The Generic Foiling Podcast

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...

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 Bridg...

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 ca...

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...

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 - w...

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 foili...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 act...

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)

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 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 di...

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 learni...

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'......

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 o...

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 whe...

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...

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...

Its been emotional, but we've made it to 50 bloody episodes. Back to our roots with episodes like this - hope you enjoy it. We discuss a few of the most recent goings on in the foiling world - most importantly, our Manera Socks R&D work has been delayed until the new year. We won't blame Julien though as he's just as annoyed as us to have to ask Santa for new socks instead of makin...

This week the Generic Foiling Podcast is back at you with one of foiling’s big dogs and one of the real OGs, Nick Leason of Lift Foils. Tune in to learn about the history of the sport as a whole, and the early development of the products which paved the way for the refined flying machines we ride today. Nick tells the Lift story, how the brand came to be, the successes and mistakes it has taken to...

Liam doesn't follow many foilers on instagram, but he's been fan girling over Kahi for months. Someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously yet rips on the ole foil sticks - what more could we want We had a great chat online with the man himself - talking about his work with Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii , foil style, Lift foils and his infatuation of Drum n Bass music..... Give h...

A fantastic chat with the man in charge of one of the most successful companies in foiling. Julien Salles is the General Manager of F-One - he runs all disciplines of the company including his own personal baby, Manera. The son of the founder, Julien gives us a run down of how his position within the business has changed over the years and how it was during the early years of F-One. F-one shouldn&...

This is a big one! The Kernow Foil Classic will go down in all time history as one of the most significant events in foiling in the UK (and worldwide in our biased opinion). It deserved a proper debrief, especially given that Freddie wasn't there! All founding Wang Lordz committed to driving an hour or so to meet up at a central location in a pub on the A30. The first 4 way conversation we&#39...