Podcasts about GWA

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA podcast is the renowned psychologist Lisa Wenger, who is also – very excitingly – the niece of the artist we are going to be discussing today: Meret Oppeheim! Having collected and copied thousands of letters, notes, and documents from acquaintances of the German-Swiss artist – famed for her paintings, sculptures, collages, and more, who was commonly associated with the Surrealists – Wenger is something of a world expert on her aunt. The author and co-author of numerous books, including the award-winning “do not wrap words in poisonous letters” as well as “Meret Oppenheim - My Album” - Wenger is also responsible for updating the catalogue raisonne of her aunt, and co-running the estate, which has of late seen Oppenheim have major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, and others that has put the trailblazing artist firmly in the spotlight. Born in 1913 in Berlin, at the inception of the first world war, Oppenheim was raised with her maternal grandmother in Switzerland. An interest in Jung as a teenager led to her life-long fascination with dreams, informing her art practice and involvement with the surrealists, who she met in Paris after venturing there aged 18 in the 1930s. Here, she created some of her most iconic artworks, such as the fur-lined teacup and saucer which she called Object (1936), that attracts as it does repulses and still divides opinion today, and ‘my nurse', a pair of white high-heeled shoes turned upside-down to evoke a chicken on a tray, which plays with gender stereotypes, femininity and the domestic sphere. But, with the outbreak of the second world war, it was back to Switzerland, which proved to be a very different environment to Paris… But, never not creating, Oppenheim made dream-like paintings, sculptures, and collages that reflected her dreams, as well as a woman stifled by her lack of freedom. Over the decades, Oppenheim built up a output that would become some of the most pioneering in Europe, after all, she said: “nobody will give you freedom, you have to take it” Today, I meet Lisa in Casa Constanza, in Carona, surrounded by Meret's possessions and spirit - and ahead of the new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth (4 June – 19 July 2025). Let's find out more! https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/meret-oppenheim/ -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.famm.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/famm_mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Mikaela Carmichael Music by Ben Wetherfield

We're thrilled to kick off our new role as the official podcast of the Surf Foil World Tour (SFT)! In this episode, we sit down with Jørgen Vogt and Tom Hartmann, the masterminds behind the SFT, a groundbreaking world tour for non-wind-powered foiling disciplines. From its roots in the GKA (Kite World Tour) and GWA (Wing Foil World Tour) to embracing pump foiling, surf foiling, and more, Jørgen and Tom share how the SFT is uniting passionate amateurs and pros alike, fostering a vibrant foiling community. This chat dives into the tour's grassroots vibe and big ambitions.In this episode, you'll discover:SFT's Origin Story: How a 2019 Cape Town car chat sparked a new tour, building on Jørgen's GKA success and Tom's windsurf tour experience.Five Core Disciplines: Pump foiling, surf foiling, downwind foiling, e-foiling, and wake foiling—accessible sports for lake lovers, yacht owners, and wave chasers.Grassroots Appeal: Why the SFT's Pro-Am approach welcomes enthusiasts, not just pros, fostering friendships and community at events like Pensacola and Sicily.Global Growth: From Düsseldorf's indoor World Cup to North America's rising demand, with the Atlanta Foil Fast World Cup (June 13-15, 2025) on the horizon.Event Challenges: Navigating financial hurdles and explaining niche foiling to sponsors, unlike the established GKA and GWA tours.Jørgen & Tom's Partnership: A chance meeting at a Mauritius Kite World Cup party led to a dynamic duo driving foiling's future.Community Impact: How SFT events, like Sicily's Water Experience, invite newcomers to try foiling, sparking passion across generations.Check out the SFT at https://www.surffoilworldtour.com/ for event schedules and details. Join the foiling community and catch the Atlanta Foil Fest World Cup vibe!

In this episode, we chat with Lukas Lam, a rising wing foiling star from Austria, whose meteoric rise with Duotone has taken him to the GWA Wingfoil World Tour. From learning to wing foil to impress his girlfriend to landing backflips in months, Lukas shares his journey of passion and perseverance alongside his pro wing foiler partner. Hear about his freestyle tricks, coaching kids in Greece, and chasing big air dreams.In this episode, you'll discover:Unlikely Start: How a former ice hockey player from Hong Kong dove into wing foiling in 2022 via his girlfriend's windsurfing family.Fast Progress: Mastering tricks like frontside 360s and backflips with a gymnastics edge and relentless drive.Duotone Deal: Landing a sponsorship through a chance meeting with a kitesurfer in Austria.World Tour Path: Qualifying for Leucate, France, with video submissions for the GWA tour.Malta Training: Thriving on a rocky island with 20-knot winds and gnarly waves, training with his girlfriend.Coaching Kids: Teaching at the Duotone Pro Center and Board Academy's 10-day camps in Limnos, Greece.Big Air Goals: Aiming for 14-15 meter jumps in the Canary Islands' Big Air event, with safe landing tips.Life Off-Water: Juggling international relations studies, weight training, and Malta's nightlife.Follow Lukas on Instagram at @_lukaslam and explore the Duotone Pro Center and Board Academy at boardacademy.bg for wing foiling camps in Greece.Watch the full episode on YouTube

Rozmowa Sławomira Kosielińskiego z Maciejem Włodarczykiem w ramach cyklu #rozmowywszechnicy [25 kwietnia 2025 r.]Z Maciejem Włodarczykiem, kierownikiem Ośrodka Rozwoju Systemów UTM i Operacji Bezzałogowych Statków Powietrznych w Polskiej Agencji Żeglugi Powietrznej rozmawia Sławomir Kosieliński, prezes Fundacji Instytut Mikromakro, organizator XII Droniady GZM.Drony są częścią rolnictwa 3:0 polegającym na nalotach i tworzeniu mapy, aby wiedzieć, co dzieje się na polu. Obecnie wchodzimy w rolnictwo 4:0, erę sztucznej inteligencji i technologii teleinformatycznych. Gwałtowny rozwój dotyczy nie tylko platform latających, ale też sensorów i jednostek obliczeniowych. To sprawia, że pozyskujemy ogromną ilość danych, z których możemy wyciągnąć wiele różnych informacji o uprawach. Drony w rolnictwie same się nie przyjmą. Mogą stanowić użyteczne narzędzie dla rolnika, ale tylko razem z innymi technologiami. To musi być układ naczyń połączonych z innymi technologiami używanymi w gospodarstwie. O dronach trzeba myśleć kompleksowo jako część systemu informatyczno–robotyczne­go. Na to nakładają się problemy techniczne i prawne. Duże drony, podlegają wymogom wyposażenia w spadochron i system rozłączający zasilanie. To nie ma sensu pod kątem normalnego wykorzystania i zwiększenia kontroli bez­pieczeństwa. Drony opryskowe latające do 5 m nad ziemią, raczej nie zdążą rozłożyć spadochronu w przypadku awarii.Porozmawiajmy właśnie o bezpieczeństwie i aspektach prawnych lotów poza miastem. O nowych maszynach rolniczych, czyli dronach. O roli samorządu gminnego w ich popularyzacji przy współpracy z Polską Agencją Żeglugi Powietrznej. Co mogą drony nad polami i jak z nich mądrze korzystać?Jeśli chcesz wspierać Wszechnicę w dalszym tworzeniu treści, organizowaniu kolejnych #rozmówWszechnicy, możesz:1. Zostać Patronem Wszechnicy FWW w serwisie https://patronite.pl/wszechnicafwwPrzez portal Patronite możesz wesprzeć tworzenie cyklu #rozmowyWszechnicy nie tylko dobrym słowem, ale i finansowo. Będąc Patronką/Patronem wpłacasz regularne, comiesięczne kwoty na konto Wszechnicy, a my dzięki Twojemu wsparciu możemy dalej rozwijać naszą działalność. W ramach podziękowania mamy dla Was drobne nagrody.2. Możesz wspierać nas, robiąc zakupy za pomocą serwisu Fanimani.pl - https://tiny.pl/wkwpkJeżeli robisz zakupy w internecie, możesz nas bezpłatnie wspierać. Z każdego Twojego zakupu średnio 2,5% jego wartości trafi do Wszechnicy, jeśli zaczniesz korzystać z serwisu FaniMani.pl Ty nic nie dopłacasz!3. Możesz przekazać nam darowiznę na cele statutowe tradycyjnym przelewemDarowizny dla Fundacji Wspomagania Wsi można przekazywać na konto nr:33 1600 1462 1808 7033 4000 0001Fundacja Wspomagania WsiZnajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historiahttps://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-naukahttps://wszechnica.org.pl/#rozmowywszechnicy #drony #droniada #nauka #technologia #lotnictwo #bezpieczeństwo #obronność

On this episode, we sit down with 17-year-old wing foiling sensation Ancor Sosa from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, whose infectious passion for wind sports has taken him from windsurfing at age seven to competing on the global stage of the GWA Wing Foil World Tour. Ancor shares his journey through windsurfing, kiting, and wing foiling, revealing the grit, family support, and island lifestyle that fuel his rise. From landing double flaccas to recovering from a meniscus injury, this episode dives into the highs and lows of chasing tricks, waves, and podiums in one of the world's fastest-evolving water sports.In this episode, you'll discover:Island Roots: How growing up in Fuerteventura with parents running a windsurfing school gave Ancor a head start, learning to windsurf on wooden masts and braving side-onshore winds as a kid.Sport Evolution: Ancor's transition from freestyle windsurfing on the European tour to kiting's big air thrills and wing foiling's explosive growth, blending the best of both worlds.Trick Progression: Insights into mastering funnels, forward loops, and pushing for 1440s, plus Ancor's secret trick he's been dialing in for months.Injury Comeback: The mental and physical challenges of recovering from a knee injury in time for a GWA event in Brazil, and how it taught him to train smarter with gym work and physio.Global Tour Life: Stories from competing in New Zealand's inaugural GWA event, surviving Cape Verde's gnarly Ponta Preta waves, and racing indoors in Germany's first-ever wing foiling pool event.Family and Sponsors: The pivotal role of Ancor's sister Zoe, who films his viral Instagram reels, and the support from Cabrinha, Dakine, and the Canary Islands community.Future Goals: Ancor's plans to dominate the GWA tour, chase new wave and freestyle disciplines, and enjoy some cheese while competing in France.Follow Ancor's journey on Instagram at @ancor_sosa, check out his sister's videography at @soka_photos, and see her kiting adventures at @zoesosakite.Watch the full episode on YouTube

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - While she recognizes DRIPA as a valuable document, MLA Anna Kindy recently informed the SRD Board that she does not support ‘article 26.' The topic came up when she took part in the May 26 Board meeting.  Kindy began by stating, “ Part of the reason I'm here is to actually learn how things are run.  I'm not going to pretend I know everything, far from it.  It's a steep learning curve, but my motivation is to truly represent my constituents. I ran for a party, but I'm apolitical now that I am an MLA,  I just look at issues separately and try to bring people's voices to the legislature, to whoever it needs to be brought to.  I'm not a public speaker by nature, but I do answer questions very readily, so I'm just going to pass it over to you guys if you have any questions." Regional Director Mark Vonesch, of Cortes Island, responded,  “My question is about Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People's Act (DRIPA). During the election, your leader spoke about dropping it and since then, members of your party have denied the graves that have been found in some residential schools. That's raised a lot of concern and I'm just wondering if you could comment on that.” Anna Kindy:  “Okay, first of all, let's go back to the first question, DRIPA. You have to look at unintended consequences of every bill that passes. UNDRIP is from the United Nation and we are the only, and I will repeat the only jurisdiction worldwide that has adopted it word per word (as DRIPA).” “Most of DRIPA is fine, I'm a hundred percent for economic reconciliation. What we've done is terrible and we need to reconcile what we've done. It's about treaties, it's about economic reconciliation. What DRIPA does, if you look at section 26,  there's a question of what will be the private property rights of every British Columbian.” Article 26 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired. 2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired. 3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the Indigenous peoples concerned. Anna KIndy:  “The entire aspect of crown land will be under the jurisdiction of 4% of the population potentially to make decisions and I am of the opinion that we all have equal rights. We are all Canadian.”  “Economic reconciliation means that we need to make sure that we lift First Nations out of poverty.  In this region, what that means is to support industries that are lifting them out of poverty. I'm an addiction doctor. If you look at the GNN nation (Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations), they had 10 or 11 overdoses and suicides in a two month period in 2024. So this is urgent, I don't talk about semantics.” “The issue is section 26. This is in a democracy and we're an equal society, we all should have the same rights.” 

