FNRad Snowboarding Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Pericles Perdomo helps run the brand new Burton flagship store in New York City. He discovered snowboarding through the Chill program which eventually sent him to Camp of Champions in Blackcomb. Ken asked him to join camp as an employee. Next he built a sustainable business empire in Puerto Rico before returning to the states to snowboard and work where it all started in NYC. While Ken Ach and I were in NYC we stopped by Dave Lee's Signal exp space where he was hosting ...

Send us Fan Mail Pavva is a Sami Joiker from Northern Sweden, well actually he's from Sapmi a land that used to cover much of Scandinavia and Russia. The Sami are Reindeer herders and Pavva is no exception. He was my room mate at Ricksgransen during the King Of The Hill 30th anniversary. I was honoured to share a living space with him during the event and we forged a killer friendship. Abbe, Theo, and Ingemar put on an absolutely magical event and Pavva was a huge part of the schedule playing...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Culling was a pro snowboarder in the late 80's and early 90's scoring sponsorship contracts with Gnu, Nitro, and K2 before starting his own snowboard brand, Luxury Snowboards. He was also the first pro on Westbeach outerwear. Paul's entrepreneurial spirit found an outlet in snowboarding first through an innovation for boots, eventually in running the world's first adult snowboard camps on Mt. Seymour, and ultimately through flying around the world with a team of Luxury p...

Send us Fan Mail Smelly is the drummer in NOFX. He's been shaping surfboards for a while and within the last 6 years or so has started selling those surfboards to the public. That's how Carl from Upline Brewing got to know him and introduce him to me. Smelly's surfboard brand, Picklestix, did a colab with Dave Lee and the boys at Signal Snowboards creating a Picklestix series in 153, 157, and 161cm... The boards look amazing and according to Smelly ride amazing too. I never dreamed I'd get to...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Steeves was a North Van local and a pro snowboarder for Invasion Snowboards who had a factory there. As a part of the Invasion team Chris travelled filming and taking photos, two of which wound up as cover shots!! The cover of January 1999 Transworld Snowboarding was a Scott Serfas shot from Cypress Mountain (back when they attracted world class pros with their sky chair park builds!! nudge nudge... Liam, let's get a sky chair park going again!!) Excited to bring ...

Send us Fan Mail Murray Siple is a Snowboard Filmmaker from the golden era of snowboarding who was based out of Vancouver and went to Emily Carr art institute. His unique films stood out and started the careers of some of the other BC film crews like Treetop. In 1996 Murray was in a car accident that left him paralyzed. Over the last 33 years he's navigated his new life in a way that can only be described as awe inspiring. His film Carts Of Darkness showcased his continued growth as a film ma...

Send us Fan Mail Clayton Larson filmed for Skids and Sandbox movies, shot with legendary snowboarders during the golden years of independent snowboard movies. His life path was set the day he saw his first two snowboarding movies, Whiskey and Whiskey 2. Clayton just co-directed and edited his first full length feature documentary film, Our Kind Of Chaos. It's a deep dive into the Whiskey franchise and the lives of the people behind it, namely Sean Kearns and Sean Johnson. Our Kind Of Chaos br...

Send us Fan Mail Alex Lee runs the Burton store at the Snow World Mall in Shenzhen China. Snow World has the largest indoor snowboard hill in the world. I say that it's a snowboard hill because snowboarders outnumbered skiers 10 to 1 when we visited. Alex helped us navigate getting set up and then I sat with him and Frank Hao, the man behind the manufacturing of Ken Ach's Pro Standard Quick Release for Step On Bindings. This is a wild one to listen to but hopefully gives you a peak into what'...