Beyond Boards

Episode 88 with Nikola Racan, skateboarder and filmmaker from Fažana, Croatia, co-founder of the Vladimir Film Festival.

Together we discussed how skateboarding entered his life as a young teenager in the late 90’s, working for a few years at a local film festival as well as in a theater which allowed him to have a good understanding of the cultural scene, starting the Vladimir Film Festival, a small independent skateboard film and photography festival with his friends in 2011 and doing it every year since then while working a full-time job, raising 2 kids and making a f...

Episode 87 with Paul O'Connor, skateboarder and academic from Exeter, England.

Together we discussed him growing up in Devon and picking up his first board in the late 80’s, developing an interest for research early on which eventually led him to start his academic journey in the late 90’s, moving to Hong Kong in 2001 where he spent the next 15+ years exploring among other exciting things the sociology of religion and in particular Islam, transitioning into skateboarding-focused research projects from 2014 onwards, his book “Skateboarding and religion” which came out in 2019, moving back with his family to the UK i...

Episode 86 with Ray Barbee, professional skateboarder, musician and photographer from San Diego, California.

Together we discussed his life and career, from picking up his first board in the early 80’s to turning pro for Powell-Peralta at the age of 17, how he's been living his life between his 3 main passions that are skateboarding, music and photography and much more, through surprise questions from friends of his.

(00:13) – Intro
(01:13) – Mike Griffin
(04:58) – Tommy Guerrero
(06:36) – Ed Templeton
(16:14) – Call of faith
(29:09) – John Lucero
(35:49) – Greg Hunt
(40:29) – Jaime Owens
(42:38) – Javier Sarmiento
...

Episode 85 with Martin Ander aka Mander, skateboarder, artist, illustrator and graphic designer from Stockholm, Sweden.

Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up in Stockholm where he started skating and writing graffiti in the mid to late-80’s to making a living as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer for nearly 3 decades and everything in between through surprise questions from friends of his.

(00:13) – Intro
(01:25) – Martin life recap
(07:45) – Magnus Gyllenberg
(12:31) – Martin Karlsson
(16:11) – Finsta Fari
(19:17) – Malcolm Jacobson
(21:26) – Micke "Bozze" Boström
(28:00) – Nathan Hamelberg
(31:08...

Episode 84 with Chris Colbourn, professional skateboarder and artist from San Diego, California.

Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up and picking up his first board in Williston, Vermont to turning pro for Element Skateboards in 2019, joining the Worble team soon after and everything in between through surprise questions from friends of his: James Buchmann, Collin Hale, Mark Appleyard, Antonio Ciongoli, Tom Rohrer, Kyle Seidler, Tyler Surrey, Jordan Maxham, Jaime Owens, Tylre Wilcox, Jordan Taylor, Steve Mull, Chris Rooney aka Rhino, Rob Maynard, Nick Richards, Alex Wiktor, Ray Maté, Tom Mull, Jeff M...

Episode 83 with Laurence Keefe, professional skateboarder and team manager from Tokyo, Japan.

Together we discussed him growing up in the UK, moving to Barcelona in 2005 where he spent a few years teaching English aside from skating and traveling, connecting with Patrik Wallner and going on his first Visual Traveling trips, settling down in Tokyo, Japan in March 2011 with a working holiday visa just a few days before the devastating earthquake hit the country, building his new life there in the following years, working for Evisen Skateboards and getting on the team while also starting...

Episode 82 with Amy Ellington, founder of KCDC Skateshop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Together we discussed her life and career, from growing up in Long Island, going to punk and hardcore shows as a teenager in the late 80’s/early 90’s, working as a party promoter for a few years until opening KCDC skateshop in 2001 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, running the shop for the last 23 years which has become a staple in NYC skate culture, and much more through surprise questions from friends of hers: Waylon Bone, Jaime Reyes, Eli Gesner, RB Umali, Jeremy Fish and Dylan Gold...

Episode 81 with Evan Smith, professional skateboarder and musician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Together we discussed his life and career, from his early years at Metro Skatepark in Orlando, Florida to starting Uma Landsleds (today Umaverse) in 2020 and everything in between through surprise questions from friends of his: Brian Delatorre, Jeff Pang, Danny Montoya, Kiah Harrington-Wymer, Jimmy Astleford, Mike Heikkila, Mark Stewart, Nick Garcia, Mary Grace Potts, Justin Reynolds, Ray Barbee, Chad Poore, Jacob Nuñez, Phil Zwijsen, Michael Sieben, Maura Moon, Chris Ray, John Petras aka Peach, Joey Pulsifer, Chris Colbourn, Shimrit Vavak, Michael Burnett, N...

Episode 80 with Chris Haslam, professional skateboarder from Vancouver, Canada.

Together we discussed his life and career from growing up and picking up his first board in Singapore in the mid 90’s to starting his own board brand Brainchild in 2019 and everything in between through surprise questions from friends of his: Bill Weiss, Danny Gonzalez, Colin Kennedy, Greg Lutzka, Louie Barletta, Joe Perrin, Alex Craig, Adam Cassidy, Jose Rojo, Seu Trinh, Jason Rothmeyer, Shawn Perez, Mark Nickels, Cairo Foster, Jesus Fernandez, Michael Burnett, Jan Kliewer, Joel Pippus, Kirill Korobkov, Liam Searle, Austin Gardner, Caleb Shenkman, An...

Episode 79 with Esther Sayers, artist, researcher, gallery educator, lecturer and skateboarder from London, England.

Together we discussed her life and career from studying art in the early 90’s to her current role at the Goldsmiths University of London, picking up her first board in 2017 at the age of 47 and how it’s affected her life from then on, connecting with the local and broader skate community, her involvement with the Hackney Bumps Regeneration project and the City Mill Skate Research project at UCL East, her upcoming projects…

(00:13) – Intro
(01:25) – Getting st...

