Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast
280 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsPresented by Matt Barr, Looking Sideways is a podcast about the best stories in skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and other related endeavours.
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Episode 029: Layne Beachley - Life Is The Lesson
January 07, 2018 14:35 - 57 minutesFull episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Seven times ASP world champion, chair of Surfing Australia, ISA Executive Committee member, founder of the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation, big wave pioneer; I've been lucky enough to speak to some big hitters on the show over the last year, but Layne Beachley, my guest for episode 028 is right up there. I sat down with Layne at her place in Sydney in December 2017, and we dived right into it, covering the highs and ...
Bonus Episode: Hayden Cox - Haydenshapes Factory Tour
December 30, 2017 21:48 - 16 minutesEnjoyed episode 028 with Hayden Cox of Haydenshapes? In this special New Year 2017/18 bonus episode, Hayden talked me through his new factory, explaining how a Haydenshapes board is put together from start to finish and showing me some of his special projects. Huge thanks to Hayden for taking the time to show me round the factory. Click https://www.instagram.com/p/BdV7dA8Fds5/?hl=en&taken-by=welooksideways to see the Instagram post that accompanies this bonus episode. This is a public episo...
Episode 028: Hayden Cox - The Surfboard That Took Over The World
December 22, 2017 20:58 - 1 hourFull episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 028 I headed to Sydney’s Northern Beaches to interview surfer, shaper and entrepreneur Hayden Cox. This is the first part of my planned Aussie omnibus featuring legendary members of the Sydney surf community, and Hayden definitely fits that description. He is the founder and owner of Haydenshapes surfboards - one of the most influential surfboard brands of the last decade. Why? Because Hayden is the man behind two ...
Episode 027: Rick Ridgeway - At The Edge Of The Cliff
December 12, 2017 23:13 - 1 hourFull episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com I welcomed true adventure royalty onto the show for episode 027, when I met up with the great Rick Ridgeway. Rick, a legendary mountaineer and adventurer, was part of the first American team to summit K2; just one highlight in a career full of firsts and achievements. Today, he is Vice President of Public Engagement at Patagonia, using the insights accrued from a lifetime of adventuring to help shape Patagonia's environmenta...
Episode 026: Jon Boyer - The Second Act
December 04, 2017 21:31 - 1 hourFull episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com We dig into the details of a great American snowboarding life for episode 025 of the Looking Sideways Podcast, as I speak to Hollywood screenwriter and OG snowboard legend Jon Boyer. Canuck legend Boyer came up with the first wave of North American snowboard pros, mentored by Ken Achenbach and counting shredders like Keith Duckboy Wallace, Shaun Palmer and Damien Sanders as peers. Along the way he scored a pro model on Barfoot, ...
Episode 025: Hugo Tagholm - Canaries In The Coalmine
November 24, 2017 09:11 - 1 hourFull episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Recorded during my visit to Cornwall in August 2017, my conversation with Surfers Against Sewage Chief Executive Hugo Tagholm is a vital listen. Surfers Against Sewage are the marine conservation charity who first came to prominence in the 1990s when they spearheaded the campaign to improve water quality in the UK and around the world. Since then, they have diversified into one of the country’s best-loved marine conservation ch...
Episode 024: Garrett McNamara - Redefining The Boundaries
November 17, 2017 08:31 - 55 minutesFull episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Another week, another legend – this time big wave surfer and extreme waterman, the great Garrett McNamara. Garrett was in London for a few days during mid November 2017, so I sat down with him for an hour and look back over his storied, spectacular career. And what stories these are. Whether it's growing up surfing Halewia and then pioneering the outer reefs, or dedicating his life to Nazare, Gmac's life story reads as a guide ...
Episode 023: Bryan Iguchi - Never Stop Riding
November 10, 2017 19:31 - 52 minutesFull episode info and Show Notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Legend alert! Yep, for episode 023 I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon with one of snowboarding’s most beloved characters: the great Bryan Iguchi. ‘Guch’, as everyone calls him, has had one of the most most legendary and important careers in snowboarding, spanning over two decades and covering almost every key development along the way. Name a milestone and chances are Guch was part of the session. Big Bear back in the da...
Episode 022: Travis Rice - The Power Of Not Knowing
November 02, 2017 06:28 - 54 minutesFull episode and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com *L E G E N D K L A X O N* Yep, I invited another true great onto the show for episode 022: none other than Travis Rice, a towering presence in snowboarding culture since he exploded onto the scene back in 2001. Today Travis stands as one of the undisputed greatest of all time. With his riding, his approach to arenas such as AK, his films or pioneering contests such as Ultranatural, it is no exaggeration to say that he has set the...
Episode 021: Mick Fanning - The Year Out
October 19, 2017 16:01 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com I welcomed a true legend onto the Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast for episode 021: 3 x World Champion, renowned shark puncher and all-round Aussie surfing superstar Mick Fanning. I headed round to Mick’s place during my recent surf trip to Hossegor in the South West of France, and we got stuck into Mick’s life and career during the course of a hugely enjoyable conversation. Whether it’s the wildcard win at Bells back in...
