Today’s podcast guest is the always affable, ever insightful, and fun loving Carter Johnson. Carter is now best known as the founder and organizer of the Gorge Downwind Paddle Festival in Hood River, OR. After just two year this festival has established itself as the biggest SUP, Outrigger, and SURFSKI event in the US and […]
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PPP Episode 008: From Flat Water Sprinting to Big Ocean Surfing with Zsolt Szadovszki
Today’s guest, Zsolt Szadovszki started paddling at the young age of 7 years old in Budapest Hungary, in the heart of a country that takes it’s paddling very serious. Zsolt was a semi-pro at the age of 14 and continued accelerating up the ranks to the national team at age 17. Unfortunately the […]
PPP Episode 007: Winning Gold, Becoming Explosive, and the Future of Surfski Design, with Greg Barton
In today’s episode I sit down with the ever humble, focused, and driven Greg Barton, founder of Epic Kayaks (originally Epic Paddles) and the most decorated US paddler in history. Greg won Bronze in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics then broke a 52 year drought for the US when he won back to back […]
PPP Episode 06: Passion Precedes Purpose with Dawid Mocke
Follow your passion and it will lead you to your purpose In this episode of Peak Paddle Performance we catch up with Dawid Mocke in Hood River just before he heads out to race the Gorge Downwind Championships. This interview comes right on the heels of a victory at the Canadian Surfski Championship where […]
PPP Episode 005: Master the art of downwind with Boyan Z
Humility Makes the Ultimate Student, which in Turn Makes the Ultimate Coach Today’s podcast guest is Boyan Zlatarev from Tarifa. One of the conditions for getting Boyan to come on the show was that I not embarrass him with flattery. So with that, I will just say this… Boyan’s humility makes him […]
