Foiling Magazine

Foiling Magazine brings the best features, the latest tech and the finest tricks-and-tips to you from the world of foiling. Within this relatively new sport, Foiling Magazine is essential reading for any surf, SUP, Wing, wake or eFoiler. Working with the best riders, the biggest brands and the finest photographers, Foiling Magazine provides the ultimate representation of the most exciting sport on the planet…

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Foiling Magazine

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FINDING PEACE ABOVE WATER • World-renowned tattoo artist Juan Salgado is grateful to have discovered e-foiling at exactly the time he needed it most. In this recent film by Lift Foils, Juan lays bare to Lift Foils co-founder & CEO Nick Leason how it’s changed both his perspective on life and on his art. We reached out to Juan to get a little more behind-the-scenes context…

DUBAI EFOIL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024 • Dubai’s eFoil festival is rapidly gathering a reputation as one of the world’s biggest showcase events, hosting the latest and best equipment, and the greatest riders in the discipline. Fliteboard rider Tom Court was right back in the heart of it for 2024…

BENOIT CARPENTIER

DUOTONE YOUNGBLOOD CAMP • The third Young Blood Camp by Duotone set up shop in Tarifa this autumn, providing pro rider tuition (water based and classroom!) for some of the world’s best up and coming foil athletes, from eight different countries. In fact, recent Duotone pro team additions Alex & Tom Acherer and Charlie Loch cut their teeth in this camp, and it’s clearly serving them well already. Team Coach Jerome Cloetens let us know why he believes it’s so formative for the young athletes who attend…

SFT WORLD TOUR • Sound the new world tour klaxon! From the team behind the GWA Wingfoil World Tour, a new multi-discipline foil tour has appeared, with its inaugural event successfully taking place at the recent BOOT water sports trade show in Germany, as seen to the left here. To find out the scope and remit of this new tour, we spoke with its Managing Director, Dr Jörgen Vogt.

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GOOD STUFF

DECODING GHOSTS • Glimpses of the unique “Ghosts” phenomenon on the Bono river bore – with its brown, barreling aesthetic so starkly removed from the norm – occasionally rise to the fore on social media as the result of a well-documented adventure, only to once again subside, as if an online proxy of its own tidal status. It’s a freakish swell that – to Mr (Adam) Bennetts and his compadres – appeared better suited to a foil than a shortboard. There remained only one way to know for sure…

FORCE Unleashed • For the Liquid Force 2025 foil shoot, the team had the eternal challenge on how to show off their spanking new kit in the best light possible. The optimal factors were: crystal clear water, white sandy beaches, unreal weather. Not much to ask, right? Thankfully, the crew at Wake To Wake Turks and Caicos reached out, and made the choice a pretty simple one for all concerned…

The First O'ahu to Kaua'i Foil Crossing • Pioneering a 100-mile open-water crossing was never going to be easy. Faced with the threat of a "mini hurricane" bearing down on their planned feat, most would have paused, using the time to consolidate their training and wait for safer conditions. But Mala’e McElheny and Brady Hurley didn’t see the approaching storm as a hindrance – rather as an opportunity. Drawing on their innate understanding of local conditions, they turned the challenge to their advantage…

Southern Comfort • Rather than heading to the well-documented north of the Brazilian coastline, Stefan Spiessberger and a bunch of the Duotone wing team decided to point the compass south and head down the road less traveled….

OPEN DE FRANCE • Gage Schoenherr wasted no time in registering for France’s Crozon Foil Festival when spots opened up,...