Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

By Matthew Barr

What's Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast about?

Presented by Matt Barr, Looking Sideways is a podcast about the best stories in skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and other related endeavours.

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Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast episodes:

04.17.2024
Episode 229: Freddie Meadows - RÁN
When Freddie Meadows finally surfed RÁN, it signified more than the biggest wave ever surfed in Scandinavia. It was also the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition; the endgame of a ten-year search; and the symbolic culmination of Freddie’s singular career...
03.31.2024
Episode 228: Calum Macintyre - Direct Action
Why is direct action important? Why is there such apathy as our democratic right to protest is being removed? How can the outdoor community and industry enact a more impactful and effective type of protest and activism? All topics...
03.25.2024
Episode 227: Looking Sideways x Db Journey Roundtable Special - How to Pitch and How to Get Paid
HUGE thanks for Db for kicking off my new HKC Discount Club with a whopping 15% off for Looking Sideways listeners and readers. Use my Db Journey discount code LOOKINGSIDEWAYS at checkout for 15% off, or this link to have...
03.17.2024
Episode 226: Eric Blehm - The Darkest White
HKC Club has launched! Click here for exclusive discounts from some of my partner brands such as Db Journey and Goodrays. Eric Blehm is a journalist and author who has had one of the most interesting and quietly-influential careers in...
03.03.2024
Episode 225: Matt Olsen - Gaza Surf Club
This week’s guest, Matt Olsen, is the Founding Director of Explore Corps, the non-profit that founded Gaza Surf Club back in 2008. Although he described himself as ‘just some dude from Washington’ in a recent Inertia interview, Matt’s roots...
02.19.2024
Episode 224: Liz Bui and Jeff Martin - Yulex
If you’ve been following Looking Sideways for a while, you’ll know that I’ve covered the conversation around chloroprene rubber and Yulex extensively over the last year or so - through my conversation with Big Sea documentary film-makers Chris Nelson and...
02.04.2024
Episode 223: Thomas Campbell - Redux
It's a return visit for friend-of-the-show Thomas Campbell this week, who is, as I said last year, ‘one of surfing and skateboarding’s most important influences thanks to classic films such as The Seedling, and a singular aesthetic and approach that...
01.22.2024
Episode 222: Skin Phillips - After The Goldrush
Photographer Skin Phillips, this week’s guest, has had one of the most extraordinary careers in British skateboarding. Completely self-taught, and driven by a thirst for knowledge and a desire to experience life behind the borders of his hometown of Swansea,...
12.22.2023
Episode 221: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!
Ah, Christmas. A time of friends, family and tradition - which in Looking Sideways world means the much loved Festive Special with my close pals and stalwart podcast supporters Tim and Gendle! Yep, we’re back once again with our very...
12.11.2023
Episode 220: Maddie Meddings, Rebecca Coley, Chris Nelson, Owen Tozer - London Surf Film Festival Special!
The roadshow continues! Following my recent Roundtable live, recorded at the Kendal Mountain Festival, I’m back with yet another special panel discussion, this one recorded live at the London Surf Film Festival in November 2023. I was lucky enough to...
11.29.2023
Episode 219: Looking Sideways x The Adventure Podcast Roundtable Special!
Welcome to an extra-special episode of Roundtable, free for all subscribers, and a collaboration with my pal and podcasting peer Matt Pycroft of the brilliant Adventure Podcast, recorded live in front of an audience at the 2023 Kendal Mountain Festival....
11.22.2023
Episode 218: Gavin Fernie Jones - Citizen
If you follow what I do at all closely, whether through my newsletter or my podcast, you’ll know that ‘how we talk about activism and the climate’ has been a bit of a preoccupation for me these last few months....
11.05.2023
Episode 217: Adam Gendle & Johno Verity - Here, Hold My Kid
I go back 25 years with these Adam Gendle and Johno Verity, my guests this week. We met back in the late 90s through snowboarding. But looking back, making things and creativity were equally as important. Music and writing in...
10.18.2023
Episode 216: Ray Barbee - The Power of the Pulse
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit lookingsideways.substack.com Paid subscribers! This episode comes with an extra 15 minute bonus section with me and Ray so make sure you have your paid podcast feed set-up. Free...
10.01.2023
Bonus Episode: Looking Sideways x Vans x CALM panel discussion with Schoph, Andrew Cotton and Helena Long
Welcome to the latest in an irregular series of bonus episodes of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast. No fuss, no fanfare, just a non-traditional episode banged out every now and again when this opportunity comes up. This episode you’re...
