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Our Fight to Breathe: A Cystic Fibrosis PodcastLife Post Transplant and the Transplant GamesJoin host Caleigh Haber as she sits down with Matt De Fina, a two-time double lung transplant recipient, father, athlete, and advocate who has earned 37 medals competing in the Transplant Games of America and World Transplant Games. Matt's journey from end-stage cystic fibrosis to becoming a competitive athlete showcases the incredible possibilities that exist after transplant.This episode explores the transformative power of the Transplant Games - international competitions that bring together organ recipients to compete, connect, and celebrate the gift of life. Matt shares insights on rebuilding strength post-transplant, the healing power of sports, and...2025-06-231h 02
The CFRI CF Community Voices PodcastMatt De Fina's CF Journey: From Double Lung Transplant to Napa Valley Winemaker (Video)Matt De Fina shares the highs and lows of his life with cystic fibrosis (CF), including two double lung transplants and a career shift to winemaking in the Napa Valley. Hear about his transplant journey, and the people, events and activities that inspired his rapid recovery. Learn about the business he and his wife Denise launched, De Fina Family Cellars, the inspiration behind the artwork and the wine itself (cabernet franc = CF), and the ways in which the business helps support other CF programs.
Click here to donate to CFRI and support the cystic fibrosis community worldwide...2024-12-1827 min
The CFRI CF Community Voices PodcastMatt De Fina's CF Journey: From Double Lung Transplant to Napa Valley Winemaker (Audio)Matt De Fina shares the highs and lows of his life with cystic fibrosis (CF), including two double lung transplants and a career shift to winemaking in the Napa Valley. Hear about his transplant journey, and the people, events and activities that inspired his rapid recovery. Learn about the business he and his wife Denise launched, De Fina Family Cellars, the inspiration behind the artwork and the wine itself (cabernet franc = CF), and the ways in which the business helps support other CF programs.
Click here to donate to CFRI and support the cystic fibrosis community worldwide...2024-12-1827 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 185: Mikey Corker - Savage WatersFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThere are many layers to this week’s conversation with surfer, director, film-maker, producer, creative and all-round legend Mikey Corker. On the one hand, it’s about this latest project Savage Waters, a surf film in the finest classical, questing tradition. It’s about how Mikey and a crew of similarly-driven and passionate people have spent years abroad Matt Knight’s yacht Hecate, on the hunt for a mythical wave, and the adventures and scrapes they got into along the way. Then, on another level, i...2022-05-231h 10
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 167: Dani Kiwi Meier - Life Is What HappensFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comIs experience a prerequisite for knowledge? How can you use the lessons of life to strive for equanimity? Is it possible to avoid taking life personally? Should we let our curiosity guide our decision-making? How can we put story-telling at the centre of what we do? Is life about taking or giving back? These are the questions we all grapple with at some point during our lives, however unwittingly. And, as I realised at the end of our conversation, they are the questions that formed the key...2021-11-151h 30
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 166: Ollie Percovich - I Hear A New WorldFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comMy guest this week is Skateistan founder Ollie Percovich, who I welcomed back for his second appearance on the show. I first chatted to Ollie in May 2018 in the dim, distant pre-Covid era, and in the intervening months it’s fair to say much has changed for Ollie and the community he’s spent so long establishing. The first event was, obviously, Covid, which understandably had a huge impact on a none-profit with operations and staff all over the world. The second was the recent geopolitical upheaval in A...2021-11-051h 13
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 165: Torren Martyn - Lost TrackFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThis week’s guest Torren Martyn is probably the most individual, interesting and certainly most celebrated surfer in the world right now. Draw a Venn diagram of all the modern-day talking points in surf culture - board length, style, the craving for some substance among a world of throwaway edits - and Torren would be right at the centre. As 2021 dawned, Torren’s lazy, lanky style and mastery of the less-than-obvious board length had already seen him lauded as one of the modern greats. Then he released Lost...2021-10-081h 09
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 164: Sue Izzo - RebirthFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comMy ‘lifer’ episodes, in which I interview somebody without the profile of my more famous guests, but who nevertheless has dedicated their life to the culture with similar dedication (and, in many cases, has had a similar influence), are always among the most beloved Looking Sideways episodes. And in this episode with action sports agent and business coach Sue Izzo, I’m not afraid to say we have an instant lifer classic. Of course, as usual we discussed Sue’s life and career through the action sports industry...2021-09-301h 11
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 163: Ben Powell - Breaking The Fourth WallFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI first asked Ben Powell to be a guest on the show back in 2017. In the end, it has taken almost five years of chipping away to get him to agree, and this week’s sprawling conversation is the result. Why was I so bloody-minded about getting Ben on the show? Because I challenge you to find anybody who has made a bigger impact on skate culture in this country over the last 30 years. Sure, Ben will cringe to his very fingertips at this highfalutin de...2021-09-152h 01
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 162: Lesley McKenna - New FrontiersFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comOn this week’s episode I welcomed the great Lesley McKenna back to the show for her second visit, a mere four years after her first appearance in June 2017. If you don’t know Lesley, she’s a snowboarder and Olympian who is, to my mind, one of the most original and quietly influential thinkers in action sports. Lesley was actually my first ever female guest, and in the intervening years a lot has changed - and not just for the my humble little podcast. There’s the fact...2021-08-271h 11
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 161: Joe Taylor - Water TherapyFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThese days, the notion of water therapy is fairly well mainstream. Think ‘blue mind’ theory, and the sheer number of Instagram account and Guardian articles extolling the virtues of cold showers and cold water swimming. But back in 2011, when this week’s guest Joe Taylor set up The Wave Project, it was rather less well known. As you might imagine, the story of Joe’s quixotic quest to establish the Wave Project is a fascinating one, and the subject of this week’s conversation. First, some backg...2021-08-181h 35
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 160: Cairo Foster - HomecomingFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comStreet skating legend Cairo Foster is well over two decades into a singular and iconic career. Think ‘two episodes of The Nine Club’ iconic. So when he got in touch to see if I’d be up for having a chat to commemorate the release of his new Actions REALized board, a collaboration between Real Skateboards in memory of Ben Raemers, with all proceeds going to The Ben Raemers Foundation, I was of course up for it. Especially because this episode has been a long time coming. Myself...2021-07-201h 23
