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The Inertia Podcast
by The Inertia
The Inertia Podcast features powerful conversations with individuals making profound contributions to surf and outdoor culture. Enjoy.
Episodes
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Snowboard Lensman Aaron Blatt Wants Apiring Photographers to Know The Future Is Bright
Aaron Blatt has seen it all in the world of action sports photography. The longtime snowboard lensman witnessed the evolution from print to digital, and adjusted to continue what has become an epic career path. Blatt continues to shoot with some of the best snowboarders in the world as part of…
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Elena Hight Talks Backcountry and the Best Snowboarding She's Ever Seen
Elena Hight has seen it all in the world of pro snowboarding. She's competed in the Olympics, won X Games gold, landed revolutionary tricks in the halfpipe. But perhaps her best trick has been her smooth transition from competitor to expedition athlete. If you know anything about snowboarding…
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Skimboarder Blair Conklin Talks Viral Videos, Social Media, and the Health of His Sport
Blair Conklin is a certified skimboarding legend out of Laguna Beach, California. He's a three-time world champion and his enviable athletic prowess has helped turn the once-niche sport of skimboarding into a global, viral phenomenon. He talks about some of his viral moments, and discusses his…
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Surfer Brianna Cope Talks Reality Television and Training With Navy Seals
Brianna Cope's surfing journey has been as unique as any. Following a solid junior career, the Kauaian nearly qualified for the Championship Tour in 2014 and 2015. She'd still love to surf at the highest level, but her competitive focus now is on select events that she loves, like the Pipe…
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Audio Reads: A Place in the Crowd
Ask a surfer to describe the conditions at any surf spot, on any particular day, anywhere in the world and it's almost guaranteed they'll tell you about the crowd. Which begs the question: Where, exactly, do we fit in the lineup? Should we change our mindset when it comes to crowded surf? It…
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Audio Reads: Surfing Progression – The Top 10 List
How do maneuvers successfully pulled off in competition over a quarter century ago, let alone today's less dramatic, almost perfunctory whitewater reverses, qualify as "progressive?" This question really got me to thinking about what advancements in surfing performance can be considered truly...
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Emi Erickson on What It Means to Be a Big Wave Surfer
Emi Erickson occupies two separate realms of the wave-riding universe. She's still a young woman but an old soul, perhaps. She told me she often dreams of the old days when one merely needed a wetsuit, a board, and good swell to ride big surf. Simple times when lineups weren't overcrowded and...
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Duke Aipa Talks About Growing Up in a Legendary Family and Finding His Own Way as a Shaper
Duke Aipa took the roundabout way to follow his legacy. Which makes his story so much cooler. After growing up in Hawaii, Duke followed his passions for hockey, and heavy metal music, and other pursuits, which took him all over the United States. But the surfing world is glad he came home. Duke…
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Freeskier Cody Townsend Discusses Finishing The Fifty Project and Balancing Risk as a New Father
Looking for the definition of a modern explorer, only with an emphasis on high-performance? Then Cody Townsend is an adventurer for the ages. And what a cool human to boot. If you hadn't heard, Cody is in the middle of an epic project, The Fifty, where he's attempting to climb, and then ride, all...
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Audio Reads: 'Down With Surf Contests!' Criticizing Competition Is Anything But New
Feel like criticizing surf competition? Then get in line. It's nothing new and has literally been happening for centuries. Here's a look at the history of vitriol spat at competitive surfing.
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Death to Secret Spots: Readers Respond
Secret surf spots mean different things to different people. Sam George is tired of the media and industry exposing spots without naming them. His first piece, "Death to Secret Spots," riled up The Inertia fan base. Here, Sam revisits the subject and looks at some of our readers' responses.
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Audio Reads: Death to Secret Spots
For years, magazines, surf brands, and now, social media users, have promoted surf spots without telling us where they are. I've never been a fan of that. This is my examination of the death of secret spots. And I want your feedback. Find this feature on TheInertia.com and leave me a comment.