Episode 78 with Grant Yansura, skateboarder, business owner and filmmaker from Los Angeles, California.

Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up and picking up his first board in West Palm Beach, Florida to starting WKND Skateboards in 2014, running the brand for the last 10 years and putting out several amazing videos full of great skating and hilarious skits and everything in between through surprise questions from friends of his.

(00:13) – Intro
(01:25) – Grant life recap
(04:06) – Blake Carpenter
(07:10) – Bryce Mandel
(08:38) – Justin Fuller
(09:34) – Tom Carter
(13:18) – Matt Price
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Episode 77 with Patrick Kigongo, skateboarder, digital product manager and podcaster from Los Angeles, California.

Together we discussed his life and career from him growing up and picking up his first board in Rockland County, NY, to moving to Los Angeles in 2014, getting involved with the Harold Hunter Foundation and the Mostly Skateboarding podcast and much more through surprise questions from friends of his: Jim Thiebaud, Chris Giamarino, Cole Nowicki, Dan Brenner, Paul Young, Peter Schechter, José Vadi, Mike Munzenrider, Kevin Von Esper, Indigo Willing, Ryen Motzek, Ted Barrow, Jason from Frozen in Carbonite, Kate K...

Episode 76 with Marbie Miller, skateboarder and artist from Oakland, California.

Together we discussed her life and career, from growing up in La Porte, Iowa where she picked up her first board at the age of 11 to turning pro for There Skateboards in 2020, her art practice, fingerboarding and much more through surprise questions from friends of hers: Jeff Cheung, Nick Lyle, Una Farrar, Shari White, Cher Strauberry, Tom Mull, Preston Moses Clopton, James Pitonyak, Darren Johnson, Shag, Ben Venom, Matt Price, Lorien Stern, Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller from Boy Harsher, Eunice Chang, Chris Colbourn...

Episode 75 with Gustav Edén, skateboarder and project manager for the city of Malmö, Sweden.

Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up between Gothenburg and Lund in the 80's, riding for Unabomber Skateboards and Octagon Wheels while living in London and Australia in the late 90's and 2000's before moving back to Sweden and eventually becoming the skateboarding coordinator for the city of Malmö in 2014 among many other things through surprise questions from long-time friends of his: James Woodley and Ali Cairns, Will Harmon, Martin Stahlman, Wig Worland, David Gough, Morgan Cam...

Episode 74 with Carolina Gamboa, skateboarder and artist from Santiago, Chile.

Together we talked about her life, from growing up and picking up her first board in Chile in the mid-2000’s to moving to Berlin in 2018, getting on the Poetic Collective team in 2022 and developing her art practice aside from skating through surprise questions from friends of hers: Carmen Benito, Dave Morgan, Domi, Gabriel Bjørsvik, Joseph Biais, Franziska Datz, Aleksi Suovaara, Roland Hoogwater, Markus Bengtsson, Kotte, Jenne Grabowski, Marbie Miller, Tom Botwid, Max Schofer, Lucía Cortés, Helena Long and Paula Umaña.

Episode 73 with Thomas Campbell, skateboarder and multidisciplinary artist from Bonny Doon, California.

Together we discussed his life and career, from him growing up in Dana Point, CA and picking up his first board in the late 70’s to shooting photos, making zines, painting, sewing, making full-length skate and surf films and much more through surprise questions from life-long friends of his: Joe Lloyd aka “Xeno”, Max Schaaf, Damon Way, Julian Dykmans, Ed Templeton, Evan Smith, Dave Aron, Tobin Yelland, Sergej Vutuc, Sean Cliver, Eric Swisher, Chris Colbourn, Jaime Owens, Tommy Guerrero, Andre Razo, Andy Jenkin...

Episode 72 with Kyle Beachy, skateboarder and writer from Saint Louis, Missouri.

Together we discussed his life and career from growing up and picking up his first board in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1986 to releasing his second book “The most fun thing” (published by Grand Central Publishing in August 2021), a collection of essays focused on skateboarding, and everything in between through surprise questions from friends of his: Indigo Willing, Dan Piquard, Patrick Kigongo, Cole Nowicki, John Matson, José Vadi, Iain Borden, Alex White, Jason Waters, Sam Korman, Wes Miller, Janie Porche, Ted Schmitz, Kristin Lueke, Jim D...

Episode 71 with Josh Stewart, skateboarder, filmmaker, brand and distribution business owner from Tampa, Florida.

Together we discussed his life and career from growing up and picking up his first board in Tampa, Florida in the late 80’s to releasing Static 6 in 2023 and everything in between through surprise questions from friends of his: Colin Read, Brian Schaefer, Julien Januszkiewicz, Aaron Meza, Roger Bagley, Jeremy Wray, Patrik Wallner, Jeff Taylor, Andre Stringer, Steve Brandi, Paul Zitzer, Soy Panday, Brian Delatorre, John Baragwanath, Jordan Trahan, Jack Sabback, Kuba Kaczmarczyk, Eric Swisher, Jahmal Williams, Allyson Atchison, Zach Chamberlain, St...

Episode 70 with John Rattray, skateboarder, strategist and mental health awareness activist from Aberdeen, Scotland. 

Together we discussed his life and career, from picking up his first board in Aberdeen in the late 80’s to working in consumer strategy at Nike in Portland, Oregon, and everything in between through surprise questions from long-time friends of his: Colin Kennedy, Danijel Stankovic, Anthony Claravall, Mark Baines, Kaspar Van Lierop, Joel Curtis, Dan Magee, Skin Phillips, Eric Swisher, Diego Bucchieri, Silas Baxter-Neal, Joel Pippus, Kristin Ebeling, John Gardner, Kelly Bird, Rob Mathieson, Benson Kaai, Jon Horner and Michael Bur...

Episode 69 with Julien Januszkiewicz, skateboarder, pharmaceutical engineer and filmmaker from Bordeaux, France. 

