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…

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LIFT DOCUMENTARY • Amongst all the short, social media-friendly video edits that pop up on our feeds, now and then a fat full-lengther will show up, giving us the legitimate opportunity to procrastinate from actual magazine work, make a drink, put the feet up, and enjoy the full film in the knowledge that it is, technically, “work”. Here is such a film from the team over at Lift that came out a few months ago and, I shan’t lie, got a few runs because it is just so damn lovely to watch. So we put a few questions to the man in charge, Nick Leason…

ULISSES VINICIUS PEREIRA • At just 16 years old, Ulisses Pereira has already ridden some of the most famous (and terrifying) waves in the world on a surfboard (check the shot to the right to see what we mean). Now, a new-found love for foil surfing has seen him start pushing his limits there too. We caught up with him in between swells…

GUSTAVO ARROJO

DOUBLE WHAMMY • Evan Mavridoglou, the co-founder and Chief Executive of AXIS Foils, recently made it back to his local haunts following the worldwide shutdown and was ready to make the most of a Southern California summer, replete with gentle Pacific swells and as much sunshine and tequila as he could physically soak up. Things, however, were about to change in a very dramatic fashion thanks to one pretty hacked off fish…

HYDROFOIL MATERIALS • Hydrofoils for surfing, winging or kiting mostly share the same base architectural concept and also the same materials. Composite materials (usually glass or carbon fibre allied with epoxy resin) and aluminum are generally used to build our beloved flying gear. Let’s have a look at these two types of materials and why one is chosen over the other for a given part or product…

ZANE SCHWEITZER

DYLAN WINCHMAN

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THE WATERMAN OF CHIBA • You’d think that for most budding watermen who get to taste the limitless potential that Maui holds for such a career path, they’d probably end up just selling their return flight ticket and finding some way – any way – to stay put. Many have. But for some, the siren song of their home country just proves too alluring. So it was for Jun Adegawa, Japan’s foremost foil pioneer, who is leading from the front in Japan’s nascent foil surfing scene…

THE VAN VUURENS A FOILING FAMILY

OPEN WATERS • As one of the top contenders on the WSL tour, and one of the most impressive power surfers of his generation, Michel Bourez needs little introduction. From his home base in Tahiti, Michel gave our Contributing Editor Kjell van Sice some insight into the what’s what with his newfound relationship with surf foiling. And we even got a little insight into that shark encounter…

ABEL LAGO • Abel Lago has spent his life with the wind at his back and the sea beneath his feet, with significant stints as a pro windsurfer, pro kiteboarder and now as a fully-fledged devotee to the world of wing foiling. Few others are as qualified to talk about why this new sport has seen such a meteoric rise, so we put some questions to the man in the know…

UNIFOIL • With some of the most pro-active content creators as team riders, you’d be hard pushed to not scroll any self-respecting foil Instagram hashtag without seeing plenty of Unifoil product being ridden. This is testament to the journey undertaken by Unifoil chief Clifford Coetzee, as...