How to Ride an eFoil

If you are thinking of purchasing your first efoil, you may be wondering whether it is easy to ride or not. It is not hard to ride an efoil, but it would be much easier if you learn to surf first.

Learning how to efoil will be much easier if you are comfortable surfing on a wave. Surfers have very good balance, have athletic abilities, and are used to popping up from a prone to a standing position. For this reason, it should be very simple for a surfer to learn how to efoil.

Even though a surfer would be able to learn how to efoil very quickly, there are several obstacles that they have to overcome. First, they need to adjust their riding stance a bit in order to allow their shoulders to rotate forward. Doing this will give them better control over the roll axis of the foil. They also have to adjust their tendency to lean on their back foot as the board accelerates.

Normally, surfers will instinctively lean back on the board as they pop-up into their stance so as to keep their nose from pearling on the drop. When they do this on the efoil, they will quickly learn that does not work.

Another thing you will need to do if you are a surfer learning how to efoil is to "fight the fall". A surfer wants to make the most of a wave, especially if the line-up is packed. When you feel like you are losing your balance on an efoil, fighting the fall can result in a fall for the worse, so that is something that you will need to know how to approach before you start riding an efoil.

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