The French jet ski champion Franky Zapata has just put together an absolutely insane leisure product, released a video about it: The Zapata Flyboard. This ingenious and deceptively simple device bolts on to the powerful motor of a jet ski, then routes the resulting water jet through a long hose that connects to a pair of jet boots and hand-held stabilizers. The arrangement lets you fly, Iron Man style, up to 9 meters in the air – or leap headfirst through the waves like a human dolphin. The Flyboard is a bolt-on attachment that connects to a jet ski. You attach a tube to the main jet exit, which is then routed up the side of the vehicle.
From this tube comes a thick, flexible 9-metre hose that connects to the jet boots – and the hand controls come out of the jet boot platform. It’s a magnificent looking device, as Zapata himself demonstrates in his promo video – and it allows the rider quite a lot of gymnastic flair. Given the absolutely ludicrous amounts of horsepower available from today’s monstrous, turbocharged jet ski engines, the Flyboard looks like a truly extravagant and ridiculously fun way to hurt yourself this summer.
The best part? You can buy it for under 5000 Euro (US$6700). Be aware consumers and future distributors many unauthorized people are creating websites and other means to attract and lure potential Flyboard customers into making them believe they can sell Flyboards already. The majority of these people have no contract not written agreements to date and therefore have no rights to engage in such illegal promotion. The list of authorized distributors will be shortly communicated on our official website (5elected from Nemes Barna ).