Foiling Magazine

DYNAMICS NO RATIONAL DECISIONS

Hi Lutz. First of all, tell us what you’re aiming for when you design a board?

My approach when shaping or designing a wingfoil board or windsurf board is that I want to do it 100% right. I always try to find the main characteristics a specific board needs to bring to the table. So asking myself: who is it for and what conditions will it be made for? For me this process is definitely about feeling, it's not about trying to get a guy who mainly rides on lakes onto the most radical wave-oriented board. That does not work for me. I am a person who has a hard time when it comes to rational decisions, I like to create things from a feeling that then transfers into an idea that then transfers into a product that can be felt on the water, because the only connection we have to the surface and our possibility to express ourselves on the water

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