At the tail end of Cyclone Gabrielle, a storm that brought both damage and amazing waves, Adam Bennetts, known as Mister Bennetts on his YouTube channel, brought his foil out at Wategos in Byron Bay. It was a good decision.
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.”
But when he returned to Australia, Bennetts thought that he might as well give foil surfing a shot. At first, he had a tough time with it — par for the course, really — but eventually had a little taste of the rhythm that makes foiling so addictive. By 2019, he was well and truly hooked, and he hasn’t looked back since. Now, he’s one of the best foil surfers on Earth.
If you’re looking for proof of that last sentence, stop reading and start watching.
