At TotalSUP, we embraced SUP FOIL as soon as Kai Lenny and Connor Baxter started playing in Maui with a foil under their modified SUP race board back in 2016. Since then, we’ve published hundreds of SUP FOIL news, stories & new foil gear presentations, and we’re not stopping!
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4 Sep 2018
French man and BIC rider Eric Terrien became the 1st European to complete the fabled Molokai to Oahu race in July. The Molokai to Oahu that was 51 KM (32 miles) long and billed the “world’s most challenging race” it isn’t a race to be taken lightly. Eric Terrien gives TotalSUP a frank account of his […]
10 Aug 2018
Foiling is here. As the technology improves and the cost of foils decrease we will start to see more and more people take to the water on their foils. So how do you get started? Takuma man Greg Closier gives TotalSUP how to guide to start this new sport. I started surf foiling in 2016, […]
20 Jul 2018
Encore et toujours pionnier, Eric Terrien, l’une des légendes vivantes du SUP Race mondial et ambassadeur de la marque BIC Sport, s’attaque à une épreuve non moins légendaire, la Molokai 2 Oahu (M2O pour les intimes). Une épreuve hawaïenne qu’il connait déjà bien mais cette fois, c’est sur un foil et avec une poignée de […]
20 Jul 2018
Hawaiian Zane Schweitzer has just won the inaugural SUP Foil category race in the 26 mile (42 km) Pailolo Channel crossing from Maui to Moloka’i as part of the 2018 M2M Crossing, in doing so he set a new channel crossing record time, and won the overall classification, beating all other crafts including traditional outriggers, surf skis […]
22 Jun 2018
Japanese rider Yuri Takimoto is immersed in the world of foiling. Being the wife of Takuma founder Cyril Coste she has access to the full Takuma quiver of foils. Currently based in Japan, Yuri chats to TotalSUP about why “the only way is foiling”, and introducing the concept of foiling to women riders! Hi Yuri, […]
5 Jun 2018
Nous avons eu l’immense plaisir de rencontrer à Tahiti un pur waterman et ex-champion du monde de Kite Surf, Julien Sudrat installé en Polynésie depuis 13 ans. Désormais passionné de foil sous toutes ses formes et notamment en Stand-Up Paddle, le distributeur de la marque Takuma Concept nous parle du matos, de son amour pour […]
9 May 2018
Frenchman and Takuma Concept rider Greg Closier is blazing a trail for prone and SUP foiling, currently with one foot in the USA and one in France he has sought out some of the finest spots in both countries to foil. Greg gives TotalSUP the lowdown on the best foiling spot in the USA, the […]
24 Nov 2017
Par Grégory Closier, ambassadeur de la marque de foil / SUP foil Takuma Concept Le foil est clairement la tendance 2017. Après le kite et le wind, c’est tout naturellement au tour du SUP et du surf de succomber au charme du foil. Depuis la fameuse vidéo de Kai Lenny (voir en bas de la page) […]
20 Jul 2017
Before SUP Foil started to become popular over a year ago, Cyril Coste and some of his friends already had the idea of designing their own foils for SUP flatwater conditions. Takuma Concept launched the Takuma Foil V100, the brand’s biggest success to date, which can be used for all kinds of foil (SUP, Surf, […]
27 Jun 2017
Over a year ago, a new form of SUP called SUP Foil became popular when Kai Lenny posted footage of himself hydrofoiling his Stand-Up Paddle raceboard. Since then, many riders, at all levels, have been trying it out. However, it is not always easy to get started. That’s why Greg Closier, Takuma Concept ambassador, based […]
30 May 2017
By James Casey- The past 12 months have seen a rapid evolution of hydrofoil surfing. It all became popular this time last year, when Kai Lenny posted footage of himself hydrofoiling his stand up paddle raceboard downwind. Since then, things have progressed and from its debut on stand up paddle surfboards, it is now attached primarily to regular […]
9 Aug 2016
Cette semaine, nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir échanger avec Raphaël Filippi, star international de Windsurf mais qui pratique de nombreux autres sports de glisse, à propos de sa toute récente vidéo où l’on a pu le voir essayer le SUP Foil. Nous tenons tout d’abord à le remercier pour sa disponibilité et […]
4 May 2016
A couple of days ago, Kay Lenny released a video of himself riding a 12’6 Naish Malolo SUP Race board cut in half and mounted with a hydrofoil which led to a lot of people wondering how a foil works. We asked Cyril Garbous, owner of the FreeRide Attitude shop in the south of France and […]
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