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 began.We’ve also managed to nab some foils off Sam Light in the UK since we got home and Liams been spending a good bit of time on the One-Lock system. He’s a big fan, even in the first few sessions - gonna be an interesting debrief in our next chat together no doubtWe’ve still got t-shirt stock in all sizes - check out genericfoilingpod.com/shop to put in your orders - or if you’d like to support what we’re doing differently, check out buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast
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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- An example of the power of giving designers and engineers critical feedback- history of his long period with F-One- understanding of what Connor is now working on at Ozone...all mixed in with some chitty chatty you've come to expect from GFP. If you like what we do, do something about it. Tell your friends, family, colleagues, anyone that'll listen about our episodes, give us positive reviews, send us donations to buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast or go buy a t-shirt at https://genericfoilingpod.com/shop
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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 - we had to find out the truth!Had to put the second and third photos up alongside..... If you're enjoying these episodes and you're happy to support our beer addiction, check out buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast to support. Otherwise you can do the same by buying a T-Shirt from genericfoilingpod.com/shop!
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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 weekWe’ll be back with our AWSI chats promptly - we just couldnt help but squeeze this one inas always - if you like what we’re doing - have a look see on buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast to support with beer tokens. AND we’re now starting to shift some t-shirts - if anyones interested, ping us a message on here as we haven’t sussed out a webshop yet….. Black, Blue, Lilac Wang Lordz and Black and Blue GFP logo tee’s in S, M, L, XL. £25 per tee with usually a fiver postage!
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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 Freddie and Liam's radar for decades as a professional kiteboarding athlete, pioneer amongst both the freestyle and wakestyle, and a standout filmmaker. Whilst he still pushes hard on the kite, he has been as hooked by foiling as the rest of us and rarely a windy day at the hatchery will go by without him sending a few laps with a paddle or parawing in hand.Nowadays Ewan is the lead parawing and kite designer for Naish who will soon by release the appropriately named 'Hatch' parawing. This is his baby from start to finish and is a firm favourite amongst those locals lucky enough to have experienced the prototype iterations through its development. It is a product we are excited to see hit the market.We hope you enjoy what we do. Rate us 5 stars on the podcast platforms, subscribe to our YouTube which now has some cool videos on there and send us a few quid on www.buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast so we can keep doing trips and bringing you content recorded face-to-face, which we think produces much better results.Until next time, enjoy!
All manner of foiling chat: Liam and Freddie dissect their own riding as they navigate all of the new foil based disciplines and hope to share some technical knowledge from their years in the watersports industry - while also chatting a lot of shit together and hoping to bring some interesting characters to the limelight.
“Quality foil related chit chat with some useful technical information every now and again” - The Best review we could ever hope for!
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