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up his first board in Millau in the South of France in the late 80’s, studying chemistry between Pau and Evry and moving to Bordeaux in 2007 to start his career in the pharmaceutical industry, connecting with the Bordeaux skate scene and making his first video “Days and Nights” in 2011 for his brother Ben’s Montpellier-based skateshop Popular, the following year putting out the first installment of his “Bordeaux Exposure” videos, starting a new job in Switzerlan...

Episode 68 with Tim Anderson aka Bobshirt, skateboarder, skateboard collector and interviewer from Long Island, New York.

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up his first board in Massachusetts, moving to Long Island, NY in 1998, skating and making videos with his friends in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, starting to collect boards in 2004 and that same year launching his first website guymariano.com, quickly changing the name to “Bobshirt”, working in lighting and rigging on video productions throughout the years aside from his skateboarding projects, his wife Sarah starting the skateboarding-focused charity “Deckaid” i...

Episode 67 with Tobin Yelland, skateboarder and photographer from San Francisco, California.

Together we discussed his life and career, from his early days skating and shooting photos in San Franciso to shooting stills on movie-sets and everything in between through surprise questions from long-time friends of his: Chris Pastras, Thomas Campbell, Mickey Reyes, Antonius Dintcho, Aaron Meza, Fabian Alomar, Sean Sheffey, Andrew Caulfield, Anthony Claravall, Tim Dowling, Rick Ibaseta, Fred Mortagne, Eric Swisher, Ed Templeton, Jaime Owens, Joe Brook, Grant Brittain, Greg Hunt, Benjamin Deberdt, Ben Colen and Lance Dawes.

(00:13) – Intro

(01:13) – Getting started

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Episode 66 with José Vadi, skateboarder and writer from Sacramento, California.

Together we discussed him growing up in Pomona, CA, picking up his first board in the mid-90’s, aside from skating developing an interest for poetry and getting involved with the “Youth Speaks” program, moving to Oakland in the early 2000’s to study History at Berkeley, his different work experiences in the Bay Area, writing his first book “Interstate”, a collection of essays which explore California through various lenses, published in 2021, relocating to Sacramento that same year, going to the first edition of "Slow Impact" in Te...

Episode 65 with Scott Johnston, skateboarder and footwear designer from Los Angeles, California.

Together we discussed him growing up in Maryland, skating Pulaski in the late 80’s/early 90’s, getting on Think Skateboards and Venture Trucks before moving to San Francisco in 1992, turning pro for Think, moving over to Mad Circle and eventually Chocolate after settling down in L.A., transitioning from pro skating to shoe design in the late 2000’s, first at Lakai and eventually Adidas, his upcoming projects… through surprise questions from Greg Carroll, Matthew Willigan, Tobin Yelland, Aaron Meza, Jacob Rosenberg, Jaime Owens, D...

Episode 64 with Jesus Fernandez, professional skateboarder from Madrid, Spain.

Together we discussed him growing up in Madrid and picking up his first board in the late 80’s, traveling to the US for the first time at 16 years old with Enrique Lorenzo and staying at Lance Mountain’s home, going back a few years later with his brother Alphonso and his good friend Dani Lebron, getting on Neighborhood skateboards and filming for the “Lala land” video, meeting with Chico Brenes at Lockwood and getting flowed Chocolate boards, filming for “Yeah Right”, getting banned from the US because o...

Episode 63 with Ryan Lay, professional skateboarder from Tempe, Arizona.

Together we discussed him growing up near Phoenix, AZ and picking up his first board in 1999, the current state of his pro-skater career recently joining Sci-Fi Fantasy and New Balance in his mid-30’s, going to college for a bit after high school but eventually dropping out to focus on his
skate career, being vegan for over 10 years, starting Skate After School with his friends Timothy Ward and Bobby Green and growing it into a successful non-profit, his involvement with Skatepal and his fond me...

Episode 62 with Dr. Indigo Willing, skateboarder, sociology researcher, community leader and author from Brisbane, Australia, also known as occupied Yugarra and Turrbal Aboriginal tribes’ territory.  

Together we discussed her Vietnamese origins and settling down in Sydney, Australia with her adoptive family as a young child, how her interest for sociology began and eventually led to completing her PhD, starting to skateboard in 2014 at the age of 41, co-building communities through various groups such as the Adopted Vietnamese International Initiative (AVI), the Asian
Australian Films, Forum and Network (AAFFN), the We Skate QLD network (formerly kno...

Episode 61 with Madars Apse, professional skateboarder from Venstpils, Latvia.

Together we discussed him growing up in Venstpils and picking up his first board in the
early 2000’s, doing a lot of contests in his early years of skating which landed him some of his first sponsors, living in Barcelona and studying business as his career was taking off, filming with Javier Mendizabal for the “Cuatro sueños pequeños” film by Thomas Campbell, doing a skateboarding travel show called “It’s a mad world” for a few years which eventually turned into “Skate Tales” for Redbu...

Episode 60 with Greg Hunt, skateboarder, photographer and filmmaker from Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up his first board in the mid-80’s, road-tripping with his friend Goose and a young Sean Sheffey to San Francisco and eventually settling down there right after his 18th birthday, turning pro for Stereo and filming parts for their iconic videos “A visual sound” and “Tincan Folklore”, developing an interest for photography thanks to his friend and roommate Gabe Morford, retiring from pro skating in his mid-20’s and
transitioning into filmmaking, taking Ty Eva...

Episode 59 with Ted Barrow, skateboarder and art historian from San Francisco, California. 

Together we discussed him growing up between Texas and Northern California and picking up his first board in the mid to late 80’s, developing early on an interest for art and eventually studying art history in college, spending a few summers connecting with the local skaters in Paris in the late 90’s to early 2000’s, settling down in New York City in 2002 and spending 18 years there skating, bartending, working on his PhD, teaching/lecturing, giving historical walking tours of the city and more, r...

