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BATTERY MANAGEMENT The world is on a pathway to all electric power. As such, we have fallen in love with our battery-powered devices. We have cell phones, laptops, boosted boards, and drones. Electric  cars have become much more common in the past 5 years. One of the latest additions to the electric world is the surfboard……

WAVE RIDING There is a difference between swell following and wave riding on the efoil. Both are fun, and offer much more creativity than flat water riding. Wave riding uses the power of the wave rather than the power of the efoil motor. To ride the wave energy, you need to have the folding propellor…

SWELL FOLLOWING There is a difference between swell following and wave riding on the efoil. Both are fun, and offer much more creativity than flat water riding. If you have the option to get into the open ocean on an efoil, find some rolling waves swells. The up, down, and side to side action of…

TURNING ON FOIL We consider turning on foil as an intermediate skill. The reason for this is because you must first master the two skills of roll control and pitch control before attempting to turn on foil. In our opinion, this is why so many foilers get hurt when they first try to “surf” the…

IT’S ALL IN THE HIPS, BABY We call it the “hip slide”, but we’ve had people suggest “hip sway”, “foil hula” and other weird ideas. The point is that the hips control the efoil board in the pitch axis. HIPS BACKWARD TO GO UP When you are ready to get the efoil off the water…

LEARNING THE FOLDING PROP The folding propellor for the Lift Efoil is an absolute GAME CHANGER if you want to surf. When Nick and his team at Lift Foils started working on the concept of a motor-powered foil board, they definitely had surfing in mind. How could they not? Foil surfing is at the core…