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Current Record - Rush Randle's 15-minute single-swell tow-in foil ride
World Record Snapshot
- Record Title
- Longest tow-in foil ride duration on a single ocean swell
- Discipline
Downwind Foiling 
Tow-In Foiling- Class
- Open / Duration
- Measured Result
- Duration: 15 minutes - (Higher is better)
- Date
- 1995-01-01 (year precision)
- Has Stood For
- 31 years, 141 days as of 2026-05-22
- Location
- Unknown
- Record Holder
- Rush Randle
Record Holder Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
Kip, along with the foiling community at large, has given this glorious achievement the official Foiling Freaks nod for Downwind Foiling.
May it inspire better evidence, cleaner runs, bigger claims, and even louder hooting from the crowd.
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The Tale From the Foil Vault
Within Tony Klarich's historical review of early stand-up foilboarding, Rush Randle is described as making a particularly bold single-swell claim: a ride on a 20-foot ocean swell that lasted 15 minutes and covered 10 miles. This duration entry separates the time component from the distance component so the tow-in discipline can compare elapsed ride claims on a consistent metric. The source situates the statement after the early Laird Hamilton, Rush Randle, and Brett Lickle tow-in foil development period, but it does not provide a precise ride date, venue, GPS track, or original score sheet. For that reason, the event is not presented as a sanctioned world record. It is logged as a publicly reported historical tow-in foil duration claim that fits the Foiling Freaks record-book purpose. The date and location fields remain intentionally blank rather than being inferred from nearby references to other Rush Randle images or videos.
Rules of the Beast
Qualifying entries must describe a single continuous tow-in foil ride on one ocean swell. The tow is used only for the wave-entry phase, and the duration claim must describe the time spent continuing the ride as one sustained swell ride rather than a full session or a sequence of separate waves. The published source must state a numeric duration in seconds, minutes, or hours and must connect that duration to a single ride. Video timing, uninterrupted footage, GPS tracks, and named witness accounts are preferred, but community-level historical claims may be logged when clearly labeled as claims. If the source does not provide a date or venue, those fields remain blank rather than inferred. Later entries may surpass earlier duration claims only when their source provides a comparable single-ride time.
How This Got the Nod
Historical secondary account reports Rush Randle's claim. Exact date, venue, and primary ride documentation were not located in this research pass. A general timeframe for the date has been set.