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 159: Trevor Graves - EyewitnessFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comGet ready for a trip through snowboarding history with somebody who, over two decades, had a ringside seat as snowboarding evolved from the domain of backyard tinkerers into the global super-sport it is today: legendary US snowboard photography legend Trevor Graves. Trevor is one of those first generation riders whose career perfectly mirrors the key developments of snowboarding history. Even more importantly, he documented it all, camera in hand. The result is a Zelig-like career during which Trevor captured the highlights of snowboarding’s most no...2021-07-131h 31
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 158: Lucy Small - Saltwater PilgrimFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEarlier this year, Australian surfer Lucy Small found herself at the centre of a genuine viral moment. If you follow surf media, you probably saw it. It happened when, after winning a surf contest in Sydney, she noticed her winnings were less than half of that of her male counterpart. Now in these situations, obviously, it’s easier to keep quiet. But on this occasion, Lucy decided to speak out and draw attention to this latest example of the gender pay gap in action - and a vi...2021-07-061h 33
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 157: Henry Jackson - My Job Is Weirder Than YoursFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’ve covered plenty of people with unusual jobs on this podcast. Hell, my gig is pretty bloody weird. But this week’s guest Henry Jackson’s job is so unusual that it’s become the basis of a catchphrase - ‘My job is weirder than yours.’So what does Henry do? He’s an MC, a commentator, a broadcaster - a ‘professional shit talker’ as he puts it. But the truth is that Henry is one of the most interesting, unique and compelling communicators in snowboarding today. Som...2021-06-241h 50
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 155: Leo Sharp - For The CultureFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comAnybody deciding to start a print magazine in the current climate has to be applauded and supported for their sheer creative bloody-mindedness. That’s why the launch of The Skateboarder’s Companion, the new UK skate magazine set up by this week’s guest Leo Sharp and his fellow UK skate lifers Ryan Gray and Matt Law, is such an important moment. It might not sound like much, but the simple act of walking into a newsagent or skate shop and buying a new UK skate mag is a quint...2021-05-151h 28
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastBonus Episode: Lauren MacCallumLauren McCallum Bonus Episode! If I have one major regret in the four years I’ve been doing the podcast, it’s around the way I handled the topic of Terje Haakonsen’s history of homophobia in my conversation with him for episode 121. The feedback I received from some listeners, who felt like my deliberate editorial approach was alienating, made it clear to me that I still have much work to do when it comes to shepherding these conversations in the right way. This is also why I found the debate around Terje’s recent public apology f...2021-05-061h 29
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 153: Liam Griffin - Super Good Thing MakerFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comMy ‘lifer’ episodes are always loved by listeners. And with this week’s guest Liam Griffin, we are in proper vintage territory. For me, Liam is THE classic example of somebody who has carved out a unique career for themselves, inspired by their love of shredding, and a desire to take risks and follow their own path. First, some background: LG is a proper stalwart of the US snowboarding industry who I first met back in the early 2000s, when he was overseeing all of Burton’s various...2021-04-161h 54
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 152: Andrew Alexander King - I Know Who I AmFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’m used to chatting guests with massive goals or awe-inspiring achievements under their belts. Think of Ross Edgeley’s Great British Swim, or Christina Koch’s record-breaking spaceflight. And this week’s guest Andrew Alexander King is right up there. Andrew is a surfer, climber and mountaineer who is at the beginning of an audacious attempt to become the first African-American to climb the seven highest mountains and volcanoes on each continent. 14 peaks in all, each with their own dangers and unique challenges. As a life g...2021-04-061h 28
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 151: Rachel Atherton - Permission To WinBone fide legend alert!Yep, my guest this week is a proper icon, somebody who has achieved so much in their own discipline that they’ve crossed over into the mainstream realm as the personification of their chosen sport. Take a look at Rachel Atherton’s record and you’ll see why. Five world champion titles. 6 UCI World Cup titles. 39 World Cup events. The ‘double double’ in 2015 and 2016 - which was, also, the only perfect season ever. It is an absolutely extraordinary record of achievement by an athlete who has achieved genuine greatness. And yet, as I...2021-03-191h 15
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 150b: Owen Tozer - Made UpWelcome to the second of two episode 150 instalments. To mark this milestone, I decided to stay true to the ethos of the Looking Sideways podcast and speak to two of my oldest and closest friends; two people who’ve been integral to the Looking Sideways universe since it launched - Ed Leigh and Owen Tozer. This, episode 150b, is the second instalment with Owen Tozer. Long term listeners will know Owen - he’s one of my oldest and closest friends who has been a key part of the Looking Sideways story since its inception a decade ago...2021-03-102h 02
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 150a: Ed Leigh - ThirdEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintWelcome to the first of two episode 150 instalments. To mark this milestone, I decided to stay true to the ethos of the Looking Sideways podcast and speak to two of my oldest and closest friends; two people who’ve been integral to the Looking Sideways universe since it launched - Ed Leigh and Owen Tozer. This, episode 150a, is the first instalment with Ed Leigh. Ed, as you may know, is a broadcaster, journalist and presenter best known for helming le...2021-03-102h 14
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 149: Shelby Stanger - ChroniclerFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintMy ‘lifer’ episodes are always among the most popular instalments, and this conversation with podcaster and journalist Shelby Stanger is a classic of the genre. It’s also particularly fascinating for me because, as I realised during our conversation, our careers are actually really, really similar - from the circumstances that got us into the industry, to our progress through it, and to the way we ended up laughing our own podcasts at aro...2021-02-251h 31
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 148: Travis Rice - DebriefFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintLike all good ideas, the Natural Selection Tour seems obvious in hindsight. The world’s best riders on a specially built course designed to showcase snowboarding at its most progressive and stylish? Conveyed using next-level production and designed to nudge snowboarding away from the evolutionary cup de sac we’ve been heading down for years? Why on earth has nobody thought of this before? The answer is that similar ideas have...2021-02-191h 15
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 147: Circe Wallace - PharmakeiaFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintSpecial meta Curator/Circe Wallace special! I’ve spent a good chunk of the last couple of months donning the journalist hat and occupying the editor's chair for the latest volume of Curator, the independent print snowboarding publication I’ve been privileged to work on for the last couple of years. As well as editing the whole thing, I also wrote a couple of stories for this volume, incl...2021-02-051h 28
