The Baule
"The manufacture of the boards by hand, artisanal, it is for the sores."
Long beard and build of a surfer as much as a rugby player, Patrice Guénolé speaks as he traces curves in the water: directly and passionately.
From the age of 13, at the end of the 1980s, this Baulois began to shape (model) windsurf boards.
As he turns 45, his company Gong, founded in 2008 with 10,000 euros after having been a simple distributed brand, has a turnover of 30 million euros, which doubles each year.
What familiarize with Rip Curl Europe, one of the historic heavyweights of sliding (39 million sales in 2020).
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Canoeing, paddle boarding, surfing… The reasons for success
The production of Gong makes it possible to practice surfing, kitesurfing, but especially stand-up paddle (this big surf with paddle) or the wing (a board with an inflatable sail held in the hand), the dazzling successes of the moment.
All now powered by foils (underwater wings) available in around forty versions.
They cut prices so much that the new one at home occasionally corresponds to other listed brands, with a quality close to, or even superior, from now on.
A competitor of Gong
The price range is stretching
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