FNRad Snowboarding Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Jones has been called the first snowboarding superpro by ESPN. He's won the Transworld Reader's Poll Rider Of The Year 3 times. He's filmed parts in Alaska with Standard Films. There's no denying that Kevin Jones has a supernatural talent on a snowboard. But at his core he identifies simply as a snowboarder. Recorded during the epic 2017 snow season, this...

Send us Fan Mail The second wave of Scandinavian snowboarders included Johan Olofsson, a Swede who would turn technical freestyle on its head by taking big tricks to Alaska. If you've listened to our Tom Burt, Dave Hatchet, or Dave Downing episodes then you already know how much of an impact Johan's riding had on the world of professional snowboarding. He runs Svanstein ski resort in Nor...

Send us Fan Mail We revisit Jeff Fulton at his home near Mt Baker in WA. Jeff's placed 3rd at the Legendary Banked Slalom at Baker and has had a long lucrative snowboarding career as a Pro Rider, Contest Judge, and Coach. He's one of the most important people who's ever taken up snowboarding. And he still rides better than the majority of snowboarders. Support the show Check us out...

Send us Fan Mail Tara Dakides is from Southern California and she dominated X-Games Slopestyle and Big Air from 1999 - 2002 and worked as a professional snowboarder filming video parts with Mack Dawg and others until she retired in 2011. She's married now and is a mother of two. We talk about her life as a professional snowboarder, mother, punk rocker, skateboarder, not necessarily in that or...

Send us Fan Mail Todd Schlosser embodies what it means to be a snowboarder from the Pacific Northwest. He helped raise the level of technical freestyle in the 90's and was proficient at everything. He's the lead singer and base guitarist for the band Model Snake who you'll hear featured in this episode. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presen...

Send us Fan Mail Iconic photographer Sean Sullivan (@sulliphotoz) met up with us in Seattle WA for this conversation about being an action sports photographer, the changing role of the still photographer as filming became more lucrative, and the difficulty with making a living after the big switch to digital swept through the industry. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com...

Send us Fan Mail Peter Line is one of snowboarding's most beloved pro riders. His defining style included some of the first off-axis spins the world had ever seen. His passion and dedication to progression landed him on the podium at many of the high profile Big Air contests around the world in the mid nineties. He took on an ownership role at Forum Snowboards in '96 and continued to pro...

Send us Fan Mail Dave Downing was a pro rider for Burton Snowboards in the early and mid nineties. Check out his part in Mack Dawg's The Stomping Grounds and you'll see why he was one of the most well rounded pros of that time. It contains Japan pow shredding, park, pipe, and back country cliff shots and even some surfing. Dave's early ambition to become a pro surfer lead him to bec...

Send us Fan Mail Tarquin has been credited with starting the fat stance and big pants phase of snowboarding but he'll tell you others did it first. A dedicated skater turned pro snowboarder, he thumbed his nose to the mainstream and carved his own path through the chaos of the industry at that time. We don't discuss the tradeshow gun incident that lead him to have a shotgun on the base g...

Send us Fan Mail   Tim Windell was a world class competitor for the Sims snowboarding team. He's the guy behind Windell"s Camp at Mt Hood and an original Sims pro rider. We caught up with Tim at camp headquarters and chatted about snowboarding. It's what we do. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water https://www.flojoyh2o.c...

Send us Fan Mail   Bryan Iguchi was essential in bringing freestyle snowboarding to resorts around the world. As a pro rider for Burton in the early 90's he helped develop twin tip snowboards as well as snowboard parks for resorts. Bryan moved to Jackson Hole WY to learn about the mountains he was riding and has emerged as one of the seminal voices in snowboarding about avalanche safety and a...

Send us Fan Mail Dale Rehberg had a major influence on the growing freestyle movement in the early 90's. From Burton, to Joyride, to Ride, to Silence, his riding represented the leading edge of the progression of the sport. Dale continues to work in the industry for Flow down in California. It was rad to interview this icon of snowboarding. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpo...

Send us Fan Mail Keith Wallace grew up in Idaho and as a young snowboarder in the 80's his father drove him to snowboarding competitions all over the US and Canada. Keith was picked up by the Burton team  and joined the likes of Brushie, Jacoby, and Craig at the beginning of what would evolve into Olympic halfpipe snowboarding. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNR...

