Break the Surface - Season 2025 | Geneva, Naxos & the Meaning of Style
July 8, 2026
Break the Surface is back with a new episode, this time taking a trip through the final two stops on the 2025 Freestyle Pro Tour: Geneva and Naxos. There’s still plenty of action in this one, but more than anything, this episode is about the riders themselves: the stories, the ideas, and the way freestyle keeps evolving both on and off the water.
First up: Geneva. An event that never fails to push tow-in to a whole new level. With Steven Van Broeckhoven and Balz Müller back in the mix, the level instantly went through the roof, and Yentel Caers started throwing triple air rotations like it was just another day at the office. In the middle of it all, Sam Esteve came flying through to take an unexpected win, sealing the deal with an outrageous one-handed laid-back Burner 360.
But Geneva also gave us the chance to slow things down and get into one of the episode’s biggest talking points: foilstyle. Balz and Jack Müller, two of the discipline’s true pioneers, take us back to where it all started in 2017 and talk through how foilstyle grew from a wild idea into its own corner of the sport. From there, the episode opens up another conversation that sits right at the heart of freestyle: style itself. What actually makes a rider stylish? Who do the best in the world look up to? And what does “freestyle” even mean when everyone brings something different to the water? We sat down and listened as the FPT fleet gave their perspectives.
The second half of the episode heads to Naxos, where a massive fleet of riders and one of the biggest tow-in lineups in recent memory kept things rolling, with more stories, more surprises and plenty of behind-the-scenes moments from life on tour.
This one’s less about one result sheet, and more about the people, ideas and progression pushing freestyle forward right now.
