Rad Season Action Sports Podcast

Beau Nixon is a Stand Up Paddler, SUP Coach, Podcaster, Commentator and Founder of Travel With A Paddle. Nixon was born in NSW, Australia and before he could walk his dad had him on the nose of his longboard. Growing up by the coast he got into competing at longboarding, winning the Australian Junior Longboard Championships. He was then introduced to Stand Up Paddling in 2002 and the rest is histo...

Oliver Percovich is the founder and executive director of Skateistan, a nonprofit organization that uses skateboarding as a means of empowering youth and promoting education in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Percovich was born in Australia and grew up skateboarding in the streets of Melbourne. In 2007, he moved to Kabul, Afghanistan. He decided to turn his passion for skateboarding into a...

Sophie Everard is a journalist, consultant, entrepreneur, adventurer, amplifier and storyteller of Women in Sport. Growing up by the sea in Greece and Portugal Sophie then moved to the UK for high school and University. After studying she took a year out and did a season learning to snowboard in the Alps. Sophie decided to move to London to seek out her first job in the action sports industry. She...

Truls Brataas is an engineer, CEO and founder of Db Journey. Growing up in Oslo, Norway, Truls started snowboarding. He got a scholarship to study Entrepreneurship in Utah and spent most of the time on the slopes. When he returned he wanted to continue studying and did a MSc in Mechanical Engineering back home. 3 years into the course Truls went travelling around the world, surfing, hiking and exp...

Kieren Owen, otherwise known as YouTuber Jimmy The Giant or The Internet’s Louis Theroux is a storyteller, musician and sub culture enthusiast. Kieren got hooked on two things at an early age, parkour and making videos. Growing up he had a group of mates who he would practice parkour with and film. They created a parkour lifestyle brand called Marrero Gang. The company fell apart after a few years...

Martina Russo is the Founder of Action Sports Translator and Co-Founder of Protect Our Winters Italy. Martina grew up in Milan, Italy but always new the city life wasn't for her. She spent her winter and summer months in the Alps. Studying translation at University Martina moved to Germany and Switzerland and hasn't been back for 14 years.  We talk about... → Martina's background an...

Mike Cessario is the Co-Founder & CEO of Liquid Death Mountain Water. Mike always knew he wanted to start his own company. He saw a gap in the healthy beverage market for a water company built around brand humor. In January of 2019 Mike launched Liquid Death Mountain Water an aluminium canned water from the Austrian Alps. With damn right hilarious savvy marketing campaigns and a death to plast...

Gerry Lopez, Mr. Pipeline one of the greatest surfers and surfboard shapers of all time joins us on the show for our 100th Episode. Gerry grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii and would go to Waikiki Beach with his family at a young age. He honed his surfing skills at Ala Moana bowl winning state and national surfing titles. Gerry is a pioneer at Pipeline and multiple Pipeline Master winner. His calmness un...

Stacy Peralta, Co-Founder of Powell & Peralta, award-winning film director and one of the most influential skateboarders of all time. To say Stacy Peralta had an impact on skateboarding and action sports culture as a whole is a bit of an understatement. Stacy grew up in Venice, California. At the time when he started skateboarding, it didn't even exist as a sport. He joined the Zephyr Sur...

Declan Brooks is a professional BMX rider and BMX Freestyle Olympic Bronze Medalist. Declan grew up in Portsmouth, UK. His Dad was into motorcycling but Dec had other ideas. He got his first BMX at 9 years old and started skipping football to ride his bike. From then on he spent every minute at the skate park. At 16 he thought that he could take BMX further and make it a career. He worked as a pla...

Beaver Fleming is a pro skateboarder, Nitro Circus rider, author and motivational speaker. Beaver Fleming grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. His brother had the Tony Hawk Pro Skater Game and that was his introduction to skateboarding. His parents were really supportive of his new found love of skating and got an 8 foot halfpipe built in the backyard. Beaver started competing and going to Camp Woodwa...

Todd Richards is a pro snowboarder, action sports commentator, podcaster and entrepreneur. Todd grew up in Paxton, Massachusetts and got into skateboarding and punk rock. Skating was one of the first things Todd was passionate about and he could see progression happening and that was the backbone for everything. Snowboarding came along initially as something to do in the winter months when the ver...

