Foil Surf Racing League

2024 FSRL Dates are March 8-10th.

Tentative Schedule Below:

March 8th – Practice Day and Shop Registration Party

March 9th- Races

March 10th- Expression Session

Click for The 2023 Foil Surf Race and Lift Expression session RECAP AND RESULTS

March 10TH-13th 2023
This race was a part of the Beach N Board’s Festival in Cocoa Beach! Find out more about the full Beach N Board Details …Click here: https://beachnboardsfest.com/

Location-

Shepard Park

299 E Cocoa Beach Causeway

Cocoa Beach, FL 32931

Foil Surf Race and Lift Foil Expression Session
Categories to Enter:
  • Men’s Pro Prone (Compete for prize money and glory!) *Included Entry to Lift Expression Session
  • Women’s Prone (Compete for prize money and glory!) *Included Entry to Lift Expression Session
  • Prone Open (No prize money but just race for fun with friends and fellow foilers)
  • SUP Pro (Compete for prize money and glory!)
  • Lift Expression Session- Best Trick – Straps and Strapless (Compete for prize money and glory!)

You can enter more than one category!!

2023 Estimated Event Schedule-
Friday- MARCH 10th
10am-5pm- Practice Day. Most Competitors check out the spot and get some laps in to become familiar with the beach and break. Please stay out of the surfing contests!!
6pm- Registration Party at Good Breeze. Finalize your registration, pick up your jersey and welcome package. The shop will be ope if  you need to pick up last minute gear! We will have beer and drinks here so come by, talk foil and have a good time! Cabrinha will have a free keg of Drifter Lager and Grills will be catering some food!
110 Dixie Lane
Cocoa Beach FL 32931
Saturday-MARCH 11th
8am- Contestants arrive and be ready for Riders Meeting shortly after. (GET HERE EARLY FOR PARKING!!!)
8:30am- RIDERS MEETING. All racers must be present to go over rules and ask questions.
9am- Races Start. We are most likely going to start with Prone.
1pm-ish- Quarter Finals. Most likely 6 person heats and top 3 from each heat will advance.
3pm-ish- Finals
7pm- After Party Dinner and Drinks at 4th St Fillin Station (parking at post office if none available)
Sunday-
9am- Possibly Finals (if not finished on Saturday)
Noonish- Lift Foils Expression Session!!  Best Trick Category for Strap and Strapless. Lift Efoils and Seadoos available for tow-ins. $1000 cash prizes. $50 Entry for anyone else not racing.
Followed by awards on beach on Red Bull Podium.

***ALL ENTRY FEES WILL INCREASE $10 per category starting  March 5th so sign up now!***

Over $5,000 in cash and product prizes!

All Contestants will Receive:

-Kaohi Foil Leash

-Billabong Shirt

-Billabong Hat

-$20 Gift Card to Grill Seafood

-Olukai Hat

-Olukai Shirt

-Good Breeze Swag

-Nomadic Changing Poncho

About Foil Surf Racing League

Description– A foil surfing endurance race in which athletes paddle into waves to start and then work their way down the beach by riding multiple waves to an exit point. They must then work their way back up beach to the starting area to complete one lap. First rider to complete designated number of laps wins the heat.

How it works-

Definitions

Upstream up-wind, up-current or up-swell. In case of mild neutral conditions this will be toward the south.

Downstream down-wind, down-current, or down-swell. In case of mild neutral conditions this will be toward the north.

Action area– rectangular area made by: upstream buoy x upstream flag x downstream buoy x downsteam flag 

Staff

-Scoring

-Line judge upstream boundary

-Line judge downstream boundary

-Action area judge

Safety

Athletes can ride and catch the same wave as other competitors. Physical contact is not permitted between competitors. It is the responsibility of all riders to avoid collisions. (navigation rules: always turn to the right if head on). Leash must be worn at all times while in the water.

Penalties: DNF (Did Not Finish) if failure to comply with rules, or intentional unsafe act occurs. Pay attention to Flagers!!

Rules

  • All non-foiling or surfing must be perpendicular to beach or upstream.
  • No paddling or running/walking downstream.
  • Athletes must be up on foil and connecting waves to move downstream. Competitors cannot paddle, swim, walk or run down the course toward the downstream marks. Only paddling toward shore and back out to catch waves is allowed.
  • Riders must have their boards and foil with them at all times (sup- must always have paddle with them)
  • Leashes must be worn while in the water. If it is removed to work way on foot, it must be put back on when entering water.
  • No straps allowed in the race
  • You must clear the boundary lines completely and receive green flag for the lap to count!

Start

-Lemans style, no contact with board, leash on.

-Paddle out perpendicular to beach, no entry to action area unless surfing/foiling

-No paddling to down stream boundary

 

Two ways to complete a lap:

Prone-

1.)

-surf and/or pump your way through the down stream boundary.

-look for the line judge’s green flag for a verified boundary cross.

-pump or surf back toward the upstream boundary.

– if you come off foil while heading upstream, you can either go straight in, perpendicular to beach and make way by foot to complete lap or catch another wave to get past the upstream boundary. You must stop, come off foil, and paddle into another wave after exiting upstream action box for your 2nd lap.

2.)

-surf and/or pump your way through the down stream boundary.

-look for the line judge’s green flag for a verified boundary cross.

-make your way to the beach and run around the downstream boundary flag before running to upstream boundary flag.

Sup/paddleboard-

1.)

-surf and/or pump your way through the down stream boundary.

-look for the line judge’s green flag for a verified boundary cross.

-pump or surf back toward the upstream boundary.

– if you come off foil while heading upstream, you can either go straight in, perpendicular to beach and make way by foot to complete lap or catch another wave to get past the upstream boundary. You must stop, come off foil, and paddle into another wave after exiting upstream action box for your 2nd lap.

2.)

-surf and/or pump your way through the down stream boundary.

-make your way to the beach and run around the down boundary flag before running to up stream boundary flag.

3.)

-surf and/or pump your way through the down stream boundary.

– if you choose to paddle back (not on foil) to the upstream boundary, you must round the downstream buoy first

Finish:

-First person to do two complete laps wins (subjective to conditions)

-Placement is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc..

-If a rider moving toward the upstream boundary crosses the finish line, time stops when he crosses the starting/finishing line and verified by line judge as “green” flag.

Course Outline

Lift Expression Session

The @liftfoils Expression Session will consist of 2 semifinal heats and then a final in two categories, straps and strapless. Heat duration will be decided once registration is complete. All racers competing in the pro class automatically get an invite to the session. We will have the Seadoos to whip competitors into waves. Each rider will get max 5 tows and can paddle into waves anytime during the heat. Heats will be judged by a 3 judge panel that will be looking to award progressive and innovative foil maneuvers