Frank’s boards have had people murmuring and whatsapping naughty photos back and forth for a while now. We were lucky enough to see them in the flesh in Hood River…our man Luke wouldn’t shut up about getting hold of one. Liam managed to have a good chat with him in the states on the AXIS stand at AWSI.

Surprisingly, stood in front of a couple of Frank made boards with full red Axis livery and logos, when asked what the deal is between Frank and Adrian (Axis), they both laughed and replied with “we don’t know yet, that’s what we are here to find out”. So, we were very happy to sit down and learn more now that we’re a few weeks on and an agreement seems to have come to fruition .

Italian born, Maui based. Working for Quattro and his neighbour Mark Raphorst has given this ex kitesurfer a massive amount of experience to begin experimenting with his downwind board designs.

His downwind shape design is the main point of conversation, but we do delve into his parawinging thoughts, midlength and his prone shapes too.

If you like what we’re up to, check out https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast. We recon we did a pretty decent job of accruing a tonne of recordings out of the 2024 AWSI event, and we wanna do it again! Someone’s gotta do it, right?!