Episode 58 with Jan Kliewer, skateboarder and skatepark builder from Berlin, Germany. 

Together we discussed him growing up in Göttingen and picking up his first board in the late 80’s, traveling to California and getting flowed ATM Click boards and DC shoes for a bit, getting on Cliché and filming for their iconic second full length video “Bon Appétit” directed by Fred Mortagne, moving from DC to Globe and from Cliché to Jart within a few years, having a part in Pontus Alv’s cult classic film “The Strongest of the Strange”, unofficially joining Polar in...

Episode 57 with Bastien Regeste, skateboarder and filmmaker from Montpellier, France. 

Together we discussed him growing up in La Grande-Motte next to Montpellier in the South of France, picking up his first proper board in 2007, developing an interest for filming aside from skating, spending a year in San Francisco as a student, filming and editing videos for Jeremie Daclin’s brands Bonjour Urethane and Film Trucks, making three full length videos with his crew of friends under the name "B(ee)R” in the last few years, his obsession for Twin Peaks, his upcoming projects…  

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Episode 56 with Sander Hölsgens, skateboarder, filmmaker and academic based in Rotterdam, Holland. 

Together we discussed him growing up in Kerkrade and picking up his first board in the early 2000’s as a teenager, studying art and anthropology and labeling himself a skateboarding anthropologist, writing his PhD thesis on skateboarding in Seoul, South Korea, co-creating and organizing the Pushing Boarders conferences/events in 2018 and 2019 in London and Malmö, his current position at the University of Leiden, his thoughts on the climate crisis and why the skateboarding community is not addressing this issue more, his upcom...

Episode 55 with Farran Golding, skateboarder and journalist from Leeds, England.

Together we discussed him growing up in Wakefield, reading Chromeball and Jenkem and developing an interest for writing aside from skating, asking Ben Powell if he could contribute in any way to Sidewalk Magazine, studying journalism in Manchester for a few years, writing for Leeds-based skateshop Welcome’s blog and Slam City Skates, things really taking off after the first favorite spot series for Quartersnacks on Gilbert Crockett skating the Suntrust spot in Richmond VA, Jaime Owens taking him on board as contributing editor fo...

Episode 54 with Aaron Meza, skateboarder, filmer and producer from San Francisco, CA.

Together we discussed him growing up in South San Francisco and picking up his first board in the 80's, filming his friends skating at EMB and crossing paths with a young James Kelch who asked if he could film him, making the iconic videos "Finally" and "Penal Code 100A" for FTC, connecting with some of the World Industries and Plan B guys who eventually left to start Girl Skateboards in 1993, working on the first Girl and Chocolate videos with Spike Jonze, Tim...

Episode 53 with Masafumi Kajitani aka Ame-San, skateboarder, journalist, translator, co-founder and chief-editor of VHS Mag. 

Together we discussed him growing up in Japan, moving to Seattle, WA in the mid-80’s and picking up his first board over there, coming back to Osaka in 1990, watching the Japanese skate scene grow and evolve throughout the years, starting VHS Mag out of Tokyo in 2011, an online media to share what’s going on in the skateboarding world to Japanese skaters with no language barriers, and also get Japanese skaters out there to the world, the Tightbooth « Lenz 3...

Episode 52 with Dani Abulhawa, skateboarder, artist and academic from Rugby, England.  

Together we discussed her growing up in the Midlands and picking up her first board in 1998, feeling slightly out of place as a skateboarder for a long time, her journey with academia from completing her PhD to becoming a senior lecturer in performance at the University of Leeds, her involvement with NGO Skatepal which started in 2015, going to both editions of the Pushing Boarders events in 2018 and 2019, starting non-profit Skate Manchester with a few
friends, writing her book « Skateboarding and femininity: Gender, Sp...

Episode 51 with Joel Curtis, skateboarder, musician and podcast host from Sheffield, England. 

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up his first board in Sheffield in the mid-80’s, developing an interest for music at an early age, getting flowed Zero boards and Circa shoes for a bit, moving over to Landscape Skateboards when the brand was started, filming for the classic video « Portraits » by Chris Massey (RIP), retiring from pro skateboarding and settling down in Bath in 2009, transitioning into making music for various brands and projects, starting the Skate Creative Podcast in 2021 and i...

Episode 50 with Jaime Owens, skateboarder, journalist, photographer, founder of Closer Skateboarding Magazine.

Together we discussed him growing up skating in Florence, South Carolina, studying art and photography in college, moving to California in 1999, connecting with Aaron Meza and Mike Ballard at Skateboarder Magazine, filming for Jackass for a little bit, climbing up the ladder at Skateboarder until it closed down in 2013, moving over to Transworld to become the editor-in-chief, leaving in 2021 with no set plans, deciding to launch a new print skate mag in 2022 and calling it Closer, releasing issue number 4 in the Spring...

Episode 49 with Atita Verghese, skateboarder from Bangalore, India. 

Together we discussed her growing up in Bangalore, her mom being her first inspiration to become a strong independent woman and create her own lane, picking up a skateboard at 19 years old and skating with the Holystoked crew, meeting with the Make Life Skate Life crew and learning how to build skate spots, starting Girl Skate India in 2015, an organization which teaches girls how to skate, promotes gender equality and brings together skateboarders in India through workshops, going to Pushing Boarders Malmö in 2019, skating with Madars Ap...

Episode 48 with Johannes Schön and Florian "Burny" Hopfensperger, skateboarders from Germany, creators of Pocket Skatemag.

Together we discussed them growing up in different parts of Germany, meeting for the first time on a skate trip to Croatia back in 2010, working in the skateboarding industry, Johannes in marketing for German distributor Mosaic and Burny as a skate photographer for various publications, launching Pocket Skatemag in 2017, how they run this whole operation between the two of them along with all the other people involved (particularly young prodigy Bennet Rahm), their favorite « followed » pieces so far, the...

