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First freefoil lap around Green Lake - 5 km or about 3 miles - 2026
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First freefoil circumnavigation of a named lake
- Discipline
Dockstarting 
Freefoiling- Class
- Open / Circumnavigation
- Measured Result
- First reported Green Lake freefoil lap, 5 km or about 3 miles - (First only)
- Date
- 2026-05-01 (month precision)
- Location
- Green Lake, Seattle, Washington, USA, WA, United States
- First Achieved By
- Group
- Verified By
- Dock Start Facebook group
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
Nixie, along with the foiling community at large, has given this glorious achievement the official Foiling Freaks nod for Dockstarting.
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The Ride, The Proof, The Glory
A public search result for the Dock Start Facebook group identifies a post titled Freefoil lap around Green Lake in Seattle and describes a 5 km, roughly 3 mile, freefoil lap around Green Lake with Warren McAndrew. The same result identifies the poster as Eric Kamila. The user supplied this as the supporting lead for Eric's first circumnavigation of Green Lake. Because the Facebook post could not be opened directly through public browsing in this run, the row is entered as a cautious Foiling Freaks fun first: the available public snippet supports a Green Lake freefoil lap and the user's direction supplies the first-circumnavigation context. This belongs in Freefoiling because the route is a lake exploration lap under pump/freefoil power rather than a dockstart duration attempt.
Rules of the Beast
The route must be a completed loop around one named lake or similar enclosed body of water using a pumpfoil, freefoil, or dockstart pump foil setup. The rider may use human-powered dock, shore, ladder, beach, rock, platform, or similar self-powered launches. No motor, sail, kite, handheld wing, parawing, tow rope, boat pull, cable, winch, or wave propulsion may power the route. Because this is a route-completion first rather than a continuous-flight duration record, shore pauses, falls, swims, and relaunches may be allowed when they are disclosed, but the route must still be completed by the rider using only human-powered pumping for the foiling portions. The source should identify the body of water, the rider or team, the approximate distance, and enough public evidence to support the route.
How This Got the Nod
Public Facebook search result plus user-provided source direction