Gwałtowne reakcje nieadekwatne do sytuacji? A może wręcz przeciwnie – brak reakcji i wycofanie w sytuacji, w której należałoby postawić granice? Każdy z nas ma określony mechanizm reagowania, ale nie każdy wie z czego on wynika i w jaki sposób na niego wpływać. Tymczasem proces głębszego zrozumienia siebie to najskuteczniejsza droga do trwałych zmian w sposobie myślenia, odczuwania i funkcjonowania w świecie. Terapia psychodynamiczna pomaga rozpoznać, a następnie zrozumieć tłumione emocje oraz inne nieuświadomione bodźce (także te z okresu dzieciństwa), które mogą wpływać na nasze dzisiejsze zachowania i samopoczucie. Celem terapii psychodynamicznej jest przepracowanie ukrytych mechanizmów psychicznych. Czym terapia psychodynamiczna różni się od innych metod terapeutycznych? Jak rozwijał się ten nurt i jakie są jego korzenie? Co na temat skuteczności tej terapii mówią badania naukowe? Do kogo jest skierowana i jakie trudności pomaga pokonać? Temat przybliżą psycholożki i psychoterapeutki: dr Marta Porębiak oraz prowadząca webinar Zofia Szynal. Kiedy zgłaszamy się do psychoterapeutki lub psychoterapeuty, chcielibyśmy mieć pewność, że metody i techniki, które nam zaproponują, są oparte na badaniach, a ich skuteczność w terapii konkretnego zaburzenia lub procesu psychologicznego została potwierdzona. I dlatego istotne jest, aby sięgać po psychoterapię, która opiera się na podstawach naukowych. O psychoterapii opartej na dowodach naukowych rozmawiamy w cyklu spotkań “Psychoterapia oparta na nauce”. Strefa Psyche Uniwersytetu SWPS to projekt popularyzujący wiedzę psychologiczną na najwyższym merytorycznym poziomie oraz odkrywający możliwości działania, jakie daje psychologia w różnych sferach życia zarówno prywatnego, jak i zawodowego. Projekt obejmuje działania online, których celem jest umożliwienie rozwoju każdemu, kto ma taką potrzebę lub ochotę, niezależnie od miejsca, w którym się znajduje. Więcej o projekcie: https://web.swps.pl/strefa-psyche

In this episode of The Daily Windup, we have Likia Hawkins talk about her plans for the future and her strategies for growth. She explains that her current focus is on pursuing government contract vehicles, such as GWA contract vehicles, and winning single award contracts to align with their capability as a prime contractor. She also emphasize the importance of talent acquisition and building a dynamic culture that cultivates intellectual and independent thought. She also discusses their approach to strategic teaming and partnership, highlighting the criteria they use to select partners based on their core capabilities and the agencies they want to compete with. She stresses the importance of creating an environment where both companies thrive and put some skin in the game for the teaming partner. This episode provides valuable insights into strategic teaming and pursuing government contract vehicles, listen now!

Justin Trudeau, symbol liberalizmu ostatniej dekady, rezygnuje z funkcji premiera Kanady. To koniec pewnej ery, a może nawet upadek szerszej wizji liberalnego świata. Michał Płociński wraz z Jędrzejem Bieleckim analizują przyczyny tej rezygnacji, jej symboliczne znaczenie oraz przyszłość Kanady na tle zmian w globalnej polityce. Po niemal dekadzie u władzy Justin Trudeau ogłasza swoją rezygnację. Powody? Gwałtowne spadki poparcia, wewnętrzne naciski koalicyjnych partnerów oraz symboliczne upokorzenie podczas spotkania z Donaldem Trumpem, który publicznie określił Kanadę „51. stanem USA”. – Trudeau chciał ratować Kanadę przed wojną handlową z Trumpem, ale jego liberalne ideały przegrały z rzeczywistością – zauważa Jędrzej Bielecki, dziennikarz działu zagranicznego „Rzeczpospolitej”. Liberalny eksperyment Justina Trudeau – dlaczego się nie udał? Kanada pod rządami Trudeau stała się laboratorium wielokulturowości i otwartości. Przyjęcie setek tysięcy migrantów, w tym Syryjczyków i Ukraińców, oraz ambitna polityka klimatyczna zderzyły się jednak z rosnącą inflacją, drożyzną i pogłębiającym się poczuciem braku bezpieczeństwa wśród Kanadyjczyków. – Kanada to kraj bez silnej tożsamości, w którym napięcia między wizją a rzeczywistością są coraz wyraźniejsze – komentuje Bielecki. Obecna sytuacja w Kanadzie wskazuje na możliwość politycznego zwrotu. Pierre Poilievre, lider konserwatystów, stawia na radykalne zmiany: wzrost wydobycia surowców, zaostrzenie polityki migracyjnej i większą integrację imigrantów z anglosaską kulturą. Czy Kanada stanie się bardziej konserwatywna, a liberalne wartości Trudeau odejdą w niepamięć? Liberalizm przegrywa na całym Zachodzie Upadek Justina Trudeau to także sygnał zmian na całym Zachodzie. – Kanada, symbol otwartości i globalizacji, pokazała, że ludzi bardziej interesuje codzienny poziom życia niż idealistyczne wizje – ocenia Bielecki. Podobne trendy widać w USA, gdzie Donald Trump wraca na polityczną scenę, oraz w Europie, gdzie populistyczne ruchy rosną w siłę. Jak zauważa Bielecki, decyzja Trudeau zbiegła się z powrotem Donalda Trumpa do władzy. – To symboliczne zwycięstwo Trumpa, który jeszcze przed swoją inauguracją pokazał, jak skutecznie podważać idee liberalizmu – dodaje. Czy koniec ery Trudeau to ostateczny cios dla liberalizmu? Czy Kanada poradzi sobie z nowymi wyzwaniami? I co ta zmiana oznacza dla reszty świata? Posłuchaj, aby dowiedzieć się więcej o politycznych zawirowaniach za oceanem.

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On this Christmas Day Special, Marley Franco joins us from Maui, Hawaii to talk about:- The North Next Gen program- How he learned a lot about ocean safety and skills from mentors at North- Growing up in Maui was a unique ocean culture experience- The North team feels like a family, providing support and encouragement- Big plans for 2025, including big wave surfing and GWA events- The surfing community fosters positivity and growth among athletes- His Passions - Including Skiing and mountain biking- Family plays a crucial role in introducing sports to children- North Equipment is known for its quality and innovation- Safety training is essential for big wave surfers Visit: North Next Gen ProgramVisit: https://www.instagram.com/gnarly.marley/Visit: https://www.bwrag.com/ This episode is brought to you by SeaZen Wind, Wellness & Water. Visit: https://winglifepodcast.com/bonaire-may-2025 to get started. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/beach-partyLicense code: EPGKGAXD2P8WQYQG ★ Support this podcast ★

Jo Ciastula, commentator for the GWA Wingfoil World Tour & GKA Kite World Tour joins us to talk about:- How he found wind, where he grew up & what being born into a wind family was like- His GKA competition days- How he got started with the GWA & GKA- How he started his career of commentating/emceeing- His insights behind the scenes at the GWA and what that means for the sport- Favourite tour stops- Safety considerations, younger competitors- and much more. Visit: https://www.instagram.com/jociastula/Support our show: https://buymeacoffee.com/winglifepodcast This episode is brought to you by SeaZen Wind, Wellness & Water. Visit: https://winglifepodcast.com/bonaire-may-2025 to get started. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/beach-partyLicense code: EPGKGAXD2P8WQYQG ★ Support this podcast ★

Wykład Jarosława Urbańskiego w ramach cyklu „Hodowla przemysłowa: Biznes, środowisko, zdrowie, prawa zwierząt”, Fundacja Wspomagania Wsi, 26 września 2020 [0h31min] https://wszechnica.org.pl/wyklad/fermy-chowu-przemyslowego-w-ujeciu-spoleczno-ekonomicznym/ Jarosław Urbański z Zachodniego Ośrodka Badań Społecznych i Ekonomicznych przedstawia w nagraniu, jak według badań socjologicznych Polacy postrzegają fermy przemysłowe. Wskazuje również, czy powstanie takiej inwestycji będzie korzystne z punktu widzenia budżetu gminy, gdzie ma zostać zlokalizowana. Wykład stanowi pierwszą część cyklu „Hodowla przemysłowa: Biznes, środowisko, zdrowie, prawa zwierząt”, w ramach którego będziemy mówić o różnych aspektach związanych z chowem przemysłowym. Gwałtowny wzrost konsumpcji mięsa od lat 60. przekłada się na sposób hodowli zwierząt. Na całym świecie postępuje koncentracja produkcji zwierzęcej w gospodarstwach o skali przemysłowej, znikają natomiast niegdyś liczne, małe i średnie hodowle. Trend ten można zaobserwować również w Polsce. Przekłada się to na strukturę zatrudnienia mieszkańców wsi, gdzie coraz mniej osób pracuje w sektorze rolnym, coraz więcej natomiast w innych gałęziach gospodarki – także w mieście. Jarosław Urbański opisuje w trakcie wykładu wyniki badań socjologicznych, które oddają odczucia, jakie budzą wśród Polaków fermy przemysłowe. Prelegent skupia się szczególnie na opiniach mieszkańców wsi. Wynika z nich, że sąsiedztwo gospodarstw chowu przemysłowego budzi wśród nich liczne obawy. Liczba zwolenników i przeciwników funkcjonowania ferm przemysłowych rozkłada się jednak wśród mieszkańców wsi mniej więcej po równo. Inaczej niż w przypadku ankietowanych pochodzących z miast, gdzie przeciwnicy zdecydowanie przeważają. Prelegent prezentuje również dane dotyczące struktury wpływów z podatków PIT i CIT, które ściągają gminy wiejskie i miejsko-wiejskie. Zważywszy na środowiskowe koszty lokalizacji przedsiębiorstw chowu przemysłowego, każą one poddać w wątpliwość opłacalność lokalizacji tego rodzaju inwestycji. Jarosław Urbański – socjolog, aktywista związany ze środowiskiem poznańskiego Rozbratu, działacz Ogólnopolskiego Związku Zawodowego „Inicjatywa Pracownicza”, autor książek “Globalizacja a konflikty lokalne” (2002), “Odzyskać miasto” (2005), “Prekariat i nowa walka klas” (2014) Znajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/ https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/ https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historia https://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-nauka https://wszechnica.org.pl/ #drób #fermy #wieś #rolnictwo #polskawieś #fermydrobiu #zwierzęta #ekonomia #środowisko #mięso #hodowla #przemysł #socjologia

Tom, tour manager of the GWA, joins us to recap their recent wave event in Dakhla Morocco. We talked about: The event site and Dakhla as a promising location for Wing FoilingThe competition format & overview of the eventNew emerging talents that are making their mark in the sportThe demand for competition spots is increasing significantly worldwideRules regarding the use of wings during airs are under discussion for wave eventsVideo applications - Unedited footage is essential for accurate judging & drone footageThe future of wing foiling competitions looks promising. The selection process for events includes wild cards.Female participation in wing foiling is on the rise, especially on tour. Events positively impact local tourism and community engagement.Cultural interactions enhance the experience for athletes.Emerging organizations are supporting grassroots foiling initiatives.Visit: https://www.wingfoilworldtour.com/events/gwa-wingfoil-world-cup-morocco-2024/ This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

Our guest for this episode of Ford the Rock is Jennifer Spencer, a principal at Studio GWA. Jennifer grew up just outside of Madison, WI. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota and received her graduate degree from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Upon graduation, Jen accepted a position working for Rockford architect Gary Anderson. We'll discuss her love of Rockford and GWA's current work, including the Rockford Public Library. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edward-mccullough/support

Yann Rifflet, PRO Windsurfer & Content Creator joins us to talk about, His entry into water sports as a competitive windsurfer and wing foiling for the first timeHis lifestyle -- living in France and Brazil, enjoying the perfect conditions for windsurfing and wing foiling with his wife.His sponsorship with Duotone and the creation of this YouTube channel. The evolution of equipment technology in wing foiling, including the development of high-modulus (HM) masts that offer better performance and lighter weight. The Parawing is a new concept that combines elements of wing foiling and downwinders. We discuss the potentials of this new sport and how we think it will evolve. Upcoming trips to Dakhla, South Morocco for the Kite and Connect event, and to Brazil for a GWA competition.The different equipment options from Duotone and the importance of making the sport accessible to riders of all levels.Visit: https://www.instagram.com/yannriffletfreerider/ This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

On this episode, Josh joins us from his home in Fehmarn, Germany, to talk about: His entry into water sports: Stand-up paddling and windsurfingHis first foiling flights and his transition to Wing FoilingHis big goal of becoming the German under-19 German champion in wing foiling and what it felt like to accomplish it. His sponsorships with Elevate and A3DHis local competitions and hopes to compete in the GWA next yearFront flips, back flips, and 720sand Much More!Visit: https://www.instagram.com/joshmry/ This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

Wir sprechen über Ruslans harte Rückkehr nach Basel und seine neuen Erkenntnisse.

