I’ve found highlights on instagram for the foiler’s of Aloha contest at Kalapaki Bay. The Gofoil account stories have some. Hawaiianalldatime stories have different angles of the best ones. They’ll be gone by tomorrow though which sucks. Does anyone release edit’s of these contests? I hate when it’s only on instagram stories and just get lost to the ether.
For Prone I think it was.
Jack Ho #1
Mateo Ell #2
JDIronsKauai #3
There was also the Merimbula classic in Aus this past weekend. Haven’t seen any footage of that. Just saw that Zane Westwood got #1 in wing foil division.
Yes not much about this contest, it would be nice to have a full report. How was the judging (criteria, etc). I noticed it was heat of 6 riders, that must be hard to judge.
That’s what’s most confusing right now. What is the criteria for foiling contests? Until that is understood, the footage I’m seeing is hard to make sense of.
I would’ve declared Mateo the winner after he landed that air.
I’m a little bit desapointed by the footage, definetly not a surf foil wave. But that was the condition of the day so you have to do with what is an offer.
I prefer seeing the riders doing big carving turns on the reform instaed of trying to get barreled on the inside bowl.
Devil’s advocate: maybe foiling attracts more than its share of the non-competitive surf-minded folks? Speaking for myself, one of the main attractions was getting away from the crowd, out of the pecking order. It isn’t that I was unable to compete for my share of waves (though that was getting more challenging with age and fitness), it’s more that the competition and associated aggro wrecked surfing for me. Foiling is magic, being alone with a few buddies getting truly amazing experiences. Does the competitive vibe risk rubbing off some of that magic?
The other part is that day to day regular foiling feels great and looks lame. A typical day sees our crew grinning ear to ear jabbering about epic best day ever, and the local surf crew are just shaking their heads wondering what we’re on. The conditions look terrible and our riding is sub-par, but the stoke is massive … you need to experience it to understand the radness. Which means, other than remarkable riding in remarkable conditions, the riding doesn’t have a lot of mainstream appeal.
Freak sport for freak-minds, keep it freaky! But if you must compete, then go the expression session route.
Competition doesn’t have to be “bad” with aggro attitude, etc…
Think more about sharing experience, meet new peole, parking talk, gear testing, discover new places, ect…
Competition is fun. Also it is good opportunity to get better, to improve your level, foiling with other people, see how they ride how they perform, etc
So true - and I can prove your statement is true. I’ve been foiling at the same beach multiple days a week for 6 years now and not a single other person there has converted over to foiling with me. I see the same faces sitting in the lineup for years on even the worst days where they don’t even ride a single decent wave on a given morning. I honestly have no idea how they don’t take one look at me catching nearly constant waves on the worst days and want to do it too.
I love watching the pros ride on social/youtube because I honestly feel like I’m surfing just like them. Just don’t show me a video of myself…
