Rad Season Action Sports Podcast

Shelby Stanger is an action sports journalist and founder of REI's Wild Ideas Worth Living and Vitamin Joy Podcast. Shelby discusses growing up in San Diego and how she got into surfing. Her career path starting as a journalist having one of the coolest first jobs out of college ever as a writer for the Vans Warped Tour to getting a corporate job inside Vans, a VF Company as the Women's...

Following his outstanding qualification for the Tokyo Olympic Games, German surfer, Leon Glatzer talks about his German heritage, being born in Hawaii and growing up as a surfer in Costa Rica.  Glatzer discusses how he moved with his Mum to Costa Rica at a young age and got hooked on surfing at the perfect point break of Pavones. He talks about getting sponsored by Volcom and traveling to surf in...

Daniel Dhers is a professional BMX Freestyle athlete considered one of the most decorated BMX Park riders of all time with 5 X Games Gold Medals and a Silver in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Dhers talks about how he got into riding BMX growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, moving to Argentina and the BMX scene there. He discusses competing around the world at FISE, X Games and Dew Tour, relocating to...

Shaun Tomson is a legendary South-African surfer, 1977 World Champion, considered one of the 10 Greatest Surfers of All Time, an entrepreneur and a best-selling author.  Shaun talks about how his father got him into surfing growing up in Durban, South Africa. He discusses competing around the world and being part of the free ride generation in Hawaii in the 70's. After his successful surfing...

Nicholi Rogatkin is an American pro freeride mountain biker, 2016 FMB World Champion and 2018 Triple Crown Winner as well as the winningest FMB World Tour athlete ever. With over 25 wins to his credit. Rogatkin reflects on his meteoric ascension and discusses how he switched from BMX to mountain biking, competing in MTB slopestyle, Crankworx, one of the most brutal crashes at Red Bull Rampage ever...

Bec Gange is a 2x wakeboarding World Champion and reality TV star from Mildura, Victoria, Australia. Gange discusses how she started wakeboarding in Australia, winning the Australian Nationals and two World Wakeboarding Championships, training, injury and the changes in professional wakeboarding and  what projects she has coming up. Enjoy and get rad! You can follow what Bec is up to on her instag...

Joe Carr is the CEO of Thrill One Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the Street League Skateboarding, Nitro Circus, and Superjacket Productions. Previously, Joe also served as President of the World Surf League and a Senior VP of Content and International at the UFC. Carr discuss his career at UFC and the WSL and how the action sports media landscape has changed. He goes in depth ab...

Robbie Maddison is a freestyle motocross rider who's built a career on world records, triumphs against adversity and mind-boggling daredevil jumps, including jumping across an open Tower Bridge in London, and surfing the legendary Tahitian wave, Teahupo'o, on his bike. Maddo discuss how he grew up riding motorbikes in Australia, injuries, preparing for world record jumps and projects he...

Gary Ream is the President and Partner of Sports Management Group, Inc and the founder of Camp Woodward. Ream discuss how he started Camp Woodward in Pennsylvania, the growth of action sports and the concept of camp and how he contributed to getting skateboarding into the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.  Enjoy and get rad! The Rad Season Show airs every Friday at 5pm on FUEL TV's FRESH@5. If y...

Keir Dillon is considered to be one of the most stylish snowboarders of all time. He started riding for Burton Snowboards in the early 90's and had a successful 16 year career, winning 3 World Snowboard Superpipe Championships and landing on the podium at numerous events such as X Games. Dillion became entrenched in the industry as a TV host and reporter for ESPN, X Games, and FUEL TV. Traini...

The fourth episode of Rad Season on FUEL TV features the Dutch extreme athlete, Wim Hof, who is known for the Wim Hof Method and his ability to resist negative temperatures, setting world records for swimming under ice, running marathons in the desert with no water and prolonged full-body contact with ice.  We talk about how Hof grew up close to the border in Germany, his introduction to the cold,...

The third guest on Rad Season is Chuck Patterson, a professional action sports athlete and stuntman. Versatile. Adaptable. A few of the words that exemplify the spirit of this talented waterman and big mountain charger. A master of not just one or two disciplines, but seven. We talk about how Patterson grew up skiing,  discovering surfing as a kid, getting sponsored, figuring out he could make his...