09.17.2023
Episode 215: Cliff Kapono - Brother Cliff
The average professional surf, skate or snow career tends to follow a pretty set path. Five-to-ten years at the top, usually from the mid-teens to late-twenties, before time, injuries, and the shifting vagaries of the industry draw things to a...
08.21.2023
Episode 213: Thomas Campbell - Sit In The Chair
Looking Sideways is proudly ad-free and reader and listener supported. Thanks to all my paid subscribers, who help keep the podcast and newsletter free for everybody. To support Looking Sideways with a free or paid subscription, sign up via www.lookingsideways.substack.com...
08.06.2023
Episode 212: Matt George - Last of the Surf Romantics
When legendary surf writer Matt George got in touch asking if he could come on the show to chat about his new book In Deep, I was all in. In Deep is a hand-picked collection of Matt’s era-defining surf writing...
07.23.2023
Episode 210: Looking Sideways Roundtable
July 23rd note There's no new episode this week, so I thought that just this one I would lift the paywall on the first episode of Rondtable, the new discussion show which will usually be exclusively for paid subscribers. Looking...
07.09.2023
Episode 211: Gilly McArthur - What She Said
I’m on quite a run at the moment when it comes to chatting to wise, inspiring and talented women, and this ace chat with my pal Gilly Macarthur continues this sequence in fine style. Gilly is a snowboarder, swimmer, open...
06.18.2023
Episode 209: Melody Sky - Histoire de Melody
Welcome to a classic lifer episode of Looking Sideways with my pal Melody Sky! If you’re somebody who scans the name of the guest and thinks ‘never heard of them, I’m not going to bother’, I implore you not to...
06.03.2023
Episode 208: Easkey Britton - Ebb and Flow
Easkey Britton alert! Yep, I’ve got my old pal Easkey back on the show this week for her second visit, a mere six years after we first chatted for the pod. We’ve stayed in touch, and over the years I’ve...
05.14.2023
Episode 207: Elias Elhardt - Different Hearts Beating
I welcomed one of snowboarding’s modern greats back onto the show for this episode: Elias Elhardt. If you’ve heard our previous conversation, or watched any of his films, you’ll know Elias is a true snowboarding original. On the snow, he’s...
04.30.2023
Episode 206: Chris Burkard Live
“I don't consider myself a world traveller because I haven't travelled the world. I literally found the 10 places I love and just keep going back. Because I would rather go deep and immersive with a culture, and understand it...
04.23.2023
Episode 205: Lucy Small and Maddie Meddings - Yama Surf
After episode 204’s polarising conversation with Steven Kotler, regular service resumes this week, with this lovely chat with surfers and film-makers Lucy Small and Maddie Meddings about their new film Yama Surf. Regular listeners will recall my previous conversation with...
04.09.2023
Episode 204: Steven Kotler - Do Not Go Gentle
Everything we know about ageing is wrong - and action sports are the perfect tool through which to test this hypothesis. At least, that’s the contention of Steven Kotler, this week’s guest and author a new book called Gnar Country....
04.02.2023
Type 2: Episode 030 - Jenna Johnson
Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. And after four years - this is the final ever episode of Type 2! And what a...
03.19.2023
Bonus: Chris Burkard Live!
“I don't consider myself a world traveller because I haven't travelled the world. I literally found the 10 places I love and just keep going back. Because I would rather go deep and immersive with a culture, and understand it...
03.12.2023
Episode 203: Stan Evans - Hidden Histories
How do we choose the stories we tell? Who gets to write the histories we decide sum up our collective past? And what’s the impact when equally valid versions of the past are written out of these histories? All questions...
03.05.2023
Episode 202: Alex Weller - London Calling
Lifer alert! Yep, this conversation with my old pal and current head of creative at Patagonia in Ventura Alex Weller is another classic of this quintessential LS genre, recorded in California during my recent trip to the Golden State. And...
02.26.2023
Rerun: Episode 131 - Leo Baker
Listen now (57 min) | This week I am reposting my summer 2020 conversation with none binary trans skater Leo. The search for our authentic self is a lifelong process. And not always a successful one. It takes a huge...
02.19.2023
Episode 201: Tom Kay - For the Love of the Sea
It’s the first leg of an impromptu south west omnibus as I catch up with my pal and Finisterre founder Tom Kay who is returning visit to the pod for the first time in six years! Tom was one of...
02.05.2023
Episode 200: Nick Hounsfield - The Journey is the Destination
