158 - Adrian Roper & Mark Shinn

Adrian Roper and Mark Shinn are two of the most experienced professionals in watersports. We've had each of them on before individually but having them both on together brings a whole new dynamic. I feel like it tells the real story of AXIS and their never ending testing pursuit so much better.Their collective experience developing gear is well over 50 years and yet, when you chat with them, their passion makes it feels like it has only just begun! If you're talking about windsports equipment, one of these two has designed, developed, manufactured or tested it. So sit back and enjoy, we've still got a lot to learn!A reminder that The Generic Foiling Podcast is produced by Freddie and Liam for the love of foiling. We couldn't bring you the extra special content like the in person chats at AWSI without your help. At the very least follow us on whatever platform you listen from, rate us 5 stars, leave a review, and tell your friends about us if you think they'll enjoy the content. If you really like it, head to www.buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast to add to the trip and beer fund.

We interrupt our interview series for a long overdue sit down with the lads and A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Warning: NOT CLICKBAIT (listen to the ep and read more below). There is a lot to discuss, Ken Adgate has gone and made a tuttle Riift setup just days before the Riift webshop appears to have gone  live, the boys have had a lot of time on the water in many disciplines, parawing has taken over the local spot recently, Liam has resurrected an old board he made and dedicated it as as his new FoilDrive board and immediately finger blasted some downwinders and Freddie had a go on some Cabrinha foils and liked them.The announcement: If you need to be clean, smell fresh, look good and be heavily caffeinated this festive season, you’re gonna need to hear about the GFP xmas hamper. Coming soon!Cheers all

An episode recorded at AWSI 2026 that Freddie and I were really looking forward to. Not only is Ewan a generally great bloke to chat to, but he is the lead designer of one of the hottest parawings on the market, the Naish Hatch. His riding has also been even more stand out in recent months which he puts down to the new Naish foil range. You might have even seen Tina ripping on it recently! Whilst we hadn't tried it at the time of recording, we have now and both the Siren and Excalibur are pretty special (short fuse for the rippers amongst you I reckon). It really does have that accessible performance feeling. You know you can push as far as your skill level will allow and the gear isn't holding you back.We cover a lot of ground in this episode: •⁠ ⁠The Parawing development push•⁠ ⁠Behind the scenes of the design, manufacturing, and logistical processes•⁠ ⁠Future material development•⁠ ⁠Hollow boards (a low down on their performance now that they've been out a while and why we aren't seeing as much push this year)•⁠ ⁠The new naish foil range (Siren/Excalibur)•⁠ ⁠and much more...If you like what we do, RATE US 5 STARS ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM PLEASE AND THANKS. If you'd like to support us further and ensure we can keep improving our media, send us moneyz for trips at https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast

We finally managed to sit down with Nico at AWSI this year. This was a goal we never achieved in 2025, despite having a very brief chat with him in a café queue the day before leaving. The F-One parawings have been awesome products and we were really interested to hear how the conversation had gone getting him involved with the brand at that time.Nico gives us a run though his background prior to F-one and the design process he's gone through with the Frigate V1, Quest V1 and now the all new Frigate V2. He opens up on how its been moving from working under his own business and now working with the Salles under the F-One banner.Another of our chats from this years AWSI show - with a good few more to come yet - hopefully the addition of video this year is of interest to some folks!If you like what we're up to - check out the Youtube channel, check out the website, sign up to the newsletter for incredibly infrequent news and rate us 5 Stars - we don't accept any less. If you wanted to show your appreciation, you're very welcome to supply us with beer tokens if you should so wish - we are always very grateful to receive such tokens and make sur we spend them wisely. https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast Anyone who caught us at the right time at both the AWSI event and the KFC event this year will have benefitted from these beer tokens also - so its definitely not a selfish act!

