Raphaël & Julien Salles - F-ONE

What we talk about

• F-ONE's recycled socks: six months to develop, due in late September
• The carbon audit that found 72 percent of emissions happen before a product ships, and why they cut emissions instead of buying offsets
• How they're cutting it: recycled fabric for wings and kites, the Brainchild factory, sea freight rather than air, and old kites turned into bags
• Wetsuit recycling with Circular Flow, who turn old suits into Manera car seat covers. Sold at zero margin this autumn
• Going back into kiting with Brainchild and Ralph Grosel, signing Jamie Overbeek, and making a pro kite that's still comfortable for normal riders
• Prototyping foils is harder than kites and wings, and what the Strike V3 feedback led to in later versions
• A focus on surf style downwinding, Edo's downwind race win, the new race foil and a downwind board prototype built for easier water starts
• Julien's first year as general manager, Raphaël still testing, and why F-ONE tried parawing samples but went another way

About this episode

Chitty chatty in person with the legends themselves.