The Lineup - Flow & Peak Performance for Water Athletes

EP01 — The Fear, the Flow & the Front Flip (with Tom & Aleks Acherer + Rocco Sotomayor)

Three GWA World Cup riders. One conversation about what actually goes on inside. In the very first episode of The Lineup, Michi sits down on the beach in Tarifa with twins Tom and Aleks Acherer (18, Duotone International) and Rocco Sotomayor (19) - three of the most in-form young wingfoilers in the world. No highlights reel. No surface stuff. They open up about what fear actually feels like when you commit to a new trick, the mental block Rocco carried for almost a year on the front flip, the day everyone in Gran Canaria started landing tricks no one thought were possible, and what really triggers the sessions where everything just works. If you ride water - wing, kite, surf, foil, windsurf - and you've ever wondered why one day you flow and the next day nothing lands, this conversation is for you. - CHAPTERS - 00:00  What "The Lineup" means 01:27  Who's in this episode 02:12  Welcome - and a rough start 04:17  Meet Rocco Sotomayor - Lake Garda → Tarifa 04:40  Meet Aleks Acherer - Duotone, twin brother of Tom 05:34  Tom's career highlights - Brazil podium with his brother 06:25  Aleks: winning Costa Brava with Rocco's wing 08:17  Rocco's GWA finals run 09:00  Why Lake Garda is no longer the training mecca 12:09  Hood River + Brazil - best spots for a goofy rider 13:11  The only un-injured one - gym vs. riding 16:08  Trying tricks the other side (and crashing) 19:11  How they invent and learn brand-new tricks 22:20  Inventing a trick mid-session - Aleks's Brazil win 23:55  Rocco's broken arm + the year-long front-flip mental block 27:25  "About time. Let's go." How you push past it 27:52  Aleks on coming back from injury 30:18  When the heat starts badly - what do you tell yourself? 33:32  Ending sessions on a good note (and the role of ego) 35:30  The flow session - when everything just works 38:30  Gran Canaria - the day everyone went pro 40:15  Sign-off 40:43  Michi's outro - Rocco's front-flip story, GWA Leucate 2026 - PULL QUOTES - "In surfing, the lineup is where you wait for your wave. Here, the lineup is what you line up inside - your skills, your body, your mind." - Michi "I wasted a year. Let's go." - Rocco, on finally sending the front flip "My ego doesn't let me go off the water until I've landed it." - Tom "The fear in your head is almost always bigger than the risk on the water." - Michi (outro) - GUESTS - Tomas (Tom) Acherer  |  Duotone International  |  GWA World Cup   IG: @aleks_and_tom.twins (shared account with twin brother Aleks)   Rider profile: https://riders.tricktionary.com/rider.html?id=tomas-acherer Aleks Acherer  |  Duotone International, Quiksilver  |  GWA World Cup   IG: @aleks_and_tom.twins (shared account with twin brother Tom)   Rider profile: https://riders.tricktionary.com/rider.html?id=aleks-acherer Rocco Sotomayor  |  Duotone International  |  GWA World Cup   IG: @rocco_sotomayor   Rider profile: https://riders.tricktionary.com/rider.html?id=rocco-sotomayor - ABOUT THE LINEUP - Flow and peak performance for water athletes. Method: Skills + Body + Mind → Flow. More: https://thelineup.tricktionary.com Hosted by Michi Rossmeier - wingfoiler, coach, and founder of Tricktionary.