3rd times a charm they say! Back in Richies hot tub, post session together and pre party (which got a bit loose) This year we delved relatively deep into actual foiling stuff which might be a surprise and of some interest. There is an awful lot of nonsense too though...
Been looking forward to doing this for a long time - it’s a great tradition we’ve started for ourselves and long may it continue. It’s been a busy year for all and it’s been a while since the four of us sat down at all - perhaps we need to prioritise doing this more often, even without the mics!
Enjoy the ridiculousness of this latest episode of nonsense. We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and we’ll see you in the New Year!
Something a little bit different for you today. Daniel Riley is a full time Youtuber having amassed nearly a million subscribers at the time of recording. His Youtube channel follows his 'builds' and interests, which include almost anything that flies in air or water.
In recent years he has done more and more content around hydrofoiling—dockstarting, building his own TowBoogie (Toby the Tow Boat), making one of the world's largest autopilot efoils with a paddleboard and lawnchair. He is a fascinating character with knowledge and stories to share.
If you're not already, consider subscribing to Daniel's channel RCTESTFLIGHT and following him on his socials. I suspect you'll be glad you did.
Liam and Freddie have interviews in the bank but pushed back the releases because they wanted a chat. It's a bloody good job they did, as they manifested a new Woo World Record! Have a listen and see what we mean. This was recorded on Thur 04/12/2025 2 days before Hugo Wigglesworth recorded a 40m jump on the WOO!!!
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Australia's best prone foiler of 2025, France's best prone foiler of 2025, UK's second best prone foiler of 2025.
He's held a bit of the limelight this Autumn with this trip to see us in the UK and then a domination at the French Surf foil events - its about time we sat down and chatted properly.
A discussion into surf foiling, kit, riding style, judging and why he keeps ballsing up his downwind race prep - please welcome Duke Cactuson.
After spending a week traipsing around Hood River with Luke for a week in 2024 we were very happy to hear he was being shipped over to the UK into our jurisdiction for the Kernow Foil Classic event this year! A very relaxed and very talented chap, this episode reflects exactly that - we hope you enjoy!
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One of the most popular episodes from last year, and bound to be one of the most popular episodes this year, please welcome Paul Martin, Co-Founder of Foil Drive.
We love chatting to Paul because he combines an open-book personality with incredibly unique life experiences, which we dig even deeper into in this episode. He is one of those individuals that people instinctively know to pay attention to and listen to.
As well as hearing about the all-new FUSION system (and some complimentary product releases that are still to be released!), you'll get to know the real Paul Martin (Mr Egg) even better. Who'd have guessed that his whole approach to learning was moulded by hindered vision as a child!?
Enjoy the episode and let us know what you think!
Until next time...
This is as chilled as it gets - sitting down in the carpark of the Hatchery with Mike, eating home made smoked salmon and drinking tea.
Great to finally meet Mike in person - he's been a great guy to chat to and bounce ideas off since we first talked with him online a couple of years ago. A great, honest and inpdeth chat about all things North too!
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Welcome back Adrian Roper of AXIS Foils - the man who still holds the mantle for the most listened to podcast we've ever done - from 2 years ago!
We were already keen to chat to Adrian about the mountain of new innovations that seem to be hitting the market soon from AXIS - but before we had a chance to ask, he cornered us in the carpark of the Hatch to ask us exactly the same.
It was hard to miss the hype around the brand at the AWSI show this year - there was a hive of activity around the stand the whole time we were there, and its also been very apparent from the downwind race season this year that AXIS had some pretty impressive kit on the way.
So, we let Adrian bring over all these new bits to show us through. Hopefully at some point we'll put some video up from it, because as you'll hear - he's man handling kit the entire episode. Frank even joins us at the end to discuss their relationship for a few minutes as well.
Podcast aside - we've been busy squirelling away on a couple bits. You may have noticed our t-shirt selling chitter chatter on the stories. Check out https://genericfoilingpod.com/shop for access to our t-shirts.
Liams also been working to make the website work a bit smoother (like a real life professional website) and you'll also notice theres a newsletter sign up form on there...... we're doing it! The first newsletter was sent out this Saturday just gone and we'll aim to do one every second saturday morning. I'll write one then liam will write one and hopefully you'll get a bit of a snippet of anything and everything else we don't get around to discussing in our episodes.
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Where did Slingshot come from and where is Slingshot going?? A great chat with Jeff Logosz, CEO of the brand - sat in the Offices in Hood River during our trip to the states.
Liam and I loved this one - coming from a kite background we loved hearing about the days where it all began.
We’ve also managed to nab some foils off Sam Light in the UK since we got home and Liams been spending a good bit of time on the One-Lock system. He’s a big fan, even in the first few sessions - gonna be an interesting debrief in our next chat together no doubt
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This week's episode is one that Freddie and I have been looking forward to for some time. Please welcome Connor Bainbridge, fellow Brit, man of many talents, and 2024 Formula Kite Olympian.
In this episode we get a:
- run down of Paris 2024
- sneak peak into the operations of Blue Fox Boards
- An example of the power of giving designers and engineers critical feedback
- history of his long period with F-One
- understanding of what Connor is now working on at Ozone
...all mixed in with some chitty chatty you've come to expect from GFP.
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A great, refreshing and honest chat with Jon Modica - Cabrinha’s head honcho. We hear the story of how Jon went from Team Ripper right up to Chairman of the Board.
We were excited for this one having heard murmurings of a connection between Cabrinha and Mikes Lab for their new foil range connection system - we had to find out the truth!
Had to put the second and third photos up alongside.....
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The Kernow Foil Classic has come and gone - you might’ve seen a couple shots floating around the socials.
