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Most riders never try to jump an eFoil, and the reason is not skill. Under the board there is a foil and a spinning propeller, and both of them are still there when you come down. This session only happened because Mike Sol of Jet Surfing Nation asked for it, nobody else volunteered, and jumping is the one thing that has produced a genuine close call with injury here.
Gear chosen for the crash, not for the ride
The safety kit is the first tell. A helmet goes on, which is rare on this channel, along with an old swell vest kept from wakeboarding days. The board is the Lift X, picked because it is light and agile, feels like it wants to leave the water anyway, and would be a much better thing to have land on you than a heavier board. The wing set is a Camber Pro 160 with a 36 Glide, chosen not for jumping but for re-entry: it is the setup with the most hours on it, so the landing is at least happening on familiar equipment.
The landing is the whole problem
Matching your speed on the way back down is the hard part of jumping, and there is a specific reason it goes wrong. In a panic, the trigger finger goes straight. Reviewing his own footage, the reaction shows up within about two frames of anything going sideways, before the feet have even left the board. That is spinal cord level, not something you decide. If the throttle is going to be released mid air whether you like it or not, the sensible preparation is a setup where a folded prop lets you slide back into the water instead of meeting it under power.
Wakeboard habits do not transfer
None of this is unfamiliar air time. As a wakeboarder, any moment not spent airborne counted as wasted fuel. What is unfamiliar is the hardware underneath. The moment the board lifts, every instinct says get clear, jump off to the side, and the escape calculation has already run before there is any chance to argue with it. Overriding a reflex that exists specifically to keep you from being hurt turns out to be the actual skill being attempted here, and it does not fall in one evening. The session ends with the attempt paused rather than abandoned, on the grounds that no jump is worth even a minor injury.
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