La Foil’ie au Lac returns to Monteynard with 28 brands and demos
Monteynard’s rare alpine foil weekend paired 28 brands with free demos, a pumpfoil contest and lake-wide testing on a blue reservoir built for wind.
When the call is which foil to rig, Monteynard is the kind of place that makes the decision feel like a lineup card instead of a guess. La Foil’ie au Lac returned to Lake Monteynard-Avignonet in Isère on 13 and 14 June 2026 as its sixth edition, with free entry, open access and a two-day mix of wingfoil, kitefoil, windfoil, e-foil and pump foil centered at Camping de Savel on the Rive de Savel.
That setting is the point. Monteynard is not a standard flat-water stopover; it is a 16-kilometer reservoir about 25 kilometers south of Grenoble, created in 1962 by EDF’s Monteynard-Avignonet dam. The lake’s mountain backdrop and regular catabatic wind make it one of France’s most distinctive gliding venues, and the scale of the water gives riders room to watch, test and compare how different foil setups behave in real conditions.
The on-water program was built around access. Free tests and demonstrations ran from 10:00 to 18:00 on Saturday and 10:00 to 17:00 on Sunday, with free shuttles helping move people around the site. The open national pumpfoil contest began on Saturday, then local officials joined the official opening at 11:30. A raffle followed at 17:30, with prizes including an AFS Fire board, before the evening celebration at La Pergola. For spectators, that meant more than a start-line show; it meant a full day of seeing how riders handled the lake’s wind and the discipline mix.
The exhibitor village gave the weekend its other edge. Foil Magazine counted 28 brands on site, including Foil Attitude, Duotone, Flysurfer, Armstrong, Sroka, Reedin, Axis and AlpineFoil. That spread mattered because foiling gear is still intensely personal: wing choice, mast length, board volume and foil profile can all change the feel on the water, and a live demo on Monteynard tells riders more in 10 minutes than a catalog spec sheet ever will.
La Foil’ie au Lac has grown into a multi-discipline alpine gathering because it solves a real problem for foil riders: getting enough water time, enough gear comparisons and enough peer feedback in one weekend. At Monteynard, the lake, the wind and the village all pointed in the same direction, making the event as useful for first-timers as it was for riders chasing their next setup.
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