Adrian Roper

Founder of AXIS Foils. His first appearance became the most-listened episode the show had ever done.

• On the new Spitfire range (Ep 36).
• Returns two years on to talk a mountain of new AXIS innovations — cornering the hosts in the Hatch carpark before they could even ask (Ep 128).

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

• Ep 38 (Armie Armstrong): Armie contrasts Adrian’s ‘as stiff as possible’ mast philosophy with Armstrong’s own preference for some flex (especially on smaller surf foils) for pop and wave-energy dampening.
• Ep 84 (Fred Hope, Slingshot): Adrian keeps pitching Fred Axis’s newfangled super-high-aspect wings, which Fred doesn’t think Slingshot’s general customer base is ready for yet.