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...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Belated but not irrelevant, please tune your ear holes into the Riptide Media Wrap Up 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 👌...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 66
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...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 65
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...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 65
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 mon...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 64
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 bo...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 63
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 ...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 62
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 o...
Nov 17, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 61
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 Th...
Nov 14, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 60
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 maide...
Nov 09, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 59
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 ...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Episode 54 swings straight into action with one of W.A’s core lords, Tommy Morris, sliding onto the lounge to talk about his life on the boog. Luke n Tom cross into an assortment of topics, ranging from his dream heat with the GOAT of booging over in the Maldives, to his most recent project, Ying n Yang, and what’s it like cruising Hawaii with local North Shore legend Jonny Correa for a few seasons or two. All time chat with an all time legend, this one’s for WA crew, get on ittttt 👌...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 57
As Luke says “opinions are like assholes, everybody has one” and there’s been a lot of speculation around what’s actually occurred at the last stop on the 2023 world circuit, the Fronton Pro in Gran Canaria. We’ve heard Mikes side of the story, we’ve heard from many opinions in the way of the online bodyboarding community, yet the IBC have been relatively (extremely) quiet about the whole darn debacle. From Chilean fists to Mikes last ditch, have a listen to Luke and Coops chew the fat on everyt...
Oct 20, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 56
The East Coast Core LordByron joins Luke on the lounge and wow he didn’t hold back. From history lessons in Riptide front page covers, to his many runs in at the infamous super bank in his early 20’s to getting shown how to do proper inverts in a Northies beer garden by Nathan Purcell. The fella is funny as fuck whilst still being insightful and honest with his views on booging and the world around him. Great chat and it’s mentioned his presence is required again to chew the fat as he certainly ...
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Episode 51 of Luke’s Lounge features one of the nicest, clean-cut rippers to ever lay down on the piece of holy foam we all so intently worship here in the boog world.Jase Finlay is as honest as the day is long and can seriously handle himself in the ocean, not just on a boog, but in all disciplines and does it with scintillating style to boot!In this podcast Luke and Jase chronologically detail the life of the born n bred Wollongong Hellman who took the international bodyboarding stage by storm...
Oct 08, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 54
For episode 51 of the pod, we thought we would turn the production up a few bars and incorporate visuals on this one in a lifetime interview with the great and powerful Chris White. The man needing no introductions gave up his time whilst on the east coast of Aus touring his Up in Joke Tour with co-podcast host, Brian Woodsy Shields, and wow Luke and Chris covered some ground. From avoiding cancel culture to spotting gaping pussies spitting off in the distant Indian Ocean to how intense is to pr...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Celebrating our fiftieth episode at Luke’s Lounge we decided to spare no expense and roll out the boog lord red carpet for one of the most decorated bodyboarding legends so far in the history of the sport…. Please let us welcome Jay Reale to the poddy! With a list of achievements and accolades that run longer than a three ply roll of the softest toilet paper strewn across your local car park, Jay’s life is extremely multifaceted and is astounding in its own right as he’s been there since the bir...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Episode 49 see’s Cyclone Lucy, aka Lucy Nadebaum, grace the Riptide airwaves to speak about her most recently found passion…. Booging!Lucy has a unique story that she unpacks in great detail here in this episode. From growing up in the York Peninsular in SA and booging with her family, to putting down the boog for a large chunk of her life to only thrust herself back into the sport in the most gnarliest fashion possible as she hunts down some of the most ferocious set up’s known to man kind.From...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Welcome to “Tales of the Boog”, a segment dedicated to shedding the light on the untold travel tales from many a keen Trad enthusiast who has ventured far and wide for a dance with the mythical cone zone in one way or the next.Our first episode features South African expat Josh Kleve, who is an absolute wizard when it comes to riding the Wild West African Donkey and has only just returned from a back-to-back week of madness that went down at this very spot just days before this poddy goes live.D...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 51
When grass root Australian Booging gets discussed, Paul Van Den Boom’s powerful name isn’t too far away from being mentioned. With his down right Aussie passion for booging bubbling and boiling away underneath that calculated dome of Paul’s on the daily, it’s a wonder he hasn’t blown a gasket with all the energy he’s applied towards the sport. With a fast growing short podcast series, called “Future Cast”, that focuses in on junior riders as they are competing at local community bodyboarding com...
