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PODCAST

Thank U Snowboarding

Chris Cracknell

Welcome to “Thank U Snowboarding,” the podcast that dives deep into the rich history and vibrant culture of UK snowboarding. From the early pioneers handcrafting boards in the Scottish Highlands to today’s Olympic medalists and world champions, we’re uncovering the incredible stories behind an island nation that, despite its lack of towering peaks, has made a monumental impact on the snowboarding world.Join us as we chat with the trailblazers, innovators, and everyday riders who have shaped this

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1:31:22

Thank U Snowboarding - S3 - Ep2 - Mia Langridge

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2025/11/06

Mia is one of the current crop of young UK riders who are blazing a path into the wider European and Worldwide scenes, and its quite incredible to watch. I've talked about how the UK punches above its weight in snowboarding, and I think its amazing to see a rider from humble beginnings, Knockhatch dry slope, which is quite local to me, and tiny and I certainly didn't think there would even be a scene there, let alone a scene which produces world class riders. Mia stood out in the crows at the Spring

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1:32:45

Thank U Snowboarding - S3 - Ep1 - Jonny Weeks

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2025/10/30

Its almost a lifetime ago that I last saw Jonny. We spent a few intense periods together whilst he was working for Airwalk and I was helping him out, normally in return for some beer vouchers and some kit.Jonny is a legend in the UK industry, he held things down at Burton for quite a while before running Airwalk, helping them devolop a product line which, for a while, was one of the strongest lines of product in any brand, really innovative, stylish and well priced.He is responsble for so many

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Thank U Snowboarding - Chairlift Chats - 6 - Vicky...

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2025/10/27

Another lovely chat during a great day with two of favourite people to shred with. We were talking about climate change and whether our kids will see the epic snowfalls we have enjoyed... I also talk about the Thank U Snowboarding Community Building Camp 26, if that sounds like something you want to get involved in, then head over to https://thankusnowboarding.wixsite.com/spring2026 for more details and how to reserve a space. Its going to be RAD!If you want to get in touch, then the email is

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Thank U Snowboarding - Chairlift Chats 5 - Mr Steve

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2025/10/21

What a day! This day was one of the most fun days I've had on a snowboard, I didn't want it to stop. I'd not really chatted with Mr Steve before, I was always a little bewildered about who he was and why he was on the Spring Break trip, but the night before we recorded this, we had a right chat about all sorts of things, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, but really enjoyable.So I grabbed him for a few laps of the gondola and recorded on of the rides up.Mr Steve is a very interesting guy, useful on

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Thank U Snowboarding - Chairlift Chats - 4 - Vicky...

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2025/09/29

This bonus episode is the epitome of what sitting on a chairlift with your friends is all about... Vicky and Nige are Mia's parents, and its always fun to catch up with them in Laax and go for a shred. I think sometimes they get caught up in the contest environment and forget to enjoy themselves. Well, thats where I step in! We went for a proper shred around Laax, joined as well by The Reason's filmer Duncan Wright, and had a proper tear up. I recorded a few chats with these guys, because there was

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21:18

Thank U Snowboarding - Chairlift Chats 3 - Ian...

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2025/09/16

Ian is one of the guys in snowboarding who has helped shape the UK scene, but who never craves the spotlight, indeed, he is unlikely to want his own full episode of the podcast, so it was a pleasure to get, at least, a little conversation on the P60 chairlift in Laax during the open.Ian was editor at Snowboard UK, then Document, and helms The Reason magazine, an annual behemoth of a publication, full of interesting articles and the most stunning pictures you'll want to look at. He has stuck with

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Thank U Snowboarding - Chairlift Chats 2 - Dave Lee

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2025/09/01

Dave is undoubtedly one of the GOAT's of snowboarding, and even more so because he really likes hanging out with the British scene! In fact, he will be one of the very few non UK born people to get an episode of Thank U Snowboarding (coming late in Season 3 or early Season 4) He is the owner of Signal Snowboards, as well as a bunch of other creative endeavours, turns up with an infectious energy and still throws down a beautiful backside air that has inspired me to get fit for next winter to get my

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13:28

Thank U Snowboarding - Chairlift Chats 1 - Dan Crichton

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2025/07/03

A random chat in a gondola (ok, not a chairlift) with friend of the podcast and Burton guru, Dan Crichton. I only got to know Dan at Spring Break last year and immediately knew we would become firm friends. He is such a positive, funny, insightful guy. I haven't got him on the main pod just yet, but had a fun few laps with him and some chat out in Austria (not to mention a glorious evening in Innsbruck to top the trip off) and in this gondola ride, we talked injuries and getting older in

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1:42:28

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep24 - Steve Bailey

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2025/04/10

Not many people can legitimately claim the title GOAT, but Steve is on that short list, in fact he might BE the short list.The influence on UK snowboarding that Steve has had cannot be denied, whilst most people were trying 360's and 540's, Steve was blasting 7's and 9's way over their heads, on dryslope, which is fucking hardcore and not something that most people ever got to.Steve is a cat, I've followed him round Les Arcs enough to see his natural ability to spring over rocks, blast massive and

