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First hydrofoil river surfing on a standing river wave - 2017
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First hydrofoil river surfing on a standing river wave
- Discipline
River Foiling- Class
- Open / Wave
- Measured Result
- First: Hydrofoil ridden on a standing river wave - (First only)
- Date
- 2017-05-01 (month precision)
- Location
- Lochsa River Pipeline standing wave, Idaho, USA, ID, United States
- First Achieved By
- Kai Lenny
- Reference
- Riverbreak: Hydrofoil River Surfing
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
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The Tale From the Foil Vault
Contemporaneous river-surfing coverage described this as probably the first time a foil board had been used on a river wave. A separate May 2017 report said Kai Lenny took a foil board to the Lochsa River Pipeline standing wave in Idaho and highlighted the appeal of standing river waves that are difficult to surf conventionally but may suit hydrofoils. The exact ride day was not pinned down from the sources reviewed, so the event date is stored at month precision.
Rules of the Beast
Counts a River Foiling World First only when a hydrofoil board is publicly documented being ridden on a standing river wave, rapid, or comparable strongly moving natural flow feature, with the ride powered by the moving water. This series tracks the earliest public firstness claim located in the research for hydrofoil river surfing on a standing river wave.
How This Got the Nod
Riverbreak's 29 May 2017 coverage called it probably the first time in river-surfing history that a foil board had been used on a river wave. The Inertia's 30 May 2017 report corroborates the Lochsa Pipeline location and Lenny's hydrofoil river-surfing context.