From a skiing accident that resulted in an ACL injury at 16 and experiencing rehab, Randall Cooper became a global expert in ACL injury management. He was a member of the medical team at the 2006 Winter Olympics and all of his stories come back to his love of skiing.

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We flip the script with this episode and interview the regular host of the podcast Tim Gale. Guest host Jarryd Williams gets us the insight into Tim's almost 20 year career in winter sport. Tim share's stories from learning to ski in Switzerland to opening a ski shop, coaching Winter Olympians and many other adventures throughout his career.

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Starting with ski school through to Europa Cup ski cross, before turning his hand to strength and conditioning of winter sports athletes, Rhys has had an amazing journey in the snow industry. He shares his expertise in working with skiers and snowboarders of all levels and ages, from 8 to 80 and social snow enthusiasts to Olympians.

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From chasing her brother in the park and halfpipe at Perisher to the top step of the podium on the Freeride World Tour, Michaela has taken a wild ride on the career path of being a professional snowboarder and has plenty of stories to tell.

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From a trip in Italy to cutting his snowboard in half to create his first split-board. Adam West takes us through how to safely take your first steps in the backcountry to his adventures in the Himalayan mountains of India. 

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Travel journalism and a ski trip lead to Rachael catching the snow bug that has lead to amazing adventures all over the world. She has traveled all over the world to tell the stories from spectacular locations. She now runs a leading snow travel site and news site snowsbest.com Rachael can definitely spin a yarn and our chat only scratched the surface.

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Starting as a competitive mogul skier, Zoe has been a pioneer in womens free skiing with her involvement in the womens only ski and snowboard program Chix with Stix. She also share her amazing journey becoming Australia's top freestyle skiing judge and the pressure of judging at an Olympic Games.

If you are interested in becoming a ski or snowboard judge contact Snow Australia - https://www.snow.org.au/contact/

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Silver Medalist from the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, 3x Winter Olympian, World Championship medalist. Dave shares his story from starting the Aerial skiing, the struggles to make the team, to representing Australia at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, all in four short years. He talks about the of relief winning his Olympic Silver Medal and the judging controversy that saw his Olympic career end, missing the finals at the 2018 Winter Olympics. We also chat about his transition from athlete to coach and his plans for the future.

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2x Winter Olympian in Ski Cross. Sami shares her amazing story of grit and determination to overcome a stroke just 9 months out from 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, as well her vision for the future and beyond her sporting career.

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Australia's top female snowboarder cross athlete,  2x Winter Olympian and World Cup winner chats about where it all started right through to her battle to overcome 2 back to back knee injuries in the lead up to the 2018 Winter Olympics.


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