Beyond Boards

Episode 24 with Cephas Benson aka the Ghost and Donovan Jones aka D-Jones, creators and hosts of the famous Toronto-based skateboarding and sports podcast The Bunt Live.  Together we talked about them growing up skating in Toronto, starting The Bunt in 2016, their influences, how they operate together, how they manage to do the podcast while having a regular full-time job and all around busy lives...

Episode 23 with Tom Botwid, skateboarder, artist, founder and owner of Poetic Collective (and also Vans TM for Scandinavia). Together we discussed him growing up skating around Malmö, Sweden, studying art between Stockholm and Berlin, starting Poetic Collective as a fun project with a few friends and slowly developing it into a legit international board and clothing brand, developing his unique st...

Episode 22 with one of South Africa's finest skateboarders, Yann-Xavier Horowitz.  Together we discussed his European roots, growing up in South Africa, getting scared out of rollerblading as a kid and picking up a skateboard instead, living in Europe for a little bit, coming out at 21 years old to his family, friends and the South African skate scene, Jim Thiebaud hooking him up with Antihero boa...

Episode 21 with Sarah Meurle, pro skater and photographer from Malmö, Sweden.  Together we discussed her growing up in Blentarp close to Malmö, picking up a skateboard at a young age, getting into Bryggeriets Gymnasium as one of the very first students to enter the program, developing her interest for photography aside from skating, turning pro and getting hooked up by Nike SB, her recent move to...

Episode 20 with Jérémie Daclin, legendary pro skater and business owner from Lyon, France.  Together we discussed him growing up skating in Lyon, starting his career with the support of US brands, which inspired him to launch his own board brand Cliché skateboards in 1997 to help build the booming European skate scene, running this iconic and successful brand for two decades, showcasing some of th...

Episode 19 with Oisín Tammas, skateboarder, writer and storyteller from England. Together we talked about him growing up skating around London and its suburbs, developing a strong interest for literature and storytelling from a young age, moving to Athens in 2014 and getting involved with Moch Simos at diversity skateboarding magazine Skateism, helping out his friends Will Ascott and Ruby Mateja l...

Episode 18 with Fred Mortagne aka French Fred, skateboarder, photographer & videographer from Lyon, France.  Together we talked about him growing up skating in Lyon, picking up a camera to film his friends, making his first local scene videos, sending footage to 411vm, meeting with Pierre-André Senizergues (founder of Sole Technologies) and getting offered to film the éS footwear video project...

Episode 17 with Julian Dykmans, man of many talents.  Julian grew up in Belgium where he started skating, but has spent most of his adult life traveling around the world, first as a singer for the punk-rock ska band "Looking Up", then as a pro skater for iconic brands such as Consolidated or Antiz Skateboards, which he co-created in 2002, while also working as a team and marketing manager for vari...

Episode 16 with Oliver Percovich, skateboarder and founder of NGO Skateistan. Together we talked about him growing up skating in Australia and Papua New Guinea, moving to Afghanistan in 2007 and introducing skateboarding to local kids, how he developed that idea into the successful and highly acclaimed global skateboarding, education, girls empowerment program that is Skateistan, their expansion s...

Episode 15 with Jonathan Mehring, photographer & film director from Richmond, Virginia. Together we talked about him growing up skating in Virginia, picking up a camera and shooting his friends skating, studying photography in college, his first photography gigs for Slap and Skateboarder Magazine, traveling around the world shooting photos with some of the best skaters of the last two decades,...

Episode 14 with Danijel Stankovic a.k.a. Jugga, pro skater, entrepreneur, marketing specialist and Malmö legend. Together we talked about him growing up skating around Malmö, his early influences, skating for and working at Nike SB for many years, filming parts for iconic videos such as "In search of the miraculous" (by Pontus Alv) and the Grey Area videos (by  Kuba Kaczmarczyk), his passion for K...

Episode 13 with Ben Derenne, former skateboarding filmer, videographer and team manager. Together we discussed him growing up in the Paris suburbs in the 80's, skating and snowboarding as a teenager, becoming a filmer for Puzzle (the European equivalent to 411 video magazine), joining forces with Jérémie Daclin (founder & owner of Cliché skateboards) and making their first full length-video Eu...

Episode 12 with John Dahlquist, skateboarding teacher and Vice Principal of Bryggeriets Gymnasium (high-school) in Malmö, Sweden. Together we talked about him growing up in Malmö, skating and filming with Pontus Alv back in the day, launching Bryggeriets Gymnasium as the first ever "skateboarding high-school" in 2006, the challenges of teaching skateboarding to teenagers, the concept of classroom,...

