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!

The King and Queen of UK foiling join us after their epic winter adventure/pre-wedding honeymoon down under. Its hard to listen to this pair and not feel frothed to get out on the water and enjoy yourself. Listen to the very end and Freddie's zest might even surprise you!

FINALLY we release this one!

We got to spend some time chilling in the carpark of Hood River with Aidan back in September (did we tell you we went to Hood River?) and he was nice enough to be one of the folks who lent us a downwindering board while we were there too.

No doubt you've all seen videos of him shredding on the interweb, and he was one of the standout riders on the water through AWSi for Liam and I.

Fast forward a couple of months and we managed to steal some time from his busy schedule to book in a recording to find out even more about him! We also discuss his role in Armstrong and how thats grown as well as the brands direction itself and what he's got coming up in the coming year.

Sit back and enjoy - and if you do like what we're up to, we're still saving up our beer tokens to get ourselves back to Hood River once again in September to smash out some actual downwinding again - and hopefully chat to some more influential people in our industry!

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A super fun chat with Slingshot Product Designer, Bobby Johnston, who has been a very busy man over the past 3 years developing Slingshot's new ONELOCK mast & fuselage system in combination with the slingshot foil range among other things.

This is a fantastic chat that covered a lot of bases. From techy tech, design philosophy, business operations, new testing/industry benchmarking methodologies and much more.

Bobby is as friendly as he is modest (very) and we hope we can add him to the list of designer friends of GFP to throw your questions at in the future. We hope you all enjoy this one.

Freddie & Liam

This episode was recorded late 2024 shortly after Jack visited the UK for the Kernow Foil Classic. Thanks to his recent £1.7 million deal with F-One and his determination to take over the Youtube algorithm, he regaled us with stories of his worldwide adventures.

A super high energy, fun, inspiring and informative episode. Enjoy!

This is the second attempt at recording the 100th episode! The first attempt was a HUGE Q&A video that we're deciding what to do with at present.

This episode has a lot of fun chat including:

- What the bloody hell is going on at Gong HQ?

- Foil scooting crowdfunding success!

- Let airlines define the limit of our board designs.

- Is an egg the best marketing and testing tool?

- Are you a 'jumbo' rider? Starboard have the foil for you.

- Will Starboard's funky board shapes secure them dw board market share?

- Should all brands use the same mast/fuse and be interchangable?

- What's Donald Trump been up to?

- What are we excited about for 2025?

Your much-needed dose of foil news, splurge of opinions and session updates.

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We hope you enjoy this episode with humble waterwoman

We get the low down on Gabriella's watersports history and she does her best to dial in Freddie's shimming game.

Listen to this episode and rate the podcast 5 stars or we'll all get personally offended. Peace out.