Freddie & Liam

58 – Olivia Piana

We’ve been planning to sit down with Olivia ever since she did her world record downwind challenge, but we’ve never been able to make it work – she’s so busy! This week was the week, even having to bail the first time because Liam was caught by the dreaded Covid…… A great chat was had…

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57 – A Van Chat – Some Dicks of Foiling

A quick one today, en route back from the beach after a mixed session. As always Liam has things on his mind that he wishes to share with the foiling world, and Freddie couldn’t give a damn and is happy to go along with it…..consider this an audio opinion piece. Some potentially dickish things have…

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56 – Ellie Aldridge – The UK’s Olympic Hopeful

Ellie is a kite racer. A very good kite racer. She’s qualified for the Olympics in July 2024 to represent the UK – which means she takes foiling far more seriously than Liam and Freddie do. This week she gives us a run down of the entire Olympic process – which despite an interest in…

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55 – Secret Special Guest | Foil Drivering | Eating Humble Pie | Finger Blasting and more

A lovely catch up and debrief on the previous weeks shenanigans between Freddie and Liam is very rudely interrupted by Mr FoilDrive Europe himself again – the man can’t help but Plug! What actually happened is Freddie enjoyed his time finger blasting on the FoilDrive the previous week so much, that Liam thought it’d be…

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54 – Clinton Filen – AK , Airush and Freewing – Brand and Development Director

Clinton Filen is the Brand and Development Director for AK Durables, Freewing and Airush Kiteboarding. That’s a pretty sick title. Mike Birt was all excited about his new found fame off the back of Episode 52 and very kindly passed on our details to Clinton in order to get him on ASAP. A great, chilled…

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53 – Welcome to Brown Town

A nice steady start to 2024 for us – Freddie needed a gentle chat to ease him in after finding out first hand why everyones so pissed off about sewage outlets releasing straight into the UK’s coastal beach towns water…. We’ve also had numerous sessions over a busy Christmas period while the winds been howling…

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52 – WangLordz Christmas Special

Its Christmas time, so what better way to celebrate than to get the 4 Wanglordz into a hot tub and ply them with beers for many hours? It wasn’t all merryment… we surprised ourselves with the amount of legitimate foiling-related chat. Rich and Chris give us the run down on the ‘new generation’ of foils…

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51 – Mike Birt – Armchair Economics

This week we chat with Mike Birt – another OG of the UK wind sports scene. An ex pro windsurf athlete from back when that was cool, to the very first British Kitesurf Champion. He’s been working in the industry for a very, very long time and is currently Distributor for Airush, AK, Shinn and…

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50 – The Big 5 0 – Liam and Freddie back in the hot seats

Its been emotional, but we’ve made it to 50 bloody episodes. Back to our roots with episodes like this – hope you enjoy it. We discuss a few of the most recent goings on in the foiling world – most importantly, our Manera Socks R&D work has been delayed until the new year. We won’t…

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49 – Nick Leason – Lift Foils

This week the Generic Foiling Podcast is back at you with one of foiling’s big dogs and one of the real OGs, Nick Leason of Lift Foils. Tune in to learn about the history of the sport as a whole, and the early development of the products which paved the way for the refined flying…

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