5 Steps How To Efoil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2022
- 5 Step Lesson on How To Efoil
With the Lift Efoil, you can learn to foil in any body of water. This is by far the easiest way to learn to foil.
As you can see from this video, we have a 5-step lesson plan for each student. This full-length video covers all five steps.
Step 1: full trigger + level board + prone position
Step 2: get to your knees
Step 3: get to your feet
Step 4: shift feet + touch-n-go
Step 5: maintain foil
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Aloha
2 videos in and I think these (you) might be the Best beginner lessons I've seen anywhere.
WELL done.
Great video, thanks for sharing your skills
Nice Job, thanks, I am sure this will help me tomorrow with my first lesson
Excellent video man
brilliant video you make it look so easy ,great instructions very 😎 cool
Thank you for the excellent instructional videos.
You are welcome! We are here to help everyone enjoy the water!!
Thank you.
Thanks for sharing and I look forward to a session with you later this year!
Let's do it! This efoil thing is highly addictive. See you soon.
Don't' hesitate. And dont' go elsewhere.
Heck if I lived there I'd take a lesson from him NOW.
This guy (or school) really knows what they are talking about.
@@mikeb1039 We are a Lift affiliate and the official school here on Oahu, Hawaii. We love what we do, so we do it very well, and with a lot of enthusiasm. How can you not love living in Hawaii, showing others how to surf in our beautiful setting on the most advanced foil board in the world? There is so much fun to be shared, and it never gets old.
I have taken several eFoil lessons and tow behind the boat foil lessons. I have not had a lot of success yet. I really like your approach to keeping the board on the water at first while learning to turn. Also, learning to touch and go. All my previous trainers (nearly all experienced very physically fit watermen) have urged trainees to get on foil and maintain it ASAP. This just leads to wipeout after wipeout and in 20-30 minutes I'm completely exhausted. For those with no extensive previous water sport experience (even though we might be otherwise in fair shape aka. skiing, hiking, etc..) exhaustion setting in makes us even more likely to fall and ruins the learning experience. Good job taking the slow and easy route. It's like learning to snow plow very, very slowly, then bringing your feet together as you build confidence.
Aloha. We also spend 30 minutes in ground school covering each step in detail on a yoga mat on shore. On the water, we use the 5-steps as progression training, never skipping a step. Our success rate is somewhere around 95% to get students on foil confidently in the first lesson. LMK how we can help your learning experience.
@@hawaiiefoil Aloha, How can I find out the correct minimum speed? I do have a different board (but did not yet ride on it) and might get tempted to raise speed to get up (to foil) instead of using the right hip position or weight-balance. Nevertheless I think a minimum speed is needed to get into foiling. Thanks
@@achimschmidt8170 Great question. The correct minimum speed is fast enough to get you skimming across the water with a level board in any position (prone, kneeling, standing). If the board is level and is still sitting IN the water (as opposed to ON the water), then you are too slow. If the board is constantly going to foil, either you are too fast, or you have too much weight behind the pivot point of your board. I hope this helps. Aloha.
@@achimschmidt8170 Most rookies problem is going too slow. It seems SO much faster on the water that the "right" speed seems very fast at first. You really need to learn to FALL correctly and that needs to start with the board on the water, NOT foiling until you know how to fall (separating from the board) correctly. We (owner) have had young adults able to get up immediately. But they don't know how to turn or touch and go, etc so they just wipe out. Often badly.
Spend some time getting to feel the board ON the water and learning to turn comfortably.
You don't usually fall badly until you are getting up on the foil.
Know how to fall safely before you do that.
We've not had any real injuries but a few good bruises from hitting the board while going down. All were from people that got up foiling on first ride and then didn't know what to do once up. ( we did warn them not to do that, but you know kids.....)
Don't do that.
JMO
@@achimschmidt8170This video he has the setting on 3 of 15 and full trigger always. He says it's 8-10 mph. You should be able to figure out what is 1/5 of your throttle setting. It's not very fast, just fast enough. The advise to always full throttle is VERY GOOD as we all spent a lot of time falling as you went back and forth with the throttle. Flying by giving it more "gas", too high? Back off the throttle, etc is a normal progression (imo) that doesn't need to happen if you heed this gentleman's advise and learn to foil always with full throttle. Control speed with the settings. duh moment for me (this guy is good!)
Thanks - I need to get one
Aloha Tony. If you love playing on the water, the efoil is definitely something you have to try. It is very easy to learn, and super exciting once you get that first sensation of flying over water. My videos are based upon 1000s of lessons given to students of every age, background, and level of athleticism. You can fly with the Lift Efoil. If you decide to jump in, contact me for advice and direction. This month Lift has a $1000 off sale, but only for August using my code HEE_2020_808. Free shipping included. Contact me for sizing advice. I will need your age, height, and weight, along with where you plan to ride (lake, ocean, waves, calm water??) LMK...Alika
2:20 turn shoulders to turn board...
7:00 touch n go, touch n go, touch n go
8:00 running through steps.
9:40 hips back, hips forward....
