The Generic Foiling Podcast

The boys are back in town! Freddie and Liam get Chris Burke back on to provide the inside scoop on the upcoming Poseidon Kernow Foil Classic which is proudly supported by the Generic Foiling Podcast, Kite Barn and the WanglordZ. The prizes we are donating will set a new precedent within watersports competitions worldwide. In this episode we also chat about: - Some half truths to do with Mikes Lab...

In this episode the boys find out all about Dom's Foiling story, his history with Foil Drive and his new venture with them. He will be the European lead responsible for growing the Foil Drive market in Europe and getting as many people on it as possible. We find out where he first saw foiling, where and when he first tried it, how he became so good at dockstarting, and how he ended up being th...

Liam and Freddie back chatting shit about all things foiling on their respective sofa's AWSI 2024 Thoughts and plans Foil Drive Thoughts SUP Foiling and Downwind boards Dutone/Fanatic merger

Keith Teboul - the head shaper behind KT Surfing / KT Foiling / Quatro Maui / Goya Windsurfing / MFC Hawaii as well as an all around waterman in his own right. In this episode we talk about: - Keith Teboul's story - The origins of the brands - The aftermath of the Maui wildfires - The state of the leisure goods industry - is it fucked? - The construction differences between windsurfing boards...

Sam Light, everybody. One of the OG wakestyle Kite Crew from back when that was cool, now turned Slingshot Sports Global Marketing and Social media and very recently Ex Team Manager. Avid Wing and kitefoiler, and Youtube sensation! Sam is a great ambassador of our sports, and one of the highest level riders our beautiful country has ever produced. He's now turned his hand to working within in...

Fresh off his awesome 2nd place finish at M2O in Hawaii, we finally get to sit down with Oskar and chat. Big Jimmy C ruined our chances of talking to 'Oscar the winner of M20', and so first placed loser is all we managed to get, but we'll make do! (Those of you who can't take a joke ought to unfollow us) We've been pinging messages back and forth for months, casually flirting a...

The WangLordZ return. We've not sat down together for a while, its been busy! Rich is buggering off to see his brother in NZ for a good few weeks so we made an effort to head down to Bantham for a session and a chinwag afterwards. Fuelled by Coffee and bacon we dissect the goings on of the last few weeks including Rich and Liams trips out to Portugal for the North Dealer Meeting last month, as...

We finally managed to schedule in a sit down with Mr Armstrong after weeks of trying - the mans been all over the shop recently and finding a time zone was proving difficult! From New Zealand to China to the States to Maui, he has been all over in the last couple of months! We ended up having a fantastic couple of hours discussing all things Foiling and Armstrong as well as his recent completion o...

Liam was in Portugal recently for the 2023 North Dealer meeting working with the iKsurfmag and Tonic media team. He managed to sit down with Uli Sommerlatt (North Product Development Manager) with the particular focus. What does the North product design process look like? How much do North compare their product offerings to their competitors? Do North still feeling they are ‘playing catch up’ in t...

With the all New Spitfire range from AXIS dropping worldwide, we managed to persuade Adrian Roper to join us on the podcast! Very happy about this one, Liam and I had a great time recording it and it was awesome to finally get to ask Adrian some questions we'd be considering for a long while. For me (Freddie), Adrian was the first person I wanted as a guest when Liam and i started talking abou...

The second part to our 'Littlehampton Short Stories' Series 4 interviews with Industry sales reps to get their hopefully honest, individual opinions and thoughts on the Industry and their and brands that they work with. A real variety with these four: Nik Green - @watersportsworlduk - North and Mystic Nik Baker - Fanatic and Duotone Windsurf and Wing Tom Beaton - @maxtrack.distribution - Ozone, Ap...

This is Part 2! We had a bloody great time chatting to Rob this week, so much so we spent 2.5hours chatting. He actually admitted at the end that he forgot we were recording! Because of this, we've split it into 2 chats. If you like technical chat, you'll like this episode. If you like industry chat, you'll like this episode. If you like Rob, you'll like this episode. If you like h...

