I had my fifth eFoil session yesterday on my fliteboard air pro. It was great, but I’m still struggling with keeping a constant height. I’m standing on the board with 22km/h in 6th gear. I try to balance with front and rear leg. So, as we all learned, leaning front will descent, leaning back will ascent. But this lets me touch water every 10 seconds. I just can’t make it holding the same height. So, yesterday I started pushing the throttle a little bit every time I descent too much to avoid touching the water. And it worked! It made me ascent again. This way, playing with the throttle, I managed to fly half a minute.
Now my question to the experts: Is this the correct way to do it? Or are you keeping height only by using your body balance front and rear? Should I keep practicing balance instead of playing with the throttle? I want to learn it the right way.
Hi @SolanaGuy , using the throttle is usually harder and only done when you are flying while laying on the board.
Better is to control the height with weight shift of your body. May be you need a wider foot stance to have better control.
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You will learn to use both balance and throttle, depending on the circumstances. Your brain will figure it out with more practice.
The right stance is correct; as is manipulation of the throttle.
With more practice, you will instinctively know when to use one or the other, or both!
Hi @SolanaGuy
From my experience it is best to keep the number of “moving parts” as small as possible when learning.
In my opinion it is better to learn to control the height by shifting your body and not with the throttle because you have 2 things to control (body and throttle) instead of one (body only) and it is harder to get a “feel” for the board’s reaction to you movements.
Therefore I would suggest you keep the throttle always at 100% and control the speed with the gear only. Stay in the same gear (= same speed) while practising a constant height. Depending on the wing you have you should be fine with gear 3 or 4 max.
Secondly make controlling the roll of the board easier by making sure your feet are NOT on the middle line of the board but offset to the middle line. This will make the board feel much more stable under you.
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Now the only thing that you need to concentrate on is how you shift your weight back and forward to keep the board at a constant height. You will learn the right amount of movement over time it is tricky in the beginning.
Hope this helps
Chris