Davi Birks is a mountain bike distribution company owner and podcast host of The HKT Podcast. Growing up in the UK, Davi grew up riding motocross as a kid and had always been surrounded by two-wheels. He started his first business a Campervan company at 22 with his cousin. A decade ago he co-founded HKT Products a UK mountain bike distribution company.   In 2016 Birks created the HKT Podcast where...

The second guest on FUEL TV's Rad Season Show is Pat O'Connell, a surfer and star of Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer II. Soon after walking away from full-time competition, Pat has also been one of the regulars on the Drive Thru series of surf movies and television shows since 2005. We talk about how O'Connell grew up in California, the Momentum Generation, starring in the End...

Danny Bent has been voted as one of the 100 happiest people in the UK, he's a runner, entrepreneur and Guinness World Record holder. He use to compete for GB in Triathlon and has an insatiable appetite for adventurer, running and putting a smile on peoples faces. In 2008 Danny cycled 9,000 miles from London to India. He's pogoed across Togo, set up Project Awesome, a free fitness class a...

The first guest on FUEL TV's Rad Season Show is American freeride snowboarder, Erika "The Viking" Vikander, who just took 3rd place in the 2021 Freeride World Tour. We talk about how Erika got into Snowboarding and how a major injury in Slopestyle changed the direction of her life and got her into freeride snowboarding and on onto the Freeride World Tour.  Enjoy and get rad! You can...

Welcome to Rad Season where we discover what is happening in the world of action sports.   Join Oli Russell-Cowan as he chats to the athletes, industry founders and culture icons that are shaping our lifestyle. Ready to get inspired about a world of fun where it's always the season somewhere?  Subscribe now where ever you get your podcast. Contact Oli Russell-Cowan On Instagram olirussellcowa...

 James Whittle and Tom Caulfield, two adventurers from London in 2015 decided that they wanted to tackle one of the hardest challenges on the planet. A 3,000 mile row across the Atlantic which they did unaided and with no experience whatsoever. The Tempest Two was born. It became their mission ever since to inspire people to step out of their comfort zone and show that anyone can achieve extraordi...

Nate Menninger is an adventurer, film producer and the first foreign porter at Everest. Growing up in Boston, Menninger was lucky enough to travel from a young age. At 20 years old as a sophomore in college he made his way to Spain for the Running of the Bulls. He fell in love with not only doing something extreme but doing it in the most extreme and local way possible. After graduating he booked...

Mark Sperling is an entrepreneur,  Co-Founder of Group Y and super connector within the action sports industry. Growing up in San Diego, Mark was immersed in surf and skate culture from an early age. He got into the music scene and started promoting concerts at the University of California, Irvine working with the likes of Goldenvoice and artists such as No Doubt and Social Distortion.  In the 90’...

Wade Holland is an adventure personality, content creator, presenter, and the king of stoke! Growing up in Montana, Wade was a competitive freestyle mogul skier for many years. After winning TNT’s adventure reality show, 72 HOURS he built his own content creation company focused on wild and original adventure stories.  Wade's passion for off the beaten path adventures has sent him on the hunt...

Matt Barr is a journalist, publisher, business owner and podcaster. Growing up in the UK, Matt has been involved in action sports media since the mid 90's. He became the Editor of Whitelines Snowboarding Magazine and was writing about snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing as a freelance journalist for action sports publications and national press. A decade later he set out to start his own...

Dane Jackson is a professional kayaker and 3 time world freestyle kayaking champion. Dane started kayaking at 2 years old. His dad Eric Jackson (EJ) was a pro kayaker, Olympian and founded Jackson Kayak. Traveling in an RV all over the US for 6 years Dane and his sister Emily were homeschooled by their mum so his dad could compete in kayaking events.  With 80 first-place finishes in freestyle kaya...

Kevin Lyman is an innovator, punk rocker, entrepreneur, philanthropist, university lecturer, event promoter and founder of the Vans Warped Tour. Kevin has been involved in the music industry for over 40 years. He started in the clubs of LA and graduated to stage manager of the first ever Lollapalooza in 1991. Then in 95 with the convergence of action sports and music he thought it was time to try...

Greg Lutzka is a professional skateboarder with a long and established career as one of the best technical skaters in the world.  Lutzka has had numerous competition wins including 2 X Games gold medals, multiple Dew Tour firsts and is the only skater to ever win Tampa Pro 3 times. He's also appeared in movies, commercials, music videos and in 2019 he founded Lutzka's Garage, a high perf...