Red Letter Day: Birthday Bumps

All-time birthday sessions are one of those rare treats, where everything comes together just perfectly, and the entire day sits evergreen in the memory banks for many years after.

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Red Letter Day: Wonderland

Rider & Words: Swan Habelt Photos: Valerie Azzaria Location: Moorea, Tahiti Date: Wednesday 20th Octotober, 2021 The island paradise of Moorea is home to Swan Habelt, whose passion for foiling and surfing is only enhanced by his love for his sublime local surroundings, and only matched in his commitment to protecting it wherever he can.

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Red Letter Day: Fijian Express

Rider and Words: Keahi de Aboitiz Photos: Colin Drake Location: Cloudbreak, Fiji Date: Thursday 28th April, 2022 It was homeward bound to see the family for Keahi de Aboitiz, but – Keahi being Keahi – there was no way he was just going to stare down from the airplane window from 30,000ft while one of his

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Rising up: XAVI CORR

Busy making his way up the rankings on the GWA tour, 15 year old Xavi Corr is certainly on track to be a name we’re all going to be hearing plenty more from soon…

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THE EARLY PROMISE

Pairing up the right craft to work with the right wing is an art form all of its own, and few know this like Fanatic Board Designer Sky Solbach and Duotone Wing Designer Ken Winner do. In this exclusive interview, we dig into the symbiosis of their working relationship, and find out why winging is exploding like no other watersport in recent times…

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Ode to the Big River

The Columbia River Gorge up on the northwestern reaches of the USA is one of the go-to summer foiling options, and we’ve certainly given it plenty of coverage within these very pages. But how does it feel to live and foil there year-round? Well, Tre Hendricks knows exactly how it feels.

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Air Nazaré

It takes some serious grit to put yourself amongst the formidable walls of concentrated Atlantic seawater that emerge from the depths at Nazaré, something big wave rider Glyn Ovens knows only too well. With Tom Court on board, the two hatched a plan to face down the giants under battery power.

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SQRL X FOIL

Having taught themselves to foil last summer, a flock of the world’s best wingsuiters recently joined the Foil X Global crew down in Central America for a week of wavehunting. Squirrel Wingsuit’s Matt Gerdes relates how the trip played out, and how foiling really is just a form of flying…

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The Best of AWSI 2022: End of an Era, Start of A New One

Our man on the ground at the recent AWSI event in Hood River gives his own unique take on who and what was best in show...

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L A I R D

He certainly didn’t do it alone, but if the majority of the foiling populace were asked who most effectively brought the sport into the modern day consciousness, we reckon the odds are pretty high that one name would be on most people’s lips…

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Perspectives from the parallel

Former Surfing Magazine editor Jesse Faen recently played host to several of the Ride Engine crew at his home in Chile. We talked with Jesse about the trip, Manuel, foiling, and about how he used to hate the wind… and now doesn’t.

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Red Letter Day: SOUL GLOW

Nathan van Vuuren and friends manage to score some fortuitous end-of-season gold in South Africa before the winter storms started roaring in.

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Red Letter Day: SOLO YOLO

Sometimes, you just have to keep on pushing… On a session in Peru, Marc Ramseier had to dig deep to make it out back, and the rewards to be found were even worth a board to the chops…

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