The Generic Foiling Podcast

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 learning to kitefoil in a rapidly evolving world.

Ellie's also been ramping up her wing foil and tow in skills while having down time on her foiling camps in Mexico and Fuerte (lucky lass) and gives us a run through of her...... as well as her plans post Olympics 2024.

If you feel like showing us any support for the podcast, you can do that by following us on the socials @genericfoilingpodcast to keep upto date, or financially on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast. We can assure you this is very much appreciated and not wasted on the likes of silly things like beers (despite us repeatedly mentioning this). We've still got solid plans to put this money towards a trip to the AWSI event later in 2024 - where we will hopefully be able to put together a major list of potential interviews. Thats the plan anyway!

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'.......

We discuss our findings of some pretty serious time on the Foildrive and a SUP foil finally before Dom jumps in.

Thanks as ever to Rich at KIteBarn for allowing us the opportunity to look after his beloved Cat for a week while he took the family away skiing - where in turn we could utilise his 30 second trip to the beach and epic waves.....!

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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 of South Africa, Clinton gives us a run down of the Cape Town scene, while giving us a great background into his beginnings and how he came to be where he is now. He also chats through the AK/Airush/Freewing history and talks through the product range that seems to be hitting the mark right now in foiling as well as the latest and greatest in dog bed design.

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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 where he did a sizeable 'wingdingdownwinder' alongside a few SUP foilers and has seen the light!

Liams got plenty going on - with more sessions under his belt on the SK8/PhantomS back to back for a comparison, as well as recieving his downwind board blank ready to laminate in the next 1-9 months.....

Sit back and enjoy! If you like what we're doing, we're saving for a trip away to AWSI this year to bring more content - feel free to help support at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast.

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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 pumpability that we haven't seen until now. Freddie tells the story of the downwind session with Liam in North Cornwall that resulted in his 3.6m wing getting irrepairably damaged. Many foiling related items get thrown in room 101 and the gang get nostalgic on the past year and beyond.

Whatever you are doing, we hope you have a brilliant Christmas and we look forward to sharing more episodes with you in the new year.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Fuck Duotone.

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 industry. He's been forever known as a straight talker and obviously we thought that would go hand in hand with our little podcast!

Hope you all enjoy it, check Mike out at @birtmichael

for anyone who isn't aware - we've got the old BuyMeACoffee links up in our bio now and on the website, if you're keen to support and like what we do we very much appreciate it! It certainly makes the 10pm Sunday night editing evenings feel a bit more worth it!

catch you next week for our Christmas Special!

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 making his own......

HM masts, Foildrive's, Ozone Fusions, Guy Bridge's impressive list of breaking stuff - we ramble about it all!

We've also setup an account at buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast. I hate writing about money so here's what Liam managed to come up with:

'Buy the dynamic duo a beer each month to keep them motivated to get the shitty editing jobs done and pump out the biggest (and most professional) foiling podcast in the world.

Support Freddie and Liam on a monthly basis

Feel an enormous sense of self pride for helping Freddie and Liam remain independent from big brand sponsorship

Allow us to entertain some silly ideas that may well take some financial involvement on our part'

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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 him a follow at @instakahi to follow along the fun.