TONY LOGOSZ

Hi Tony, so firstly give our readers a little introduction on who you are and what you do.

I'm the chief designer at Slingshot Sports, and I wear a lot of different hats. I design foils, kites, boards… I've had my hand in pretty much everything in the Slingshot line up. I'm lucky to have a pretty good design team underneath me too.

In 1999, you started Slingshot Sports with your brother Jeff. Talk to us about those early days and how the company developed…

We founded the company in 1999. Slingshot did exist before that, but it was just my little project at that time. I had Logosz Works, the windsurfing brand, which was kind of a high-end boutique custom windsurf board building company, and kiteboarding was just coming onto the scene. I was just getting into kiteboarding along with a handful of other people who were doing it, and I would build custom boards for them. There was a lot of tension between windsurfing and kiteboarding in those early days, so I decided to put Slingshot on the kiteboards instead of Logosz Works. I kind of separated it, and over the following years it became more and more popular. We then stole my brother Jeff from Outside