Author Archives: Tez Plavenieks

About Tez Plavenieks

Content creator - SEO - social media. Windsurf - SUP - snowboard - surf - kayak - drums - art

Foil boards – the longer and narrower design trend for all foiling disciplines.

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Tez Plavenieks

Foil boards are constantly being tweaked by designers and shapers. The emergence of hyper efficient downwind foil boards, with their uber narrow widths and pronounced pin tails has seen an about turn within foil board shape trends. Longer, for extra … Continue reading →

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Wing foiling – the wing thing continues, and then some!

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Tez Plavenieks

Wing foiling is an addiction. Foiling in general is. But specifically wing foiling – considering this being summer when waves in my neck of the woods are rare – is the be all and end all watersport – for me … Continue reading →

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Windsurfing UK test the Hyde Sails Blast 5m wing foiling wing.

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Tez Plavenieks

Hyde Sails Blast wings are going from strength to strength in terms of popularity for wing foiling. I’ve used Hyde Blast wings for a while and love the bottom end grunt yet easy drift handling. As part of my ongoing … Continue reading →

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Indiana Surf & Foil foil board test – first run: SUP foil mode (Jan 10, 2022).

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Tez Plavenieks

This morning I managed to get out for a first run on the Indiana foil board I currently have on test. Indiana is a new brand Foilshop UK is about to start working with via Lyon Watersports. Stay tuned for … Continue reading →

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Wing foil is all the rage – wing foil content links.

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Tez Plavenieks

Wing foil is all the rage within watersports. If you’re not doing it then you’re probably thinking about doing it. And in my case writing/creating wing foil content. Of which some examples can be found below. Check out the links … Continue reading →

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Foilshop UK is go! (Well, it has been for a year already…).

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Tez Plavenieks

At the tail end of 2020 Foilshop UK was launched. With my ongoing work in and around hydrofoiling (wing foil, windfoil, SUP foil, eFoil, foil surfing, foil pumping and so on) I hit upon the idea of creating ‘something’ around … Continue reading →

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2019 – foil, foil and more foil!

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Tez Plavenieks

Keeping things on sport 2019 has mainly been about foiling. 80% of my board riding shenanigans have seen my flying above the water. Windfoil and SUP foil are addictive. I’m also keen to investigate surf foiling – but that’s a … Continue reading →

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Windsurf, windfoil, windSUP – the latter part of 2018

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Tez Plavenieks

Further to my last post featuring a bunch of images from 2018 relating to windsurfing and windfoiling there have been (as is inevitable) a few more sessions that have been captured to camera via James Jagger. Here’re the pick of … Continue reading →

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My year of windsurfing and windfoiling, in pics, 2018

Posted on September 21, 2018 by Tez Plavenieks

As part of my work for Windsurfing UK magazine I test and review a whole raft of equipment – sails, boards, foils and windsurfing accessories. This is in conjunction with similar work I do for SUP Mag UK. Those who are … Continue reading →

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A bit about me, in video form

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Tez Plavenieks

I made this little brown paper bag video ditty for LinkeIn but thought I’d share it here as well.

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