Send us Fan Mail Shaun Palmer, one of the most successful competitive professional snowboarders to ever live. He's like snowboarding's MJ or Gretzky. He's won X-Games and the Banked Slalom and World Cups and so much more. But before he was the world's greatest athlete he was snowboarding's signature bad ass. If you do a Google search for "snowboarders" his image...

Send us Fan Mail Originally from the eastern USA, Russell Winfield was a prominent pro snowboarder in the early 90's and a pro for Burton. Russell was one of the first three pro riders for the newly formed Ride Snowboard company in 1992 and helped develop the Ride brand (as well as Cappel Clothing which lead the industry in style-influenced technical outerwear) during his two years at Ride. R...

Send us Fan Mail October 6, 2016. Bryan Iguchi is making turns in the Jackson Hole backcountry. Meanwhile in Vancouver BC snowboarding's prominent industry people and pro riders are gathering to witness The Wildcat's first snowboard movie in 10 years. The Fortune Sound Club hosted the event and snowboarding fans packed the venue to capacity. We interviewed several pro snowboarders and pu...

Send us Fan Mail Shawn Farmer was the first pro snowboarder we interviewed for season 1.  I'd been messaging him on facebook (which he doesn't really use) and I hadn't heard back. So when I saw him in the Mt. Baker parking lot I asked if we could record on the chairlift. It ended up being one of the only powder days of the 2014/2015 season. Mt Baker would eventually close early and...

Send us Fan Mail Closing out Season 1 we bring you an interview with Damian Sanders. Damian rode for Avalanche Snowboards, a company his brother Chris owned. From the first Avalanche board ever made to the Damian Dagger, Chris and Damian made it up as they went, a lot like we are doing with this podcast. Damian's go big or go bigger attitude eventually blew out his knee, several times. But no...

Send us Fan Mail We interview Mike Ranquet at Milano's in Glacier Washington Mike's been a loud voice in snowboarding for almost 30 years, calling bullshit, ruffling feathers, and kicking ass on his snowboard. He's the first guy I saw do a trick fakie (riding backwards) in a video. He's the first guy to butter. And he was among the first snowboarders to visit and tear up Alaska...

Send us Fan Mail A quick parking lot interview with two snowboarders that had a huge impact on the sport. Dan Donnelly (Dano) was raised at Baker. A member of the legendary MBHC. Dano's smooth style is still his signature today, and he's still getting after it in-bounds and out-of-bounds. Rob Morrow brought us Morrow snowboards in 1989. 3 years later he graced the cover of Transworld Sno...

Send us Fan Mail Norwegian snowboarding legend Terje Hakonsen visit's the FNRad Snowboarding Podcast live show at Chair 9 Pub in Glacier Washington during the Mount Baker Legendary Banked Slalom. If you're new to the show, welcome. We are nearing the end of our first season and it's been a lot of fun. We still have a few more episodes of some of snowboarding's raddest pioneers...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Graham kicked ass in all the early FLF feature snowboarding films. Riding for Look in their heyday and launching his own company are two of the topics we covered during a phone conversation with Steve at his home on Kauai in Hawaii We've got a live show coming up. Listen for details at the end of the episode. Oh yeah, Full Sail Brewing from Hood River Oregon is bringing...

Send us Fan Mail I used to suffer through the big mountain parts in early snowboarding videos. I wanted to see jumps and jibs. But now I find myself watching the classics and appreciating how gnarly the back country freeriders were getting while we were all busy cutting our noses down. Dave Hatchett and his twin brother Mike revolutionized snowboarding videos forever with the Totally Board series...

Send us Fan Mail In Les Arcs France in 1982 the opening of Les Arcs 2000 would usher in the first wave of snowboarding's freeriders with Regis Rolland shredding the steeps with a helicopter, a film crew, and a million dollar budget.   Steve Graham gave us the contact information for Regis, citing him as one of the rad pioneers that helped start everything.   The Apocalypse Snow movies brought...

Send us Fan Mail Tina Basich and her iconic red ponytail ruled women's snowboarding competitions for more than a decade. Her career highlights include X-Games gold in the big air and having the first women's pro model. Tina is a founding member of the Boarding For Breast Cancer (B4BC) event series, one of snowboarding's most iconic events. We talked to Tina a few weeks ago from her...