Wing and Landboard: How hard can it be?

Thinking of using a wing with your mountainboard? Here's how it started for me:

I really wanted to snowboard, but I don't live near any any ski resorts, and the dry slope is closed. I've only recently started learning, and I really enjoy it. But what to do? Coronavirus - restrictions on travel, lockdown… No more snowboard practice for me for a while. I have been surfing a few times - I'm not that good but I do enjoy it, when the weather's good. A fair weather small wave sort of day. The trouble is it's just too far to go to get to a surf beach.

Having said that, I am fortunate to live close to the sea, well when the the tide's in. Technically it's more of an estuary and most of the time the tide is too low which means miles of sand and sticky mud quite keen to quickly swallow you whole if you're stupid enough to really want to walk out for a paddle… I could skateboard I suppose… on land of course, but I'm after adventure and recreation in the outside, far away from concrete and asphalt if possible.

Anyway, while whiling away a dark evening watching surf videos on YouTube (when I really should have been doing something else) I found… wing boarding - using a hand held wing to pull you along on a board with a hydrofoil.

It quickly became clear how accessible this new phenomenon could be, and safe for me to learn on my own, unlike kitesurfing which I had tried but found so difficult to progress without access to a team of enthusiastic supporters to help me launch and land. Driving to water to learn to wing board would still be required, but I realised that it might not have to be so much of a problem - I could always use a landboard on the sand.

This is the start of that adventure, it has already proved to be great fun.

If you're inspired then why not give it a go too? If not then at least I hope you enjoy the ride!

Thank you for watching.