Episode 47 with Kuba Kaczmarczyk, skateboarder and videographer from Warsaw, Poland.

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a skateboard in Warsaw in the early 90’s, getting interested in filming and making skate videos with his friends, releasing his first full-length video « Grey Area » in 2012 with a crew of talented skaters from Eastern and Central Europe, a few years later using the name Grey Area for the crew, working a full-time job and having a family while filming and making many more videos throughout the years, his upcoming projects…  

Episode 46 with Ali Boulala, musican, model, former pro skater from Stockholm, Sweden.  

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up his first board in Stockholm, his obsessive nature since childhood, developing an interest for music thanks to Bastien Salabanzi back in the Flip days, his early sobriety days and having been sober for nearly 10 years, working with Max Eriksson on the documentary « the scars of Ali Boulala », joining the alternative rock band Ghost Boys, working on their first album, modeling for some of his friends’ brands such as CHPO or Human Recreational Services, worki...

Episode 45 with Kristin Ebeling, skateboarder, musician and social worker from Seattle, Washington (also known as Occupied Duwamish Territory).

Together we discussed her first encounter with a skateboard while she was living in Singapore as a young child, being bullied as a teenager and finding somewhat of a release through skateboarding, getting involved with Skate Like a Girl around that time and later becoming the executive director, throwing the wheels of fortune events for SLAG, turning pro recently for Meow Skateboards, playing bass in the punk band Punitive Damage, her upcoming exchange
trip to...

Episode 44 with Steffen Austerheim, skateboarder from Stavanger, Norway, former student turned skateboarding teacher at Bryggeriets Gymnasium in Malmö, Sweden.

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up his first skateboard in Stavanger, getting sponsored and doing competitions at a young age, finding out about Bryggeriets Gymnasium in Malmö and convincing his parents to send him over there, moving back to Stavanger after graduating to work and study for a few years, coming back to Bryggeriets in 2020 to work alongside his mentor John Dahlquist as a skateboarding teacher, the many challenges of teaching skateboarding, ov...

Episode 43 with Chris Lawton, skateboarder, co-founder of Skate Nottingham and Community Development Officer at Skateboard GB. 

Together we discussed him growing up in Boston, Lincolnshire, moving to Nottingham in 1996 to study history and connecting with the thriving local skate scene, working in academia at Nottingham Trent University for a few years, traveling to Malmö and Copenhagen with his skate friends and drawing much inspiration from there to launch Skate Nottingham, a non-profit which uses skateboarding as a tool to unlock learning and creativity, participating in a talk about « skate friendly cities » at Pushing Boarders 2018 in L...

Episode 42 with Eric Swisher aka Chops, skateboarder, copywriter, creator of the Chrome Ball Incident. 

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a skateboard in Ohio, starting a blog in 2008 to  share scans from old skateboarding magazines and naming it « the Chrome Ball Incident » (a reference to Neil Blender), starting to do interviews with pro skaters in 2010, keeping it going until today and interviewing some of the most iconic pro skaters, photographers, videographers, artists of the last 40 years and therefore slowly but surely building Chrome Ball into a staple in skateboarding culture, his whol...

Episode 41 with Michael Burnett, skateboarder, photographer, journalist, editor-in-chief of Thrasher Magazine. 

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a skateboard in Texas, going to college in Boulder, Colorado to study journalism, making zines with his friends, getting his foot in the door at Thrasher in 1994, then becoming the editor-at-large and eventually the editor-in-chief, starting King of the Road in 2003, the process of choosing SOTY, the relative mainstreamization of the brand Thrasher, the future of the mag (both print and digital), mental health and life balance...  

Episode 40 with Gordon Eckler, skateboarder and co-founder of the "Skate Trivia" games. 

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a board between the island of Guam and Maryland, getting sponsored and moving to California as a young adult, transitioning into graphic design and marketing, coming up with an idea for a « Skate Trivia » game born out of a game played between skaters during road trips while driving to skate spots, making it first as a card game, along with his friend and business partner Jack Spanbauer evolving it into two browser-based games whi...

Episode 39 with Imke Leerink, skateboarder, social media and marketing manager from The Hague, Holland, founder of Girls Shred. 

Together we discussed her growing up and picking up a board in Utrecht, starting a myspace account called « Girls Shred » back in 2007 to connect with girl skaters near her, moving over to Facebook and Instagram to keep developing the community worldwide, doing events, meet-ups and workshops, the gnarly knee injuries she went through and is still struggling with to a certain extent, running the Instagram account daily, going to the 2019 edition of Pushing Boarders at Bryggeriets Gym...

Episode 38 with Charlie Davis, skateboarder and musician from Edinburgh, Scotland, founder of NGO Skatepal.

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a skateboard in Edinburgh, traveling to Palestine for the first time in 2006, drawing inspiration from Skateistan’s work with youth in Afghanistan to launch a similar program by the name of Skatepal in 2013, crossing paths that same summer in Ramallah with Aram Sabbah and Adham Tamimi, some of the very first skaters in Palestine, developing the NGO in the following years and helping grow the Palestinian skate scene, co-launching Pushing Boarders wi...

Episode 37 with Ben McQueen, skateboarder and tattoo artist from San Francisco, California.

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a skateboard in Indianapolis, getting into tattoos, moving to San Francisco, the process of tattooing and the many links that can be found with skateboarding, starting his book project "Let it kill you" dedicated to that very subject, meeting with and interviewing iconic people from both worlds such as Jamie Thomas, Eric Dressen, Tyler Bledsoe, Cheyenne Sawyer or Andrew Allen to name a few, working on a second volume... 

Episode 36 with Yurii Korotun, skateboarder, producer, skate teacher and mentor from Ukraine. 

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a board in Klavdievo near Kyiv, working in film production for a few years aside from his skating career, moving with his family to Hanover, Germany right before the war started in Ukraine in February 2022, giving skate lessons to young kids (among whom are Ukrainian refugees) at the Gleis D Skatehalle, filming for « Pushing Saves », a short documentary about his work by Torsten Frank for Adidas, his next projects… 

Episode 35 with Aram Sabbah, skateboarder from Ramallah, Palestine. 