Mikey Corker is a film director, cinematographer, photographer, producer and Surfer. Mikey grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and started working as a camera assistant on feature films. He got his break working on 5 big feature films as an assistant which led to becoming a trainee clapper loader and with that experience he was away. He took a break after 5 years and went travelling bought a digita...

Ryan Runke is the Co-Founder of Homestead Creative and Vice President of Action and Olympic Sports at evolution management + marketing. Runke grew up in Kansas City playing traditional sports and soccer competitively. He learnt to snowboard in Snow Creek Missouri when he was 15 and started skateboarding and the rest is history. After finishing school he headed to Southern County to be a snowboard...

Matt Burgess is the owner of Evolve Sports and the Founder of Urban Sport Fest. Matt grew up in Newcastle, Australia into a sports mad family. He studied law at Bond University and was fortunate enough to connect his career to sport. Matt started working as an Associate General Council at the ASP now known as the World Surf League. He stayed at the WSL for 13 years and became Head of Sports Integr...

Rebecca Rusch is an ultra endurance adventure athlete, 7 x World Champion, MTB & Gravel Hall of Famer, author, activist and Emmy Award Winner. Rebecca Rusch grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and got into cross country running. In her first job out of college the office had an indoor climbing wall in the building. Rebecca was hooked and ventured across the country to climb. This opened doors to...

Scot Delorme, is the President and Co-Founder of A SHOC Energy Drink. Scot fell into the beverage business by accident. Whilst away travelling a family friend reached out about a business opportunity to become a partner in a drinks company. Scot learnt all aspects of the beverage business and eventually took over the company. He started another brand called 24C, an emergency vitamin c packet. He s...

Bob McKnight is the Co-Founder, Former Chairman and CEO of Quiksilver and one of the pioneers of the modern surfing industry.  Bob McKnight  majored in business at USC and had gone on some major surf trips. One of them being to Bali where he met pro surfer Jeff Hakman and his future wife. That trip would change Bob’s life forever.  Jeff had met Alan Green in Bells Beach, Australia after he won the...

Vasu Sojitra is a professional adaptive athlete, Disability Access Strategist and advocate for inclusivity. Vasu was born in Connecticut and his leg was amputated at 9 months old from a blood infection. After the hospital treatment his family decided to move back to India to be around family. Throughout that time he was constantly over growing his prosthetic leg and breaking it so they decided to...

Gary Land is a legendary snowboarding photographer and award winning director. Gary starting taking photos of his friends surfing and skateboarding growing up in Virginia Beach. He was working in a surf shop and they had just got in some snowboards. The next minute on a whim Gary went off to Vermont. He started taking photos for Eastern Edge snowboarding magazine and later became their staff photo...

Beyrick De Vries is a South African pro surfer aiming to represent the Netherlands surfing in the Olympics and coaches the Netherland’s Junior Surf Team.  De Vries grew up in Durban, South Africa and initially started skateboarding before his dad convinced him to try surfing. He never looked back. Describing himself as 90% weird, and 100% happy about it, Beyrick’s a character.  Beyrick started com...

Vanessa Ruck discovered the world of motorcycling, rallying and hard enduro after an accident that almost took her life.   Vanessa grew up in England keeping fit in the outdoors doing loads of sports. When she went to University at 18 she got hooked on wakeboarding, snowboarding, mountain biking, anything that got the adrenaline pumping. In 2014 Vanessa’s life took a turn when she was out cycling...

Tiago Pires otherwise known as Saca changed Portugal's surfing industry and the reputation of surfers from Portugal forever.  Tiago joined the Ericeria Surf Club when he was 13. A year later he became under 14 National Champion then under 16 Champ. In 96 Tiago met his coach and mentor José Seabra a relationship that would go on for 30 years. He was storming up the ranks and became runner up t...

Pierre André Sénizergues grew up in the suburbs of Paris and got hooked on skateboarding at 14. He studied engineering in the early 80's and got a job as an engineer for IBM. He would skate during his lunch breaks at work and knew that he had to follow his passion. In 85 he moved to California to purse his skateboarding dream. From being one of the best skate pro's in Europe winning 12 F...

Chad Nelsen is the Chief Executive Officer of The Surfrider Foundation. Chad was brought to Laguna Beach, California with his family in the 70's by his Dad who was an Ocean Science Educator. He spent his entire life growing up around the ocean, swimming, diving and surfing. He became a Lifeguard at Laguna and went on to study Geosciences then Coastal Management. Chad volunteered at the Surfri...