Dom Zimmermann

Dom Zimmermann is Ozone’s Head of Design. Kites, wings, parawings: the Pocket Rocket, the Pocket Rocket V2 and the PowerPack are his, which puts him in the small group of people who get to decide what a parawing is instead of just riding one.

Why he matters to parawinging

Greg Drexler’s Maliko V1 launched in August 2024. Ozone was in the first wave of brands to answer it; within months, more than a dozen brands had followed, and the Pocket Rocket line became one of the most visible. Two of the sport’s better-documented riders back Zimmermann’s designs on the water. Patrick Rebstock logs long freeride runs of roughly 14 miles on the Pocket Rocket and PowerPack, mixing upwind and downwind legs. Axel Mazella, the Olympic-level kite racer and Ozone R&D rider who develops the Pocket Rocket, puts it plainly: “The Pocket Rocket is pure freedom… I like to ride powered up using my harness and the upwind performance is similar to a wingfoil.”

The accessory side counts too. Ozone developed the CynSack stash bag concept with Maui trailblazer Cynthia “Cynbad” Brown, and stashing is the move the whole discipline hangs on.

The public record, such as it is

On Zimmermann himself, the record is thin. Confirmed: the Ozone Head of Design role, the product credits (Pocket Rocket, Pocket Rocket V2, PowerPack), and a guest slot on the LabRat Foiler Podcast. That podcast is the sport’s leading dedicated parawing podcast, and the format where designers get their longest airtime. Not confirmed: his home spot, his personal riding setup, competition results, or any quote we can attribute to him verbatim. We won’t invent them. To hear him in his own words, go to the LabRat Foiler episode. To judge the work, watch what the Pocket Rocket does under Rebstock and Mazella.

He belongs on this list for the same reason Greg Drexler and Aljaz Valic do. In a sport barely two years old, the designers weigh as much as the podium finishers.