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It's not all  the fact that so many young people want to do it shows really good promise for a healthy future. I airbrushed t shirts. And then they end up buying the longer board and the bigger foil because they can't do it on the. A lot of work in the yard, enjoying working around here. It's going to do 90 percent the same thing out in the waves, like what we have, totally different story.Yeah. And even a little bit before that, there was a transition from hand shape as technology improved. Select all our Tactical Supply, Fighting Forces, Duro Threads, and timeless products. I just watched a video yesterday where you were super charging your engine on your VW bus and took a couple of days. I  do a lot for Red Bull. So far removed from what most 13 year olds get to experience.Yeah. That sounds like a great great solution. I was self financed.I had no bank LC. It all works, so another thing I wanted to ask you is right now it seems like the hottest thing in foiling is down, downwind foiling, like everyone's getting into that, buying the long boards and bigger foils, that kind of stuff. And in late 74 bought my own windsurfer for 340, which was a lot of money back then, but for a complete rig. So everybody bought, new tires for their truck and a lift kit and, wing stuff and foil stuff. I didn't want to actually enter,  but figured I'd go over and, chase people around. So just let's talk a little bit about that. So I did the course sorta. Do I stay an amateur, go to college  and then try to get to the Olympics in 84  on the wind glider, which was a piece of crap. Enjoying being an athlete and still being able to do what I love. I'd travel with a rasp and a file and sandpaper and make my dagger board, like a really nice foil. As long as it doesn't become work. Yeah. Like you said now It's like kind of everybody has like piles of inventory and the in the market has Seemed like it plateaued really quickly. I was a pretty responsible kid,  but yeah, I was still 13.And everyone else is older than you and you just showed up and got to the start and just took off where, what happened, how was it? How was the racing? It was, it was a regatta, sailing regatta.   And I love I, I heard in another interview that you actually got into Red Bull because it benefited like the vitamin D or something like that.  Always the best boards in the world from Harold Leakey, who started working with my dad and my dad as a team.  A lot more questions. And I know I'll hurt myself. Russian Invasion of Ukraine: What Happened on Day 41 of the War in Ukraine - The New York Times  Yeah just try to be organic, flexible, make time for not just bringing relentless testing, testing all the time. So when you go out in the water, is it more for fun or you feel like you're also, like you say, pro athlete and marketing and all that kind of stuff? A lot of fun because I don't really put pressure on myself. It made sense and again it was luck. And that grew and grew. Like I was doing all the directional kite boards and then Mickey and I were doing all the standups and all the windsurf boards the last several years. Going, Oh, how many legs do I have? And I just, it brings out the worst in us.  But, I always like to start at the very beginning. We're always successful and it didn't matter, but life changed.I got divorced. It wasn't tall enough. Maui is just a constant flow of guys. I'd be Mickey and I down there testing and trying stuff. You're not going to tap out your demographic quickly. It looks fast watching other guys do it, but then I'll go and do it and we'll do a full on downwinder on a 40 knot day. And so  some boards would weigh 40 pounds. I can say, oh yeah, I ride an 840 most of the time, but my 840 and that 840 might be really different. Like you show up at the event and there's this huge pile of boards cause it's a one design, right? Everybody's racing with, here's a sail, here's a dagger board, here's a mast, a boom. Based In The USA: We are a 100% American owned & operated business. So what's your plan today? What are you  doing? I'm heading down right now to cool out and go shoot. Most of the time, obviously I can write a 30 or 40, a 50, a 60.I've got whatever I want.  And Conditions were pretty light in the Bahamas, fortunately.   But of course, there's still the basic, most people are going to get on a board. And I don't know how many times on that he was national champion on the Hobie 16 in 1972.  And  it was really a good Hobie sailor. And so I do a lot of sharing it like internally speaking to athletes around the world, doing athlete summits and whatnot, sharing about the functionality of the product and how to use it to your benefit. It was like just us. But I just loved it.  And know that you're not throwing in a bunch of other variables where you're like was it that was different or that was different? Then that kind of accuracy is. Pride in country, pride in self, and best of all, we keep jobs in America! That's  I was going to, at least the idea was I was going to major in child psychology and minor in art.  Wow.Okay. Yeah, that's cool.Okay.  So yeah, in general, knock on wood, again, it was the right decision at the right time. I didn't even own a pair of slippers until I was in like the third grade. It's certainly in many ways, not healthy. It scared the hell out of me on a foil, foil surfing. Let's do it in person next time. I get to, enjoy all the fun stuff.  