Blue Planet Show- Wing Foil interviews

This is a list of all available Blue Planet Shows- Wing Foil focused long-form, in-depth interviews with foiling athletes, designers, thought-leaders: for all you hard-core foil-brained wing surfers out there:

You can watch the video version on YouTube or listen to the podcast by searching for "Blue Planet Show" on your podcast app, or using the embedded players below.

 

Season 1 (2021)

Episode 1: Zane Schweitzer

This long form interview with Zane Kekoa Schweitzer is the first episode of the Blue Planet show where I interview athletes, designers and thought leaders on the cutting edge of Wing Foiling. The interviews are recorded on Zoom with screen shared videos to go along with the conversation.

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Episode 2: Balz Müller

I speak with Wing Foil expert Balz Müller at his home in Switzerland by zoom call. Balz talks about his background, different sports, the evolution of wing foiling, competing in Brazil, technique, the future of the sport, gear and more.

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Episode 3: Alan Cadiz

Alan Cadiz has been a pioneer of the young sport of wing foiling and has some great stories to tell. Watch and listen to the third episode of the Blue Planet Show to find out how his neighbor Ken Winner developed an inflatable wing for downwind foiling. He talks about the latest Duotone Slick wing that will be available soon. Also lots of great technique and gear tips for experts, beginners and everyone in between.

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Episode 4: Annie Reickert

Welcome to the Blue Planet Wing Foil show, episode 4 with Annie Reickert, a talented young water woman from Maui.  Annie excels at surfing, big wave riding, foiling, and wing foiling.

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Episode 5: Rob Whittall

Rob Whittall is co founder and head designer at Ozone and a partner at Armstrong.  He talks about his background the Wasp V2 design, the Armstrong A+ system, and how to live a good life, enjoy!

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Episode 6: Sam Loader

Sam Loader is the owner of the Pacific Paddle company in Auckland New Zealand and the designer of the PPC wing, currently my favorite wing.

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Episode 7: Kane De Wilde

Kane De Wilde is on the leading edge of wing foiling as both athlete and designer.  Listen, learn, and apply it on the water!

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Episode 8: Glennel Jordan:

Whether it's swimming with sharks, wing foiling in big waves a day before giving birth, or "toiling" on smooth North Shore walls with her smooth and flowy foil surfing style, Glennel Jordan lives a full life and openly shares about her background, surf foil and wing foil technique and equipment, her Macaw, her husband Zack and baby Raven, adventures, stories and how she keeps a positive outlook.

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Episode 9: Gunnar Biniasch

Today's guest is Gunnar Biniasch who lives in Fuerteventura on the Canary islands, which are part of Spain, even though they're off the coast of Africa.  He's been creating YouTube videos for many years. He teaches wing foiling and runs the North Shore surf shop in Fuerteventura.

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Episode 10: Mark Raaphorst

Mark Raaphorst knows how to make boards that are both light and strong. After building SIC into an internationally known brand, he simplified his life and now runs a one man operation building high quality foil boards under his Flying Dutchman label. www.oneflyingdutchman.com

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Episode #11: Talking Story with the Oahu Crew

Video voiceover of some recent wing foil drone footage by our local crew of wing foilers: Jason, Daniel, Jeff, Jed and Robert. The drone footage is from three different wing foil surfing sessions in May and June 2021 here on Oahu. This show is also available as a audio only podcast, just search for "Blue Planet Show" in your favorite podcast app, this one is Season 1, Episode #11

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Episode #12: Titouan Galea

This interview is with the very first wing foil world champion, Titouan Galea from new Caledonia. If you're into wing foiling as much as I am, you've probably already seen the videos of him doing crazy moves on jumps, back flips on the face of the wave, big airs, riding big waves in New Caledonia and other places. Really impressive stuff. And of course also being able to pull these moves off under pressure during competition and winning the last couple of world championship events.  Titouan breaks down some of the most advanced moves for us, Step by step. We also talk about his background, how he grew up in new Caledonia and now lives in France and about his board, foils, wings and what the future holds for him.

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Episode #13: Damien Leroy and Gwen Le Tutour

Damien Leroy and Gwen Le Tutour have been on a roll, posting two great instructional videos per week and helping lots of people getting started in the sport.  They are humble but are clearly exceptional humans and motivated by a desire to help people.

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Episode #14: Kevin and Kaden Pritchard

Kevin Pritchard is a multiple time wind surf world champion. His brother Matt Pritchard's son, Kaden is 12 years old and he's only been winging for about a year. And he's already doing crazy moves: back flips and he's working on forward flips and he breaks down technique for me on the Flaka, which really helped me out too.

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Episode #15- Alex Aguera GoFoil

Alex is nutty about wing foiling. He's coming out with GoFoil Wing foil boards and wings. And of course he plays such an important role in the development of the sport. He basically invented the foil that allowed Kai Lenny to do downwinders on a big long board. And basically kick-started this whole sport of foiling in the surf and now with wings.

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Episode #16- Armie Armstrong Wing Foil interview

This interview is with none other than Armie Armstrong, the founder of Armstrong foils. It's amazing how he built a business in just a few years from a few prototypes to one of the biggest manufacturers in the world of foiling and a wing foiling equipment.