Together we discussed him growing up skating in Ramallah, meeting with Charlie Davis in the summer of 2013 and getting involved with his NGO Skatepal which was just getting started (aiming to support young people in Palestine through skateboarding), studying cinema in Tunis for a few years, coming back to Palestine after completing his studies and becoming the local manager for Skatepal, overseeing all on-the-ground operations, going to the second edition of Pushing Boarders in Malmö in 2019, turning pro for CHPO brand... 

Episode 34 with Raphaël Zarka, skateboarder, writer, sculptor and all-around visual artist from France. 

Together we discussed him discovering skateboarding in the South of France where he grew up, studying art in Winchester and Paris and becoming a visual artist, his various books focused on skateboarding from historical, archaeological, physics and artistic points of view to name a few (all available at Editions B42), the collaboration process between an artist and a gallery and him recently joining Galerie Mitterrand in Paris, creating skateable sculptures for a project called « Paving Space » in collaboration with Isle and...

Episode 33 with Kirill Korobkov, skateboarder, team and brand manager and all-around fixer from Moscow, Russia. 

Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a skateboard in Cheboksary, the development of the Russian skate scene in the 90’s, his first gigs in the skateboarding industry as a writer, meeting and traveling with Patrik Wallner and the Visual Traveling crew and becoming their main fixer particularly in Russia and its surrounding countries, becoming the Vans team manager for Russia as well as the team and brand manager of Russian board brand Absurd Skateboards, the 2021 Grand Ska...

Episode 32 with Léo Valls, pro skater from Bordeaux, France. 

Together we discussed him growing up skating in Bordeaux, his first sponsors, traveling to and living in Japan and California for a few years, getting on Magenta when the brand was launched, skating for DC shoes, developing skate urbanism initiatives in the city of Bordeaux, teaming up with his wife Lauren to create a skateboarding related yoga program called Namaskate, his upcoming projects…  

Episode 31 with Walker Ryan, professional skateboarder, writer, podcast host and founder of Old Friends. 

Together we discussed him starting to skate between California and ex-Soviet Georgia as a child, going to college and turning pro for Organika, traveling around the world with Patrik Wallner’s Visual Traveling crew, starting Old Friends as a hat and clothing brand, evolving it towards fitness and physical therapy with the help of his good friend Dr. Kyle Brown with whom he hosts the Old Friends catch up podcast, writing his first novel “Top of Mason” and finishing his second...

Episode 30 with Sourya "Soy" Panday, French-Indian skateboarder, artist, co-founder and artistic director of Bordeaux-based board brand Magenta Skateboards. 

Together we discussed him growing up between Orléans, Belfort and Grenoble, getting shoes from Osiris and I-Path back in the day, traveling around the world with Kenny Reed and trying to figure out his own path in the skateboarding industry, filming a part with Josh Stewart for Static III, his apartment on boulevard Magenta in Paris becoming one of the main skate-hubs for skaters from all over the world, starting Magenta Skateboards with Vivien & Jean Fe...

Episode 29 with Ruby Mateja, skateboarder, co-founder of Free Movement Skateboarding and Goodpush Officer at Skateistan. 

Together we discussed her growing up in England, finding skateboarding as a young adult, her first experiences in various non-profits and charities such as Palestine-based organization Skatepal where she volunteered for a few months as a skate coach and met Will Ascott, with whom she founded Free Movement Skateboarding, a non-profit organization based in Athens, Greece which aims to build community on and off the board, working for the Good Push Alliance, an initiative by Skateistan to support and share kno...

Episode 28 with Dutch/Algerian Barcelona resident skateboarder, photographer, musician and all around artist Louisa Menke. 

Together we talked about her growing up skating in the Netherlands, becoming the first European woman ever to turn pro back in 2003, developing her interest for art and photography aside from skating, traveling to Afghanistan, India, South Africa or Palestine to name a few and documenting these experiences abroad through zines and books, going to the first edition of Pushing Boarders in London in 2018, her ongoing projects... 

Episode 27 with Viktor Telégin, skateboarder, co-founder and CEO of Stockholm-based watch and eyewear brand CHPO. 

Together we discussed him growing up in Stockholm, his love for skateboarding, football/soccer and snowboarding, working at WeSC and Quiksilver/Roxy for a few years, starting CHPO with his partner Johan Graffner in 2013, the brand's values focused on inclusivity and sustainability among other things, the many collaborations with charities, non-profits and brands they do every year, starting Skate Nation, a program dedicated to helping young refugees integrate Swedish society through skateboarding, going to Palestine for a month in...

Episode 26 with French skater, artist and entrepreneur Lucas Beaufort.

Together we discussed him growing up skating in the South of France, his first job as advertising manager for French surf & skate magazine Desillusion, transitioning into freelance illustration, partnering up with other artists for the LB project, making the documentary « Devoted » dedicated to skateboarding media, his most recent endeavor « Heart », a book dedicated to some of the most iconic skate shops of the last 40 years, his upcoming projects…   

Episode 25 with Jonathan Lomar, skateboarder, filmer and documentary filmmaker.

Together we discussed him growing up skating in Sweden, picking up a camera and filming his friends, getting involved with Sweet Skateboards (ancestor of Sour Skateboards) and moving to Barcelona, filming the first Sour Solution video, studying documentary filmmaking and making his first project "Made in Skene", his latest work "the Oski documentary" about Swedish pro skater Oskar Rozenberg's journey to the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, his upcoming projects... 

Episode 24 with Cephas Benson aka the Ghost and Donovan Jones aka D-Jones, creators and hosts of the famous Toronto-based skateboarding and sports podcast The Bunt Live. 