Episode 12 with Robert Brink, writer, marketing & PR specialist and overall storyteller who has been working in the skateboarding industry for nearly two decades. Together we discussed him growing up in New Jersey, moving to California to pursue a career as a writer in skateboarding, collaborating with many brands and publications throughout the years, co-hosting Weekend Buzz on the Ride Chann...

Special edition today, a quick chat with Lucy Raemers, sister of late British pro skater Ben Raemers, co-founder of the Ben Raemers foundation. November 4th is Ben's birthday, and to mark the occasion Vice is releasing their new documentary "Skating and talking" about Ben's life.  Intro (00:13)  Growing up (01:27)  Starting the foundation (09:59)  Actions of the foundation, SMiLe videos (11:08)  B...

Episode 10 with Scott Bourne, former pro skateboarder turned writer and poet. Together we talked his upbringing in North Carolina, his pro skater years in San Francisco in the 90's, his part in Pontus Alv's first film "the strongest of the strange", traveling around the world and eventually moving to France to write his first novel, how in recent years he's been sharing his time between writing, m...

Episode 9 avec Arnaud Dedieu, skater et spécialiste du marketing et de la communication qui oeuvre dans les coulisses du skateboard français depuis plus de deux décennies. Nous revenons ensemble sur les trois activités qui mobilisent l'essentiel de son temps et de son énergie en ce moment. D'abord Dedication, structure de skate urbanisme dont l'objectif est de développer l'aménagement d'espaces pr...

Episode 8 with Patrick O'Dell, skater, photographer, filmmaker and one of skateboarding’s very best storytellers. Together we talked about him picking up a camera and a skateboard in his teenage years, working for Thrasher as their photo editor, starting Epicly Later'd as a blog and turning it into a TV show with Vice, making the "Dumb" documentary about Big Brother Magazine, what he's up to today...

Episode 7 avec Jérémie Grynblat, fondateur de l'agence BLCK LIST à travers laquelle il accompagne les carrières de certains des meilleurs skaters français actuels, tels qu'Aurélien Giraud, Vincent Milou ou Vincent Matheron. Nous revenons ensemble sur son parcours, depuis les premiers bowl riders de Marseille jusqu'aux jeux olympiques de Tokyo en juillet 2021.  Intro (00:14)  Présentation (01:16) ...

Episode 6 with Rob Mathieson, skater and illustrator based in London, England. Together we talked about him growing up skating in London, studying animation and eventually becoming an illustrator, working with different brands in the skateboarding industry such as Enjoi or Girl/Chocolate, filming with his dog Fatman, being a close friend of Ben Ramers and co-creating the Ben Raemers Foundation aft...

Episode 5 with Patrik Wallner, tireless and enthusiastic globe-trotter, filmmaker and photographer based in Hong-Kong. Together we talked about him growing up between Germany and the US, skating and filming with Billy Rohan in NYC back in the day, traveling across all of Europe and Asia with the Visual Traveling crew for the last 15 years, skating in North Korea with Kenny Reed, living in HK in tu...

Episode 4 avec Greg Poissonnier, skater/snowboarder/surfer/chef d'entreprise et bien d'autres choses encore ! Nous revenons ensemble sur son parcours dans l'industrie du skate et de la glisse en général, ses années de pro snowboarder, ses expériences dans les services marketing de marques emblématiques comme Globe ou Gravis/Analog, le lancement de son agence marketing Slappy Agency et de sa marque...

Episode 3 with Chris Pfanner, pro skater and Vans Europe Team Manager. We talked about him growing up between Nigeria and Austria, learning how to ollie in 24 hours to win a bet, turning pro for Yama Skateboards and eventually getting on Antihero, living in Barcelona and now Germany, doing late-shove-its, working on Tom's tales and Quantinium, what his job as Vans Europe TM entails, how he deals w...

Episode 2 avec Romy Bertrand, consultante et accompagnatrice de marques et de skaters/skateuses de talent. Nous revenons ensemble sur sa carrière dans l'industrie du skate sur plus d'une vingtaine d'années, avec des expériences au sein de marques et de groupes emblématiques tels que Dwindle, Dogtown, Girl/Crailtap, le Berrics, Element... jusqu'à la création récente de son entreprise The Good Agenc...

Episode 1 with Nestor Judkins, an American pro skater based in L.A., originally from San Jose, California. Together we talked about his skate career, going from Santa Cruz to Enjoi, traveling and skating with Patrik Wallner and the Visual Traveling crew, how it all led to launching his non profit organization Salad Days of Skateboarding, traveling with Ben Raemers and helping out the Ben Raemers f...