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Gerry Lopez has entered the foilboard chat. Photos: YouTube\/\/Screeshots<\/p>\n
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Gerry Lopez is one of the most legendary surfers in the history of surfing<\/a>. Mr. Pipeline is responsible for so much about our funny little culture of wave sliders and he\u2019s always been a guy who likes to experiment. So it makes sense that he\u2019s still experimenting with the the outer edge of wave riding design.<\/p>\n That outer edge, in recent years, has been on the bottom of a hydrofoil. They\u2019ve been around for a long time (remember air chairs?<\/a>), but it wasn\u2019t until the Laird Hamilton and the strapped crew stuck a hydrofoil on the bottom of a surfboard, pulled on a set of snowboard boots, and towed into huge Jaws waves in Step Into Liquid that the surfing world became aware of how they can be used. Now, of course, hydrofoiling is big business, and Gerry Lopez paired up with NSP to design a hydrofoil board himself.<\/p>\n Called the Pelican, the board is a rounded, forgiving shape, designed to pair up with the Foil Drive ecosystem of foil assist products.<\/p>\n \u201cUnlike an eFoil, where the motor does all the work,\u201d North Action Sports explained<\/a>, \u201cFoil Drive simply helps you get up on foil faster, so you can seamlessly transition to riding waves, pumping, or harnessing the wind.\u201d You can learn more about different efoils and foil assists in our review of The Best Efoils.<\/a><\/p>\n Lopez has put his name on a few things as of late. Cariuma stuck his name on a shoe<\/a>. His name was on a soft top. Foiling, as you know if you\u2019ve attempted it, is not as easy as it looks, and Lopez knows this.<\/p>\n \u201cI kind of designed it for a Foil Drive system,\u201d he explains, \u201cbut it also will function just fine as a prone paddle foilboard, too. With the Foil Drive, it\u2019s just really a friendly board. Whether you know how to use a foil drive and have done it a lot or you\u2019re just starting out\u2026 it just makes the process a lot easier.\u201d<\/p>\n Foils are heavy, so Lopez and NSP made the board itself as light as possible. It\u2019s thinner, shorter, and lighter than other Foil Drive-compatible boards on the market, and thanks to a subtle vee in the nose that transitions into a flat midsection, it\u2019s super efficient under power.<\/p>\n \u201cIt planes so quickly and so easily, even at low speeds,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cPretty much everyone is able to get their feet under them. Once you\u2019re standing up, you just give it a little more gas and the board\u2019s out of the water.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related: Best Wing Foil Boards<\/a> | Best eFoils<\/a> | Foil Drive Fusion Review<\/a> | More Foiling Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerry Lopez has entered the foilboard chat. Photos: YouTube\/\/Screeshots Gerry Lopez is one of the most legendary surfers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,267000,267001,267002,161098,267003,105],"class_list":["post-538620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-foilboard","tag-foildrive","tag-gerry-lopez","tag-hydrofoil","tag-nsp","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}