Learning to wing foil in the kite-surf capital of the Mediterranean is equal parts exhilaration and slapstick. I look like like I am trying to put a tent up while on a trampoline. Teenagers fly past me in elegant silence. And still, I fall. And fly. And fall again.

Buuuuuut in between, I discover something unexpected → you don’t lift to rise.You press down.

This episode explores the strange, soaring joy of wing foiling, the upside-down physics of flight, and what happens when we stop trying to escape the weight of the world, and stand in it, instead.

Come for the wipeouts.

What’s something you fail at beautifully?

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