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Riding alone, an eFoil is a wide open sport. Add a second rider on the same stretch of water and the calculation changes, because now there is a hydrofoil moving at speed somewhere you cannot always see. This short is thirty seconds of exactly that situation, filmed on an Insta360 while Stephan closes in on Laura.
Getting close for the shot
The stated aim of the pass is to see how close the two riders can get without taking each other out, so that both of them end up in frame together. That is the whole reason anyone does this. Two riders separated by fifty metres make a boring shot. Two riders in the same frame, at the same speed, make the footage worth keeping, and the price of that is a much smaller margin for error.
The screaming is part of the routine
It is not the first time this has happened at this particular part of the lake, and the reaction it produces is familiar enough that both riders comment on it while it is happening. One rider stays calm and keeps the line, the other shouts. Then they agree, on camera, that this is precisely how it went last time as well.
What it tells you about riding with company
Proximity riding is a skill of its own, and this short is a small, honest demonstration of it rather than a lesson. If you are used to having a lake to yourself, the first sessions alongside another eFoiler feel much faster than they are. Agreeing on who holds the line and who moves, before you start, is what turns the panic into a good shot.
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