I assume that the wings bend and a lot of lifiting power gets lost. Try to Analyse the under water situation by using a GoPro or such. Great video. Love to see part 2

I hydrofoil a lot and if you were to stand back a little more that would of definitely flew in the water. It’s a huge balance game.

The presenting and editing makes it such a joy to watch! Nice job Simon!

You probably could have gotten it to work but you have the battery components blocking you from standing over the foils. My suggestion, for simplicity, is to add a footstop behind the battery and controller compartment. That way you can balance your weight over the foil. I don't think you have quite enough power to stand in front of the foil at this point. Maybe not even standing over it but worth a shot. Good luck. Can't wait to see your next steps and future projects.

Finally Chinese version is ready

Your speed is fast enough to go up, but your wing is too small. Really impressive to see that the 3D printed mast resists with your second prototype 👌

Next step: making glasfiber/carbon parts, it's really not as bad as I sounds. I made my own skis and a snow board. With 0 prior knowledge. Now you are already on the way!

Great project ! Your main wing looks quite small, I do kitefoiling and the typical front wings are around 800cm2. Then the wingfoilers use bigger wings like 1000 to 1800cm2. I think you should try at least a 1000cm2 front wing with a 300cm2 rear wing for it to lift you over ;)

I just want to say that I love the humor laced throughout your builds as you run through the trial and error process.

I always look forward to your videos. You're not afraid to show the development process and the failures along the way. Keep up the great work and you'll hit a million subs before you know it!

The foil sticking into the bottom of the board was hilarious! I think you need much much bigger wings. Also wings with a lower aspect ratio will make them stronger and more stable at lower speeds. Look at winging boards for inspiration.

great progress on this, looking forward to the next iterations 😎

I really like your video style and how you show your mistakes and your trial and error, and you have great dedication.

Love the creative ways of putting on the wetsuit. I've been following all the jet-boards with great interest. Hopefully I can make one of my own one day. As an old guy who is 65, I can relate to issues getting it up. You're young and will definitely get it up the next time. The idea of using 3-d printed parts as a shape to fiberglass over is brilliant and should be real useful.

What I like about this video is you present even the fails as a fabricator and designer myself I have come up with all kinds of ideas that in theory should work but it takes me forever to perfect and get them working the way they are intended so kudos to you for providing the video footage because people need to understand the amount of work it takes to get a CustomDesign working correctly

Love how persistent you are at design changes that will help you reach your goals.

I love how you just iterate past things that don't work the first time. The little editing cuts are hilarious. Since I have no skills I can only suggest some Velcro in the electronics enclosure to keep things from sliding around. Oh and maybe a gasket for the lid. Keep creating!

its cool to watch! Nice job Simon!!

Respect on the determination and execution, hope to see more

I tried basically the same project last year except I thought the board building from xps would be too time consuming so I just bought a cheap board from my local decathlon. Also did some research and found Ray Velinga' s videos explaining the hydrofoil calculations. he also has a book its a great read, it would help you a lot.