Innehållsförteckning för Autumn 2019 från Foiling Magazine

The UNIVERSAL KSH ALU ensures the earliest take-off and stability in all transitions. Now with the CONVERSION KIT KSH-WH ALU we provide an extra 100 cms fuselage, tuttle head insert and plastic adapter to make the KSH ALU (Sup/Surf/Kite hydrofoil) ready to be used for windfoiling. This is a unique full convertibile set up that allows you to learn how to foil, jibe and ride any watersports from surfing, supping, kiting, wind and wing foiling. UNIVERSAL KSH ALU + WH ALU CONVERSION KIT…

This particular Lake in Florida is a rad spot because the depth goes from about 10 feet down to three or four where the cypress trees rise out of the darkness. It creates a one-of-a-kind surf wave that several of my buddies have been wake-surfing on longboards. Basically, plowing the boat in circles around the small sunken island and creating a wave that goes WAY back. I couldn’t help but be tempted to give it a rip on the foil after seeing this first-hand. Dodging and weaving through the trees, reconnecting with the wave, and chasing the boat rollers around this small island was a treat. The cypress trees stain the water such a dark brown that you can’t see the foil in the water at all – keeping you…

Hydrofoils suffer a lot of abuse. They run aground; they strike objects in the water, they get dropped in the parking lot… All of this can lead to scratches and dents, which degrades the foil’s performance. Most hydro foils also arrive from the manufacturer with a less than perfect surface finish, and significant performance improvements can be achieved by sanding and maintaining your foil’s surface finish. In short: You need to show your foil some love! The difference you can make is significant and can easily be felt on the water. Plus maintaining the trailing edges of your wing, stabilizer, and strut is also important for safety, and will help prevent you from being cut by your foil. WHAT WATER DOES AT A SURFACE AND WHY IT MATTERS When water…

Hey Andrew, so first up tell us what made you first pick up a foil and how your first few sessions were? Probably like most people I’d watched the likes of Laird then Kai flying effortlessly across waves and linking lumps of ocean energy and I definitely wanted a try. Unfortunately, reality hit hard and my first few sessions were non-starters: it was beyond me and I couldn’t believe how hard it was! You’ve used foiling as part of your rehab plan after your infamous back injury, a knee injury late last year, and then the follow up surgery on your ACL. For those not in the know, how did you get these injuries? Both injuries were from surfing, the back injury where I fractured my L2 vertebrae was at…

It’s simple… to turbo charge your progression, get yourself out behind a boat before you go paddling off the beach expecting to fly. The beauty of the boat is there are many constants, with the most crucial being speed. With a hydrofoil, speed equates to lift, so if you can control your speed, you can theoretically control the amount of lift you are getting before you go paddling into a wave and leaving the rest up to the foil gods… Long rope, short mast, slow speed: these are the most crucial guidelines for learning behind a boat. Why? THE ROPE. A full-length ski or wakeboard rope or a dock line will work. Basically, whatever you’ve got and as lengthy as you can get it will do the trick. The reason…

Editor’s note: So stuff got real with our testing for this issue, it’s something we take pretty seriously, and this sets the standard we’re going to hit every time: thorough tests, by a thoroughly experienced test team. One thing to note here, we loves stats as much as the next guy, but we didn't want to overload you with them so we have only given stats for one wing size per test. Please refer to the test for an indication of how the other wings perform in relation to this, and if you have a specific question please feel free to send it over to us at testteam@thefoilingmagazine.com – we're always happy to help! Out of the box, Ride Engine’s packaging is well conceived and executed. The brand’s signature black…

MFC (Maui Fin Company) was established in 1986. The company is world famous for its decade of windsurf fins engineering, designing fins for the finest athletes and brands. Today MFC Hawaii is focusing on developing big wave surfing fins with the best surfers in the world and is now applying its enviable R&D heritage to the world of hydrofoiling, and the HYDROS has been designed with one goal in mind: to make the most advanced surf foil to date. The design, the quality of construction and the ultra-light weight (less than 3kg) makes you feel that you have a high-end, state of the art piece of performance kit in your hands. Mast and fuselage are molded in carbon fiber and epoxy G33 bio resin. The mast is 70cm, has a…

