The Generic Foiling Podcast

Welcome back to a week with Liam and Freddie! We catch up on a busy couple of weeks after our last two episodes released were interviews. Check out Episodes 19 and 20 with Wieger from Appletree boards and Rob Claisse from Progression instructional kite and foil coaching - these were both great chats and very well recieved by those who have listened already. We've had three wing sessions and a coup...

Rob Claisse is the man behind 'Progression'. Originally a DVD coaching platform assisting many learning to Kitesurf, it now encompasses his 1 to 1 coaching and his foiling vacations and clinics. A master on a kitefoil, rapidly improving on the wing and one of the most analytical and experienced coaches in the game, he is a pleasure to talk to and has a lot of knowledge to share. In this episode, R...

A great episode for those of you interested in the nitty gritty side of board design and the best in the business production methodology. Wieger is the Co-founder and head shaper for Appletree Surfboards. In this episode he explains how Appletree set themselves apart from the competition and came to manufacture boards with their vacuum infusion production process and why this is so suitable for bo...

Sitting down with James Casey last week was awesome and we've had some great feedback from listeners about it - particularly about the fitness side of things, or lack of it... We sat down after our second (Freddie) and third (Liam) Prone/Surf foil sessions in the last two weeks, and what an emotional couple of weeks its been! This is certainly testing our limits and its fair to say we aren't findi...

Episode 17 - James Casey - Coach Casey Club We FINALLY got the chance to sit down with James and discuss all things Downwinding. This was our chance to learn how to Downwind in a 2 hour discussion from one of the best in the business (We're yet to put that to the test on the water but James told us everything we'd need to know - how hard can it be now?!). Waterman Extraordinaire, James Casey's fol...

Episode 16 see's us sitting down with Richy B of Episide 12 fame for a threeway conversation, discussing our freezing session a couple weeks back at Daymer Bay in Cornwall and leading into many different winging conversations. Harnesses - yay or nay? Maybe super useful when its sub 10 degrees water and air temperature.... What Safety techniques do we use for ditching kit when having waves crash on...

Check Jake out: https://kelsickkiteboarding.com/ @jakekelsick @kelsickkiteboarding Podcast Summary: Jake Kelsick is a professional kiteboarder, a long term professional in the watersports industry, founder and owner of his own kitesurfing/wingfoiling school in Antigua and one of the best online content creators out there. 00:00 intro 05:40 About Jake Kelsick & his intro to watersports and inspirat...

Liam and Freddie are back and more hyped than ever for The Generic Foiling Podcast in 2023. The conditions lined up for a homespot session in Exmouth together the day after Liam's return from Antigua so the boys got to wing together then record the first podcast of the year in person. In this episode the boys discuss the benefits and restrictions of low volume wing boards as Liam has spent a lot o...

Liam and Freddie sit down at opposite ends of the world and discuss what Liams been up to in Antigua and how it is a wing/kite spot. We then get into a conversation on mast stiffness and Liam gets stuck into the techy side of carbon constructions - what actually is High Modulus and why is it the talk of the town at the moment? We've also had a good amount of listeners reaching out with questions a...

Big Rich Boughton lives in South Devon, and it was on the journeys to see Rich at his home spot of Bantham that Liam and I came up with the idea of starting to record a podcast to see if anyone was interested in our ramblings. Rich runs www. Kitebarn.co.uk - a front of house website to showcase his online retail outlet as well as his kite and wing repair business. In his 'spare' time, Rich is the...

Liams away in Antigua, so Freddie sits down all alone with Dom and Angus from Swift Foiling to discuss their business making foil boards in the UK, as well as their downwind foiling adventures on the new 'Javelin' style boards they're producing.  Is Downwinding worth the effort?!

Our tenth episode - we made it! This week we discuss Freddies recent experience reducing rear wing sizes and Liam attempts to talk Science about the findings. We also discuss the art of reducing a fuselage size and the benefits it can bring As its our tenth episode we dissect the journey we've had so far producing a podcast and discuss our highlights and lowlights, strengths and weaknesses so far....

Liam and Freddie sit down and discussed everything with good friend and allround great guy, Rou Chater  - Publisher of both Tonic Foiling magazine and IKSURF magazine, owner of Faceplant Eyewear , Intriguing Beings Podcast host... the list goes on! The man has his fingers in a fair few pies and its great to hear what snippets of info he's picked up along the way. We discuss his foiling story,...

This weeks episode see's a lot of waffling on about our recent trip to Ireland. We discuss the many different discipline sessions we had through the week, as well as the new kit we tried along the way. Liams tried SUP Foiling for the first time.... Freddie has a kitemare foiling.... give us a follow on insta and facebook - rate 5 stars on spotify and anywhere else you can!

We're back!  After a couple weeks of busyness - we've not had a proper chance to catch up with each other since our individual interviews - so we spent some time debriefing, before getting into some in-depth chat on the differences between using High aspect and Mid aspect front wings. Is high aspect all it's cracked up to be?! rate us 5 stars if you enjoy - and get chatting to us on facebook...

Freddie's first solo interview and its with 4x world champ wave kiter and top shredder Keahi De Aboitiz - no pressure there then! Karl Cadwallader from Cabrinha UK kindly offered us the opportunity to chat with Keahi at the Hayling Island BKSA Championship while on their tour of the South Coast here in the UK We hope you enjoy it - we definitely need some practice with the whole interview process,...

In this episode we come in all guns blazing as we welcome Guy Bridge as our first guest of the podcast. In our opinion Guy is one of the UK's most rounded waterman and at an expert level in almost all foiling disciplines. Liam sits down with Guy as he shares the timeline of how and when he picked up each new foiling discipline, his favourite gear for all sports, his career highlights and what he'd...

Freddie's been off the water with an Ear infection, Liams been on the water plenty. A chat through his first Wing session in 2 whole months, and then a proper indepth chat into mast lengths - what we use for different disciplines and why. Any Questions or suggestions please contact us! thegenericfoilingpod@gmail.com Instagram - @genericfoilingpodcast facebook - genericfoilingpodcast

Some questions answered and a decent delve into our own winging careers so far - where we're at level wise and what we're using personally. We got far too carried away talking about ourselves and so our nerdy chat about Mast lengths will have to wait for another day! Any Questions or suggestions please contact us! thegenericfoilingpod@gmail.com Instagram - @genericfoilingpodcast facebook - generic...

It’s taken some time, but here’s episode two - more ramblings and getting to grips with figuring out what to discuss. We’ve been kite and surf foiling, and we’re discussing the lift equation and what it means for us… Any Questions or suggestions please contact us! thegenericfoilingpod@gmail.com Instagram - @genericfoilingpodcast facebook - genericfoilingpodcast

Unedited and Raw - our first proper go at chatting foiling while pressing record. An introduction into Liam and Freddie and a dive into our motivations behind this Podcast - as well as a look into our latest escapades in deepest Cornwall and what we've learnt so far..... The plan is to do more of these - but obviously if people hate them then there won't be much point, so we're keen to hear as muc...