EP 6 | Maria - Flip'n Fun Wakepark

EP 6 | Maria - Flip'n Fun Wakepark

Maria grew up water skiing in Gambia at age seven. By the time she moved back to Sweden, there was nowhere nearby to ride. So eventually, she built her own.

Episode 6 of Mermaid Mode is the first recorded on location — at Flip & Fun Wake Park in Sweden, currently a building site an hour and a half from Copenhagen, and soon to be Scandinavia's biggest cable park. Maria and her partner Henning have been working towards this for over a decade, including seven years just waiting for permits. Now the diggers are in, the groundwater is high, and the dream is finally taking shape.

The conversation covers everything: how Maria got into wakeboarding, why she co-founded Nordic Wake Girls back in 2014, the case for building a water sports community that feels like a second home, what it actually takes to build a cable park from scratch in Sweden, and why more girls in the sport starts with atmosphere, female staff, and making it genuinely okay to fail. There's also a great thread on the creative process — from Pinterest boards and aquarelle sketches to AI visualisation tools — and a peek at what Flip & Fun will eventually offer: a restaurant, a sauna, cabins, possibly a snowboarding hill, and year-round riding if they can swing it.

One to watch. Literally. 🌊

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EP 14 I Sarah Sadek - big air kitesurfing, sustainability & competition

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EP 13 | Zara Hoogenraad - kitesurfing, building community and being open online

EP 13 | Zara Hoogenraad - kitesurfing, building community and being open online

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EP 12 || Alessa Sophia Mensch - female hormones, mental health & Big Air kitesurfing

Alessa Sophia Mensch is a professional Big Air kitesurfer, GKA tour competitor, Brunotti and Naish team rider, and the co-founder of a women's health app currently in development and launching in Dece...

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EP 11 | Lana Herman - Big Air Competitive Kitesurfer

EP 11 | Lana Herman - Big Air Competitive Kitesurfer

Lana Herman is a professional Big Air kitesurfer from Slovenia, a Harlem Kite team rider, and a GKA tour competitor currently based between Brazil, Cape Town and wherever the next competition takes he...

4 Aug 51min

EP 10 | Leilani - Rise with the Wind - female empowerment

EP 10 | Leilani - Rise with the Wind - female empowerment

Leilani is a French engineer turned barefoot entrepreneur, kitesurfing instructor and the founder of Rise with the Wind — an organisation helping women from underprivileged backgrounds gain IKO certif...

17 Jul 1h 22min

EP 9 | Nathalie Lambrecht - competitive Big Air kitesurfer

EP 9 | Nathalie Lambrecht - competitive Big Air kitesurfer

Nathalie Lambrecht is one of the most exciting kitesurfers in the world right now — a professional Big Air athlete, North and Mystic team rider, GKA competitor, and reigning Red Bull King of the Air W...

3 Jul 1h 15min

EP 8 | Emely Freja Petersen - Ocean Soul - kite & yoga

EP 8 | Emely Freja Petersen - Ocean Soul - kite & yoga

Emely is a kitesurfing and yoga instructor who runs camps in Akayaka, Turkey — a place she fell in love with on a visit nearly seven years ago and never left. Recorded beach-side at Sydvestpynten, one...

18 Jun 58min

EP 7 | Lena - Cold Water Sirens - cold water surfing & surfing as therapy

EP 7 | Lena - Cold Water Sirens - cold water surfing & surfing as therapy

Lena is an artist, surf coach, certified surf therapy facilitator, and the founder of Cold Water Sirens - a community built around cold water surfing on the North Sea coast of Denmark. What started as...

22 Mai 1h 3min

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