Luke’s Lounge, built and sustained by Riptide Media, aims to sit down and talks all things bodyboarding.
With everyone from famous industry heavy-hitters, the Pro's you know and the average crew who's making a local boog flick with their mates.
Hosted by Cronulla's Luke O'Connor, This is Lukes Lounge, ladies and gentlemen.
Underground and over achieving, Adam Kesbah is the Boog you may not know currently but certainly will soon enough. From 10ft Victorian pits to crashing cars into picketed Sydney fences, he’s already lived a colourful life at the young age of 26 and there is so much left in the locker room for this curly haired cat to exude in his own future endeavours. Sitting down for episode 67, Luke and Adam go deep on a range of topics, covering the pursuit of booging whilst on a shoe string budget, taping up blown out knee’s on cone honing missions on the bottom of Australia and how it was making his pilgrimage from West to East as an inspiring grommet via public transport. All in all a wild chat that was a real journey with a real life journeymen. Peace n love ☮️
t’s not always the faces you see representing the sport who are the most influential behind the scenes. With Armen, this notion rings louder than an approaching autumn Nazare season with a WNW swell brewing on the charts. Starting off in the professional ranks of the BMX world, to joining territorial boog gangs in NYC, all the way to photographing some of the worlds most famous musicians and artists in Paris, this well accomplished cat has lived nine lives, plus some! This conversation traverses a detailed list of bodyboarding, and non bodyboarding topics, as Armen and Luke try to assess all the different facets and moving parts that make up the beloved sport of booging! Enjoy the yarn! Peace ☮️
With the IBC World Tour coming to a close in Gran Canaria for 2024, Luke and the crew thought it would be only fair to sit down and speak with the Fronton Pro winner, 2 x world champion and absolute launch freak, Tristan Roberts. Discussing all manner of things surrounding the comp, the world title race, that backflip in the final and what Fronton is like as a wave to bodyboard, this poddy is not to be missed. Enjoy the yarn! Peace ☮️
As an enthralling year of IBC World Tour comes to a crescendo’ing close, Coops n Luke breakdown the 2024 Fronton King Pro in their usually fair, yet critical analysis of the worlds best bodyboarders at arguably the worlds best bodyboarding location. From crowning world champions, to local hot pots almost going the whole way to the top of competition to previous world champions showing their competing prowess once more, this years Fronton Pro was one for the ages! That’s all from the international competitive bodyboarding scene in 2024, but stay tuned for more updates on a local, state and national level here in Aus for the remainder of the year. Peace ☮️
With the turbulent state of the bodyboarding industry and the unknown direction it seems to be hurdling in, Adrian Emerton, cinematographer and director of the yet to be released documentary, Common Thread, takes a seat on the lounge with Luke to talk about his up and coming boog flick, and how it tries to decipher the state of affairs that represents world bodyboarding on a whole currently. Touching on financial restraints within the industry, the top down management approach from the heavy hitters in the game and how this yet to be released docco illuminates many individuals and their own journey within the sport that make up the scrambled puzzle that currently reflects the sport of bodyboarding. Adrian Emerton has also made produced a film called “The Chase” and is a major contributor to the Shark Island Challenge media team, with his efforts surrounding the sport being received as positive and undeniably needed as a portrayer of truth and fact surrounding the issues that bodyboarding face today. Enjoy the yarn! Peace ☮️