Dave West - one of the guests that many of you have been waiting for. This episode contains just the right mix of foiling chat, insider knowledge, banter, and ranting. A really enjoyable episode for us to record and, hopefully, a really enjoyable episode for you to listen to.

If you enjoyed this episode, please rate us 5 stars on your chosen podcast provider, and go and leave Dave a childish comment on one of his YouTube videos.

Old School strapless kitesurf pioneer turned downwind and parawing frother.

Huge amounts of content was consumed of Patricks early days strapless kitesurf riding when Liam and I were honing our kite skills and now he's churning out the videos of his downwind runs along the Oregon and Californian coastline.

Patrick was kind enough to offer us a place to crash as we drove down the coast past his town last year on our trip, and we spent a great morning chatting all things kitesurf and foil history - we knew we'd need to sit down and record eventually. It may have taken 10 months - but its a banger.

If you like what we're doing - we're hoping to do more! Check out buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast if you want to help us along our way, we'll be back stateside in a months time trying to get as many interviews under our belts as possible!

A little catch up on the news and whats been going on in our local area for the last couple weeks

The Hawaiian races have been on and we know very little, but as always like to stick our opinions in where they're probably not wanted. Freddies had a good crack finally at paddling up in flat water and Liams Mako finally arrives.

A nice short episode to get you, the listeners back on track. And hopefully Liam and I can get ourselves back on track with some more frequent episodes.

We did talk to Matt at 'Up on Foil' very recently and his episode has now been released - maybe some more podcast related chat on there, but it was a really fun chat and we recomend it as a listen

What is this Plume thing and why should we get one? This has been the question on a tonne of peoples minds recently, and who better to answer the question than Mr F-One.

A great catchup with Julien about the newest kids on the block - the Plume and the Frigate - and also a great delve into where foil design might be going, after these new disciplines have rocked up and turned things on their head.

We look forward to catching up with Julian over a beer soon - and if you wanna help support that you can have a gander over on https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast !

A brilliant conversation with Mr Starboard Foils himself, Tiesda You. There is a good dose of technical information in this episode with discussions on:

- Software optimisation of foils

- Starting a 'non-athlete' career in the foiling/watersports industry

- The potential disruption of AI

- The 'Universal Connection System'

- Traditional British dessert making

and much more. Rate us 5 stars, send us messages, support us on 'buymeacoffee' if you would like to and all that jazz.

A busy week for the social calendar and a busy week on the water!

The boys have a quick debrief on the wedding of Guy & Emma, dive more into the downwind SUP vs Parawing debate, reflect on cross-discipline technical learnings and much more.

A busy couple weeks on the water and a lot of findings from our own sessions - we set some time aside in order to talk about a couple fun bits that've been occuring in the foiling world but actually ended up dissecting our own findings - which ended up being a lot of fun.

Downwind paddling and parawinging mainly on the cards here, with some winging thrown in the mix to keep it Generic. Liam has a revelation, and Freddie's struggling along with everything as always....

We hope you enjoy these episodes - it's exhausting lining up interviews, and we do enjoy getting back to basics and just talking about ourselves instead!

Mikes back - after a pretty horrendous time in his life - but as positive and upbeat as ever!

We had a great chat with Mike back towards the start of our mighty podcasting careers and we've kept in touch. He had a terrible health scare in 2024 and we're very glad to hear of his recovery and journey back to tip top shape.

We recorded before Christmas, so its great to see some of what we discussed re. the parawing come to life since then. Fingers crossed Mike makes it to AWSI this year so we can finally share a beer!

Freddie and Liam have a catch up between themselves and reflect on their foiling progress over the past months, reveal the best foilboard in the world for kitefoiling and downwind SUP foiling, chat about their time hanging out the Code Foil boys in Cornwall and shout out some industry gear options that they'd like to try.

Don't forget that Gav@Hydrofoils charity auction campaign is live on youtube, go check it out!

Brilliant episode with fellow Englishman Gav Blake, the man behind Gav @ Hydrofoil YouTube fame. Gav gives us the rundown on his background, foiling journey and summarises the state of play in terms of the industry's parawing and downwind product offerings right now.

Enjoy!