BOOTHCAST

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Surf Ironman Kendrick Louis and is brought to you by BOOTH Training Kendrick Louis was born on the Northern Beaches of NSW, hated the water after a near drowning incident as a kid, but learn to love the ocean in his early teens. Forever competitive, he was a successful nipper and cadet before moving into the senior ranks and ultimately winning the winning the Australian I...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Slater Trout and is brought to you by BOOTH Training Slater is one of the original Pro SUP athletes on the scene in the mid-late 2000s and helped forged the path for many athletes including myself. Now semi-retired from SUP he has podiumed multiple times in events like BOP (PPG), ISA World Champs, Columbia Gorge Challenge, and Payette River Games. He spent his childhood i...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Sonni Hönscheid and is brought to you BOOTH Training Sonni is a 4 x World Champion in SUP, 3 x Molokai to Oahu Champion, 6 x European Champion, 2 x Carolina Cup Champion and has a bunch of other notable titles. She grew up with her dad a professional Windsurfer and lived between the Canary Islands, Hawaii and Germany. Surfing was her first passion become 2 x German Champi...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Mackenzie Hynard and brought to you by BOOTH Training Mackenzie is a Surfski paddler from the South Coast of NSW. His highlights over the past few years include winning the U23 ICF World Championships in 2015, he's placed 2nd in major international events like Hong Kong and The Doctor and he's won the Australian SLS double ski title with Cory Hill. We chat about his upbri...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Zane Kekoa Schweitzer and is brought to you by Vaikobi Zane is a 2x Ultimate Waterman champion, a ISA Surfing gold medallist, an ocean advocate and book author. He is so inspiring when talking to him about his work with preserving the ocean and he tells us of the death-defying incident where everything changed for him. We speak about his introduction to the water on Maui,...

This BOOTHCAST is with Thomas Fraser-Holmes and is brought to you by Shaw and Partners Race Team Tom grew up in the steel city of Newcastle competing in Swimming and Surf Life Saving. A very talented athlete from a young age he excelled in these sports before really taking it seriously when he turned 17 and moved into the AIS scholarship program. He has since become a 2x Olympian, a Dolphins swim...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Izzi Gomez and is brought to you by BOOTH Training Izzi Gomez is a Professional Surfer, Water Woman and a 5x SUP Surfing World Champion. At just 14 she won her first World Championship in SUP Surfing and became the youngest ever person to do so. At just 19 years old, Izzi recently made history by winning the first ever gold medal for SUP Surfing at the 2019 Pan American G...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Shaun Rice and is brought to you by Shaw and Partners Race Team Shaun Rice is a local Perth icon in Ocean Ski paddling, originally from Durban, South Africa he has an incredible history in all types of paddling including sprint, slalom, ocean ski and river racing. His focus was never on winning races as he was more about having fun and enjoying the journey. This doesn’t m...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Sean Rice and is brought to you by Vaikobi Sean is a multiple World Champion in Surfski, having won both the ICF & Molokai titles, and has basically won every international Surfski event on the calendar. We speak about his upbringing in Cape Town, having a late start to Surfski, meeting Emily, changing his life, joining Think, chasing Molokai, competing in events arou...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Gerd Weisner and is brought to you by BOOTH Training! Gerd competed in the 'heyday' of windsurfing at the end of the 80s and embraced alpine snowboard racing in the early 90s. Finding a passion for action sports in his native Germany he began to sell windsurf equipment out of his father’s garage, opened a travel organisation and started along an entrepreneurial path. He v...

Today’s BOOTHCAST is with Annie Reickert and is brought to you by Vaikobi! Annie does just about everything in the water, surfing, big wave surfing, SUP racing, SUP surfing, foiling, wing foiling and is a true waterwoman. Growing up on Maui she was introduced to the water sports culture from a young age and admired waterman like Kai Lenny, Dave Kalama and Robby Naish. She talks to us about SUP rac...

Todays BOOTHCAST is with Ivan Lawler MBE and is brought to you by BOOTH Training. Ivan is a British Canoeist who raced through the 80s & 90s to become a 3x Olympian (for sprint) and a 6x World Champion (in Marathon and 10k)! We chat about his early days being born into a paddling family, how he enjoys all types of paddling, finding a love for marathon racing, his wins, his loses, commentating,...

This BOOTHCAST is with Jeremy Cotter and is brought to you by BOOTH Training Jeremy was one of my idols when getting into Ocean Ski and was someone who really helped me get started! A professional Ironman from 1998-2006 in the Uncle Toby's then the Nutri-Grain, A 3x winner of the Shaw and Partners 20 Beaches Ocean Classic, 5x champion at the Bridge to Beach, a 4x Australian Ocean Ski Champion and...