Gwałt, alkohol, ataki paniki, depresja. Aneta Wrzosek z Berlina przeżyła to wszystko, ale udało jej się pokonać swoje demony. O terapii, która trwała prawie 20 lat, opowiada w książce „Pożegnanie z ofiarą”. „Chciałam dać wsparcie osobom, które zmagają się z doświadczeniem traumy” - mówi autorka w szczerej rozmowie z Maciejem Wiśniewskim. KONTAKT: cosmopopolsku@rbb-online.de STRONA: http://www.wdr.de/k/cosmopopolsku BĄDŹ NA BIEŻĄCO: https://www.facebook.com/cosmopopolsku Von Maciej Wisniewski.

„Gerade für Kreative ist ein AfD-geprägtes Umfeld extrem unattraktiv. Wir sehen, wie Fachkräfte abwandern, und das bedroht nicht nur unsere Agentur, sondern die gesamte Kreativszene in Ostdeutschland.“ In dieser Folge von #WhatsNextAgencies spricht Kim Alexandra Notz mit Ulrike Lerchl, CEO der ältesten inhabergeführten Agentur Sachsens, Oberüber Karger, über die Herausforderungen, die die bevorstehende Landtagswahl am 1. September für die Kreativbranche in Ostdeutschland mit sich bringt. Die politische Landschaft in Sachsen, in der jeder Dritte AfD wählt, stellt nicht nur die Gesellschaft, sondern auch die Agenturwelt vor große Aufgaben. Ulrike Lerchl berichtet über die Kampagne #stabilbleiben, die ihre Agentur ins Leben gerufen hat, um dem wachsenden Einfluss der AfD entgegenzuwirken und den Stolz auf das seit der Wende 1990 Erreichte zu betonen. Gerade in Zeiten, in denen die politische Stimmung rauer wird, ist es für sie und ihr Team wichtiger denn je, Haltung zu zeigen und für eine stabile und demokratische Zukunft zu kämpfen. Ziel der Kampagne ist es, junge Menschen und Nichtwähler*innen zu mobilisieren, ihr Kreuz bewusst zu setzen und so zur Stabilität in Sachsen beizutragen. Ulrike teilt auch ihre Gedanken über die Zukunft der Agenturen in Ostdeutschland, die Herausforderungen, Kund*innen außerhalb der Region zu gewinnen und wie wichtig es ist, den spezifischen regionalen Kontext zu verstehen und zu nutzen. Sie spricht über die Initiative „Ideenplanet Ost“, die den kreativen Austausch und die Zusammenarbeit zwischen ostdeutschen Agenturen fördert und wie diese Initiative dazu beiträgt, das Image des Ostens als kreativer Hotspot zu stärken.

Yunche collapsed from chronic stress while five months pregnant with her second daughter, leading to a mock stroke. This life-altering event ignited her passion for understanding the core factors behind chronic diseases and wellness. In 2018, she and her family embarked on an extraordinary adventure, leaving the U.S. to travel the world with just four suitcases and four backpacks. Their journey has taken them to 12 countries, reinforcing her belief that travel and freedom are non-negotiable aspects of life. Join us to find out how she found her path to healing. 00:00 Introduction 01:06 Collapsed at five months pregnant 05:20 Sell everything and move 06:47 Detox 09:06 Move country to heal 12:10 No longer following societal norms 13:58 Detox details 17:13 Tip to heal stress Yunche´s Bio Currently serving as the CEO of Global Wellness Alliance, Yunche Wilson, over the past 18 years, has established herself as a seasoned management consultant specializing in B2B marketing, business development, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Her professional journey has included collaborations with industry giants like Microsoft, Indeed, HP, Hitachi, and UpWork, helping these organizations generate millions in revenue. As founder and CEO of Global Wellness Alliance, Yunche is dedicated to making wellness accessible for all. Her mission at GWA, is to connect individuals with modern and holistic care providers, offering a comprehensive online directory and educational resources. She lives by the philosophy that "you can't heal in the same environment that caused you trauma." This guiding principle drives her commitment to helping others find the right care and achieve true well-being. Connect with Yunche Wilson https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558154772271 https://www.instagram.com/the_globalwellnessalliance/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-wellness-alliance

Tom, tour manager of the GWA, joins us to recap:- The La Palma Youth World Cup (Surf-Freestyle, FreeFly-Slalom) - The Gran Canaria World Cup (Big Air)   - The Fuerteventura World Cup (FreeFly-Slalom, Surf-Freestyle)  - Double backflips, triple backflip combo's and more innovation moves- New Freefly-Slalom rules- and much more.Visit: https://www.wingfoilworldtour.com (00:00) - - Introduction and Overview (01:29) - - Conditions and Popular Destination for Water Sports (03:13) - - Competition Format and Scoring System (06:00) - - Standout Performers and Young Riders (08:11) - - Oran's Impressive Performance (09:14) - - Innovative Moves: Axel's Triple Combo Backflips (39:46) - - Freestyle World Cup: Impressive Tricks and Combos (47:30) - - Big Air World Cup: Massive Jumps and a Double Backflip (55:46) - - Youth World Championship: Showcasing Young Talent (01:09:03) - - Upcoming Events in Morocco and Brazil (01:14:36) - - The Importance of Training, Technique, and Controlled Landings (01:16:22) - - Exploring Technology in Kiteboarding (01:19:04) - - The Need for Soft Landings and Strong Equipment (01:20:24) - - Commending the Organizers for Successful and Inclusive Competitions This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

Cash joins us from home in Maui to talk about: - His life and childhood in Maui- How he found wind - Downwinding and teaching dad how to wing foil- His foil slide and wing drop at the first GWA wave event of the year- His current Armstrong setup - And more. Visit: https://www.instagram.com/cash_berzolla (00:00) - - Growing Up in Maui and Discovering Wing Foiling (02:22) - - Progression in Wing Foiling and Trying Different Wind Sports (09:52) - - Sponsorship with Armstrong and Favorite Gear Setup (15:04) - - The Opportunities and Flexibility of Wing Foiling (16:56) - - Advice for Getting Into Wing Foiling (24:59) - - Dealing with Injuries and Pushing Forward (25:57) - - Foiling and Safety Gear (27:20) - - Tips for Jumping High (28:48) - - The Water Sports Community (29:15) - - The Step One System by Armstrong (34:01) - - Focus on Downwind Racing (38:16) - - Challenges of Cold Water Sports (43:02) - - Recovery of Maui after the Fires This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

On this episode Tom joins us to recap the Surf Freestyle world cup in Tarifa, Spain. We talked about: Tarifa and its growing wing foil communityThe event, accommodations, the town, the ambiance and the nightlifeThe all-new innovation tricks What it takes to win an event - It's all about consistency. The Boom and Why it Is the New Standard for FreestyleWhy Shortboards with low swing weight are ideal for freestyle wing foiling.The event organizers in Tarifa did a great job, including activities focused on sustainability and community involvement.Upcoming events in La Palma and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands are highly anticipated.And more. Visit: https://www.wingfoilworldtour.com/events/gwa-wingfoil-world-cup-tarifa-2024/ (00:00) - - Intro (00:30) - - Upcoming Events and Canary Islands Leg (01:37) - - Recap of Tarifa Event (04:39) - - Level of Freestyle Tricks and Innovation (09:51) - - Event Setup and Duration (10:33) - - Impressive Performances by Young Athletes (10:58) - - Tarifa's Growing Wing Foiling Community (12:48) - - Where is Tarifa and what are the conditions like for wing foiling? (17:08) - - What were the accommodations like and where did everyone stay? (19:03) - - Highlights from Mens & Women's side - Xavi Corr ripping it up (24:28) - - Experience and Smart Comp Strategies - Chris & Nia (31:28) - - What were the conditions like for this contest? (32:43) - - Gear selection - Importance of Wings with Booms in Freestyle and Board / Foil Choices (35:43) - - How the GWA names the new innovation tricks, how they are categorized and how they are scored (42:53) - - How many athletes tried to get into this event? A break down of how you can qualify - Video Wild Cards (45:53) - - Organizers in Tarifa Excel, Promote Sustainability and Engage the next Generation of Youth (51:43) - - Excitement Builds for Upcoming Events in La Palma, Fuerteventura and Helping Youth Compete This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA podcast is one of the most exciting artists working in the world right now, Rose B Simpson. An artist working across mediums that span from sculpture to performance, painting and ceramics, Simpson is hailed for her life size clay figures which she adorns with a plethora of symbols, extended antennas and materials – from steel, beads, leather, and wood... She challenges the nature of sculpture in ways, as she has said, that “can transform my own reality”, and her figures appear to be imbued with spirituality. They have titles like Genesis, Guides, Heights and Vital Organ – accentuating the importance of the body and rituals. Simpson was born, and lives and works, in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, and grew up in a multigenerational, matrilineal lineage of artists working in clay, including her mother, whose work is grounded in Pueblo traditions. Her practice is informed by Indigenous tradition, as she has said: “The work represents my own journey, whether it is a psychological investigation or a new spiritual awareness, or practical…” A recipient of a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, and another MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2018, storytelling, history and making seems to be at the centre of her practice – something she has expanded on further with her artwork Maria – a black-on-black Lowrider 985 Chevrolet El Camino and artwork and named in honour of Native American artist Maria Martinez, which sits at the heart of her community in Espanola Valley – and I can't wait to find out more! LINKS: https://www.rosebsimpson.com/works https://jackshainman.com/artists/rose-b-simpson https://art21.org/artist/rose-b-simpson/ https://jessicasilvermangallery.com/rose-b-simpson/selected-works/ https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/rose-b-simpson-legacies/ -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.famm.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield

Tour manager, Tom Hartmann joins us to recap the GWA's 2nd tour stop of the 2024 season in Leucate, France. We talked about: An overview of Leucate, France as a travel destination The Tramontana winds that peaked at 60 + knotsTop new moves and the new young guns on the ladies and men's side The new format for the FreeFly Slalom and how it's going to change the name of the gameThe Nia and Chris show - How the winners of the event faired in the conditions And more. Visit: https://www.wingfoilworldtour.com/events/gwa-wingfoil-world-cup-france-2024/ This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

GWA tour manager Tom Hartmann joins us from his home in Mauritius to recap the first event of the 2024 GWA season at Punta Preta. We talked about: - Event highlights for both men and women- Cash's wing release in the final versus Malo- How wing foiling Punta Preta has progressed in 1 year with new gear selection- Top moves and Top wipeouts- Impressions from riders, organizers This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

Ps. 73 (1) Psalm Asafa. O, jak dobry jest Bóg dla Izraela, Dla tych, którzy mają czyste serca. (2) Co do mnie — prawie się potknąłem I niemal poślizgnąłem, (3) Bo zazdrościłem zuchwałym, Chciwym okiem zerkałem na pomyślność bezbożnych. (4) Oto żyją bez ograniczeń, Są zdrowi i zadbani, (5) Nie doświadczają znoju śmiertelnych, I — w odróżnieniu od zwykłych ludzi — nie spada na nich cios. (6) Dlatego pychę wkładają jak naszyjnik, Gwałt przywdziewają niczym szatę; (7) Jak czerń na bieli widać ich niegodziwość, Gdy prześcigają się w swoich zachciankach. (8) Szydzą i mówią złośliwie, Wyniośle grożą przemocą, (9) Ustami gotowi są pochłonąć niebo, A językiem zawojować ziemię. (10) Dlatego ich ludzie gromadzą się przy nich I dostarczają im wód obfitości. (11) Mówią też: W jaki sposób Bóg się na tym pozna? Skąd Najwyższy będzie o tym wiedział? (12) Oto jacy są bezbożni: Wciąż beztroscy i coraz bogatsi. (13) Czy więc nadaremnie zachowywałem czystość serca I w niewinności obmywałem ręce? (14) A przecież bywałem bity cały dzień I upominany każdego poranka! (15) Jednak gdybym stwierdził, że to było na darmo, To zdradziłbym ród Twoich dzieci! (16) Próbowałem to wszystko zrozumieć, Lecz okazało się to nazbyt trudne — (17) Aż przybyłem do Twojej świątyni I tam dałeś mi pojąć ich kres. (18) Rzeczywiście stawiasz ich na śliskim gruncie, Strącasz w szczęki potrzasku; (19) Jedna chwila i ich stan może budzić grozę, Mogą dojść do kresu, zginąć w przerażeniu — (20) Jak sennymi marami, gdy się człowiek budzi, Tak Ty, Panie, kiedy wstaniesz, wzgardzisz ich cieniami. (21) Gdy moje serce zalało się goryczą I kiedy w nerkach odczuwałem kłucie, (22) To byłem głupi i nierozumny, Byłem przed Tobą tępy jak zwierzę. (23) Przecież ja zawsze jestem z Tobą, Ty ująłeś moją prawicę, (24) Prowadzisz według swojej rady, A potem przyjmiesz mnie do chwały. (25) Kogóż ja mam w niebie, jeżeli nie Ciebie? Bez Ciebie nic też nie cieszy mnie na ziemi! (26) Choćby osłabło me ciało i serce, Bóg mą opoką, mym działem na wieki! (27) Bo zginą ci, którzy oddalają się od Ciebie, Zniszczysz wszystkich nie dochowujących Ci wiary. (28) A ja? Moim szczęściem jest być blisko Boga. W Panu, w JHWH, znalazłem schronienie I pragnę opowiadać o wszystkich Twoich dziełach. Nauczanie z dnia 17 marca 2024

