Rad Season Action Sports Podcast

Terry Adams is a professional BMX Flatland rider. Terry got hooked on BMX at 12 years old growing up in Hammond, Louisiana outside of New Orleans. He would race BMX but what really stood out was BMX Flatland and by the time he was only 16 Terry was entering flatland contests as a professional. From pure determination and hard work Terry’s set out on getting coverage in the magazines. This lead to...

Matthias Giraud aka Super Frenchie is a big mountain skier and BASE Jumper. Matthias grew up skiing in St Gervais-les-Bains, France. He was inspired by the mountain legends of Chamonix who set the bar for mountain sports and following their passion. Matthias went from ski racing to freestyle skiing and moved to the US with the aim of becoming a pro skier. He got his skydiving license and started b...

Chris Bertish is a big wave surfer, world record paddleboarder, speaker, author and conservationist on a mission to inspire people.  Chris started working in the surf industry for Billabong South Africa as the national sales manager. Afterwards he headed to the UK and was national brand manager for Gul. He would train in his stare time for the big wave season at every given opportunity. In 2009 wi...

Bob Haro is the Father of Freestyle BMX and the founder of Haro Bikes and Harodesign. Bob grew up in Southern California riding motocross and skateboarding. When he ran out of money to continue racing dirt bikes he turned to BMX. Drawing was Bob's first passion and started illustrating for BMX magazines and brands. He became the staff artists for BMX Action Magazine. At 18 he started his own...

Graham Jarvis is the most decorated extreme enduro rider of all time. Graham started competing in trial motorbike competitions when he was only 10 years old. He went on to win the Scottish Six Days Trial four times, the Scott Trial nine times and the British Trials Champion five times. When you look up Extreme Enduro Graham's face pops up. He has won Red Bull Romaniacs an astonishing six time...

Hans 'No Way' Rey is a former Trials World Champion, pioneer of extreme mountain biking and one of the original action sports content creators. Hans grew up in Germany and started riding bikes at an early age. He became the Trials World Champion and competed in mountain biking events around the world. He always knew there was something outside of competing and with his trials background...

Matt Pritchard is a former pro skateboarder, Dirty Sanchez TV star turned vegan chef and extreme endurance athlete. Matt started skateboarding at 15 in Cardiff, Wales. Hanging out with mates, skating and pranking each other turned into the skate video Pritchard vs Dainton. Jackass in America came out at the same time which lead to MTV reaching out to the boys to produce a British version and Dirty...

Jim Kempton is an author, former editor and publisher of SURFER Magazine, Marketing Executive at Quiksilver, Billabong and current President of the California Surf Museum. Jim started surfing when he was a kid in Guam where his parents were working as civil servants. He moved to California for high school and then majored in journalism at University. After college he got a job writing for Surfing...

Ingrid Backstrom is a professional big mountain freeskier, mum and ski Industry Game Changer. Ingrid started skiing at 4. Her parents were on the volunteer ski patrol at Crystal Mountain outside Seattle. They would camp every weekend in the parking lot in their 1954 bookmobile turned RV. Ingrid went on to ski racing when she was 12. After high school she studied at Whitman College in Washington an...

Björn Dunkerbeck is the undisputed G.O.A.T of windsurfing, a 42 time windsurf world champion and the windsurf speed record holder. Björn's parents fell in love with windsurfing in Denmark. They decided to move to Gran Canaria when Björn was 8 and opened the Dunkerbeck Windsurf Center where he learnt.  Björn started competing in windsurfing at 12. He was 2nd in the junior world championships i...

Nick Uricchio is the Co-Founder of Semente Surfboards.  Nick grew up in Connecticut and moved out to California when he was 10. At 15 in high school he started surfing with friends at Huntington Beach. After finishing school in 78 Nick took off backpacking around Europe. The last stop of the trip he found himself in Lisbon, Portugal. His rail pass had ran out and the uncrowded waves lured him to s...

Chris Burkard is an award-winning photographer, film director, speaker and adventurer. Chris grew up in Central California and was immersed in surf culture from a young age. He started documenting his friends on surf trips up and down the coast. Interning at Transworld Surfing Magazine, living in his van before it was trendy and known as 'Van Life' he learnt a lot about hard work and per...

