Riptide Podcast - Luke’s Lounge

Tasmanian’s Sam Thomas slides onto Luke’s Lounge for episode 40 of the poddy and it does not disappoint ladies and gentlemen.

Diving deep into what it means to make a parody of a great old Australian beer commercial, to maximising day light hours for deep southern ocean swells in the depths of winter, Sam modestly demonstrates what a creative, cool and calm cat he truly is through stories long and short.

As there were some ironic technical difficulties through out the poddy, mostly operator error, it made the conversation that much more satisfying when it was laid down, so please enjoy peeps 😉

In this episode Luke sits down with one of California’s wildest OG’s, David Goodrich, who really lays it on thick when it comes to his journey through the bodyboarding world so far.

Being the proud co-owner of Alternative Surf Shop in Seal Beach and someone who has deep embedded ties to the drop knee element of the sport he provides refreshing commentary on his current perspectives of the sport.

Touching on the current American Boog scene, referencing generations gone by, how to stay relevant in the Boog retail space and speaking on what needs to be implemented to see world competition return to its progressive ways Dave and Luke grind it all down for you to hoover up like a 2am session at In N Out burger. AMERICA FUCK YEAH 🇺🇸

As the Port Macquarie break wall saga continues to make waves through the NSW’s mid North Coast region it’s only fitting to hear from the man who is truly front and centre in regards to bringing the fight n grit right back to the State “Grubberment” on this contentious development project.

With Kingy generously giving up his time for a second update in just over three months on the unfolding events surrounding the Breakwall upgrade, this poddy recaps the project timeline, how it’s divided the community and what sort of corruption has been embodied the entire fiasco from day dot.

One for the people, one for the love of the Boog 🙌

When grass roots Australian bodyboarding is spoken about anywhere at anytime, Benny Oborne’s name is sure to accompany that convo as his services to the sport over the last decade have been second to none.

Sitting down with Ben on the lounge, Luke discusses Ben’s involvement with the ABA, his time managing the BSC boog team and how he views the current competitive scene in Australia and what needs to be added to spice it up to its great heights once again.

With a true passion for competitive sport and quality qualifications in the management of athletes, Ben shares some quality insights on what needs to be implemented for future athletes of our sport to thrive and flourish as bodyboarding heads into an unknown futuristic landscape.

Enjoy everybody 👌

When you’re willing to sleep on the beach at pipe for 6 weeks straight due to accom falling through and you’ve owned and operated a bodyboarding company for the last decade your a real candidate to take a seat on Luke’s Lounge, and that’s exactly what unfolded.

Pulling up a chair with Michael Ostler in his recently rented retail shop on the Main Street of Caringbah was seriously over due and an absolute time of it was had between the two as they physically sat across from one another chewing the fat and yarning about old times.

They covered the Handpicked brand journey, unbearable living conditions experienced whilst on surf trips and how Michael as never received a free board off Rossi (handpicks shaper extraordinaire).

Lekker bru’s 👌

Side note: Anyone who signs up to Riptide Premium from the 15th of March to the 15th of April goes in the draw to win a Handpicked custom shaped in their new store based in the shire. Giddy up

When you think of bodyboarding couples in the sport a few come to mind, but none exude the same energy, passion and stoke towards the game as much as Ayaka and Mack!

Residing on the island of Oahu, in the famous Hawaiian archipelago, these two legends live to boogie and simply just want to chase their dreams.

They join Luke on the lounge to talk about Ayaka’s new all natural sun protection range, how Mack can literally ride almost anything in the ocean and how the competitive landscape of world tour bodyboarding sits with both of them currently.

An amazing conversation with two amazing people, enjoy.

Episode 32 marks the first ever video pod produced on Luke’s Lounge and we didn’t miss ya’s with the two top notch legends we had on as guests either.

Filmed, cut and pretty much spawned by the multifaceted Jamie Rose of California over in the States, Luke gets to digitally spin a few yarns with Tanner McDaniel and Craig Whetter, whom both hold resumes that need no reflection.

They cover the crippling and ever tragic death of Evan McMillenn, how to scale Hawaiian swells in feet against the rest of the world scale and how Breaking Even, the fellas most recent movie, really pushed the air back into the Californian boog community tyres in a big ass way.

🤙❤️💦