Do you dare the temptation of a gliding sensation? A feeling that could be likened to that of snowboarding endlessly down a powder-coated mountain slope or bombing a skateboard down a freshly surfaced road.
My journey with foil surfing started in early 2019 when I was working at the Airush Kiteboarding HQ in Cape Town. Clinton Filen in particular was the guy who introduced me to this sport when I was tasked with the duty of shooting a tow foil R&D session on the west coast of Cape Town. I had already experienced the pain and glory of the foil through kitefoiling in 2018 but it was not a feeling that resonated much with me. If anything, it caused some trauma with the high-speed bails and difficulty relaunching the kites in under 10 knots of wind.
The team consisted of South African big wave surfers, Jacques Theron and James Taylor as well as Clinton, the mastermind behind the designs. Although the ocean was a perfect glass that morning, the swell was small and the tide was