I just envy you hahaha 😉😋aloha and thank you for your video👍👍👍🙏
Aloha!
I like the key point "power setting 3 out of 15" full throttle
Depending on your weight, you may want to go with "power setting 1 or 2". If you weigh less than 150 lbs, a 1 or 2 setting is plenty to get the board moving well enough for you to stand up.
Great tutotial, thanks. So just to be clear, you were on top speed of 3 out of 15 for the whole thing(planing to foiling)? I've been trying to learn on a friend's Lift board, and I think that's my problem.... I can maintain foil on my knees, but everytime I try to stand up, I end up using the trigger too much to speed up and then let it go. If I set it to 3 or 4 MAX, I should be able to stand up with the trigger fully engaged(hopefully).
The trigger is the most useful piece of equipment on the Lift efoil. It is what makes the Lift experience way better than the competition...BUT it can be difficult to learn trigger control if you start with this skill. We teach trigger control LAST. So to answer your question, yes, set the governor to a max speed of 3 if you weigh less than 200 lbs, and to 4 if you weigh more than 200 lbs. While on your belly or knees, get the trigger fully squeezed while keeping the board on the water (weight forward of the handles), then stand up and stay forward on the board. Learn to ride the board on the water at full trigger but set at a low speed. I hope this helps you out. Trigger control is the last skill that you should try to work on, after foil control.
So good dude! But why this foil fraze? Glide... Maintain the board and glide...
The take-off and landing are only a matter if hips move ? I thought the trigger had a rôle
Touch 'n Go is how we teach students to learn to control the pitch of the foil and board. The trigger can also affect this as it controls the speed and therefore the lift generated by the foil. It is WAY EASIER to fix your speed, and then use your hips to control the nose attitude up/down.
Q: does learning this help or speedup learning to wing foil next?
There are two parts to wing foiling: 1) winging or sailing and 2) foiling. Learning to power up with the wind AND staying upwind is one skill that takes time and persistent effort. Learning to foil is entirely separate. EFoiling is the easiest way to understand how the foil works underwater. You can learn the foil in one Efoil session where it may take you 50+ winging sessions to learn to foil.
what size board are you using the 100litre or 67 pro model
When learning to foil, we recommend you start with a larger board. Our students are placed onto a 5'9" or 5'4" efoil board that have 105L and 88L respectively. The liters are not as important since you have a motor. In this video, our demonstrator is on a smaller board, the 4'9" which is 70L.
@@hawaiiefoil thanks,, I am learning on the 100 litre,, hopefully, I can go down to the pro model eventually that is 67 litres
@@SteveHofsaess 100L boards are very forgiving and a good place to learn. But smaller boards aren't always better. You may find it more enjoyable to change foils rather than changing boards. Plus it is way cheaper to change a $1000 foil rather than a $12,000 board.
What are you hanging onto
In my LEFT hand, I am holding the selfie stick for the GoPro camera. In my RIGHT hand, I am holding the hand controller for the efoil I am riding and talking about.
these cost more than a jetski, insane price for a few 2x4s and a motor
You're correct that these efoils are expensive. Jet skis cost $7k - $22k according a quick Google search while Efoils cost $7k - $15k. They are not in the same category by a long shot, but each definitely provide fun on the water. You clearly don't have a grasp of the construction of either the efoil or the jet ski. The last time I saw a few 2x4 motoring at 20-60 mph on the water, they were strapped to a hobie cat, and the weathered plywood decking was losing its red paint. Each to his own. Aloha.
Yup, Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS).
No brain no skill just 16 grand for instant gratification
No brain? Really not applicable. No skill? Again, not applicable. $16 grand? Close, but Lift provides a price range of $9k up to $13k. You can add on features that take the price higher, but most don't. I assume that you are a skilled foiler that worked hard to get to where you are. Relative to other foil boards, YES, the efoil is much much easier to learn. And YES, gratification and having the best time of your life on water comes early on the efoil. Nothing wrong with that, is there? Mahalo for your comment. "The E in e-foil stands for EASY"
@@hawaiiefoil do you know where your wonderful lithium batteries come from Africa using children for slaves to dig out these precious resources for the lithium batteries for rich lazy people plus let’s add more toxic batteries to land fills you know constant use and charge. These batteries are only good for three years the most let’s be honest oh my I’m going to have to spend another three grand on a battery. We’re up to 16 grand already. Plus you do not mention that in a lot of states you have to register this and pay insurance let’s stick with surfing kitesurfing when surfing foiling, I meant to be natural God-given wind sport
@@robertrecco710 I am sorry that you are so upset about how the world works in modern times, especially as it relates to our beloved water sports. I am not here to argue with you, but make sure you don't have ANY lithium batteries in your daily life before casting that stone of yours. Hopefully your God-given wind and wave sports use responsibly-sourced plastic, kevlar, nylon, fiberglass, carbon fiber, and epoxy. I choose to enjoy all that God has blessed me with, to include helping others to find joy playing on the water. Aloha.
@@robertrecco710 Cant afford one huh. too bad go cry some where else