What’s the Podcast about?

Here is where you can learn how to subscribe to my weekly podcast “The Tantrum Kitesurf Show”.

I’ve designed this podcast to be your best friend as you go through the process of learning to kitesurf and beyond. It’s my weekly opportunity to talk with you (in the case of solution episodes – I literally speak with you!) to support you in your journey to kitesurfing godhood!

Why should you be listening/watching?

So why should you listen (apart from my supreme wit…)?

I have three types of episodes designed to support you as you progress in your kitesurfing, land your first trick and then land many more.

Expert episodes

In these episodes I interview experts who have inspired me – but from a very unique angle – I want to understand what small everyday gains they use that we can apply to our kitesurfing (even when there’s no wind) – these stories are inspiring and informative, it reminds you these experts are not special, they, like you, had to learn to get the damn board on their feet too!

Solution Episodes

These episodes are designed to get you unstuck, show you how I apply the strategies we use here in Tarifa to real world examples. The coolest part is you get the opportunity for me to work with you!! If you are stuck or would like help send an email here.

Let me know where you are and you never know – I could be working with you directly to supercharge your kitesurfing as a guest on the podcast.

Insights Episodes

Often shorter in length these are designed to give you little, but highly useful gems of knowledge that can be applied directly to your kitesurfing to see real gains.

Designed to get you moving with the key parts of the kiting process

We also have themed brainstorming episodes, where you can all in from whereever you are in the world to get help. Keep an eye on your email so you know when they are on.

Here is how to get it

To the right of this article you’ll see buttons you can click to instantly subscribe to your podcast player of choice. Its available on iTunes if you want to just listen to it or YouTube if you’re more visual (we’ll also be putting a bit extra content on YouTube as some of the content is pretty visual by nature).

If you prefer to watch on YouTube just click the subscribe to YouTube on the right hand side of the screen and you’re good to go…if you enable notifications YouTube will let you know every time we release a new episode.

Want To Just Listen

If you want to listen to this as a traditional podcast then I have a very specific recommendation for the app you should be using but you can use the free players for Apple and android.

Why are podcasts amazing – my favourite way of learning

I Love Podcasts…

NO, seriously, You don’t understand, I LOVE podcasts, I listen to hours of podcasts every week. It’s by far the medium I use the most.

Why?

There are podcasts on every subject made by people who are passionate about their fields. Think of your favourite hobby, topic, niche or sports team. There is a podcast which will give you insights on anything which is just awesome, the leverage of podcasts is outstanding, let me explain…

Since you were little, the most important information you have received has entered through your ear canals – often while you were doing something else. “Don’t run on to the road”, “Don’t touch that”, “Samuel James Guest, why is the TV laying face down on the floor of the lounge room!!”

Life-changing (or ending) moments.

I framed my brother for the TV. Sorry Andy.

The most important and intimate conversations of your life have traveled through those ear canals, “I love you…”, “I’m leaving you…”, the whistle at the end of the second half on a glorious 1st of September, 2001.

So this is a glorious channel to take in new information and using headphones we can listen to it anywhere without annoying anyone.

Once you get the habit of podcast listening, your life will improve, “The Tantrum Kitesurf Show” podcast is a super place to start. ?

Advanced podcast listening – use a podcast app!

There are standard podcast players which come with your device, both Android and Apple. These are ok, and great to get you started. But if you want to get ninja levels of efficient listening, spend less than the cost of a fancy latte to treat yo’self to a power podcast player.

It’s time to level up.

Pocket Casts – current top of the tree

As I write this, the king of the hill is PocketCasts. It’s cross platform, has a web version as well and it has some fantastic algorithms to make your listening more efficient. It has a cloud service, so it doesn’t matter what device you are listening on, you’ll always be in the right place.

Pocketcasts For iOS

PocketCasts for Android

If you don’t want to be shackled to iTunes for downloading/syncing the actual episodes, you can right-click the podcast in iTunes, and select Copy Podcast URL. It will copy the URL to the podcast feed to your clipboard.

Use this URL on your Android device to subscribe to the podcast there.

Now, some power tips…

Power tips

Here is where you learn to take the pebble out of my hand grass hopper. First we need to speed it up.

Speed it up

Once considered blasphemy by pendant podcasters with more time on their hands. Use your podcasts player (you’ve downloaded PocketCasts right) to speed up your listening.

If you have tried speeding audio up in the past you are probably familiar with the chipmunk effect, it all sounds weird. Well technology has got your back. Now they speed up without changing the pitch.

PocketCasts also has blank space removal, it cleverly takes out silence – you won’t notice, but it will save you major time!

I listen to podcasts at 1.6 times speed, I find this is the right speed to still have good comprehension. You could try here and adjust up and down to suit.

You will be able to listen to even more awesome podcasts and learn so much more.

There is one exception to the speed up rule, If you are listening to music podcasts, you probably want to listen to these at normal (1x speed).

Now, when to listen…

The Car, The Dogs, The Waiting

I listen to podcasts when I’m cooking. Whenever I’m driving the Mystery Machine and when I’m waiting around.

Thanks to your smartphone all this free knowledge is available to you everywhere. You could listen to talk radio and upset yourself with news you can’t control or you could educate yourself, improve yourself and entertain yourself.

Easy choice.

Use the Up Next Place List

Another power tip – PocketCasts has a great feature called up-next. Use it. There is transactional debt any time you end a podcast and need to decide what to listen to next. Up Next gets rid of it and allows you to power on.

When I get up in the morning, I’ll choose what podcasts to listen to and add them to my up next list.

This way I have a steady stream of podcasts to power through for the rest of the day.

Ratings on iTunes  –

When you get a chance, I would really appreciate you leaving a review for the podcast on iTunes. Feel free to share the podcast and get the word out! Here is a handy link to review the podcast