Todays BOOTHCAST is with Ramon Andersson and is brought to you by BOOTH Training Ramon Andersson is a dual Olympian from the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games in the sport of kayaking. His career highlights include winning a bronze medal in the K4 1000m (4 man kayak) and backing up two months later to win the Gold medal in the World Marathon Canoeing Championships in K2. Ramon has been...

This BOOTHCAST is with Travis Grant and is brought to you by Vaikobi x BOOTH Apparel! Travis is an OC1 and SUP Molokai Champion and is the only person to have done it. He is from the Gold Coast of Australia but landed himself on Oahu with his young family enjoying the ocean each and every day. We chat about a bunch of interesting topics including his upbringing, his introduction to OC1, paddling s...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Surf Ironwoman Courtney Hancock and is brought to you by BOOTH Training. Courtney is a 3x Ironwoman Series Champion, 3x Coolangatta Gold winner and a 2x Australian Ironwoman Champion. We chat about what drove Courtney to be an Ironwoman, winning the trifecta of Ironwoman races, key racing moments in her career, how she's still striving for more, what it's like to have Aus...

This BOOTHCAST is with Waterman Kai Lenny and is brought to you by Vaikobi. Kai is a global phenomenon when it comes to ocean sports. He is a big wave surfer, foiler, windsurfer, kite surfer, SUP paddler and a master of the ocean. He tells us about his upbringing on Maui, how he got into surfing as a kid, his need for progression, his SUP world titles, his big wave wins, foiling M2O, getting smoke...

This BOOTHCAST is with Olympian Alyce Wood - Athlete and is brought to you by BOOTH Training. Alyce Wood is a Canoe Sprint athlete  and competed in her first Olympics in 2016 at Rio. She became the K1 1000m World Champion in 2017 and has recently qualified for the 2020 (2021) Tokyo Olympic Games. Alyce speaks about how it all started, her progression as a kayaker from chasing the best to winn...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Japanese SUP Champion Kenny Kaneko and is brought to you by BOOTH Training. Kenny is a 4x Japanese National SUP Champion who was born in Chigasaki Japan but was raised in Southern California. Once moving back to Japan he found a love for OC1 which then progressed into SUP in 2013. He has had a great deal of success since then travelling around on the international circuit...

Today's BOOTHCAST is with Surf Ironman Max Beattie and is brought to you by BOOTH Training. Max is a 4x New Zealand Ironman Champion and a 3x World Life Saving Champion. He grew up playing a plethora of sports but fell in love with Surf Life Saving which is still his focus. We speak about the mental side of racing, winning in training, distractions, learning from different coaches, racing in teams...

This BOOTHCAST is with Mr VMG Blades Chris Ting and is brought to you by BOOTH Training. Chris tells of how he growing up in Sydney and finding a passion in sailing and designing his own yacht. He also became a competitive windsurfer and found his love for design with Formula windsurfing fins. He began making fins for SUP when he got involved himself in SUP in 2013 after a few of his friends wante...

Todays BOOTHCAST is with Surf Ironwoman legend Karla Gilbert OAM and is brought to you by BOOTH Training! Karla has had an exceptional career and was most certainly someone I looked up to when I was a youngster. She has 7 Surf Ironwoman Series titles, 3 Australian Ironwoman crowns, 6 (or maybe more) Australian SUP titles and she is a hall of famer Internationally and nationally. It was awesome to...

This BOOTHCAST is with Cheif Innovator of Starboard SUP Svein Rasmussen. Svein had an incredible windsurfing career becoming Mistral World Champion in 1983 and he competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles where he placed 11th. He began Starboard in 1993 with the goal of getting as many people into windsurfing as possible by creating boards that were more appealing to the general public. We...

This BOOTHCAST is with Surfski World Champion Danielle Mckenzie and is brought to you by BOOTH Training Danielle has an extremely impressive pedigree in ocean sports, she is a 41 time national champion in Surf Life Saving in NZ which includes 4x Ironwoman Titles, 4x Surf Ski and 5x Board titles. Now residing on the Gold Coast she competes in the Professional Ironwoman series and has recently made...

This BOOTHCAST is with Tristan Boxford CEO of the APP World Tour and is brought to you by BOOTH Training.  I know Tristan from his work with the Stand Up World Series and now with the Association of Paddlesurf Professionals. In our chat we speak about his vision behind the tour which is now in its tenth year. We talk about his successes and failures and why he sees Stand Up Paddling as the mo...