Foiling Magazine

Foiling Magazine brings the best features, the latest tech and the finest tricks-and-tips to you from the world of foiling. Within this relatively new sport, Foiling Magazine is essential reading for any surf, SUP, Wing, wake or eFoiler. Working with the best riders, the biggest brands and the finest photographers, Foiling Magazine provides the ultimate representation of the most exciting sport on the planet…

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Foiling Magazine

EXPOSURE

THE LAST MINUTE MISSION • Already in Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands for the World Cup tour, Alan Fedit, Milla Danguy and Axel Gérard took an opportunity to nip across to the neighboring island of Lanzarote to meet some incoming epic conditions. Videographers Dane Wilson and Lucas Le Bec were on hand to document the impromptu adventure…

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A Greek Downwinder • Four riders, 330km of lush Greek island hopping and the famous Meltemi wind at their backs. On paper, the route from Andros to Rhodes in Greece looked promising indeed. On the water, it was rather more complicated. Cue a few revised plans and plenty of excuses to stop for a long Greek lunch…

IT’S HARDER IN ALASKA • Things didn’t quite go to plan for Sensi Graves and her growing family as they headed into the glacial reaches of a southern Alaskan peninsula, on a mission to find some unique winging conditions. But then, this is what this part of the world is known for… you have to work for the rewards here. And those rewards can be pretty spectacular.

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Divine Timing • Navigating merging channels and dodging container ships on a 30+ mile foil crossing, to score airs off the backwash of a rusting hulk of a World War II US Navy barge called YOGN-42, during one of the summer’s windiest forecasts. To say Paige Alms and crew’s downwinder plans were ambitious would be putting it mildly…

FULL FROTH • Although this editor couldn’t make it to the Kernow Foil Classic event (again) for its fourth year, by all accounts – and by chuff there have been many – it was a proper barnstormer. Blessed by near-perfect conditions, and with riders from across the globe showing up, the event’s profile continues to grow, while its reputation as one of the best grassroots foil events on the planet remains perfectly intact. Freddie Oldfield, roving reporter and 50% of the Generic Foiling Podcast, wired in this report…

THE Endless FOIL • Julia Castro finally heads to Peru after more than a decade of dreaming about its world-famous lefts. Joined by fellow Duotone team riders Nia Suardiaz and Mar de Arce, they discover a coastline where the waves can keep rolling a long time after your legs have turned jelly-like…

COMMON GROUND • A few extra days in Hood River, a crew spanning generations and foil disciplines, and enough gear to keep their riding options wide open: that was the plan for Starboard’s post-AWSI team gathering, even if the forecast had other ideas…

FINNISH LINES • A week on the road in Finland delivered far more than Benjamin May had bargained for. Simple living, immersive nature, incredible foil spots… and endless sauna. Despite the regularly fickle forecasts, this unlikely foil destination now sits firmly on his “must return to” shortlist.

FOUR YEARS LATER. • From a ten-year-old Japanese foil prodigy to Teahupo’o and the Channel of Bones, Ryu Adegawa is growing into a complete ocean athlete with a prodigious gift for foiling. Photographer Pedro Gomes returns to chart Ryu’s relentless progression, four years on.

FABIAN MUHMENTHALER • From pro rider to Foil Product Manager, Fabian Muhmenthaler has been on quite a journey, from putting North Foils’ and Mystic gear through its paces on the world tour to helping shape what comes next from the brands. We caught up with him to talk changing careers, and why the best...