Shop Talk #5 | Johnny D, Jake Ramsdell and T.J. Giesey

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07/23/24 • 187 min

We start off the 5th installment of Shop Talk with the Mount Rushmore of "Worst things that can happen to you on the boat". After that were touching on wakeskating making an appearance at the X Games, who is the best wake photographer, life jacket requirements, optimal cable speed, winch kickers, Wake The City, RGR, a question from Sam De Haan on our thoughts on "grabbing a rail" while riding, Don Pedro, and Violet. We end this episode with all of our gnarliest winching stories, with T.J. having a wild one from winching at a spot in South Florida.
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Chapters:
00:00 - 27:00 Mount Rushmore
27:25 LF’n Wheel of Questions
30:00 Best photographer
35:50 X Games Wakeskating
46:35 Driftline Deserves Some Love
52:50 Instagram Questions
1:15:00 Building a kicker
1:16:30 30km as cable speed?
1:21:00 Fatsac Fast Five Sponsor insert
1:26:00 Event calendar
1:36:00 PWL Talk
1:48:35 Return of Remote?
1:49:35 Red Bull Wake the City
1:53:30 RGR
1:59:15 Pardon My Take Wakeboarding
2:09:00 Don Pedro x Spicytv
2:13:30 IWWF Pan Am
2:17:25 New Wake Park in Virginia
2:24:30 Best part in wakeboarding
2:25:50 Violet
2:32:40 Bussup Bussup
2:34:40 Gnarliest winch stories
Links:
Chris Roberts at X Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhyC0w8meaA
Wake The City: https://www.redbull.com/us-en/events/red-bull-wake-the-city/
RGR: https://www.grabmatters.com/rail-garden-rampage
PMT Wakeboarding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukkWGdK4nhg
Don Pedro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Fh7j9z678
Violet:
Virginia Wake Park: https://www.slobber.xyz/articles/the-man-behind-the-lake
Tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gohcSuZ5IXQ&t=840s
Human Rocket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRoEu0a3iWQ&t=404s
Felix Real Wake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-R0ia0K2BQ

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Raph Trinidad | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 59

Did you know Raph didn't hit a single feature in his first 6 months of riding? Hailing from the Philippines, Raph Trinidad got his start riding at a cable where the depth ranged from 6 inches to 8 feet deep, depending on the tide. After choosing wakeboarding over soccer, Raph dedicated his life to being one of the best riders, and now has some of the cleanest and most powerful air tricks in the game. Although he was able to ride year round, Raph found it hard to get sponsor support being in a more remote part of the world. Double flips, winching, living in the U.S. vs Asia, getting on Red Bull, Republic Wake Park, Philippine trivia, favorite parks, and the Tabo. Hear all this and much more in Episode 59 of the Grab Matters Podcast!
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00:00 - 1:30 Intro
1:50 Double flips
4:50 Boat riding
5:15 Winching
8:15 crail grab
9:15 Moving to America
12:00 Philippines vs. US
14:00 Coaching
16:00 Getting into wakeboarding
23:55 Influences
24:30 Sponsors
29:00 Setup
32:20 LF’n Wheel of Questions
37:00 Air tricks
39:45 Contests
41:55 RGR
42:35 Lray
46:00 Red Bull
52:20 Driftline Deserves Some Love
54:20 Republic Wakeboards
56:40 Republic Wakepark
57:50 Philippine Trivia
1:01:00 Underrated and overrated tricks
1:05:50 Contests
1:16:00 Favorite parks
1:19:00 The tabo
1:23:00 Thank you’s

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Bill Porter | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 60

How do you navigate running a brick and morter pro shop in today's time where Amazon seems to run everything eCommerce? Bill Porter is the founder and owner of Performance Ski and Surf, located in Orlando, Florida. Being in the heart of the towed watersports scene, Bill's shop is the "go to" pro-shop for everything wake and watersports. Although his mom initially tried to get people to convince Bill to not open Performance, he did it anyways, and has had a profound influence on both pro riders and beginners alike. Herb O'Brien's influence, wakeboard tech, online operation vs. brick and mortar, customer service, the most important innovation wakeboarding has seen, selling snow gear, Nautique vs. Mastercraft, and the future of wakeboarding and Performance Ski and Surf. Hear all that and much more in Episode 60 of the Grab Matters Podcast!
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Perfski: https://perfski.com/
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00:00 - 1:20 Intro
4:00 Intro to watersports
7:20 Herb Obrien
10:00 Dealer territories
15:00 Waterskiing vs. Wakeboarding
22:30 Wakeboard tech
24:25 More retro boards
26:10 LF’n Wheel of Questions
31:40 GOAT
33:50 Online stores
35:20 Customer service
47:44 Driftline Deserves Some Love
50:00 OWC x Perfski
53:00 Industry shifts
55:00 Gear talk
1:03:20 Ski Boat Covers (Ad)
1:07:20 Selling snow gear
1:13:25 Question from Rusty Malinoski
1:18:40 Grassroots
1:31:10 Being a pro
1:33:10 Nautique to MasterCraft
1:41:30 Most influential
1:44:00 Future of wakeboarding
1:53:40 Future of Perfski