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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Foiling Magazine

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NICK BAUMGARTNER IN FLITE • Olympic gold medallist Nick Baumgartner is best known for his SBX (snowboard cross) achieve-ments. However, he recently showed up on YouTube cruising atop his local lake on a Fliteboard and, frankly, loving life. We got a chance to catch up with Nick at the recent Flite Cup in Fort Lauderdale to discuss the film in a little more detail…

KOA FABBIO • Koa came to our attention with his popping and ever-positive Instagram posts, which also indicate pretty clearly that the 10-year-old can shred alongside the best of them… One to watch, for sure.

GWA WINGFOIL WORLD CUP TARIFA 2022

WINGFOIL PIONEERS RACE ON LAKE GARDA • The SABFOIL Wingfoil World Cup also served as the 2022 WingFoil Racing European Championship and attracted 52 pioneering riders from eight countries to the western shore of Lake Garda in the north of Italy. Riders Francesco Cappuzzo (ITA) and Paula Novotná (CZE) won the men’s and women’s fleets after a stormy finale.

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HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT • We’re living through a pretty special time when it comes to foiling, where the eye-wateringly fast development of the equipment and the accessibility to the spectrum of wind and water states that foiling allows has created a gold rush of sorts, revealing prime spots around the world that might hitherto have remained off wave or wind riding radars. So we needed a new slot… something to celebrate these corners of the world where wind and waves might be in abundance, and where you probably need to go next. First up, it’s the glorious Maldives…

THE WILD WHISKY COAST • Offering downwind wingfoiling tours of the wild west coast of Scotland would, you'd think, be challenging enough to most as a new business venture. Not for the team behind Scot Ocean Sports though… They wanted a tall ship involved too.

GONE WITH THE WING • On March 3rd 2022, Andrew Englisch became the first person to attempt to wing foil across Bass Strait, the infamously hazardous body of water that lies between Australia and Tasmania. Spoiler alert – he did it, and in so doing successfully raised over $11,000 for a mental health charity. But it was hard won…

DYNAMICS NORTH N -WEAVE • With wing development continuing apace amongst the top wind sport brands, the lightweight materials arms race is hotting up. North Foils recently unveiled their new “N-Weave” material to much fanfare. We got in touch to find out more about the tech involved…

DYNAMICS BEHIND THE WINGMAN IMPACT VEST • Along with the evolution of everything wing these past couple of years, there’s also been some serious progress in the corresponding world of wing accessories. Step forward the new Wingman vest… a co-project between the Wingman brand and ION International. Combining an impact vest with a wing harness, the new vest has already proved its worth with the very best in the world. We spoke with Wingman’s designer and photographer Ronny Kiaulehn, and ION International’s Marketing Manager, David Mariot, on how this collaboration came about, and the technology and R&D that’s taken place behind the scenes…

PAULA NOVOTNÁ • 2022 FREESTYLE WINGFOIL WORLD CHAMPION

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