Foil Assist

Motor-assisted foiling — a small electric drive fitted to the board that helps a rider get up on foil and catch waves, most associated on the show with FoilDrive. Also encompasses dockstarting technique.

• Paul Martin, FoilDrive co-founder, is a repeat guest (Ep 80, Ep 130 on the FUSION) and one of the show’s most popular interviewees.
• Dominic Hoskyns runs FoilDrive’s European growth (Ep 44, Ep 55); Paul Cooper is “THE foil-assist athlete”, using it to boost surf-foil airs (Ep 120).
• CODE Foils discuss a Code/FoilDrive integrated mast (Ep 118).

Ripple additions (batch 2, 2026-07-20)

• Ep 142: hosts (Liam/Freddie) compare Duotone’s weight-off-board system vs FoilDrive’s Max Assist/Fusion trade-off, as an analogue to Dave Kalama’s board-weight argument.