Hi James. Tell us when and what Cabrinha's first experiences of foiling were?
Around 2002 saw Founder Pete (Cabrinha) and Elliott Leboe really pushing the envelope in foiling on some early equipment. They used modified aluminum airchair foils attached to custom boards and snowboard boots and bindings. From towing in on Jaws to throwing freestyle tricks with a kite at Kite Beach, it definitely got things going in the foiling realm but the equipment was probably the reason it just didn’t catch on with the wider public back then. The snowboard boots and bindings combined with very heavy hydrofoils were just too heavy and cumbersome. Needless to say it made taking wipeouts at one of the heaviest waves on the planet a very scary prospect…
The equipment just made things hard for it to catch on in the mainstream ultimately and it wasn’t until the modern composite/aluminum technology and weight savings really aided the radical performance gains. This was what brought foiling back into the spotlight for Cabrinha as you see it today.
When was this?
Cabrinha fully got back into the foil world with the release of the Double Agent kite / skimboard foil back in 2015. There was suddenly so much potential
