Chillfactor Podcast with Reggae Elliss

Episodes

1. Ben Richards

   In the 2026 Freeride season, New Zealand's Ben Richards reaffirmed his position as on of the world's best Freeskiers, winning the inaugural FIS Freeride World Champs in Andorra and winning three events on the FWT Tour to claim the overall 2026 Freeride World Tour title. Ben was in Wanaka when...

   Aug 17, 2026

   37m
2. Pow Pow Reggae Series 3, Ep 5

   Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey return with latest episode of Pow Pow Reggae, the snow/surf show from Ain't That Swell. The Snow Report is in and cold white shit is starting to fall from the heavens! Plus: An update from the first WSL Challenger surf event of the year in South Africa and…

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   Jul 13, 2026

   29m
3. Pow Pow Season 3 Ep 4

   The latest Pow Pow podcast with Regae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey, takes a deep dive into the infamous Robbie Page Tracks Cover Scandal, the horrendous start to the Aussie Snow Season, Cooper Woods best on ground performance at the Mick Fanning Charity Golf Day, plus which gigs and events to keep…

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   Jun 25, 2026

   30m
4. Pow Pow Reggae Season 3 Ep 3 Valentino Guseli

   Snow radio with Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey

   Jun 13, 2026

   55m
5. Pow Pow Reggae Season 3 Ep 1

   Reggae and Vaughan Deadly corner Aussie Olympic mogul Champs Cooper Woods and Jakara Anthony together for the first Pow Pow episode for 2026.

   Apr 8, 2026

   50m
6. Charlotte Wilson

   Reggae's guest is Australian mogul team member Charlotte Wilson, a 20 year old from Jindabyne who is on track to compete in her first Olympics in Milton/Cortina in February 2026. Charlotte had a huge rookie World Cup year last season, with a number of top 10 and top 5 finishes before she won gold...

   Dec 13, 2025

   36m
7. Cooper Woods - Reggae chats with Aussie mogul skier

   Reggae chats with mogul skier Cooper Woods who has been a member of the Australian team and competing on the World Cup tour since the 2019/20 tour. Copper consistently makes finals, his best result a second place at Waterville Valley, USA in January 2024. Cooper finished 6th in moguls at his…

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   Nov 24, 2025

   47m
8. Michael Milton - Reggae catches up with the multi-parlympic gold medalistand snow sports legen

   Reggae's guest is Michael Milton , who is not only an Australian snowsports legend, but a legend of all Australian sport, elevated to Legend status in the Australian Spporting Hall of Fame in 2024. Australia's most successful snowsports athlete Michael has represented Australia in in alpine…

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   Nov 6, 2025

   36m
9. Sean Pollard

   Reggae chats with snowboarder Sean Pollard who has been named captain of the Australian team for the 2026 Paralympics in Milan/Cortina in March 2026. Sean suffered horrific injuries in shark attack while surfing in WA in 2014. He took up snowboarding 12 months later and is now heading for his...

   Oct 27, 2025

   38m
10. Briony Johnson

    Reggae's guest is Briony Johnson, freeride snowboarder who will be representing Australia in the Freeride World champs in Spainnext January. Briony is also the terrain park manager at Mt Hotham and one of the many women making a career in the Australian snow industry

    Aug 9, 2025

    46m
11. Reggae's guest is a legend of the Aussie snow industry Pete Forras

    Pete Forras is a legend of the Aussie snow industry, Buller born and raised, ex-racer and Winter Olympian, co-founder of Australian snbow brand XTM performance and a full on snow frother!

    Jul 27, 2025

    46m
12. Billy Lloyd Blainey - Reggae's guest is Aussie freeskier Billy Lloyd Blainey

    Billy grew up in Melbourne and go into skiing on a few family ski holidays to falls creek. His skiing career started in classic ski bum fashion, working night jobs in falls Creek and later Mt Hotham so he could ski during the day. That lead to season’s overseas and during a Canadian season he...

    Sep 11, 2024

    39m
13. Hank Bilous - Reggae's guest is Kiwi Freeskier Hank Biloius

    Reggae's guest is Kiwi freeskier Hank Bilous who has just released a new film titled The War On Style, an exploration into the skill sets and self expression he finds in skiing and surfing. Hank grew up in Wanaka and talks about his life there, his time on the Freeride World Tour and is open…

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    Aug 17, 2024

    47m
14. POW POW Reggae Episdoe 5 - Welcome to Dumpsville

    As we near the halfway mark of the season Reggae and Vaughan Dead frtoh on the recent snow dumps, the big ski and snowbiard events coming up and doff the beanies to Scott Morrison's cool younger brither Skimo, who coul dbe heading to the Olympics. Pow! Pow!