Together we talked about them growing up skating in Toronto, starting The Bunt in 2016, their influences, how they operate together, how they manage to do the podcast while having a regular full-time job and all around busy lives , the support from brands such as Vans throughout the years, their favorite episodes so far, dream guests for the future... 

Episode 23 with Tom Botwid, skateboarder, artist, founder and owner of Poetic Collective (and also Vans TM for Scandinavia). Together we discussed him growing up skating around Malmö, Sweden, studying art between Stockholm and Berlin, starting Poetic Collective as a fun project with a few friends and slowly developing it into a legit international board and clothing brand, developing his unique style of skating, pushing for more inclusivity in skateboarding, getting a pro truck from Jérémie Daclin's company Film Trucks... 

Episode 22 with one of South Africa's finest skateboarders, Yann-Xavier Horowitz. 

Together we discussed his European roots, growing up in South Africa, getting scared out of rollerblading as a kid and picking up a skateboard instead, living in Europe for a little bit, coming out at 21 years old to his family, friends and the South African skate scene, Jim Thiebaud hooking him up with Antihero boards, the "Pride" video project in collaboration with Vans and Skateism from 2020, starting « A simple path », his own TV show focused on skateboarding, creativity and traveling… 

Episode 21 with Sarah Meurle, pro skater and photographer from Malmö, Sweden. 

Together we discussed her growing up in Blentarp close to Malmö, picking up a skateboard at a young age, getting into Bryggeriets Gymnasium as one of the very first students to enter the program, developing her interest for photography aside from skating, turning pro and getting hooked up by Nike SB, her recent move to WKND Skateboards, traveling all over the world for her skating and photography, her recent trip to Barcelona to skate and shoot with Brian Anderson for a Nike SB x P...

Episode 20 with Jérémie Daclin, legendary pro skater and business owner from Lyon, France. 

Together we discussed him growing up skating in Lyon, starting his career with the support of US brands, which inspired him to launch his own board brand Cliché skateboards in 1997 to help build the booming European skate scene, running this iconic and successful brand for two decades, showcasing some of the best skaters from Europe and all around the world, closing it down in 2016 and moving right into a new project: Film Trucks, adapting his skating to keep it more fun and crea...

Episode 19 with Oisín Tammas, skateboarder, writer and storyteller from England. Together we talked about him growing up skating around London and its suburbs, developing a strong interest for literature and storytelling from a young age, moving to Athens in 2014 and getting involved with Moch Simos at diversity skateboarding magazine Skateism, helping out his friends Will Ascott and Ruby Mateja launch their skate charity Free Movement Skateboarding, working on the logistics of the second edition of Pushing Boarders in Malmö, Sweden, becoming chief writer and communications manager of the Skateroom, a Brussels based organization which works with artists to fu...

Episode 18 with Fred Mortagne aka French Fred, skateboarder, photographer & videographer from Lyon, France. 

Together we talked about him growing up skating in Lyon, picking up a camera to film his friends, making his first local scene videos, sending footage to 411vm, meeting with Pierre-André Senizergues (founder of Sole Technologies) and getting offered to film the éS footwear video project which became Menikmati, going straight into the Flip "Sorry" video, coming back to Lyon in the early 2000's and accepting Jérémie Daclin's offer to become the Cliché Skateboards filmer, getting into photography and developing his own style...

Episode 17 with Julian Dykmans, man of many talents. 

Julian grew up in Belgium where he started skating, but has spent most of his adult life traveling around the world, first as a singer for the punk-rock ska band "Looking Up", then as a pro skater for iconic brands such as Consolidated or Antiz Skateboards, which he co-created in 2002, while also working as a team and marketing manager for various brands in the skateboarding industry such as Carharrt or RVCA to name a few, and also acting in short films, commercials and plays. 

Eventually he settled do...

Episode 16 with Oliver Percovich, skateboarder and founder of NGO Skateistan. Together we talked about him growing up skating in Australia and Papua New Guinea, moving to Afghanistan in 2007 and introducing skateboarding to local kids, how he developed that idea into the successful and highly acclaimed global skateboarding, education, girls empowerment program that is Skateistan, their expansion strategy for 2022, the "Learning how to skateboard in a warzone (if you're a girl)" documentary...  

Thanks for the nice chat Oliver!

Thank you Julian Dykmans and Louisa Menke for sharing surprise questions for O...

Episode 15 with Jonathan Mehring, photographer & film director from Richmond, Virginia. Together we talked about him growing up skating in Virginia, picking up a camera and shooting his friends skating, studying photography in college, his first photography gigs for Slap and Skateboarder Magazine, traveling around the world shooting photos with some of the best skaters of the last two decades, publishing "Skate the world" with National Geographic, getting into more commercial work for brands like Vans, Nike or Converse to name a few, his latest documentary "Walls cannot keep us from flying" about skateboarding at youth empowerment program SkateQilya in...

Episode 14 with Danijel Stankovic a.k.a. Jugga, pro skater, entrepreneur, marketing specialist and Malmö legend. Together we talked about him growing up skating around Malmö, his early influences, skating for and working at Nike SB for many years, filming parts for iconic videos such as "In search of the miraculous" (by Pontus Alv) and the Grey Area videos (by  Kuba Kaczmarczyk), his passion for Korv (Swedish sausage), launching and running his headwear & clothing brand Post Details (with associate Martin Ottosson), the Malmö video he recently made with his good friends about the local skate scene, joining associate Jonas Dale...

Episode 13 with Ben Derenne, former skateboarding filmer, videographer and team manager. Together we discussed him growing up in the Paris suburbs in the 80's, skating and snowboarding as a teenager, becoming a filmer for Puzzle (the European equivalent to 411 video magazine), joining forces with Jérémie Daclin (founder & owner of Cliché skateboards) and making their first full length-video Europa as well as a tour video in Spain for 411 which helped put the brand on the map, going over to Globe shoes to become their European team manager, leaving the skateboarding industry in 2008 and transitioning into digital marketing, communications and...

