017_Competitive Collaboration with Paul McMahon

About this episode

Paul McMahon discusses his experiences and achievements in distance skateboarding, including his recent successes in European events.

Paul McMahon is a distance skateboarder from Dublin, Ireland who has been dominating a lot of the European distance skate events. He was also the winner of the 2023 Le Tour de Longboard IDSA challenge. In 2024, the European Race series consists of 6 races and we got to talk about each one of them. Paul has already locked in 1st place for the series. We also discussed what his entry into the sport was like and what it means to be competitive in something like distance skateboarding. Paul told some stories about training as well as his experience during UK Ultra skate where he got to ride with Lena Meringdal as she broke the 24 hour women’s world record. Instagram: @the_hobby_ist @skating.in.circles.podcast

People in this episode

Host: Maxwell Frank

Guest: Paul McMahon

Topics covered

• distance skateboarding
• competitive sports
• European race series
• training stories
• world records

Keywords

• distance skateboarder
• European distance skate events
• Le Tour de Longboard
• UK Ultra skate
• world record

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Dublin, Ireland

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