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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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Episode 191: Bonnie Tsui - Why We Swim

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/08/16

A mere four years after I had Ross Edgeley on the show, I’ve finally managed to book another swimmer! Yes my guest for this episode is the great Bonnie Tsui, journalist, writer, swimmer, surfer and author of one of my favourite books of recent years - Why We Swim.It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the showAs a total swim geek, I loved this book. But as well as being manna for swimmers, it is also just a really

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Episode 190: Stacy Peralta - Lightness of Being

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/07/27

It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the show. Let’s start with the facts: this week’s guest Stacy Peralta is one of the most influential cultural figures in our corner of the world. If you’ve stood sideways on any craft - hell, even if you’ve listened to my podcast - you’ve been influenced by Stacy, whether you realise it or not. Even my weird little career, on an extremely minor level, is following a template set

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61:05

Type 2: Episode 025 - Rebecca Olive

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/07/13

“My approach to activism is to not be too ‘shouty’. Instead, it’s how can I bring someone along with me? I try in my writing to be even more gentle than I feel, because I want people to be willing to listen to me.”Type 2 is my podcast in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism.This week’s guest is surfer, swimmer and academic Rebecca Olive, a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Global, Urban & Social Studies at RMIT University in

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Episode 189: Kepa Acero - Reborn

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/07/05

It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the show. Kepa Acero is one of modern surfing’s most intriguing and beloved characters. Why? Because there’s just something irresistible about people who are completely comfortable in their own skin and who take life on their own terms. That’s definitely the case with Kepa, and it comes across in everything he does, which is why I think people genuinely seem to love and admire

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Episode 188: Christa Funk - Wave of Acceptance

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/06/28

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEpisode 2 of my Hossegor omnibus in association with Db! And my guest for this instalment is Christa Funk, a swimmer, surfer, coastguard and photographer who has very quickly established herself as one of the most creative and formidable photographers on the North Shore, capturing that none-more-heavy scene with a beguiling blend of dynamism, grace and beauty.She’s also got a hell of a story about how she made this happen. As regular

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79:52

Episode 187: Tim Myers - Human Interest

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/06/21

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comMy guest this week is Tim Myers, an award-winning and renowned cameraman, cinematographer, journalist and storyteller who has carved out an extremely interesting career for himself telling human interest stories as a freelance gun for hire for people like the BBC, CNN and the UN. There’s a chance you might unwittingly be familiar with Tim and his work - he achieved some internet notoriety a couple of years ago when he was attacked by riot

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59:44

Type 2: Episode 024 - Adam Hall

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/06/07

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 a surfer and activist Adam Hall. He’s Head of Sustainability for Surfdome, a trustee for POW UK, and is part of the team that just successfully ran the campaign to have the North Devon coastline designated one of only 12 World Surfing Reserves in the world, putting this much loved corner of the British surf world on a par with

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Episode 186: Wig Worland - On The Road Again

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/06/02

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThis week’s guest is photographer Wig Worland, one of the most respected and influential people in the history of UK skateboarding. I’ve known Wig on and off since the 90s. Looking back, we were all a little bit in awe at his complete understanding of who he was as a person, and how single-mindedly he approached his craft and self-appointed task. Indeed, as my old pal Phil Young said, when I told him I’d finally persuaded Wig to come on the

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Episode 185: Mikey Corker - Savage Waters

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/05/23

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThere are many layers to this week’s conversation with surfer, director, film-maker, producer, creative and all-round legend Mikey Corker. On the one hand, it’s about this latest project Savage Waters, a surf film in the finest classical, questing tradition. It’s about how Mikey and a crew of similarly-driven and passionate people have spent years abroad Matt Knight’s yacht Hecate, on the hunt for a mythical wave, and the adventures and

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111:42

Episode 184: Ewan Wallace - The Joy of Friendship

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/05/10

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comIs there anything better than catching up with an old friend after a long break, and picking up exactly where you left off?I think not - which is why my latest with Ewan Wallace is a paean to the joys of close friendship. Ewan is a snowboarder and musician (he’s guitarist with Bonobo and Karmic) who is also one of my oldest and closest friends. I spent the most formative years of my life with Ewan; 15 years snowboarding, travelling,

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Episode 183: Shaun Tomson - The Light Shines Ahead

