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46: Leo Koenig - CEO/Founder WOO Sports - The man responsible for the gamification of kiteboarding!
Intriguing Beings Podcast - June 12, 2024 11:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLeo Koenig, the founder of WOO Sports, shares his journey of getting into the water sports world and developing the WOO device. The small blue box that attaches to a kiteboard and measures the height of jumps. Leo discusses the challenges of manufacturing and finding reliable suppliers and the i...
Intriguing Beings - Season 03 Epsisode 10 - Philip Schinnagel - CEO of CORE one of the world's largest water sports brands!
Intriguing Beings Podcast - April 26, 2024 09:13 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI sit down with Philip Schinnagel from CORE, one of the world's largest watersports brands based out of Fehmarn in Germany.
Intriguing Beings - Season 3 - Episode 9 - Raphael and Julien Salles - The incredible father and son team who head up F-ONE and Manera, two of the biggest brands in the watersports industry!
Intriguing Beings Podcast - October 27, 2023 05:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI sit down in a rare opportunity to have both Raphael Salles and his son Julien in the room together. Raphael started F-ONE at the end of the 90's and it's grown to become one of the biggest watersports businesses in the world. Julien was never that keen to work at the family business but when t...
Season 3 Episode 8 - Kent Marinkovic - Old school windsurf racer, passionate kiter and CEO of Cabrinha!
Intriguing Beings Podcast - October 18, 2023 17:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBack in January, I sat down with Kent Marinkovic, a long-time waterman and businessman who is currently the CEO of Cabrinha. One of the world's largest watersports companies, we talk about the old days, the new days and everything in between! Enjoy!
Season 3 Episode 7 - Till Eberle - CEO of Boards and More, one of the world's largest watersports businesses and parent company of Duotone and ION.
Intriguing Beings Podcast - September 28, 2023 10:58 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI sit down with Till Eberle to talk all things Duotone, the rebrand of Fanatic and how the industry has been during these difficult times... It's an episode that is well worth a listen!
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 3 Episode 6 - Hannah Whiteley - Social media superstar, one of the worlds best female kite boarders!
Intriguing Beings Podcast - April 12, 2023 16:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI've wanted to get Hannah on the podcast for a while now, so this was a great opportunity to catch up. I've known Hannah since the start of her kiteboarding career, and to see her progress from a young talent to a global superstar of the sport has been impressive. Now she has cultivated a career...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 3 Episode 5 - Titouan Galea - Kites, Foils and Wings!
Intriguing Beings Podcast - April 12, 2023 15:51 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMultiple world champion Titouan Galea sits down with me to chat about where he came from and how he embraced the sport of wing foiling so quickly. His kite-foil skills were an easy transfer, and his career has been nothing short of exceptional so far. Recently he moved to Cabrinha, and he loves ...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 3 Episode 4 - Scott Harrison - Beer, Guns and Kiteboarding
Intriguing Beings Podcast - February 13, 2023 11:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEx US Special Forces and brewery founder Scott Harrison sits down with me to talk about some of his adventures in various warzones over the years, his love of brewing beer and how kiteboarding brought all that together to put us in the same room in Mexico. The world moves in mysterious ways, and...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 03 Episode 03 - Ralf Grösel - Welcome To A Sustainable Future
Intriguing Beings Podcast - November 07, 2022 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRalf Grösel is one of the highest functioning humans I know, a kite designer, paragliding designer, racing car driver and successful businessman his accolades are many. He recently got in touch to invite me to North Macedonia to have a look at Brainchild Production, a new project which has set u...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 03 Episode 02 - Dom Moore - Science, Surfing And Sober Among Other Things
Intriguing Beings Podcast - October 18, 2021 16:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAs promised a new episode with an old favourite, Dom Moore. Last time we spoke he was embarking on treatment for the big C. This time he's in the clear, sober, surfing and learning science. We have an entertaining conversation about what he's been up to, his 9 odd months sober and how he hasn't ...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 03 Episode 01 - Rou Chater - The Story Behind FacePlant
Intriguing Beings Podcast - July 20, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI'm Back! An interesting episode for you this time around as I chat to Alan Jones from Talk Funding. Alan approached me wanting to do a podcast about my new project, FacePlant Sunglasses, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to pick up the baton again and kick off Intriguing Beings once again....