Episode 020: Easkey Britton - How To Be Like Water
October 10, 2017 06:14 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For the third and final part of my Irish omnibus, recorded on my trip to the west coast at the end of September 2017, I headed to Galway to meet Easkey Britton. Easkey is a surfer, XXL nominee, swimmer, academic, artist, thinker, activist, environmentalist and explorer from Donegal. Part of the legendary Britton clan, she grew up surfing the great waves around Bundoran and Rossnowlagh, and is today famed for surfing some of th...
Episode 019: Sophie Hellyer - The Beauty Myth
October 05, 2017 05:28 - 1 hourFull episode and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com It’s part two of my special Irish omnibus - episode 019 with surfer Sophie Hellyer, recorded during my brief sojourn to Lahinch on the west coast of Ireland at the end of September 2017. Sophie is a surfer, model and writer who came to prominence in her teens after she won British titles and was soon snapped up by Roxy. She then spent ten years as a Roxy girl, modelling, travelling, surfing and living what many would see as the dre...
Episode 018: Fergal Smith - Becoming The Change
September 27, 2017 18:19 - 1 hourFull episode and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Welcome to Part 1 of my special Irish omnibus! Yep, in mid-September 2017 I headed over to County Clare in Ireland for a few days surfing and to catch up with some friends for the podcast. First up is Irish surfer and farmer Fergal Smith. Ferg’s the man who turned his back on a successful pro surf career to head back to Ireland and establish a community farm in Lahinch on the west coast. Today, Moy Hill CSA Farm, run by Fergal, Ma...
Episode 017: Ben Skinner - The Feeling of Surfing
September 17, 2017 14:53 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Episode 017! How did that happen? This time I headed down to Newquay to speak to Ben Skinner, world-renowned longboarder, the man behind Skindog Surfboards and all round UK surf legend. Ben and the boys were super welcoming and after showing me around the factory we sat down and went back over his life and career. Up for discussion - the current state of longboarding, the ethos behind Skindog Surfboards, his impatience with peo...
Episode 016: Marcus Chapman - The Campaign Against Living Miserably
September 08, 2017 08:19 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Episode 015 is a special episode of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast, as I invited my old friend Marcus Chapman onto the show to discuss his work for CALM, his role as organiser of Nelson’s Tour de Test Valley and our old friend, the much-loved and much-missed Nelson Pratt. We wanted to discuss Nelson’s own story in the hope that it might illuminate some of the issues around mental health in a positive way, and help i...
Episode 015: Alex Honnold - Free Rider
August 25, 2017 12:28 - 50 minutesFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Before June 2017, Alex Honnold, my guest for episode 015, was already renowned as one of the world’s greatest climbers thanks to achievements such as the Fitzroy Traverse, his free solo ascents of Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park and on Half Dome, or his solo ascent of Yosemite’s Triple Crown. Then he ‘sent the project’ he’d been working on for years – a free solo ascent (where the climber ascends without ropes or protec...
Episode 014: Lucy Adams - About Balance
August 21, 2017 14:44 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com My episode 014 guest is Lucy Adams - pro skateboarder, chair of Skateboard England and one of the most respected and positive presences in UK skateboarding. Lucy has been a tirelessly upbeat presence in UK skateboarding for years now, whether through the efforts she’s made to make skateboarding more accessible for girls through her She-Shredders coaching classes, or through her visibility as one of the most high profile female ...
Episode 013: Keme Nzerem - Finding the Story
August 09, 2017 12:23 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest for episode 013 is journalist and broadcaster Keme Nzerem: skier, climber, outdoorsman, head judge at Kendal Mountain Film Festival and Correspondent for Channel 4 News. Keme covers some of the biggest stories in the world, and in this in-depth chat, recorded in London in July 2017, we dig deep into his career and experiences working on stories such as Hurricane Katrina and Grenfell Tower. If you enjoyed Ed Leigh on ...
Episode 012: Tom Kay - How I Built Finisterre
July 20, 2017 15:37 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 012 I welcomed Finisterre founder Tom Kay to the show. A surfer, swimmer, fisherman, lifeboatman, father and entrepreneur, Tom founded Finisterre in 2002 and in that time has overseen the brand's evolution from bedroom start-up to the UK’s most beloved surf brand with a staff of 50 and a workshop overlooking the cliffs of Saint Agnes in Cornwall. Tom and I spent the day in Brighton, and after a brisk sea swim we s...
Episode 011: Jamie Brisick - Chronicling The Margins
July 10, 2017 15:25 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest for episode 011 of the podcast was writer, journalist, novelist, editor, photographer, documentary-maker, surfer and former Pro Tour competitor Jamie Brisick. Jamie, a writer of uncommon power and sensitivity, has been chronicling surf and popular culture since the early 90s. For the last decade he’s been immersed in the story of Westerly Windina, firstly through his magisterial book Becoming Westerly, and now through ...
