FNRad Snowboarding Podcast

Send us Fan Mail All time legend Jamie Lynn tells the story of his first time snowboarding and the very first board he bought. Recorded at the Langley penta-track. Enjoy! Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water https://www.flojoyh2o.com FNRad 11 Sponsors: Burton Snowboards https://www.burton.com Bluebird Coffee Tuning and Rentals https://...

Send us Fan Mail Marie France Roy is a professional snowboarder who many professional snowboarders look up to. Her style and attitude are a wonderful representation of what can be done in the realm of professional athletes. I reached Marie France at her cob home on Vancouver Island. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water https://www.floj...

Send us Fan Mail Robin Van Gyn is a back country legend who's been filming in the Whistler back country and around the world. Her video parts are numerous and have won her the coveted Transworld video part of the year award. And Robin just won the Natural Selection tour finale in Tordrillo Alaska, so sick. I caught Robin in quarantine in Pemberton as she settled in to regroup after a crazy wi...

Send us Fan Mail Hana Beaman joins the show this week for a conversation about her life in snowboarding including competing in this year's Natural Selection tour stops in Jackson Hole and Alaska. Hana embodies what it means to be a snowboarder which is why she's accomplished so much in her 20 year professional snowboarding career.  She has won the US open slopestyle 3 times and has sever...

Send us Fan Mail Etienne Gilbert was a professional snowboarder with unmatched style. He grew up in Quebec and eventually moved to Whistler where his pro career on Nitro also included filming with Alterna, Sandbox, and Mack Dawg. Etienne's taste for style helped inform the Deja Vu crew making him one of the most influential snowboarders of his era.  Support the show Check us out at https://ww...

Send us Fan Mail Craig Kelly was born on April 1st. In this very special bonus episode film maker Jacques Russo talks about filming with Craig. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water https://www.flojoyh2o.com FNRad 11 Sponsors: Burton Snowboards https://www.burton.com Bluebird Coffee Tuning and Rentals https://bluebirdsquamish.com Anon O...

Send us Fan Mail Wes Makepeace is the kind of snowboarder that stokes me out on doing this podcast. He's a legendary pro snowboarder who rides mostly at Whistler and Mt. Baker but he's also got a gap at Mt Seymour named after him. He had pro models with Aggression and Lamar. He's won at the Mount Baker Legendary Banked Slalom. And he's an accomplished singer song writer. Stoked...

Send us Fan Mail Jay Balmer is an important snowboarder in the early Canadian snowboarding community. Have a listen to a little bit of his story and important memories from his life in snowboarding.  Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water https://www.flojoyh2o.com FNRad 11 Sponsors: Burton Snowboards https://www.burton.com Bluebird Coffe...

Send us Fan Mail Trevor Graves was a snowboard photographer who shot with the greats. His career was kicked into high gear when he moved from Syracuse to Oregon in the late 80's. Trevor shot some of the most iconic images of guys like Craig, Terje, Brushie, and so many other snowboarders... Stoked to have him on the show!! Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick McCarthy has to be the most stoked snowboarder I've ever interviewed. At 41 he still shreds at a professional level despite taking a position as team manager for 686. His ten year pro career includes magazine and video credits with all the majors. This year he's on a permanent staycation at Mt. Baker. I caught up with him in his home office a few days ago. Suppor...

Send us Fan Mail Tucker Fransen is an OG Tahoe Snowboarding Legend. He grew up in the Grass Valley home of the Grasser. Tucker rode for Sims and then left to join Morrow where he continued his pro career and learned how to design snowboards before eventually being hired as a designer at MLY and M3 (the Yoshida factory). I'm still in awe of the fact that I get to talk with the snowboarders I l...

Send us Fan Mail Brian Savard is a backcountry legend who grew up skateboarding in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island and went on to travel the world as a professional snowboarder for K2. Brian's powerful style landed him in the pages of snowboarding magazines around the world including Transworld and Snowboarder who sent him to places like India to be the first to shred their epic mountains. S...

Send us Fan Mail Don Szabo is a Pro Snowboarder from southern California who rode for Nectar, Airwalk, Life's  Beach, Lamar, Blackfly's and a handful of other companies in the 90's. Don was integral to creating the modern day snowboard pro career. Don Szabo could be seen in Transworld, Snowboarder, The Creatures of Habit movies, gracing the pages with his freestyle snowboarding and...