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 146: Selema Masekela - FrequencyFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintThis week’s episode is a long overdue conversation with the great Selema. I’ve been trying to get Selema on the show for a couple of years now, and we finally made it happen at the beginning of January 2021. If you don’t know Selema, he’s one of the most switched-on and inspirational people in action sports. He’s a presenter, broadcaster, announcers, podcaster, musician, surfer, snowboarder - the list g...2021-01-181h 35
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 145: Mikey February - New RhythmFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintMikey February is one of those rare individuals for whom the facts, as interesting as they are, only tell part of the story. Take the early part of his surfing career, which saw him follow that classic competitive QS-to-WSL path. Except that Mikey was, of course, the first none-white African to make the tour, a milestone that carried a lot of symbolism and significance. He did a year on the...2021-01-0857 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 144: John Bassett - The LodgeFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintLifer episode alert! Yes, it’s another one of those perennially popular episodes of the show where I chat to somebody who has managed to find a way to turn their passion for riding into a viable career. In this case, it’s the great John Bassett, also universally known as John Dragon, one of my closest and oldest friends from my years snowboarding and - yes - a lifer par excellence. ...2020-12-311h 47
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 143: Tim and Gendle - Christmas Special!Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Enjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintFestive Zoom Special! Yep, for the third year I was joined by my old friends Tim and Gendle for a frivolous mince pie, booze and quiz-filled special. If you’re new to the show or unfamiliar with the boys and their work, allow me to introduce them: two of the biggest influences and most-loved presences in European snowboarding, whether as film-makers, presenters or snowboarders. If you’ve list...2020-12-242h 53
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 142: Pattie Gonia - Mother NatchFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPint I’ve been trying to arrange a chat with Pattie Gonia, aka Wyn Wiley, for a while now and we finally made it happen. As their Instagram bio puts it, Pattie is a ‘queer environmentalist bringing drag outdoors’ and is yer genuine Instagram phenomenon, going from 0 to 300k followers very rapidly indeed and snagging coverage from everyone from Outside to The Guardian along the way. It isn’t difficult to understa...2020-12-171h 13
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 141: Mark Munson - Carpe DiemFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintThis week’s guest Mark Munson is one of UK skateboarding’s true greats. It’s that simple. In his 30-odd years of board riding, he’s been there, seen it, done it and helped set standards that define the scene to this day thanks to an uncompromising dedication to skateboarding and a personality that defines the phrase ‘force of nature’. As I discovered during our chat, he’s also taken the lesson...2020-12-092h 05
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 139: Ben Moon - Concentric CirclesFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintThink ‘viral video’ and a couple of examples from the last decade stand out. Danny Macaskill’s ‘Inspired Bicycles’, certainly. Ben Moon’s ‘Denali’, too. Like a lot of people - over 20 million at the last count - this beautiful, moving tribute to his dog was the first time I became aware of Ben and his work as a photographer, filmer and writer. As is the case with any creative work that achiev...2020-11-191h 13
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 138: Valeria Kechichian - A Sign From The UniverseFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPint Since I started the podcast back in February 2017, a few classic themes have become familiar to listeners. Creativity. Independence. Perseverance. Individuality. Community, too - although not always in a wholly positive way. After all, community was always supposed to be at the heart of this thing. And yet, for every positive story about action sports as community - usually relayed by white, male guests - there’s been an equal nu...2020-11-031h 14
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 137: Dan Mancina - InsightedFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPint Sight loss is one of those primal fears we in common. It’s something everybody has pondered at some point, the type of ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ scenarios we tend to shy away from because we don’t really want to know what our potential reaction might reveal about our own character. It’s why Dan Mancina’s story is so powerful and inspirational. Dan is a skatebo...2020-10-161h 04
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 136: Hannah Bailey - A Room Of Our OwnFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPint What does ‘influence’ mean today? Somebody on Instagram with thousands of followers? A professional athlete using their platform to promote their own beliefs and interests, however erroneous? Or does it refer to somebody who, by their consistent actions, has quietly helped to create new opportunities for their community?At the moment, the latter is probably the least fashionable. But for my money, it is the truest definition of all. ...2020-10-051h 32
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 135: Christina Koch - Pale Blue DotFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comHow does it feel to go into space? What does it make you feel about the future of our planet, and your own place in the universe? What are the moral implications of space travel? And just how do you take a picture of Pipeline from the International Space Station as it flies overhead at 17,000 mph?All topics that I discussed with this week’s guest Christina Koch, a surfer and - yes - astronaut who just spent 328 days in space in the International Space Station, setting a...2020-09-251h 31
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 134: Ben Mondy - Get A Dog Up YaFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comAuspicious occasion alert! Yep, I conducted my first face-to-face interview since way back in March. Even more excitingly, it was a guest who also happens to be a really close friend of mine - the great Ben Mondy. Mondy is a surf writer, journalist and lifer par excellence of the Australian surf industry genus. He was a staffer at Tracks for years, and over the course of his career has written about surfing for absolutely everybody with caustic wit, high intelligence and a keenly developed bullshit radar...2020-09-021h 31
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 133: Tim Baker - The Middle WayFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comOur attitude to mortality is one of the great paradoxes of modern life. It’s the thing we have in common and the thing we all ignore, putting off the inevitable reckoning until we’re usually forced to face it under the worst possible circumstances - grief, loss, sickness. It’s a conundrum we will all grapple with at some point, and one that surfer, writer and journalist Tim Baker has spent the last five years becoming intimately familiar with following his 2015 stage 4 cancer diagnosis. During...2020-08-251h 27
