DukeSilver, good story well told and precisely what one experienced quite often indeed, a lot when it was "new", but still sometimes when riding at the same spots.
It takes time for these changes, here all the "slightly sceptical but still interested" ones has started foiling now, so it gets bigger in number of riders now.
Even before this "step up" this summer here, we could be 10 foilers out on some days
Now you are more and more often out in the summer/autumn and see some foiling you dont even know - THAT is almost weird, and this is a good sign of it being more mainstream and not just a few
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