An interview that's been in the works for a long time - the FoilDrive gang have been really supportive of what we do for a good while now (god knows why), so its been awesome to catch up with the team out here in AmeTrica. This is exactly how we wanted interviews to take place at the event site - Mr FoilDrive himself, Paul Martin came wandering over to get some space from talking about serious business on the stand and sat down with us to chat shit about anything else BUT FoilDrive. Eventually h...
Sep 07, 2024•1 hr 16 min
There's been so much going on in such a short space of time here, its difficult to keep up with everything and we want our listeners to come along for the ride as much as possible. Its difficult to know how and when to release interviews and videos to you all in an orderly fashion! Before we went into the actual event yesterday for the first live day, we sat in the car park and dissected some thoughts on our first couple of days being around the local area. Pro riders and brand big Dawgs have be...
Sep 05, 2024•33 min
In Hood River OFFICIAL now - at the Hatchery! We sit and process the first hours in America as we overlook the spot and chat nonsense with Wieger from Appletree. We are prioritising the stocking of ice and beers in the cooler at all times so donations to buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast are more important than ever to get the industry folk talking.
Sep 02, 2024•33 min
We're back, and we're off to America tomorrow! All thanks to our listeners for supporting us on the BuymeaCoffee page - you've made this entire thing possible and we really appreciate it. We also definitely feel the pressure to provide some bitchin' content while were out there - and promise to muscle our way into as many interviews as possible while we're stateside! Chris popped round this morning to discuss the extremely loose plans for our trip, but also to give more info on his own event in ...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 16 min
For anyone who wasn't aware - the Olympics are currently in full flow in Paris, and we have a few friends over there right now that we were very keen to catch up with prior to the racing starting on Sunday 4th! We've chatted to UK's Olympic Numero Uno female racer Ellie before in episode 56 for anyone that wants a bit more depth into her kite racing, as well as Olympic Coach Stevie (episode 65) who joins us today alongside the worlds top kite caddy and race commentator Jemima. Its a short one, w...
Aug 02, 2024•27 min
Fuelled by; post-session stoke, pizza, and beer we enjoy a thorough breakdown of Mark Shinn's history whilst deviating away from the chronological timeline regularly along the way. It is a long podcast but every minute is worth listening to. There is plenty of legitimate discussion about equipment, manufacturing, the industry as a whole as well as downwinding/foiling technique and gear tips as well. We talk about the origin of the Shinn brand and a little about why we've heard nothing from them ...
Jul 29, 2024•2 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Forgive me foilers, for I have sinned!
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 16
We've finally done it. Duotone is on the podcast We've given the mighty brand a little (barely any) grief in our relatively brief existance, but it was time to set the story straight - enter windsurf legend and Dutone Foiling Division Manager, Klaas Voget. Like, Comment, Subscribe, Join our OnlyFans, all that stuff.
Jun 17, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Season 2Ep. 15
The second Aussie Foil Fest was held very recently, and we were reminded that we hadn't yet sat down and chatted with the organiser - Zane Westwood. Zanes been at the forefront of all things foiling for a good number of years now so its great to get his insight into the intricacys of chopping ones rear wing down, and his thoughts on the chopped tail board shapes too.... sounds like the aussie lot haver had yet another successful foil comp over on the east coast, with fan favourite Jezza taking t...
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 14
'da fuck did we talk about then for the description of this episode?' 'Lift foils/testing foils/burning sessions/duotone whizz/flite controversy/ Bennett’s/selling stuff/altruism/summer events' There you go - description done! We need to get back chatting to guests ASAP. Freddies using all his energy going to work SUP demo's and hasn't been foiling recently - which means more of Liams droning on about things in the foiling world that frustrate and/or excite him enjoy! PS. its still fun chatting ...
May 30, 2024•55 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Its finally happened, we've had an actual run of successful prone conditions! We've spent the last week both winging and proning in some great small conditions and the progress has been awesome. Cornish Foil Frother Phil reached out to us, very kindly offering up his AirBnB for us to scope out within walking distance of some of the best beaches in Newquay. He's had a quiet start to the summer and we're all hoping a 10% offer to any foiler mentioning the GFP on booking will entice some of you fel...