Send us Fan Mail Gwyn Howat is the CEO of Mt Baker. I interviewed her back in 2015 and lost the audio for 6 years! Gwyn's family moved to Mount Baker when her father Duncan took the job of Operations Manager in 1968!! Ever since the Howat's have operated Mt Baker off the grid, creating one of the world's greatest snowboarding mountains. 1985 saw the invention of the Banked Slalom at...

Send us Fan Mail Blaise Rosenthal is a pro snowboarder who shaped this wonderful thing we call snowboarding with his creativity, imagination, and hard work. Please watch his part in Mack Dawg's Simple Pleasures movie for some insight in what made Blaise one of the top pros of his era. Blaise made the jump into the world of fine art as a painter. And he's one heck of a nice guy, enjoy!  S...

Send us Fan Mail Jon Roth is an amazing human being who was a pro snowboarder in the heyday of snowboarding. His sponsors included Sims, Billabong, and Volcom. His style was admired and he was regarded as an up and coming rider to watch. In this episode we talk about how quickly his career fell away.  Jon runsand owns Crowsnest Barbershops one of the sponsors of our show and was one of the first p...

Send us Fan Mail Ross Rebagliati is a former professional snowboarder who's name has become synonymous with weed. At one point Ross was the most famous snowboarder on the planet.   Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water https://www.flojoyh2o.com FNRad 11 Sponsors: Burton Snowboards https://www.burton.com Bluebird Coffee Tuning and R...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Larosiliere is the man behind Stoked.org a nonprofit that takes underserved kids out snowboarding. Steve was chosen to attend an exclusive private high school as a teenager and it helped shape his life in many ways including making him acutely aware of the power of mentorship. After a trip to British Columbia from his home in New York, Steve dedicated his life to building a...

Send us Fan Mail What happened to the sheep in the Etnie's Ad from Whiskey 2? Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water https://www.flojoyh2o.com FNRad 11 Sponsors: Burton Snowboards https://www.burton.com Bluebird Coffee Tuning and Rentals https://bluebirdsquamish.com Anon Optics https://www.burton.com/ca/en/c/anon-optics-goggles Fix...

Send us Fan Mail Natasza Zurek is a legendary Burton rider who got her start in Vancouver in the 90's. She rode on the Never team with Rob Dow and Devun before being scooped up by Burton at the US Open.  Natasza competed for the first part of her career before pioneering women's back country filming. She lives with her two kids and partner in the Okanogan painting amazing art.  Support t...

Send us Fan Mail Leanne Pelosi is a professional snowboarder for K2 and The North Face. She's a back country force of nature and a filmmaker with her production company Full Moon Films. Leanne works with Protect Our Winters and has won several Transworld awards for her video parts and her entrepreneurship! It was a pleasure to have her on the show! Support the show Check us out at https://www...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Bilocq is a snowboarder on Dinos Will Die. Ben rode as a pro on Nitro, rode for D-Day, and filmed parts with the Deja Vu crew and Videograss. Ben rides quite a bit at Mt. Seymour and can often be seen building gorilla features that are some of the most fun things to hit on the hill. A true snowboarder's snowboarder, Ben Bilocq tells it like it is in this interview recorde...

Send us Fan Mail Derek Scott is one of the three OG Seymour Kids and he explains who gave them their name and what it was like to be an am with a model back in the 90's. This is a fun one, nostalgia all the way. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water https://www.flojoyh2o.com FNRad 11 Sponsors: Burton Snowboards https://www.burton.c...

Send us Fan Mail Beau Bishop is a Global Am for Ride (come on Ride, turn Beau PRO!) living in Squamish who absolutely slays the Whistler back country. Search #pointofbeau on instagram for hundreds of rad clips of amazing snowboarding. This week's episode was recorded with Beau in Squamish BC. Support the show Check us out at https://www.fnradpodcast.com FNRad 11 is presented by Flojoy Water h...

Send us Fan Mail Marc Castonguay is a Legendary Whistler pro from the 90's and he waxes poetic about what it was like to shred professionally back then.  The FNRad Snowboard Podcast is presented by Vans.  Season 6 of FNRad is sponsored by Wired Snowboards, Anon Optics, The Boardroom Snowboard Shop, Crowsnest Barbershops, Tribute Boardshop in Nelson BC, Mount Seymour, and Grouse Mountain. Supp...