Air Chair / Hydrofoil

I replaced wakeboarding with my sky ski. Much easier on your body.

Tim

nice faceplants while u r learing..LOL only tried once though..not easy to find one of those down here..

kapla wrote: say. what´s the difference between air chair and sky ski?

It is the design. The Sky Ski is a bit more refined. I have not rode the newer airchairs.

I started with an original air chair, bought a stock cast foild sky ski, moved to a sky ski with a shock tower, and now have a Sky Ski LEX.

Anybody that wants to come over and learn (Chippewa Lake, Oh) is always welcome to come over.


Tim

Absolutely worth it, you might even give up riding everything else.   

Don't bother with the Air Chairs, you'll either be upgrading it soon or giving up. Sky Ski is the way to go, spend as much as you can afford, the high end foils are no more difficult to ride than the lower end stuff and you'll do less upgrading in the long run. The ski for sale in Detroit is on the expensive side, and you would do better with a newer billet foil, they are an improvement in both ride and strength.   Shock towers are only needed for those with bad backs, the newer EVO Towers seem to have enough give for most and are much lighter and less expensive.

For more info head over to FoilForum.com, there are a few hundred of us dedicated foilers, and we have a group similar to the one over here. We are spread out all over the country and chances are there is someone not to far from you who doesn't need much arm twisting to go foiling.

If you're looking for someting other than boarding or skiing, go this route. Lot less than $1,700. Plus it's wicked cool and tons of fun.

(not me...stock photo)

This is incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoGqdZNdb_o

I'm thinking about it, we're doing a Mini Flyin @ Lake Murray OK the middle of May, and then we usually have another foil get together the end of June in North TX.   I'll have to see what the Travel Budget looks like after Uncle Barry gets done with me in April, but I'm thinking about it.

Fixed your links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skwt7xqH9po
http://vimeo.com/6500914

The landings are pretty incredible on these things. I think the fact that you're sitting makes them seem really easy.

TX Foilhead wrote: ... the engine upgrades if you don't happen to have a BBC in your boat...

Brad's stock 86 2001 with 240 HP 351

Hollywood wrote: Brad's 86 pulls hard no doubt.

Yeah.... we did 4 behind our '86 last summer. Deeped up.....

Barefooting and hydrofoiling go hand in hand though.

Tim

Hollywood wrote: What prop was that, Acme 542? Did you ever sell your '86? If so, where'd it go? We did 3 flyers w/ the Federal on with our '88. I highly doubt it would have pulled them out of a deep though. I've ridden the Air Chair and a SkySki and could tell the difference, didn't really like either one though! We pretty much all ended up on our heads after a few seconds with the Air Chair.

542

'86 is sitting in storage right now. Going to be tough to let it go this spring.

When you come out to Kent plan on stopping over for some Sky Ski lessons....

Tim

Now these things are fun!


And this looks like a nightmare.

Larry, do you wear goggles foiling?

TMI

Hydrofoil.org/history, where the pictures I posted came from.