Episode 010: Peter Hellicar - The Generosity of Skateboarding
June 23, 2017 18:52 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com I marked the tenth episode of the Looking Sideways podcast by welcoming legendary UK skateboarder Peter Hellicar to the show. Pete is a skater, company owner, designer, artist, musician, thinker and all round creative powerhouse who first came to prominence in the late 80s/early 90s UK skate scene. Since then, he has gone on to have a long and varied career. He helped set up OG British skate company Unabomber, then headed to th...
Episode 009: Lesley McKenna - Blazing Trails
June 14, 2017 16:24 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com It's the long-awaited episode 009 of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast, in which I finally managed to interview somebody who isn’t a man - visionary snowboarder, three-time Olympian and current GB Park & Pipe Programme Manager Lesley McKenna. That description doesn’t really do Lesley justice though, as the truth is she’s spent her entire career blazing trails for other people to follow, whether by pioneering the route i...
Episode 008: DJ BBQ - Life's Rich Pageant
May 24, 2017 15:00 - 2 hoursFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com In episode 008 of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast, I was ‘catertained' by the great DJ BBQ, aka Christian Stevenson. Christian may currently be best known for being a breakout star on Jamie Oliver’s FoodTube, but his roots in action sports go back thirty years. He's been a film-maker, team manager, a BAFTA-award winning TV presenter, a Sony Award-winning radio DJ, and a best-selling author. Christian is one of thos...
Episode 007: Tom Burt - Snowboarding's Great Pioneer
May 11, 2017 08:47 - 58 minutesFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com In episode 007 of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast, I spoke to one of snowboarding's all time legends, Tom Burt. Tom Burt has been at the cutting edge of freeriding for over thirty years. Whether it’s been putting down legendary lines like Cordova Peak, being one of the first riders to open up Alaska, his filming feats with Standard, or his current role as Head Judge on the Freeride World Tour, Tom has seen it all, don...
Episode 006: Xavier de le Rue - The Endless Quest For Innovation
April 28, 2017 08:54 - 56 minutesFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For episode 006 of the Looking Sideways podcast, I paid a visit to legendary freerider Xavier de le Rue at his Verbier home. Where to start with Xavier? Universally considered one of our greatest freeriders, he began his career racing boardercross, picking up four world titles. Then he switched his attention to freeriding, winning three Freeride World Tour titles. He followed this by embarking upon some of the greatest and mos...
Episode 005: Orlando Von Eisendel - How It Feels To Win An Oscar
April 18, 2017 13:19 - 59 minutesFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com For the fifth episode of the Looking Sideways podcast I spoke to Oscar-winning documentary maker and snowboarder Orlando von Eisendel, a week after he’d picked up the award for Best Short Documentary for his film The White Helmets at the ceremony in LA. We talked about how it feels to win an Oscar, how Orlando made the evolution from snowboard film-maker to Academy Award winner, how action sports are the ideal proving ground for...
Episode 004: Sascha Hamm Part 2 - Dealing With Catastrophe
April 12, 2017 11:18 - 44 minutesFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com It's the second half of my interview with UK snowboarder and freerider Sascha Hamm. In today's part of the chat, Sascha Hamm talked me through the 'wilderness' years, when the first half of his snowboarding career ended. Why? Because after winning the British Championships in 2000, he decided to take his prize money and gamble it on an attempt to make it as a Formula 1 driver. As you do. When that didn't go to plan, Sascha set ...
Episode 001: Ed Leigh - How To Live Your Life Through Snowboarding
April 03, 2017 13:17 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Over the past twenty years Ed Leigh has lived one of the most extraordinary and enviable lives snowboarding imaginable. Today he presents flagship BBC winter sports show Ski Sunday and commentates on the Olympics for the BBC, but his road to the top has been a long one, even if his passion for snowboarding has always been the driving force. In this fascinating conversation, recorded in February 2017, Ed dug deep into his bag o...
Episode 002: Andrew Cotton - Surfing The World's Biggest Waves
April 03, 2017 13:17 - 54 minutesFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Andrew ‘Cotty’ Cotton is probably the UK’s most high profile surfers and one of the foremost big wave surfers in the world right now. Along with his close friend Garrett McNamara, he’s one of the handful of surfers to pioneer the notoriously heavy beachbreak Nazare in Portugal. His feats, such as towing Garrett into what is considered one of the largest waves ever ridden, back in 2011, routinely make headlines around the world ...
Episode 003: Sascha Hamm Part 1 - Dealing With Catastrophe
April 03, 2017 13:17 - 1 hourFull episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.com Sascha Hamm is one of the UK’s best freeriders and somebody who’s been at the top or around the top of European snowboarding for the past twenty years. In March 2016, Sascha's life changed for ever. He was competing in the Freeride World Tour Event in Fieberbrunn, Austria, when he took a fall that almost killed him. As he describes in detail during our conversation, he half-backflipped off a 100 foot cliff and landed on his sid...