A relatively raw and indepth debrief into the AWSI event for 2026 with ourselves and the guys from the X Foils podcast - Dylan and Walt.We recorded an hour of us interviewing them, and then switched to an hour(ish) of them interviewing us - you can see their version on their own podcast this week also!Its so interesting hearing their views on the show and the goings on within the industry at the moment while coming from the more American side of it than us. Theres definite opposing views between all of us - but that’s not to say either of us in right or wrong. It creates some great conversation though!I'm mildly wary of this episode… only because it felt like it took a while for us to get going and I think I (Freddie) come across quite Doom and Gloom - maybe more than usual. Give it a chance, and maybe use our conversation as talking points. Theres definitely more to be discussed in future and we definitely ask a few more questions than we answer. Also check out part 2 on the X Foils Youtube and Spotify!

We knew we had to meet up quick to record a debrief and ‘deload' from what was a very intense week at the start of October - and a decent forecast midweek at Daymer Bay gave us the perfect setting. An epic parawing session in great conditions, followed by a smash burger and beer at Bluntrock Brewery to see out our evening catch up.The fourth year of the Kernow Foil Classic saw Chris raise the bar considerably with his grass roots foil comp he's been organising, and unless you've been under a rock you might've seen bits and pieces all over social media for the last couple weeks. We got a lot of compliments about this, but actually it was all Chris and his media team pumping out videos with our faces plastered on them.Enjoy this - Chris is a good mate and it was awesome to see him in full flow during the event - which absolutely went off. We were all was too exhausted and dazed to record anything like this on the Sunday of the event and hopefully a few days of winding down was what was needed to put some logical thoughts down for you guys all to hear. Whether you were at the event and curious to know what was going on behind the scenes, or watching the socials from the other side of the world - we've no doubt you'll enjoy this episode.For those of you wanting to get involved next year - the dates are already secured for 4th-10th October 2027.As always - rate us 5 stars, we don't accept anything else. If you fancy funding beers to event organisers in the future, check out https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast and know that your money is spent responsibly!

We sit down with Jon Modica from Cabrinha for our 153rd episode!Jon discusses their new foil, the Domani in great detail as well as how they've come about the new Nomad Parawing. Frustratingly we've not managed to use either yet as we've had such poor conditions since getting home and then rushed straight into the Kernow Foil Classic event at home where we spent most of the week running around interviewing everyone else! All in good time, Cabrinha have sent us a couple bits to have a play on and we're looking forward to it!Rate us 5 stars, follow on here, subscribe on YouTube, all that stuff. And if you'd be so kind, go to https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast and chuck us a few quid to buy a beer if you fancy it!

One of our favourite guests, Paul Martin. He is always a pleasure to listen to. In this episode, we learn about how things have changed for FoilDrive in the past 12 months, all about the new MAX + system and the upcoming slim + system as well as how Paul feels about competition in the Foil Assist category and much much more.Whatever your chosen foiling discipline/disciplines, this is worth a listen! If you've got feedback, suggestions, or questions, drop them ina comment below.Rate us 5 stars, follow on here, subscribe on YouTube, all that stuff. Generic Foiling Podcast is produced for the love of the sport but if you'd like ot chuck us a few quick for our troubles so that we can bring better and better content in the future (and drink nice beer whilst doing so) head to https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast

Sit down with us for the 151st episode of the Generic Foiling Podcast with Marcus Tardrew & Dan Juengling, Founders of Code Foils, live from AWSI 2026 in Hood River, Oregon.Code Foils are a relative newbie in the foiling game, but it doesn't feel like it! They've come heavily armed to this years event with a complete new board range, new mast, new foils and new witty banter for us.This is a generic foiling special. And by that I mean almost every discipline gets covered; pumpfoiling, winging, parawanging, finger blasting, e-foiling, sup foil and speedo selection.Rate us 5 stars, follow on here, subscribe on YouTube, all that stuff. And if you'd be so kind, go to https://buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast and chuck us a few quid for our troubles.

Well, we made it again....!A little Wanglords hot tub chat to discuss our thoughts and predictions on the equipment being rumoured at this years AWSI show next week. We're out here in Hood River, ready and prepped for the show. The house has a hot tub, its cold out, and theres no wind - it makes us feel like a proper wanglordz chat...Lots going on, and the hypes building in town. Can't wait for the wind to return hopefully tomorrow - and the messages are flooding in, everyones arriving in town.We've put this chat up on youtube as well - check it out on our channel