'An Hour With Flower' – UKLA presents the Ben Flower Podcasts
Ben Flower has been moving up the fleet steadily in recent years and has experienced many of the high and lows of Laser/ILCA racing. In what is to become a regular feature. Ben chats to some of the sailors and volunteers from the Laser/ILCA community.
Ben Flower talks to Anthony Parke - ‘An Hour With Flower’ Podcast
Ben Flower talks to Sam Whaley - ‘An Hour With Flower’ Podcast
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Our sport, the great sport of sailing, is not covered particularly well on mainstream media so it is up to us to create our own coverage. Since January the UKLA website has had nearly a quarter of a million hits with more than 60,000 people regularly visiting - and this in a time of COVID-19! The few National events we've managed to put on have been incredibly well attended on top of this we have had a very healthy resurgence of Laser/ILCA at local clubs.
With this in mind UKLA have been looking for ways to unite the Laser/ILCA sailing community.
Most of us absolutely love racing and have done for many years and are interested in the people involved in the sport especially those involved with the Laser. So with that in mind UKLA would like to present An Hour with Flower - a rolling series of podcasts where Ben Flower talks to different people from the sailing community. Ben is one of the ILCA/Laser fleets most colourful characters and a very talented sailor. He has been knocking on the door of the BST for some months and has been gradually improving – one to watch!
Each podcast is about an hour long, would you believe, and has started with Anthony Parke. Anthony’s talk is fascinating because it gives an insight into the transition from 4.7 through Radial and onto standard rigs. Many of you will be hoping one day to make the British sailing team but for all sorts of reasons this may not happen. Anthony beautifully describes his journey and how events unfold in a quite unexpected way.
The second talk is with Sam Whaley. Sam needs very little introduction apart from being a very smart guy, an incredible sailor and pretty damn handsome he doesn’t have much going for him! So be nice, have a listen … poor chap he needs our support.
These Podcasts should be a great addition to the terrific video interviews Jon Emmett does with our sailor at events. UKLA are planning many other initiatives over these next few months so stay tuned there is more to come.