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.
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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 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.
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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 might not be the worst idea.
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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 progressive. So here’s my Top 10 list of the most progressive advancements in surfing's history.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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 of the lines in the book, The 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America. Now, classic to some means straight up gnarly to others. It's all in one's perspective. But Cody is tackling them all, regardless.
The longtime freeskier who’s starred in hugely influential movies like Days of My Youth, started a vlog to document the project. But something crazy happened as he moved through The Fifty: the YouTube channel's popularity grew, not because of his audacious descents (which were notable), but because of his relatable personality. Cody brings it in a way skiers, snowboarders, and even non mountain people, can relate to. We talked with Cody about The Fifty's success, if he can actually finish it, and balancing danger with fatherhood (lest we forget he's a new dad). Enjoy.
Customer Reviews
Great guests and topics! The host needs help with presentation skills
I hardly ever write reviews, but I couldn’t pass up the chance on this one. I love the guests and topics covered in this podcast. However, the host kinda kills it for me. I keep listening to the podcast because I want to hear what people like Gerry Lopez and Gabby Reece have to say, but I think the quality of the interviews could be MUCH MUCH better if the host asked concise questions which were well thought out. Instead, the host makes blanket statements about life and his own experiences. He also litters the recording with hundreds of of distracting filler words (like, um, but, ya know, kinda). Please keep the great guests coming, and I’ll keep listening as long as I can handle the host’s lack of experience. I hope the quality will improve. Thanks!!
Almost
The interview and topic is faultless. However, the background noise is insanely annoying, it sounds like someone is doing construction in the same room, the sound of hammering is ridiculous. Super unprofessional and inexcusable.