Alternative name: Slide, Spray
Category: Freestyle
Level of difficulty: Level 3 (from 4)

Description

With the foil slide, you hang your body weight on the wing and let the foil dance on the surface of the water. This slide generates a lot of spray.

These contents show how to generate spray:

Videos

March 24, 2026
Foil Slide - Nia Suardiaz
A foil slide looks like a loss of control while winging, but it’s actually a trick. The foil is guided toward the...
January 28, 2026
Foil Slide - Jürgen Schall
In a foil slide, you slide across the water's surface using the wings of the hydrofoil. The angle of attack of the...
December 20, 2025
Slide - Jürgen Schall
Sliding with the foil is really fun — just glide across the water's surface. You need a bit of stronger wind to...
September 5, 2025
Wing Foil Slide - Jürgen Schall
Sliding is fun. Once you get the hang of wing foil sliding, you can glide quite a distance across the water with...
August 23, 2025
Foil Slide - Jürgen Schall
No jumping, no foiling! When you slide, you plane across the water's surface with the foil, like a stone skipping...
February 12, 2025
Spray - Alan Fedit
Let it spray! With a foil slide you can slide across the water, the wings of the foil behave similarly to stone...
August 26, 2024
Slide - Xavier Corr
A foil slide by Xavier Corr. Sliding across the water with the foil at an angle generates a lot of spray...
August 24, 2024
Foil Slide - Bastien Escofet
A cool trick – a slide on the foil. Here, Bastien Escofet shows how to generate loads of spray. Hang your weight onto...


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