Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.comIn 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, done it all

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.comFor 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 most ambitious

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.comFor 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 creatives,

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.comIt'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 himself up in

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.comOver 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 of anecdotes

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.comAndrew ‘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 –

Full episode info and show notes: www.wearelookingsideways.comSascha 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 side on barely