Shop Talk #6 | Erik Ruck, Guenther Oka, and Jake Pelot

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08/20/24 • 104 min

We start off the 6th installment of Shop Talk with the Mount Rushmore of Best Wakeboard Contests. After that the boys are talking all things wake, including going over events like Munich Mash, Copenwaken, and the most recent PWT stop. We also go over the new edit "Foama" from Felix Georgii and Dom Hernler, which is an absolute must watch. In addition to edits and events, were chatting about how harshly reverts should be punished in a contest run, the differences between boat and cable cultures, if pro's should pay for a pass to the cable, Herbs Cup, contest pay, Olympic wakeboarding, and streetjam. Hear all this and much more in the 6th Episode of Shop Talk!
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Chapters:
00:00 - 00:20 Intro
00:30 Mt. Rushmore of Contests
20:17 LF’n Wheel of Questions
24:40 Laces in or out?
25:50 Reverts?
31:15 PWT
33:18 Herbs Cup
36:34 Driftline “Deserves Some Love”
43:50 Life Jackets
46:30 Boat vs. Cable worlds
50:00 Foama
55:40 Fatsac Fast Five
1:02:30 Munich Mash
1:04:20 Copenwaken
1:09:00 Contest pay
1:12:00 Wakefest
1:19:00 New products
1:24:00 Free passes to a cable?
1:27:30 Olympics?
1:31:00 Streetjam
1:33:40 Events
Links:
Depth Charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FQONJbAGng
Foama: https://www.redbull.com/hu-hu/videos/foama-felix-georgii-dominik-hernler-unchained-
Victor Copenwaken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evum3CYgUQU
Graham Slam: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9I43bABOFo/
PWT Team Challenge Recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imh6hCz_ixc

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Chase Heavener | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 62

He was given a 1 stop ban on the pro tour for hitting a pine cone with a wiffle ball bat? Chase Heavener is a former professional wakeboarder from Orlando, Florida, and has been around since the early days of the sport. Seeing it progress from "trick ski" style riding to where the sport is today has been a wild ride, and a ride that Chase had some influence in. When he got into the sport, he didn't feel as though the current contest landscape represented his crews style of riding, or their vision for the sport, and some feathers were ruffled in the pursuit of change. After his riding career, Chase went behind the scenes and helped create some of wakeboarding's most iconic videos. Getting banned from Wakeboarding Mag, the New Crew, running a 5 minute mile, Neptune, sinking a boat 4 times, and the current media landscape. Hear all that and much more in Episode 62 of the Grab Matters Podcast!
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Chapters:
00:00 - 1:30 Intro
3:40 Tim Tebow Doc
5:20 Disqualified from the PWT
7:50 Running
9:20 First time riding
14:00 First sponsors
18:00 Finless
22:40 4x4 hole pattern
23:30 Neptune
27:00 New Crew
38:00 LF’n Wheel of Questions
43:25 Gnar ramp
45:50 Mayday
51:00 Getting into filming
56:20 Erik Ruck question
58:25 Attention Deficit
59:23 Driftline “Deserves Some Love”
1:03:00 What makes a movie good?
1:08:30 Pre Pop
1:13:50 WSIA (Ad)
1:14:40 Alliance Wake
1:23:00 Fast Five by Fatsac
1:30:00 Setup
1:34:40 Banned from WBM
1:39:00 X Games Judging
1:44:00 Media landscape
1:51:05 Foiling
Links:
Byerly in Hit It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqpoqCLxxts&t=66s
Gnar Ramp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUEE2rZGxT4
Decline of the waterski monopoly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPvQjFfDQFk&t=1563s
Rave till dawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADe20Gns8QA

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Darin Shapiro | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 63

Who has won the most wakeboard contests? Who has invented the most tricks? Who has signed one of the largest contracts in wakeboardings history? The answer to all of those questions is Darin Shapiro. Darin got started in watersports before wakeboarding as we know it was even a thing. Starting at the cable, Darin took countless laps on a trick ski, and barefooting, but it wasn’t until “ski boarding” came around that he really started to find some success. Darin was flown out by Herb O’Brien to a contest in Hawaii in 1991, and from there Darins journey in the sport began and had no signs of slowing down. Winning over 70 pro contests, inventing countless tricks, starring in 2 video games, signing one of wakeboardings largest contracts, the speedball, and retiring twice. Hear all that and much more in Episode 63 of the Grab Matters Podcast!
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Chapters:
00:00 - 1:40 Intro
3:00 Darin's biggest contract
5:40 Getting started at the cable
14:20 First contest in Hawaii
16:30 Inventing the raley
19:40 Skiboard prototype
23:00 Modifying boards
27:40 Sponsors
31:30 Biggest year
33:15 LF’n Wheel of Questions
39:30 Darin's video game
41:30 Is winning everything?
42:50 Wakeboarding unleashed
45:15 Video parts
49:30 Tricks
54:00 Triples
58:10 Inventing tricks
1:08:20 Driftline “Deserves Some Love”
1:10:55 Scud
1:11:50 Contests
1:17:00 Mindset
1:27:20 Being the “contest guy”
1:32:05 WSIA (Ad)
1:44:20 Retiring
1:48:00 Directional boards
1:50:20 Darin's favorite board
1:53:00 Back problems
2:01:30 Jiu Jitsu
Links:
Hawaii Contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8xt9-aVbk
Resurgence: https://vimeo.com/104328103