Awesome Water Sports

The guys from Real Skifi do some pretty wacky stuff on skis. In this clip, athletes Ilkka Hannula and Juho Kilkki decided to see if it was possible to use their powder skis to remain upright in water and across the obstacles in a wakeboarding park. Turn on subtitles.

Take a smooth ride through the waters of Miami, Florida in this beautifully-shot promo video for the Lift eFoil, an electric hydrofoil that lets you glide effortlessly above the surface with no need for wind, waves, or towing. Sadly, it’s only for those with very deep pockets.

The most user-friendly vehicle from hydroflight pioneer Zapata. The Flyride applies Zapata’s water jet technology to the jet ski. It has four difficulty modes so that even children can safely ride it, and can hold two riders. It can even do a barrel roll at the touch of a button.

LockRack is a strapless roof rack for surfboards, paddle boards, kayaks and canoes. It has an anodized aluminum base, nylon rail protectors and non-slip rubber arms. The arms are secured by locking pins and can be folded flat or removed when not in use.

Thanks to the sweet graphics on Hurley’s Phantom 30 Hideaway Boardshorts, we can (kind of) pretend this summer isn’t all rainy and cold. They’ve got 30% stretch and are knee length for optimal movement in and out of the water.

Just in time for the end of summer, FailArmy has put together a compilation of skimboarding, water skiing, tubing and general watery-type activity fails. We better get out there and face plant in the lake before the snow comes.

Devin Supertramp and his friends try out Zapata Racing’s Hoverboard. Invented by Franky Zapata – the man who came up with the Flyboard – Hoverboard lets you soar above water with the help of a jet ski.

ACL Digital Cinema showcases some of the epic shots they took this year using the amazing Red Epic camera, which has a 14mp sensor and a 5120 x 2700 pixel array. Best watched in full screen HD with the sound cranked.

A couple of crazy dudes in Russia (where else?) must have left their parasailing equipment at home, so they decided to take to the air on an inflatable “kite raft” instead. We smell another Mythbusters episode here.

Like the PowerSki and the WaveJet, you don’t need waves to have fun with the Jetsurf. It uses a 86-100cc 2-stroke engine that lets you zip about up to 35mph. A full tank is good for over 2 hours of jetsurfing.

The Nocqua 2000 is a lighting system for kayaks, canoes and paddleboards. It uses two strips of LEDs that have a total output of 2,000 lumens. Its battery powers the LEDs for up to 2 hours per charge.

It’s officially summer and it’s like a steambath in the city, so watching all the superior wakeboarding footage in Parker Walbeck’s video for Devin Supertramp is cooling us off. And maybe making us a little jealous too.

Devin Graham flings summer at us as we watch these folks head 60 feet into a lake at 40mph on an inner tube. Minimal broken bones and only two people knocked unconscious – our typical Tuesday.

Combines the ease of use of a jet ski with the portability of a surfboard. It weighs only 48 lbs., has a battery that lasts up to 1 hr per charge and an electric motor that lets you go as fast as 15 mph.

Devin Graham and his friends went to Oahu, Hawaii to see the awesome moves that the experts from Aquatic Aviation can pull off on the jet-powered FlyBoard. They should’ve taken this guy with them.

Forge Films went with three equally insane kayakers to the remote jungles of Tlapacoyan, Veracruz in Mexico to search for waterfalls to ride and crash on. A beautiful and thrilling short.

As its name implies, the JetBoard combines the body of a surfboard with the fast-paced capabilities of a jet ski. It has a 35hp 330cc engine that lets it go up to 32mph, with a range of about 45min.

Rope swing not enough for you? Perhaps an entire inflatable water park will suffice. Wibit’s Sports Park 60 is over 130ft long, 105 ft wide and about 10ft high and can accommodate up to 60 people.

A jetpack may be cooler than a bike, but if both of them are water-powered and tied to a hose then there’s not much difference. The Jetovator goes up to 25mph, rises up to 30ft and dives up to 10ft.

Rave Sports’ floating rope swing lets you pull off flips on water – or at least try to – on any body of water at least 10′ deep. It can be set up on its own or attached to other Rave Sports platforms.

An astounding 145 waterskiers connect up to a massive towing rig in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour and into the record books. Excuse the cheesy pop tune on this otherwise awesome video.

Invented by Franky Zapata, the FlyBoard is as close to becoming Iron Man as you can get. Its jet boots and palm-mounted stabilizers pump water with the help of a jet ski motor. More here.

Too lazy to stand up while you waterski? With the Ski Seat, you can sit your bum down while you get dragged along the water’s surface by a powerboat. Actually, it looks way more fun than that sounds.