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 or wake foiler. 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…

EDITORIAL

Foiling Magazine

EXPOSURE

HYDROFOIL SURF HEAVEN IN HAWAII • Granted, this video was first posted in late autumn, but it’s one we just the other day came across a second time and remembered how damn nice it is. Nothing other than some laid back riding to equally laid back music, long takes and long North Shore rollers. Perfect with that morning coffee. We caught up with Keahi to hear about the session…

MALA’E MCELHENY • A bona fide foil all-rounder, Mala’e McElheny is better known in the social media domain as @BanzaiGrom on Instagram and counts some pretty high-profile names as mentors and riding buddies. He’s another young gun you’ll no doubt get to know very well in the years to come. We got in touch…

SECRET SPOT

JAPAN • Paige Alms headed out to Japan to represent her country in the World Surfing Games, and ended her trip in Okinawa, scoring perfect foil conditions (and the odd typhoon swell) with fellow Patagonia ambassador, Hayato Maki. Paige tells the story…

KAMCHATKA • Four years in the planning, Mallory de la Villemarque’s epic trip to a formerly off-limits military zone in Kamchatka, deep in grumpy bear territory, is as far out as our Outer Banks section has gone yet. It was never going to be warm… but Russia delivered.

HIGH ASPECT RATIO WINGS • THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

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THE GOOD STUFF

INDIAN AWAKENING • Antoine Auriol was on the hunt for an adventure, but one with some specifications: flat bodies of water were a must. A simmering love for India sent him back that way, and this time he journeyed the country with a foil and found exactly what he’d been searching for…

THE wing STORY… • THE TRUE ORIGINS OF WINGSURFING

THE COLEMAN BUCKLEY INTERVIEW • One of the most intriguing brand figures in the industry, Ride Engine founder Coleman Buckley started developing kitesurf gear in 2011 and, a few years in, saw the potential that was developing in the world of hydrofoils, so turned his engineering nous in that direction too, developing a comprehensive and very well-received foil lineup that exudes the California surf vibe, just like he does.

SROKA • Bruno Sroka, the founder of SROKA Company, has plenty of ‘real world’ qualifications when it comes to credibility in the water sports field. Having completed some superhuman open water crossings, been a world champion kitesurfer, and a pioneer in several aspects of that, he was well placed to embrace hydrofoiling as it began blazing its way onto the water sport scene. We sat down with Bruno to find out how it all came to be…

PUMP FOILING

ADRIAN ROPER • Adrian Roper, co-founder and head of product development at AXIS Foils has lived and breathed water based technology for nearly four decades. From the early days of windsurfing until the lightning fast foiling evolutions of today, Adrian has always been at the forefront of putting premium kit under the feet of riders…

THE TEST TEAM

FANATIC SKY WING

KT DRIFTER

FORESIGHT KAI LENNY • The Waterman of the Year and all-round foil ninja pitches his thoughts on the future of the sport…

STATE OF PLAY • Florida-based Louis Floyd, pro wakeboarder and now fully-fledged wake foiler, takes on the State of Play slot this issue, explaining why acceptance is the key to having a good time on the water, and the part that social media has played in...