Air Chair / Hydrofoil

Airchair $500

Ryan, I will be giving a call. A couple of my friends wants to go to Lake Murray on May 8. I wonder if I can get some information. We are thinking about staying the weekend. Is there a place on the lake you can stay at. Maybe a hotel or camping?

Told a few friends, they're coming too. I think Anthony lives in North Dallas.

Maybe I will go too. About 2 hours from my home. I have a few hours on the foil and would like to see some pros.

Ryan, this is your advanced warning about the Lake Murray event, we're about a month away it going on May 14 - 16th @ Buzzards Roost.

Any one is welcome to come out, it's like the reunions, but we are there to ride hydrofoils instead of looking at boats. There will be some looking to learn to ride and maybe even a pro or 2, people came from as far away as Ohio and California last year, with the majority being from OK and North TX. If you need more details look for it over on foilforum.com or email me through either site my name is the same both places.

All I can say is I tried the Air Chair twice; can you say FACE-PLANT? There is very little reaction time from being OK to FACE-PLANT. However with that said I would be more than happy to try it again if I had the chance. Our motto is, "If your not bleeding, your not having any fun."

Kid Rock foils

Yeah, But, think of all the money you'll be saving!

We'll be there.

TX Foilhead wrote: I'm thinking about it, we're doing a Mini Flyin @ Lake Murray OK the middle of May.

Send me an email shortly before you come up here(Murray). I've got a buddy with an 99SNOB that is dying to learn something on his foils.

just so everyone can get there minds out of the gutter and back to some foilin'. Sorry it's not a Correct Craft, but it 'deep up' everyone.

I wear goggles when I do pretty much everything

TX Foilhead wrote: By the time you you figure in the cost of the boom, the engine upgrades if you don't happen to have a BBC in your boat, and the extra fuel your going to use this summer, I'm going to stick with an entry level foil being less.

By promoting barefooting here, I am not dissing foils at all. Look like a lot of fun. This guy lives on Keith's lake where we had the 2007 reunion. He did a demo for us and gave a couple of us (Keith and I) some instruction. Keith did much better than I. I could get up and go but I couldnt quite get it to plane level out of the water...I was the master of overcompensation. But I can see how it would be fun.

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

Yes it does- that video was taken with the stock 240hp motor and stock 13x13 Federal prop! It should pull even harder now with the 540. I keep trying to talk him into a top end upgrade for a few more mph for 1-foot stuff... he hasnt caved yet, but I think Im getting closer.

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 demoed a hydrofoil one summer. It was first for all of us, and we pretty much ended up on our heads after a few seconds. I may have posted the video of this before, I'll get it uploaded to my photobucket so it'll be in this thread.