Episode 12 with John Dahlquist, skateboarding teacher and Vice Principal of Bryggeriets Gymnasium (high-school) in Malmö, Sweden. Together we talked about him growing up in Malmö, skating and filming with Pontus Alv back in the day, launching Bryggeriets Gymnasium as the first ever "skateboarding high-school" in 2006, the challenges of teaching skateboarding to teenagers, the concept of classroom, the incredible talent that has been coming out of the program and why skateboarding is a powerful educational tool. 

Episode 12 with Robert Brink, writer, marketing & PR specialist and overall storyteller
who has been working in the skateboarding industry for nearly two decades. Together we discussed him growing up in New Jersey, moving to California to pursue a career as a writer in skateboarding, collaborating with many brands and publications throughout the years, co-hosting Weekend Buzz on the Ride Channel for 5 years, launching and eventually selling his candle brand the Hundredth Acre, his recent work with USA Skateboarding as their marketing director, the new show he's about to launch with them...

Special edition today, a quick chat with Lucy Raemers, sister of late British pro skater Ben Raemers, co-founder of the Ben Raemers foundation. November 4th is Ben's birthday, and to mark the occasion Vice is releasing their new documentary "Skating and talking" about Ben's life. 

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Episode 10 with Scott Bourne, former pro skateboarder turned writer and poet. Together we talked his upbringing in North Carolina, his pro skater years in San Francisco in the 90's, his part in Pontus Alv's first film "the strongest of the strange", traveling around the world and eventually moving to France to write his first novel, how in recent years he's been sharing his time between writing, modeling, working with his wife in her parisian general store "Landline" and raising two kids together, his latest book "An act of imagination" illustrated by his friend Todd Bratrud, his relationship with modern...

Episode 9 avec Arnaud Dedieu, skater et spécialiste du marketing et de la communication qui oeuvre dans les coulisses du skateboard français depuis plus de deux décennies. Nous revenons ensemble sur les trois activités qui mobilisent l'essentiel de son temps et de son énergie en ce moment. D'abord Dedication, structure de skate urbanisme dont l'objectif est de développer l'aménagement d'espaces propices à la pratique du skate dans la ville de Bordeaux notamment. Ensuite Big Spin, incontournable podcast dédié à la culture skate française qu'il anime en partenariat avec Sébastien Charlot. Enfin Shifty, première formation s...

Episode 8 with Patrick O'Dell, skater, photographer, filmmaker and one of skateboarding’s very best storytellers. Together we talked about him picking up a camera and a skateboard in his teenage years, working for Thrasher as their photo editor, starting Epicly Later'd as a blog and turning it into a TV show with Vice, making the "Dumb" documentary about Big Brother Magazine, what he's up to today working with Vans and raising his 1 year old son... 

Episode 7 avec Jérémie Grynblat, fondateur de l'agence BLCK LIST à travers laquelle il accompagne les carrières de certains des meilleurs skaters français actuels, tels qu'Aurélien Giraud, Vincent Milou ou Vincent Matheron. Nous revenons ensemble sur son parcours, depuis les premiers bowl riders de Marseille jusqu'aux jeux olympiques de Tokyo en juillet 2021. 

Episode 6 with Rob Mathieson, skater and illustrator based in London, England. Together we talked about him growing up skating in London, studying animation and eventually becoming an illustrator, working with different brands in the skateboarding industry such as Enjoi or Girl/Chocolate, filming with his dog Fatman, being a close friend of Ben Ramers and co-creating the Ben Raemers Foundation after Ben's tragic death in 2019, how he's holding up in covid times... 

Episode 5 with Patrik Wallner, tireless and enthusiastic globe-trotter, filmmaker and photographer based in Hong-Kong. Together we talked about him growing up between Germany and the US, skating and filming with Billy Rohan in NYC back in the day, traveling across all of Europe and Asia with the Visual Traveling crew for the last 15 years, skating in North Korea with Kenny Reed, living in HK in turbulent covid times, his current and future endeavors with his company Postcard, his love for trees, trains and Georgian gastronomy... 

Episode 4 avec Greg Poissonnier, skater/snowboarder/surfer/chef d'entreprise et bien d'autres choses encore ! Nous revenons ensemble sur son parcours dans l'industrie du skate et de la glisse en général, ses années de pro snowboarder, ses expériences dans les services marketing de marques emblématiques comme Globe ou Gravis/Analog, le lancement de son agence marketing Slappy Agency et de sa marque de boards cOLLAPSe, son rôle de responsable communication au sein de la commission nationale skateboard France, les jeux olympiques qui approchent... 

Episode 3 with Chris Pfanner, pro skater and Vans Europe Team Manager. We talked about him growing up between Nigeria and Austria, learning how to ollie in 24 hours to win a bet, turning pro for Yama Skateboards and eventually getting on Antihero, living in Barcelona and now Germany, doing late-shove-its, working on Tom's tales and Quantinium, what his job as Vans Europe TM entails, how he deals with covid, his plans in the near future... 

Episode 2 avec Romy Bertrand, consultante et accompagnatrice de marques et de skaters/skateuses de talent. Nous revenons ensemble sur sa carrière dans l'industrie du skate sur plus d'une vingtaine d'années, avec des expériences au sein de marques et de groupes emblématiques tels que Dwindle, Dogtown, Girl/Crailtap, le Berrics, Element... jusqu'à la création récente de son entreprise The Good Agencie.

Episode 1 with Nestor Judkins, an American pro skater based in L.A., originally from San Jose, California. Together we talked about his skate career, going from Santa Cruz to Enjoi, traveling and skating with Patrik Wallner and the Visual Traveling crew, how it all led to launching his non profit organization Salad Days of Skateboarding, traveling with Ben Raemers and helping out the Ben Raemers foundation, how social media and covid changed the landscape of skateboarding, the progression of skateboarding in recent years...