Foiling ain’t easy. Ask anyone who has tried it, and they’ll tell you that the learning curve is extraordinarily steep. There are a few people who make it look easy, and Adam Bennetts is one of them.
Like (probably) all foilers, Bennetts grew up surfing. He got into it after a stint living in Bali as a professional surfer, and he saw a few videos that his brother posted online. At the time, he thought it looked kind of boring. “I was living in Bali,” he told The Foiling Magazine. “Getting barreled, surfing pumping waves most days.”
When he moved back to Australia, though, he decided to give it a go. And, like just about everyone else, it didn’t come easily. He fell on his first two waves, then found a tiny bit of rhythm that piqued his interest.
Then, in 2019, he spent an entire session learning and something clicked. “I spent a whole hour out there and got a few glides, and I was hooked from there,” he continued. “Literally the next day I went and bought a foil.”
Now, a few years later, Bennetts is one of the most impressive foilers in the world, as evidenced by the four-ish minutes at Byron Bay with Zane Westwood that you see above.
