Kite Foiling
Foiling powered by a kite — the hosts’ original watersports background and the root many guests share. Covers both freeride kitefoiling and Olympic Formula Kite racing.
- The Olympic racing strand: Ellie Aldridge (Ep 56), Daniela Moroz (6x Formula Kite World Champion, Ep 88), Connor Bainbridge (Paris 2024 Olympian, Ep 126) and old-Olympian coaches Ben Rhodes & Stevie Morrison (Ep 65).
- Kite pedigree guests: Fred Hope (Ep 84), Keahi De Aboitiz (Ep 6), Patrick Rebstock (strapless pioneer, Ep 113), Jake Kelsick (Ep 15) and Johnny Heineken (Ep 85).
- Brand/industry angle via Cabrinha, North, Ozone and Airush.
Ripple additions (batch 2, 2026-07-20)
- Keahi De Aboitiz (Ep 6) dates his own start to ~2012 in Maui, credits brand ‘Go Foil’ with the first thicker, less-efficient foil built for small-wave riding as the spark for the discipline’s wider boom.
- Mike Raper (North, Ep 24) argues foiling has a lower barrier to entry than kiteboarding (less instruction, no big beach needed, easy bail-out lying on the board) — why he expects foiling revenue to reach parity with kiteboarding.
- Daniela Moroz (Ep 88) covers the 2024 Olympic Formula Kite class’s race-committee/judging controversy and the ongoing weight/kite-size debate (fixed kite-size-per-wind-band proposal vs a hard weight limit).
- Tiesda You (Starboard, Ep 110) on why kite-foil profiles differ from downwind-foil profiles: built to resist ‘lifty’ behaviour at high speed (30+ knots) rather than optimise for glide/carry.
- Ewan Jaspan (NAISH, Ep 123): kite foils resist becoming ‘lifty’ at speed vs downwind foils which prioritise glide/carry — drawn from testing the same foils across different craft.