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Carving looks like one thing from the board and something else entirely from two hundred feet up. From above you can see the whole arc: how far the board travels through a turn, how much water it displaces, and how one carve sets up the next. That overhead view is the entire point of this episode.
How the drone kept up
The camera is a DJI Air 3, flown along a pre-programmed flight path at maximum speed rather than steered live. That combination matters, because a rider carving hard covers ground quickly and changes direction constantly. A planned path lets the aircraft commit to a line and hold the shot at speed instead of hunting for the subject, and it means the person on the board can concentrate on riding.
The setup doing the carving
The rig is a 160 Camber Pro front wing with a 36 Glide stabiliser, described as the favourite carving combination here. The footage is a fair advertisement for it: deep, fluid, linked turns rather than sharp direction changes, with the board holding a smooth line the whole way through. If you have been weighing up that wing, watching it work from overhead tells you more about its arc than any specification sheet will.
A note about the soundtrack
The session was cut to Closer by Kings of Leon, edited precisely to the beats and the melody shifts. The rights to use the track were then withdrawn after the edit was finished. The episode has been left up regardless, so treat it as a visual piece: the flying, the carving and the framing all still stand on their own.
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