Freddie & Liam

127 – Slingshot – Jeff Logosz

Where did Slingshot come from and where is Slingshot going?? A great chat with Jeff Logosz, CEO of the brand – sat in the Offices in Hood River during our trip to the states. Liam and I loved this one – coming from a kite background we loved hearing about the days where it all…

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126 – Connor Bainbridge – Olympian, Blue Fox Boards Co-Founder & Ozone Designer

This week’s episode is one that Freddie and I have been looking forward to for some time. Please welcome Connor Bainbridge, fellow Brit, man of many talents, and 2024 Formula Kite Olympian. In this episode we get a: – run down of Paris 2024 – sneak peak into the operations of Blue Fox Boards –…

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125 – Jon Modica – Cabrinha Foils

A great, refreshing and honest chat with Jon Modica – Cabrinha’s head honcho. We hear the story of how Jon went from Team Ripper right up to Chairman of the Board.  We were excited for this one having heard murmurings of a connection between Cabrinha and Mikes Lab for their new foil range connection system…

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124 – The Kernow Foil Classic Debrief

The Kernow Foil Classic has come and gone – you might’ve seen a couple shots floating around the socials.  Enthusiasm is high and we wanted to talk allllll about it! A quick one to recap the time spent down in Cornwall last week We’ll be back with our AWSI chats promptly – we just couldnt…

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123 – Ewan Jaspan – NAISH Parawing and Kite Lead Designer

Having invaded his home in Hood River, commandeered his wifi, made cups of English tea, used his electricity to top up the airbeds, charged all electronic devices, and had a good poo, we figured we ought to sit down and do a podcast with the man of the hour, Ewan Jaspan. Ewan has been on…

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122 – FLITE LAB – Chris Reynolds & Eric Geiselman

The big one! We’ve given these guys a fair bit of grief over the last 18 months after initially hearing of their release – but we were very happy to sit down with designer extraordinaire, Chris Reynolds to set the story straight and to see how the entire process had come about now the product…

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121 – Wanglordz debrief of AWSI and the Kernow Foil Classic

The Wanglordz haven’t sat down together since Christmas can you believe! Well, last year we never really deconstructed our first trip to America with the guys and Liam and I felt like maybe we’d missed a trick there – so we pushed to get the guys up to answer any questions they might’ve had about…

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120 – Paul Cooper

Please welcome, THE foil assist athlete – Paul Cooper. It’s a wonder we’ve made it this long without chatting to Paul before, but we were very glad to finally sit down and chat all things Foildrive and surf foil. Paul’s been around a while now in foiling, converting pretty much entirely to Foildrive use in…

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119 – Gabriel Verrier-Paquette – Slingshot Designer

We sat down with Gabe, Designer at Slingshot. He is one of a team of designers/engineers and focuses on wing, parawing and board design. Between our conversation with Gabe and chat with Bobby not too long ago, it feels like Slingshot have an exciting mix of fresh engineers and established experience and I’m excited to…

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118 – Dan Juengling & Ben Tardrew – CODE Foils

We sat down with Dan and Ben from Code and talked about the following (in no particular order): – Height of foilers and how it affects their riding and gear choices – Weight of foilers (as above) – Why pros don’t always use super short fuses – New X series foil – who is it…

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