

[slgaming]

you should try Hand paddles, it should be so much easier for you

[stenuhlig]

The Axis 1310 is way more difficult to get going with a paddle that the 1150. I have no idea why. I tries both and sold the 1310.

[jonathanking]

vampire boards look nice. Where do you get them from? Local shaper in berlin?

[stkl]

Why stop at 1550mm? You need to go for the Leviathan 1750. Or the one from Gong that is 1860mm wide. Would be interesting to see whether those could be kept going by just paddling.

[justinlovell]

Would my dakine (cabrinha) 1300 or 1950 be a good choice?

[antoinenhn]

Could you be a bit more precise on that vampire board, please .
Volume and width ?

[Nem_MaNu]

Is it the board or the wing which brings you up that fast?
Did you tested your DIY board with this leviathan 1550?
Than you can make a decision on the first question.