What is the future? personally I see both as foiling is for ninja warriors. But I can vision a huge change coming competitively in Hawaii with the next generation (current teenagers) choosing a foil board over an unlimited.

In hawaii over the weekend stand up paddling had its first offical "foil class" for a distance race.
The "Poi bowl" on Maui maliko run.
Jimmy casey took a massive win over Connor Baxter in the main unlimited class but I think the real talking point is how a foil class was created.

6 foilers entered. Kai Lenny took the win.
I asked supracer on instagram who was first over the line. Jimmy or kai.
is reply.
Kai Lenny surprising absolutely nobody to take the win in 48 minutes. Young gun Jeffrey Spencer was impressive in finishing runner-up just four minutes behind the foil superstar.
The foil guys ran a different course to the unlimited. Foils started outside the gulch and finished outside the harbour to avoid the flats. Kai (foil)was 48:47 jimmy (unlimited) was 1:08:39. So as you would expect the foils were moving faster even considering the different course lengths the (race boards) probably did 1.5km extra. the wind wasn't optimal for either division, times could of easily been faster. And the 6th foiler to finish did it in 1:48min to highlight how tricky those things can be.