We had a bloody great time chatting to Rob this week, so much so we spent 2.5hours chatting. He actually admitted at the end that he forgot we were recording! Because of this, we've split it into 2 chats - one today, one later on in the week. If you like technical chat, you'll like this episode. If you like industry chat, you'll like this episode. If you like Rob, you'll like this...

Episode 33 see's us trying something different again - we're doing live interviews now. But don't worry, we're just as bad at these as we are doing regular 'studio' recordings. Shaky microphones, loud noises and interuptions everywhere - those of you after prime audio will be spitting feathers! However, it only seemed right to get some wisdom from the Industry veterans on t...

Today Liam and Freddie catch up together to discuss a few new topics as well as dissecting recent sessions - Liams interested in finding out more about why Wake foiling hasn't taken off as much over here in the UK and we discuss whether we think it will or not. Liam has been in comms with Charles, F-One designer again asking technical questions on the new HM masts from the brand. Charles tells...

Hot off the back of some insane swells that got 'wedding cake island' break off the coast of Sydney firing, Jeremy joins us for a catch up to relive the days and discuss the future of big wave foiling, and the gear needed to push things forward. Check out his socials if you haven't already to see some pics and look out for more footage coming soon. ⁠@oceanpixels⁠ Always great to catch...

Welcome to Chris Burke onto the podcast - a good friend of ours and top shredder who runs a successful kite and wing school in Poole while now taking on a new shop Venture in Newquay. I've known Chris for many years and it was high time we got his intel and knowledge onto the podcast. He's got a great grasp on the industry as a whole while also knowing how to style out his riding on the wa...

Freddie and Liam sit down to discuss the goings on of the last few weeks! Multiple sessions, Wing and Prone, a nice dissection of them all Freddie's first go on a SAB Foil Leviathon 1750 - a monster of a dock start foil. Liams new SK8 from F-One turned up Surface finishes on foiling kit and why it ain't ribbed for your pleasure We wanted to sit down and catch up after a few weeks of interv...

The plan was to sit down with old mate Jimmy for a 10-15 minute catch up on his new venture with Code Foils - but Liam and James ended up chatting for ages, so we're releasing it as a solo episode. Maybe this is a new side to GFP once in a while, smaller catch ups with interviewees about certain subjects that are hitting the limelight. The boys discuss: -The origins of Code Foils -The team beh...

Please welcome Tom Earl onto the Podcast - A member of Unifoils international team of riders and undoubtably the UK's most prominent prone foil surfer. Freddie was down in Cornwall a couple weeks back and managed to persuade Tom to come for a chinwag over Zoom with Liam back in Devon. We managed a mini session beforehand but Freddie ballsed up the timings and got in at the wrong tide, only to...

This week we got to chat with Charles Bertrand, a naval architect who's worked as part of the foil and board design team at F-One for approx 12 years. Liam talks all things engineering with Charles, learning how they go from a new product brief to a fully working item on the market, while Freddie twiddles his thumbs in the corner not really understanding much of what the other two talk about....

A real mish mash of ideas in this weeks episode, starting with our new section called 'Poems with Proctor'. After last weeks episode with Mike Raper there were major calls for more Poetry to be read out by Liam (not really, but we thought we'd do more anyway). Can you guess which promotional video this weeks poem is from?? We discuss a session in Bantham once more that could've end...

This week we sat across Zoom to chat to Mike Raper - Brand Manager and Co-founder at North Kiteboarding and North Foils, all the way over in Auckland, NZ. Mikes been around the watersports industry for a very long time and has held numerous senior positions within it - initially with the Pryde Group and Cabrinha Kites, and now running the ever successful North Kiteboarding and North Foils. Liam an...

We're both house sitting in the South Hams for a couple of weeks and its going well for managing to get into the water most days in some very varied conditions. Only one wing session, but a couple of kite sessions and a couple more prone sessions has seen some progression across the board. Today we delve into these sessions as well as having a natter about a few things: our rookie interpretati...

This week we welcome big wave shredder, Professional Hydrologist and juggler of 3 boys Jeremy Wilmotte onto the Podcast. The Aussie crew started churning out the downwind content a little while ago, and while all the boys put up some awesome footage it was Jeremy's humour within the downwind discipline that caught our eyes and ears. This meant we were always eager to see his next video and comment...