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 or wake foiler. 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…

EDITORIAL

Foiling Magazine

EXPOSURE

FLITE PERFORMANCE TEAM TALKS • With a few members of their usually widely scattered Performance Team in town, Byron Bay based brand Fliteboard thought it could be a bit of fun to bring a few more into the mix, for a bit of a team gathering and a chat. Cue some of the most recognizable figures in foiling, all converging at one of Australia’s most famous beach breaks…

JULIAN RICARDO DIAZ CASTRO • Young Baja wingfoil prodigy Julian Ricardo Diaz Castro grew up in the water under the guidance of his windsurf instructor dad and Slingshot’s Wing Brand Manager, Wyatt Miller, who himself has a wing center in that neck of the woods. Now he has a taste for travel too… Surely the world tour beckons?

EAST OZ FOIL FEST • It’s amazing what a pro-active foiler can achieve via WhatsApp… Zane Westwood managed to pull together dozens of foil frothers for the inaugural Foil Fest at Point Plomer on the eastern shore of Australia. Luke Atkinson fills us in on how it all played out… and which team won.

TOM COURT

NORTH RETURNS HOME • We’d heard whispers something was changing at North HQ, but things only revealed themselves to us when one of our team reported back from North’s recent dealer meeting in Portugal. When the news broke, we got in touch with North Foils Brand Director Mike Raper to find out more about the shift, and the new gear that’s come with it…

X-15 CLASS

FANATIC MERGES WITH DUOTONE • By the time this magazine hits your mailbox or the shelves of excellent magazine suppliers the world over, Fanatic’s foil division will have merged into the Duotone brand. Consequently, you’re also going to start seeing the freshly minted boards and foils that are now being released under the Duotone label. To find out exactly what has taken place, we dropped the Duotone crew some probing questions…

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PRODUCTS WE LOVE

Halcyon Hawaiian Days • Philip Muller’s springtime visit to the Hawaiian archipelago along with Salty Brother’s Quinn Wilson proved fruitful in terms of both downwinder experience and accumulated media. Sadly, some of the media never made it (RIP Philip’s hard drive), but Quinn still had his shots, and the experience is one that Philip’s not going to forget anytime soon…

Making Waves • No journey into foiling is the same. For one reason or another, that first time on a foil will be a very personal achievement that’s going to stick in the memory. For Kyle Cabano, it was most certainly not love at first foil… Instead, it was a film assignment with pro riders Zane Schweitzer and Dale Staples that ultimately changed his entire outlook.

THE WALL OF DEATH • It all started with an email for Matt Elsasser, and – two years later – escalated dramatically into a trip into the Amazon with Brian Grubb and guided by tidal bore aficionado, Serginho Laus, as the trio set about a mission to ride the longest wave in the world…

Opening up the back yard • He’s traveled the world for years in search of wind and waves, but now, with the rapid development of foiling and its various niches and disciplines, Tom Court has come to realize that there’s plenty to enjoy right here on his doorstep, whatever the season, if you have the right tools for the job…

THE FIXER • A small hiccup in AXIS’ new Spitfire range launch plan meant that the brand’s Team Communications Manager Shannon Stent had to throw together an...