Episode 119 with Gabriel Summers, professional skateboarder from Penguin, Tasmania.Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up in Penguin where he started skating at the age of 12; moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 19 after graduating from culinary school; traveling and skating all around the world for the last 15 years and being celebrated in the skateboarding industry for his gnarliness and relentlessness particularly when it comes to skating handrails; to embarking on a new chapter in his skate career in 2025 by joining his friend and Adidas teammate Blondey on his board brand Thames and much more through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro(01:13) – Morgan Campbell(06:46) – Jason Morey(23:02) – Lisa Summers(24:51) – Tom Snape(26:38) – Chani Summers(31:34) – Mason Summers(32:37) – Ludvig Håkansson (36:27) – Dustin Dollin(41:11) – Adam Davies(43:34) – Nathan Jackson(54:21) – Casey Foley(59:51) – Patrik Wallner(01:06:52) – Stu Morton(01:11:05) – Sammy Winter(01:12:54) – Billy Lukins(01:15:21) – Liam Johnstone aka Pee Wee(01:19:05) – Matt Bublitz(01:21:28) – Michael Burnett(01:24:28) – Geoff Campbell(01:26:38) – Ryan Reyes(01:28:53) – Sarah Meurle(01:31:08) – Kalem Beange(01:31:32) – Cole Mathews(01:34:45) – Jarryd Rees(01:41:15) – Dougie George(01:44:50) – Anthony Mapstone(01:46:02) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 118 with Danny Garcia, former professional skateboarder turned musician from Anaheim, California.Together we discussed his life and career, from him growing up in Anaheim where he picked up his first board in the mid-90’s in his teen years; putting out multiple iconic video parts for Habitat Skateboards among others throughout the 2000’s and early 2010’s; slowly transitioning into another passion of his, music, under the name “Reverend Baron”; to releasing his own EPs and albums and touring all around the globe while also engineering and producing music for other musicians for the last 15 years and much more through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro(01:25) – Aaron Brown(02:50) – Abdul Hamid(04:53) – Seu Trinh(05:21) – Tyrone Coronado(07:31) – Joe Castrucci(08:40) – Brian Wenning(11:23) – Austyn Gillette(13:31) – Brennan Conroy (15:47) – Calvin Love(18:56) – Johnny Franck(24:40) – Kelly Bird(29:05) – Rodney Cox Jr.(32:42) – Evan Schiefelbine(34:35) – Justin Michael Brooks(35:13) – Abdon Valdez (36:48) – Hayden Brosnan (38:23) – Andrew Gabbard(39:37) – Oscar Ruvalcaba(42:15) – Stefan Janoski(42:58) – Toby Adkins(49:27) – Colin Kennedy(51:10) – Working with Colemine Records(54:38) – Greg Hunt (01:01:42) – Ray Barbee(01:03:44) – Cornelia Murr(01:04:12) – Mike O’Meally (01:05:26) – Christian Maalouf(01:06:08) – Ry Welch(01:07:30) – Ryan Pollie(01:10:02) – Matthew Aveiro(01:13:42) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 117 with Sophie Friedel, skateboarder and Gestalt therapist from Freiburg, Germany.Together we discussed her picking up skateboarding as a young adult in Cornwall, England; in the early 2010’s traveling to Kabul, Afghanistan three times to volunteer among other things as an English teacher, skateboard instructor and program coordinator at Skateistan; in 2015 publishing her first book “The Art of Living Sideways: Skateboarding, Peace and Elicitive Conflict Transformation” based on her MA thesis; since 2018 pioneering the use of skateboarding in mental health care with a Scholarship in Germany; becoming a qualified Gestalt therapist and running her project “Drop In Ride Out” which combines skateboarding and Gestalt therapy…(00:13) – Intro (01:25) – Starting skateboarding(09:22) – Studies (19:35) – First trip to Afghanistan(28:21) – Writing “The art of living sideways”(38:09) – Transition from peace work to therapeutic work(45:26) – Gestalt therapy(49:46) – Chapter in “Skate/Worlds – New pedagogies for skateboarding”(52:28) – Starting “Drop in ride out” (57:49) – Skateboarding as a therapeutic tool(01:28:43) – Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding(01:10:47) – Friends questions(01:10:53) – Rhianon Bader(01:12:31) – Oliver Percovich(01:18:42) – Adelina Ong(01:20:44) – Ben Büscher(01:26:10) – Iain Borden(01:29:28) – Paul O’Connor(01:32:30) – Brian Glenney(01:38:36) – Rosalie Kubny (01:42:12) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 116 with Tom Karangelov, professional skateboarder from Los Angeles, California.Together we discussed his life and career, from picking up his first board in his early teens in Fountain Valley and becoming a local at the Santa Ana skatepark, in his late teens winning Slap’s “One in a million” contest which put him on the map, since