Imagine that lazy lump of a reef break you’ve watched for years that walls up for eternity and never really does anything… That frustratingly useless but tempting bit of ocean energy you’ve paddled the lonely 600m over to, gaining nothing but dissatisfaction on more than one occasion. You couldn’t even get into it on your DW SUP foil rig. There’s now a product, I daresay an optional appendage, that will let you draw lines all over it like a fresh powder day in Utah.
At first I was at a psychological stalemate with a foil-assist system not being pure. It was cheating. You didn’t earn the wave, you don’t deserve to ride it. Then I had the realization that if I’d had the same attitude to kites, foiling and subsequently wingfoiling in the first place, I’d potentially be an eternally dissatisfied middle-aged man that surfs a mid-length four times a year and whinges about it. Even as an open-minded early adopter to most alt water sports, this contraption had me on the fence for a while. After being given the opportunity to test it however, I’ve now not only jumped clean over
