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AMUNDSON FOIL BOARDS

have a very long history of building surfboards of every category: kiteboards, paddle boards, tow-in foil boards and now surf foil boards. I, along with my friends Guy Perre and Brendan Shea, built one of the first tow-in foil boards about 20 years ago, days after seeing Laird and some of the Maui guys create a new way to ride waves on the very first tow-in foil board. This was by far the most radical design I had ever made, we had a 25 pound aluminum foil, a 4’0 board and snowboard boots and bindings to keep us attached! I lasted about a year on that thing, I couldn’t get

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