Milestone alert! 200 episodes! Yep, six years and countless HKC rants later, episode 200 is finally here. And I’ve decided to mark this landmark occasion with the usual double header. Next week, I’m releasing a special bonus episode 200 conversation...
01.29.2023
Type 2: Episode 029 - Nick Hayes
“Give people a personal relationship with nature and they’re not going to commodify it. There is something more sacred out there, and that is nature. But we’re killing it because we don’t have a relationship with it.” Type 2 is...
01.22.2023
Episode 199: Nathan Gallagher - On Validation
Looking Sideways is proudly ad-free and reader and listener supported. Massive thanks to all my paid subscribers, who help keep the podcast and newsletter free for everybody. To consider supporting what I do with a free or paid subscription, click...
01.15.2023
Bonus: Housekeeping Corner - Why I Am (Finally) Going Paid
A special Housekeeping Corner bonus episode about why I am shifting the entire podcast and newsletter over to Substack and introducing a partial paywall. Find out more: www.lookingsideways.substack.com This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with...
01.08.2023
Rerun: Episode 137 - Christina Koch
How does it feel to go into space? What does it make you feel about the future of our planet, and your own place in the universe? What are the moral implications of space travel? And just how do you...
12.23.2022
Episode 198: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!
Festive Special! Mince pies. Carols. Mistletoe. The John Lewis ad. Festive tunes on endless repeat. Yep, Christmas is a time of tradition. And in Looking Sideways land, that means it’s time for the annual Tim and Gendle Christmas Special, our...
12.14.2022
Type 2: Episode 028 - Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson
This week’s episode is a double header with my friends Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson, two absolute stalwarts of the UK surf community who for the last three years have been working hard on their investigative film The Big Sea....
11.28.2022
Episode 197: Kimmy Fasani - Luminosity
“Death isn't scary to me. Dying isn’t scary to me. I’ve seen it, and I’ve been close to it.” When my friend at Whitelines magazine asked me to chat to snowboarder Kimmy Fasani about her cancer diagnosis for this year’s...
11.11.2022
Episode 196: James Joiner - Flyover Country
Lifer alert! It’s been a while since I had a good, honest lifer chat on the show, and this episode with my pal James Joiner is a rambling comfort blanket of a conversation in the classic Looking Sideways fashion....
10.31.2022
Episode 195: Chris Moran - The Good Ship
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to interview people who’ve had a real influence on my life. But Chris Moran, this week’s guest, has probably had more of an influence on my life than any guest I’ve yet had...
10.20.2022
Episode 194: Joel Gray - Inside The Tent
Twenty four years after snowboarding made its Olympic bow, the often fractious relationship between action sports and the Olympics feels poised to enter a new phase. For an entire generation, surfing, skating and snowboarding being Olympic sports is completely normal....
10.04.2022
Bonus episode: Hossegor omnibus
Welcome to the latest in an irregular series of bonus episodes of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast. No fuss, no fanfare, just a non-traditional episode banged out every now and again when this opportunity comes up. This episode you’re...
09.23.2022
Type 2: Episode 027 - Keme Nzerem
“We are increasingly aware that the construction of the outdoors, as a concept, has historically been the gnarled, wizened white guy in a puffer jacket and a beard, enduring the most inclement of conditions – it’s about conquest. It creates...
09.14.2022
Type 2: Episode 026 - Soraya Abdel-Hadi
“I’m very hyper-aware of my privilege and background, so I didn’t feel like I was the right person to be speaking on these subjects. But people kept on asking me. I realised I was doing everyone a disservice by saying...
09.01.2022
Episode 193: Chris Burkard - Original
Is Chris Burkard the most influential visual artist at work in the outdoors today? It’s difficult to think of anybody else who has shaped the conversation to the same degree. Whether you realise it or not, any time you open...
08.23.2022
Episode 192: Sage Kotsenburg - Rambo Season
When one of the legends drops the guard to show some vulnerability and openness, it has real impact. This is one reason why my episode with Jamie Thomas is still so popular. And why I think this latest conversation with...
08.16.2022
Episode 191: Bonnie Tsui - Why We Swim
A mere four years after I had Ross Edgeley on the show, I’ve finally managed to book another swimmer! Yes my guest for this episode is the great Bonnie Tsui, journalist, writer, swimmer, surfer and author of one of my...
07.27.2022
Episode 190: Stacy Peralta - Lightness of Being
It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the show. Let’s start with the facts: this week’s guest Stacy Peralta is one of the most influential cultural figures in...

