119 - Gabriel Verrier-Paquette - Slingshot Designer
We 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
We 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
We'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
We'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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115 - Exmouth Musings and Foiling Newwwwwssss
Easterlies in Exmouth, Electric pump marketing, music usage in foiling videos and Liams new board build - we covered it all. What more could you possibly want from a foiling podcast?Its been epic at home this weekend just gone and we're all hyped up about each and every discipline on offer - even Freddies in a good mood at this point, but i wonder how long that'll last....We hope everyone's getting out and about on the water. We're gearing up for America in a couple weeks and getting pretty excited about it again - hopefully Liam doesnt cock his board build up too much as he's very looking forward to getting it out on the waterIf you like what we're doing and you wanted to support at all, we're still accepting beer tokens ahead of our trip. Check out https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast for different options
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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