Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 036, I headed up to London to meet the inspirational Charlie Dark: runner, musician, DJ, thinker, leader, teacher, speaker, poet and much more. He's a member of seminal Mo’ Wax band Attica Blues, and founder of Run Dem Crew, the running community that has been the inspiration for and catalyst of the entire urban running mov...

Full episode info and Show Notes:  www.wearelookingsideways.com "Our sports give us magical sensations and feelings. And you don’t need to be a man to experience them". Well, you can’t argue with this, just one of the many nuggets dropped by Swiss snowboarder and Freeride World Tour alumnus Anne-Flore Marxer in the latest episode of the show. AFM, as if you didn’t know, has been one of European sn...

Full episode info and Show Notes:  www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 034 I welcomed one of snowboarding’s most creative and influential characters onto the show - David Benedek, who for a decade bestrode the global snowboarding scene like a veritable colossus. Think of any significant cultural snowboarding development from 1999 to 2008 and chances are Benedek was involved. From the moment h...

Full episode info and Show Notes:  www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 033 of the podcast, I met up with British snowboarder Billy Morgan the week before he headed to Korea to compete for Team GB at his second Olympic Games. Billy is a hugely respected member of the UK snowboarding community, who came up through dryslope and seasons in the classic UK way, but has since transformed himself int...

Full episode info and Show Notes:  www.wearelookingsideways.com It was second time lucky for episode 032 as I finally wrapped my interview with one of European snowboarding’s great: James Stentiford. For two decades James has been one of Europe’s most respected snowboard pros, both for the longevity of his career, but more importantly for his whole approach to snowboarding and life in general. Jam...

My guest for episode 031 of the Looking Sideways podcast is truly one of the unsung heroes of the UK action sports community: Tim Leighton-Boyce. Between 1985 and 1993 Tim was the main driving force behind the legendary R.A.D magazine, the much-loved UK skateboarding magazine that did so much to support UK skateboarding and skate culture during a critical time in the scene’s development on these s...

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 030 I welcomed a proper guest of honour onto the show - Thomas Victor Carroll. Tom, a two-times world champion, is truly one of surfing’s greats. How? By dominating and redefining the way waves like Pipeline and Sunset were surfed, for one, and by defining what it meant to be a professional surfer in the 80s and 90s. Now in...

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Seven times ASP world champion, chair of Surfing Australia, ISA Executive Committee member, founder of the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation, big wave pioneer; I've been lucky enough to speak to some big hitters on the show over the last year, but Layne Beachley, my guest for episode 028 is right up there. I sat down with Lay...

Enjoyed episode 028 with Hayden Cox of Haydenshapes? In this special New Year 2017/18 bonus episode, Hayden talked me through his new factory, explaining how a Haydenshapes board is put together from start to finish and showing me some of his special projects. Huge thanks to Hayden for taking the time to show me round the factory. Click https://www.instagram.com/p/BdV7dA8Fds5/?hl=en&taken-by=weloo...

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 028 I headed to Sydney’s Northern Beaches to interview surfer, shaper and entrepreneur Hayden Cox. This is the first part of my planned Aussie omnibus featuring legendary members of the Sydney surf community, and Hayden definitely fits that description. He is the founder and owner of Haydenshapes surfboards - one of the mos...

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com I welcomed true adventure royalty onto the show for episode 027, when I met up with the great Rick Ridgeway. Rick, a legendary mountaineer and adventurer, was part of the first American team to summit K2; just one highlight in a career full of firsts and achievements. Today, he is Vice President of Public Engagement at Patagonia, using...

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com We dig into the details of a great American snowboarding life for episode 025 of the Looking Sideways Podcast, as I speak to Hollywood screenwriter and OG snowboard legend Jon Boyer. Canuck legend Boyer came up with the first wave of North American snowboard pros, mentored by Ken Achenbach and counting shredders like Keith Duckboy Wall...