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 02 Episode 15 - Jon Modica - Investing In The Future
Intriguing Beings Podcast - February 13, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsListen in as I chat to Jon Modica, the man behind the recent buyout of Cabrinha from the Pryde Group. If you've not heard of Jon he used to be a pro rider for Cabrinha back in the day, and now he's bought it alongside some other investors. That's a pretty incredible story, whichever way you look...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 02 Episode 14 - Robby Naish - A Very Honest Telephone Conversation
Intriguing Beings Podcast - August 08, 2020 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSomething a little different for you all this week, I had the fortune to catch up with Robby Naish over in Maui on the phone last week. We talked for about 45 minutes about how Covid 19 has effected business, about the last 25 years of making production gear and about how much he enjoys sharing ...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 13 Clinton Filen - Always hunting for innovation
Intriguing Beings Podcast - June 16, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis episode I sit down with Clinton Filen, designer, innovator and radical ideas man. He's been heading up the Airush brand from Cape Town for the last 8 years and has a long history in product design. From an early age, he was making boards and he's never stopped. We catch up at the AWSI in Ho...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 12 Rob Whittall - Truly living life to the limits
Intriguing Beings Podcast - April 24, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI have an amazing guest in this episode, Ozone kite designer Rob Whittall, I've known Rob for some time and bumped into him across the various continents of the globe over the years. He's always struck me as an intensely thoughtful man who's got his priorities right. Fiercely competitive, mainly...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 11 Noè Font - The Youth Are Coming
Intriguing Beings Podcast - March 10, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis time I sit down with one of my youngest guests, Noè Font, a Spanish kiteboarder and 2x Junior World Champion. He's gone on to surround himself with peers and ride on the Kite Park League Tour at a level that beguiles his youth. When you meet him it's easy to think he's in his 30's, he's ach...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 10 Raphael Salles - A Passion For The Ocean
Intriguing Beings Podcast - January 24, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week I'm sitting down with waterman, businessman and legend Raphael Salles. Raph heads up F-One, the watersports brand that makes gear for kitesurfers, surfers, paddle boarders and foilers. Raph has a passion for the ocean that I haven't seen in many people, he can literally spend 8 hours...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 09 Craig Cunningham - Nurturing The Future
Intriguing Beings Podcast - December 23, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week I'm chatting to Craig Cunningham the Team Manager at Duotone Kiteboarding. Recorded back in February this year in Cape Town we talk about a wide range of topics including how he nearly became an ice hockey jock! The Canadian rider is one of the most stylish around and has had a stellar...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 08 Julien Salles - A Passion For A Brand
Intriguing Beings Podcast - December 02, 2019 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJulien Salles heads up Manera in Montpelier, France, the accessories brand is part of the F-One group owned by his father, Raphael. I've been lucky enough to call Julien a friend for some time and watched him develop Manera with a real passion for the products and how they can benefit the people...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 07 Steven Akkersdijk - The Long, Dutch, Kite Whisperer
Intriguing Beings Podcast - November 21, 2019 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week I've got legendary rider Steven Akkersdijk on the podcast, the tall dutchman has been making a huge impression on the Big Air scene for some time now. With King Of The Air podiums under his belt, he's always a threat on the competition scene. Unlike a lot of riders, though, Steven is m...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 02 Episode 06 - Sensi Graves - Life's Better In A Bikini
Intriguing Beings Podcast - October 31, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week I'm chatting to Sensi Graves, founder of Sensi Bikinis, kite park pioneer and all-round female kite hero. I met up with Sensi in Hood River earlier this year to record this podcast and it was really interesting to hear about her approach and induction into the business world. We also t...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 02 Episode 05 - Tom Court - A Lighter Look At Life
Intriguing Beings Podcast - September 16, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis weeks episode is a little more light-hearted as I chat to Tom Court, one of the original kiteboarders from back in the day who was shredding from a very young age. Tom's garnered a successful career for himself within the sport, not just as a talented pro rider, but also as a videographer a...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 02 Episode 04 - Robby Naish - A True Legend
Intriguing Beings Podcast - August 27, 2019 15:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThey say you shouldn't meet your heroes, we'll this week I'm sharing a conversation I had with one of mine this summer, none other than the legend Mr Robby Naish. US1111 carved a name for himself in the windsurfing industry from a very young age, and that passion and drive for the sport led him ...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 03 Mike Raper - An Incredible Journey
Intriguing Beings Podcast - August 08, 2019 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week I chat to Mike Raper, one of the kiteboarding originals who started as a pro rider before getting a job with the Pryde Group. Mike spent years there working on various brands including Cabrinha and left last year to move from Hong Kong back to New Zealand to spend more time with his fa...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Season 02 Episode 02 - Ralf Grosel - There are enough hours in the day
Intriguing Beings Podcast - August 01, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI sit down with Duotone kite designer Ralf Grösel and have a very interesting chat about his life and how he got into design. From making his own paragliders and learning CAD at 14 to running several successful companies now, Ralf is a lesson in how you have plenty of time to do all the things y...
Intriguing Beings Podcast Season 02 Episode 01 Ruben Lenten - A lesson in a positive mindset
Intriguing Beings Podcast - July 02, 2019 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRuben Lenten is one of the most influential kiteboarders on the planet, his long career has seen him shape the sport in a way few others can match. From his aggressive powered freestyle riding to his insane mega loops and all the variations he has created. In this podcast Rou Chater talks to Rub...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Episode 20 - King Of The Air Special
Intriguing Beings Podcast - February 05, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt's the last episode of Season 1 and I thought I might do something a little different. As it's the King Of The Air in Cape Town and the finals are tomorrow Lewis Crathern and I sit down for a chat about the event and who's likely to win. You can hear a real insight into what goes on from the o...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Episode 19 - Lewis Crathern
Intriguing Beings Podcast - January 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week I'm chatting to the "Man Who Touched The Sky" AKA Lewis Crathern. He was one of the first kiteboarders to break into the mainstream when he jumped over Worthing Pier in 2009 with his buddy Jake Scrace. A year later Lewis broke onto the world stage when he jumped over Brighton Pier in a...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Episode 19 - Lewis Crathern
Intriguing Beings Podcast - January 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week I'm chatting to the "Man Who Touched The Sky" AKA Lewis Crathern. He was one of the first kiteboarders to break into the mainstream when he jumped over Worthing Pier in 2009 with his buddy Jake Scrace. A year later Lewis broke onto the world stage when he jumped over Brighton Pier in a...
Intriguing Beings Podcast - Episode 18 - Dan Macaulay
Intriguing Beings Podcast - January 21, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week I'm chatting to Dan Macaulay, he's the founder of Brandwave Marketing and someone who truly knows what taking a leap of faith is all about. At the tender age of 24, Dan somehow landed himself the role of European Marketing Director for O'Neill. Arguably one of the best jobs in the indu...
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