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Too Cool! Stand Up Paddleboarding Hydro Foil. Fun fun fun. 1:29 min You Tube (Original Post)
vkkv
May 2016
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brush
(53,978 posts)1. What does it look like out of the water?
It there a prop? What makes it go?
leveymg
(36,418 posts)2. Freeze it at second :05
There doesn't appear to be a prop, just a wing-shaped foil.
My guess is that it starts to plane when it catches a wave and continues for a while.
certainot
(9,090 posts)8. that's the bracket used to attach it to the 200ft long submarine
leveymg
(36,418 posts)9. Koowabungie chord! ;-)
packman
(16,296 posts)3. Ah, to be young and in tune with the sea
I'm jealous.
TacoD
(581 posts)4. Reminds me of Amy Schumer bit from when I saw her live a couple weeks ago
Have you ever wanted to go canoeing, but without the safety of sides, or the comfort of a seat? Then try stand-up paddleboarding! (paraphrased)
yuiyoshida
(41,874 posts)5. okay than....
The future of paddleboarding? Champion boarder uses hydro foil to FLOAT over the waves
Stand-up paddleboarding champion Kai Lenny has thrown a knarly wave into the paddleboarding world with his new video showing him skimming a few feet over the ocean with a hydrofoil underneath his paddleboard.
Lenny, a six-time SUP world champion, makes the contraption look incredibly easy as he grazes over the ocean, seemingly levitating over the waves.
Without using a sail, tow-in or waves, Lenny's paddleboard-hydrofoil hybrid appears to defy gravity and fans who watched the video were as confused as they were impressed.
With the leg of the hydrofoil in the middle of the board, Lenny is able to catch small waves to propel him along
Lenny says he was often zipping 300 yards in one direction and than the other as the board was able to catch so much propulsion
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576399/Watch-Amazing-video-downwind-hydrofoil-paddleboarding-looks-like-magic.html#ixzz48MvL7wlz
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)6. this thread needs more recs
this is so cool!
MADem
(135,425 posts)7. I don't understand how it works, but it looks like fun. nt