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Audio Reads: "WE vs VALS: The Paradox of Making Surfing 1975 Again"
VAL: Vulnerable Adult Learner. Coined by a longtime Australian surf journalist no doubt thrilled by its growing usage, this snobbishly derisive term harkens back to the slur used by early 1960s Malibu surfers to describe those who lived in the San Fernando Valley, some 10 miles inland. The…
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Audio Reads: "What's Wrong With Small Waves?" by Sam George
The media loves big waves. The adrenaline, the danger, the peril? But most of us ride surf on the more mundane side. So what's wrong with small waves?
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Lexi Dupont Talks About the Sister Summit and a New Reality for Pro Skiers and Snowboarders
Professional skier Lexi Dupont has a seen it all in the world of snow: she's competed at the highest levels of free skiing, she's raced, she's filmed for Warren Miller and Poor Boyz. And now, she's creating her own event reality with the Sister Summit, a women's only video competition coming up...
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Cinematographer Aaron Lieber Talks About the State of Surf Filmmaking
Aaron Lieber is one of the most prolific young filmmakers in the surf industry. Actually, he's evolved well beyond the surf industry, recently working on more mainstream projects with iconic athletes like the Los Angeles Rams' Aaron Donald. But Aaron Liber started in surf, where he released his...
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The WSL's Erik Logan Addresses Mid-Year Cut, the Longboard Tour and the League's Health
It's been a newsworthy year on the Championship Tour. Coming out of COVID, this was the first season the WSL's new format was in full bloom, so to speak. Pipeline starting the tour. A mid-year cut. The revamped Challenger Series. All of these changes, it seems, were made to up the "engagement" of...
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Gabby Reece Talks Family, Business, and Laird Hamilton's Big-Wave Controversies
Gabby Reece is a powerhouse. She's a shrewd business person, running the latest family entrepreneurial endeavor, Laird Superfood. She finds time to produce her own podcast where she goes deep to try and uncover new truths about life for her listeners. She also works as her famous surfing…
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Andrew Cotton Ranks the World's Best Big-Wave Surfers and Says There's a Better Way to Measure Waves
Andrew Cotton has been on the pioneering end of two of Europe's most iconic big waves: Ireland's Mullghamore, and of course, Nazare…The latter of which has captured the world's imagination. In that time, the dedicated big-wave surfer from the Devon, England has seen it all: equipment evolution,...
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Split Peak: Do We Need Localism In Surfing?
Welcome to Episode Two of Split Peak. This is a special edition of The Inertia Podcast, and the second in a series of debates where we take on some of surfing's most controversial topics, and have a back and forth to shed light on the subject. In this episode, I sit down with The Inertia's Social...
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Kei Kobayashi Is the Hardest Working Surfer on the Planet
We talk with Kei Kobayashi on The Inertia podcast and discuss his mission to represent his family on the World Tour and why he's the hardest working surfer on the planet.
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Split Peak: Is Surfing Leashless Acceptable or Selfish?
Welcome to Episode 1 of Split Peak. This is a special edition of The Inertia Podcast, and the first in a series of debates where we take on some of surfing's most controversial topics. In this episode we go back and forth on whether surfing leashless is acceptable or selfish.
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Robin Van Gyn Talks Natural Selection Title, Guiding, and Living a Life Less Ordinary
Robin Van Gyn is one of the most iconic snowboarders to ever strap in. Her riding speaks for itself, born of the steep terrain and incredible snow of British Columbia. She's won video awards for her epic parts in films like Full Moon and Depth Perception. But she's so much more than just an...
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Ridge Lenny on his Breakout Big Wave Season, Tik-Tok, and Pushing the Limits of Tow-Surfing
Ridge Lenny is a 24-year-old waterman from Maui, who was a rising star in bodyboarding and stand-up paddling before heading off to college on the mainland at the University of San Diego. He's now back on Maui, pursuing a couple of business ventures and pushing the limits of tow-in surfing with…
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Gerry Lopez Discusses Meditation, Surfing, Powder, and How to Make the World a Better Place
For the past year, the world has been in chaos like never before in our lifetimes. A pandemic has ravaged the Earth and social unrest has threatened to unravel our democracy. During all the craziness, I couldn't help but wonder what Gerry Lopez was thinking. As I've known him, he's always been a...