Aug 25, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 50
This editions of Luke’s Lounge hosts Iain Campbell, a South African World Champion who as of recently has become a visiting resident of the old motherland, the UK.With a growing YouTube presence, an online boog store and a bodyboarding camp at his entrepreneurial disposal, Iain explains in length in this episode how he’s successfully constructed multiple income streams within the sport of bodyboarding. We also touch on his wave exploration plans for the up and coming Northern Hemisphere winter a...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 49
As the IBC juggernaut rolls into the Pacific Ocean for its Maldivian leg of the 2023 calendar year Coops & Luke hook into all the nitty gritty that encapsulated this years Maldives Pro.From storm surges wiping out local traffic stops, to mesmerising offshore outer reef sessions, to Tanner making his 4th final in a row to absolute brain farts in the judging box - this comp seemed to have it all.Lend your ears, hearts and minds as the two sultans of critique deliver their verdicts on how this ...
Aug 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 48
The Prince of Booging, Pierre Louise Costes, joins Luke on the lounge and holy air reverse out of the bowl Batman, they covered many topics and a whole lot of ground as their caffeinated conversation drew on long into the European evening. Recapping Pierre’s early rise from family obscurity, tattered financial hardships and his hunger to be immersed in the ocean you really get a feel for what humbling beginnings this 2 x world champion has risen from. Heralded as the missing link between style a...
Aug 10, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 47
The Prince of Booging, Pierre Louise Costes, joins Luke on the lounge and holy air reverse out of the bowl Batman, they covered many topics and a whole lot of ground as their caffeinated conversation drew on long into the European evening. Recapping Pierre’s early rise from family obscurity, tattered financial hardships and his hunger to be immersed in the ocean you really get a feel for what humbling beginnings this 2 x world champion has risen from.Heralded as the missing link between style an...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 46
The Riptide Co-CEO, Elliot Butler, joins Luke on a lounge he funded to talk all things that comprise the world of booging. From Riptide projects in pumping Java, to dealing with and treating demonic sea ulcers and were how to slay cold Siberian smoke off in the Japanese Alps. We covered some ground on this one. Great to hear from the man who pulls all the strings behind the scenes and makes this podcast possible. Enjoy peeps ✌️
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 45
When the stereotypical image of an Australian bodyboarder comes to mind what characteristics accompany the thought process? Long blonde hair, possibly cut into a fringe, tight jeans, drives a hatchback or van and can get by on $10 a day?Pretty much describing a perfect caricature of the next guest to brave Luke’s Lounge, drum roll please…… for Sam Strachan!Strachan is a household name in many bodyboarding circles as his striking good looks, incredible air game and his ability to navigate a hog h...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 31
When the stereotypical image of an Australian bodyboarder comes to mind what characteristics accompany the thought process? Long blonde hair, possibly cut into a fringe, tight jeans, drives a hatchback or van and can get by on $10 a day?Pretty much describing a perfect caricature of the next guest to brave Luke’s Lounge, drum roll please…… for Sam Strachan!Strachan is a household name in many bodyboarding circles as his striking good looks, incredible air game and his ability to navigate a hog h...
Jul 11, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 44
As the podcast hits the one year milestone we welcome on Joshua Nabbe, one hell of a man mountain residing in the wave rich zone of Shellharbour. This core boog creature literally wakes up every day and breathes in the boog scene like it’s his first ciggie in the morning, well before dropping off the kids in the bowl. Riding for NMD, possessing an aesthetically pleasing backflip and performing regular before work ice baths at the local ocean baths pretty much rounds this boog lord out. He’s rece...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 43
As the South American leg comes to a close amongst the towering cliffs of Praia de Itacoatiara, Coops and Luke asses the wash up from this years edition of the comp and digest the goodness that this years Brazilian Beachie BBQ had to offer.We discuss Tanner McDaniels third final in a row and what it means to the man, how the commentary team continually switch between languages in impressive fashion, young guns coming up and the eventual event winner, Moises Silva, and that perfectly timed air re...
Jun 27, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 42
As the 2023 IBC calendar year is well and truly in full swing Shaun Cooper, one of Luke’s good mates, joins him on the lounge to dissect all things encompassing competition on the bodyboarding world stage. Discussing heat tactics, event locations, wave selection and judging criteria, Shaun and Luke provide honest and unwavering comment on how they see this years competitive circuit playing out. Not to be missed - Comp Talk with Coops n Luke.
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 41
