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First cable park hydrofoil ride - 2017
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First cable park hydrofoil ride
- Discipline
Cable Park Foiling- Class
- Open / Overall
- Measured Result
- First public cable-park hydrofoil ride documentation found - (First only)
- Date
- 2017-04-12
- Location
- Valdosta Wake Compound, Valdosta, Georgia, USA, GA, United States
- First Achieved By
- Wesley Mark Jacobsen
- Reference
- IKSURFMAG: Cablepark Hydrofoiling
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
Riffi, along with the foiling community at large, has given this glorious achievement the official Foiling Freaks nod for Cable Park Foiling.
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How This Epic Thing Went Down
On 2017-04-12, IKSURFMAG published the Slingshot-linked post Cablepark Hydrofoiling from Valdosta Wake Compound in Valdosta, Georgia. The post described the crew visiting the park while it was preparing for the Yard Sale Event and taking a few laps before sundown. The key detail for this record is that Wes had never ridden the wakefoiler, and the Slingshot crew had brought one with them. The article presents the session as a cable-park hydrofoiling clip and places the ride at a known wake park with the cable system providing the tow power. Because the source does not state that this was the first cable-park hydrofoil ride ever, this entry is written conservatively as the earliest public cable-park hydrofoil ride documentation found in this research. A matching Alliance Wakeboard post repeats the same Slingshot text and its indexed tags identify the rider as Wesley Mark Jacobsen, also listed as Wes Mark Jacobsen. That makes the record strong enough for a Foiling Freaks world first style milestone, while still leaving room for earlier private or poorly archived cable-park foil sessions to surface later.
Rules of the Beast
The ride must take place at a cable park using an overhead cable, two-tower cable, or full-size cable system. The board must have a hydrofoil mounted below it and the rider must achieve controlled above-water hydrofoil flight while being pulled by the cable system. The pull must come from the cable, not a boat, winch on shore, handheld wing, kite, parawing, eFoil motor, tow boogie, or wave. For an earliest-public-documentation world first, the evidence must identify the cable park context, the approximate date, the rider or crew, and the use of a hydrofoil board. If the source does not prove an absolute first, the event must be labeled as the earliest public documentation found rather than an undisputed first ever.
How This Got the Nod
Earliest public documentation found, not a formally sanctioned world-first claim.