Riptide Podcast - Luke’s Lounge

Coal Coast core lord and self professed boog tragic, Jack Dobinson, jumps back on the lounge to chat about his up and coming new feature film - True Boog.

Like a candle burning bright through that bleak November rain, Dobbo has continuously shown unbridled enthusiasm towards bodyboarding and the chase for new and undisclosed waves all up and down the east coast.

His new film, True Boog, will be premiering at Port Kembla Servo on Friday the 31st of May, 2024. Go to his insta handle to purchase tickets and let’s rip the top off a few coldies in celebration towards another visual masterpiece.

The man can’t be stopped, hope you enjoy our chat 🥩

French born World Champion, and Canary Islands resident, Amaury Lavernhe sits down on the Riptide lounge and spills the beans on what has kept him at the top of the world rankings well into his forties.

With a locally sourced diet that would satisfy the most strict dietician, whilst regularly engaging in daily stretching routines that even has the great Lewy Finnegan raising eyebrows, it’s no wonder Amaury is still hitting 10ft Fronton ramps and collating online social media content that has the entire boog world screaming for more.

Touching on world tour schedules, judging criteria’s, coaching clinics and alternative medicine products, this podcast reflects on much of Amaury’s current life history and opinions moving into the competitive year ahead.

Hope you enjoy it 🤞

Cronulla’s favourite son, Benny Sawyer, sits down on the lounge with Luke for a classic Sutherland Shire inspired yarn that will have you walking away with a few more insights into the culture of their shared hometown environment.

Revisiting Ben’s childhood in the shire, what it’s been like to chase slab after slab around the globe and what it’s means for him to be invited into this years SIC is all covered off in this laid back yarn.

This one was a well overdue chat and was conducted in Benny’s red brick apartment just a few streets back off Cronulla beach, the environment for the tone of this conversation couldn’t have been more fitting.

Enjoy

Episode 71 features a man who needs no introduction, the Portuguese Prince himself, the smoothest of waterman to lay rail in the Atlantic, the one and only Antonio Saraiva.

We chat about style in the European boog ranks, what it’s been like to film for the up and coming Common Thread film and how many classes of scotch Antonio is going to down on his impending trip to chilly Scotland.

T’was great catching up with an old friend and chewing the fat surrounding the European boog scene. Hope you all enjoy, peace

Wave pool technology is sweeping the booging world in an impactful way, bringing different demographics into our beloved core discipline like moths to a flame.

To celebrate this “Wave Garden” technology being brought to the city of Sydney, Luke was allowed special access into the new URBN Surf wave pool as it was still undergoing its final pieces of construction.

Sitting down with Shaun Hutchinson, the General Manager of Operations, the two covered a wide variety of topics surrounding the new build and technology that is to be expected at this state of the art facility.

Hope you enjoy the insights into the future of urban city wave riding

Description: With the competitive side of booging in full swing for 2024, Shaun Cooper and Luke O’Connor dissect all the happenings in a regional, national, and international sense, to see where the competitive heat is at.

Touching on new East coasts boog clubs being born, to the national comp scene in Australia, the Shark Island Challenge, and the wrap up of the IBC Morocco Tahgazout Pro, the fellas go deep with analysis, predictions, and personal opinions.

Enjoy

Episode 68 welcome’s Brad Stone to the lounge and after recent events further chiropractic pillows and cushions were supplied for the Sunny Coaster to tell all surrounding his recent bone breaking wipeout at a South Coast slab just only a few weeks prior.

With little Stone being on a serious wave hunt over the past 5 years it was about time he told all, leaving no stone unturned surrounding his entire Boog journey.

From relocating to the SC over the past few years, to sending it down in large Victorian pits to reveling in Samoan sunshine on a wave ascent pacific journey, Brad really has experienced a roller coaster of moments in the ocean of late.

Luke and Brad get deep into the crevasse of the Riptide Media Lounge and dam it sound better than day old cold sofa pizza.

Enjoy Lords and Queens of the Boog, it’s a gravy train this convo with a side of backbone 👌

Underground and over achieving, Adam Kesbah is the Boog you may not know currently but certainly will soon enough.

From 10ft Victorian pits to crashing cars into picketed Sydney fences, he’s already lived a colourful life at the young age of 26 and there is so much left in the locker room for this curly haired cat to exude in his own future endeavours.

Sitting down for episode 67, Luke and Adam go deep on a range of topics, covering the pursuit of booging whilst on a shoe string budget, taping up blown out knee’s on cone honing missions on the bottom of Australia and how it was making his pilgrimage from West to East as an inspiring grommet via public transport.

All in all a wild chat that was a real journey with a real life journeymen.

Peace n love ☮️

Episode 66 of Luke’s Lounge heralds the rise of an Eastern suburbs superpower in Grom Anthony Miller.

Possessing the nimble limbs of a jungle cat and an attitude that wouldn’t melt an ounce of devondale butter in his own politely spoken gob, the young V.S rider speaks his mind to Luke over an hour-long yarn as the school holidays of 23/24 are coming to a close.

With humility, intelligence, and confidence well beyond his years, Anthony speaks of his influences around his Sydney hometown, what it was like surfing the NMD wave pool party in 2023 and what aspirations he has locked and loaded for his blossoming boog career in 2024.

With a demeanor so well polished you would think Luke’s sitting down with a fella double his age, but in fact it’s quite the opposite as the grom sits at only the ripe age of 16!

A grom worth listening to that’s for sure, enjoy crew!

Peace n love ☮️

Tales of the Boog, in collaboration with Riptide Media and Luke’s Lounge, proudly bring you a pre Covid Indonesian dream trip turned bone altering nightmare featuring Cronulla’s own Rory Keily.

We take the timeline all the way back to early 2020 where Covid was just starting to simmer into international existence and borders were getting shut down faster than Canadian trucker bank accounts. Rory, being the seasoned veteran in Indonesian exploration, hit the eject button and opted out of Australian lockdown laws just as the last planes were leaving the once great southern lands tarmac.

Fast forward to one of the swells of the Indo winter and Rory’s dream escape turned to a hip pulverising nightmare as he lay quivering quietly with a hole the size of a coral head punctured in the side of his hip.

This tale will blow the fins right off your feet and have you begging for emotional mercy as you drown in the impact zone of Rory’s real life and death battle as he relays it back to Luke in the safety of his Cronulla abode.

Tales of the Boog, one to not be missed ☮️