May 22, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 12
This week we welcome Lord and Lady Bridge of Exmouth to our little show. Famous across the county and further afield in the wing/kite industry and incredibly well regarded - nobody forgets meeting Steph and Eric Bridge. From starting a small sailing school back in the 80's in their home town of Exmouth, to now running one of the most successful kite/wing schools and shops in the UK - The Bridges have seen it all. Multiple world titles for Steph in a fledgling kite race scene, followed by guiding...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Freddie's away so Liam has a chat with local boy Jack Salmon. A name that is already likely to be known by UK folk, Jack has the potential to take things further in the watersports industry once he has got his degree out of the way. Not only is he a talented waterman that excels in every discipline he takes his hand to, but he's an energetic creative that also enjoys his time behind the camera and producing videos. I'm sure we'll see more and more from the salmon as time goes on....
May 02, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Some more childish banter in response to some comments made online recently that we thought needed addressing....... There is some foil chat here though, don't fret. Ken Adgate jumps in with a voice note to give us some answers to questions we've had from listeners about how to engage in flat water wing shenanigans. We dissect how these potential 'party tricks' may actually become quite useful in more serious conditions once mastered. Some more thoughts on the Industry currently along the lines ...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 9
We welcome Wieger back finally, after chatting to him way back at the start of 2023. His best selling Appleslice model is being renewed for the 3rd Version and so it seemed like a great excuse to rope him back in. I'm sure we did discuss the new board at least a little bit but as always its the ramblings in other directions that made this chat so much fun once again. Great guy, great brand - we hope you enjoy this one. And if you haven't listened to the first episode we did with Wieger way back ...
Apr 17, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Ben Rhodes and Stevie Morrison join us this week for a couple beers in Liams flat. They partnered together in the 49'er sailing fleet way back when, winning multiple world championships and representing Great Britain in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Exmouth locals, they're both now into their coaching of both Olympic kite foil racing and sailing while being well into their own personal foiling journeys - Stevie loves his winging and Ben's got his eyes fixated on mastering Downwinding..... Two grea...
Apr 02, 2024•2 hr 8 min
Multiple sessions this week just gone, we've had some great powered conditions to play in! Jezza's traffic light power zones has worked its wonders on Freddie's wiggles on the wave.... Liams had his mind on some board building ideas and we hear from Ken Adgate briefly for some thoughts to discuss. More Room 101 points from our own dear listeners! Give us a shout on the socials and say hello - lets see your t-shirts anyone who's got them?! Speaking of T-shirts..... we still have some podcast logo...
Mar 26, 2024•51 min•Season 2Ep. 10
It'd been too long, we've been overdue a good chat with our man over in Aus. Today Jeremy joins us as a co-host of sorts and we catch up on the coming and goings. I'm writing this on Sunday evening and Liam and I just finished a 20 mile running race today, its safe to say my brain isn't quite computing anything yet (neither of us would classify ourselves as runners. I promise this episode with the Big Fella is a good one, i just can't quite remember what the hell we talked about it..... Enjoy!...
Mar 18, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Kane shouldn't need an introduction - he's been around long enough in the foiling space, producing hugely popular after market rear wings to suit every brand's kit. But now he's working solidly at KT as a designer we were keen to hear plans! Liam and Kane waffle on almost straight away into techy foil designs..... and as always, Freddie brings it back in line for the masses with a mixture of shit chat and bad jokes. Hope everyones well - its been cranking in the UK the last few days, hope everyo...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 7
After Ken's episode blew up last week, we're back with a nice chilled Sunday evening chat. Plenty to discuss and catch up on - despite Liam and I spending all weekend together already. Our T-shirts are available to buy!! Message on the socials for now for more info.... GWA Ponta Preta - Surf/Surf Freestyle?? Guy Bridge's Downwind Video on youtube - search for it! Liams revelation into HM masts...... 2 years after their release. What small front wing should Liam get for the bigger days we're hopi...