    Jul 26, 2024

    32m
15. Zanna Farrell - Reggae's Guest is up and coming Australian freeskier Zanna Farrell

    Reggae's guest is Australian freeskier Zanna Farrell who had a solid rookie year on the Freeride World Qualifying Tour with a number of podium finishes including a couple of wins in Europe.

    Jul 15, 2024

    41m
16. Pow Pow Reggae Episode 4

    Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey are back, talking snow and a lot more in the latest episode of the Aussie snow chat show Pow! Pow! Reggae.

    Jun 22, 2024

    39m
17. Pow Pow Ep 3 with Valentino Guseli

    It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Valentino Guseli setting a new world record for a hip jump over three stories high! Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Deadly are back with episode 3 of Pow Pow Reggae to talk all things cold and slidey, and their special guest is Olympian, world record holder, halfpipe...

    May 8, 2024

    1h 05m
18. Pow Pow Reggae Ep 2

    Episode two of the new Aussie snow chat show with Chillfactor editor Reggae Elliss and Ain't That Swell's Vaughan Deadly

    Apr 9, 2024

    46m
19. Pow! Pow! Reggae

    Here we go, the first episode of of Pow!Pow!Reggae, with Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Deadly, a new podcast covering all things white and cold in STRAYA! Is it any good? Well, if you take the 100% elite level knowledge of Australian snow culture Reggae has and combine it with the 0% knowledge of...

    Mar 20, 2024

    36m
20. Matt Graham - Reggae's guest is Aussie mogul skier and three-time Olympian

    In this episode Reggae catches up a with mogul skier Matt Graham, one of Australia’s most successful snowsports athletes. Matt was just 15 years old when he competed in his first World Cup and since that time he has put together an impressive list of achievements that includes World Cup wins…

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    Oct 25, 2023

    59m
21. Chris Benchetler - Reggae catches up with pro skier, artist film maker and designer Chris Benchetler

    Chris Benchetler - Reggae catches up with pro skier, artist film maker and designer Chris Benchetler by Freeskiing podcast by Chillfactor Magazine

    Sep 13, 2023

    1h 06m
22. Cameron Waddell. Reggae chats with Australia's number one park and pipe skier

    Reggae's guest is Australian World Cup park skier Cameron Waddell, a born and bred Jindabyne local who grew up skiing Perisher from the age of two. Cam's competitive career started as a mogul skier but when he was 13 he followed his old brother Thomas into the Perisher park, started hitting the...

    Aug 23, 2023

    43m
23. Jess Hotter - Reggae Chats with Kiwi freeskier and 2022 Freeride World Champion Jess Hotter.

    In this episode Reggae's guest is Kiwi freeskier and 2022 Freeride World Champion Jess Hotter. Jess grew up in the small North Island town of Ohakune, skiing in nearby Turoa before moving to Wanaka for the NZ winter in 2017 and working as pro patroller at Treble Cone for 3 years. She also started...

    Jul 11, 2023

    55m
24. Andrea Binning - Reggae chats with Australia's first professional big mountain skier

    Reggae Catches up with Andrea Binning, Australia's first internationally renowned big mountain skier, winner of the 2000 World Extreme Championships in Alaska who enjoyed a lengthy professional skiing career competing and filming in some of the biggest and steepest mountains in the world.

    Jun 11, 2023

    53m
25. Glen Plake - Reggae's guest is legendary free skier and big mountain pioneer

    In this episode Reggae chats with the legendary Glen Plake, freeskiier, ski mountaineer and an icon of the sport. Glen's a natural raconteur and this conversation covers growing up in Lake Tahoe, mogul skiing, his multiple ski film appearances, his strong connection with Australia, "extreme"...

