Riptide Podcast - Luke’s Lounge

Description: With the competitive side of booging in full swing for 2024, Shaun Cooper and Luke O’Connor dissect all the happenings in a regional, national, and international sense, to see where the competitive heat is at. Touching on new East coasts boog clubs being born, to the national comp scene in Australia, the Shark Island Challenge, and the wrap up of the IBC Morocco Tahgazout Pro, the fel...

Episode 68 welcome’s Brad Stone to the lounge and after recent events further chiropractic pillows and cushions were supplied for the Sunny Coaster to tell all surrounding his recent bone breaking wipeout at a South Coast slab just only a few weeks prior. With little Stone being on a serious wave hunt over the past 5 years it was about time he told all, leaving no stone unturned surrounding his en...

Underground and over achieving, Adam Kesbah is the Boog you may not know currently but certainly will soon enough. From 10ft Victorian pits to crashing cars into picketed Sydney fences, he’s already lived a colourful life at the young age of 26 and there is so much left in the locker room for this curly haired cat to exude in his own future endeavours. Sitting down for episode 67, Luke and Adam go...

Episode 66 of Luke’s Lounge heralds the rise of an Eastern suburbs superpower in Grom Anthony Miller. Possessing the nimble limbs of a jungle cat and an attitude that wouldn’t melt an ounce of devondale butter in his own politely spoken gob, the young V.S rider speaks his mind to Luke over an hour-long yarn as the school holidays of 23/24 are coming to a close. With humility, intelligence, and con...

Tales of the Boog, in collaboration with Riptide Media and Luke’s Lounge, proudly bring you a pre Covid Indonesian dream trip turned bone altering nightmare featuring Cronulla’s own Rory Keily. We take the timeline all the way back to early 2020 where Covid was just starting to simmer into international existence and borders were getting shut down faster than Canadian trucker bank accounts. Rory,...

Finally, Luke’s Lounge and Riptide Media, in collaboration with Cameron Staunton Films, bring you what you’ve all been secretly asking for…. Jack Baker and his pleasantly outspoken opinion. Being a local boog lord from the Southern reaches of Sydney who’s packed more cones than your average Carigbah houso on a quiet Friday night in, this conversation will really have you keeled over on all fours s...

Belated but not irrelevant, please tune your ear holes into the Riptide Media Wrap Up of the top ten moments in 2023! Allow Elliot Williams, Co-Owner of the organisation, and Luke O’Connor, tripped out podcast host take you through a roller coaster of memories that contain the good, the bad and the ugly that made up 2023. Get it fair up ya clacker and please DM the Insta page with any comments, th...

With the south coast of NSW providing a wondrous canvas for today’s guest to work within it’s not surprising to see the quality of their work shine through. Jay Maquire has been exploring every nook n cranny of this enticing natural phenomenon and documenting heavily as he goes. Catching the attention of the booging/surfing industry through out his recent creative captures at all the prime session...

With energy and passion to burn we welcome Robin Legros onto the lounge to talk about his stunningly quick rise to world tour standard bodyboarding and beyond. Calling the Reunion Islands home, but currently based in Gran Canaria, Robin is currently putting all his time and energy into bodyboarding and it’s well and truly paying dividends. We touch on topics such as the shark infested waters of hi...

Episode 60 hits you like a hot Indian curry at 3 in the morning, violently informative, packed with surprises and as always hard to wipe from your mind as Luke’s Lounge really starts to simmer down with some main courses on offer in the boogieverse we all find ourselves crammed into. Toby Player is one of the greatest to do it, whilst leaving no fruit unpicked from the tree of life, how Player has...

With one of the most razor sharp reverses in the game to date, we welcome the Goldcoast core lord Joe Clarke to the poddy. In episode 59 Joe takes Luke down a myriad of boog rabbit holes, touching on his European holiday and his recent engagement to the miso soup, we talk about Joe’s biggest boog influences and how he swapped the pilgrimage from Hawaii to Samoa and never looked backed. This one wa...

Keeping the U.S flavour marinating from episode 57, we move onto another succulent blonde haired legend in episode 58, who keeps raising the bar when it comes to free booging world of todays modern era. Craig Whetter is seriously putting in time on the foam and the dividends couldn’t be more fucking fruitful. With Breaking Even, a 42 minute film of pure boog footage tightly edited with a banging s...

