AFS FOILING - Richard Boudia & Benoit Rochard

What we talk about

• How AFS started with windfoil in 2009 and why they only make carbon gear in France
• Richard's path from kiting to downwinding in the south of France
• Making gear for beginners and for experts, and the Ultra 750 back orders
• Picking a board, mast and foil for the Hood River Hatchery and the Gorge
• Tubercles on foils, and two designers with very different ideas
• Why the parawing is still at prototype stage and the question of wind range
• Hype in the parawing world and how buyers tell the real products from the rest
• Why the biggest foil needed a T shaped mould, and going full blast on the water

About this episode

Bring on the Frenchies!

In come Richard and Benoit from AFS foils, to give us some insight in how they've exploded onto the scene over the last couple years.

Richard is a man who's been around the industry a long time - previously as a pro kiter for Flexifoil back in the days before that brand exploded loudly.... He's since started as 'International Business Developer' at AFS and also been smashing the downwinding in France. Benoit lives in Texas is heading up the distribution of AFS and Sooruz wetsuits in the US.

Together they give us a run through of the brand and its ethos