Hi Scott, can you give us a bit of an overview of the three new HA wings? The HA wings are the perfect next step in speed and progression in your foiling. The 1240 is amazing for surfing and higher wind wing surfing, the 1400 is for someone over 180lbs for surfing and average wind speeds on the wing, the 1800 is great for the 200lbs+ big fella for surfing and provides amazing speed and stability on the wing in light winds. We feel the three cover a wide range of body weight, wave size and wind strengths. So the series is mainly aimed at surf and wingsurfing – how have you been testing them? Yeah, the HA series is aimed at surfing, wing surfing and also SUP surfing. Being…

I started surf foiling about a year ago. My brother Kevin got back from a trip to Maui, and he was all about the hydrofoiling. He picked it up very quickly (as he does with every sport!), and it completely fascinated me. I’m from Noordwijk a small coastal village in the Netherlands and the waves are very average North Sea mush. But foiling managed to bring back the stoke for these mushy waves! You can almost ride every wave, you just need to be aware of the shallow sandbars and time it right with the tides, as these factors affect the waves so much. Even in the time it takes to get into your wetsuit, the waves can already have gotten even better or worse. That’s how quickly it changes…

Hey Remi, so firstly for those who haven’t watched the ‘Seven Ghosts’ film or heard of the ‘Bono wave’, can you give us a little background to where it is and why it’s so special? Seven Ghosts is a bore wave in Indonesia, in the Kampar River on the island of Sumatra, and like all bore waves it works around the full moon. ‘The Bono’ is situated along one of the last remaining peat swamp forests in Indonesia. Access is quite difficult, and it takes a lot of travel time to get there. This wave is rarely surfed, and it’s never been surfed with a foil before our trip there, so that was really special to me to be the first to ride it on a surf foil. So how…

Had you chased this swell down? Or was it just a 'right place, right time' session? We came specifically because of the forecast. There wasn’t an extraordinary swell, but it was a week of solid surf with some nice conditions, so it was a good chance to suss out the area and get acquainted to the place from a foiling perspective. Not to mention it was mid-summer for the northern hemisphere and we were in need of a little excitement. Was this the biggest day? This was a ‘day after the swell had peaked’ session. The size was down and there were more people in the water, so we rode a couple of waves each and moved on. Small swell and lots of people isn’t the best combo… Tell us…

Hi Tony, so firstly give our readers a little introduction on who you are and what you do. I'm the chief designer at Slingshot Sports, and I wear a lot of different hats. I design foils, kites, boards… I've had my hand in pretty much everything in the Slingshot line up. I'm lucky to have a pretty good design team underneath me too. In 1999, you started Slingshot Sports with your brother Jeff. Talk to us about those early days and how the company developed… We founded the company in 1999. Slingshot did exist before that, but it was just my little project at that time. I had Logosz Works, the windsurfing brand, which was kind of a high-end boutique custom windsurf board building company, and kiteboarding was just coming…

The Signature Albatross range of foils are the original high aspect downwind/pumping surf foils. Designed by Clifford Coetzer in collaboration with the Signature R&D team, these wings have been finely tuned for maximum efficiency and high speed. After seeing the success of the original 175 in downwind racing, Signature realized they could bring the speed, pump, and glide to normal riders too and have since expanded the line to fit different riding styles and rider weights. Currently there are four sizes: 165, 175, 210, and 250. These all have unique feels and excel in different conditions. The first thing one notices about the Albatross line is the very high aspect ratio. All sizes are very flat, straight, thin, and wide which is what makes them so fast and efficient. Connections…

Hey Clinton. So firstly, tell us what’s just been released and why everyone should be excited about it? We’re just dropping the new AK Surf Foil range, with a 1300 and a 1600 wing, which have both been redesigned from the ground up. Let’s jump into the tech… tell us the practical difference between the medium and the large wing sizes? The 1600 creates a lot more lift than the 1300, which makes it suitable for the heavier rider (80kg and up) in smaller waves. The 1300 has more top end, more suitable for bigger waves, crossover with kite, or the lighter rider. And what makes it stand out from the pack? Besides the flying characteristics I’ll cover later, the construction and build quality are major features for us. We…

