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Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

Presented by Matt Barr, Looking Sideways is a podcast about the best stories in skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and other related endeavours. www.wearelookingsideways.com

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107:39

Episode 144: John Bassett - The Lodge

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/12/30

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintLifer episode alert! Yes, it’s another one of those perennially popular episodes of the show where I chat to somebody who has managed to find a way to turn their passion for riding into a viable career. In this case, it’s the great John Bassett, also universally known as John Dragon, one of my closest and oldest friends from my years snowboarding and

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173:00

Episode 143: Tim and Gendle - Christmas Special!

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/12/24

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Enjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintFestive Zoom Special! Yep, for the third year I was joined by my old friends Tim and Gendle for a frivolous mince pie, booze and quiz-filled special. If you’re new to the show or unfamiliar with the boys and their work, allow me to introduce them: two of the biggest influences and most-loved presences in European snowboarding, whether as

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59:33

TYPE 2: Episode 015 - Len Necefer

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/12/23

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism.My guest this week is the great Len Necefer. Well, Dr Len Necefer to be precise. Len is a professor at the University in Arizona, CEO of Native Outdoors, a board member at the Honnold Foundation and American Alpine club . It’s a breadth of experience that has given him a very intriguing and insightful approach to activism - and an intersectional take

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73:52

Episode 142: Pattie Gonia - Mother Natch

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/12/17

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPint I’ve been trying to arrange a chat with Pattie Gonia, aka Wyn Wiley, for a while now and we finally made it happen. As their Instagram bio puts it, Pattie is a ‘queer environmentalist bringing drag outdoors’ and is yer genuine Instagram phenomenon, going from 0 to 300k followers very rapidly indeed and snagging coverage from everyone from Outside to

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125:55

Episode 141: Mark Munson - Carpe Diem

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/12/09

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintThis week’s guest Mark Munson is one of UK skateboarding’s true greats. It’s that simple. In his 30-odd years of board riding, he’s been there, seen it, done it and helped set standards that define the scene to this day thanks to an uncompromising dedication to skateboarding and a personality that defines the phrase ‘force of nature’. ⁣As I discovered

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93:03

Episode 140: Greg Stump - Legend of Aahhhs

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/11/25

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintI’m going to come right out and say it: this week’s guest Greg Stump is as influential a guest as I’ve yet had on the show. Now, if you’re unfamiliar with Greg’s oeuvre (and in recent years his achievements have been shamefully overlooked) this might seem like a fairly wild claim. But when you consider the success of an era-defining smash like his

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73:59

Episode 139: Ben Moon - Concentric Circles

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/11/19

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPintThink ‘viral video’ and a couple of examples from the last decade stand out. Danny Macaskill’s ‘Inspired Bicycles’, certainly. Ben Moon’s ‘Denali’, too. Like a lot of people - over 20 million at the last count - this beautiful, moving tribute to his dog was the first time I became aware of Ben and his work as a photographer, filmer and writer. As is

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67:22

TYPE 2: Episode 014 - Lucy Siegle

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/11/11

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism.This week’s guest is Lucy Siegle, a writer, journalist, broadcaster and film-maker who has been one of the UK’s foremost voices on issues of nature and climate for almost two decades now. Today, she co-hosts the So Hot Right Now podcast, is a trustee for Surfers Against Sewage, Chair of the Real Circularity Coalition and is still a hugely prolific

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74:03

Episode 138: Valeria Kechichian - A Sign From The...

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/11/03

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPint Since I started the podcast back in February 2017, a few classic themes have become familiar to listeners. Creativity. Independence. Perseverance. Individuality. Community, too - although not always in a wholly positive way. After all, community was always supposed to be at the heart of this thing. And yet, for every positive story about action

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64:51

Episode 137: Dan Mancina - Insighted

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/10/16

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPint Sight loss is one of those primal fears we in common. It’s something everybody has pondered at some point, the type of ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ scenarios we tend to shy away from because we don’t really want to know what our potential reaction might reveal about our own character. It’s why Dan Mancina’s story is so powerful and

