One of the most popular episodes from last year, and bound to be one of the most popular episodes this year, please welcome Paul Martin, Co-Founder of Foil Drive.We love chatting to Paul because he combines an open-book personality with incredibly unique life experiences, which we dig even deeper into in this episode. He is one of those individuals that people instinctively know to pay attention to and listen to.As well as hearing about the all-new FUSION system (and some complimentary product releases that are still to be released!), you'll get to know the real Paul Martin (Mr Egg) even better. Who'd have guessed that his whole approach to learning was moulded by hindered vision as a child!?Enjoy the episode and let us know what you think!Until next time...
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129 - Mike Raper
This is as chilled as it gets - sitting down in the carpark of the Hatchery with Mike, eating home made smoked salmon and drinking tea.Great to finally meet Mike in person - he's been a great guy to chat to and bounce ideas off since we first talked with him online a couple of years ago. A great, honest and inpdeth chat about all things North too!As far as us - check out the website, sign up to the newest newsletter on the block, buy a T-Shirt, support us on Buymeacoffee and for the love of god - Rate us 5 stars on Spotify! Is that too much to ask? Probably.....
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128 - Adrian Roper - AXIS Foils
Welcome back Adrian Roper of AXIS Foils - the man who still holds the mantle for the most listened to podcast we've ever done - from 2 years ago!We were already keen to chat to Adrian about the mountain of new innovations that seem to be hitting the market soon from AXIS - but before we had a chance to ask, he cornered us in the carpark of the Hatch to ask us exactly the same.It was hard to miss the hype around the brand at the AWSI show this year - there was a hive of activity around the stand the whole time we were there, and its also been very apparent from the downwind race season this year that AXIS had some pretty impressive kit on the way.So, we let Adrian bring over all these new bits to show us through. Hopefully at some point we'll put some video up from it, because as you'll hear - he's man handling kit the entire episode. Frank even joins us at the end to discuss their relationship for a few minutes as well.Podcast aside - we've been busy squirelling away on a couple bits. You may have noticed our t-shirt selling chitter chatter on the stories. Check out https://genericfoilingpod.com/shop for access to our t-shirts. Liams also been working to make the website work a bit smoother (like a real life professional website) and you'll also notice theres a newsletter sign up form on there...... we're doing it! The first newsletter was sent out this Saturday just gone and we'll aim to do one every second saturday morning. I'll write one then liam will write one and hopefully you'll get a bit of a snippet of anything and everything else we don't get around to discussing in our episodes.if you like what we're doing, theres also a link to the Buy me a Coffee account on the website - where you can chip in and buy us some beers. All profits go towards those beers as well as funding our next trip and media ideas!
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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 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
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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