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ACTIVITY OF THE MONTH
HYDROFOIL by Avery Schuyler. Photos by Stef Godfrey
Unbelievable sights, Indescribable feeling Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling Through an endless diamond sky
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ET READY for a whole new world water sport fans. The newest water sport in town, Lift eFoiling is an aquatic magic carpet ride. Thanks to Chris Doyle and his wife Laura Lee at Leading Edge Kite School I was fortunate enough to try it…and feel what it’s like to fly. Chris and Laura Lee met on the US Virgin Island of St. Croix (where they live during the winter season) back when Laura Lee was a fire dancer living on a sailboat. The duo now runs their business out of both Ocean City and St. Croix. In the hours of the day they aren’t teaching lessons, they head out for an early morning surf, SUP, or eFoil, ending their day with a sunset kite surfing session. With so many options for water sports, it can be difficult to choose which to try, but to Laura Lee the constant development is what makes sport (and life) so enjoyable. “It’s important for us to keep progressing and learning new things to keep our excitement level up and pass it on, so the eFoil has been a great new tool to do just that. It is a pretty incredible feeling, somewhere in between riding a hover board from Back to the Future, and the glide of a pelican just over the water. My first few sessions out, I closed my eyes, spread my arms and pretended I was a bird.” The Lift eFoil is part of the small but growing electric water sports market. In short, it is basically an electric surfboard with a hydrofoil, 54
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