Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for this fun Saturday episode. Episode 78 is a rapid fire question session with Dorien Llewellyn and Joel Poland. At the end of their interviews for the podcast, Matteo asked them a series of questions, some related to skiing, some not so much. It was a decent editing effort to rearrange it all, but the result is fun and entertaining :) Enjoy the episode and see you next Tuesday! _________________________ This episode is also brought to you by the...

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for the last episode of 2021 with Nicholas Benatti! After covering his progression in tricks in part 1, Nicholas discusses the role of slalom in his skiing, and how this event became e more prominent part of his training throughout the years. Matteo and Nicholas go in fine details about slalom skiing and the events that led the now Italian Trick Record holder to get noticed among the six buoys. Nicholas also shares his ideas on how to change the current...

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for Episode 76, this time with Nicholas Benatti! Matteo and Nicholas started their ski journey together pretty much from day 1. Arguably, they know everything about each other as skier and friends. Yet, there is always something novel or interesting to (re)discover through a conversation in front of microphones. In this first part, Nicholas goes through his tricks journey, which started early but really took off after a very significant event at the...

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for Episode 75 with Joel Poland! Joel is the current World Champion and World Record Holder in Overall. These two facts alone are enough to sanction him as the most dominant water skier on the scene today. Joel also has a strong following on social media, where he shares very entertaining content about his everyday life a water skier. In this second part of the interview, Joel talks about the last two years, starting with a remarkable performance at the...

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for Episode 74 with Joel Poland! Joel is the current World Champion and World Record Holder in Overall. These two facts alone are enough to sanction him as the most dominant water skier on the scene today. Joel also has a strong following on social media, where he shares very entertaining content about his everyday life a water skier. In this first part of the interview, Matteo brought Joel back to his early days in the sport, covering beginnings to the...

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for Episode 73 with Trent Finlayson! In this episode, Matteo and Trent look back at the 2021 season and discuss what impressed them, what they have noticed, and specific achievements obtained by some incredible athletes. From Jacinta Carroll's World Record to the rise of Dane Mechler and Brian Detrick, and everything in between. Also, check out Spraymakers, the podcast Trent co-hosts with Chris Rossi, where they dissect slalom skiing for the rest of us...

This comeback episode is with no other than Vincent Stadlbaur from The Waterski Broadcasting Company.

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for Episode 71 with Steffen Wild! Steffen is a former Pro water skier from Germany and owner of Wild Wake Park, a cable facility in Steinberg am See, Germany. Recently, Steffen and his family have been skiing with Matteo in Italy, so it was the perfect opportunity to sit down and record live. Steffen had somewhat of an unconventional path to greatness in water skiing, although he was very good already at a young age. At the same time, his commitment to...

This episode of The Water Ski Podcast is the announcement of the launch of Waterski Pro Tour! As many of you might have heard through different interviews published in recent times, Matteo has been involved in a project aimed at redacting the former Elite Points into simpler and easier-to-understand Pro Points. This new categorization was approved by the IWWF Tournament Council, thereby sanctioning this as the new format. The next step and the major mission was to unify all these exciting...

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast! After a brief brake, Matteo is back with a new guest and a very rich episode! Episode 69 is with Bruce Reid! Bruce is a former World Championship medalist, Pro Tour competitor, and orthopedic surgeon. Matteo connected with Bruce in October after joining a wok group within the IWWF Medical Committee. The goal of this group is to update on and off water protocols for concussion recognition and management, as well as spread awareness and education about...

Episode 68 of The Water Ski Podcast is a great roundtable chat with Carl Denis and Nick Parsons, the people behind The Parsons Project. Since Matteo saw a new ski bearing Nick's last name, featuring a pineapple, and with Carl being involved, he has been dying to get the two in front of microphones. These two individuals are a pleasure to be around, have a ton of knowledge about ski design, construction, and the materials that are needed. However, they also never own a ski company nor were...

In this Swerve Psyc episode, Matteo and Marcus Brown discuss the Psychology of Flow and its expression in water skiing.

This episode of The Water Ski Podcast is a great conversation with Chris Rossi and Trent Finlayson, the hosts of Spraymakers.

Thibaut is among the very best overall skiers… and slalom skiers … and trick skiers in the World!

In this new episode of Swerve Psyc, Matteo touches on the concept of locus of attention and how it can be applied to water skiing.

Erik is a Swedish water skier and creator of the OffCourse™, a new way to create a slalom course on the water.

John is a competitive skier and well-known in the water ski community as the founder and person behind BallOfSpray.

Nick Adams is an Australian Pro water skier and coach. Listen to his journey into water skiing and thoughts about the sport!

Welcome to the last TWSP episode of 2020. As we all look forward to a better new year, hear what guests of the show are looking forward to for 2021.

Episode 56 of TWSP is a great long conversation with Claudio Köstenberger! Claudio is among the top Jumpers in the World, a master story teller, and straight up genuine guy! In this episode Matteo gets to learn more about the very early skiing days of Claudio, followed by a recollection of Claudio's junior and collegiate days that saw the two of them following a very similar path. The second part of the episode is more topic-based in nature. Here, Claudio speaks his mind about what he deems...