Sorry to interrupt you, but let's go.   And so he took my windsurfer every day that I was at school and was down at Kailua learning how,  and he got really into it. Got a little orchard, watching the fruit grow. Olympic I can't remember, but I donated all the prize money so that I could retain my amateur status because I was still trying to figure out what to do. You even not just, most people just  want to jump on the water and jump on the board too quick. But you would never know it, as a kid and in Hawaii, at least at that point,  you didn't need a lot of money to have an amazing life. And the wind went in the Olympics in 1984, so I graduated in 81. And it happened to be the year that the sport turned professional.  And so I was 11 years old at the time  and we became friends.  And so I was one of the founding partners in that. I was always in my head, a pro athlete, and I also had this business. It's The progression is like so much faster. But Rip Curl and Quicksilver were right next to each other. I'd go, I'd test boards, I'd write a 14, I'd get on an unlimited and just not understand the appeal.  We had it down at Kailua one day and there were a few windsurfers in Hawaii at the time.  You see a kid who started winging five months ago and he's already doing back loops and trying all the rotations and  it's super awesome. Premium Quality Product Quality is what we strive for. Oh, my daughter's doing a volleyball game there. Yeah, and it's such a great way to get into foiling too. A bunch of us flew over from Oahu  and I won that and it was a thousand dollars prize money.  Yeah, I've got a sticker drawer right here.Let me grab one. When you see what Cash and these guys are doing on actual breaking waves I want to stay the fuck away from white water.  I think Thor, Larry Stanley, Dennis Davidson, Pat Love, some of the local Kailua guys.  Middle aged people want to do it, older guys want to do it,  girls want to do it, women want to do it. Yeah, like my interviews can tend to go pretty long, but you just told me that you have a photo shoot today.  And then  the new one is different.It's not a script. I don't want I don't want to be part of that whole  Freaking me, it can Become unhealthy. It was surfing, skimboarding, sailing, just that first feeling of being able to grab the wind and go and make it all work was  just absolutely addicting. It was still not great.  At least enough for a,  an old Winster where you could sell every day. It looks like they're  getting pulled by a spaceship.  But it's more the difference between, say, wave sailing and slalom racing or course racing, where even today on the really short, really wide slalom boards,  The guys are using  seven meters when you'd be on a five, a wave sail,  four or five way.   It's a shit show at the moment in this race to advance and make it higher tech and higher performance and more expensive and more complicated and more technical. I don't think it's a positive thing personality wise. I'll hardly ever even go on a four, seven, just cause the way the equipment has evolved, it's changed. I met the guys and at that point, obviously you could be. We always made money, but I was just getting really worn down with the pressure of the business side of the business. They weren't allowed to spend money on other things.   And so I traveled with them  and I got second in Berkeley to Mike Waltz  and he already had a ticket to the world somehow from the year before, and I ended up getting his ticket, so that's what got me to the Bahamas in 1976  to the world championship.  And so I'm like, Oh, I didn't know what to do. That's what athletes today have to be on social media and stuff like that. Yeah. So you enjoying life a little bit more. He got one of the first Hobie cats in Hawaii when Hobies were launched. My brother, Randy, who's a year and a half older than I am, myself and my sister when they moved to Hawaii,  when I was, I think almost four years old,  fortunately. And, knock on wood, I'm in the luxurious position where I can do that. I was like that weird boy that did the babysitting in the neighborhood because the girls were all irresponsible and I was responsible. And then  I refoiled my dagger boards. I've been airbrush painting since I was a little kid,  but I knew I couldn't major in art. USA Flag Painted Mens Board Shorts Polyester Microfibre Shorts 100% Polyester Great to wear in the water! Fitted Waistband, Inside Liner I'm still writing a floater. They're exactly the same except for one specific change on each one. It's like a family at this point. And of course that had to end at some point, people have to work again. And and you were like my idol, so cool for me to be able to just have a conversation with you and all that. And this summer is going to be super exciting for me. Which was  the world's best place for a kid to grow up. You can make three prototypes. And, I'm not  really into racing, so to speak, but obviously, I'm old school, like I'm not doing loops and fricking spins and everything on the foil. Tactical Pro Supply American Flag Board Shorts - White Flag (Size 32 Hurley Boardshorts Men American Flag It's just as much fun now as it was in 2010. It's just less crowded.All good.  knowledge or you have to be a little bit into it,  terms of accessibility, I think stand up is still probably the most accessible sport for almost anybody, right? Yeah. Oh, I'm on a 450 and a 30 liter board.All right.  