windfoil Archives - Foil Shop UK

Foiling tips & tricks: high aspect foils and the proper mast.

Foiling and foils continue to evolve rapidly. Depending on your foiling level will perhaps depend [...]

We do foiling. But our gear works for fin riding too.

Here at Foilshop UK we love foiling. We’d be a bit bonkers to run an [...]

Challenger Sails 2022 special offers on Konda & 4G sails.

For all 2022 Challenger Sails deals email us with your preferences. Scroll down for info. [...]

Everyman foiling with Dave Ludgate (Subowti) – learning to fly above water.

Learning to foil may appear daunting to some. Yet there are plenty of riders willing [...]

Foil Stories: Windfoil dad vibes with Mike Pringuer.

In a previous Foil Stories article, we focused on young gun Tom Pringuer. This time [...]

Foil Stories: getting wing krafty with Ian Kraft.

Next up in our real world Foil Stories series of articles is someone who’ll need [...]

Foil Stories: ‘feeling the need…’ with windsurfer & windfoiler Tom Pringuer.

We know Tom Pringuer very well. Having watched his development as a young windsurfer Tom [...]

Foil Stories: with young gun Hugo Dobrijevic. #1

Foil Stories: with young gun wing foiler Hugo Dobrijevic.

Words: Hugo Dobrijevic. Pics: Hugo Dobrijevic, Nick Masson. Hugo Dobrijevic checks in for our latest [...]

Foil stories do it anyway! With Jeremy Carr.

Foil stories: windfoiling – do it anyway! With Jeremy Carr.

Foil stories continues with a very real world, and honest account of windfoiling courtesy of [...]

Foil stories: Mosh, metal, McIntyre (of the Angus foiling variety).

Foil words: Angus McIntyre. Foil pics: Angus McIntyre, Steve Gladders, Mike Pringuer, The OTC. Foil [...]

Indiana Foil – new brand landing imminently.

The beady eyed may have already spotted Foilshop UK out testing new foiling gear from [...]

We do foiling! And use (and have used) all the gear we sell…

We foil! In case you missed that. Why are we telling you this? So you [...]

Foiling tips & tricks: where’s best to learn wind, wing, SUP surf, and eFoil?

Pics/vids: Oli Lane-Peirce, Mike Pringuer Foiling is a rapid progression area of watersports. With most [...]

Foil board width, real world riders and other considerations.

Foil board discussions – particularly surrounding wing foil sleds, as wing foiling is the hot [...]

Foil wing design evolution, a personal journey.

Words: Tez Plavenieks Pics: Oli Lane-Peirce, James Jagger, Mike Pringuer Foil wing design has come [...]

Foiling tips & tricks: levelling up.

Foiling tips & tricks this time focuses on an aspect of foiling (whatever the discipline) [...]

Foil stories: Don’t go to Florida! With Dean Peaple.

Words. pics and vids: Dean Peaple. US transplant Dean Peaple recently upped sticks from Texas [...]

Tom Pringuer Windsurfing putting the Tahe Techno Wind Foil 130L through its paces (wing and windfoil mode).

Pics: Mike Pringuer. Young Tom Pringuer, barely into his teens, is making things look easy [...]

Foilshop UK: we do foiling (video).

Just in case you were wondering what Foilshop UK does… As if that needs spelling [...]

New Nautix Windsurfing freeride windsurf sails available – perfect for windfoiling!

Pics: Oli Lane-Peirce. Anyone who follows Foilshop UK’s Tez on social media will have spotted [...]

Windsurfing UK magazine tests the Tahe Techno Wind Foil 160L windsurfing/windfoil board.

Our friends over at Windsurfing UK magazine have just published their test write up of [...]

New Foilshop UK products! Tahe Techno Wind Foil 160, F4 Lighwind foils, FusionX X Wing wings & Nitro Pro foil boards.

It’s been a busy period of late – testing, photographing, testing and shooting some more. [...]

New Tahe Techno Wind Foil 160 windsurf/windfoil board.

If you’re after a suitable intermediate windsurf board that doubles as the perfect windfoil sled [...]

Real world foiling stories: Simon Letten, windfoiler, windsurfer and soon to be wing foiler.

Words & pics: Simon Letten We’ve known Simon for quite a while. Always the keen [...]

Speed glides – Axis Foils S-Series Glide 900mm alu/carbon windfoil foil test.

Pics: Oli Lane-Peirce Windfoil manufacturing has come on leaps and bounds the last few seasons. [...]

Tahe Techno’s UK man on the ground: Alex Mallalieu Q&A with WIndsurfing UK magazine.

Friends of Foilshop UK, Windsurfing UK magazine, have just published their Q&A with Lyon Watersports’ [...]

Foilshop UK’s Tez talks wing foil equipment testing and Mistral Air Force prototyping.

Pics: Foilshop UK, Steve West 17 wing foil wings, 86 hydrofoil combos and 27 different [...]

Windsurfing UK Magazine test the Avanti Sails Icarus 5.5m windfoil specific sail.

Pics: Oli Lane-Peirce. Our friends at Windsurfing UK Magazine have just published their test report [...]

Are convertible wing foil wind foil SUP foil boards any good

Convertible foil boards (wing, SUP, wind) – are they any good?

Pics: Oli Lane-Peirce/James Jagger/Foilshop UK. We heard a cynical insider industry comment foil boards combining [...]

The Tahe Techno Wind Foil 130L: a great choice for windfoil coaching schools and centres.

Manufactured from bomb proof ACE-TEC material in their fEuropean acility (so keeping it relatively local) [...]

Hydrofoiling hardware tip: swap your existing foil bolts for Torx head types.

As foilers we don’t really give too much thought to our hardware. The supplied bolts [...]

Dallas Cowboy: Texan tales of the foiling kind with Dean Peaple #1

Debunking a few windfoiling myths – Windsurfing UK magazine.

This is an article from a few seasons back yet most of what’s written still [...]

James Jagger: photographer, windsurfer, windfoiler, SUPer, surfer Zeeko Amplifier/Bullet XLW/Carver 950 foil testimonial.

Pics: Kevin Lee. We’ve known Mr Jagger a long time having worked with him on [...]