We at Flying Fish Foils can help you experience the feeling of flying over water. We do this through eFoil lessons at our schools. These are located in Amsterdam Nieuwe Meer, Amsterdam Ijburg, Heeg, Tilburg, Nijmegen, Loosdrecht, and Rotterdam. After the emergence of Flyboarding in 2002, a sport where you are pulled across a piece of terrain by means of a kite. A large skateboard with pneumatic tires is used as a board. This is also called a mountainboard or flyboard. Just like all other kite sports, you stand with your flyboard at a right angle to the wind, so the wind is essential.
After this trend of wind-driven flyboarding, flyboarding as we know it today emerged in 2011. Modern flyboarding is essentially a water-powered jetpack. This jetpack can be worn by attaching it under the feet with special bindings. The flyboard is powered by a jet ski. This jet ski has two exhausts that are connected to the flyboard by means of a high-pressure hose, allowing you to hover above the water.
Before we delve deeper into the latest form of water sports and the experience of flying, we want to go back to the essence, surfing. The very first form of surfing is wave surfing. This is the principle of propulsion on a surfboard by using the waves of the sea. Over the years, a number of different types of surfing have emerged as an extension of wave surfing. The two most popular are kitesurfing and windsurfing.
Windsurfing, also known as sailboarding, is a form of surfing where the wind is used to propel oneself with the help of a sail mounted on a surfboard. In principle, no large waves are needed to practice windsurfing because the wind is sufficient. Except for the "waving" variant. The name already gives it away a bit, but in this variant of windsurfing, in addition to the wind, the waves in the sea are also used.
Kitesurfing is a form of surfing where the surfer stands on a small surfboard and moves forward by means of a kite. Someone who practices kitesurfing is called a kiteboarder, kitesurfer, or kiter. Just as windsurfing is a variant of wave surfing, kitesurfing is a variant of windsurfing. Due to the lift effect of the kite, kitesurfers can jump extremely high compared to other surfing sports.
The common denominator of these forms of surfing is that all these water sports are highly dependent on important elements. For example, you cannot kitesurf, wave surf, or windsurf without waves and wind, and you cannot flyboard without a jet ski. Fortunately, there is now a new form of surfing, namely eFoiling. With eFoiling, you experience surfing on an eFoil without needing waves or wind. A board with a hydrofoil and electric motor makes it possible to surf anywhere. This electrically powered surfboard gives you the magical feeling of flying over the water. The ideal form of surfing, therefore, without being dependent on other elements. At least, apart from a body of water. After all, it is also a water sport.