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Season 2 (2022)

Episode #17: Wing Foiling in onshore wind and more tips

Welcome to the second season of the Blue Planet Show. In this episode, Eli, Derek, Koa, Lucas and Robert talk about wing handling in onshore waves, jumping off the lip and landing back in the wave, back loops, getting up on foil, equipment tips, and tips for beginners and those getting started. There are some great tips for all levels of wing foilers.

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Season 2, Episode 18:

Alan Cadiz comes back to the Blue Planet Show for this interview where we start with very basic beginner tips, the top five tips for beginners, and then we get into more advanced technique, racing and equipment as well.

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Season 2, Episode 19:

Adrian Roper, the man behind AXIS foils. We get into some tips for beginners, talk about his background and how he got into watersports at a young age, and then we talk in detail about foil design, how to set up the foil properly, how different aspects of the foil setup affect how the foil performs, new designs he is working on, the mast, importance of stiffness, the fuselage, the angles of the foil. So many cool technical things. I learned a lot from this show. I hope you do as well. This Axis Foil brochure has the shim guide Adrian mentions on pages 41,42: http://www.axisfoils.com/current-brochure

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Season 2, Episode 20:

In this conversation Clifford Coetzer, the founder and designer at Unifoil goes over tips for wing foil beginners, his background, how he started making foils and started Unifoil, foil design evolution, construction, stiffness, tradeoffs, testing prototypes, foil characteristics, and more, I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did, thank you for your comments, and positive feedback on the show and a big Mahalo to all Blue Planet customers for your support and for making this possible.

For more information on Unifoil, please visit: https://www.uni-foil.com

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Season 2, Episode 21:

Sam Loader is back for another interview and a lot has happened over the last year. We go into details on his foil board designs and construction, wings and soon to come: foils. We also discuss the foiling scene in New Zealand, COVID, his business and shop, and more. I have been testing the PPC Soar board and give my impressions as well. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did, Aloha! 

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Foil Surfing Contest interview: Jason Tangalin and Pono Matthews- Foil Fever on the Blue Planet Show

Jason Tangalin and Pono Matthews and the Foil Fever Ohana organized the Foilers of Aloha Classic foil contest on Kauai, held on Nov. 26th, 2022. The event was blessed with great conditions, a stoked community of foilers and next level performance in the waves.

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Season 2, Episode 23

Wing Foil interview with Mike's Lab- Mike and Stefano on the Blue Planet Show

Mike Zajicek and Stefano Moris make some of the world's fastest foils. When I researched their foils to use for wing foiling, I could not find much information online. After many months of waiting, they were finally able to make time for an interview. The timing was great since I just received the 600 Mike's lab Foil from them that I ordered months ago. We talk about their background, how they started designing and making foils and go into detail on their foil design theories and construction. For more information on their foils, please visit: http://www.mikeslab.com

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Season 2, Episode 24

Ken Winner on the Blue Planet Show

Ken Winner, wing foil designer extraordinaire talks about his background as a pro windsurfer and how he became a designer at Duotone and developed the first inflatable handheld wing for foiling.  At first there was little interest in his invention but once a few people tried it, the sport of wing foiling really took off. Don't miss the last part of the interview where Ken screen shares his latest wing designs and goes into details you won't find elsewhere.

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Season 3 (2023)

Episode 25

Today's guest is James Casey, who also has a great podcast, the Casey Catchup. He's an amazing athlete, holds the record for the most kilometers foiled in one day and is the 2019 M2O champion (solo SUP). He's a great coach for anyone who wants to get into downwind foiling and he also invented the sport of winging upwind and then deflating and foiling downwind. We talk about his background, the Molokai to Oahu race to be held on July 30th, 2023, board and foil design, and more.

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Season 3, Episode 26

Jimmy Lewis got started at a young age shaping surfboards and then moved to Maui where he got into making windsurf boards and he was making windsurf speed needles for some of the fastest sailors in the world at speed sailing events in the 1980s and 90s. Then he got into kite surfing and kite boards, and then standup paddle boards, and now foil boards.

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Season 3, Episode 27: 

Olivia Piana is a world class athlete in many watersports. We talk about her journey, the M2O race next month and more...

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Season 3, Episode 28:

This Blue Planet Show is a recap of the Voyager X Wet Feet downwind race here on Oahu. It was probably the biggest foil race we’ve had here on Oahu anyways, maybe anywhere. I’m talking with Brian Tricario and Derek Hamasaki who finished first and second in this race, in the wing foil division.

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Season 3, Episode 29:

Today's show is not an interview, but rather a recap where I talk about my experience at the Molokai to Oahu race and what I heard from other competitors at the race.

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Season 3, Episode 30:

I've been trying for a long time to get the Spencer brothers to come on the show and I finally met up with them after the Molokai To Oahu race and I got them both on the show today. Finn recently won the Maui to Molokai race and the Molokai to Oahu race, even though he had a major infection on his foot. So congrats on that. And they are both amazing athletes, not just in wing foiling, but also downwind foiling, prone foiling, surfing.

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