    Nov 15, 2022

    1h 19m
26. Loraine Huber -Reggae catches up with 2017 Freeride World Champion Lorraine Huber

    Reggae's guest in this episode is Austrian/Australian professional freeskier and 2017 Freeride World Tour Champion Lorraine Huber. Lorraine was born in Austria but moved to Australia with her Australian mother when she was eight years old and grew up in Torquay and went to school in Geelong. So…

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    Oct 27, 2022

    1h 01m
27. Sam Smoothy - Reggae's guest is Kiwi professional free skier and mountaineer Sam Smoothy

    In this episode Reggae Ellliss' guest is Kiwi Professional Freeskier and mountaineer Sam Smoothy who talks about life growing up in Wanaka, his path into big mountain skiing and filming and his next ambitious project to climb the highest peaks in New Zeland.

    Aug 17, 2022

    35m
28. Britt Cox - Reggae Elliss chats with four-time Olympian and World Champ mogul skier Britt Cox

    Mogul skier Britt Cox is a four time Olympian who made her Olympic debut in the 2010 Winter games in Vancouver when she was 15 years old, the youngest athlete at those games. She went on from there to have a stellar World Cup career, winning the World Cup Crystal Globe as overall champ in 2016/17...

    Jul 27, 2022

    45m
29. Torah Bright -Reggae catches up with Australia's most successful winter athlete.

    Torah Bright is Australia's most successful winter athlete,a three-time Olympian who won gold in the halfpipe in 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and then silver at Sochi in 2014. Torah is also a two-times X games gold medalist, world champion and has won numerous international competitions. She...

    Jul 2, 2022

    1h 16m
30. Zali Steggall -Reggae's guest is the 4-time Olympic alpine racer and independent politician

    In this episode Reggae chats with four-time Olympian and bronze medallist Zali Steggall about her success as a World Cup ski racer, climate change and her move into politics as an independent in Australia's federal parliament

    Feb 2, 2022

    58m
31. Chris Davenport - Reggae's guest is big mountain pro skier Chris Davenport

    Chris Davenport is one of the world's premier big mountain skiers and ski mountaineers, a free skiing pioneer with a CV that includes two-time big mountain world champ, first descents, summiting Everest and a 30-year pro skiing career that is still going strong. Chris has has lived in Aspen for…

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    Nov 24, 2021

    1h 12m
32. Anna Segal -Reggae catches up with Olympian and Aussie pro skier Anna Segal

    Reggae Elliss chats with Australian free skier Anna Segal about living in Canada, growing up in Buller, her career as a slope style skier, making it has a female pro skier and the transition into filming, big mountain lines and the backcountry

    Oct 26, 2021

    1h 00m
33. Jeremy Jones - Reggae catches up with legendary snowboarder Jeremy Jones

    Reggae catches up with legendary snowboarder Jeremy Jones to take about snowboarding, big mountains, family, surfing, business and founding environmental lobby group Protect Our Winters

    Oct 7, 2021

    1h 06m
34. Chris Booth - Reggae catches up with Chris Booth, free skier, adventurer and now family man

    Chris Booth was the leading Australian freeskier in the early 2000s and after graduation from uni worked as a layer before taking up an offer with his ski sponsor Black Crows to move to Chamonix, and help take the brand from a boutique big-mountain French ski company to an international brand. &...

    Sep 3, 2021

    1h 21m
35. Coen Bennie-Faull - Backcountry Freeskier, coach, thinker

    Coen Bennie-Faull - Backcountry Freeskier, coach, thinker by Freeskiing podcast by Chillfactor Magazine

    Aug 8, 2021

    59m
36. Nat Segal Podcast

    Nat Segal Podcast by Freeskiing podcast by Chillfactor Magazine

    Jul 12, 2021

    53m
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    03: Steve Lee Podcast

    Reggae Elliss sat down with Australian ski legend Steve Lee back in 2019 to discuss his history with Chillfactor, life growing up at Falls Creek, is Olympic skiing career and more. Steve sadly suffered a serious stroke earlier this year and has a long way to go in his recovery. You can support…

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    Nov 4, 2020

    1h 24m
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    02: Cody Townsend Podcast

    Cody Townsend, one of the world's leading professional big mountain skiers, chats with Reggae Elliss about skiing, Australia, growing up in Squaw Valley, fear and the life of pro skier.

    Jul 27, 2020

    55m
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    01: Russell Henshaw Freeskiing Legend

    Interview with Australian Freeskiing legend Russell Henshaw. Reggae talks to Russell about his recent retirement from competitive skiing, career highlights and the future.

    Aug 7, 2019

    40m