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92:43

Episode 136: Hannah Bailey - A Room Of Our Own

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/10/05

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEnjoying the podcast? Want to keep it free and ad-free? Donate here: https://bit.ly/LSBuyPint What does ‘influence’ mean today? Somebody on Instagram with thousands of followers? A professional athlete using their platform to promote their own beliefs and interests, however erroneous? Or does it refer to somebody who, by their consistent actions, has quietly helped to create new opportunities for their community?At the moment, the latter is

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91:29

Episode 135: Christina Koch - Pale Blue Dot

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/09/25

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comHow does it feel to go into space? What does it make you feel about the future of our planet, and your own place in the universe? What are the moral implications of space travel? And just how do you take a picture of Pipeline from the International Space Station as it flies overhead at 17,000 mph?All topics that I discussed with this week’s guest Christina Koch, a surfer and - yes - astronaut who just spent 328 days in space in the

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67:07

TYPE 2: Episode 013 - Mario Molina

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/09/15

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism.This week’s guest is Mario Molina, and what a chat this one is. Mario is a climber, snowboarder, mountain biker and guide who grew up in the highlands of Guatemala and today lives in Colorado. As I discovered, he is also somebody who has dedicated his life to the fight for climate action, firstly as deputy director at the Alliance for Climate

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91:04

Episode 134: Ben Mondy - Get A Dog Up Ya

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/09/02

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comAuspicious occasion alert! Yep, I conducted my first face-to-face interview since way back in March. Even more excitingly, it was a guest who also happens to be a really close friend of mine - the great Ben Mondy. Mondy is a surf writer, journalist and lifer par excellence of the Australian surf industry genus. He was a staffer at Tracks for years, and over the course of his career has written about surfing for absolutely everybody with

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87:28

Episode 133: Tim Baker - The Middle Way

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/08/25

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comOur attitude to mortality is one of the great paradoxes of modern life. It’s the thing we have in common and the thing we all ignore, putting off the inevitable reckoning until we’re usually forced to face it under the worst possible circumstances - grief, loss, sickness. It’s a conundrum we will all grapple with at some point, and one that surfer, writer and journalist Tim Baker has spent the last five years becoming intimately familiar with

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66:01

TYPE 2: Episode 012 - Alex Yoder

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/08/19

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism.This week’s guest is Alex Yoder, a snowboarder who is known for one of the best turns in the business and the series of thoughtful films he’s made in recent years about snowboarding in Turkey and Scotland. It was third time lucky for me and Alex - we had abortive attempts to record this episode in Portland and Niseko before finally jumping on Zoom to

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61:36

Episode 132: Steve Larosiliere - Hustle For Good

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/08/10

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThese days, using action sports as a tool for social mobility and mentorship is a fairly well known practise. In 2005, when this week’s guest Steve Larosiliere founded his organisation Stoked, it was new territory. Stoked was founded as a result of Steve’s own experience of mentorship and his ambition ‘to use action sports to teach 21st century skills to urban youth.’15 years later, Stoked has helped thousands of disadvantaged kids across the

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61:55

Episode 131: Leo Baker - Leo's Way

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/07/29

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThe search for our authentic self is a lifelong process. And not always a successful one. It takes a huge amount of self honesty, and a willingness to embrace consistent and at times not always comfortable evolution.It’s something we all have to face, whether consciously or not. But imagine undergoing this entire process as a world-renowned skateboarder - while also trying to juggle both wider societal pressures, and those of a patriarchal

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66:36

Episode 130: Jerome Tanon - Analoguist

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/07/23

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comWe live in an age of limitless content and endless progression. A period where a thumb-swipe can summon any film part in history, and where readily-available tools mean anybody can be a story-teller or documentarian.And yet what’s striking, in this age of digital plenty, is how rare - even now! - it is for an action sports film to have something to say something other than ‘Woo-hoo! Let’s shred!’ Films that dare to use comedy and pathos to

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Episode 129: Matt Warshaw - Surfing's Dr. Johnson

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2020/07/16

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comTo call Matt Warshaw’s Encyclopaedia of Surfing a labour of love would be to do the entire project a grave injustice. As the name suggests, EoS is Matt’s ongoing, crowdfunded attempt to document the history of surfing and surf culture through the site of the same name. It’s an industry ‘lifer’ project par excellence. And a beautiful, Johnsonian venture that, in essence, will never be completed. But then, Matt’s entire career has been about

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