Screamin Eeee

Backstory

Screamin' Eeee didn't get his name because he was loud. He's actually the calm one, the focused, locked-in, quietly-stoked kind of monster who's always watching the water, reading the wind, and thinking about the next session.

The nickname came way back in childhood, when Eeee ran with a small pack of fellow oddballs: the type who didn't fit in anywhere except together. One of those friends had a special talent. Not foiling. Not skating. Not anything useful. Just screaming.

Anytime something awesome happened, something surprising, sketchy, hilarious, or even mildly exciting. This friend would lose his mind, point straight at Eeee, and yell:

“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

Not “Hey!”

Not “Dude!”

Not “Watch this!”

Just an unreasonably long, high-energy EEEEEEEEEEE that echoed across playgrounds, sidewalks, and eventually shorelines. And because that screaming always happened around him, people started calling him Screamin' Eeee, even though he never raised his own voice once. As Eeee grew up, he kept doing what he'd always done: chasing the weird stuff, the sports that didn't make sense until you tried them, the moments that felt like discovering a secret.

That obsession turned into 30+ years of foiling across disciplines, from the early days of Air Chair, then Sky Ski, to eventually boat wake foiling, eFoil exploring, and dock-start/pump sessions that feel like pure water wizardry. He rode with the pioneers, documented the scene, and found his people in the original foil misfit crew of Air Junky.

Eventually, one truth became impossible to ignore: Foiling isn't one sport. It's a whole universe of board sports tied together by flight.

So Eeee built FoilingFreaks.com, a hub for every discipline, every rider type, and every brand of stoke. And because “serious” never felt right for a sport this fun, he assembled a menagerie of monsters to represent the many flavors of foiling.

Screamin Eeee's Merch Shop

Screamin Eeee's Foiling Discipline

First Flight

Eeee's first real flight did not happen on a modern foil board with a perfect setup. It happened back when hydrofoiling still felt like a rumor, when you had to explain what you were doing to everyone.

He started on the early gear, one of the first Air Chair sit-down hydrofoils with a black powder-coated wing that flew like a brick. The first tries were not pretty. His body wanted to treat it like every other board sport, push harder, muscle through, force the turn. The hydrofoil taught him the opposite lesson. It rewarded patience. It punished rushing.

Then it clicked. A clean pull, a smooth rise, and suddenly he was above the water. Not skipping across it, not plowing through it, actually flying. That moment rewired his brain. He came back in quietly, but his eyes were different, like he had just discovered a new element.

Decades later, when he learned wake foiling behind a boat, he then moved into e-foiling and pump foiling, and he would recognize that same feeling every time. The gear changed. The sensation stayed. Lift, silence, and a strange calm that made everything else feel a little louder.

Personality

Screamin' Eeee is the kind of rider who watches first and talks last. He is calm on the outside, but his mind is always running, analyzing wind, swell, boat speed, and every detail of a foil setup. He chases refinement.

He has deep patience for the learning curve (because he's not a natural) and zero patience for excuses. If you want to learn to foil, he will help you, but he will also quietly expect you to show up again tomorrow. He is persistent in a way that feels gentle until you realize he has been doing this for decades and still treats every session like practice.

Eeee is also a collector of disciplines. He is the guy who can switch from e-foiling to wake foiling, then spend the next day on dock start foiling like it is a completely different language. To him, hydrofoiling is a universe, and he wants to understand every corner of it.

Favorite Conditions

Eeee likes conditions that reward clean lines. Not necessarily easy conditions, just honest ones. A smooth long boat wake for wake foiling. A calm lake for pump foiling, where the only thing that matters is rhythm. A hint of a wind ripple breaking up the glassy surface on an efoil run.

He also has a soft spot for the in-between days. Slight wind, mixed texture, weird little bumps that make you work for it. Those are the days he will choose an efoil session to explore and stay in motion.

If the conditions are rough, he does not complain. He just changes the mission. That is why he always seems to be out there, even when everyone else is waiting for better water.

Screamin' Eeee's Code

• Keep it simple. A clean foil setup beats a complicated one every time.
• Smooth beats strong. The hydrofoil always rewards the lighter touch.
• Progress comes from reps, not talk.
• Adjust one thing at a time. Mast length, foil wing, stance, then test again.
• Respect the fundamentals. Every discipline comes back to balance and control.
• When in doubt, take one more run.

Beginner Tips

Eeee has helped a lot of people learn to foil, and his advice is always the same kind of quiet, practical guidance.

• Start with stability. Choose a foil board that forgives mistakes and lets you feel the lift without sudden surprises.
• Focus on body position before you focus on speed. Most early problems come from rushing the process.
• Keep your eyes up and your movements small. Hydrofoiling reacts fast, so calm inputs matter.
• In wake foiling, stay relaxed in the knees. Let the wake lift you.
• When you start pump foiling, think rhythm, not effort. You are trying to stay efficient.
• If you remember one thing from Eeee, it is this: foiling is not about fighting the water. It is about learning how to listen to it.

Preferred Ride

His preferred ride changes with the seasons. Boat wake foiling in the warmer months, dock starting and pump foiling year round, and efoiling when the water is too bad for the others.

What Makes Him Screamin' Eeee

Screamin' Eeee is persistent. Always looking for the next tweak or challenge once he figures one out he's onto another.

Signature Move

The Quiet Stoke: Eeee drops in, lifts onto foil, and just glides - smooth, controlled, effortless-looking. The kind of ride that makes everyone nearby think, “Okay, I need to get out there.”

Fun Facts

• Doesn't yell. Doesn't brag. Just rides.
• His one eye is basically a built-in line reader.
• Believes “one more run” is a lifestyle, not a phrase.
• Still occasionally hears a distant “EEEEEEEEEEE!” whenever something epic happens (or doesn't happen).

Screamin' Eeee's Motto

“Just Ride”