MANUEL SELMAN
You’ve been involved with Slingshot for many years – a super successful team rider, team manager, testing, developing, content creating – you’ve done it all… what’s your role now? And what else would you like to accomplish?
Thanks for the kind words! Anything to keep the dream alive haha! I wear many hats for Slingshot, over the years I realized I enjoy producing content and I’m good at it, everything from planning shoots, filming, editing, riding in the shoots and working with media personnel. That skillset is valuable to kite companies as creating content for wind sports is not easy. My roles for Slingshot at the moment are social media management, media production and publishing. One of my personal goals is to accomplish more adventurous foiling missions and create content doing so. I want to foil in places people have never foiled. I really enjoy that feeling of being exposed and coming out the other side to conquer something that hasn’t been done before. I have a list of top secret missions to accomplish…
XANDER RAITH
Growing up, you, along with the UK boys, are the reason I got into kiting. You guys exposed many parallels between kiting and other board sports, which ultimately motivated me to learn. I am curious who in particular influenced your approach to kiting?
That’s awesome to hear! I grew up watching the movie Autofocus on repeat, the Autofocus crew were
