The Inertia Podcast

The Inertia
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The Inertia Podcast features powerful conversations with individuals making profound contributions to surf and outdoor culture. Enjoy.

  1. 10/16/2024

    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 the Burton content team, and has moved into mountain biking and other sports as well. In this edition of The Inertia podcast, he has an inspiring POV for up-and-coming photographers, talks about the change in snowboarding competition, and tells us about the best snowboarding he's ever been witness to.

    37 min

  2. 09/10/2024

    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, you saw this coming. Elena fell in with the right crowd, the Tahoe based crew that rides with Jeremy Jones.

    35 min

  3. 08/09/2024

    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 path as a social media entrepreneur. No one has balanced visual stimulation and social analytics quite like Blair. So much so that you can't pass a wave in the ocean, or on a river, without someone knowing his name.

    45 min

  4. 02/14/2024

    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 Masters. Not to mention her other pursuits, including television. Brianna is certainly a shining light in the surfing world with her positive outlook, and I spoke to her about her new focus on other projects: like the differences between starring in the television shows Ultimate Surfer, and Surf Girl Hawaii, why she's running marathons, training with navy seals and her own personal wave-pool world tour.

    36 min

  5. 07/12/2023

    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 might not be the worst idea.

    7 min

  6. 06/26/2023

    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 progressive. So here's my Top 10 list of the most progressive advancements in surfing's history.

    10 min

  7. 06/20/2023

    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 catching larger than normal waves was just part of your daily routine near her home on Oahu.  But Emi lives in the modern big wave world where those who ride big surf often compete, when competitions survive and have longevity. But most surfers really just ride big waves for the love of it. We spoke with Emi about this dichotomy between competition and soul, and her place in the surfing world.

    53 min

  8. 06/14/2023

    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 is now carrying on that family legacy as the head of Aipa Surfboards. I talked with Duke about the weight of being Ben's son, the famous Stinger design, his own journey, and Aipa Surfboards' reputation as a pioneering brand of performance surfing.

    47 min
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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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  • Creator
    The Inertia
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright Inertia Media LLC
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