The Generic Foiling Podcast

A fantastic chat with the man in charge of one of the most successful companies in foiling. Julien Salles is the General Manager of F-One - he runs all disciplines of the company including his own personal baby, Manera.

The son of the founder, Julien gives us a run down of how his position within the business has changed over the years and how it was during the early years of F-One.

F-one shouldn't need any introduction to anyone in foiling - they hit the nail on the head so early on with their Swing Wing and have backed that up with not only more wings, but also a fantastic range of foils and a solid board selection. How has a reasonably small french company done so well globally?

A great chilled chat with a sound bloke - we both really enjoyed how laid back this one was - and we look forward to receiving our new pairs of Manera socks in the mail!

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This is a big one! The Kernow Foil Classic will go down in all time history as one of the most significant events in foiling in the UK (and worldwide in our biased opinion). It deserved a proper debrief, especially given that Freddie wasn't there! All founding Wang Lordz committed to driving an hour or so to meet up at a central location in a pub on the A30. The first 4 way conversation we've done, and we've done it with pints, mixel grills and bloody football on in the background.... lets just say the editing was time consuming.

So, October 2023 saw the UK's first surf foil competition down in Cornwall hosted by Chris Burke/Poseidon and his team, and it couldn't have gone better. Loads of riders and perfect conditions for it. In this episode event organiser Chris and event judges Liam and Rich fill Freddie in on what he missed by having to work elsewhere that weekend instead.

Make sure you commit some time to listening to this one, we guarantee you'll enjoy it. And if you don't, you know the score! *!$% Duotone.

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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

- Some unsubstantiated rumours

- How wing freestyle might have become cool

- How everything in life is fashion driven

- How not to set the world record for fastest e-foiling

- How to identify the best passionate shops to seek product guidance and foiling knowledge.

- How to make the most of both lessons and coaching sessions.

- How to get the best deal from retailers

- How to upset retailers

- and MUCH MUCH MORE EXTREMELY VALUABLE information.

Enjoy.

P.S: Freddie has decided he doesn't want to read adverts in return for money (especially from D**shite), so we might need you to give us some soon if we are ever going to get to AWSI/Oz/Hawaii before the decade is out to bring you silly foiling content like you've never heard it before. Get saving your pennies!

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 the first commercial customer of Foil Drive instead of buying an e-foil.

Liam and Freddie back chatting shit about all things foiling on their respective sofa's

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 and foiling boards, are there further advantages from windsurf board construction methodology in the future?

- The Ginxu feature

- Downwinding

- M2O

- Elliot Leboe's input to KT foiling

and much more...

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 the Industry while also growing a very healthy following on his own Youtube Channel which we urge you all to go along and follow - Just search for Sam Light.

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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 away and finally the perfectly scheduled time slot opened up for us all. What a great bloke and even better ambassador for the sport - this definitely wont be the last time we chat to Oskar, we just hope he's keen for a second date!

This chat goes straight straight in, no kissing.

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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 well as Rich's trip to the Appletree factory.

Enjoy our own reviews of a few new products we've been playing on - Appletree boards, Armstrong wings and F-one foils. And Rich gives us his latest ramblings on the world of downwinding and pump foiling.

Also - Foiling Bicycles, yay or nay?

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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 of the Maui to Molokai downwind race in preperation for the big Molokai to Oahu later this month.

We talk XPS wings, the HA origins, Armies links with the NZ sailing lot - tonnes of gems in this one and hopefully it comes across how much fun we had.

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