Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Windsurfer Henry Bloodworth, British Sailing Team, iQFoil windsurfing class - Canary Islands.

- So, I was actually campaigning

on the old Olympic wind surfing class,

back, maybe three years ago now.

Stopped running my campaign on that,

and then began foiling on the hydrofoil kit.

I did the world tour some competitions on that,

And then as soon as hydrofoil wind surfing

became the new Olympic class

the OAA put together a little support program

basically for up and coming senior foilers

has been traveling around the world

with this training group ever since.

- Compared to normal windsurfers

we are, start off, I guess, much more efficient.

So we're going way faster

in nowhere near the same amount of wind.

So, we need less wind to get going.

There's none of the kind of,

rough bump of the water anymore,

which is gliding across it.

It feels like you're floating.

It looks less stable,

but when you're traveling at speed

the wings just create so much stability

that it's just like,

being on a platform, raised up out the water

got a nine meter rig for the guys,

eight meter rig for the girls.

It literally just pretty much clip-on and go,

(man laughs)

Essentially one man, and one woman

will go to the Olympics in 2024.

And that would be the first Olympic games

where the IQFoil equipment's been present.

It's brutal.

There's only one of us will go,

but at the moment

we're training all together as one team.

And when it gets a bit closer to the time

it will basically be a bit more of a fight

for the top spot.

But yeah, so that's the format for now.