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t’s not always the faces you see representing the sport who are the most influential behind the scenes. With Armen, this notion rings louder than an approaching autumn Nazare season with a WNW swell brewing on the charts.
Starting off in the professional ranks of the BMX world, to joining territorial boog gangs in NYC, all the way to photographing some of the worlds most famous musicians and artists in Paris, this well accomplished cat has lived nine lives, plus some!
This conversation traverses a detailed list of bodyboarding, and non bodyboarding topics, as Armen and Luke try to assess all the different facets and moving parts that make up the beloved sport of booging!
Enjoy the yarn!
Peace ☮️
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With the IBC World Tour coming to a close in Gran Canaria for 2024, Luke and the crew thought it would be only fair to sit down and speak with the Fronton Pro winner, 2 x world champion and absolute launch freak, Tristan Roberts.
Discussing all manner of things surrounding the comp, the world title race, that backflip in the final and what Fronton is like as a wave to bodyboard, this poddy is not to be missed.
Enjoy the yarn!
Peace ☮️
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As an enthralling year of IBC World Tour comes to a crescendo’ing close, Coops n Luke breakdown the 2024 Fronton King Pro in their usually fair, yet critical analysis of the worlds best bodyboarders at arguably the worlds best bodyboarding location.
From crowning world champions, to local hot pots almost going the whole way to the top of competition to previous world champions showing their competing prowess once more, this years Fronton Pro was one for the ages!
That’s all from the international competitive bodyboarding scene in 2024, but stay tuned for more updates on a local, state and national level here in Aus for the remainder of the year.
Peace ☮️
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With the turbulent state of the bodyboarding industry and the unknown direction it seems to be hurdling in, Adrian Emerton, cinematographer and director of the yet to be released documentary, Common Thread, takes a seat on the lounge with Luke to talk about his up and coming boog flick, and how it tries to decipher the state of affairs that represents world bodyboarding on a whole currently.
Touching on financial restraints within the industry, the top down management approach from the heavy hitters in the game and how this yet to be released docco illuminates many individuals and their own journey within the sport that make up the scrambled puzzle that currently reflects the sport of bodyboarding.
Adrian Emerton has also made produced a film called “The Chase” and is a major contributor to the Shark Island Challenge media team, with his efforts surrounding the sport being received as positive and undeniably needed as a portrayer of truth and fact surrounding the issues that bodyboarding face today.
Enjoy the yarn!
Peace ☮️
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Episode 90 features the soulful enigma from the West, Josh Garner, and his life long obsession with the beloved boog.
With big wave Riptide covers that left him bleeding from the ears, to tackling Hawaii seasons with grown men whilst in his teens to making art and music whilst on his own individual booging journey, safe to say Josh has experienced a lot during his time on this earth.
At the time of recirding Josh was riding for Hubb Boards at the time, but has since moved on to Hexa Boards. The segment on board technology is based on Hubb Boards to be clear.
Peace ☮️
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Tyson Ryan, a raw, honest and enigmatic individual, takes a seat on the lounge to chat shop about his life in Jack Stance, and all the moments that have spawned from pursuing this scarce discipline.
From the shark infested water of the most recent DK sessions, to being state locked in W.A during the dreaded covid lock downs to diabolical reverse rocker on almost every board he has ever owned, this poddy has substance.
Words and thoughts from a powerful man, with powerful knees and a powerful addiction to the pokies, be sure not to miss this conversation with this outlandish Queenslander.
Peace ☮️
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Another Comp Talk episode drops with Coops and Luke gas bagging their way through the recent IBC Sintra Pro, held at Praia Grande in Portugal, Europe.
From Pierre’s late season world title charge, to argy bargy in the females world title tilt, what it means to by Uri Valado in his home country of Brazil and how to get more females involved in the sport of booging, the fellas cover it all over a few late night beers.
If you like shit talking, you will be sure to enjoy this dribble.
Peace ☮️
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Episode 87 welcomes Luna Hardman to Luke’s Lounge to dissect her skyrocketing success to the top of international female bodyboarding.
With 2 x Junior Female World Titles already fastened to her competitive belt, and some quality results in this years IBC Pro Female division it’s only natural to assume that Luna’s presence in a competitive setting is going to be felt for years to come.
Touching on her humble beginnings in Brazil, to not being over shadowed by her mum’s decorated professional career to booging fronton for the first time, Luna and Luke really hit it off and go deep into the mind frame of a female bodyboarder on the world stage.
Enjoy 👌
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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 👌
- Se mer