Todays guest is the 2023 Bodyboarding World Champ and Hawaiis own wonder kid, Tanner McDaniel. This podcast breaks down Tanners humble beginnings in one of the greatest island chains to ever be presented to the surfing world, Hawaii, and how the influences and waves paved a path to make this young blonde haired man a bodyboarding world champion. We break down each world tour comp in the calendar y...

Episode 56 of Luke’s Lounge revisits a previous guest who has his tender hooks well and truly attached to the carcass we all truly know as BOOGING. Adrian Emerton is a Sydney based director, filmmaker and small business owner who has been at the forefront of booging for at least the last 10 years plus. His most recent published work can be found through the movie, The Chase, and in this most recen...

In this years final edition of Comp Talk Coops n Luke wrap up the final contest of the 2023 IBC World Tour, the Fronton Pro, which is held in the highest regard amongst the Boog community as the comp of the year! This years edition didn’t disappoint when it came to controversy’s as before the comp had even kicked off three competitors were disqualified without even pulling on a rashie. We had spar...

This episode on Luke’s Lounge we really dive into the sacred art of Drop Knee and who better to yarn to about it than Cronulla local, Aaron Glassop. With plenty of years behind him throwing the knee up at every slab the Shire has to offer up, Aaron has achieved so much in Jack Stance. From DK’ing through a Shark Island Challenge, to tackling Cape Solander on the knee to jumping off 50ft cliff jump...

Episode 54 swings straight into action with one of W.A’s core lords, Tommy Morris, sliding onto the lounge to talk about his life on the boog. Luke n Tom cross into an assortment of topics, ranging from his dream heat with the GOAT of booging over in the Maldives, to his most recent project, Ying n Yang, and what’s it like cruising Hawaii with local North Shore legend Jonny Correa for a few season...

As Luke says “opinions are like assholes, everybody has one” and there’s been a lot of speculation around what’s actually occurred at the last stop on the 2023 world circuit, the Fronton Pro in Gran Canaria. We’ve heard Mikes side of the story, we’ve heard from many opinions in the way of the online bodyboarding community, yet the IBC have been relatively (extremely) quiet about the whole darn deb...

The East Coast Core LordByron joins Luke on the lounge and wow he didn’t hold back. From history lessons in Riptide front page covers, to his many runs in at the infamous super bank in his early 20’s to getting shown how to do proper inverts in a Northies beer garden by Nathan Purcell. The fella is funny as fuck whilst still being insightful and honest with his views on booging and the world aroun...

Episode 51 of Luke’s Lounge features one of the nicest, clean-cut rippers to ever lay down on the piece of holy foam we all so intently worship here in the boog world. Jase Finlay is as honest as the day is long and can seriously handle himself in the ocean, not just on a boog, but in all disciplines and does it with scintillating style to boot! In this podcast Luke and Jase chronologically detail...

For episode 51 of the pod, we thought we would turn the production up a few bars and incorporate visuals on this one in a lifetime interview with the great and powerful Chris White. The man needing no introductions gave up his time whilst on the east coast of Aus touring his Up in Joke Tour with co-podcast host, Brian Woodsy Shields, and wow Luke and Chris covered some ground. From avoiding cancel...

Celebrating our fiftieth episode at Luke’s Lounge we decided to spare no expense and roll out the boog lord red carpet for one of the most decorated bodyboarding legends so far in the history of the sport…. Please let us welcome Jay Reale to the poddy! With a list of achievements and accolades that run longer than a three ply roll of the softest toilet paper strewn across your local car park, Jay’...

Episode 49 see’s Cyclone Lucy, aka Lucy Nadebaum, grace the Riptide airwaves to speak about her most recently found passion…. Booging! Lucy has a unique story that she unpacks in great detail here in this episode. From growing up in the York Peninsular in SA and booging with her family, to putting down the boog for a large chunk of her life to only thrust herself back into the sport in the most gn...

Welcome to “Tales of the Boog”, a segment dedicated to shedding the light on the untold travel tales from many a keen Trad enthusiast who has ventured far and wide for a dance with the mythical cone zone in one way or the next. Our first episode features South African expat Josh Kleve, who is an absolute wizard when it comes to riding the Wild West African Donkey and has only just returned from a...

When grass root Australian Booging gets discussed, Paul Van Den Boom’s powerful name isn’t too far away from being mentioned. With his down right Aussie passion for booging bubbling and boiling away underneath that calculated dome of Paul’s on the daily, it’s a wonder he hasn’t blown a gasket with all the energy he’s applied towards the sport. With a fast growing short podcast series, called “Futu...