PERHAPS YOU’VE SEEN THEM...
...gliding soundlessly over still water or levitating above the surface like water-sport magicians: Fliteboarders are captivating the attention of onlookers all over the world. What seems like an impossible feat of physics or a skill that requires endless discipline and practice is startlingly accessible, safe, and easy. So how do you get off the shore and on that oh-so-cool board? Get yourself to a Fliteschool, and you’ll be flying in under an hour. Fliteboard, a state-of-the-art electric hydrofoil, is designed with safety and ease- of-use in mind. And with over 100 Fliteschools operating in luxury destinations all over the world, you can get your Flite on here in the Hamptons or wherever your travels might take you. From our own Hamptons Fly to Efoil New England near Boston to Fliteschool Miami Beach, or as far-flung as Lake Tahoe, Hawaii, the South of France, California, and the British Virgin
Adrian Pia, owner of Hamptons Fly
Islands, there’s a Fliteschool to get you cruising. With its unibody fuselage and complete user control of the motor, Fliteboard stands alone as the premier eFoil craft. As Rudi Miklosvary, head of Fliteboard’s US Operations explains, “Fliteboard has built in a safety mechanism into our system that ensures that you’re never going to be in the water with a large prop; you have to arm the hand controller with a conscious choice to be able to start the propeller spinning. And this is a unique design to Fliteboard.” When asked if it requires any extraordinary skill, experience, or natural grace, Miklosvary is unequivocal: “If you have enough balance that you can ride a bike, you can Fliteboard.” As a balance-challenged, middle-aged woman with sciatica and a wonky hip, I found it hard to believe that anyone could achieve this miraculous feat. So I contacted Adrian Pia, founder of Hamptons Fly, to arrange a lesson. Pia first discovered Fliteboard on a trip to Croatia with his husband. Not only was he Fliteboarding within minutes, he was soon engaging his acrobatic prowess to do handstands and back flips on the board as he cruised around the Mediterranean. “I thought it was a perfect product for the Hamptons,” “If you have enough balance that you can ride a bike, you can Fliteboard.”
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