It started with a Whatsapp group of 5 stoked foilers, who via via all came together in 2022 because we were all interested in the idea of downwind foiling.

Kjell, our Belgian neighbour and token dutchman was the first in Benelux to do a SUP downwind run in 2020 as far as I am aware which then inspired Niek (you can read about it here). Separately around the same time myself and Jannes (who I met through prone foiling) had been frothing on all the Voyager content and started practicing downwind foiling with the wing and doing prone shore runs around the same time. Jannes had been hyping the lakes to me as the perfect training ground for SUP DW foiling and as an ex SUP paddler, Jannes caught on that Niek was also getting into it through Social media. Eventually we all managed to link up, for our first SUP foil DW run together in 2022 (myself, Niek, Jannes and his good mate Olivier) well and truly kicking off the addiction.  From here it grew into a core group of guys with the addition of Sibren (through instagram after we saw a clip of him on the Markermeer in 45 knots), Joep (2 x Masters ICF long distance SUP world champion), Thomas (Niek's main buddy an ex SUP racer) and of course the legend himself Ike (the man that first let me try his prone set up randomly in the surf line up which truly got the ball rolling past kite foiling for me).