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/05/01

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comLet’s get straight to it - I’ve got one of surfing’s all-time great legends on the show this week. Along with peers like Ian Cairns, Rabbit and MR, 1977 World Champion Shaun Thomson helped to redefine surfing over the course of one of THE most influential careers of them all. He changed the game in ways we all continue to benefit from today. Then there are his off-the-water contributions, which are as progressive and game-changing as

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Episode 182: Lesley, Lauren and Hannah - Triumvirate

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/04/22

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comWhen does cultural guardianship become another form of toxic gatekeeping? How can you connect your own personal take on activism with the bigger themes? How can ski touring and splitboarding be a vehicle to increased creativity and self-awareness? And just why is Scotland one of the most unique places to ride a snowboard in the world? All topics covered in this week’s episode with Lesley McKenna, Hannah Bailey and Lauren MacCallum,

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Episode 181: Pat Bridges - The Eye

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/04/14

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comSound the geek klaxon! Yep, this week’s conversation with legit US snowboarding legend Pat ‘the eYe’ bridges goes deep, deep down the snowboarding rabbit hole. I go back a long way with Pat - around twenty years, in fact. I used to write for him back when he was editor of Snowboarder Magazine, which was around when we first met. Over the years, we stayed in touch and continued to bump into each other at various events around the world

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Episode 180: Neil Macdonald - Science Versus Life

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/04/05

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comTo say that Neil McDonald is interested in skate history is a little like saying Capability Brown liked to dabble in the odd bit of gardening. Neil is a journalist, author, curator and archivist who is obsessed, to an awe-inspiring degree, with the tales and intricacies of skate history. It’s a fascination he explores through his essential Science Versus Life Instagram account, and which he is developing on the grandest possible scale

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Episode 179: Yvette Curtis - Good Trouble

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/03/17

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThis week’s guest Yvette Curtis runs the amazing Wave Wahines, the women and girls only surf club through which she is on a mission to make surfing in the UK more accessible for women and girls from all cultures and ethnic communities. I think the reason I’m such a fan of Yvette’s work, and why I was so keen to chat to her for the podcast, is that it’s a story of how one person can impact the grassroots by the works they do. I talk

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Episode 178: Hana Beaman - High Beams

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/03/10

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comJackson x Natural Selection omnibus special!Succeeding in any kind of career as a professional athlete is tough. Cultivating a career that lasts close to two decades? Pretty much impossible. In snowboarding, it’s a rarified feat that only a handful have managed. Those that have accomplished it have navigated ups, downs, injuries, sponsorship vagaries, trends, and everything else that life can throw at you. This week’s guest Hana Beaman

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Type 2: Episode 023 - Martin 'MJ' Johnson

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/03/07

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 runner and activist Martin ‘MJ’ Johnson. Martin is a trail runner and father who, in Run to the Source, his new collaboration with Patagonia, has made a truly thought-provoking film. Run to the Source follows Martin’s attempt to set a new Fastest Known Time (or FKT, as it’s known) along the Thames Path, which he eventually did,

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Episode 177: Dr. Tony Butt - On The Frontier

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/02/19

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comHe’ll hate me for saying it. But Dr. Tony Butt, this week’s guest, is one of UK surfing’s bone fide big wave legends. As Nathan Carter put it in a recent interview for Wavelength Magazine, Tony is ‘probably the British big wave surfer with the most giant paddle waves under his belt’. Not that you would realise this if you used Tony’s media profile as an indicator. In a world of instant edits and Insta surf porn, Tony flies gloriously

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58:42

Type 2: Episode 022 - Marie-France Roy

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/02/11

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activismMy guest for this episode of the podcast is professional snowboarder and activist Marie-France Roy, who I chatted to during my recent trip to Jackson Hole for the first leg of the Natural Selection Tour. Marie is that rare thing: somebody who is using their platform to try and instigate change on both the personal and wider level. As a snowboarder,

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Episode 176: Travis Rice - Debrief

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2022/02/04

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Jackson x Natural Selection omnibus special! Yep, myself and my right-hand man Owen Tozer are on our first podcast trip of the Covid era. We’ve been in Jackson Hole for the first stop of the Natural Selection Tour, and have taken the opportunity to record as many episodes as we can with people involved in the event, from Jackson, or from the wider snowboarding community. This series continues with this conversation with the man behind

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