One could say Maui’s north shore is a hotbed for water-borne innovation. Tough and gritty breaks pound the rocky shore with unrelenting power and the wind almost never lets up. Throw in the occasional terrifying Jaws swell to test your mettle, and you have some of the most talented and hardy watermen and waterwomen in the world. The one caveat to all this white water, however, is that almost all the action happens in the winter.
Maui summers, on the other hand, are supposed to be boring. Summer is for surf trips, suntanning, and shifty small south swells. Ridiculously strong winds followed by dark rain squalls punish the north and east shores with numbing chop. It’s mind-melting hot and the chances you’ll get to ride a shortboard on a clean face are about as good as traveling anywhere in the world right now. For surfing, it’s bearable on certain days, and for wing foiling, it’s good-to-epic. Every day.
How we got here
When Ridge Lenny first saw the sport of wing foiling, he had a moment of realization: “Wow, that must be super boring.” Since he was home on Maui for the summer, he figured he’d give it a go
