Nice.. from his blog last month
When my skill level reached a confident basic flight I started trying different hydrofoils. I was amazed how similar they felt to me despite big differences in design. In total contrast, several months later I’ve now become super particular on the performance I desire from my wings. My riding passion has become focused on floating through low speed flying carves.
I fear that designs optimal at low speed are being overlooked as performance limited to beginners. I’ve ridden several hydrofoils considered high performance that were crazy awesome at insanely high speeds, but for me lacked stability at the low speeds I love to fly at.
I hear a fair bit of discussion about which is the fastest hydrofoil. I think that’s cool but of very little influence on my riding. I haven’t heard any discussion of performance differences specific to different target speeds. I’m sure the performance of the wings I’m accustomed to flying heavily influence my interest in and perception of low speed flight stability. But I now find radical performance differences between wings.
If you are considering hydrofoiling I encourage you to consider the speeds you’ll have the most fun flying at without blindly accepting that performance targeted at high speed is necessarily how you’ll define high performance for your own riding.
I'm not sure about the shirt over harness thing though, it's a bit close to shorts over wettie..
Board looks like a flat bit of ply or laminate. Would have almost no flotation. Guess that's fine if you are so good it spends no time in the water.
Well that makes foil boarding look soooo easy !! everyone should just jump on one and rip it up !!
OK - back to earth what amazing skills and I do wonder what kite he was flying !!
The kite is his own brand. Strutless.
www.thekiteboarder.com/2013/04/tkb-review-2013-boardriding-maui-cloud-strutless-kite/
I have a Cloud c2. Fantastic kite. 14,5 lightwind packs down to nothing. Weighs less than my 10 by a fair margin. Great for the trip I am on, 14.5, a 10 and 7 covers me in just about anything. Greg is an outstanding guy to deal with. Like his vision, love his aloha. Check em out!