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Racing an eFoil is a different skill from cruising one, and you cannot practise it without something to race around. This is the first run on a purpose built course, the Verdant Ride eFoil Grand Prix, laid out to punish sloppy technique and reward anyone who can hold speed through a turn.
How the course is laid out
Four buoys make the whole thing. The opening section is slalom work around the first two, where the run is won or lost on control rather than power: you have to carve tight and clean without scrubbing off everything you have. From there it opens up, with a hard acceleration out toward the deepest buoy and then a long straight bombing run to the finish. Peak speed on that final stretch reached 34.2 mph. It is a deliberately mixed test, because a board that carves well is not automatically a board that goes fast in a straight line, and a rider who can do one is not automatically good at the other.
The setup used for the run
The board is a Lift4 Pro on a 32 inch mast, running a 100 Surf V2 front wing with a 36 Glide rear, and an LCS fixed prop with the shroud removed. That is a configuration chosen for speed and bite in a turn rather than for comfort, and the missing shroud is a deliberate performance decision with an obvious safety cost attached.
Build your own
You do not need a sanctioned venue to train like this. The follow up episode covers the materials and the step by step build for an eFoil practice course you can put out yourself, cheaply. If you are working on your carving or thinking about competing, having fixed marks on the water turns vague practice into laps you can actually time and compare.
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