Hey Bobo, so tell us, what’s your favorite foil discipline right now, and your preferred set up? I’m riding the Fanatic 150 Sky SUP and the Fanatic Back Wing 255. I am really into the Wing Foil right now. Next month, it will probably be kiting. Pretty much all disciplines are my favorites! Where are your regular foil spots on Maui? My regular spots are Guardrails, Mysteries, Launiupoko, S-Turns, D.T. Fleming and Kanaha. Have you traveled elsewhere to foil? Yeah, to the Hood River Gorge Paddle Challenge, this year I did the first leg of the downwind race there. And Oahu, where I traveled with Archie Kalepa and got to foil. Tell us how you balance out your life of schoolwork and water time? School work comes first obviously, but…

So firstly Adrian, tell us where this is and how you came to be here with a foil? This was the last stop of the ‘We are Trippin’’ project in the Netherlands. Before arriving, we’d already checked some spots to kite or surf along the coast. But what you realize after a quick look on the map is that this whole country is full of water. Canals everywhere. In my mind I just thought: “This is a pumping paradise!” So how did you find out about this sport? Wherever we went I saw an option to take my foil out and start pumping. Houseboats, bridges and docks were all fair game for either a takeoff or a fly by on the water. After our first session at Brouwersdam, we heard…

01 F-ONE GRAVITY 2200 The new big boy in the F-ONE Gravity range, ideal for the larger rider or anyone using boards above 7ft, it’s a pumping machine and is designed to ride the smallest waves, while also being a true glider on downwinders. Also ideal for anyone hooked on flying with a surf wing. 02 MFC TRACTION PAD SETS If you want to be a surf foiling legend then you’re going to be doing lot pumping and carving and generally keeping your feet busy. With that in mind, you need to be confident that nothing’s going to slip out at the wrong moment. Thankfully MFC have got his… Their new Traction Pads are the thinnest on the market at just 3mm thick and come in three size options to…

Since he was a grommet growing up in Merimbula Australia, Fliteboard founder David Trewern has been obsessed with surf sports. Surf, windsurf, kite, SUP, foil; he’s had a crack at them all, and way back in 2005, the now 47-year-old was the GPS kitesurfing world record speed holder with a 500m average speed of 44.8knots. David even visited Richard Branson at Necker Island in 2015 where he showed off his kitefoiling skills to the bearded entrepreneur. It was around this time that the eFoil idea struck him. “I was at an event with no wind, and a simple idea struck me: ‘What if I could attach a motor to my kitefoil board?’” With a background in design and passion for engineering, David realized an opportunity when he saw one, visualizing…

The Outwit is Slingshot’s latest hyper modern spaceship-shape SUP foil board, which has a strong application for wing surfing. Design focus has definitely been centered around a very early take off and it somehow manages to hide a generous 120L of volume distributed largely in the center of its compact length. The build is delightfully light, with the 6’6 weighing in at around seven and a half kilos and the brushed and sanded paint finish is minimal and seems fairly hard wearing. Not much shimming was required to adapt to other foils as the rear of the board has very little rocker in the track section. At 90kgs with the 6’6, the rounded outline shape, central volume distribution and lack of parallel rail makes the Outwit fairly challenging to paddle…

I have a very long history of building surfboards of every category: kiteboards, paddle boards, tow-in foil boards and now surf foil boards. I, along with my friends Guy Perre and Brendan Shea, built one of the first tow-in foil boards about 20 years ago, days after seeing Laird and some of the Maui guys create a new way to ride waves on the very first tow-in foil board. This was by far the most radical design I had ever made, we had a 25 pound aluminum foil, a 4’0 board and snowboard boots and bindings to keep us attached! I lasted about a year on that thing, I couldn’t get used to the fact that I would eventually have to swim in snowboard boots in large surf. The following…

+ The evolution of foiling over the last twenty years has been so much fun to witness and be a part of here on Maui. From watching guys like Laird Hamilton and Rush Randle experiment with it back in the day, to seeing where Kai and the next generation have been able to take it is pretty amazing. I believe we are just starting to scratch the surface of what is capable while riding a hydrofoil. In my mind there is no limit to how big of a wave could be ridden, how many miles could be covered or how technical of a trick could be completed using a foil. There is guaranteed to be so much evolution over the next 5-10 years that would be hard to imagine at…