The Longboardarian Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Tory Gilkerson is an important part of the longboard world- not just as a former LB World Champ but as the person, as a head judge in the WSL LB Tour, defining and assisting with the application of the "style, flow and grace" criteria that has revitalized the art/sport of pro longboarding in the world's biggest stage. Have you ever wondered why one wave gets a 6.5 w...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we sit down with one of the most important surfer shapers of his generation especially in the context of the modern longboard. This year (2025) Walden celebrates 60 years in the surfing industry! He has created for himself and for our surf culture a big footprint filled with surfboard design contributions that have impacted what surfers have surfed for decades and...

Send us Fan Mail This is the most intense episode i've ever recorded. That intensity says a lot about our special mega guest. A charger in the arena of life duties and in the arena of surfing. Listen to the whole episode and you'll see why on my words. Kanoa comes from that first young generation of surfers that adopted the surfing genre of longboarding when longboarding wasn't kool...

Send us Fan Mail I am a fanboy of surfing history. When I have the privilege of conversation with those who were here before us within our surfing ecosystem, and they happen to be heavy hitters of the surfing community as surfers, shapers, historians, producers, innovators, human beings and so on..... I listen, I ask and I listen some more. Such was the case with legendary surfer/shaper and human...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode (recorded on October 24th)  South African surfing master and commentator Dylan Mcleod joins me in an informal but substantive conversation of what we perceived and viewed in this years WSL LB Tour. Plenty of LB geek talk and constructive criticism.  Congratulations to Taylor Jensen 4x and Rachael Tilly 2x on a monumental win of another World Championship. I want to...

Send us Fan Mail In June of 2024 I finally set a date with Ventura surfing legend and master craftsmen Mr. Dennis Ryder for a quick interview. Fifteen minutes away from my home, Dennis and his wife live in a beautiful property alongside a calm creek. What seems to be a serene and beautiful creek unfortunately has another side to it. A nightmare turned reality due to a series of weather anomalies w...

Send us Fan Mail What do you get when you get together one of the most respected longboarders in the world with one of the most respected longboard shapers in the planet? You get the CI Log from Channel Islands Surfboards. On this episode you will learn the backstory on how the CI Log came to be. Destiny, I'd say, brought Devon Howard to CIS and that in turn brought the otherwise unlikely par...

Send us Fan Mail THE COMEBACK EPISODE After almost two years of a sabbatical-esque break, I am back with a BANGER for all of you longboard nerds! Taylor Jensen is one of my and many peoples favorite longboarders to watch. And for good reason. One of his surfing strengths that separate him from other great world class longboarders is his fluidity connecting every maneuver within a ride with grace,...

Send us Fan Mail February 2022, life takes me to Kauai, HI for a nice vacation stay in the North Shore. Few weeks prior to arrival I do a quick brainstorm session on who might be in the Hawaiian Garden Isle that could be a great guest for my podcast, maybe 15 seconds into my brainstorm session I thought  "wait isn't Billy Hamilton from Kauai?!" A quick internet search provided a  ph...

Send us Fan Mail Episode dedicated to the memory, family and friends of Peter Cole and Johnny Fain. RIP As I prepared for the TP interview, I learned some interesting facts about Tommy. One thing in particular caught me by surprise. The man that I had been following for the last few years on Instagram to satisfy my need of consuming beautiful longboarding imagery, was somewhat a newcomer to the ar...

Send us Fan Mail WARNING- LOADED EPISODE!!! Arguably, one of the best longboarders in the world of the last few decades, IF... we are judging noseriding as an important component of a longboarders repertoire. During the process of producing this episode I was watching video footage of Mr. Lee to refresh my memory of his insane longboard riding capabilities and boy was I mesmerized of his surfing....

Send us Fan Mail I was brought up to respect my elders. Though I am respectful, most of the time ( I fault here and there lol), with everyone, there is an extra layer of admiration that I have for those who have experienced life and its challenges to their senior years. And if someones life experiences involve surfing.... boy, you gotta my attention and ears. In that context,  what if ....you are...

