The Generic Foiling Podcast

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 finding it very easy.

We discuss the highs and lows of learning to prone foil and why its taking so long, as well as the boards we're currently using to learn on and how we're finding them. What size boards are we using in comparison to what we should be using perhaps?

Should we just be SUP Foiling instead?! Johnny Henieken made that look so damn good this week on a Youtube Video that was released, give it a watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1dF57xFRGk

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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 following has grown as downwind foiling has become more popular and is now on a tonne of foilers' radars. James was a downwind SUP race athlete before trying foiling back in 2017 and has since helped push the sport of Downwind Foiling massively - culminating most recently in a world record 200km run in 11 hours 17 minutes non stop foiling.

Among this episode  you can expect to hear James' thoughts on which kit we'll need to get set up ready for downwind as well as board sizing suggestions and what he takes with him on both longer and shorter runs. We try and compare this to how it'll be once downwinding takes off in the UK. 

We hear how many times James has had the coastguard called on him after getting calls from the public thinking someones being swept out to sea. This is an ongoing discussion between Liam and Freddie who have also had run in's with the RNLI in the past.

enjoy this one, we sure did! Thanks to James for taking the time to chat with us.

PS. For any rugby fans wondering what the typical Aussie thinks of Eddie Jones returning to coach the Wallabies, you can expect to find this out in the episode too - Freddie made sure he asked!

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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.

We've dubbed ourselves the Wang Lordz, and merchandise will be coming soon. It's stupid, but so are we. We'd like to get Rich on the podcast every now n again to have a general chin wag about the foil industry and whats going on, so look out for any episodes titled anything 'Wang Lordz' related. Otherwise we've got a growing list of people we'd like to interview and even a few people reaching out to us - so expect to see more of a routine of interview one week, Liam and Myself the next. The episodes dissecting some techy side of the industry haved proven to be super popular (think HM masts in Ep13 or fuselage sizes in Ep10)

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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 of time on the 41L North swell board. Listen to find out what he thinks of this particular model and what you should consider before trying or buying a 'half bodyweight' board.

Find out all about the best winging wave spot for intermediates and above in Antigua - 'Half moon bay'

And as well as some news items and catching up the boys also talk about something important to the two of them moving forward with The Generic Foiling Podcast project.

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 and feedback that we'll hopefully aim to work through properly as we go. Thanks to everyone for listening and anyone who has reached out too, we love hearing from everyone.

This is it for 2022 - we'll be back in the New Year with some new interviews hopefully. Fingers crossed everyone gets out on the water over the festive period!

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 technical editor of 'The Foiling Magazine' and 'The Kite Mag' (the latter of which his wife Sarah is the editor for). The Boughtons also used to distribute JN kites in the UK, way back when twin tipping was still a thing..... You can say they're well versed in the watersports and windsports industry in the UK, and it definitely won't be the last time we sit down with Richy.

Having always generally preferred to work in the background of the industry, Richy was sceptical about getting involved in a podcast episode until now, when i asked him to jump in and help while Liam was away - Hopefully you'll all agree that his knowledge and charm well deserves air time! His work with the magazines as their chief testerer means he's played on almost every foil you can imagine, and his repair work means he's worked with every wing as well (including our own)

This first episode with Rich discusses the history of Banthams ever growing foiling journey, as well as his favourite foils and what he uses them for. We then also have a little discussion at the end on Gong as a brand - this definitely could be delved into deeper in the future!

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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?!

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, his testing process for the mags, his thoughts on the kit in the wing industry at the moment as well as a tonne of other random shit that kept us chatting for ages - this one is our longest podcast yet, we await to hear your feedback - is it too long? not long enough?

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if you want to check out Rou's own podcast - have a look for 'Intriguing Beings' on all the same homes for podcasts as ours, as well as a tonne more no doubt!

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