Enthusiasm is high and we wanted to talk allllll about it! A quick one to recap the time spent down in Cornwall last week
We’ll be back with our AWSI chats promptly - we just couldnt help but squeeze this one in
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Having invaded his home in Hood River, commandeered his wifi, made cups of English tea, used his electricity to top up the airbeds, charged all electronic devices, and had a good poo, we figured we ought to sit down and do a podcast with the man of the hour, Ewan Jaspan.
Ewan has been on Freddie and Liam's radar for decades as a professional kiteboarding athlete, pioneer amongst both the freestyle and wakestyle, and a standout filmmaker. Whilst he still pushes hard on the kite, he has been as hooked by foiling as the rest of us and rarely a windy day at the hatchery will go by without him sending a few laps with a paddle or parawing in hand.
Nowadays Ewan is the lead parawing and kite designer for Naish who will soon by release the appropriately named 'Hatch' parawing. This is his baby from start to finish and is a firm favourite amongst those locals lucky enough to have experienced the prototype iterations through its development. It is a product we are excited to see hit the market.
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Until next time, enjoy!
The big one! We've given these guys a fair bit of grief over the last 18 months after initially hearing of their release - but we were very happy to sit down with designer extraordinaire, Chris Reynolds to set the story straight and to see how the entire process had come about now the product is on the market!
Legenrdary surfer turned foiler Eric Geiselman joins in to then give us his use cases for the FliteLab now its out and how its changed his outlook on prone surf foiling.
A great sit down with these guys - and about time too!
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The Wanglordz haven’t sat down together since Christmas can you believe! Well, last year we never really deconstructed our first trip to America with the guys and Liam and I felt like maybe we’d missed a trick there - so we pushed to get the guys up to answer any questions they might’ve had about our trip this year
We also needed time to discuss Chris’s up and coming event - now in its third year - the Kernow Foil Classic. Liam and I are really looking forward to this time of year as everyone congregates down on Cornish beaches to ride together, compete and socialise afterwards. This year, for 5 days!
Once you’ve had a listen, go check out @kernowfoilclassic , sign up and come down even just to hang out - its gonna be a 'doozy'.
1-5th October - not long now!
Please welcome, THE foil assist athlete - Paul Cooper.
It’s a wonder we’ve made it this long without chatting to Paul before, but we were very glad to finally sit down and chat all things Foildrive and surf foil.
Paul’s been around a while now in foiling, converting pretty much entirely to Foildrive use in the surf - and you must have seen his air’s in the waves by now. Freddie especially was very keen to chat about his favourite foiling movie, the Bali movie which Paul was in charge of a year or so ago - another one worth watching if you haven’t already!
There’s also big chat here about how much it would take to get Freddie to try nail a backflip on a wing. Give it a listen for the value - I don’t think it’s unachievable at all. If anyone wants to stump up the cashola - I’ll nail that backflip to a wall!
We sat down with Gabe, Designer at Slingshot. He is one of a team of designers/engineers and focuses on wing, parawing and board design. Between our conversation with Gabe and chat with Bobby not too long ago, it feels like Slingshot have an exciting mix of fresh engineers and established experience and I’m excited to see what other innovations come out in the coming years.
We talked about the following (in no particular order):
- Would a scaled down aeroplane design foil?!
- What his design process/data collection system looks like?
- How the slingshot parawing design is progressing
- Parawing and wing material science
- Long term durability and water retention potential of parawings
- The implication of Alula on wing designs
- How has One-Lock gone down?
- Production board construction
- What he is most proud of
- Artistic design vs optimisation
- Biggest screw up
- Room 101!
- and much much more!
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We sat down with Dan and Ben from Code and talked about the following (in no particular order):
- Height of foilers and how it affects their riding and gear choices
- Weight of foilers (as above)
- Why pros don't always use super short fuses
- New X series foil - who is it for and what spots is it for?
- What tails are good with the new x series
- Code/FoilDrive integrated mast
- Who is on top in the foil assist game
- Who does what at Code on the design side
- What disciplines the Code boys use to test foils
- Learning to parawing
- How the setup changes from Sup DW to para and the pros and cons of each
- Front v back foot pressure foils/brands
- Social considerations for getting into downwinding whatever your power source
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We've all been running around like blue arsed fly's for the last few days while the AWSI show was on - both sets of Podcasters trying to get interviews recorded with as many people as possible while they were all in one place.
We're a few days post show now and its quietening down - a perfect time to smush our two podcasts into one to dissect our both our findings from the show and all the new products on offer.
Dylan and Walt from the X Foils Podcast and Freddie and Liam all throw their opinions into the mix in this chilled episode recorded in the Hatchery carpark, post and pre more parawing sessions
We've got another week in Hood River still and there are plenty folks still around to ride with - fingers crossed we get some more sessions once we've relaxed at least a little bit!
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We're back for our second time in Hood River, Oregon for the AWSI event here. 2 mental days so far and lots to discuss.
The hype level here is off the charts. Its been awesome to see so many friendly faces again - the entire foiling world has been rocking up to solid head high swell and 2/3m wing winds. So many hours clocked up parawinging already in just 2 days.
The Beer chest is stocked and in full flow, we've welcomed teams from Appletree, Foildrive, Code Foils and further afield for mid arvo beers so far and the chest is well depleted!
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Roll on the actual AWSI event Wednesday onwards
Easterlies in Exmouth, Electric pump marketing, music usage in foiling videos and Liams new board build - we covered it all. What more could you possibly want from a foiling podcast?
Its been epic at home this weekend just gone and we're all hyped up about each and every discipline on offer - even Freddies in a good mood at this point, but i wonder how long that'll last....
We hope everyone's getting out and about on the water. We're gearing up for America in a couple weeks and getting pretty excited about it again - hopefully Liam doesnt cock his board build up too much as he's very looking forward to getting it out on the water
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