Australia stoi w obliczu najgorszego od 17 lat kryzysu przystępności cenowej czynszów. Gwałtownie rosnące ceny czynszów przewyższają wzrost dochodów, mając negatywny wpływ na sytuację finansową miliona ludzi. Z najnowszego raportu PropTrack Rental Affordability wynika, że gospodarstwa domowe o średnim dochodzie wynoszącym 110 tysięcy dolarów rocznie mogą sobie pozwolić tylko na 39 % dostępnych nieruchomości do wynajęcia

Balz Müller is a Swiss waterman that competes both on the PWA and GWA. He joins us from Switzerland to talk about:- Winter winging, Down winding and foiling - Winter Mits and why the industry isn't mass producing them- Winter suits and how much they have progressed- Sharing his stoke for water sports with his growing family (expecting soon!) - His next adventures - and more Visit: https://www.instagram.com/radiculo/Watch Episode on Youtube or visit the Episode PageLike what we do? ★ Support this podcast ★Learn more about us & follow us on Instagram This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

We've been planning to sit down with Olivia ever since she did her world record downwind challenge, but we've never been able to make it work - she's so busy! This week was the week, even having to bail the first time because Liam was caught by the dreaded Covid...... A great chat was had though - as we'd suspected! Olivia runs us through the current goings on in her life including a very fun sounding trip to Tenerife to shoot with the AXIS crew. We catch up on the Downwind challenge she did last year and also hear some rather amusing stories about her time competing on the GWA events.... Another friend of the podcast is made - we look forward to hopefully bumping into Olivia somewhere in the world! If you like what we do, check out buymeacoffee.com/gfpodcast - we're aiming to get ourselves away on some specific trips this year to make sure we have some great people to chat to, and we'd appreciate all the support we can get to bring our ideas to life!

Sam Loader is the co-owner of PPC Foiling. Kiran Verma is a GWA tour competitor and PPC pro rider. They join us from their homes in New Zealand and Australia to chat about: - The story behind PPC- Their board and wing development - Sam's intro into wind sports and business - Kiran's season competing on the GWA Wave tour - and more. Visit: https://ppcfoiling.com/Watch Episode on Youtube or visit the Episode PageLike what we do? ★ Support this podcast ★Learn more about us & follow us on Instagram This episode is brought to you by the Wing Foil Expedition in La Ventana, Baja California Sur. Are you looking for an all-inclusive wing foiling adventure this January with oceanfront accommodations? Visit https://winglifepodcast.com/wing-foil-trips to learn more. ★ Support this podcast ★

Gemeinsam.Weststadt.Aktiv, kurz GWA ist ein Projekt der Caritas Südniedersachsen in Duderstadt. Als Treffpunkt diente bisher ein Bauwagen in der Kolpingstraße in Duderstadt. Da es im Herbst etwas kühler wurde, haben die Projektverantwortlichen nach einem neuen Treffpunkt für das Angebot gesucht. Gesucht, gefunden. Welche Lösung die Caritas nun realisieren wird, das verrät ihnen Katja Albrecht.

Na grudniowej Premierze Pisma porozmawialiśmy o tym, czy miejsce wyniesionych w naszej kulturze na piedestał związków partnerskich mają szansę zająć inne formy relacji i wspólnot. A jeśli tak – to jakie? I czy są one dobrą odpowiedzią na rosnącą w społeczeństwie samotność? Czy istnieje recepta na postępujący kryzys samotności? Nad tym właśnie zastanowiliśmy się 5 grudnia.  W rozmowie wzięli udział: Dr hab. Wojciech Kulesza, prof. SWPS – kierownik Katedry Psychologii Społecznej Uniwersytetu SWPS. Od lat bada „rozumienie się bez słów” oraz „nadawanie na tej samej fali”. Publikuje zarówno teksty naukowe (w czasopismach zachodnich), jak i popularnonaukowe („Polityka”, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, „Newsweek”). Dr Alicja Długołęcka – doktorka nauk humanistycznych, pedagożka, psychoterapeutka i wieloletnia edukatorka seksualna. Konsekwentnie od lat promuje wiedzę o seksualności i działa w zakresie profilaktyki zaburzeń w obszarze zdrowia seksualnego i reprodukcyjnego. Autorka wielu publikacji, działaczka w fundacjach zajmujących się tą tematyką. Patrycja Wieczorkiewicz – dziennikarka, feministka, redaktorka prowadząca w KrytykaPolityczna.pl. Absolwentka dziennikarstwa na Collegium Civitas i Polskiej Szkoły Reportażu. Współautorka książek „Gwałt polski” (z Mają Staśko) oraz „Przegryw. Mężczyźni w pułapce gniewu i samotności” (z Aleksandrą Herzyk). Debatę poprowadziła Justyna Dżbik-Kluge, dziennikarka radiowo-telewizyjna, autorka książek i podcastów. Wydarzenie powstaje we współpracy z Fundacją im. Heinricha Bölla i Kancelarią CMS. Debata odbywa się w STUDIO teatrgaleria. ----------------------------------- Kod na roczną prenumeratę ze zniżką dla słuchaczy podcastu Premiera Pisma PREMIERA do wykorzystania na magazynpismo.pl/prenumerata.

Kate Lister is President at Global Workplace Analytics where she is passionate about helping employers develop, deploy, and measure the results of remote and hybrid workplace strategies. Mike Petrusky invited Kate to join him on the show just days after returning from Denver, CO where they both took part in “The Big Debate: Which way should the pendulum swing?” with the Workplace Evolutionaries community. They agreed to take a more thoughtful, nuanced approach when discussing the impact of remote work and acknowledged that the problem facing companies is NOT a binary one and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Mike and Kate took a deeper dive into the challenges brought up in the debate, including the difficulty in measuring the impact of remote work on productivity, innovation, culture, and engagement. Kate believes that the evolution of work is just beginning and she challenges workplace leaders to remain curious, open to new ideas, and willing to experiment. Mike and Kate both emphasized the importance of adaptability and continuous learning, especially for facility management professionals, as they navigate the future of work and seek to be a Workplace Innovator in their organizations! Connect with Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/klister/ Learn more about GWA: https://globalworkplaceanalytics.com/ Explore the latest Eptura Workplace Index Report: https://lp.eptura.com/content-eptura-workplace-index-Q2.html Discover free resources and explore past interviews at: https://www.workplaceinnovator.com/ Learn more about Eptura™: https://eptura.com/ Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikepetrusky/  

ESOW 297 - Gwaˀyǫ́ge̱ha:ˀ (Rabbit Dance) as sung by Herb Dowdy. Recorded August 9, 1962 in Allegany by Dorothy Shipley Gaus.

ESOW 293 - Gwaˀyǫ́ge̱ha:ˀ (Rabbit Dance) as sung by Avery Jimerson, Richard Johnny-john, and Jack Preston. Recorded July 25, 1962) in Allegany. Recorded by Dorothy Shipley Gaus.

ESOW 291 - Gwaˀyǫ́ge̱ha:ˀ (Rabbit Dance) (F2017-Social) as sung by Akwesasne Men with Donovan Thompson leading. Recorded at Fall Sing Social at Oswę:geˀ in November 2017. Recorded and shared by Artie Martin.

Barbara JamesMa̲lidzasBarbara is Gwa'sala-‘Nakwaxda'XW from Port hardy, British Columbia.Barbara is a Red Seal Carpenter as well as an Instructor for the British Columbia institute of Technology. Barbara is an Advocate for indigenous people.Barbara has been sober since 11/18/2018, that's over 4 years.On this episode Barbara courageously shares her story for those still struggling. Support the show

PREVIEW  FULL AUDIO 30 MIN LONG  #F4F #NSFW #Demon #Succubus #Demoness #Masturbating #GentleFdom #Hypnosis #MindControl #Noncon #JOI #GuidedMasturbation #Reassurance #Supernatural #Horror #Narrative&Dialogue #wlw #Evil Script by CyborgFairy The listener is lost in the woods at night, following a dirt path in a desperate attempt to make it back to their campsite. They got lost spookily easily, and now things are getting worse for them. Soon the woods have them trapped as the branches grope their body, and a floating pair of green eyes appear in the sky. A voice controls guides them through masturbation as the listener is lulled into a fantasy world in which they are safe at home and listening to a NSFW audio on GWA. The script ends with the listener having masturbated to orgasm and the voice laughing evilly as they are trapped in their fantasy forever. TW: NonCon Support the show

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Episode 33 see's us trying something different again - we're doing live interviews now. But don't worry, we're just as bad at these as we are doing regular 'studio' recordings. Shaky microphones, loud noises and interuptions everywhere - those of you after prime audio will be spitting feathers! However, it only seemed right to get some wisdom from the Industry veterans on the beach in Littlehampton this weekend just gone, and try show you the listeners some insight into the inner workings of some of the brands we know and love. Today's episode Liam and I had a catch up on the goings on of the event we were at - IKSURF and Tonic Mag's demo weekend at Littlehampton on the south coast of the UK. We chat with Liam Dredge who is part of the GWA and GKA global events commentary team - he gives us a run through of life on the event calendar and what we can expect from them coming up. Good pal and UK Cabrinha rider Jack gives us a run down of his recent goings on and Tris from the OTC gives us some insight into the hot products coming out of Armstrong at the moment We hope you enjoy the spontaneity and spur of the moment questioning, because i've got another entire episode with some of the other faces and names from the weekends - working with brands you all know and love. Keep an eye out for that one very soon too!

If you're a coworking space owner, or thinking about starting one, attending a conference can be a great way to stay up-to-date with the latest trends and developments in the industry. But how do you measure the return on investment of attending a conference? That's what we'll be exploring today. Benefits of attending a coworking industry conference: Learning about the latest trends and best practices in coworking. Getting access to insights and actionable tips that can be applied to your own coworking space. Networking with peers in the industry, including other coworking space operators, vendors, and investors. Potential for new business opportunities, such as partnerships and collaborations. Costs of attending a coworking industry conference: Registration fees: GCUC and the GWA are in the $500 to $800 range for early bird tickets. Travel expenses: If the conference is out of town, you'll need to factor in the cost of airfare or transportation, as well as lodging and meals. Time away from work: Attending a conference can mean taking time off from your regular duties, which can impact your business operations. Calculating the ROI of attending a coworking industry conference: To calculate the ROI of attending a coworking industry conference, consider both the costs and the potential benefits. Some factors to consider include: Cost of attendance: How much did you spend on registration fees, travel, and lodging? Value of knowledge gained: What new skills, insights, or best practices did you learn that can be applied to your own coworking space? Potential for new business opportunities: Did you make any new connections that could lead to partnerships or collaborations? Case studies: I share a few case studies from coworking conferences that I've attended -  partnerships formed, collaboration ideas sparked, and introductions that led to new job opportunities Tips for maximizing the ROI of attending a coworking industry conference: Plan ahead - Set specific goals for what you want to achieve at the conference. Go beyond the content - attend social events and make connections with other attendees. Schedule time to follow up with new connections after the conference to maintain those relationships.  

We're both house sitting in the South Hams for a couple of weeks and its going well for managing to get into the water most days in some very varied conditions. Only one wing session, but a couple of kite sessions and a couple more prone sessions has seen some progression across the board. Today we delve into these sessions as well as having a natter about a few things: our rookie interpretation into the current GWA wing foil world cup events Windows and materials on Wings The red card in Saturdays Six Nations Rugby game What sponsors Freddie wants to work with when he starts his pro wing career It's a fun little episode this week - its always nice to sit down together to dissect a few opinions and thoughts on matters within the Industry. Freddie might've gotten a little over excited about a few things and hopes they're not too offensive, but we found them too funny not to include in the edit - if we get cancelled at least we'll know why. We'll be back very soon with an interview with North Foils Brand manager, Mike Raper. If anyone has any questions for Mike please ping them over, we're really looking forward to it. Give us a follow on social media @genericfoilingpodcast, rate us strictly only 5 stars on Spotify or whichever platform you listen to, and ping us any messages you may have!

