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Most stance arguments are about carving. This one is about what a carbon mast and a foil do to skin. The episode is a short built around an original song, written for the channel by Specific Ambiguity, and the whole lyric is one repeated argument: plant your feet staggered and you are far less likely to bleed.
What the staggered stance is actually protecting you from
The hardware under your board is not soft. The song calls it the eFoil’s lance and the carbon fibre alloy, and lists what it leaves behind: cuts, scrapes, contusions, and the risk of catching one in the eye. The argument for staggering your feet, one either side of the board’s centre line, is that it hands you a decision at the moment you lose it. You can eject left or right, away from the gear, instead of dropping straight down onto whatever is directly beneath you.
Riding midline is a choice with a price
The lyric does not pretend midline riding is impossible. It says you can ride midline if you want to, and then puts the alternative next to it: leave injuries behind. That is the honest shape of the trade. Midline feels natural and it carves sweetly, but with both feet in a line down the middle of the board there is no obvious escape route when the foil breaches or the nose tucks and you go over the front.
The short that picked up a content strike
This one has a back story. The first upload used real photographs of eFoil injuries and earned a content strike. It went back up with an age restriction added and the worst images blurred. That is worth knowing before you press play: the point being made here is not theoretical, and the evidence behind it was graphic enough that a platform pulled it down once already.
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