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Recorded during my visit to Cornwall in August 2017, my conversation with Surfers Against Sewage Chief Executive Hugo Tagholm is a vital listen. Surfers Against Sewage are the marine conservation charity who first came to prominence in the 1990s when they spearheaded the campaign to improve water quality in the UK and around the world....

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Another week, another legend – this time big wave surfer and extreme waterman, the great Garrett McNamara. Garrett was in London for a few days during mid November 2017, so I sat down with him for an hour and look back over his storied, spectacular career. And what stories these are. Whether it's growing up surfing Halewia and then pio...

Full episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Legend alert! Yep, for episode 023 I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon with one of snowboarding’s most beloved characters: the great Bryan Iguchi. ‘Guch’, as everyone calls him, has had one of the most most legendary and important careers in snowboarding, spanning over two decades and covering almost every key development along t...

Full episode and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com *L E G E N D K L A X O N* Yep, I invited another true great onto the show for episode 022: none other than Travis Rice, a towering presence in snowboarding culture since he exploded onto the scene back in 2001. Today Travis stands as one of the undisputed greatest of all time. With his riding, his approach to arenas such as AK, his films or...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com I welcomed a true legend onto the Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast for episode 021:  3 x World Champion, renowned shark puncher and all-round Aussie surfing superstar Mick Fanning. I headed round to Mick’s place during my recent surf trip to Hossegor in the South West of France, and we got stuck into Mick’s life and career during...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For the third and final part of my Irish omnibus, recorded on my trip to the west coast at the end of September 2017, I headed to Galway to meet Easkey Britton. Easkey is a surfer, XXL nominee, swimmer, academic, artist, thinker, activist, environmentalist and explorer from Donegal. Part of the legendary Britton clan, she grew up surfi...

Full episode and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com It’s part two of my special Irish omnibus - episode 019 with surfer Sophie Hellyer, recorded during my brief sojourn to Lahinch on the west coast of Ireland at the end of September 2017. Sophie is a surfer, model and writer who came to prominence in her teens after she won British titles and was soon snapped up by Roxy. She then spent ten y...

Full episode and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Welcome to Part 1 of my special Irish omnibus! Yep, in mid-September 2017 I headed over to County Clare in Ireland for a few days surfing and to catch up with some friends for the podcast. First up is Irish surfer and farmer Fergal Smith. Ferg’s the man who turned his back on a successful pro surf career to head back to Ireland and establis...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Episode 017! How did that happen? This time I headed down to Newquay to speak to Ben Skinner, world-renowned longboarder, the man behind Skindog Surfboards and all round UK surf legend. Ben and the boys were super welcoming and after showing me around the factory we sat down and went back over his life and career. Up for discussion - t...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Episode 015 is a special episode of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast, as I invited my old friend Marcus Chapman onto the show to discuss his work for CALM, his role as organiser of Nelson’s Tour de Test Valley and our old friend, the much-loved and much-missed Nelson Pratt. We wanted to discuss Nelson’s own story in the hope...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Before June 2017, Alex Honnold, my guest for episode 015, was already renowned as one of the world’s greatest climbers thanks to achievements such as the Fitzroy Traverse, his free solo ascents of Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park and on Half Dome, or his solo ascent of Yosemite’s Triple Crown. Then he ‘sent the project’ he’d be...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com My episode 014 guest is Lucy Adams - pro skateboarder, chair of Skateboard England and one of the most respected and positive presences in UK skateboarding. Lucy has been a tirelessly upbeat presence in UK skateboarding for years now, whether through the efforts she’s made to make skateboarding more accessible for girls through her She...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest for episode 013 is journalist and broadcaster Keme Nzerem: skier, climber, outdoorsman, head judge at Kendal Mountain Film Festival and Correspondent for Channel 4 News. Keme covers some of the biggest stories in the world, and in this in-depth chat, recorded in London in July 2017, we dig deep into his career and experiences...