Darren Kinnaird is the Managing Director at Crankworx and Board Director at Freeride Mountain Bike Association. Darren moved to Whistler in 1999 with a passion for skiing. In 2005 he ended up volunteering for Crankworx. Darren later took over sponsorship for Crankworx and the Whistler Mountain Bike Park. In 2010 he was asked to become the General Manager. It was his dream job and he has remained i...

 Mike Rogers is a life-long skateboarder,  two time cancer survivor and Founder of Grind for Life. Mike was diagnosed with cancer when he was just 12 years old. It was a sarcoma and he had to undertake 18 rounds of Chemotherapy. Mike beat cancer, working as the Skate Park Director at YMCA Palm Springs Florida when his tumor came back 25 years later in 2003. He underwent a 17 hour surgical procedur...

JJ Thomas is a former pro snowboarder, Olympic bronze medalist and the US Snowboarding Halfpipe Team Coach. JJ started his career as a professional snowboarder and at 15 was the youngest ever sponsored pro rider. He went on to represent the US in snowboarding taking a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. After the Games he focused on freeriding and film parts to then return to competition a f...

Jeremy Vest is the Chief Marketing Officer at Braille Skateboarding. He started skateboarding back in 1986. Careers got in the way of skating and he entered the world of digital marketing rising to the top of video marketing specifically on YouTube helping his clients reach over 12 billion organic views. Three years ago Jeremy decided he wanted to get back into skateboarding and work in the skate...

Tony Arthy is the founder of brand and music partnerships agency Worn Out Creative based in London. He started the agency in 2008 after having worked in marketing, pr and entertainment for action sports distribution companies and brands including Insight, Paul Frank, RVCA, Vestal Watches and Atticus clothing. Tony's worked with hundreds of bands including Coldplay, The Prodigy, Oasis & Mu...

Gary Fisher is the inventor of the modern mountain bike and Founder of Fisher Bicycle. Gary grew up in San Francisco, California riding road bikes as a kid and persuaded the Belmont Bike Club to let him join them. This opened up his world to racing bikes taking wins in the TransAlp and Masters XC national title. He set the record for the Repack downhill race on a modified Klunker bike which lead t...

Sue Izzo is a former action sports agent, business growth coach, Mentor and CEO of Sports Management Mastermind. Sue started off her career in action sports getting her first job at Burton in Vermont. She then worked for ICR in youth marketing and was exposed to sports marketing which lead to opening her own sports marketing agency Mosaic Sports Management representing some of best action sports a...

Nick Hounsfield is a British surfer and social entrepreneur, Founder of the first inland surfing destination in Bristol The Wave, the Chairman of Surfing England and a member of the UK Sport International Leadership Programme. Nick talks about how he got into surfing and what lead to the idea of bringing an artificial wave to Bristol and the ups and downs of creating the facility from funding the...

Caroline Buchanan is a 5 x Mountain Bike World Champion and 3 x BMX World Champion. Caroline has been competing at the highest level of BMX racing and mountain biking for over two decades. She represented her country in BMX at two Olympic Games and is considered one of Australia's most popular female action sports athletes, winning accolades such as the Australian Athlete of the Year.  Buchan...

Scott Martin is the Founder of Groundswell Origins, a Serial Entrepreneur and content creator.   Scott has built numerous communities within the action sports space and has run his company Groundswell Origins for the past 5 years which mentors and teaches entrepreneurs to scale business rapidly, sustainably and exponentially.  Scott discusses how his passion for wind surfing and action sports lead...

David Meltzer is the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and former CEO of renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency.  David discusses how he started his entrepreneurial journey after graduating from Law School. With the aim of making money he got a job in sales selling legal research on the internet in 1992. He then went on to Silicon Valley and ran Samsung's first phone conver...

Linley Lewis is the Co-Founder of Ticket to Ride, Wavelength Media and the Blue Earth Summit.  Linley discusses how he came up with the idea of starting an action sports travel business with his best mate Will Hayler whilst studying at University. How they grew their travel company after their original launch with a 1000 mile road trip across South Africa combining surf coaching, community work an...

Paul Taublieb is a multiple Emmy Award winning action sports filmmaker, producer and director. Paul discusses growing up in New York starting off his career writing articles for Surfing Magazine. His career path bringing the sport of freestyle motocross to the X Games. Paul talks about how he got into content creation and filmmaking which led him to be the only two-time Emmy Award filmmaker in act...