Thank U Snowboarding Podcast - S1 EP6 Eddie Spearing

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 6 our host Chris Cracknell sits down with Eddie Spearing, a stalwart in the UK scene and one of its biggest drivers in its early years. Eddie was everywhere, from starting the first snowboard magazine (Snowboard UK) to presiding over the British Snowboard Association, to being at nearly every competition. He gave everything to snowboarding and certainly did so in the face of no money, no road map, loads of booze and good times, it's staggering that he is still with us!