As anybody who’s ever stepped on a board and caught a wave will tell you,  surfing is the one. It’s just… it’s the one. It’s virtually impossible to sum up without sounding like a cliché-bloated hippy bore, so let’s just go with what the shop monkey in Point Break says; “Surfing’s the source, man.”.

So, how do you improve on something so good? By making it last, forever, obviously! And now you can. Kind of.

As Hawaiian big wave surfer Kai Lenny demonstrates, new hydrofoil surfboard – effectively a regular short board with a wing suspended beneath the board – can catch wave after wave, all in one ride.

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For a while now, people have been saying how this new design can make mushy dog-shit conditions feel like you’re riding perfect waves, but Lenny takes it a step further. He’s found that he can catch a wave, and when it’s spent, drop over the shoulder and pump back to get another wave in the set, all while still on his feet.

Granted, it does look like he’s on some sort of kids ride with a particularly convincing background, but do you think he cares? Of course not.