Imagine the feeling of being able to just drop anchor; pump up the wing and just wait for the wind to start. That has been what we have enjoyed most about learning this great new sport from our boat and not on the beach!
Thomas 
Wing-training on the beach 
We can all learn!
It is a challenging sport that does require lots of patience, a stronger upper body, especially in the arms and a good degree of balance. But, it is a sport that most people can manage relatively quickly in the right environment, even though at first it seems impossible.
Learning from the back of the catamaran gave us a quick learning advantage – we skipped all those painful hours of paddling out from the beach into deeper water, only to find that by the time you’d got up on the board and lifted the wing, the current had already bought you back to the shore break and into shallow waters. The foil needs to be in deep enough water that it doesn’t touch the bottom!
Wind direction
It’s always recommended to learn in onshore conditions, that is, where the wind is blowing from the sea to the land. However, learning from the back of the boat, we’ve been able to enjoy safely learning in winds from all directions, by using our dingy as a back-up rescue, in case we found ourselves too far away, or too tired to make it back to the boat.
Our equipment
We’ve got a couple of great Kite-surf & Wing-foil beach sport centers very close to us here in the North of Mallorca, and they’ve been great in helping us decide which equipment would be best for us to get started. We love our 2 complete sets:
Rocket Air (gravity foil) & Strike 2021 wing (5″) and the Rocket Wing V2 (phantom foil) & Strike 2021 wing (3.5″) – both from F-one
Learning from the boat 
Katy flying