The foil repair workshop will take place in January 10.1.2026 at 12pm in Zürich, Switzerland. Cost is CHF 100.- per person. Duration is 2-3 hours. If you buy ONIX equipment, the amount will be credited to your ONIX equipment. Max. 12 people per Workshop. Scratches and holes upto the size of a thumbnail can be repaired on the spot. Bring your own Foil, Stabilizer or Board. Any brand is welcome. Sam will bring everything to repair your foil, board or stab. Your foil is yours, take good care of it!
Register here. Location of the workshop is Spielbaracke in Zürich.
First and foremost: with ONIX you can trade in your old ONIX gear.
All Fuses come with heli coils, fully anodized, quality you will enjoy to touch every day. Build to last, build to perform, build to enjoy! Pump it up!
No sounds when you sail! ONIX is properly sanded down! No fast finishes.
Specifically requested by heavy riders from Hawaii. Fast downwind with the paddle, prone foiling and parawinging after 27 knots. Works great for winging too! If you can pump this, I want to meet you!
Albatros 860 Span 1062mm Projected area 860cm2 Thickness 13.3mm Aspect Ratio 13.1 Volume 573cm3
When I tried to get other people into pumpfoiling in 2020, I would always show them the steps and hold them the board. They would run and crash, if they were lucky, they did not hurt themselves. The early adopters are mostly hardcore.
These days after teaching a lot of adults and children I am evolving my teaching technique, last but least to avoid injuries on yourself, on other people and your equipment.
These days I start with all my beginners, no matter the age, size, weight or talent on the belly. Try to glide as long as possible. If you reach 15 m on your belly, then you get the glide feeling, then you understand the gilde feeling on the foil, because you glided on the foil and your body was as close to the foil as possible.
Being on the belly you are closer to the center of gravity of the foil, the focal point (Schwerpunkt). What matters is that you experience the feeling of the glide.
You can do this a 100 times or more, till you consistently glide more than 10 meters. Till you manage to glide 10 meters or more 90% of your tries.
After that go onto the knees.
Push off with your jump leg (Sprungbein). Place the other knee first on the board and then get the second knee on the board. Try to pump the board. Zoe shows this very well in the short videos.
Once you manage to glide on your knees for more then 10 meters consistently, try to stand up. Sophie is showing this nicely as well in the 3rd video. When you crash, always hold on to the board. This is important for your own safety, for the safety of your surroundings. It is also good for your equipment. Learn slow, baby steps, no ambition, no expectations.
Do at least 100 knee starts and then move on to jump directly to your feet. Do this only after you manged to get up a couple of times after doing the knee start, like Sophie and Zoe show.
The Fairytale of the spectator, the pumper and the police goes somewhat like this.
The pumper is pumping his foil on a rainy Sunday afternoon one the lake of Zürich. The maybe grumpy spectator walks by and sees the pumper pumping his foil in the lake where the water temperature is about 5 degrees celsius. The spectator thinks that where the pumper is pumping he should not be pumping so he calls the police. The police arrives and and questions the pumper. The police tells the pumper: we love what you do, we pump ourselves, but if somebody calls the police we have to show up.
There are always people who want to pump. There will always be people calling the police for what seems to be no reason. The police will always have to show up. It is their job, their duty.
Fairytale take-home message: if you have a problem with your neighbour, with your wife, with your co-worker, try to solve the problem in a bilateral way, talk to each other, voice your concerns, if possible without going to court or calling the police. Humans are social beings, problems between two humans should always be solved bilaterally. Try to talk to each other as many times as you tried to learn to pumpfoil! You will be a more happy person afterwards. Agree to disagree.
