Foiling as a sport is incredibly difficult to explain to anyone, especially people who don’t foil, but we all know that! They simply just don’t get it and you see yourself losing them halfway through the conversation if you try and explain what makes it so unique. If you compare it to surfing and how inefficient surfing is in comparison, you just make people defensive and mad. It’s a lose-lose, unless you’re describing it to people that are non-watersports people, as they just find it fascinating and unbelievable, and even more so when you show them pictures and or videos.
But as soon as you foil and you find yourself gliding and floating above the water in effortless silence, everything makes immediate sense and – as we all know – it’s like no other feeling on the planet. It’s pure joy, and when you
