Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 012 I welcomed Finisterre founder Tom Kay to the show. A surfer, swimmer, fisherman, lifeboatman, father and entrepreneur, Tom founded Finisterre in 2002 and in that time has overseen the brand's evolution from bedroom start-up to the UK’s most beloved surf brand with a staff of 50 and a workshop overlooking the cliffs of S...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest for episode 011 of the podcast was writer, journalist, novelist, editor, photographer, documentary-maker, surfer and former Pro Tour competitor Jamie Brisick. Jamie, a writer of uncommon power and sensitivity, has been chronicling surf and popular culture since the early 90s. For the last decade he’s been immersed in the story...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com I marked the tenth episode of the Looking Sideways podcast by welcoming legendary UK skateboarder Peter Hellicar to the show. Pete is a skater, company owner, designer, artist, musician, thinker and all round creative powerhouse who first came to prominence in the late 80s/early 90s UK skate scene. Since then, he has gone on to have a...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com It's the long-awaited episode 009 of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast, in which I finally managed to interview somebody who isn’t a man - visionary snowboarder, three-time Olympian and current GB Park & Pipe Programme Manager Lesley McKenna. That description doesn’t really do Lesley justice though, as the truth is she’s spent...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com In episode 008 of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast, I was ‘catertained' by the great DJ BBQ, aka Christian Stevenson. Christian may currently be best known for being a breakout star on Jamie Oliver’s FoodTube, but his roots in action sports go back thirty years. He's been a film-maker, team manager, a BAFTA-award winning TV p...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com In episode 007 of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast, I spoke to one of snowboarding's all time legends, Tom Burt. Tom Burt has been at the cutting edge of freeriding for over thirty years. Whether it’s been putting down legendary lines like Cordova Peak, being one of the first riders to open up Alaska, his filming feats with S...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 006 of the Looking Sideways podcast, I paid a visit to legendary freerider Xavier de le Rue at his Verbier home. Where to start with Xavier? Universally considered one of our greatest freeriders, he began his career racing boardercross, picking up four world titles. Then he switched his attention to freeriding, winning thre...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For the fifth episode of the Looking Sideways podcast I spoke to Oscar-winning documentary maker and snowboarder Orlando von Eisendel, a week after he’d picked up the award for Best Short Documentary for his film The White Helmets at the ceremony in LA. We talked about how it feels to win an Oscar, how Orlando made the evolution from s...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com It's the second half of my interview with UK snowboarder and freerider Sascha Hamm. In today's part of the chat, Sascha Hamm talked me through the 'wilderness' years, when the first half of his snowboarding career ended. Why? Because after winning the British Championships in 2000, he decided to take his prize money and gamble it on an...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Over the past twenty years Ed Leigh has lived one of the most extraordinary and enviable lives snowboarding imaginable. Today he presents flagship BBC winter sports show Ski Sunday and commentates on the Olympics for the BBC, but his road to the top has been a long one, even if his passion for snowboarding has always been the driving f...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Andrew ‘Cotty’ Cotton is probably the UK’s most high profile surfers and one of the foremost big wave surfers in the world right now. Along with his close friend Garrett McNamara, he’s one of the handful of surfers to pioneer the notoriously heavy beachbreak Nazare in Portugal. His feats, such as towing Garrett into what is considered...

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Sascha Hamm is one of the UK’s best freeriders and somebody who’s been at the top or around the top of European snowboarding for the past twenty years. In March 2016, Sascha's life changed for ever. He was competing in the Freeride World Tour Event in Fieberbrunn, Austria, when he took a fall that almost killed him. As he describes in...