Chillfactor Podcast with Reggae Elliss

Pete Forras is a legend of the Aussie snow industry, Buller born and raised, ex-racer and Winter Olympian, co-founder of Australian snbow brand XTM performance and a full on snow frother!

Billy grew up in Melbourne and go into skiing on a few family ski holidays to falls creek. His skiing career started in classic ski bum fashion, working night jobs in falls Creek and later Mt Hotham so he could ski during the day.

That lead to season’s overseas and during a Canadian season he started competing in freeride world tour qualifying events. Over the past few years he has been more focussed on filming and content production and he released his first film, aptly titled Passion, two years ago. His latest project was filmed in Iceland last winter and is due for release in late 2024

Reggae's guest is Kiwi freeskier Hank Bilous who has just released a new film titled The War On Style, an exploration into the skill sets and self expression he finds in skiing and surfing. Hank grew up in Wanaka and talks about his life there, his time on the Freeride World Tour and is open about mental heath and some dark days a few years ago. The Chillfactor podcast is brought to you by XTM Performance.

As we near the halfway mark of the season Reggae and Vaughan Dead frtoh on the recent snow dumps, the big ski and snowbiard events coming up and doff the beanies to Scott Morrison's cool younger brither Skimo, who coul dbe heading to the Olympics. Pow! Pow!

Reggae's guest is Australian freeskier Zanna Farrell who had a solid rookie year on the Freeride World Qualifying Tour with a number of podium finishes including a couple of wins in Europe.

Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey are back, talking snow and a lot more in the latest episode of the Aussie snow chat show Pow! Pow! Reggae.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Valentino Guseli setting a new world record for a hip jump over three stories high! Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Deadly are back with episode 3 of Pow Pow Reggae to talk all things cold and slidey, and their special guest is Olympian, world record holder, halfpipe legend and Aussie snowboarding freak Valentino Guseli

Episode two of the new Aussie snow chat show with Chillfactor editor Reggae Elliss and Ain't That Swell's Vaughan Deadly

Here we go, the first episode of of Pow!Pow!Reggae, with Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Deadly, a new podcast covering all things white and cold in STRAYA! Is it any good? Well, if you take the 100% elite level knowledge of Australian snow culture Reggae has and combine it with the 0% knowledge of anything snow that Vaughan has, you have an average 50% something worth listening to - which is pretty bloody good, sort of.

In this episode Reggae catches up a with mogul skier Matt Graham, one of Australia’s most successful snowsports athletes. Matt was just 15 years old when he competed in his first World Cup and since that time he has put together an impressive list of achievements that includes World Cup wins, World Championship medals and he is also a three-time Olympian and won the silver medal at the 2018 winter games in South Korea. Matt is about to head off for his 15th World Cup season and has no thoughts of retiring, his eyes firmly set on competing at his 4th Olympics in Milan in 2026.