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The Generic Foiling Podcast
Hosted by Freddie and Liam! · EN
All manner of foiling chat: Liam and Freddie dissect their own riding as they navigate all of the new foil based disciplines and hope to share some technical knowledge from their years in the watersports industry - while also chatting a lot of shit together and hoping to bring some interesting characters to the limelight.
“Quality foil related chit chat with some useful technical information every now and again” - The Best review we could ever hope for!
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122 - FLITE LAB - Chris Reynolds & Eric Geiselman
Sep 2901:47:46Tap to summarizeThe big one! We've given these guys a fair bit of grief over the last 18 months after initially hearing of their release - but we were very happy to sit down with designer extraordinaire, Chris Reynolds to set the story straight and to see how the entire process had come about now the product is on the market!Legenrdary surfer turned foiler Eric Geiselman joins in to then give us his use cases for the FliteLab now its out and how its changed his outlook on prone surf foiling.A great sit down with these guys - and about time too!If you like what you're listening to - this trip wouldn't have been made possible without beer tokens from the listeners - it really opened people up and got them loose lipped! Check out https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast for info on how to support
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121 - Wanglordz debrief of AWSI and the Kernow Foil Classic
Sep 2502:20:14Tap to summarizeThe Wanglordz haven’t sat down together since Christmas can you believe! Well, last year we never really deconstructed our first trip to America with the guys and Liam and I felt like maybe we’d missed a trick there - so we pushed to get the guys up to answer any questions they might’ve had about our trip this yearWe also needed time to discuss Chris’s up and coming event - now in its third year - the Kernow Foil Classic. Liam and I are really looking forward to this time of year as everyone congregates down on Cornish beaches to ride together, compete and socialise afterwards. This year, for 5 days!Once you’ve had a listen, go check out @kernowfoilclassic , sign up and come down even just to hang out - its gonna be a 'doozy'. 1-5th October - not long now!
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120 - Paul Cooper
Sep 2201:30:39Tap to summarizePlease welcome, THE foil assist athlete - Paul Cooper. It’s a wonder we’ve made it this long without chatting to Paul before, but we were very glad to finally sit down and chat all things Foildrive and surf foil. Paul’s been around a while now in foiling, converting pretty much entirely to Foildrive use in the surf - and you must have seen his air’s in the waves by now. Freddie especially was very keen to chat about his favourite foiling movie, the Bali movie which Paul was in charge of a year or so ago - another one worth watching if you haven’t already!There’s also big chat here about how much it would take to get Freddie to try nail a backflip on a wing. Give it a listen for the value - I don’t think it’s unachievable at all. If anyone wants to stump up the cashola - I’ll nail that backflip to a wall!
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119 - Gabriel Verrier-Paquette - Slingshot Designer
Sep 1301:25:15Tap to summarizeWe sat down with Gabe, Designer at Slingshot. He is one of a team of designers/engineers and focuses on wing, parawing and board design. Between our conversation with Gabe and chat with Bobby not too long ago, it feels like Slingshot have an exciting mix of fresh engineers and established experience and I’m excited to see what other innovations come out in the coming years.We talked about the following (in no particular order):- Would a scaled down aeroplane design foil?! - What his design process/data collection system looks like?- How the slingshot parawing design is progressing- Parawing and wing material science- Long term durability and water retention potential of parawings- The implication of Alula on wing designs- How has One-Lock gone down?- Production board construction- What he is most proud of- Artistic design vs optimisation- Biggest screw up- Room 101!- and much much more! Remember that you guys helped us get to AWSI 2025 which allowed us to bring you content. So, please consider donating some beer money on the buymeacoffee account.www.buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast
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118 - Dan Juengling & Ben Tardrew - CODE Foils
Sep 1201:20:16Tap to summarizeWe sat down with Dan and Ben from Code and talked about the following (in no particular order):- Height of foilers and how it affects their riding and gear choices - Weight of foilers (as above)- Why pros don't always use super short fuses- New X series foil - who is it for and what spots is it for?- What tails are good with the new x series- Code/FoilDrive integrated mast- Who is on top in the foil assist game- Who does what at Code on the design side- What disciplines the Code boys use to test foils- Learning to parawing- How the setup changes from Sup DW to para and the pros and cons of each- Front v back foot pressure foils/brands- Social considerations for getting into downwinding whatever your power sourceAren’t we good?! If you think so, please donate some beer money on the buymeacoffee account pretty please. www.buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast
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117 - The X Foils and GFP combine
Sep 901:34:42Tap to summarizeWe've all been running around like blue arsed fly's for the last few days while the AWSI show was on - both sets of Podcasters trying to get interviews recorded with as many people as possible while they were all in one place.We're a few days post show now and its quietening down - a perfect time to smush our two podcasts into one to dissect our both our findings from the show and all the new products on offer.Dylan and Walt from the X Foils Podcast and Freddie and Liam all throw their opinions into the mix in this chilled episode recorded in the Hatchery carpark, post and pre more parawing sessionsWe've got another week in Hood River still and there are plenty folks still around to ride with - fingers crossed we get some more sessions once we've relaxed at least a little bit!If you like what we're doing and you want to help top up the beer fund, check out https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast - any support is extremely welcomed!
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116 - Back in Da Hood
Sep 201:02:56Tap to summarizeWe're back for our second time in Hood River, Oregon for the AWSI event here. 2 mental days so far and lots to discuss.The hype level here is off the charts. Its been awesome to see so many friendly faces again - the entire foiling world has been rocking up to solid head high swell and 2/3m wing winds. So many hours clocked up parawinging already in just 2 days.The Beer chest is stocked and in full flow, we've welcomed teams from Appletree, Foildrive, Code Foils and further afield for mid arvo beers so far and the chest is well depleted!If you're enjoying what we do and wanna help prop up the foiling worlds beer consumtption - check out https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast. Rememeber - the drunker they are, the more gossip they'll chat!Roll on the actual AWSI event Wednesday onwards
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113 - Patrick Rebstock
Aug 6, 2025Tap to summarizeOld 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!
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