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 Aloha friends. It's Robert Stehlik. Welcome to another episode of the Blue Planet Show, where I interview foil athletes, designers, and thought leaders and get lots of good information for all those foil crazy people out there, like you and me. This year I didn't post a lot of interviews, but I'm ending this year, 2022 with a bang, with two really good interviews. Today's interview is with Mike's lab founder Mike and partner Stefano. They make some of the best foils in the world, the fastest foils in the world, hand-built in San Francisco and in Italy. The story, background story is really cool as well. know, Mike grew up in Czechoslovakia, communist Czechoslovakia, where he started building windsurf equipment and making it for his friends. And then escaping over the border, risking his life to escape Communist Czechoslovakia, and ended up in the West and eventually in San Francisco, started making windsurf boards again for some of the top athletes in the world, and then getting. Foils at the time of the interview. I only had one quick session on my 600 mike slab foil. Since then, I've been able to try it more and also use it on a really long downwind run in epic conditions from Hawaii Kai to White Plains where we winged like about 40 miles downwind. Super fun. And that's why I could really tell how fast this foil is. I went out with some really fast guys and was able to of smoke them in some of the runs just because the foil was really quick and easy to control and I was just able to make these big drops on these big bumps. And so I had a great time with it. I might include some of that footage in this during this interview. And then also I have some really nice footage of Alan Kez using his five, I think it's a five 40 Mike's lab foil in Kailua. And got some cool drone footage of him going super fast on that foil as well. I hope you enjoy the, this interview and next week's interview is gonna be with Ken Winter. He's the designer at Duotone and making some of the best wings on the market and also was really the first one to make inflatable wings for foiling. He's definitely a pioneer and a really good story. Started. Windsurf professional, and then got into the design side of things. And he really shared a lot about the, his wing designs and philosophy and et cetera. So that's a really good show as well. And I'm gonna post that the following Saturday, which is December 24th, and wishing everyone happy holidays. And without further ado, here is Mike and Stefano with Mike's lab. So welcome, Stefano and Mike to the Blue Planet Show. Today's show is about Mike's Lab foils. Thanks so much for joining me. I've been waiting for quite a while to get you on the show. And I finally got my own Mike's lab foil. I've only tried it one time, unfortunately, but really really excited about it. So welcome to the show. Thank you. Yeah, no problem. Yeah. And actually, let's start with where you are joining from, so we're spread out all over the world here. All right. I'm in Sienna, Italy, and I'm close to San Francisco. Yeah. And then I'm in Honolulu where it's morning time. And I think for you it's Mike is midday and for Stephano, it's late in the evening. So thanks for making the time to, to join the Blue Planet Show. , my, my video is, Doing funky stuff, but, so anyway let's talk a little bit about your background. I just heard Mike saying that you you basically had to escape from, or Yeah. Tell us about, a little bit about your background how you got to where you're now. Maybe start with Mike. Yeah, so obviously I have went grade school, then apprentice training for cabinet making, but high end cabinet making, the European stuff, which you make, eat for generations rather than the, whatever I learned here. Kitchen cabinets with a staple gun, , very different. And then I went to like high school with kinda orientation for architecture, interior design and furniture design. And after that I worked for about a year in interior design in the office and also in the what is it? Shop shop. And we were catering to diplomats in Prague, taking care of the residences, preparing all that and. About 1978 actually. Exactly. I started making windsurfing boards because that was one thing we were allowed to do because my brother took on hang gliding and that was a no-no, especially close to the border. So that quickly became somewhat outlawed except one little hill in center of Czech Republic. So that's why me and my friends, we picked up wind surfing and, so 78 I made the first one, and that's how I actually introduced myself into epoxy and all that. And I kept making boards until 2012, actually more, that was the end of windsurfing boards, and then the kit boards went on for another, I would say three to four years. But during the end of that time the foil came on and I was able to jump on probably the first sword foil, which was imported into America by Brian Lake. And he left for a week somewhere and he said, yeah, Mike, hey, he have at it  and I, it was a very interesting time. He couldn't quite do it yet. It was a skim board. I put footsteps on it so I can even try because I hate boards without footsteps. And yeah, it was difficult. He thought he wasted his money  soon, very soon after he came back, he learned enough that he was doing the, I think it was Friday night races on kite boards. And very quickly he started winning the weather mark. And so we knew this is the way to go. And so sorry to interrupt you, but this was all still in the Czech Republic, right? No. I escape in 1983. And what are we are talking about now? Maybe 2014. So there's 30 years between. Okay. But okay. So you were saying back, so back in the Czech Republic, you're doing an apprenticeship for building furniture and so on. And then you started playing with hang lighters and building wind surfers, correct? Correct. That was all. So in the Czech Republic? Yes. And I'm sure that at that time you weren't really able to buy any goods from the West, so you had to basically build your whole rig and everything, or like, how, yeah. How was, how did that work? So back then, yeah, we basically bought, it was actually a pre molded piece of styrofoam, but we didn't like the shape, so we reshaped it a little bit and then laid it up with fiberglass and epox.  and for, let's say universal. We had friends like machine fittings where the high pressure hose would fit into get screwed from the, from both sides with like heavy duty bolt, expand the high pressure hose into this little delivering housing. That was our universal. And then we fitted aluminum MAs, which is just a piece of pipe, and same thing for the boom, which I found two trees and started bending my aluminum pipe to make a boom. And then I SCO end together. And I'm sure everybody started like that. Everybody in eastern Europe, right? Yeah, because I grew up in, in west Berlin, but we had friends in East Germany and they had to basically build their own equipment unless we brought them something over from the west, . Yeah. But I recall the beginnings in Maui, like early seventies, and nobody was making anything and they were pioneering their own way. Oh, so that, was that early you got into windsurfing, like back Yeah, I was 78 maybe just few years later and  certainly couldn't buy except those pre molded styrofoam blanks. Somebody was able to put together probably on the side in some factory. And yeah, that's what we bought and we could buy a park and fiberglass that was doable. Okay. And then talk a little bit about how you escaped from the Czech Republic and made it to the us. So me and my wealth, our dad was always on a dissident side, but he never got too much in trouble except getting fired from pilot school. But his friends they were persecuted a little bit more to the point that some of them ended up in u New Mines, and actually two sons of one of this, these friends helped us later on. But first we took a vacation in Yugoslavia and we contacted these couples sons over on my dad's friend, who in the meantime died as probably the result of the minds. So they researched an area how we can, or where it's safe to jump the fence between Yugoslavia and Italy. First we tried to sail from Yugoslavia to Italy across, like this Northern bay. We were quickly stopped by boat and we were in the wetsuit, so they just sent us. . Then later on, I remember being in some kind of a police station. I think that's when we came up to the border crossing and they basically took us out and did little interview. And the third time, there was few days later, these friends from Switzerland came and we started talking, strategizing, and they had this city in US Lavia where some other check people were able to just jump the fence in the middle of the city. And so that's what we ended up doing. And we abandoned our car on the US lobby inside and they basically loaded us into their car. And from dark midnight Italy, we drove all the way to Vienna refugee camp, which is Austria, where the waiting line was locked shorter. And we just had to lie to authorities there, that was the first country we stepped our foot on. So we will be able to stay in a refugee camp and apply for asylum. Wow. So this was like, I guess this was before the Berlin Wall came down and things like that. Oh yeah. What year? What year was that? I, this was 83 and Berlin Wall came down in 89. Oh, okay. So that's when the borders were really still really strict and hard to Oh Cross, right? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So that, you're basically risking your life doing that, right? Yeah, if you don't do it in the right spot. So my cousin was actually in the army and he was patrolling the bo border, and there was like 50 kilometer dead zone, and they had machine guns, him and his body and dogs basically patrolling the, this dead zone with electrical fences and all that. And my cousin decided to escape, this was like two years before I did it. So he knew that it was a bad area and he was so soft that his parents were actually just, his dad was allowed to go to the refugee camp, talk to him, and he managed to bring him back. And so he got little fill in how it goes, because he worked on the border and he escaped. And I'm sure his body wasn't deep due to after, wow. His whatever colleague escapes. But anyway, so then you applied for asylum, I guess in, in Europe and then, but how did you make it to San Francisco? . So yeah, you apply, you wait few months we had a interview with Ambassador, US Ambassador in vie. And once he okayed us, we in the meantime joined this American Fund for Czechoslovak refugees, which was financing the flights, to come to us. And we were asked where they were gonna send us to Boston, and we thought further away from Europe would be better idea. And luckily we got San Francisco, so we ended up directly to here. They paid us first month's rent and after that we were on our own. Luckily we got welfare the first few months and yeah, after I, I literally started working in a company shop two weeks after arrival with zero English, , some French, enough Russian. And luckily a Russian guy hired me for his shop. So I was able to speak Russian to him at first, but he had three other young guys like me, and I picked up English from them within few months. Pretty okay. Especially, and it's just about work, it's not, it wasn't too bad. Wow. Yeah, now, and now your English is very good, so that's impressive. How old were you when you got to the United States? 23. Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah. Okay. That's a amazing story. And then, yeah, so then you got a job, and then how did you get into making your own foils? First it was the boards. I jumped from that 78 back in check. I made at least six wind boards. And then here I am in San Fran, driving by Berkeley, where I see dozens of wind surfers having fun. And I go, I gotta, get back to it. Me and two other friends, we bought this production like horrible quality boards and started going out there and later on I realized, yeah, I probably have to make me my own board again. And it was 1985 when I made my first board, maybe 86, 1 of those. And I managed to cut my finger pretty badly in that process, . And I finished the board injured, and three of my friends tried it, and they immediately said, yeah, we need something like that. We want same board. . So I had three customers before I could ever try my first board out here, And I slowly shifted from cabinet making and little bit later construction because my Russian boss managed to fire me for asking him a question . So I went into short period of construction and from that I was able to meander into making boards. And so that's how you started basically you started your own business building boards? Yeah. In 86 full-time. Okay. Definitely 87. And then, yeah. And then talk about, yeah. How that evolved into Mike's lab, I called it, believe it or not, Mike's lab. Then for the first board, just as a joke that I'm some big operation . It was, nothing. And yeah, I was making in inroads into the local scene, racing myself, pushing it. And then local racers like Bar Chrisman and Steve Silvester, they noticed sooner than later they got their own boards made by me, even though Bar Chrisman was making his own. But it was too much work for him, , and now he's using my force. That's crazy. Literally, what is it, 37 years later or 40 maybe Yeah. So I'm making boards and in 1996, Matt Pritchard asks me to make him aboard and he picks it up on the way to Hood River Nationals. And he wins by a long shot, like all bullets, by long distance. So immediately Kevin stepped in, then Kevin won his first World Cup, p w a beating beyond Dereck, interrupting his 13 year winning streak on my board, which was a big deal. Wow. And I think it was 1999. And film again calls me and he goes, Mike, you gotta come over. Kevin's gonna do it. And sure enough, I just made awards and that was a lot of fun. . Oh, that's excellent. Okay. So Matt and Pritchard put you on the map a little bit with the Win Winston Awards and Yeah. Later on it was all kinds of other people like Phil Scott Fent, and Michael many others. They all use Finian Min. Newberg who was, there was plenty of others. And the whole time, like basically you're not really sponsoring these guys, they're just buying boards from you because you make the fastest boards or were you making boards for free for some of those guys? No, they had to pay me. I was still very poor, barely making it. To the top guys, I was trying to keep the price down so they can keep selling it. And they did, they sold the board for at least the same, if not more. But I didn't have to do the paperwork or all that, so I just Yeah. Collected money and they let them deal with it. So early on, pretty much everybody had to pay me, but I was very reasonable about the prices, hopefully . Wow. Yeah, it's a little bit like I, I was talking to Mark Rappa horse who started S I c and all the best guys were buying his boards cuz they were the fastest boards available and he didn't really have to sponsor anybody because that's a nice position to be. Yeah, that's where I . But it seems like to the, to this day, it's like you have more, like you, it seems like you have a long waiting list to, for these foils. Like I had to wait, I don't know, three or four months to get a foil. What's your wait time? And I don't know is that kind of how you try to keep it where you basically, you can't make as many as people want? Or what's, yeah, what's your philosophy? Stef, I should men jump in here in let's say the waiting times and the list, but I would say boards, you can almost go in and, let's say have a mate in Cobra, which we did with the kite boards and they were pretty dang good. But I don't really see how our design could be successful and made somewhere in China without us looking it over. And we did try to teach an outfit here in Michigan, I believe, and we slept through about, I don't know, six months, maybe a year. And it still wasn't, the quality wasn't there, so it's not so easy. So I step, Steph should jump in here. Yeah, actually okay. So actually Stefana maybe start talking a little bit about your