Foiling Magazine

Fishbowl Diaries • Robby Naish: S25 Wing-Surfer, Jet Foil Complete, Hover WING/SUP Our products are designed to offer flexibility and creativity in all conditions in order to maximize your time on the water, and the Jet Foil, Wing-Surfer, and Hover W

At the time of writing, I’m sitting at my home desk in the early twilight as the first huge Atlantic storm of the season makes itself known on our shores. Although I’m set back from the sea, a mile or so as the crow flies, I can pick out the muffled

RIDER Bevan Gooch LOCATION Pauanui, Coromandel, New Zealand PHOTOGRAPHER Paul Schrader Bevan: Testing prototype foil combinations out for Armstrong foils at my home surf in Pauanui is the perfect way to wash off a hard day’s work. We get really consi

So firstly, tell us where you were and why? Hi! We were shooting with RRD International at Witsand Beach, which is a spot near Scarborough around the cape area in Cape Town. When was this filmed, and were there any Covid-issues with the traveling? Th

HI JUSTIN. Tell us a bit about yourself? I live on the north shore of Maui, where I have grown up. I am 16 years old, I first tried foiling at age 13 when my dad got himself a setup, and since then I have been hooked. What’s your favorite foil discip

When in Spain, teaming up with Samuel Cardenas is always a good idea. On a recent trip to this spot somewhere in the south of the country, the water here has been pretty icy and the Poniente wind has been really consistent. Using this to our advantag

This trip was on my bucket list for ages. Then this summer, with my girlfriend Hivanui, the dream became a reality. And what a reality it was… As we left for Tahiti, my boardbag was full of all the water-sports gear you could possibly use: foil, wing

Staring at a map last September while planning for this channel crossing, I was thinking there was no way I can do this. Yet, something inside me said I would. It’s like anything… day by day, run by run, mile by mile, all leading up to a 43-mile stra

Having grown up on the prairies of Canada, I was more familiar with ice skating than hydrofoiling. I was a competitive figure skater in Saskatchewan. Figure skating helped me learn how to balance, but more importantly, the sport introduced me to my w

LOCATION ALMKANAL, SALZ BURG DATE THURSDAY JULY 30TH, 2020 Being landlocked, the idea of foiling inland is perhaps a bit different than living by the sea. We have little constant winds and no waves at all. So before foiling came to Europe, the situat

LOCATION MAUI DATE SATURDAY AUGUST 29TH, 2020 Ataco party at a multi-million-dollar, nothing-short-of-dreamlike oceanside compound with a pool large enough to foil in? Uh, yeah, count us in… But before you make any grandiose assumptions about the typ

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One could say Maui’s north shore is a hotbed for water-borne innovation. Tough and gritty breaks pound the rocky shore with unrelenting power and the wind almost never lets up. Throw in the occasional terrifying Jaws swell to test your mettle, and yo

As a kid I remember being glued to Sunday night TV as my parents went about their business. I don’t know if they purposely put on the National Geographic channel because it was something they were interested in, or because it was something that would

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

So how did you guys first meet, and at what point did you decide to start up a business together? Kent Hardley and I first met at the beach in Ventura, California back in 2001 through our mutual love of kitesurfing. That was the start of our friendsh

It was a rough start for me with a very hard learning curve, but quickly foiling became a real gamechanger for me. In addition to regular SUP, foiling has allowed me to increase the amount of hours I spend on the water by making more of otherwise mar

Armstrong have quickly built a reputation for excellent performance with a focus on quality products with no compromises on materials. From the biggest board to the smallest screw, every detail has been refined and tuned to near perfection. The A-Win

Starboard are no strangers in the burgeoning hydrofoil market and for 2021 have implemented a comprehensive multi-sport system to cover surf, windsurf, wing and SUP disciplines. First let’s talk about the modular Quick Lock technology as it’s fairly

Amongst one of the many great things about the new world of foiling and wingsurfing is that the whole thing is pretty ‘democratizing’. Unlike in, say, kitesurfing or windsurfing, you don’t need a huge range of 15+ products to become a respected brand

Starboard and Airush have collaboratively brought out a wing using their knowledge from their respective windsurf and kitesurf brand expertise. Airush tinkered with inflatable wings as a brand as far back as 2012, but shelved the project in 2015 as t

Talk us through the philosophy behind the Flying Fish? We wanted these boards to sit a little higher in the water than the older High Roller boards that featured the concave rails. The mellow bevel on the Flying Fish helps with paddling speed for the

Why the ‘Bee’ Craig? We’re very intrigued… A lot of people who are into a few different watersports want to have the ultimate one-board solution for holidays or even for their daily use on the water. We have some boards which work for SUP foiling and

Hi team. So being as it’s all still so new, what were your design objectives for your first wing-specific board? Learning from both SUP foiling and also windsurf foiling, we had a good base on what we needed to achieve with the Wingboard design. Firs

The efficiency of foils these days is allowing us to be up on foil for 10-20 minutes, so if you combine this with any downwind swell elements, you’ll be able to head out on an adventure on tiny bumps for a very long time without using much energy. We

Hi Sylvain. We’re looking forward to getting a chance to ride the new Carver Efoil at some stage. How has the response been so far? The Cruising was released in 2019, then came the Carver this summer, and there was a lot of anticipation! We ran out o

With a long and rich nautical background and establishing itself year after year on the world stage as a force to be reckoned in terms of board sports, Portugal has been keeping a low profile on the international foiling scene. But there is a small g

To those close to the foiling community, it may seem we’ve entered the mainstream, but I believe that the sport is just getting started. We’re finally starting to see small groups of surfers adopt the foil for their small wave needs. In the wind spor