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…

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AVIOS TAKES FLITE • There was a good level of debate here at Foiling Magazine HQ as to whether there was some form of trickery involved in the recent advert for reward currency providers Avios, featuring multiple Fliteboard riders, all of whom looked like they’d just walked off the street and straight onto eFoils. It turned out there wasn’t. This was all legit riding. So we caught up with Adrian Vallos from Water Toys Team, who were deeply involved in the production…

GIULIO GASPERINI • 17-year-old Sabfoil rider Giulio Gasperini comes from good wind/water sport stock, and will soon be lighting up the skies over the Canary Islands as he heads there for the upcoming Big Air event…

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THE TIES THAT BIND • A hard-to-reach reef became the focus for Titouan Galea and his friends and family when a forecast predicted a sizable swell heading for the New Caledonian archipelago. It was a session few of them are going to forget any time soon…

BAHAMAS STRIKE • It’s funny how quickly a decent swell report in the right location can get a bunch of frothers (who are already on another trip!) packing up their gear and heading to the nearest airport. Such is the power of knowing, and trusting, the right people in the right places…

APPROACH WITH CAUTION • The timing worked out perfectly for CORE’s Lutz Englert, as a swell showed up and the trigger was pulled on a long-planned mission to Mauritius, just as he was due to start some vacation time. A few days later, Lutz and fellow CORE team members found themselves in the line-up at Manawa, a place where it’s definitely worth riding with a friend…

DYNAMICS NO RATIONAL DECISIONS • How does a sports scientist end up building boards? Well, we weren’t sure either, but Lutz Graichen has been building boards for over 15 years now, and you can now find his unique design traits in the VAYU board line-up. We dug in and found out a bit more about those traits, and the man himself…

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THE HOME OF Armstrong TOUR • Aotearoa (New Zealand) is a pretty special spot on the map; plenty o’ wind, incredible point breaks, towering mountain peaks and singularly beautiful highland lakes. It also happens to be the birthplace of Armstrong Foils and home to the company’s founder and product visionary, Armie Armstrong. So when four Armstrong team riders – Oskar Johansson, Austin Tovey, Jeremy Wilmotte and Noah Flegel – joined Armie and the Armstrong crew for a tour of the country’s ins and outs, the carte blanche itinerary could only be a foil-fest. Here, we get the lowdown on four highlight sessions as seen through the eyes of those who were there… (and we highly encourage you to watch the journey recap on YouTube in its eye-popping, drool-inducing cinematographic rendition.)

BURNING BRIDGES 2.0 • Following his bridge-based adventure all the way back in issue #8, Guenther Oka couldn’t shift that itch of getting back under all that asphalt and concrete, and enjoying the myriad opportunities that its refractive chaos throws up. So he gathered up some like-minded chargers, and boarded the wake boat…

ARCTIC OASIS • As a native Brazilian, the cold climes of the Lofoten Islands, Islands – inside the Arctic Circle – were about as far from his version of “normal” as Vinnicius Martins could get. But not one to...