Tag: Olympics
Declan Brooks, Pro BMX Rider and BMX Freestyle Olympic Bronze Medalist in Tokyo Declan Brooks grew up in Portsmouth, UK. His Dad was into motorcycling but Dec had other ideas. He got his first BMX at 9 years old and started skipping football to ride his bike. From then on…
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Todd Richards, Pro Snowboarder, Action Sports Commentator, Podcaster and Entrepreneur Todd Richards grew up in Paxton, Massachusetts and got into skateboarding and punk rock. Skating was one of the first things Todd was passionate about and he could see progression happening and that was the backbone for everything. Snowboarding came…
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World Street Skateboarding Championing in Rome Setting the Bar As noted elsewhere on the Rad Season site in recent days, summer 2022 has seen international air travel return to pre-pandemic levels, which is surely driven by people naturally wanting to get back into actively living and experiencing the wonder of…
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Beyrick De Vries South African Pro Surfer on representing The Netherlands in the Olympics and Coaching the Netherland's Junior Surf Team Beyrick De Vries grew up in Durban, South Africa and initially started skateboarding before his dad convinced him to try surfing. He never looked back. Describing himself as 90%…
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JJ Thomas is a Former Pro Snowboarder, Olympic Bronze Medalist and US Snowboarding Halfpipe Team Coach JJ started his career in action sports as a professional snowboarder and at 15 was the youngest ever sponsored pro rider. Competing at the highest level he went on to represent the US in…
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Australian Caroline Buchanan is a 5 x Mountain Bike World Champion and 3 x BMX World Champion Caroline Buchanan has been competing at the highest level of BMX racing and mountain biking for over two decades. She represented her country in BMX at two Olympic Games, London and Rio and…
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German Olympic Surfer Leon Glatzer on growing up surfing in Costa Rica and how the Olympics changed his life. Leon Glatzer discusses how he moved with his Mum to Pavones, Costa Rica when he was young. He talks about getting sponsored by Volcom and traveling with them to surf in…
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Skateboarding has officially entered the Olympic world stage. With the Women’s and Men’s Street Skateboarding events now finished, we can reflect on its incredible debut to the world Olympic stage. Four days into the Olympics and we have crowned 2 Olympic Gold medalists already, and with 2 events left to…
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Gary Ream talks about the origins of Camp Woodward the growth of action sports and the Olympics Oli Russell-Cowan: Today on Rad Season, I'm going to be chatting to the founder of Camp Woodward. We'll be talking about how the camp started in Pennsylvania, and then how it turned into…
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