Luke’s Lounge, built and sustained by Riptide Media, aims to sit down and talks all things bodyboarding.
With everyone from famous industry heavy-hitters, the Pro's you know and the average crew who's making a local boog flick with their mates.
Hosted by Cronulla's Luke O'Connor, This is Lukes Lounge, ladies and gentlemen.
This one's a slow burn! With Nick still recovering from a life-altering wipeout down in the south of Australia almost five years on, Luke lets the conversation and wild storytelling roll on. With risky boat trips out to The Great Barrier Reef in search of waves to being held at knifepoint deep in the ghettos of South America, Nicks lived a successful yet turbulent life thus far.
With a positive outlook that couldn’t be soured by the grinch himself, Sophie sends out endless good vibes during her discussion with Luke. Detailing her bodyboarding journey, how she has pushed herself in bigger waves lately and how her flexible boss allows for boog breaks during the working day a whole range of topics are covered in this easy listen.
From the dizzying heights of bodyboarding stardom, all the way to the harrowing lows of obsessive compulsive disorder, Brendon Newton has been through it all. Luke travels to Brendo’s home in beautiful Wollongong to chat face to face, covering topics from his Riptide cover in the Canary Islands, sleepless tormented nights in Portugal and how he fears public judgement over life threatening waves.
With a new album, Anomaly, having dropped late this year and various shows booked across a range of continents, music producer Chris Emerson (Whatsonot), sits down with Luke from his LA base to chat booging. From his sessions at the infamous Kelly Slater wave pool, to face numbing injuries at Shipsterns Bluff and how his bodyboarding journey all started on the Northern Beaches of NSW, this episode is not to be missed!
Australia’s established number one grom, Liam Lucas, lends Luke a bit of his time to chat about his up and coming career as a professional bodyboarder. Divulging his experiences and debacles on the South American leg of the IBC world tour, how his pro model is trending and where to snag thirty beers for thirty bucks.
Luke has the pleasure of speaking with Europes most underrated bodyboarder, blatant sultan of style, Antonio Saivaira. They chat about Antonio’s trips to Aus, his winch tow out success and how Nazare holds a very special place in his heart.
Andrew Hoff & Adam Kesbah Sitting down with the brain child behind the up and coming boog flick, “Coned”, and one of the main riders in the film, Luke gets the inside scoop from both Andrew Hoff and Adam Kasbah on how it’s all been trending leading up to the premier in early November. Drawing out insights from boog trips to the most remote parts of Australia, how Kasbah does his breakfast’s cheap and Hoffy describes in detail his favourite wave this poddy covers some serious ground....
How would you go jetting half way across the world during the most severe pandemic the world has ever endured? Well, Luke sits down with Matt McCann to chew the fat in regards to his wild travels across Europe, his minimalistic approach to camping and how to win big on nighttime televised game show’s. As the saying goes, "you cant keep a good dog down"
Sitting down with the lead singer of the biggest hardcore band in the world currently, Luke talks all things bodyboarding with Winston as he prepares to release a brand new album under the famous banner of Park Way Drive. From tubular time portals, getting his mum up on stage in front of thousands of people to unbridled grom froth that can never be extinguished, Winston opens up on his true feelings in relation to the beloved boog.
Luke chats with one of the main cogs that makes up the well oil machine that is European Bodyboarding, Sebastian Boulard. Through producing boog movies with Pierre Louis Costes, to managing continental board shipments and working closely with the IBC to make the 2022 tour a reality this podcast is a fascinating insight into one of the unsung heroes of the boog industry.
listen to the extended version of our intro, whipped up by our bro Fountainhead. This really hits hard in the nostalgic feels.
Producer and Director of the Chase, big time boog tragic and all round entrepreneur, Adrian Emerton, spins a yarn with Luke in relation to all things bodyboarding. Back from a recent trip to Vietnam and with some strong but valid views in regards to the state of the industry, this podcast is not to be missed.
Theres been an alarming amount of high quality content coming from within the deepest depths of the Bay Area. So we send Luke to speak with Tahnee Sams. Heralding from Nelson’s Bay on the east coast of Australia, Tahnee speaks to Luke about the newly reformed froth towards boogen back in the bay, up and coming movies from around the local area and how he had his licence suspended for 9 years due to a rare health condition.