What's Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast about?

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Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast episodes:

Episode 229: Freddie Meadows - RÁN

Episode 228: Calum Macintyre - Direct Action

Episode 227: Looking Sideways x Db Journey Roundtable Special - How to Pitch and How to Get Paid

Episode 226: Eric Blehm - The Darkest White

Episode 225: Matt Olsen - Gaza Surf Club

Episode 224: Liz Bui and Jeff Martin - Yulex

Episode 223: Thomas Campbell - Redux

Episode 222: Skin Phillips - After The Goldrush

Episode 221: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!

Episode 220: Maddie Meddings, Rebecca Coley, Chris Nelson, Owen Tozer - London Surf Film Festival Special!

Episode 219: Looking Sideways x The Adventure Podcast Roundtable Special!

Episode 218: Gavin Fernie Jones - Citizen

Episode 217: Adam Gendle & Johno Verity - Here, Hold My Kid

Episode 216: Ray Barbee - The Power of the Pulse

Bonus Episode: Looking Sideways x Vans x CALM panel discussion with Schoph, Andrew Cotton and Helena Long

Episode 215: Cliff Kapono - Brother Cliff

Episode 213: Thomas Campbell - Sit In The Chair

Episode 212: Matt George - Last of the Surf Romantics

Episode 210: Looking Sideways Roundtable

Episode 211: Gilly McArthur - What She Said

Episode 209: Melody Sky - Histoire de Melody

Episode 208: Easkey Britton - Ebb and Flow

Episode 207: Elias Elhardt - Different Hearts Beating

Episode 206: Chris Burkard Live

Episode 205: Lucy Small and Maddie Meddings - Yama Surf

Episode 204: Steven Kotler - Do Not Go Gentle

Type 2: Episode 030 - Jenna Johnson

Bonus: Chris Burkard Live!

Episode 203: Stan Evans - Hidden Histories

Episode 202: Alex Weller - London Calling

Rerun: Episode 131 - Leo Baker

Episode 201: Tom Kay - For the Love of the Sea

Episode 200: Nick Hounsfield - The Journey is the Destination

Type 2: Episode 029 - Nick Hayes

Episode 199: Nathan Gallagher - On Validation

Bonus: Housekeeping Corner - Why I Am (Finally) Going Paid

Rerun: Episode 137 - Christina Koch

Episode 198: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!

Type 2: Episode 028 - Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson

Episode 197: Kimmy Fasani - Luminosity

Episode 196: James Joiner - Flyover Country

Episode 195: Chris Moran - The Good Ship

Episode 194: Joel Gray - Inside The Tent

Bonus episode: Hossegor omnibus

Type 2: Episode 027 - Keme Nzerem

Type 2: Episode 026 - Soraya Abdel-Hadi

Episode 193: Chris Burkard - Original

Episode 192: Sage Kotsenburg - Rambo Season

Episode 191: Bonnie Tsui - Why We Swim

Episode 190: Stacy Peralta - Lightness of Being