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WSL CEO Erik Logan Talks New Australian Events and Pat O'Connell's Resignation
This is a special edition of The Inertia podcast where we talk with Erik Logan, CEO of the World Surf League. The WSL, like most professional sports leagues, has had to deal with unprecedented circumstances this year to simply operate. But surfing is a different animal all together from football…
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The Ladies of Textured Waves Talk About the African American Surf Experience
This is a special edition of the Inertia Podcast. Due to the Pandemic, I spoke to Martina Duran, Chelsea Woody, and Danielle Black Lyons on a recorded Zoom call where we discussed the movement that is Textured Waves, a collective of African American women working to get more females of color...
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Matt Biolos Talks ...Lost Films, WSL Agendas and Kolohe Andino's Title Chances
Matt Biolos has one of the most varied skill sets in all of surfing. He's a renowned surfboard shaper, but he started building his own snowboards at 13 and has been riding snow for at least that long. And he of course knows his way around a lineup. This diverse knowledge base is partly what makes...
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Buell Wetsuits' Ryan Buell Talks Surf Industry Carnage and Sponsoring A-List Surfers
Ryan Buell is one of the truly great characters of the surf industry. And that's saying something given he hails from Santa Cruz, California. The Buell wetsuits founder is a rapper, a self described water "jock", and of course a surfer. And that's probably one of the most core components of his...
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Photographer Chris Burkard Talks About His Next Surf Film and the Art of Using Fear for Fuel
Chris Burkard is a surf photographer. The sea has basically spawned his entire career and he takes pride in his ocean roots. But his image-making has become much more than surf photography. Thanks to a background in landscape, which we talk about, his photos capture the real feel of a place, not...
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Jess McMillan Is the Skier Who Created Jackson Hole's Kings and Queens of Corbet's
Jess McMillan is the Senior Events and Partnerships Manager at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. She created the Kings and Queens of Corbet's, where ski and snowboard athletes gather to charge Corbet's Couloir, one of the most famous lines in North America. Jess has lived an amazing life and is...
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Just Before His Accident at Pipe, We Talked to Kohl Christensen About the Dangers of Big Wave Surfing
This week's podcast had a little more immediacy to it. Just a week or so after I sat down with with Kohl Christensen, he suffered a scary brain injury at Pipe after impacting his head on a closeout barrel. Thankfully, following surgery in Honolulu, he'll be able to make a complete recovery. It…
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Bodysurfer Mark Cunningham on Accidental Fame, Saving the Planet, and Surf Culture
Mark Cunningham has lived a charmed life. He is without a doubt the most recognizable (and talented) bodysurfer in the world thanks to films like Sprout, A Brokedown Melody, and Come Hell or High Water. But he's a surf fan, too, and a fan of surfing culture. A retired North Shore lifeguard, at…
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Jamie O'Brien on What's Core in Surf and Competing Against Giants to Build His Brand
Jamie O'Brien is his own media outlet. During the course of his career, aside from attaining most every goal he's set out to achieve, like winning the Pipe Masters and owning a home overlooking his favorite wave, he's also become a prolific creator of content. As he puts it, he's cracked the…
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Ben Gravy on Becoming a Pro Surfer at 30 and the New Documentary on His Life
Ben Gravy is one fine human. And he's representing the surfing experience as well as anyone. Not without fault or a higher-than-thou ethos, but with an openness tough to find these days. He's willing to let all the warts, and bumps, and bruises be laid out for the public to see – making a living…
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Surfer Billy Kemper Talks About Winning at Jaws, Family, and His Favorite Surfers
Billy Kemper is the best big wave surfer in the world right now when it comes to riding Jaws. He's dedicated his life to charging Peahi and holds the place sacred. And he's basically used it to overcome serious adversity in his life: he lost his mother last year to cancer. He spoke with us about...
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Nathan and Ivan Florence Talk Injuries, John John's Quick Return from ACL Surgery, and Ivan's New Movie
Today, we're having One Beer With Nate and Ivan Florence. John John Florence and Nate have both been profiled heavily in the media. But Ivan, just as talented but slightly more reserved, has flown a bit under the radar. That's why it was so nice to get to know him with his brother sitting next to...
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The Inertia Podcast features powerful conversations with individuals making profound contributions to surf and outdoor culture. Enjoy.
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