Kiting was a transition from that into the beginnings of the internet. There's a lot of benefits to it, but there's some disadvantages to it as well. I don't want to do that. And by the time you swimming in your board, it's halfway to the boat ramp. As a 13 year old went to Bahamas, there's like I remember those days when you traveling, you can't be like, Oh yeah, just text me or call me when you get there. About this item Product Information: Our Tactical Pro Supply American Flag Board Shorts is machine was cold. Product includes One (1) Board Short Excellent Features: Excellent Features: American flag board shorts material and fabric is 90% Polyester and 10% Spandex, with pocket on lower right side, professionally printed graphic I've got a strange mind too, like my parents remember everything from their whole life. You start to look at things differently as you get older, risk starts to become different, stress you handle differently. And obviously they're changing a lot of things administratively and whatnot, but I think we'll be good in the end. My dad taught me, a lot of tactics, how to start, different rules and back then that was a big part of it was quite tactical, especially light wind course racing. Since I sold the operating companies a little over a year ago,  I'm less hands on every single thing that happens as there was before,  but Mickey Schweiger and I have been doing pretty much all the board designs for anything directional.   But it is unfortunately with 60 brands already worldwide, everyone's stand up in the beginning where it was like, Oh yeah, here, I'm going to get into this business. And if you make a mistake, it affects them and their whole families. So good to have you on the Blue Planet show.Welcome. Right on.Thanks, Robert. Good to be here.Yeah. There are all these manufacturers now there was money, there were pro events, and I had to make that decision. I mean that from the very beginning, right? That kind of that Naish. It's like snowboarding and being everybody gets in, stand up at the beginning, everybody gets in and they do a couple of containers of stuff and then they realize, wow, business isn't as easy as I thought it was going to be.  Alright, so as always, I really appreciate everyone that watches the show all the way to the end on , or listens to it as a podcast. And he also designed the first Naish logo when his dad started making boards under the Naish label. I love working with the guys.I love the sports.I love riding. That was a fun time. Yeah, he's a  couple of years older than me. And then from then on, it was just divisional weight class titles. There's a whole leverage thing in the beginning. And you can do that anywhere, any little lake, Bay, whatever. And working with the new owners under license. It wasn't the thrill of winning. Product Information: Our Tactical Pro Supply American Flag Board Shorts is machine was cold. I get to work with Mickey and Des and Noah and the crew. Winging is just so easy and accessible that aspect of it, I freaking love the fact that it's getting people on the water, like you said, older guys, it's the only sport at the moment where you see 70 year old guys getting into it and seven year old kids getting into it and everything in between and all of them stoked  and. Yeah.Yeah.Yeah. And  that's not a healthy way to run things, so there's some unhealthy brands out there at the moment even some pretty big ones. Now it's maybe 10 percent and we're doing more standup again, which is interesting, like it seems like that's making a comeback.  poke myself in the eye with this, but that's just me. Let's do our own thing. I've been super busy doing stuff so not as much time for the shows but I do have some people I still want to interview. A lot of people can't, they're, they have to just fucking work  two jobs all day, every day and have a hard time getting their head above water. And I just was like, wow, this is,  it sounds super lame. They had the  race over there and that was super fun.   I think really helped and then  I'm just pretty focused as well. It's the most accessible foil.  On a bottle that was about to explode.   And so I flew with him  and slept on his floor. I sold Nalukai Incorporated, Pacific Border Sports. The sales sponsor that I had been with my entire pro career, Gastra, at that time had been bought and sold and bought and sold several times.  And. And I know how lucky I am to be in the position that I'm in that I can enjoy those other aspects of life. Because when everybody was home  with free time and free money from the government, not just in America, but all over the world, they're sitting around. And it's just so much more. I was in Austria last Last summer  there were like a thousand standups out on this one tiny lake that I was doing a thing on and it's awesome It's getting people on the water and a certain percentage of those people stay with it end up buying a composite board or you know they're  Associated then with board riding water sports and they get into other things whether it be kiting or winging or whatever So whatever is getting people out on the water is a good thing  It's a good thing. And then I guess most of your boards in the beginning were shaped by your dad, right? And then I think, when did Harold Iggy start making Naish boards? And I think Jerry Lopez made some boards too, right? Yeah Jerry was later on when we were doing stand up. If I fall between waves, I want to get up before the next wave. Cause I want to get up.   