background, like how you got into this business. Sure. Okay. Mike is one of my best friends. I've known him since I was 18 years old. I'm 48 now. And I, yeah, time flies. And so I met Mike at the Berkeley Marina windsurfing because I caught the windsurfing bug when I was 17. And I met him when I was 18 and I was at the Berkeley Marina and I would see him and all these other guys just go up, up and down and upwind up to Treasure Island training every day. And as a senior in high school at that time, I got off at around noon, just afternoon. So I was going to Berkeley every day. And I just saw that as a goal I wanted to achieve, to be able to, be as fast as those guys and be able to go up wind as fast as those guys. And I was on this super heavy polypropylene, tega windsurf board, and I was just, slug up there. And I finally remember finally making it all the way up to Treasure Island and seeing Mike and the others dancing around playing, doing big jumps. And I chased them back down wind. And I tracked Mike down in the parking lot and we started talking. And then I, and for me, Mike's lab.  as a board maker and as a person was already a legend at that point in the windsurfing scene. So I remember going up to him and oh my gosh, you got a new Mike's lab? Oh, when did you get that? And Mike was like, oh, I made it . And so that just started the whole conversation there. And Mike, gave me an awesome deal. My very first Mike's lab board was a one that had broken and taken up water and he was able to cut the whole thing in half and let it dry out and repair it. So he sold it to me for cheap and I paid off by digging under his house an addition, an additional room under his house. Cuz as a high school student I didn't have that kind of money . And yeah, so that's how our friendship started is out there on the race course, so to speak. And I'm a product designer, so I went to San Jose State and studied product design. So I'm right in the middle between mechanical engineering and fine art. And during my university days and on weekends I'd be working in a windsurfing shop. On the summers I'd be doing all the local race circuit and everything like that. And often would fly myself at Mike's for dinners and jacuzzi time and just philosophizing on life. And that's how our friendship started. . And then in 2006 I met my Italian wife and I have Italian relatives too over here. And so I decided to move over here. And in 2014 is when we started the whole Hydrofoil project. And since as a product designer, I have, I've been doing CAD and 3D and tool design and things like that since 1994. And I proposed to Mike Hey, let's, let's I knew the scene in San Francisco was already blowing up and Mike was already sending me messages about it and I wanted to get into it too. And I'm just one of the people I, I love to just build everything. And I'm always more satisfied to be out on the water if it's something that I've made. So I was just saying, Hey, let's, start a project together just almost like a hobby, we'll design it together and Mike will do all the first layups. I'll do all the tool design. I'll make the first mold. I should jump in quickly in here. Yeah, so I got it sort then soon enough I got spots, foil as well, l shortly after that, F four started making their own foil.  and I was hacking together literally hundreds of pieces with thousands of combinations for maybe a couple of years and never really figured out what it needs and where is the problem. And I know I couldn't control the sort in pitch and spots in left. And I knew it could be combined. And I'm telling Stefano and he goes let's make our own. And there it was. . , yeah. Wow. So it started, so before you met, and I guess that was in the early nineties when you guys met when you were 18. So before that, did you grow up in California or Yeah. Yeah. I was born in San Francisco and I grew up in the Bay Area. Yes. Oh, okay. And then, so basically you married an Italian wife, your Italian wife, and then moved to, basically moved to Italy. Yeah. And then, so now you make, basically you make foils as well in, in Italy. Yeah so the whole development process with Mike is that, from TA 2014 when things started just almost as a hobby, but then quickly started getting requests and things like that I was always doing the design work, the tooling and we would always sort of hash out over at that particular time, Voxer, now we use what's up, but just chats to refine and go over the designs. And I would then come over once or twice a year to work with him in his garage and help boost production because we quickly gotta to the point where we just could not meet demand. And we had to get some more man, hands in there so to speak. So I would come over. A couple times a year to do these production sessions. And and at that particular time I was also teaching at a a university here in Italy, different design courses and curriculum. And then in 2019, the demand got so much where it justified me opening up my own shop over here. So from 2019, I've had my own lab, so to speak where I produce a lot of the foils that are then sold on over here in Europe. Wow. Okay. Great story. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna share this these cool sketches that you emailed me. I'm gonna screen share it and sure. And can you see them? Yeah. Okay. So I guess at that time you guys were one of you was in the Bay Area and one is in and Europe and Italy. And then you were making these for Kite, kite foiling. . Yeah. These first sketches are one of our very first designs. And we, Mike and I both have the philosophy where we just gotta try stuff and learn by doing, we are definitely of the trial and error philosophy. And so this, these are sketches of our very first design, which had, the mass mounted directly over the wing. And I would often 3D print stuff and send it over to Mike so we could have it in his hands. And what you're seeing, all those little pieces, seven through two, and A, B, C, D, those were all the first sort of positive mold like that I sent to Mike because our very first design made negative molds by 3D printing them and backfilling them with resin and M D F, but it ended up getting lost in the shipping. So then a few months later I had to send him the positives, which then he made molds of so just for a good laugh. That was our very first design. Okay, so these little pieces, you made 3D printed molds and then built the basically made the parts and then put 'em all together into to make one foil. Yeah, those, I sent them all the pieces and he could put them all together and then make a mold himself out of fiberglass or whatever he did at the time. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. , and this is where you were a little bit younger still . Yeah. . But yeah, talk, here's sketches, where we're thinking about, how to keep the tips from popping outta the water. Just what seems so obvious now. But at that time, these were all considerations that we were making. Yeah. And here's a little cross section of how I was gonna make the 3D printed mold to send them. And I, this, this was a, it was such a tragedy because I, for months, I printed all these pieces, made this huge mold, and it just literally got lost in shipping and just damaged. It's probably some buried in some warehouse in America somewhere. ? Oh, no. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So talk a little bit about this. Is this like your secret sauce or can you share a little bit about like, how you built your molds and if, are you still do using that same process? No, the not at all. So this was in the beginning we used the 3D printing to make the first mold, but we quickly realized that it's just not accurate enough. When you're dealing with making and designing and making hydrofoils, you have to have much higher tolerances. And We quickly moved on to aluminum molds. However, having said that, often in our design process between Mike and I, Mike is somebody that really likes to have something, between his hands, that he can of feel the profile and help visualize the connection. And so often I would print out little pieces and send them to him just so he could like, touch and hold them and give feedback on what he thought. And that was these little pieces here kind of thing? Yeah. Or I don't know if, I don't remember if I sent a picture or not, but, our connections or sometimes profile sections and things like that. Yeah, wing section, wingtip, just to, for me to touch it and Yeah. But, oh, sorry. I just picked up basically the dimensions from what seemed to be working from my thousands of experiments over couple of years. And I gave the rough dimensions and then Stefano would add it, make it into a final product. And then we had somebody, I believe, in Kansas making our first aluminum molds, which were, reasonably pricey, but for, as he said lot better tolerances and also option. Cooking it in the oven to get the proper mask strength. We had to go the aluminum route and pressures, I we clamp our molds together. Everybody knows we do a wet layer process and we use really high pressures, which obviously 3D printing doesn't, can't hold up to it. . But these original molds, I guess the, this part here was the three pin 3D printed part, and then you put exactly resin underneath it and MDF boards, and then just Yeah. Made your own molds out of yeah, out of 3D printed materials for prototyping, basically. Yeah. Yeah. And I since those early days, I have done this a couple more times when I want to do something that's just so ridiculous that it's not worth spending, a few thousand on an aluminum mold and then find out that it doesn't work, so I, I did a flying wing concept many years ago with this same process. Okay. And then I guess this picture here is like the, where the mass is right on top of the foil, but the foil is angled forward. Yep. Yeah. Looks like a good way to catch seaweed, right? Yeah, . Exactly. . But how did it work? We I think we ended up not doing such a forward rake when we, I think this was like maybe one of the very first sketches. Yeah, just a sketch. I bet you it would turn really good. And I know brand did this forward. Oh yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Okay and then this looks like what year was this? This kind of an older article. Huh? The world's fastest kite boards. Kite boards by day. Wow. So if it's a kiteboard, I bet you it's about 2014, maybe 13. And yeah, I went straight from winding making boards from, for Johnny Heineken, Adam Cook, and all these really fast guys. And again, they took it straight to the world championship winning. Johnny was at least two or three times world champion on the three Fin Kitire boards. Yeah, right there, . And then this, I guess this was before foiling, right? This, these were just Exactly with a regular fin on the back and so on. Yeah. Yeah. Three fins. Yes. Oh, three fins. Okay. Wow. Which ironically turned into be perfect for learning Wing foiling. Yeah. And then the, and then there's these asymmetrical speed boards. Huh. That's cool too. That's Rob Douglas, who was always, and he still is now pursuing speed on wings with my foils, and he's buying all kinds of wings, trying to go fast. But this was at the time when kites were actually holding the world speed record for sale powered craft. And he was asking me to make his boards with his ideas, his dimensions for different conditions. I believe at the end I probably made about 27 of these for him. . Wow. So at the at that time, yeah, the kites held the world speed record for sail power. Who's holding it now? What is it? Is it foils or still regular boards well be, so he got his world record, 55.5 knots, which held for I think a couple of years. And then the little boat, Ste. May know the name. I think it was some kind of attraction foil with a sail. Yeah. Vest. Sail rocket. Yeah. And sale Rocket disintegrated at the end of the run by, by obliterating that 55 55 Or maybe over 60, but it could never be repeated because the book was in, in pieces, . Oh, wow. And then that's still the world record, that's the current world record? Or did they get the world record with that run, or, yes. No, they did. They did. And then at the end of the run, the Bo boat, just self des or self-destructed. Hon, honestly, I don't, I, I know the, when the Sail Rocket had their big crash, I don't think that was the record run. I think they went and re rebuilt and did the record run after that, but I believe they still have the record. And this, yeah, this image here is just, I have a portfolio site just showing a, the depth of my work. I've done everything from consumer electronics to toys, to, to clothing. A lot of people think since I'm involved, in the design side of Mike's lab, they think I'm, an aero engineer or, a naval architect. But I'm not I'm really just as much an artist as I am a tinkerer. , if you would say, So even like first class airline seats and things like that you worked on . Yep. Yep. And what is this? A it's a little mp3, boom box from back in the day. And there's some other Bluetooth concepts there. I was working for a design firm for a while where we did shoe concepts for Nike. I've done everything from, multimedia commercials to some c compositing work to web design and coding and things like that. So a little bit of everything under the creative umbrella. The slipper looks a little bit like a kite surfing foot strap. Yeah. Maybe there's some subconscious influence there. What's this one? The Air Force water plane. Oh, I so I, all my life I've been into, radio control, everything and this kind of ties into the hydrofoil design. And I, it's the same with Mike in the sense that we've, all the things we've been into in our lives, we've always thought about just the way fluid flows. So neither Mike nor I. Like I said, aeronautical engineers but we definitely lie awake at night thinking about flow. And so I've done, yeah, that was a scratch built radio control airplane I built and I've done discus launch and RC helicopters and I there was a period of my life where I was skydiving for about 14 years, and I also designed and built a parachute. So I've even designed and built foil kites as well. So just flow, fluid flow. Interesting. And then this looks like a covid safe cafeteria design. Is that what it is? ? No, it's old fur. It's a old library furniture from a much old, just for privacy or yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So not not the covid flowing across the table. Yeah. No. And since 2019, that's all I've been doing is the hydrofoil. So before 2019, I was mixing in consulting and, working on the hydrofoils with Mike. But since two, 2019 it's been just full-time hydrofoils, which Okay. Even then, even with Mike producing in California and me producing in Europe, yeah. The wait list is still Optum 3, 4, 5 months. It depends on what model and where the person is located. Yeah. And then so the pictures in that portfolio shows Nico Par. And for about three years we were dominating the racing circuit on our kite foil and our waiting line just absolutely exploded. It was pushing past two years, waiting time for everybody else, learn how to make proper foils. We were definitely there having very successful race design. And I think Nico Parley were at least two times world champion. Daniel Lamoro at least three on our foil, and maybe Johnny I think was as well, one once or twice. Yeah. And I think it's really important to point out that, when people think of Mike's lab, they first think of Mike, and then sometimes they think about me. But the re the reality is it's really like a big team project. I If it wasn't for the valuable input and feedback of Nico and Johnny and Ricky Leche and Connor and all, just the whole slew of racers giving their input, then of course our hydrofoils wouldn't be where they are today. So I just got this foil that bullet six and it's yeah, it's beautiful. I only tried it one time for a short time to test it out. It definitely felt fast and very efficient. But I'm wondering like, how many people do you have working on these and do you, did you actually do some of the work on this foil or like who who actually builds these