Riptide Podcast - Lukes Lounge

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 ☮️

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 👌

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 ☮️

Finally, Luke’s Lounge and Riptide Media, in collaboration with Cameron Staunton Films, bring you what you’ve all been secretly asking for…. Jack Baker and his pleasantly outspoken opinion. Being a local boog lord from the Southern reaches of Sydney who’s packed more cones than your average Carigbah houso on a quiet Friday night in, this conversation will really have you keeled over on all fours scrambling for the bowl as Jack doesn’t hold back with his gut wrenching story of young and old.Held in the shaping bay of his newly appointed board sponsor, Hand Picked Boards, Jack and Luke deep dive into his new custom dimensions, what it’s like enduring a magnitude 6 earthquake in Java and how it feklt like snagging the best wave to break out the Island in 2023.There’s plenty to unpack in this video episode so pack yourself a hot one, pour a coldie and just marvel in the sheer honesty and Australian colloquialism that surrounds Jack Baker.Much love and peace ☮️

Belated but not irrelevant, please tune your ear holes into the Riptide Media WrapUp of the top ten moments in 2023!Allow Elliot Williams, Co-Owner of the organisation, and Luke O’Connor, tripped out podcast host take you through a roller coaster of memories that contain the good, the bad and the ugly that made up 2023.Get it fair up ya clacker and please DM the Insta page with any comments, thoughts or questions on any of the debaucherous dribble the fellas laid down.Bring on 2024 👌

With the south coast of NSW providing a wondrous canvas for today’s guest to work within it’s not surprising to see the quality of their work shine through. Jay Maquire has been exploring every nook n cranny of this enticing natural phenomenon and documenting heavily as he goes.Catching the attention of the booging/surfing industry through out his recent creative captures at all the prime sessions of late, it was only fitting to chew the fat and hear how he’s fared during those experiences. One of his most recent experiences involved a serious medical emergency at an undisclosed location on the Deep South of the coast line, chilling experience to say the least.Hope you get something out of this chat, I really did 🙏💣☮️

With energy and passion to burn we welcome Robin Legros onto the lounge to talk about his stunningly quick rise to world tour standard bodyboarding and beyond. Calling the Reunion Islands home, but currently based in Gran Canaria, Robin is currently putting all his time and energy into bodyboarding and it’s well and truly paying dividends.We touch on topics such as the shark infested waters of his home town breaks, what progression looks like for Robin in the future and how still doesn’t have a main sponsor at the date of this recording, wild!Hope you enjoy yarn, peace ☮️

Episode 60 hits you like a hot Indian curry at 3 in the morning, violently informative, packed with surprises and as always hard to wipe from your mind as Luke’s Lounge really starts to simmer down with some main courses on offer in the boogieverse we all find ourselves crammed into. Toby Player is one of the greatest to do it, whilst leaving no fruit unpicked from the tree of life, how Player has played out his journey so far is incredible and his career is one to be celebrated.From honing mondo secretive slabs down on the bottom of Aus, to becoming one of the biggest, if not the biggest, retail giants in the world of bodyboarding to also still find time to chase pipes all calendar year long, Toby is a guest on the lounge that delivered everything you wanted, plus more!Hope you enjoy the convo and leave us a question if you want anything asked in the coming episodes. Peace ☮️

With one of the most razor sharp reverses in the game to date, we welcome the Goldcoast core lord Joe Clarke to the poddy.In episode 59 Joe takes Luke down a myriad of boog rabbit holes, touching on his European holiday and his recent engagement to the miso soup, we talk about Joe’s biggest boog influences and how he swapped the pilgrimage from Hawaii to Samoa and never looked backed.This one was for the ages, real natural conversation vibes as two friends sit down and talk about everything booging.Peace ☮️

Keeping the U.S flavour marinating from episode 57, we move onto another succulent blonde haired legend in episode 58, who keeps raising the bar when it comes to free booging world of todays modern era.Craig Whetter is seriously putting in time on the foam and the dividends couldn’t be more fucking fruitful. With Breaking Even, a 42 minute film of pure boog footage tightly edited with a banging sound track, debuting late last year and for Breaking Even 2 to be coming out roughly a year on is a serious sign of the Cali Crew and Craig’s obsession with the boog all round.Throughout the chat we touch on his time over in Gran Canaria for the Fronton Pro, how Craig has learned to successfully navigate the Cali wedge lineup and what the future may have in-store for the West Coast Core Lord.Enjoy.America, fuck yeah 🇺🇸

Todays guest is the 2023 Bodyboarding World Champ and Hawaiis own wonder kid, Tanner McDaniel.This podcast breaks down Tanners humble beginnings in one of the greatest island chains to ever be presented to the surfing world, Hawaii, and how the influences and waves paved a path to make this young blonde haired man a bodyboarding world champion. We break down each world tour comp in the calendar year of 2023 and how Tanner dealt with the undeniable pressure as each final went past with the rub of the green evading him on each occasion. We also touch on his ambitions towards the future of his career, how moving to Cali has shaped his booging for the better and what it’s been like mentally preparing such a young soul for a journey beyond his years.Just remember, this kid surfed in a Pipe Comp at 14….. you gotta hear it to believe it.Peace boogieverse ✌️

Episode 56 of Luke’s Lounge revisits a previous guest who has his tender hooks well and truly attached to the carcass we all truly know as BOOGING.Adrian Emerton is a Sydney based director, filmmaker and small business owner who has been at the forefront of booging for at least the last 10 years plus. His most recent published work can be found through the movie, The Chase, and in this most recent chat, we dive into the journey that’s taken place through his most current boog project, Common Thread. This storyline takes the viewer on a cutting-edge inside scoop, no pun intended, on what it takes to be a professional bodyboarder and the many avenues athletes seek for financial and sponsorship backing as they navigate the world of both free and competitive booging.Enjoy the chat peeps 🔥

In this years final edition of Comp Talk Coops n Luke wrap up the final contest of the 2023 IBC World Tour, the Fronton Pro, which is held in the highest regard amongst the Boog community as the comp of the year! This years edition didn’t disappoint when it came to controversy’s as before the comp had even kicked off three competitors were disqualified without even pulling on a rashie. We had sparks and emotions flying everywhere as Tanner McDaniel had to watch on as his only threat to his maiden World Title, Pierre Louis Costes, went deep into the comp and almost snatched it from the Americans grasp. Throw in some seriously impressive Fronton surfing from up and comer Robin Legros, and you really do have an exciting story line to sink your teeth into listeners. Sit back and enjoy Coops n Luke wrap up this years tour, it’s been one hell of a ride 🤙

This episode on Luke’s Lounge we really dive into the sacred art of Drop Knee and who better to yarn to about it than Cronulla local, Aaron Glassop.With plenty of years behind him throwing the knee up at every slab the Shire has to offer up, Aaron has achieved so much in Jack Stance. From DK’ing through a Shark Island Challenge, to tackling Cape Solander on the knee to jumping off 50ft cliff jumps around the area, Aaron has lived an incredibly colourful life.It was great to catch up over past memories, chew the fat and discuss his new found life with his family up on the North Coast of NSW. Hope you enjoy as it was one for the memory banks ⚡️