Bonifay Banter Podcast

Bonifay Banter — Episode 43 | Rodrigo Donoso This week, Parks and Shane sit down with longtime friend and legendary photographer Rodrigo Donoso. Rod has been around wakeboarding for a long time and has captured countless iconic moments along the way — including plenty of photos of the Bonifay brothers. He’s traveled, shot, and hung out with some of the biggest names in the sport, so you already know he came to the Banter Studio with some great stories. The boys talk about how Rod first found ...

Bruce Clem and longtime friend Scott Byerly hop in the studio for an episode that feels like opening up a time capsule from one of the best eras in wakeboarding. Bruce was the mastermind behind the legendary wakeboard film For What It’s Worth, one of the early digital wakeboard videos and still one of the best snapshots of what it was actually like to be a pro wakeboarder back then. Bruce wasn’t just behind the camera — he was close friends with many of the biggest names in the sport, which m...

This week, Parks and Shane sit down with Hank Amos, a guy whose career has taken him from the early days of waterskiing and wakeboarding all the way to some of the biggest movie sets in Hollywood. Hank goes way back with the Bonifay family. He worked alongside Parks and Shane’s parents, Pete and Betty Bonifay, at Cypress Gardens, and Pete was even the one who taught Hank how to hang glide — which, as you can imagine, led to some pretty wild stories. Hank was one of the original freestyle jump...

This week, Parks and Shane sit down with Fynn Bullock, a guy doing something not many athletes can say they do — competing professionally in two completely different board sports. Fynn is a pro wakeboarder AND a pro snowboarder, spending half the year chasing summer on the water and the other half chasing winter in the mountains. And he's not just competing in both — he's winning. Fresh off a massive contest win and a $50,000 payday at Wakefest, Fynn joins the boys to talk about what it takes...

Parks and Shane are joined by some of the best female wakeboarders in the world, Zahra Kell and Euge De Armas, just before Stop 2 of the Pro Wakeboard Tour. (This episode was recorded before the event and released afterward.) Since then, Euge has gone on to win the stop and now sits at the top of the Pro Tour points standings! The girls stop by the Banter Studio for an awesome conversation covering everything from career-defining moments to life growing up on opposite sides of the world. In t...