foils at them? Yeah, I believe I build this one and shift it to you, and the only thing I have done by somebody is to cut my pieces to be late inside the mold. So if you imagine a roll of carbon and I need to have the pieces precut, I have somebody doing that. But everything else I do myself. So the pre-reg carbon basically cut into into the pieces that fit into the mold. It's not even pre-reg, it's dry carbon. It's dry carbon and then it's saturated by liquid resin. So the resin, do you like vacuum it into the mold or do you lay it out wet it out before the mold closes? How does that work? Yeah, exactly. Just wet it out piece by piece into each half of the mold and then the two halves come together and hopefully next morning it pops open with what you have. It obviously needs a lot of cleaning after it comes out of the mold, but. . Yeah, so I guess this one looks like the whole, the fuselage and the whole front foil is all one piece and then it looks like the tail is molded separately and then connected here. Is that correct? No, it's all molded in the same time. What you probably are looking at is our own mold connection. It looks like it's been connected, but no, it was all laid up in, in one time, one piece. And that's because we have to screw the wings to the fuselage from each end of the fuselage, right? So you can see the seam of the mold on the final product. But other than that, it's all one piece. And our philosophy was back then trying to make a race foil. The less connections and the more in center the wings are in relation to the fuselage, the less, as Stephano called it, peak acceleration we gonna encounter. So if you have to screw the wing from one side or the other, you have bulk of the fage and meat necessary to, for the screw to go in on one side, and that's your unnecessary drag through the water. So we decided to go this route and learn how to build it and it's reason. Efficient, making it this way that we don't have to spend time, making pieces there, machining them together, screwing them together. , this way we can find unit for the customer who may not have the ability, conditions or time to do it themselves, so they get something what's already fine tuned and you, the only way to really mess it up is to run the reef or something. Oh, I know. And this foil looks so nice. I'm really scared of getting it scratched up. So the spot i g foiler is really shallow and then the mass I got is like 102 centimeters I'm probably only gonna use it in deep water spots. Yeah, I think you changed it from 96 to 1 0 2. . . Yeah. No, for racing. It's definitely nice to, especially Darwin racing. I wanted to ask these has these little blue fibers in it. What is that and what, why are those early on? It was for me to I used to go to the border with up to six different boards and foils on shore and I would go in and out with a kite back then. And I figured out how to mark them visually for me, because if you go in and out, you forget which one felt what and why.  and I had this color coding type. Visuals. And I remember, oh, the orange one felt this way and felt good. Let me look how I build it. What is the pitch when I came home or to the shop the next day? And I think it also gives it a little bit of a character. When people have the same foil, at least they can recognize which one is theirs. Especially running into the wrestling line. Sometimes people would grab somebody else's board In the past, if you can't believe it, like wind surfing boards, I made so  this way. It was a little bit, recognizable in the first glance. Okay. So that this is basically the color, just so you can each foils a little bit different and you can recognize which, which ones which. Yeah. And then, yeah, I noticed there is on the, and it's fun for us too, just it changes things up. I like to use pigments and tins too when I'm doing mine. And it's fun cause you can see the difference between my ies and mine and just changes. Yikes. Your connection is really slow now, I think. Yeah. We're breaking up a little bit, but, and then, yeah, on the mass too, it has these little colors and stuff like that. So it's just yeah, make it little bit unique. Each one. Each piece. Yeah. And the colors could be almost any color. I get a fiber in different colors and the pigments in different colors. So yeah, it just can be limitless. And then the other thing that I found really interesting is the connection between the mask and the fu fuselage. And basically rather than having it like a lot of foils have almost a box, a little bit like a tule box where the mask goes into the foil. But it looks like you try to it's more like you're maximizing the surface area where they're connected and and getting, that's not only the surface area, it's also not weakening the fuselage. The fuselage has to be super strong. And others using the mini total, if you can really pay attention, for example, lift, right lift foils, they do the mini total. And if you look at the fuselage size on their foil, it's massive. So I don't know if they ever will be able to go top speed, even though they do pretty well. But the disadvantage of the mini turtle is that your fuselage is too. Yeah, it definitely introduces a weak spot. Like on my access fuselages there's like several that had got a little cracks right here, like right at the end of the mast where it inserts into the board because that's just like a, the sides are relatively thin, right. Next to the box. So I guess, so basically part of it is just to have more strength right here in that connection. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. It transfers a little bit too much stress. That's the, and then explain how this little screw works. Cause I guess the whole, with this screw, you can change the angle of the tail a little bit. Is that correct? Can you explain how that works? Because I haven't really tried that yet to put a washer or something in here. Yeah, you could, but it's not necessarily Yeah, go ahead. But I think we gotta take two steps back here because a lot of people that are probably listening to this, that are coming from the wing foiling or the prone or surf foiling, and maybe I've never heard of Mike's lab before. This connection system that we develop has been copied by many other brands, which is a testament to how well it works and. The design the crux of the, of designing a hydrofoil is you have to marry what would be the hydrodynamic ideal with what is mechanically required in order to just support the stresses involved. And so that's why we very quickly are very first foils. Yeah. We had a detachable, front wing and detachable rear wing. And then we quickly realized, as Mike was saying, that there's just way too much drag there in order to be able to house all the extra hardware, so on and so forth. So that connection system is to be as efficient and small as possible, but still be mechanically sound enough. And another misconception that a lot of people have is that little screw is used for the incidents, but it's actually not when you would, like with our kit oils, when we were, we had smaller diameter fuselages we would use shims and we still do with the kite foils. And you can literally you're bending the fuselage in order to get an angular change in incidents. So it's not so much that you have to have a little screw, but you just have to have material in there that then you're actually flexing the whole fuselage. Okay. Ba basically basically the foil is being held by these B three big screws in the. , but, and then this one is to hold a washer if you wanted to. No. The little stabilizes the fuselage going towards the back wing. We are using the mask and strength to keep the fuselage attached as long as possible before it has to go on its own to hold onto the back wing. And early on when I was testing a kite forests, the little screw wasn't there. And I could not quite, I didn't like it. It was all over the place as far as stability. As soon as I added the little screw manually into one of the foils, it improved drastically. So the legal screw is there for stability mainly, and Okay, got it. It became an advantage that the pitch of the incidents on the back wing was adjustable by putting reasonable tension without damaging something, we could lower the incidence of the back wing right there on the beach and, go back out. Okay. So if let's say I, if I wanted to, if I put a small washer in here in between, that would lower the incidence of the tail flow. So basically, if you want, if you wanna go faster and have, basically have less lift at high speeds, that's what it would achieve, basically. Or is it the other way? ? No. You are correct, but I don't think you need to do that. Yeah. It's already pitched to go really fast. You may wanna experiment. I don't think it's gonna help you with speed or anything like that. In fact, it's gonna force you to move your footstep maybe an inch back. But it, I don't think it's gonna buy you anything. It's probably gonna lower the stability if you go lower than the pitch you have. I don't think you're gonna see any good results. Okay. That's good to know. It's good. Measure it and it's around two degrees up to 2.4. I wouldn't ship it at all. And if you go below two degrees, at least in Kite Falls, we found that the four stars golfing, if you go really fast downwind, it loses the stability. The back wing is not helping to stabilize the fronting downwind at high speed. So you're saying the the built-in angle of incidents of the tail wing is about two degrees, is that correct? Ye between two to 2.4. And then what about the front wing? Oh, that's neutral. That's always neutral. Neutral zero. Okay. Yeah and it depends also what back wing it is as well. Cause we have different back wings. . Yeah. Because it's that's a little bit of a misconception is sometimes yeah. Really what matters is the difference between the front angle of the front and the back wing. So yeah. Correct. So basically your front wing is at zero angle of incidents. The back wing is like two degrees two to two and a half. Yeah. And and just to be clear, zero angles for a front wing does not mean neutral lift. It's still giving a lot of lift even at zero degrees, right? Because of the shape of the profile, right? Yeah. Yes. And I found it was relatively easy to get it up. I was worried that it would take really high speed to get up on foil, but it wasn't too, it worked fine and it just came up just fine, it wasn't like a big thing. We I mean I tried to erase it last Sunday and none of us were able to get going because the wind was too light and we ended up having to get a bo to take us back in But but yeah but it had nothing to do with the foil. Was this not windy enough? I should mention that my friend, my buddy has the same exact foil you have and that's his favorite. And he just arrived to Los Baja and he was gonna go out. And he did. And he said, oh my God, this s water is really wild and it's a little bit less stable. And then he comes in and he sends me a message, I'm so stupid, I put on a kite foil . So he went out on his standard kite foil on a wing board and thought, everything is good. And then he comes in and he's totally shocked that he was able to do it. . . Yeah. So talk a little bit about the tips here. Had, it's like a little bit, what do I call it? It's like downward, but then has a little bit up, up curved at the end. So what's the theory behind that Is say down and then back up again? Yeah. Right here in the tip. To make sure that the ventilation doesn't, if you breach a tip so that the ventilation doesn't propagate back down the wing. I see. So when the wing tips comes out of the water, this tip doesn't create ventilation at the tip. Yeah it doesn't allow the low pressure or the detached flow from the top of the wing tip to then propagate down towards the root. It helps shed that sort of bubble and shed that ventilation. Okay. And then I noticed on the tail wing you have these little winglets. What's the purpose of those? Yeah, all those curves on the front wing, which go straight button, then down, and same thing on the back wing. They bring stability and directionality. So for example, our most accessibility kite trace wing, front wing had a lot of these curves and it was very stable. So yeah, you could make a straight wing straight across, but it's gonna be pretty, it's gonna feel like a banana peel stepping on. So that the first purpose is to get it away from the surface, right? If you curve it down, then you don't bridge the first surfaces often, and then the directionality and stability comes from that as well. And then the tip is relief that as step said, it shut the. . Okay. And then, yeah, it was three . So the other question I had like the tule bo tu mount I guess all your masks have tu mounts and it seems like in, in surf foiling and wing foiling, most like the new standard is the plate mounts, right? Yeah. The plate mounts with the two, two US boxes. Why are you sticking with the tu mount and yeah, what's the theory behind that? Yeah the, Mike will give his opinion, but my opinion is that the total box is in incredibly rigid, in any well-built board where you have tracks, you have to tie it to the top of the deck anyway, and the total box does that by itself anyway. So from my standpoint, a 240 gram box is a lot lighter than tracks. And that's not even talking about hydrodynamic issues of the plate underwater versus the total box as well. Okay. Okay. So it's more efficient and you have the connection to the deck of the board and like the whole box is basically different, stronger, yeah. A lot less draggy and it's lighter. Yeah. Yeah, I in, luckily in our floorboards we have the foil strong box, we call 'em, it has both ATU and a plate mount. But some of my newer boards, like the, this one behind me only has the plate mount. So I guess I'm gonna have to either use a plate mount adapter or just use just for this prototype. But I'm gonna have to start putting total boxes in all my boards. Again,  or bo, have both, but we also sell adapters and I also make custom carbon plates for clients that really want to have the plate. I'll do it. It's not like we're we don't do it, but Right. We just prefer the box. Makes sense. Yeah, it's, it, I think it would be pretty difficult, at least for me to build in the plate because you can imagine the resonant fiber running out of the end of the mold now on a vertical situation. So the tunnel is a lot more simple and a lot stronger, and I think it's the correct way to go. The plate has a huge advantage by adjustability back and forth. In fact, I think even Nickleson from Lift gave me the credit that I was the first one to put two tracks side by side because he used to use four balls drilled through the board.  and attached, from the deck, that's how he was attaching this plate mount system. . And I just, I looked at it and I go, oh, I've been using the windsurfing pin boxes long enough that this could be a lot more elegant and adjustable and it wouldn't leak. And sure enough it worked and then everybody adopted it . Interesting. Yeah, what you said makes sense. Basically, when you're laying up the carbon inside the mold with the total, you can keep all the layers going straight and basically the strongest direction versus having to curve them out in a plate mount. So is that And resin dripping out , sorry? And resin would be dripping out. Oh yeah. Yeah. So you would have a big mess when you're try to lay it up. Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. And then I guess why there, why are there so many holes? Is it just cause so that it's adaptable to different types? OFTU boxes, . Okay. That came from kite race foils. The foot strap had to be incidentally right over thet box. So that was a disadvantage. So people who had tracks for kite race foil, which was very bad sock, unstable, flexible, but they could put a footstep anyway on it. On the deck. So once we had to deal with the th with the tunnel, I figured, hey, we can go to one, at least one of the inserts or mounts for the footsteps straight into the tunnel. And that's why this is adjustability for footstep mounting. I see. You can, so basically you can put the foot strap, the one that goes through the footstep into the mass in different positions. That makes, now do kite racers, you just use two screws or do you sometimes use multiple screws to hold it in the total box. I was gonna say that. So for winging, I do two screws up front and one in the back. Not only, it makes it a little bit stronger if you hit big fish, like people hit whales out here, , or I hit a dolphin and some other people actually broke off a wing not mine. I think it was spots back then hitting a dolphin. Anyway, so the two screws put it in with lot more strength, right? Because even wind first, you imagine the big wind board with a rig and rider on it if they hit a sea or rock or anything. Now the foil is at the bottom of whatever. So if they can use more than one screw, it helps. But they are still using at these locally little string for the center screw. , if you really hit something and the foil falls out, it, it hangs on the little piece of rope of the center screw. And also, I like the system because if people damage the barrel, not, or if it breaks the barrel not breaks, they can just pop one out and put it in the appropriate place, the damaged one. So it's like a spare  built in spares. , yeah, exactly. Yeah. The other thing I wanted to ask you, like with the total boxes, one of my pet peeves, and I'm not sure if I'm just not doing it right, but it seems like no matter how tight I put it in, like sometimes, like when you're on the water, you're pumping or whatever, all of a sudden you get that little, and it loosens up a little bit because I think it just slides a little bit deeper into the box. Like how can prevent that from happening? It doesn't loosen up, it actually tightens up so the connection gets more secure between the foil and the board. But your front screw may be a little bit loose, but nobody cares until you hit something like a big fish, right? Because there is always pressure going up from the front way. So you don't care if the screw is a little bit loose at this point. And that's why two screws, because I can crank them against each other, one and the back one and you can hear it cracking and going in and maybe. If you would use two screws, it may not happen. The little cracking what happens to you. And oh, sorry. Ahead sfa. I was just gonna say, a little bit of candle wax rubbed on the side of the head. Also gets it into the box with very little friction and allows you to tighten it from the get-go really easily as well. That's a good tip. I'll try that. And Johnny also developed this technique for the race fos. He really wanted the total sitting Absolutely. Exactly how he wanted it. So his board height at the deck for the front foot would've to be in literally millimeters. He hated it if it was even colder in chalk. So he would put it in, put screws in, then he would grab the foil, put a board upside down and hit the nose of the board, the deck side against the ground, like grass. And you could hear this crack, what you describe happens to you on the water. So he would prepack it on the beach and retighten the screws so nothing could move afterwards. Ah, okay. Yeah, that's another technique, . Basically attach the foil, put the put, put it with the foil down on, and then have the board on top and push it upside down. Okay. And just hit the gently and just. The front of the wing holding the foil like this and just top the nose of the board. Oh, okay. Like you are stepping on it type thing. Okay. You will hear this crack and then you can reit the upcr. Interesting. Check with your board maker too. Yeah. That . Yeah. Yeah, I mean I'm, we make most of my own board but I guess another misconception too is like that I guess if you hit something, most of the pressure obviously is on the front connection, on the front screw. But when you're riding the Yeah, the lift of the front wing, actually the most pressures on that back screw. The back screw. Because this lifts up and the back screw gets pulled down basically. Pulled out. Yes. When you're writing. But the huddle box is designed so that the radiuses, the vertical radiuses are taking the load. So it's not really, it shouldn't be the screws that are bearing that load. They cinch it in there, but once it's in there, it's not depending on the screws. Okay. So just to be clear, like you're saying the kind of these, the, this sites takes the vertical load. Yeah, because it gets wedged into the board basically. Yeah. Yep. And then, yeah, another thing too, people sometimes say oh, my board thet box doesn't go all the way in, but basically there's supposed to be a little gap in the bottom of it, right? Like the, basically it sits tight on these ends and then the sides are just parallel, right? Yep. Yeah. That was the design with this by Larry to have those radis at the ends, jamming in at 10 degrees each side, and that's where the load was basically taken up. And yeah, there must be a gap between the top of the tunnel and your board deck of it, because if there was not, imagine your full body weight would be pushing out a little nomination detail out through the deck, and you would just cause leakage. But in the meantime, starboard brand for foiling windsurfing, they had so many problems with the total box, probably not built properly, that they ended up using the roof, basically the top of the box and issuing the shims. So you would install your box just the right way. So as Johnny was sensitive to the height of the deck up front for the front foot, now the top athletes for windsurfer are doing the same thing with shimming, the top, like you said, on top of the tunnel, and they can adjust the rake of the foil itself against the board. Ah, okay. So by, by basically shimming this top, you can change the angle of the mask slightly kind of thing. But in my opinion, it totally defeats the purpose of the radiuss getting jammed into the box. But their box kept stretching so bad that they had to do this. So now you don't have the ends cinched, or only the sides are holding the foil and it's sitting on the top. It cannot go any deeper, which I think it's crazy, but they are doing it . Okay. Interesting. Interesting. All right, thanks for thanks for that. Something, I'm gonna try that like you were saying, Johnny Heineken just like cracking the foil on the beach before getting on the water and retightening it. That's a good idea. They should, you use two screws up front, the two front ones, and if you smack it and you crank both of them, no way you're gonna do it by sailing it anymore. It's gonna be okay in there. And for the, to put in the second screw. My box only has two screws in, it's, two holes in it. So I just, I guess have to just mark the exact spot and drill a hole through the tu box basically. Correct. I don't know. We use quarter into G 10 on top of the tunnel, so we can actually put the screws in anywhere we want and counter seeing them. So in case you are not using the pad, you can still comfortably step on it. So in case you do have some solid support for your second screw, yeah. You can just drill it one and one eight back from the front hole, and you're gonna be exactly in the right spot. Actually I was just thinking like on my, on most of our boards, the deck is thicker than the tunnel, so there's a hole for the screw to go into the board. Into the board. But anyways, yeah something to play around with, oh wait, are you using like Alexis boxes? It's similar to the Gulf Foil boxes. Yeah. We make our own with a full strong box, but oh, and does it have the screws vertical, like 90 degrees or are they Originally it's taken from total design. It's it's like like the straight, like the Gulf foil. Yeah, so be careful when you are first putting in your foil, you need to rotate the barrel notes by those few degrees because original total design is about 10 degrees right back. So yeah, that could be a little issue. But yeah, I'm trying to give enough space for the front and back to be countered back by 10 degrees. It was originally designed for windsurfing and windsurfing decks for slalom boards. They were sloping down. They were getting thin as you go towards the tail. So that's why that 10 degree slope. Yeah. I'm just sharing like this is what our, we have a box that combines like the tunnel and the interesting the plate mount together and then the top has this only the two holes though. Yeah. Then just use the two holes. Don't bother with there's screw. Good enough. Yeah. No, I mean it seems to work fine. I think just like getting it super tight before you get on the water is the key, I think. Or even maybe breaking it, bringing in a screwdriver. Yeah, tighten it on the water if it's necessary. But as I said, you never need to tighten it on the border as far. Having a secure connection. The only reason to do it is if it feels uncomfortable stepping on it, if but it's never bad. It shouldn't even matter. I think like when you're pumping, when you're pumping and there's a lull and there's no wind and you have to pump through the lull, sometimes that pumping will it's right. But yeah, then you don't want that rocking thing of your mass rocking. Oh, so you are saying it actually goes back out until it hits the screw? think yeah, like you said, it goes a little bit deeper, but then the screws loose. So when you're pumping there to be a little bit of wiggle back and forth on so you can feel the foil doing this. Yeah, I've never seen that. Never. Yeah. I dunno. Yeah. Maybe didn't put it tight enough, yeah. Title box should be tighter than that. It should go in there with a friction, and that friction should stop this. If the back through is tight. I don't think it'll pull out the front, but I never heard of it yet, okay. Okay. All right. And then I also noticed that the whole thing is pretty light. I know I also have access to access foils and it just it just a little bit more weight. And the this whole foil feels pretty light. So how do you achieve that, I guess you just minimize the amount of materials needed by just making that smaller or like how Yeah. How do you keep it light? . For starters, our sections are much thinner than what people are usually used to out there. When I see the profile thicknesses of some of the other brands that like 15, 16, 17 millimeters we're at 12.3 13 millimeters, so already there's less volume there. And then we also have core materials in order to get, good compaction. So it's not solid carbon all the way through. So that's, do you use wood inside, wood or foam or what do you use inside the foam? Is it secret? That's proprietary.  proprietary. Ok. We got some, we have secret sauce. Secret sauce, yeah. Yeah. No, that's good. I respect that. . Okay so the, and then what, like on this mass, it has a little strip of unidirectional part of the way I think it stops at some point. Oh, that's just for fun. That's another one of those pictures. . Ok. That's another thing along with these co funky colors and stuff like that. Yeah. . Okay. Cool. All right, so yeah, what else about the foils that's, that you wanna mention that's unique about your foils? I'd say what's unique is you don't have to do anything. They're plug and play. In, into as Mike was saying before, the incidents, you don't really have to adjust it, especially not with wing surfing relative to kite surfing. The speeds and the balance is a little bit different. So the, our foils are definitely just go have fun. And in my opinion, the less you do something to it, the better. A lot of people ask like, how should I sand it? How should I, eh just don't do anything. The less is, the less you do, the better. . And then I would say one unique characteristic that a lot of people tend to say or be surprised by is just how easy they are to use. I think a lot of people since they know we come from a racing heritage, are maybe afraid that, oh, maybe the foils are like, difficult to use, or something like that. But the reality is a good race foil is easy to control cause that gives you the confidence to then push it and go fast. And it's no different with all our wing foils as well. They're just easy to use. . Another thing is I'm basically demoing the foils to anybody who's interested to hop on it and usually. , all it takes is once and some people have to order it right in and there because it's lot speedier, less drag, more stable, more fun just to use it than anything they tried before. I, we have people which claim they have tried everything there is on the planet made and they say, yeah, we just buy yours and  multiple models just because it feels unique. Yeah, Alan Ez actually on this interview he talked about the Mike's lab foils and winning a race with it last summer on Maui against all the young guys and stuff like that. So that kind of convinced me that, okay, I gotta try one of these foils. . And yeah, definitely what you said about the, being able to control it. Basically every foil has that kind of a max, it seems like a maximum speed that's built in almost. And you want to try to get as get and stay as close as you can to that maximum speed and then Yeah, the how easy it's to control it at that speed is really important because yeah, I mean it's hard to push it to that limit if it's really hard to control it at high speeds. Makes sense. Yeah. . Okay. And what about the fuselage length? I guess that's just something you tested and came up with a good length there. That may have been the worst design feature because again, we have to have it made out of aluminum to be able to properly assemble the mold and build it and cook it. And coming from very short fuselages on kite oils, wind surface will try to use and they were not happy. So it kept growing from super short kite fuselages to super long over one meter for windsurfing, fos. And then winging came on the scene and now we started trying the windsurfing on a wing board wing foil, and that was way too long. So this whole harmonic, the fuselages was very frustrating because I had to have so many molds made and then you still have to test it and people get better. The wings sizes, like the foil wings get smaller, bigger, and they work differently with each other. And then the wings, handheld wings, they get better, faster, and different size. Push differently on a four. So that's definitely very frustrating or worse. But now it settled in for each wing. I like to use certain length and it seems to work. Yeah, that's not to say it's not gonna change still, but hopefully. And yeah, and I mean there's different geometry configurations based on what front and rear wing we have. And then one general comment I'll make a big difference between wing foiling and kite foiling is there's just so much more based on people's local conditions as well. In the sense that with kite foiling, when we were developing the stuff, the kind of mentality was if it can work well in San Francisco, it's gonna work well everywhere. But the reality is with wing foiling is you've got, one guy who wants, a shorter mass because the amplitude of his waves. And then you've got another one who wants open season high water, another guy who wants a longer fuse because that's what he likes and is used to, and another guy who wants a little bit of a shorter fuse. Yeah, on one hand things are settling, but it's never gonna settle like it was with kite foiling where you have a very sort of specific size that everybody can get into. I think personal preference plays a huge. Roll here. Interesting. Also, whether it's saltwater or freshwater, that, that makes a big difference in that amount of lift or like the, a little bit, but that doesn't affect our geometry shorts. That does, that's never affected, like what front wing we're gonna pair with what back wing and what fuselage length. But us generally speaking for freshwater, you probably need a slightly bigger foil a little bit with a little bit more lift. Is that right to or because it's hot water's denser, or is that not really that Sure, yeah. In, in, in theory. But then at the same time, it's all trade-offs. So you're talking about such a tiny little window to play in right there. That, that, okay. So it's gonna be a little bit faster in the freshwater

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