Riptide Podcast - Lukes Lounge

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 ☮️

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 👌

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 👌

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 👌

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 🤙

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 ☮️

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. ☮️

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 ☮️

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 🙏

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 ✌️