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 132: Steve Larosiliere - Hustle For GoodFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThese days, using action sports as a tool for social mobility and mentorship is a fairly well known practise. In 2005, when this week’s guest Steve Larosiliere founded his organisation Stoked, it was new territory. Stoked was founded as a result of Steve’s own experience of mentorship and his ambition ‘to use action sports to teach 21st century skills to urban youth.’15 years later, Stoked has helped thousands of disadvantaged kids across the States, while Steve’s experiences in running the organisation have given him a uniq...2020-08-101h 01
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 131: Leo Baker - Leo's WayFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThe search for our authentic self is a lifelong process. And not always a successful one. It takes a huge amount of self honesty, and a willingness to embrace consistent and at times not always comfortable evolution.It’s something we all have to face, whether consciously or not. But imagine undergoing this entire process as a world-renowned skateboarder - while also trying to juggle both wider societal pressures, and those of a patriarchal industry who have tied your own career success to their own re...2020-07-291h 01
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 130: Jerome Tanon - AnaloguistFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comWe live in an age of limitless content and endless progression. A period where a thumb-swipe can summon any film part in history, and where readily-available tools mean anybody can be a story-teller or documentarian.And yet what’s striking, in this age of digital plenty, is how rare - even now! - it is for an action sports film to have something to say something other than ‘Woo-hoo! Let’s shred!’ Films that dare to use comedy and pathos to say something universal about snowboarding, skateboarding and surf...2020-07-231h 06
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 129: Matt Warshaw - Surfing's Dr. JohnsonFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comTo call Matt Warshaw’s Encyclopaedia of Surfing a labour of love would be to do the entire project a grave injustice. As the name suggests, EoS is Matt’s ongoing, crowdfunded attempt to document the history of surfing and surf culture through the site of the same name. It’s an industry ‘lifer’ project par excellence. And a beautiful, Johnsonian venture that, in essence, will never be completed. But then, Matt’s entire career has been about voyaging deeper than anybody else into surf history; whether as a journal...2020-07-161h 56
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 128: Lauren Hill - Story Is A ChoiceFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comIt’s easy to forget, but all stories are editorial choices. And those choices have a big influence on the way we collectively perceive our shared culture and history. It’s why the standard narratives around our shared history tend to default to the same names and anecdotes. And it’s why She Surf, the new overview of modern female surfing and surf history by Lauren Hill, is such a much-needed breath of fresh air. Throughout her career as a surfer, writer and podcaster, Lauren has us...2020-07-021h 03
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 127: Lauren MacCallum - Compassionate RevolutionFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comFull disclosure: this week’s guest is a close friend of mine. Lauren MacCallum is a writer, broadcaster and activist who has the type of plates-in-the-air career that is very common in the action sports and outdoor industry. We’ve been friend for years, and she’s someone I can always rely on to provide some much-needed perspective. In this way, this chat is just an extension of the type of freewheeling, no-stone-unturned conversation I always have with this absolute force of nature. Lauren is a bril...2020-06-261h 50
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 126: Phil Young - On AllyshipFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comLet’s be honest - the Looking Sideways podcast is a pretty white and none-diverse space, reflecting as it does the action sports and outdoor community as a whole. I think this is why my first episode with Phil Young, broadcast back in November 2019, struck such a chord with listeners and very quickly went on to become one of my most popular episodes ever. The fact is it is still rare for BAME people to be given a voice or a platform in our industry. So to he...2020-06-161h 30
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 125: Andy Howell - Ideas TravelFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comAndy Howell has always been one of skateboarding’s sages. He’s an artist and intellectual thinker who discerns patterns, seeks out connections and is unafraid to grapple with the biggest themes of all. Story-telling. Humanity. Technology. Life. Rebirth. You know - the good stuff.You can see it in his career, and the sheer number of ways he’s found to express himself creatively over the years. There is, of course, his storied career as one of the most progressive influences in skateboarding, whether as a pro, o...2020-06-092h 02
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 124: Torah Bright - AwakeningFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThis week’s guest is yet another absolute legend of their chosen field - the great Torah BrightTorah’s been at the top of her game for the last 20 years. Sure, the headline news is that 2010 gold at the Vancouver Games. But that’s just one highlight in a career that has come to symbolise everything that is creative and expressive about snowboarding. And it’s this, if you ask me, that makes her one of the true greatsBecause to achieve greatness in the compet...2020-05-291h 18
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 123: Jeff Johnson - Mountain of StormsFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comJeff Johnson is probably best known for his film 180 South, a film which saw him travel to Patagonia with Yvon Chouniard and Doug Tompkins in homage to the original 1960s odyssey that is such a defining part of Patagonia story. It’s on YouTube, and I highly recommend checking it out. But there’s much more to Jeff’s career than this admittedly epic highpoint. He’s a surfer, skater, climber, film-maker, photographer and journalist who’s had another one of those questing, roving careers I like to feature...2020-05-221h 33
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 122: Chas Smith - Trash ProseFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThis week’s guest is Chas Smith, surely the most notorious surf journalist on the planet right now thanks to his work with Beach Grit, books like Welcome to Paradise Now Go To Hell, and podcasts like Dirty Water and The Grit with David Lee Scales.Along the way, Chas has come to personify a particular type of surf writing trope - the tough-talking, hard-drinking alpha who is forever storming out of trade show interviews and picking literal and metaphorical fights with his peers and contemporaries.2020-05-061h 18
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 121: Terje Haakonsen - G.O.A.T.Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comLet’s not mess around. My guest this week is one of the action sports G.O.A.T.s, up there with Hawk and Slater as the greatest and most influential rider his discipline has yet produced. Terje’s achievements are so legendary it is difficult to know where to start. Subjekt: Haakonsen? The Olympics boycott? THAT world biggest air record? That peerless string of 90s contest wins that set the tone for a generation? The fact that he’s still charging as he approaches 50?An...2020-04-291h 48
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 120: Mike Manzoori - AuteurFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’m back with the great Mike Manzoori, a much-loved UK skateboarder who has quietly had one of the most influential careers in British skating. Mike has been renowned for the power and style of his skating since day one, and came up alongside peers like Curtis McCann and Simon Evans during an era of particular significance for UK skateboarding, documented by the great TLB through the pages of RaD magazine and through Mike’s own early experiments in film making. Later, he headed to the...2020-04-211h 09