Send us Fan Mail As a young man in my early 20's in Puerto Rico (1990's), before the advent of social media and the internet, I was a passionate and fever-laden  longboarder. My only access to longboarding content were VHS videos at my local surf shop and the arrival of Longboard Magazine every three months. That magazine was a bible to me. My excitement in setting up and conducting an i...

Send us Fan Mail  Originally from Southern California, this shaper/surfer, musician, super Mom and entrepreneur is part of the strong surfing community of Santa Cruz, CA. She has established a strong presence and a positive reputation in the surfboard manufacturing world. She has proactively pursued methods of building surfboards that cause less harm to our planet and environment. Her board design...

Send us Fan Mail If you are a surf history nerd and are curious and willing to listen to a different perspective on one of the most controversial surfing icons in history, you are in for a treat. The author of The Surf Sting goes by the name of Linda Cuy, she is a native of Southern California and her surfing journey began in 1962. Once  upon a day in the sixties, as she was drying up by her car a...

Send us Fan Mail Surfing is very rich in history. It's a fact that the Hobie Surfboards label is a crucial and important part of that history, especially in the context of surfboard building and surf culture. Our guest for this episode was given the honor and responsibility to carry on Hobie Surfboards legacy as their numero 1 shaper (head shaper) of the brand. As of the day of this interview...

Send us Fan Mail The Waxhead, as he likes to be called is a longtime longboard aficionado from Sydney, Australia. Still a young man ( in his early thirties), I had and have the impression that he speaks with the knowledge of an old surfing soul. Basically, he is one of those people that I like to call a "longboard nerd". What happens when you get 2 longboard nerds to sit down and talk lo...

Send us Fan Mail Back in the 90's, when I was in my early twenties I was one hungry longboarder. I am not referring to food hungry....., but hungry to learn more about longboarding and the cast of characters presented to me via videos and magazines. Remember, this is pre internet revolution.  When the new issue of Longboard Magazine would show up at my local surf shop, I was the first one in...

Send us Fan Mail Belinda Baggs is, in my mind, one of the first female longboard traditional stylists that I have memory of. That does not mean that she was one of the first women traditionalists in the world. Southern California had a few young ladies that had taken that route of longboard surfing before Belinda. Lady loggers like Carla Rowland (now Zamora) and Kassia Meador to name just a few. H...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is one of the most loaded and heavy interviews that I have done up to date. A gem for the surfing history nerd. Born in Australia in 1974, Beau is a two times longboarding world champion, he is a respected musician, a proud father and family man, a surfboard shaper and owner of Beau Young Surfboards and a member of one of the most important surfing families in the wor...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode I travel via cyberspace to Noosa Heads, Australia and sit-down with one of the most dominant forces of longboard surfing of his generation. At 39, his interest and motivation to go back into professional competitive longboarding has been sparked by the recent changes (2019) in the WSL Longboard Tour. Josh has won pretty much every brand of high level longboarding c...

Send us Fan Mail Edouard Delpero was born in Marseilles, France. For the last 16 years he's been a resident and a local in the Basque Country, Biarritz, France where he has set his roots alongside his brother, Antoine and family. They run a successful surf school and are part of one of the most iconic surfing communities in Europe. Edouard has been competing in the highest level of profession...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we sit down with Señor Stevie Sawyer. Born and raised in majestic Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa, It is there where this World Champ learned to surf and become the man he is today.  As usual, I had many questions for this surfer/musician phenom who happens to be the WSL 2018 World Longboard Champion.  I was very interested in tapping into his mind with a variety...

Send us Fan Mail Devon Howard is a San Diego, California native. Born in a community where surfing is a normal and common aspect of daily life. Surfing was encouraged in his family as Devon's Mom was a surfer as well. It makes sense that Devon became an avid surfer. Growing up he discovered longboarding at an early age when most kid surfers were not keen about a "prehistoric" approa...

Send us Fan Mail Recently, I had the true pleasure of visiting for the first time the Hawaiian island of Maui, beautiful would be an understatement to describe Maui. I was there for my wife's work related conference. It was the perfect timing for me to connect with Kely Rodrigues from Manuela Shapes. I juggled my time between my lady and friends, surfing (scored good Honolua Bay), an intervie...