TPM Episode 189: Greg Nelson, Wakeboard Legend
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Greg Nelson has done everything you can do in the world of wakeboarding. He was an early pro who started the first rider owned company, he's worked retail, and nowadays he calls the shots over at Hyperlite. Greg is a legendary dude in the world of wake and his life and times are full writing the history of the sport. Another must listen episode…..
Greg Nelson Show Notes:
3:00: Seattle sports, old Seattle, and getting on the water
6:00: Making his own wakeboard, snow, team sports and music
16:00: National Title, Fraternity, and finding himself
12:00: K2 Wakeboards, Roadkill, and High Cascade
17:00: Pro Wakeboard Tour, graduating, and HO
21:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
23:00: Double ups in Spray, the old guard, and starting Double Up
28:00: The Double Up Experience, losing Corey Kraut, and a dark place
31:00: Losing his investor, parting ways with the brand, and the end of his pro career
38:00: Peter Glenn Ski & Sports: Get up to 30% off your Labor Day Sale purchase with code inside
42:00: Getting into retail, contacting for Hyperlite, and going in-house with Hyperlite
50:00: Inappropriate Questions with Don Wallace
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a show with inappropriate language, the Powell Movement. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, and this week, well, my life completely sucks right now. |
| 0:21.4 | And my problems are all first world problems. |
| 0:24.3 | So really, I'm just bitching about my life for intro material, but it really does affect |
| 0:28.7 | my performance, so I'm telling you. |
| 0:31.4 | It's home improvement time at my house. |
| 0:33.4 | And like most non-practicing but barmitsford Jews, I am not very good at these types of projects. |
| 0:39.1 | But this time, the work shouldn't be that hard. |
| 0:41.5 | The bulk of it was painting. |
| 0:43.1 | And while most of you don't know this, my junior year in college, I was the manager of a AAA student painter's branch, |
| 0:49.7 | which means I painted $40,000 worth of houses in a summer and I should be good at painting. But really, |
| 0:56.1 | I didn't do shit that summer. I hired a bunch of people to work for me and I hung out with my |
| 1:01.0 | girlfriend and carried a pager so workers could get in touch with me if any emergencies came up. |
| 1:06.2 | So while that job should have prepared me for this project, it didn't. Our goal was to paint two rooms, |
| 1:12.2 | build a bunch of furniture, and get new beds. And the painting part went really smooth. We got to a point |
| 1:17.7 | where we have two white rooms that are 98% painted. And when it's time for touch-ups, my dumbass |
| 1:23.4 | picks up the wrong paint bucket, and all the spots I touched up are now off white. |
| 1:28.8 | My wife points it out and I say the paint is just wet and it'll dry white. |
| 1:33.1 | And go figure, I'm wrong again, which means we have to put on another coat. |
| 1:37.4 | That's kind of par for the course for me and these kind of projects. |
| 1:41.0 | But the biggest issue with this whole project is the bed situation. We get the rooms |
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