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 119: Colin MacCleod - The IslandFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comIt’s brave new era time this week as I finally relaxed my Skype ban to record this episode with Colin MacCleod. If you don’t know Colin, he’s a musician and surfer from the Western Isles in Scotland who has been quietly carving out one of the most successful careers in British guitar music in the last few years. I’m talking supporting-Robert-Plant/appearances-on-the-James-Corden-Show-in-the-States levels of success. He also seems, as I discovered during our conversation, to have that whole work/life balance thing co...2020-04-141h 10
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 118: Steve England - Anybody CanFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’m a big fan of ‘lifer’ stories on the podcast. These are the guests who aren’t big name athletes or personalities, but who have quietly had the same amount of influence. Think of guests like Demi Taylor, Chris Cote or Phil Young. They’re people who have dedicated their lives to the activities they love, and in the process have ended up helping to create the culture we all benefit from. This week’s guest Steve England, long-term publisher of Carve magazine and founding member of Su...2020-04-071h 10
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 117: Mike Lay - Enter A CloudFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThe life of the professional athlete is truly an exalted one. There’s the travel. The free kit. The adulation. And the fact that you’re being paid to do what you love.Small wonder that so many professional athletes get swept along with it all, and start to believe their own hype. As I know from my experience of working in the industry for almost three decades, nothing is more common than the pro athlete who has made the fundamental mistake of thinking their current situation is p...2020-04-011h 08
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 116: Gwyn Haslock - Golden YearsFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comFor the second episode of my Cornish omnibus, I’ve got a beautiful tale for uncertain times: a lovely and heartwarming conversation with British surfer Gwyn Haslock. Chances are you won’t have heard of Gwyn. If that’s the case, I urge you to listen to this episode and discover her wonderful story.Kernow to the core, Gywn has a claim to be one of the UK’s original surfers and is certainly one of the first female surfers in the UK. Today, w...2020-03-1748 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 115: James Otter - Wooden ShipsFull episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comCould a wooden surfboard change your life? It wasn’t a question I was expecting to ask when I travelled down to Porthtowan to meet James Otter of Otter Surfboards for the first episode of my Cornish omnibus. I thought we’d be discussing the backstory of Otter Surfboards, finding out how James got into wooden surfboard shaping and design and delving into the history of this venerable practiseOf course, we did cover all that. But in the tradition of all the best Looking Side...2020-03-121h 08
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 114: Danimals and Benny Urban - TRIPLEFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Dan ‘Danmials’ Leidahl and Benny Urban special TRIPLE episode! This episode came about when my friend Matt Georges asked me to write the words for his latest book project with Vans - TRIPLE. The TRIPLE project saw Matt organise three shoots to represent the different sides of snowboarding - Arthur and Blake for backcountry, Rene Rinnekangas and Fridtjof Tischendorf for park, and Danimals and Benny Urban for street. Matt asked me to interview each duo for the book - naturally I thought I might as w...2020-03-0242 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 112 - Arthur Longo & Blake Paul - TRIPLEFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Arthur Longo and Blake Paul special TRIPLE episode! This episode came about when my friend Matt Georges asked me to write the words for his latest book project with Vans - TRIPLE. The TRIPLE project saw Matt organise three shoots to represent the different sides of snowboarding - Arthur and Blake for backcountry, Rene Rinnekangas and Fridtjof Tischendorf for park, and Danimals and Benny Urban for street. Matt asked me to interview each duo for the book - naturally I thought I might as...2020-02-0559 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 111: Lena Stoffel - Solar VoyagerFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com It can be funny how these episodes come together sometimes. You can spend months trying to arrange a meeting. Or you can randomly bump into somebody at the top of a backcountry run off the back of Niseko Annapurri, as happened with me and Lena in this case. It was the type of welcome coincidence that has characterised my friendship with Lena Stoffel over the last few months. So after our day in the backcountry, we arranged to sit down in Niseko the next day to...2020-01-3058 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 110: Jonathan Weaver - Jack To A KingFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com It’s the final episode from my Portland series, recorded during a breakneck week spent exploring the City of Roses with my various guests. And this episode, recorded with my very old friend Jonathan Weaver, is a fitting departure from the usual format. That’s because we recorded this episode during a very pleasant and leisurely drive around the Oregon coastline. I rode shotgun, grabbed the mics and spent an extremely enjoyable day riding around, checking the surf and having what is even for me a prop...2020-01-211h 50
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 109: Wille Yli-Luoma - Heart to HeartFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Coffee x snowboarding special! Yep, for this episode I headed to Heart Roasters to speak to the great Wille Yli-Luoma. Back in the late 90s and early 00s, Wille was one of the most progressive snowboarders in the world. And, as a member of the celebrated Forum 8, he was a member of the one of the heaviest and most progressive teams in snowboarding history. Go and watch The Resistance to get some measure of how they defined freestyle snowboarding for a generation. Wille was...2020-01-151h 21
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 108: Bryce Kanights - WayfarerFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comSkateboarding royalty alert! There’s really no other way to describe Bryce Kanights, one of skateboarding’s most legendary photographers.Bryce Kanights really has seen and shot it all. He came up as an original SF local, and honed his photographic talents while shooting his local punk and skate scene. From there, his career developed as skateboarding itself did, meaning he had a ringside seat for every notable development in skateboarding history.Think of an iconic image from skate history and chances are Bryce was...2020-01-0156 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 107: Tim and Gendle - Christmas Special!Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Christmas Special! Yep, it’s another festive hoedown with my friends Tim and Gendle! If you’re new to the show or unfamiliar with the boys and their work, allow me to introduce them: two of the biggest influences and most-loved presences in European snowboarding, whether as film-makers, presenters or snowboarders. Not that went over all that. Instead, we sat down for this two-hour plus mince pie and Secret Santa-fuelled yibble fest during which we ticked every festive box going. Booze? Tick. Secret Santa? Tick...2019-12-252h 28
