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GOLD, GOLD & GOLD!
Sixteen year old, Jai Taylor, hits the lounge to discuss his most recent international comp success with a first place finish in the Juniors division of the IBC Maldives Pro.
The conversation details the living conditions over in the comp site, the pressure surrounding the event, the feeling of taking the win, what the costs of the journey were, how the comp preparation occurred and what the future holds the budding Sunny Coast comp machine moving forward.
With a bright future beckoning in the sport, this conversation was filled with insights from a young pair of eyes looking over a sport he sees a positive pathway attached to it. A very refreshing outlook that needs to be heard all who follow the sport.
Enjoy 👌
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Episode 85 of the lounge holds one of the most transformative bodyboarding stories the industry has ever witnessed.
Ryan Rinnga McKinnon, Cronulla and Shark Islands heavy hitting local, spills the beans on his career as a professional free surfing bodyboarder and the events surrounding his slab hunting adventures.
From crippling career ending concussions, to Tension bodyboarding fame, through to dealing with the Bra Boys in their prime and holding down the lineup at one of the worlds most notorious slabs, a reformed Buddhist practicing Ringa tells all in this weeks episode.
This episode sheds personal insight on one of Australia’s leading big wave bodyboarders of his era, and it’s not one to be missed.
Enjoy 👌
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In this Comp Talk episode Coops n Luke review a rather large month in competitive booging from all the four corners of the globe.
With Aussie triumph in the form of Jai Taylor taking out the Juniors division in the Maldives Pro, from local East Coast grass roots success with the inaugural Headlands pro being run and won in some pulsing conditions and a recap of Coops recent boog trip to Mexico, this episode is as jam packed as the Olympic village during the men’s 100m final after party.
Get around it Boog Disciples, let the sports force live strong in you 🤙
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The Portuguese Prince, Steph Kokorelis, pays a visit to Luke’s Lounge to chat about his recent 18 month long stint in Aus and all the wildly enjoyable experiences that came with it.
Touching on random police car searches in WA, to all day Aussie Pipe sessions on the East Coast to driving through random raging fires in South Australian outback, Steph’s time here in Oz has been fascinating to say the least.
With a silky style and good looks to match, we are sure you will be seeing a lot more of this multifaceted European bodyboarder well into the future at the top tier of world bodyboarding.
Enjoy the episode ☮️
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After much anticipation and a lot of behind the scenes organisation, Chris James lends Luke a few hours of his “Big Fish” energy to discuss his illustrious career on the Trad Boog.
From humble beginnings growing up just outside the working class Steel City of Newcastle on the East Coast of Oz, to being sponsored by BSC in his early 20’s to then going onto starring in iconic films such as Video, Dennis and the Roam to discovering and booging some of Australia’s most remote and heavy slabs, Grizzla has accomplished a lot through out his time on this earth.
Touching on the state of the booging industry, how the sport owes you nothing and what it was like living and breathing a past time that had barely any financial support involved with it, Grizzla and Luke chew the fat for over two hours grinding these topics down in palatable podcast paste.
Enjoy the boog breakdown from one of the sports greatest big wave pioneers, peace ya’ll. ☮️
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Episode 81 on the lounge welcomes one of Tasmania’s most talented exports, Hobart’s local male model and all round good cunt, Cohen Thomas to the air waves.
Cohens recent feats in waves of pure consequence have been internationally recognised over the last few years, and it was about goddam time the boog community got to hear what makes the man tick.
In this conversation Cocco and Luke touch on eventful moments in the SA desert, his recent trip to the east coast of Oz, how it was competing in the Shark Island Challenge and what his best and worst experiences have been out his local slab, Shipsterns Bluff.
Enjoy ya bunch of legends ☮️
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Episode 79 of Luke’s verbal journaling features good friend and master digital creator, Steve “Big George” Wall.
Sifting through each others shared past experiences, Steve and Luke talk in length about pilgrimages to the Australian Desert, how it’s been for Steve relocating himself to Iceland and what it was like becoming the industry’s top photographer as the boog world started to go into decline.
Steve is also currently in a fight to save a local Icelandic wave from greedy capitalistic over development and he goes into length in the last 20 minutes of this poddy describing how that is trending.
One for the ages this conversation, hope you enjoy 🙏
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In this edition of comp talk Coops n Luke slice n dice through every last molecule of the 2024 Bodyboard King Shark Island Challenge.
From the highs, lows, needed improvements and celebrated positive outcomes from one of the worlds greatest bodyboarding comps, this one is not to be missed.
Enjoy crew ✌️
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With the South American leg of the IBC world tour coming to a close, Coops n Luke look over all the highlights that comprised of both Antofagasta and Itacoatiara respectively.
Plenty to digest from junior world champions making a lunge for the men’s world championship, to the Brazilian storm firing up on the women’s side to DK world titles being decided in a best of three final shoot out.
Need to catch up on everything world tour related? Coops n Luke have got you covered.
Peace
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Episode 77 on the lounge brings a creative to the for, who for some, seems to come from pure obscurity, yet he has worked and created with some of the best in the industry throughout his short yet illustrious career to date.
Brad Schmidt’s not yet a household name, but by recently enjoying some of his most recent edits, I’m sure the Wollongong based Filmer/Director isn’t too far off it.
With the “Moosementary” making an undeniable impression on the boog world, and with a kickstarter project called “Fragor”, starring Nick Ormerod and his crippling journey through a boog related injury, in the works, Brad’s keen eye for cinematography can not be understated.
Our chat covers his nomadic childhood, his passion for booging with mates, film school, landscaping and how hard it is to shoot weddings on a consistent basis just to mention a few talking points.