then leading a highly productive skate career, eventually getting on the WKND and New Balance Numeric programs, his uniquely creative approach to spots and tricks showcased in his numerous amazing video parts, often filmed and edited by his lifelong friend Matt Bublitz, his upcoming projects and much more through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro(01:13) – Nando Yiv(07:20) – Matt Price(11:28) – Kento Takahashi(14:06) – Taylor McClung(17:32) – Andrew Considine(22:38) – Jordan Taylor(24:11) – Nick Boserio (35:21) – Dan Plunkett(37:40) – Tim Savage(39:58) – Cameron Strand (46:52) – Scotty Simmons (49:44) – Ben Lee(01:07:58) – Michael Burnett(01:16:16) – Matt Payne(01:26:42) – Shintaro Hongo(01:33:56) – Jaime Owens(01:37:20) – Justin Reynolds(01:43:07) – Ed Templeton(01:45:40) – Matt Bublitz(01:53:39) – Cristina Ledesma Karangelov(01:54:36) – Rob Taro(01:57:08) – Alia Huffman (01:59:22) – Dan Stolling(02:05:41) – Sebastian Palmer(02:14:03) – Garrett Holmes(02:16:19) – Salomon Cardenas(02:19:24) – Tyler Surrey(02:21:06) – Bob Altamirano(02:23:05) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 115 with Lisa Whitaker, skateboarder, videographer and brand owner from Norwalk, California.Together we discussed her life and career, from picking up her first board at the age of 10 in 1985, in the following years starting to film her friends and make her own videos while also traveling all over North America to enter skate competitions, in the early 2000’s launching “The Side Project” which quickly changed its name to the “Girls Skate Network”, a platform which has since then significantly contributed to push and support women’s skateboarding all over the world, to starting Meow Skateboards in 2012 with some of her close friends and since then continuing to push women’s skateboarding to reach new heights and much more through surprise questions from friends of hers.(00:13) – Intro(01:25) – Poe Pinson(04:38) – Monica Shaw(05:25) – Leo Baker(09:36) – Anthony Acosta(16:17) – Catharine Lyons(18:46) – Jaime Reyes(19:53) – Natalie Porter (24:07) – Colin Kennedy(32:52) – Christine Cottam (37:38) – Nanaka Fujisawa(41:27) – Alex White(42:34) – Shane Auckland(43:16) – Ron Resurrection(48:39) – Amy Caron(50:01) – Cara-Beth Burnside(52:27) – Shari White(54:44) – Kim Woozy (56:07) – Van Nguyen(01:02:27) – Nicole Young (01:06:00) – Josh Friedberg(01:07:22) – Lori Damiano(01:09:42) – Annie Guglia(01:14:13) – Rose Archie(01:16:04) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 114 with Barney Page, professional skateboarder from Exeter, England.Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up in Exeter and picking up his first board around 11 years old, connecting with photographer Leo Sharp and starting to get coverage in the UK scene which led him to getting flowed Motive boards from Rob Selley, later getting flowed Enjoi boards until he landed on the Sour team, spending the last 15 years traveling and skating all around the world, skating across the UK in the autumn of 2021 in memory of his dear friend Ben Raemers, a trip which was beautifully captured by his friend Ryan Sherman in the “Land’s End” documentary, to rebuilding and designing a canal boat to live in and much more through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro(01:13) – Paul O’Connor(07:26) – Oli Buergin (21:17) – Travis Wardle(30:47) – Josh Harris(34:57) – Aidan Campbell(38:39) – Jonathan Lomar(41:28) – Gustav Tønnesen (47:38) – Tom Snape(55:47) – Kevin Parrott(01:06:59) – Leo Sharp(01:09:43) – Sam McGuire(01:15:05) – Susie Crome (01:18:33) – Lucy Raemers(01:21:59) – Nisse Ingemarsson (01:23:41) – Oscar Dryden(01:25:01) – Bas Janssen(01:31:49) – Yann Horowitz(01:33:08) – Albert Nyberg(01:35:03) – Sami Seppala(01:37:18) – Martin Sandberg(01:42:57) – Ally Campbell(01:44:53) – Nestor Judkins(01:55:12) – Patrik Wallner(01:58:38) – Björn Holmenäs(02:00:07) – Tim Ruck(02:05:23) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 113 with Jerry Hsu, professional skateboarder and photographer from San José, California.Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up in San José and picking up his first board in the early 90’s, connecting with local pros such as Marc Johnson who helped him get on Maple Skateboards and later on Enjoi, Osiris days, his iconic “Bag of suck” part, his thoughts on music in skate videos, diving deep into art and photography in the mid-2010’s which led him to start his brand Sci-Fi Fantasy, first as an art project which eventually turned into a board brand, to releasing their first full-length video “Endless Beauty” in the summer of 2025 and much more through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro(01:25) – Will Sprot(08:10) – Shawn Mandoli(16:24) – Chris Pastras(22:28) – Ray Barbee(26:14) – Mike Crabtree(30:39) – Ed Dominick (33:47) – Dave Mayhew(42:06) – Caswell Berry(43:33) – Kyle Camarillo (50:14) – Mark Whiteley(01:05:24) – Music supervision in “Endless beauty”(01:12:48) – Jonathan Mehring(01:17:31) – Javier Mendizabal(01:21:33) – Ryan Lay(01:26:24) – Katina Danabassis(01:27:43) – Yasi Salek(01:31:14) – Ted Barrow(01:42:04) – Sam Korman(01:49:11) – Aaron Meza(01:52:18) – Ed Templeton(01:57:35) – Anthony Claravall(02:03:03) – Zak Anders(02:06:36) – Luke Murphy(02:07:32) – Winston Tseng(02:17:21) – Daniel Wheatley(02:22:24) – Louie Barletta(02:26:15) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 112 with Kelly Bird, former professional skateboarder and footwear brand manager from Houston, Texas.Together we discussed his life and career, from picking up his first board in the mid-80’s to turning pro for Real Skateboards in the early 90’s, transitioning into marketing and team management at DC Shoes, moving over to Lakai shortly after it started in 1999 where he spent the following 15 years as team, then brand manager, before eventually joining Nike SB in 2015 where he has been working as global brand manager for the past 10-years, recently integrating into Nike’s global basketball brand team and much more through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro(01:13) – Aaron Meza(20:55) – Dave Swift(23:32) – Thomas Morgan(28:20) – Bill Weiss(31:42) – Tony Ferguson(37:51) – Skin Phillips(46:13) – James Kelch(49:32) – Joe Brook (56:07) – Mike Carroll(01:23:28) – Dimitry Elyashkevich(01:31:16) – Aaron Hoover(01:51:22) – Chris Carter(02:09:10) – Kaspar Van Lierop(02:11:33) – Eric Swisher(02:14:42) – Hunter Muraira(02:16:38) – Jason Patrick Searcy(02:24:37) – Jürgen Blümlein(02:28:37) – Kristin Ebeling(02:40:35) – John Rattray(02:42:31) – Megan Last(02:45:44) – Shawn Mandoli (02:54:37) – Conclusion For more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 111 with Joel Meinholz, professional skateboarder from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Together we discussed his life and career, from picking up his first board in the late 80’s, settling down in Miami and having a productive skateboarding career riding for Planet Earth, Stereo, Rasa Libre and eventually Hopps, and appearing among other things in Josh Stewart’s iconic Static video series, working in event production and marketing throughout his entire career, ripping hard as ever in his late 40’s and sharpening his photography skills at Harvard and much more through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro(01:13) – Felix Arguelles(06:52) – Andre Lezama(11:50) – Connecting with Josh Stewart(13:02) – John Baragwanath(16:48) – Abe Bethel(20:00) – Danny Fuenzalida(22:45) – Steve Brandi(29:25) – Fred Gall(32:30) – Sven Barth(34:45) – Brian Delatorre(37:38) – Jake Todd(44:08) – Jimmy Lannon(46:30) – Jerry Fowler(51:22) – Brad Cromer(58:12) – Danny Montoya(59:16) – Mark Gamez(01:10:50) – Photography class at Harvard (01:12:39) – Matt Cantor(01:17:54) – Paul De Oliveira(01:24:49) – Josh Stewart (01:40:46) – Cecilia Cuff(01:51:17) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboards Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episode 110 with Mike Carroll, professional skateboarder from Daly City, California.Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up and starting skateboarding in San Francisco in the mid to late 80’s, coming up at Embarcadero in the early 90’s and filming for the Plan B videos, starting Girl Skateboards alongside Rick Howard, Megan Baltimore and Spike Jonze in 1993 which throughout the years has become a staple in skateboarding culture and much more through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro (01:25) – Max Schaaf(09:49) – Sal Barbier(11:08) – Aaron Meza (14:26) – Pat Duffy (23:15) – Tobin Yelland(29:27) – Jacob Rosenberg(34:57) – The importance of style(37:43) – Josh Kalis(41:29) – John Cardiel(44:57) – James Kelch(45:56) – Lance Dawes(01:05:05) – Frank Gerwer(01:07:01) – PJ Ladd (01:08:14) – Sam Smyth (01:13:44) – Ted Barrow(01:37:59) – Greg Hunt(01:41:52) – Charlie Carroll(01:43:07) – Megan Baltimore(01:48:09) – Megan steps into the room(01:48:28) – Rick Howard(01:53:10) – Paulo Diaz(02:10:21) – Alex Olson(02:16:08) – Johannes Gamble(02:19:17) – Joey Tershay(02:20:09) – John Marello(02:23:58) – Jesus Fernandez(02:31:38) – Tim Dowling(02:36:28) – Michael Burnett(02:44:21) – Ray Barbee (02:46:13) – Tim Anderson(02:52:42) – Greg Carroll(03:03:11) – Spike Jonze(03:10:52) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.