Thank U Snowboarding Podcast - S1 EP12 - Oggy

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 12, host Chris Cracknell sits down with Oggy, a true lifer in the UK snowboard scene. Oggy’s given decades of time and support to the British snowboarding community and continues to do so to this day. Retail at the best of times is a difficult landscape to navigate, let alone existing and operating as an independent retailer in a tumultuous financial landscape. Despite the multiple hardships, Oggy persisted and took on a role as an unofficial godfather of the UK scene, listen to his story below.