Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest this week is visionary film-maker and photographer Chris McClean, recorded at the London Surf Film Festival in October 2019, where Chris won the Viewer’s Choice Award for his latest feature Translate. The film also had its premiere at the event, a performance that saw the soundtrack performed live by a band featuring compose...

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. My guest for this episode of Type 2 is Jack Harries. Jack is a film-maker and environmental activist from London. He initially came to prominence thanks to his wildly popular YouTube channel Jack’s Gap, which he started with his brother Finn and w...

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com It’s the first half of my episode 100 bonanza! To mark my ascension to triple figures, I wanted to stoke my loyal listeners out AND do something that sums up the spirit of the podcast. So I’m releasing two episodes at the same time and calling them BOTH episode 100. This, episode 100a, is the first instalment, and is my interview wit...

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com It’s the second half of my episode 100 bonanza! To mark my ascension to triple figures, I wanted to stoke my loyal listeners out AND do something that sums up the spirit of the podcast. So I’m releasing two episodes at the same time and calling them BOTH episode 100. This, episode 100b, is the second instalment, and is my interview w...

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Every so often this podcast throws up some proper pinch-yourself moments, and this conversation with graphic design titan David Carson is one such occasion. Carson is, without question, the most notorious graphic designer of the last thirty years. His reach is total and his influence ubiquitous, as anybody who has worked in the media...

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com An intriguing thing about the podcast has been the number of unexpected themes that have developed over the course of the last 90 plus episodes. One of which is: how massively conservative and blinkered the action sports world can be. Think of the patriarchal struggles outlined routinely by guests such as Layne Beachley and Cara-Beth...

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. My guest for this episode of Type 2 is Jake Black. Jake is a snowboarder from Colorado who initially parlayed his love for snowboarding into a professional career but he soon decided he wanted to try and give something back to the industry, and be...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Ahead of the forthcoming London Surf Film Festival, I caught with an old friend for episode 097 of the podcast. I’ve know Demi Taylor for years and have long admired her questing, creative approach to life, whether through her prolific writing, or the festival she’s been organising with partner Chris Nelson for the past nine years. In...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I welcomed legitimate skateboarding royalty onto the show for episode 096 when I visited the legendary Cara-Beth Burnside at her Oceanside home for the final episode of my Looking Sideways California tour. CB is surely one of the most influential women in the history of action sports. Just look at her list of unique achievements. Firs...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I’m back! After an unscheduled few weeks off. And I got right back into it with a visit to Bristol, where I was shown around the new Wave site by Nick Hounsfield, the man behind the entire project. Like most British surfers I’ve been following the story of the Wave for a good few years now, and I’ve long been intrigued by Nick’s role...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I welcomed the great Nick Jensen onto the show for episode 094. Nick is a skateboarder and artist from London who has been a pivotal part of the UK scene for at least 15 years now. He occupies a really particular place in the UK skateboarding firmament - as a street skater of global renown and influence, and also as somebody with a un...

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. My guest for this episode of Type 2 is longboarder Belinda Baggs. Bindi is a surfer from Newcastle in Australia who is renowned as one of surfing’s foremost longboarding stylists. In the water, her milestones are numerous. She initially made her n...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest this week is Gabe Davies, one of the UK’s most legendary surfers. Whether it’s his career as a free surfer with Quiksilver or his pioneering explorations of the heaving waves off the west coast of Ireland, Gabe has helped to redefine British surfing on an international and big wave stage. He is also synonymous with the none-m...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I’m back with perhaps my must successful guest ever - Dougie Lampkin, the motorcycle trials legend who dominated his sport to such an extent he has crossed over into the mythical realm where he basically symbolises his own sport in the eyes of the mainstream. And when you run the numbers, it isn’t difficult to see why. Dougie, who hai...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Shining a light in stories you may not know about, or speaking to people who are deserving of a wider audience, is a really important part of the Looking Sideways ethos. It is why my guests have included journalists, activists, chefs and musicians, as well as the big name professional athletes we all know. And it’s why I invited my ol...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I’ve interviewed almost 100 guests in the two short years I’ve been putting together this podcast, and they’ve all got one thing in common - at some point, they shelved everything and dedicated their life to their passion. It’s particularly true of professional athletes. There’s no other way to make it. But what if you reach the top a...

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. The first episode of Type 2 features Greg Long. Greg is a big wave surfer from San Clemente who made his name as a standout at the planet’s biggest and most intimidating waves. He has won the Eddie, the Red Bull Titans of Mavericks and multiple XX...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I paid homage to a personal influence for episode 089 when I met up with the great Steve Douglas, a legendary figures in UK skateboarding who’s had an incalculable influence in a career that has spanned almost four decades. Like a lot of people, my first introduction to Steve was through his column in RAD Magazine - an essential conne...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I’ve been lucky enough to interview a massively diverse range of people since I started the Looking Sideways podcast. And one thing unites them all: the activity might have lured them in; but it was the lifestyle that eventually hooked them. Yet few guests, if any, have taken their dedication to this chosen lifestyle to the same extre...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com What attributes spring to mind when you think of the average action sports athletes? Style? Skill? Bravery? Youth? Whatever comes first, longevity is unlikely to figure too highly. After all, the majority of professional action sports careers burn short and sharp, averaging a decade at best before real life intervenes. Sure, there are...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Disaster, tragedy, catastrophe, death, grief - these are the concealed details of life, hidden in plain sight in the hope we never have to experience them. The truth, of course, is that we will all be tested by such experiences in our lives. Until we do, a couple of questions loom. How will we cope? How can we square these experiences...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Shop talk special! That’s exactly what happened when I met up with the host of the self-styled ‘World’s Greatest Action Sports Podcast’, Chris Cote. Chris is a podcaster, presenter, editor, broadcaster, musician - a veritable action sports renaissance man, if you will. He’s also extremely good company, as I discovered when I went to m...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com When you’ve reached the top, where do you go? It’s a question every athlete has to face, and it’s something that is developing into one of the key themes of the Looking Sideways podcast. In Taylor Knox’s case, working out the answers to such fundamental questions has always been part of his modus operandi. Sure, he is famed as one of...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Anybody who has managed to find one job they love is doing pretty well. Excelling at two life-defining careers suggests somebody operating at a different level entirely. Yet that’s exactly what Circe Wallace has succeeded in doing. Of course, she initially came to prominence as one of snowboarding’s most legendary and pioneering women...

Full episode info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com "Nothing", Calvin Coolidge tells us, "can take the place of persistence and determination". Throw in an inquisitive mind, wide creative horizons and a supremely affable nature, and you have a pretty unbeatable recipe for success. It is something Colin Kennedy seemed to intrinsically know from an early age, and helps to explain how, ov...