This week we got to chat with Charles Bertrand, a naval architect who’s worked as part of the foil and board design team at F-One for approx 12 years. Liam talks all things engineering with Charles, learning how they go from a new product brief to a fully working item on the market, while Freddie…

A real mish mash of ideas in this weeks episode, starting with our new section called ‘Poems with Proctor’. After last weeks episode with Mike Raper there were major calls for more Poetry to be read out by Liam (not really, but we thought we’d do more anyway). Can you guess which promotional video this…

This week we sat across Zoom to chat to Mike Raper – Brand Manager and Co-founder at North Kiteboarding and North Foils, all the way over in Auckland, NZ. Mikes been around the watersports industry for a very long time and has held numerous senior positions within it – initially with the Pryde Group and…

We’re both house sitting in the South Hams for a couple of weeks and its going well for managing to get into the water most days in some very varied conditions. Only one wing session, but a couple of kite sessions and a couple more prone sessions has seen some progression across the board. Today…

This week we welcome big wave shredder, Professional Hydrologist and juggler of 3 boys Jeremy Wilmotte onto the Podcast. The Aussie crew started churning out the downwind content a little while ago, and while all the boys put up some awesome footage it was Jeremy’s humour within the downwind discipline that caught our eyes and…

Welcome back to a week with Liam and Freddie! We catch up on a busy couple of weeks after our last two episodes released were interviews. Check out Episodes 19 and 20 with Wieger from Appletree boards and Rob Claisse from Progression instructional kite and foil coaching – these were both great chats and very…

Rob Claisse is the man behind ‘Progression’. Originally a DVD coaching platform assisting many learning to Kitesurf, it now encompasses his 1 to 1 coaching and his foiling vacations and clinics. A master on a kitefoil, rapidly improving on the wing and one of the most analytical and experienced coaches in the game, he is…

A great episode for those of you interested in the nitty gritty side of board design and the best in the business production methodology. Wieger is the Co-founder and head shaper for Appletree Surfboards. In this episode he explains how Appletree set themselves apart from the competition and came to manufacture boards with their vacuum…

Sitting down with James Casey last week was awesome and we’ve had some great feedback from listeners about it – particularly about the fitness side of things, or lack of it… We sat down after our second (Freddie) and third (Liam) Prone/Surf foil sessions in the last two weeks, and what an emotional couple of…

Episode 17 – James Casey – Coach Casey Club We FINALLY got the chance to sit down with James and discuss all things Downwinding. This was our chance to learn how to Downwind in a 2 hour discussion from one of the best in the business (We’re yet to put that to the test on…