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 106: Annie Fast - The Glass CeilingFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I’ve got my old friend Annie Fast on the show! I go back a long way with Annie. We’re both snowboarding industry lifers, who met almost twenty years ago. Because we had so much in common, being snowboarding and writing geeks, we got on straight away and become good friends. And we stayed in touch, occasionally working together and always encouraging each other. Which is why it was such a proud moment when Annie landed the plum writing job in the industry to become the...2019-12-201h 07
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 105: John Rattray - Predatory BirdsFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com John Rattray is one of the UK’s most successful and certainly best loved skateboarders. His is a success story that seemed to mirror the mid-to-late '90s expansion of UK skateboarding as a whole, as he made the journey from our shores to the States, and a breakout career as a pro on Zero.And yet away from the spotlight, John’s life was marked by a series of personal and professional crises that affected his mental health and led to bouts of depression and anxi...2019-12-111h 05
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 104: Mark Lewman - Mountain Dew and Minor ThreatFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com It's the first episode of my special Portland omnibus - and I kicked things off with this conversation with the great Mark Lewman, recorded at Nemo HQ in Portland.Lewman has had one of those circuitous, intensely creative career path that action sports culture often throws up. We’re dealing with creative royalty, a man who’s resume includes stints steering era-defining titles such as Freestylin’, Homeboy, Sassy, Dirt, Grand Royal and Big Brother. Along the way he worked on Jackass, collaborated with his friend Spike Jonze and ghostwrote...2019-12-031h 04
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 103: Phil Young - Shaking The TreeFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Phil Young has had one of those varied and fascinating careers I’ve documented a lot on the Looking Sideways podcast. He’ll be familiar to listeners of a certain age as the presenter of a much-loved mid-90s TV show called Board Stupid, which unbelievable as it sounds now, was a primetime TV show totally dedicated to snowboarding.From there, Phil used that experience and the most bulging contact book in UK action sports to carve a career as one of UK skating and snowboarding’s grea...2019-11-191h 37
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 102: Alex Knost - The Knost ConundrumFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest this week is Alex Knost: surfer, musician and photographer and definitely one of the most polarising figures in modern surfing. He’s a stylist who is renowned for his highly individual approach to wave-riding and life in general. For some, he’s the arty-farty epitome of hipster surfing who is all style and no substance.To others, he’s a genuine original who has managed the miraculous feat of achieving a totally original and cohesive style at this late stage in surfing’s develo...2019-11-1550 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 101: Chris McClean - TranslateFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest this week is visionary film-maker and photographer Chris McClean, recorded at the London Surf Film Festival in October 2019, where Chris won the Viewer’s Choice Award for his latest feature Translate. The film also had its premiere at the event, a performance that saw the soundtrack performed live by a band featuring composer CJ Mirra and Lee-Ann Curren. Its the type of typically forward-thinking endeavour that characterises Chris’s work. Like most I first heard of Chris’s work through the films such as Edges...2019-11-061h 04
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 100a: Danny MacAskill - DecadeFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com It’s the first half of my episode 100 bonanza! To mark my ascension to triple figures, I wanted to stoke my loyal listeners out AND do something that sums up the spirit of the podcast. So I’m releasing two episodes at the same time and calling them BOTH episode 100. This, episode 100a, is the first instalment, and is my interview with the great Danny MacAskill. Danny is a professional street trials rider who is one of the great stars of the viral age. In many ways...2019-10-301h 11
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 100b: Nicolas Muller - Life, Snowboarding and EverythingFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com It’s the second half of my episode 100 bonanza! To mark my ascension to triple figures, I wanted to stoke my loyal listeners out AND do something that sums up the spirit of the podcast. So I’m releasing two episodes at the same time and calling them BOTH episode 100. This, episode 100b, is the second instalment, and is my interview with the great Nicolas Muller. Where do you start with Nicolas? For over two decades, he’s epitomised a style of snowboarding that sums up everyt...2019-10-291h 16
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 099: David Carson - The End of PrintFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Every so often this podcast throws up some proper pinch-yourself moments, and this conversation with graphic design titan David Carson is one such occasion.Carson is, without question, the most notorious graphic designer of the last thirty years. His reach is total and his influence ubiquitous, as anybody who has worked in the media during that time will tell you.He also has a strong link to the action sports world, whether through his work designing titles such as Transworld back in the day, or...2019-10-181h 14
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 098: Sam McGuire - LiberationFull episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com An intriguing thing about the podcast has been the number of unexpected themes that have developed over the course of the last 90 plus episodes. One of which is: how massively conservative and blinkered the action sports world can be.Think of the patriarchal struggles outlined routinely by guests such as Layne Beachley and Cara-Beth Burnside. Or the ongoing story around women’s big wave surfing. In skateboarding, a world which has traditionally had real issues with area of society that have progressed hugely in th...2019-10-111h 20
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 097: Demi Taylor - The Road Not TakenFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comAhead of the forthcoming London Surf Film Festival, I caught with an old friend for episode 097 of the podcast. I’ve know Demi Taylor for years and have long admired her questing, creative approach to life, whether through her prolific writing, or the festival she’s been organising with partner Chris Nelson for the past nine years. In that time the London Surf Film Festival has quietly become one of the most essential dates on the UK calendar. There’s a spirit of wry celebration about it tha...2019-10-011h 15
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 096: Cara-Beth Burnside - CB ForeverFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI welcomed legitimate skateboarding royalty onto the show for episode 096 when I visited the legendary Cara-Beth Burnside at her Oceanside home for the final episode of my Looking Sideways California tour. CB is surely one of the most influential women in the history of action sports. Just look at her list of unique achievements. First woman on the cover of Thrasher. The only woman to win X Games summer and winter golds. First woman to have a signature skate shoe. 4th place in the Nagano Olympics. 2019-09-2444 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 095: Nick Hounsfield - The Man Behind The WaveFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’m back! After an unscheduled few weeks off. And I got right back into it with a visit to Bristol, where I was shown around the new Wave site by Nick Hounsfield, the man behind the entire project. Like most British surfers I’ve been following the story of the Wave for a good few years now, and I’ve long been intrigued by Nick’s role in the whole escapade. Sure, it’s about building the facility itself. But on another level, it’s a classic ‘i...2019-09-181h 13
