Thank U Snowboarding Podcast - S1 EP10 - Lesley McKenna

If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance you love snowboarding. We do too, so much so that we decided to make a podcast waxing poetic about it. Thank U Snowboarding is a celebration of the UK snowboard scene, a deep dive into its journey from ‘Ban This Killer Craze’ to the mainstream and a nostalgia-fuelled look back at the glory years. Each week we’ll sit down with an influential figure, exploring the past, present and future of the sport and remind ourselves why we leapt headfirst down the snowboarding rabbit hole in the first place.

For Episode 10, host Chris Cracknell gets into it with Lesley McKenna. Lesley is as deeply embedded into the UK snowboard scene as anyone could possibly be. She rose to fame on the international halfpipe circuit in the early 2000s, going on to become the first-ever UK rider to win a World Cup Halfpipe event. A 3-time Olympian, Lesley has competed at the very highest echelon of sport, and now dedicates her life to spreading the stoke to the next generation through her coaching and guiding programmes. This is a good one, so get comfy, grab a cuppa and listen in.