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Episode 30 with Sourya "Soy" Panday, French-Indian skateboarder, artist, co-founder and artistic director of Bordeaux-based board brand Magenta Skateboards. 

Together we discussed him growing up between Orléans, Belfort and Grenoble, getting shoes from Osiris and I-Path back in the day, traveling around the world with Kenny Reed and trying to figure out his own path in the skateboarding industry, filming a part with Josh Stewart for Static III, his apartment on boulevard Magenta in Paris becoming one of the main skate-hubs for skaters from all over the world, starting Magenta Skateboards with Vivien & Jean Feil in 2010, picking up drawing again and becoming the artistic director of the brand, the different phases the brand has gone through in the last 12 years, their upcoming projects... 

• Intro (00:13)
• Finding skateboarding (01:13) 
• First sponsors (08:43) 
• Meeting Vivien Feil (15:49) 
• Bribing police officers in Russia with Kenny Reed (20:06) 
• Riding for Landscape (25:48) 
• Meeting with Josh Stewart and filming for Static III (27:50) 
• Apartment/Skate house on boulevard Magenta in Paris (38:22) 
• Starting Magenta Skateboards with Vivien and Jean (42:12) 
• Art director for Magenta (59:28) 
• 12 years old (01:08:25) 
• Projects in the works (01:10:17) 
• Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (01:11:10) 
• Friends questions (01:13:03) 
• Conclusion (01:41:28)  

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