Mar 04, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 6
We get into it with Ken Adgate, a man with fingers in many pies. Shredder, board builder, un/official test rider for Ozone and Mikeslab and gas guzzling car dealership owner in the US of A. We've been fans from a far of Kens for a long while, and if you've not seen footage of him riding yet you will be soon enough too. We hit the big time though after Ken listened to a few episodes and actually enjoyed them - he's very picky with his podcast listening it seems. We won him over with our jovial en...
Feb 26, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 5
A Sunday mornings ramble over a few items written hastily into an agenda - as is becoming a fun tradition. t-shirt chat The Sydney Downwind race F-One's handle decisions.... longer fuses bigger boards (again)
Feb 19, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 7
We've been planning to sit down with Olivia ever since she did her world record downwind challenge, but we've never been able to make it work - she's so busy! This week was the week, even having to bail the first time because Liam was caught by the dreaded Covid...... A great chat was had though - as we'd suspected! Olivia runs us through the current goings on in her life including a very fun sounding trip to Tenerife to shoot with the AXIS crew. We catch up on the Downwind challenge she did las...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 6
A quick one today, en route back from the beach after a mixed session. As always Liam has things on his mind that he wishes to share with the foiling world, and Freddie couldn't give a damn and is happy to go along with it.....consider this an audio opinion piece. Some potentially dickish things have occurred in the foiling world this past week or two - and we need your help to decide who's the dick! As always - rate us 5 stars on whatever platform you use, leave a sarcastic comment or give us s...
Feb 05, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Ellie is a kite racer. A very good kite racer. She's qualified for the Olympics in July 2024 to represent the UK - which means she takes foiling far more seriously than Liam and Freddie do. This week she gives us a run down of the entire Olympic process - which despite an interest in the Kitefoil racing we were pretty unaware of. She runs us through her background from 49erFX sailing to learning to kitefoil in a rapidly evolving world. Ellie's also been ramping up her wing foil and tow in skills...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 4
A lovely catch up and debrief on the previous weeks shenanigans between Freddie and Liam is very rudely interrupted by Mr FoilDrive Europe himself again - the man can't help but Plug! What actually happened is Freddie enjoyed his time finger blasting on the FoilDrive the previous week so much, that Liam thought it'd be funny to get Dom involved to tell him 'I bloody told you so'....... We discuss our findings of some pretty serious time on the Foildrive and a SUP foil finally before Dom jumps in...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Clinton Filen is the Brand and Development Director for AK Durables, Freewing and Airush Kiteboarding. That's a pretty sick title. Mike Birt was all excited about his new found fame off the back of Episode 52 and very kindly passed on our details to Clinton in order to get him on ASAP. A great, chilled chat with a very bright bloke in charge of another major player in the Industry. Based out of South Africa, Clinton gives us a run down of the Cape Town scene, while giving us a great background i...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 2
A nice steady start to 2024 for us - Freddie needed a gentle chat to ease him in after finding out first hand why everyones so pissed off about sewage outlets releasing straight into the UK's coastal beach towns water.... We've also had numerous sessions over a busy Christmas period while the winds been howling over here. Most notably is the fateful browntown session of Freddies on NYE where he did a sizeable 'wingdingdownwinder' alongside a few SUP foilers and has seen the light! Liams got plen...
Jan 08, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Its Christmas time, so what better way to celebrate than to get the 4 Wanglordz into a hot tub and ply them with beers for many hours? It wasn't all merryment... we surprised ourselves with the amount of legitimate foiling-related chat. Rich and Chris give us the run down on the 'new generation' of foils that are hitting the market that promise huge speed ranges, and combined glide and pumpability that we haven't seen until now. Freddie tells the story of the downwind session with Liam in North ...
Dec 25, 2023•2 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 52
This week we chat with Mike Birt - another OG of the UK wind sports scene. An ex pro windsurf athlete from back when that was cool, to the very first British Kitesurf Champion. He's been working in the industry for a very, very long time and is currently Distributor for Airush, AK, Shinn and Freewing. What better person to start off a little series with a more indepth look at the UK windsports industry. He's been forever known as a straight talker and obviously we thought that would go hand in h...
Dec 18, 2023•2 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 51