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 094: Nick Jensen - The Anxiety of InfluenceFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI welcomed the great Nick Jensen onto the show for episode 094.Nick is a skateboarder and artist from London who has been a pivotal part of the UK scene for at least 15 years now. He occupies a really particular place in the UK skateboarding firmament - as a street skater of global renown and influence, and also as somebody with a unique approach to creativity and skateboarding.I’ve been intrigued by Nick’s take on skateboarding for a few years, particularly his video part...2019-08-141h 00
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 093: Gabe Davies - North East RisingFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comMy guest this week is Gabe Davies, one of the UK’s most legendary surfers. Whether it’s his career as a free surfer with Quiksilver or his pioneering explorations of the heaving waves off the west coast of Ireland, Gabe has helped to redefine British surfing on an international and big wave stage. He is also synonymous with the none-more-grassroots NE surf scene in the UK, one of our true surfing heartlands and home to one of the country’s most passionate and hardcore scenes. Gabe h...2019-07-301h 06
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 092: Dougie Lampkin - The Two Lives of Dougie LampkinFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’m back with perhaps my must successful guest ever - Dougie Lampkin, the motorcycle trials legend who dominated his sport to such an extent he has crossed over into the mythical realm where he basically symbolises his own sport in the eyes of the mainstream. And when you run the numbers, it isn’t difficult to see why. Dougie, who hails from the first family of British motorcycle trials riding, won his first Scottish Six Day Trials and Trial GP events in 1994. He went on t...2019-07-231h 09
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 091: Neale Haynes - Through The LensFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comShining a light in stories you may not know about, or speaking to people who are deserving of a wider audience, is a really important part of the Looking Sideways ethos. It is why my guests have included journalists, activists, chefs and musicians, as well as the big name professional athletes we all know. And it’s why I invited my old friend Neale Haynes onto the podcast for this week’s episode. Neale is a photographer, although that description doesn’t really do justice to the li...2019-07-051h 11
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 090: Elias Elhardt - Another DimensionFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’ve interviewed almost 100 guests in the two short years I’ve been putting together this podcast, and they’ve all got one thing in common - at some point, they shelved everything and dedicated their life to their passion.It’s particularly true of professional athletes. There’s no other way to make it. But what if you reach the top and realise that - whisper it - there’s more to life than snowboarding? And that maybe this thing you’ve dedicated your life to p...2019-06-2558 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 088: Rip Zinger - Rip's WorldFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’ve been lucky enough to interview a massively diverse range of people since I started the Looking Sideways podcast. And one thing unites them all: the activity might have lured them in; but it was the lifestyle that eventually hooked them.Yet few guests, if any, have taken their dedication to this chosen lifestyle to the same extreme as Rip Zinger, a self-described travelling monk who has turned couch-surfing into an artform. Rip is from Tokyo and is, in the title of a blogpost written ab...2019-06-041h 12
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 087: Mike Basich - Area 241Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comWhat attributes spring to mind when you think of the average action sports athletes? Style? Skill? Bravery? Youth?Whatever comes first, longevity is unlikely to figure too highly. After all, the majority of professional action sports careers burn short and sharp, averaging a decade at best before real life intervenes. Sure, there are a handful of special talents that have graduated to the legend programme, notably in surfing and skateboarding. But they are the exception rather than the rule. This context is...2019-05-281h 03
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 086: Jamie Brisick - After The FireFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comDisaster, tragedy, catastrophe, death, grief - these are the concealed details of life, hidden in plain sight in the hope we never have to experience them.The truth, of course, is that we will all be tested by such experiences in our lives. Until we do, a couple of questions loom. How will we cope? How can we square these experiences, and move forward?These are questions Jamie Brisick, my guest for episode 086, has faced twice now in the last decade. The first time...2019-05-171h 01
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 085: Chris Cote - MogulFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comShop talk special! That’s exactly what happened when I met up with the host of the self-styled ‘World’s Greatest Action Sports Podcast’, Chris Cote.Chris is a podcaster, presenter, editor, broadcaster, musician - a veritable action sports renaissance man, if you will. He’s also extremely good company, as I discovered when I went to meet him at Cote Media Group HQ in Encinitas. On this side of the pond, Chris best known for presenting the Monday M.A.S.S. with fe...2019-05-1455 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 084: Taylor Knox - EvolutionFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comWhen you’ve reached the top, where do you go? It’s a question every athlete has to face, and it’s something that is developing into one of the key themes of the Looking Sideways podcast. In Taylor Knox’s case, working out the answers to such fundamental questions has always been part of his modus operandi. Sure, he is famed as one of the most influential surfers of his generation, thanks to a style that redefined power surfing for a new generation, and two decades...2019-05-101h 10
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 083: Circe Wallace - OdysseyFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comAnybody who has managed to find one job they love is doing pretty well. Excelling at two life-defining careers suggests somebody operating at a different level entirely. Yet that’s exactly what Circe Wallace has succeeded in doing. Of course, she initially came to prominence as one of snowboarding’s most legendary and pioneering women professionals. Her career perfectly mirrored the arc of snowboarding’s first boom, and Circe took full advantage, achieving incredible success and setting the standards for future generations to follow. With h...2019-05-071h 03
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 082: Colin Kennedy - Skate VéritéFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com"Nothing", Calvin Coolidge tells us, "can take the place of persistence and determination". Throw in an inquisitive mind, wide creative horizons and a supremely affable nature, and you have a pretty unbeatable recipe for success.It is something Colin Kennedy seemed to intrinsically know from an early age, and helps to explain how, over two decades, he has carved out one of the most highly-regarded careers in skate media.Colin is without question one of skateboarding’s most influential filmers, celebrated for the uniqueness of...2019-05-031h 14
