Air Time Podcast

jody wachniak
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Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 35min

Darrah Reid-McLean

Darrah rules. She’s from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and was born BOARDING. She’s had her fair share of serious injuries throughout her career, most would have given up the dream of professional snowboarding but not Darrah, girl loves it too damn much. Her family may think she’s crazy but if there’s one thing she knows it’s that she can’t live without snowboarding, she's tried, it doesn't work. Plug in and enjoy! 
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Sep 22, 2020 • 2h 1min

Anthony Mark Vitale

Anthony’s been posted up behind many different lenses over the past 30+ years and has captured some of the most iconic snowboard parts/ careers. If you’ve ever watched a snowboard movie in your life, chances are Anthony was behind the lense or made the film. From Mack Dawgs iconic movie TrueLife to Travis Rice's BrainFarm. Enjoy this legends story. 
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Jul 14, 2020 • 2h 13min

Laurent-Nicolas Paquin AKA LNP

LNP a true original. Growing up in Quebec and devoting his career to filming some of the most entertaining video parts. This episode we dive into it all, from tuning pro to the after life of professional snowboarding. A tell all story from one of the greats.
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Jun 17, 2020 • 2h 1min

Marie France Roy

One of the best females to ever strap in. Marie and I talk about growing up in Quebec, paying her dues, sleeping in her car at the US open, filming video parts, over coming injuries, the environment, gardening, winning rider of the year... twice and much more. Enjoy the show!
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May 19, 2020 • 2h 14min

Mark Edlund AKA DEADLUNG

Mark Edlund (Deadlung) is one of snowboardings iconic style figures. Mark heavily shaped Technine's image in the late 2000’s and has inspired so many with his tasteful and unique approach to snowboarding. We chat about Technine, Burton, his inspirations, filming, life advice, coming back from being dropped, starting his own company, almost dying in Russia, golfing and much more. Enjoy the show! 
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May 4, 2020 • 1h 45min

Iikka Backstrom

One of snowboardings greats. Iikka is the definition of style. The snowboarder from Finland has been up in the mix since the late 90s. We talk about it all in this amazing show, discussing the early days of filming, Forum, DC, partying, Wildcats, Team Managing?, living in California, Whistler, snowmobiling, pow, streets, energy drinks and much more. Enjoy !
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Apr 20, 2020 • 1h 50min

Matt Belzile

Professional snowboarder/ close friend Matt Belzile joins me on the podcast. We chat covid-19, the future, AI, Tesla, moving to whistler, the early days of filming, partying, how he stays so motivated to film, why he is investing for the futrue and much more. Enjoy the show!
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Mar 30, 2020 • 1h 20min

Stale Sandbech

Norwegian park god joins me on the show! Stale and I talk about the frustrations of contest riding, the olympics, xgames, partying, gimbal god, growing up in Norway, future filming, back triples, upcoming dreams and much more. Enjoy the show!
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Mar 17, 2020 • 1h 29min

Kareem El Rafie

This Swedish Egyptian has transferred from pro snowboarder to full-time “soul boarder”. Life after professional snowboarding is a difficult road for most, you seem to lose not only your identity but your beloved travel budget. It’s time to join the 5-9 world? For some yes, but not for Kareem. He found away to juggle work and play by starting a successful food truck business Laolita and soon to be restaurant. This allows him to take the winters off and enjoy boarding, with no outside pressures from brands. Kareem’s first sponsor was Forum Snowboards and that presented an opportunity of a lifetime to film for the iconic Forum movie - THAT (2006) where he shared a part with now close friend Stevie Bell. A few seasons later Kareem found himself in the middle of Forum’s big switch over, new ownership, new team managers and somehow got lost in the mix. Kareem had a string of annoying mishaps throughout his career but the guy never seemed worried. He has been involved in countless videos from Video Grass, Factor Films, Dope Industries, Blue Tomato, Helgason's and many many more. Mark Frank Montoya even handpicked Kareem to be apart of his outerwear company SOUND. The guy has always focused his time and energy on what feels right and what looks dope to him, in his own words “soul boarding” a term used by Kareem when someone is doing a trick that expresses their own unique vision of how that trick should be done with no expected outcome but filling ones soul. That vision of “soul boarding” lead him to start one of Europe’s biggest rail jams - The Frontline rail jam named after his clothing company in which he wanted to get the community together to have a more fun and style focused contest showcasing that simple tricks can place you at the top when right. His event/ clothing company have helped shine spotlights on the careers of e-man, halldor helgason, eiki helgason, felix remington, kevin griffin the list goes on, even myself. Kareem has so many amazing stories, excited to share this one. Much love everyone
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Feb 12, 2020 • 1h 29min

John Jackson

John Jackson has been at the top of the game for almost 2 decades. There’s only a few that have pushed snowboarding like john j in my opinion, Travis Rice and a handful of others. I watched every one of his parts and damn, what a strong, confident, good trick picking legend. From what I would say was his break out part in White Balance (2003) to many more years along side Standard Films (that heli shot Front 7 melon off the toes in Paradox), to his iconic parts with Forum Snowboarding, being included for Travis’s smash hit That’s It That’s All, and I should highlight his F’ it two song ender part plus having a full part in the iconic movie - Art of Flight (his back 10 double and massive line to crail air), having potentially one of the strongest seasons in snowboard history weighting in at around 10 minutes of A+ footage that year, transitioning over to Burton Snowboards then blowing his knees back to back seasons, filming his own web series/ tv series like brothers on the run with his bro Ejack, the book of John j, air time, etc., john has had one of the longest careers out and he’s still going strong and as he mentions on the show “I love it more than ever”, he’s happy to have found a home with Sims Snowboards and is currently filming with the Pirate Crew , keep posted for that 2 year project. He’s won it all, rider of the year, video part of the year, xgames medals, jumper of the year, covers; the photo from Scott Serfas/ TWsnow air in Alaska was a stand out to me. Scott was actually side slipping down the mountain and was lucky to have captured that frame/ cover. I can confidently say every single backcountry rider has drawn a lot of inspiration from John Js riding over the years. 

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