It was a full on open channel race and he thought he was going to smoke everybody. See you on the water.Aloha.  But what would you say did you have a secret to your success? Like, How did you just keep winning and stay on top of the game? Like what was your special sauce that you, is there something you can share? At that point as an amateur racing windsurfer glass, I think luck was a big part of it that I often had conditions that just perfectly suited My weight, cause I was really light compared to most guys, even in the classes,  but I also had a pretty unfair advantage of  training in Hawaii, where we've got, a pretty short period of time between 74 and 76. I probably had  twice as much water time as almost everybody else in the event who came from places where it's seasonal, or cold and, not very much wind, in Hawaii, you've got that trade wind. Mike Corgan, Larry Stanley, Ken Clyde, a few other guys and they set some buoys and they were doing little triangle races and asked if  Randy, my brother, and I wanted to race with them on our Hobie. I don't have to post on . And so it really gave me an advantage, promotionally connecting with fans and going to the German events, going to ISPO, going to Dusseldorf Messe. Then we were allowed to surf the flat. Hope you stay stoked out there.  We were always successful. It's already so flooded and so crazy. And again, just incredibly lucky to have even had the opportunity, one, to have got the free air ticket there because I couldn't have gone otherwise. Perfect gift idea for any occasion like Christmas, Birthday, Graduation, Father’s Day, Valentines Day, Anniversary and more. It depends on your weight, depending on your conditions, depends on the wind, depends on what you're trying to accomplish. You don't have this, arc of death with your kite. I hung out with Mike Waltz and Matt Schweitzer and guys like that. We stand behind all of our Products. I was trying to tell people, you're not trying to take off like an airplane. I'll try to respect. And we were able to duplicate things a lot more accurately doing it. So I was going to major in child psychology. And a lot of other people just go, yeah, we're all in. Thanks so much for your time and really enjoy the conversation.  He's a state champion in the Hobie 14 like five times. And maybe we can do it again one day. And now it's slowed down to what's I think a more constant flow. Satisfaction Details We stand behind all of our Products. Getting, Like here's some free time and some free money. And it's helped my career again, just right place, right time, lucky decision. And yeah. And most people didn't even have a clue. And  it's too much work, not enough reward. And so it's much more precise now.  And I had at that point, again, luckily at the same time sponsors offering me contracts. Base and go pick up a board out of the pile. See what the day brings. I don't drink, I don't smoke, don't do drugs,  try and live clean.Live life honorably. First time he became a windsurfing world champion was when he was 13 years old, traveling by himself to the Bahamas.Great stories. Watch our first harvest of avocados on the way. Did you did you have an idea of what you wanted to study if you went to UC Santa Cruz?  Yeah, I was really into art and did a lot of art through school, sculpture, glassblowing. So it's not like foiling is definitely a little bit more take some skills and some water.  And in my head, like I said, I'm still a pro athlete.I'm 61 years old. So I'm blasting around. So triangle races, you usually did. Like you guys were always winging and working together in Kailua and stuff, right? Yeah. So he started making boards in the garage. So the progression is so fast and we've got an entire information packet from a construction standpoint, from a development standpoint of all the other sports behind us, technically that are helping to advance the wing foiling equipment too. It's not all 60 year old guys with money. So I think this interview gives you a really nice insight of how Robbie Naish He lives his life today and hope to get some more time with him soon. So these are some of the current, currently used logos, but Robbie's gonna pull out an old sticker of his original logo. That's awesome. I go down on weekends and those guys were like teaching windsurfing. And that's already healing itself. Testing and writing and doing photo shoots.  It can come really quick. Like my average sale now over here is a four or five. Today's show is extra special. Good boyfriend, good dad, good son,  good grandpa. So 10, 11, 12th grade, I went to Punahou, graduated in 81.Okay. If you're really going fast,  you're going to use as big. And back in the day when you first went.  