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1:24:47

Thank U Snowboarding -S2 - Ep23 - Mike McWatt

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2025/04/03

In my humble opinion, its guys like Mike who made our culture of snowboarding. Sure, there were plenty of pro riders who shone bright, but, and I"ve said this before, its the guys like Mike, who love the sport with all their hearts and devote their lives to it, not in the pursuit of powder, but to getting people into it, understanding it, living and breathing it, which in turn has turned so many people onto the sport we hold so dear. Making communities that spread far beyond the bricks and mortar of

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2:16:37

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep22 - Elliot Neave

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2025/03/27

Neave, as everyone calls him, hasn't changed much over the years. He still has that mischeivous sense of fun, that infectious laugh and approach to things quite unlike anyone else I've met. Not qualities I needed to find at 4am after a cab ride back to my folks house after a night out in London and that laugh not stopping and waking them up...Elliot shone bright in the UK scene for a while, heavily sponsored by Oakley and supported by Scott Todd, Elliot was a heavy hitter, lived for going big and

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2:27:54

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep21 - Ian Cocking

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2025/03/20

Ian has been snowboarding longer than most people on the planet. Not many people can lay claim to that, and the fact that he is from the UK, where no, or at least very little information was available, makes it even crazier. From taking a small picture from a Sims ad in a skateboard magazine, to building their own boards and bindings, to finding taxies to drop them at the top of hills in the Downs, I mean, none of it makes much sense, but something was ignited in ian which he nurtured and eventually

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1:07:56

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep20 - Snow Camp

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2025/03/13

I had been aware of Snow Camp for a long time, one of the staff at our chalet had worked for them years ago, but they came more on my radar as they are based near to where I live in Hove. I had in the past wondered if introducing disadvantaged kids to the mountains was a good use of money, surely there are bigger problems to surmount, but as I"ve got to understand what they do, why they do it and what the outcomes are, I think its an invaluable opportunity for kids to discover who they could be and

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1:51:22

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep19 - Phil Young

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2025/03/06

I knew Phil was already on the scene when I first picked up Snowboard UK, but I didn't know he was around from the very, very early days, indeed his youthful good looks and approach to life don't indicate that he could have been around for that long, but Phil is a lifer, through and through and he uses his experiences in snowboarding to be a kind of 'go between' for brands that want some action sports cool, and the worlds we live and hold dear.His journey has taken him from hand building his first

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2:48:37

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep18 - Duncan Carr

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2025/02/27

Duncan Carr is and isn't your typical UK snowboarder. He has clocked more dryslope time than probably anyone except absolute lunatics, but kind of never went and did a season, which for a lot of UK riders is the goal. Dripping with style, he held his own in (and won) many competitions, but again, the drive wasn't competitve in itself. There was definitley progression, but not at the expense of style.He worked in snowboard shops, for snowboard distributors, was at every contest, board test and

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1:46:42

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep17 - Jonny Barr

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2025/02/20

There aren't too many riders who have lived the life like Jonny Barr. Still frothing for snow up in Aviemore where he now calls home, from the dryslope at Llandudno via Chamonix and some of the biggest mountains in the world, Jonny has seen the sun set on more days riding than most, and can still rip.He shares his love of the Scottish Highlands and splitboarding with his event 'The Upbattle' which is really an excuse for snowboarders to get together, talk aout snowboarding, go snowboarding and enjoy

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1:24:31

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep16 - Scott Mcmorris

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2025/02/13

Scott is one of the most stylish heavy hitters this country has produced, from being taken up to the highlands every weekend from a young age, to Whistlers superpark and mixing it on Red Bull projects with Travis Rice, let alone hitting rails in Trafalgar Square in London.A deep bag of tricks and an innate abiluty to make them look effortless, it occured to me as he rode ast me at about 80kmh last week that I'd describe his style as efficient. A snowboarders snowboarder if you will. Off the hill he

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2:04:48

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep15 - Christian Stevenson

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2025/02/06

Some might call Christian larger than life, but he isn't. He is as large as his life and his life is large! Starting filming snowboarding way back in the day, to producing one of the first European snowboarding movies (With a killer soundtrack) moving into presenting and winning BAFTA's, team manager for Vans to his current incarnation as DJ BBQ, Christian is a tour de force. Odd Man Out had a massive influence on UK snowboarding, at least two other guests have cited it as the reason why they

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2:23:46

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep14 - Jenny Jones

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2025/01/30

I normally start this section off with, you may not have heard of such and such, but not this time. I"m pretty certain you will have heard of Jenny Jones, and for good reason.Winning bronze at the Sochi Olympics is just part of her story, sadly, she wasn't the inspiration for the movie chalet girl and indeed, has never watched it, but she did start her career older than Mia Brookes is now, and went from seasonaire in Tignes to returning to win X Games gold there many years later (via two wins in the

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2:18:33

Thank U Snowboarding - S2 - Ep13 - Stu Brass

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2025/01/23

Its fair to say that Stu Brass has lived many lives in snowboarding, from grom riding with his brothers Si and Russ up at Rossendale, to working for the British Snowboarding Association, to running comps to organising events, most motably The Brits, the yearly get together for the UK snowboarding community. In my mind, Stu has always been fairly business like in his snowboarding, but I guess it takes some drive to acheive what he has acheived, he helped athletes cross over into the mainstream, and

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