Really enjoyed this one crew, hope you do to ✌️.
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Riptides very own writer, and one of Port Mac’s golden child’s, Dougy Smith parks his corpse up on the lounge to discuss the happenings and goings of life as a fully fledged boog tragic.
With memories of Tahitian freight trains being wrangled, navigating Port Mac’s boog politics and raising kids with minimal screen time, my conversation with Doug was broad and enthralling as I discovered what really makes this man tick.
If you haven’t checked out his recent articles on the Riptide website then you best be putting that on the weeks to do list. The man is a fantastically well read and written published author who lays down serious heat when he picks up the quill. 🪶
Enjoy core queens and lords. 🙏
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Luke n Coops sink their teeth into bodyboarding competition on a whole as they pass down their opinions on how the local, national and international competition scene has been trending of late.
From the IBC tour kicking off their South American Leg in Iquique, to the myriad of local comps here in Australia, plus the up and coming waiting period for the time honoured S.I.C, the fellas cover a wide range of competitive bodyboarding.
Enjoy the the update 👌
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Coal Coast core lord and self professed boog tragic, Jack Dobinson, jumps back on the lounge to chat about his up and coming new feature film - True Boog.
Like a candle burning bright through that bleak November rain, Dobbo has continuously shown unbridled enthusiasm towards bodyboarding and the chase for new and undisclosed waves all up and down the east coast.
His new film, True Boog, will be premiering at Port Kembla Servo on Friday the 31st of May, 2024. Go to his insta handle to purchase tickets and let’s rip the top off a few coldies in celebration towards another visual masterpiece.
The man can’t be stopped, hope you enjoy our chat 🥩
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French born World Champion, and Canary Islands resident, Amaury Lavernhe sits down on the Riptide lounge and spills the beans on what has kept him at the top of the world rankings well into his forties.
With a locally sourced diet that would satisfy the most strict dietician, whilst regularly engaging in daily stretching routines that even has the great Lewy Finnegan raising eyebrows, it’s no wonder Amaury is still hitting 10ft Fronton ramps and collating online social media content that has the entire boog world screaming for more.
Touching on world tour schedules, judging criteria’s, coaching clinics and alternative medicine products, this podcast reflects on much of Amaury’s current life history and opinions moving into the competitive year ahead.
Hope you enjoy it 🤞
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Cronulla’s favourite son, Benny Sawyer, sits down on the lounge with Luke for a classic Sutherland Shire inspired yarn that will have you walking away with a few more insights into the culture of their shared hometown environment.
Revisiting Ben’s childhood in the shire, what it’s been like to chase slab after slab around the globe and what it’s means for him to be invited into this years SIC is all covered off in this laid back yarn.
This one was a well overdue chat and was conducted in Benny’s red brick apartment just a few streets back off Cronulla beach, the environment for the tone of this conversation couldn’t have been more fitting.
Enjoy
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Episode 71 features a man who needs no introduction, the Portuguese Prince himself, the smoothest of waterman to lay rail in the Atlantic, the one and only Antonio Saraiva.
We chat about style in the European boog ranks, what it’s been like to film for the up and coming Common Thread film and how many classes of scotch Antonio is going to down on his impending trip to chilly Scotland.
T’was great catching up with an old friend and chewing the fat surrounding the European boog scene. Hope you all enjoy, peace
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Wave pool technology is sweeping the booging world in an impactful way, bringing different demographics into our beloved core discipline like moths to a flame.
To celebrate this “Wave Garden” technology being brought to the city of Sydney, Luke was allowed special access into the new URBN Surf wave pool as it was still undergoing its final pieces of construction.
Sitting down with Shaun Hutchinson, the General Manager of Operations, the two covered a wide variety of topics surrounding the new build and technology that is to be expected at this state of the art facility.
Hope you enjoy the insights into the future of urban city wave riding
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Description: With the competitive side of booging in full swing for 2024, Shaun Cooper and Luke O’Connor dissect all the happenings in a regional, national, and international sense, to see where the competitive heat is at.
Touching on new East coasts boog clubs being born, to the national comp scene in Australia, the Shark Island Challenge, and the wrap up of the IBC Morocco Tahgazout Pro, the fellas go deep with analysis, predictions, and personal opinions.
Enjoy
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Episode 68 welcome’s Brad Stone to the lounge and after recent events further chiropractic pillows and cushions were supplied for the Sunny Coaster to tell all surrounding his recent bone breaking wipeout at a South Coast slab just only a few weeks prior.
With little Stone being on a serious wave hunt over the past 5 years it was about time he told all, leaving no stone unturned surrounding his entire Boog journey.
From relocating to the SC over the past few years, to sending it down in large Victorian pits to reveling in Samoan sunshine on a wave ascent pacific journey, Brad really has experienced a roller coaster of moments in the ocean of late.
Luke and Brad get deep into the crevasse of the Riptide Media Lounge and dam it sound better than day old cold sofa pizza.
Enjoy Lords and Queens of the Boog, it’s a gravy train this convo with a side of backbone 👌
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Underground and over achieving, Adam Kesbah is the Boog you may not know currently but certainly will soon enough.
From 10ft Victorian pits to crashing cars into picketed Sydney fences, he’s already lived a colourful life at the young age of 26 and there is so much left in the locker room for this curly haired cat to exude in his own future endeavours.
Sitting down for episode 67, Luke and Adam go deep on a range of topics, covering the pursuit of booging whilst on a shoe string budget, taping up blown out knee’s on cone honing missions on the bottom of Australia and how it was making his pilgrimage from West to East as an inspiring grommet via public transport.
All in all a wild chat that was a real journey with a real life journeymen.
Peace n love ☮️
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