He really needs no introduction: 27 times windsurfing world champion and a pioneer in kite surfing, Stand Up Paddle boarding, foiling and wing foiling. We lived up right up from Lani Kai boat ramp in Kailua next to Lani Kai elementary school. They don't have the free time anymore. Premium Quality Boardshorts 90% Polyester / 10% Spandex Drawstring Waist Closure Velcro Pocket Professionally Printed Ships from NY Proceeds Donated to The PTSD Foundation  And I won in the Bahamas  and  that got me an airfare to the next year's world championship  in Sardinia in 77 went to Sardinia, I won there, which gave me a ticket to Cancun in 78.I won there and it gave me a ticket to the next year.   Wing foiling is the only one that's from start to finish. Sorry.Photo shoot guys. Make the best, navigate that path in as healthy a way as possible. No, the script, the scripty Naish with the sail. And now I'm, I wouldn't say I'm fluent, but I'm pretty much conversationally at least  fluent. Is that the same for you guys or?  Yeah, ours has been pretty balanced and, we're, we were the first in  winging, so we were doing a lot of wings from the very beginning and  I anticipated the glut  that was coming after COVID, you could tell that everybody was bumping up production at the factories. And so I was pretty driven to try to succeed, to avoid that feeling of losing. I really like little kids.I like to babysit. Once we, Could show that we could swim from the boat ramp to flat and back. And then you were able to just parlay that into more and more tickets to more and more events and just kept going from there.  So who who does the board design now? Do you, are you directly involved or like how closely are you involved with design and so on? Yeah. Humility is a positive trait. My mind and body are allowing me to keep basically playing and having fun. You ride a bigger sale. Wing foiling actually we're doing some video over The last week into this next week for next year's stuff and it's it's sunny and windy and flat because here on Oahu, it seems like there's no wind at all right now.  Yeah, even back in the days of wing wind surfing I remember you were always more on a bigger sail than most of the other guys, right?  Yeah  Wave sailing is different even here.  Yeah, it's still cool. Thanks so much. It's everybody's wing foiling. And in those days,  amateur professional was this absolute  black line. I made paper shell necklaces. There's a point at which you just can't keep the thing in the water anymore reaching, and you've got to scale down the size of your foil at least. Cause yeah, really your design. You sitting in your office?  In my office?  Yeah. But I love everything the company is all about as well. Quicksilver only did board shorts and t shirts. So talk a little bit about how you like to set up your gear that's different from how other people use it, yeah, it's really hard to generalize because with so many brands of foils back there in the market there's really a difference in lift. All right, Robbie Naish. Of risk capital in an industry where your margins are pretty fine. I don't want to race against the light guys like that anymore. It looked like of tinkering in your garage. And like you were saying how accessible wing foiling is, but in comparison to that, stand up is 10 times easier. It was really that the fear of losing that was a big driver for me. But in, and it's a big reason why I got, came to Maui to windsurf and ended up living here too.So thanks for that. And after, several years of being sponsored by both, I had to make a decision  to go with one or the other and yeah. If you aren't happy with your purchase, our US-based customer care team is ready to help. So what made you decide, okay, I'm going to just start making my own sales or start my own business. You can,  especially on bigger boards, it's a bit harder, when you're doing a five, one kite board, things are compact enough that you can make micro changes pretty easily without affecting other stuff, but we were doing it now. So I guess, yeah,  it's always windy here.Yeah. And then using too small a board, too small a foil too quickly, let it, come to you and  you'll outgrow your stuff  relatively quickly, but there's always a friend that wants to learn. I'm still, I'm doing standup a lot. And it just became this vicious circle of stress. Our #1 priority is to make sure that you are completely satisfied with your order. And I appreciate that. And then got into windsurfing. Obviously, I could do it. I understand the appeal.It's awesome. All of our products are proudly printed, packaged, and shipped right here in the USA. You don't need any waves at all. There was a short summer, so we started doing jackets and we started doing ski stuff.  And so guys would of course drift down the beach  and then I'd spend my day walking down and so they didn't have to drag their gear back up the beach upwind. So then you paddle out and back then it was before leashes. The equipment they got first and then they realize, Oh, and then, it's, it can be so frustrating if you can't get up on foil and you're just like paddling this tippy foil board all the way down when it's like, Oh yeah, talk about a heart attack. Yeah. I'm doing the I'm going to do Maui to Molokai to Oahu races on a wing foil board.  Participating a lot now are getting into wing foiling. That's where people just, crash and you'll see him doing the same mistakes for days and days.Or if you just. They're going so fast.