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 081: Nick Hamilton - The Golden CageFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI go way, way back with legendary snowboard photographer and Transworld lifer Nick Hamilton. We first met in the mid-90s, and subsequently spent a glorious 6 year period putting together Whitelines magazine as part of a team that included friends and colleagues such as Ed Leigh, Chris Moran and Tudor ‘Chod’ Thomas. Nick was always destined for greater things, and it was no surprise when in 2001 he was headhunted by Transworld Snowboarding, subsequently moving to Cali to work first as Photo Editor and then as Content Dire...2019-04-261h 32
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 080: Cori Schumacher - Speaking Truth To PowerFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI first heard about three times longboard world champion and current Carlsbad city council member Cori Schumacher in 2013, at the height of the Roxy/Steph Gilmore controversy. That was an episode that shone a harsh light on some of the more retrograde and toxic attitudes at play in the surf industry; and almost perfectly encapsulated the intricacies, nuances and challenge involved in debating issues of feminism, misogyny and sexism in an inherently conservative industry like surfing.Cori was at the forefront of the efforts to point...2019-04-2458 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 079: Jamie Thomas - Ground ZeroFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comAt some point in their life, every skateboarder chose skating as their ultimate means of self-expression and self-identity. Ask any skater who they are and the chances are the answer will be - I’m a skater. It’s that simple. So what happens when the one thing that has defined your life no longer serves you in the same way? When the quest you have dedicated your life to no longer fulfils you as it used to? And how do you cope when it has been...2019-04-191h 16
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 078: Herbie Fletcher - DynastyFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThe word legend is bandied around too easily these days. Not least by me. But really, no other word is big enough to capture Herbie Fletcher’s personality, or what he represents to surf culture. As Jamie Brisick puts it, “"In rock and roll we've got Iggy Pop and Mick Jagger. In surfing we've got Herbie Fletcher.” So what makes Herbie Fletcher such a titan of surf culture? There’s the surfing, of course. Herbie is one of surfing’s great stylists, consistently blowing minds over six decade...2019-04-1658 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 077: Peterson & Naughton - The Search For The Perfect WaveFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’ve been wanting to bag this one for years. Craig Peterson and Kevin Naughton are surfing’s very own Lewis and Clark, two Orange County boys who in the early 1970s embarked upon surfing’s most legendary odyssey, traversing the world looking for waves and defining the golden age of surf travel and exploration.It was an impossibly romantic journey that saw them spend a decade questing their way across the Americas, Europe and Africa, documenting the entire thing in a series of massively influential dispat...2019-04-101h 03
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 076: Kelly Clark - Intrinsic MotivationFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI welcomed one of the true greats onto the show for episode 076: the legendary Kelly Clark. Kelly is, without question, one of the most influential snowboarders of all time and the most successful competitive snowboarder in history - full stop. Run the numbers and you begin to understand the scale of her achievements: 20 years, nigh on 200 events, 137 podiums, 78 wins, 6 X Games medals, 8 US Open half pipe titles, two bronze and one gold medals won over the course of five Olympic Games. It’s a re...2019-04-021h 05
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 075: Sachi Cunningham - She ChangeFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comFirst podcast of my California road trip! And what a lovely way to kick things off. I first heard of Sachi Cunningham when a listener tipped me off, and I immediately got in touch to ask her if she’d be up for coming on the show while I was in San Francisco.Sachi is a surf photographer, filmmaker, journalist, mother, cancer survivor and all round force of nature who has spent the last few years working on a project called She Change. It's a documentary wh...2019-03-291h 20
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 073: Vernon Deck - Learning By DoingFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI reconnected with an old friend for episode 073 when I met up with Vernon Deck in Laax. Vernon is a snowboard photographer who has been working in the industry for two decades. Today, he works as Volcom’s main Snowboard Photographer, travelling the world and working with riders like Arthur Longo, Elena Hight and Jamie Lynn. That’s a great gig that would probably warrant an episode on its own. But there’s another side to Vernon’s life that meant I was determined to get him on t...2019-03-221h 09
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 072: Nicola Thost - Game ChangerFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comI’m really proud to have snowboarder Nicola Thost on the show for episode 072. As snowboarding’s first female half pipe gold medalist, Nicola stands as one of the key figures in freestyle snowboarding history. More importantly, she is hands down the most influential female rider of her generation, somebody who grabbed competitive snowboarding by the scruff of the neck and dragged it kicking and screaming into the future. In doing so, she changed our perceptions of what is possible and, during a competitive purple patch unrivalled until Kell...2019-03-1541 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 071: Lea Brassy - The Art of SimplicityFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comA real reflective treat of an episode this week, as I am joined by surfer and waterwoman Léa Brassy in a conversation recorded in August 2018 down in Newquay. A lovely, light and artful chat, this, as Léa talks me through her life and passions. As a surfer, free-diver, spearfisher, film-maker, ocean advocate and writer, Léa has been courageous enough to follow her own path in life and is deeply thoughtful about her relationship with her environment. I mean that in the bro...2019-03-0851 min
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 070: Bas Keep - Tall OrderFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comFirst BMX guest!Bas Keep is one of the UK’s most respected and celebrated riders. He’s been at the top of his game for twenty years now, consistently carving out an unusual, thoughtful path for himself. He’s probably best known for his association with Red Bull and hugely ambitious projects such as Walls. He is also cherished by the core BMX community, who recognise the commitment to the culture of BMX that shines through every varied project he turns his hand to. 2019-03-011h 13
Looking Sideways Action Sports PodcastEpisode 069: Jeremy Jones - Across The Great DivideFull episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comIt’s been two years in the making, but for episode 069 I finally bagged one of the big beasts of the snowboarding world: the great Jeremy Jones.Jeremy is a true icon. Firstly and most obviously, he’s one of the most legendary freeriders ever, helping to push the boundaries for over two decades now through one of snowboarding’s most influential riding careers.He’s been equally influential as a film-maker, through projects like the Deeper/Higher/Further trilogy, and idiosyncratic recent releases such as...2019-02-211h 08