The Skateboard Strength Podcast

Smashed out another Ep of the poddy this week and maaaann was it a good one.

 

Was fortunate enough to have on someone who is fast becoming the go to guy marrying the worlds of Physical Therapy and athletic performance and really leading the industry for long and overdue positive changes.

 

Coach Quentin Willey (Coach Q) stopped by to do a deep dive on all things injuries, performance and PT industry taking on topics such as:

 

Why the best coaches often don’t have the biggest followings

Speaking in absolutes. The mark of a charlatan coach.

Sport specific training, where is the line of doing things that work and what turns in to circus tricks. 

Biggest time wasters for athletes when it comes to training.

Feeling good VS being prepared. Knowing the difference and the role it plays in returning to skating.

Where most skaters and athletes mismanage return to sport and end up re-injured.

Manual therapy, foam rolling, dry needling and other manual therapies, do they ACTUALLY work?

What a quality PT should be doing with their patients and why so many are misleading their clients.

Plus much more.

 

Enjoy!

Back for the first Ep of the year of the Poddy we are kicking things off by having on an absolute G in the industry Andres Ubach.

 

Andres is an incredible trainer out of Texas who has had an incredible journey battling injuries that threatened to cut his skate life short only to turn it all around with education, receiving the proper help and then flourishing on his own to spread the good word becoming a practitioner of the fine arts of Strength and Conditioning and athletic training.

 

Join us for a great convo where we get in to a range of topics such as:

 

Growing up in Ohio with no skate community and finding your own path

Battling through an injury that never seems to get fixed.

What are the mistakes most skaters make when returning from an injury.

Mental health struggles when dealing with injuries. Tips and tricks to help the biggest battle of them all.

The knock on effect prioritising your health can have not just to your on board performance but off it as well.

 

Plus much more. Enjoy.

With the final ep of the year we are honoured to have the very legendary Ryan Clements on the SBS poddy.

 

Ryan is an absolute G in the skateboarding world leaving his mark in positive ways all around. Through his company Excel Management he has a hand in managing some of the top skaters in the world such as Jamie Foy, Felipe Gustavo, Ishod Wair, and Nora Vasconcellos. Additionally, through his other company The Boarder, he also manages to put on some of the best events in skateboarding such as the classic Vans Park series.

 

Having grown up as a core skater in the 80s himself he provides a unique perspective of both sides of the coin from both the core skaters and industry side of skateboarding. It was an honour to have him on to talk about things such as:

 

What it takes to be a pro, not just being Pro

How younger skaters should manage social media to be valuable to their sponsors

Changing the stereotype that managers ‘take advantage’ of skaters

Meeting your heroes and having them hate you

Growing up as a core skater and transitioning to a manager of some of the best skaters in the world

How to manage the negative blow backs from being successful in the skating world

 

Plus Much More.

 

Enjoy 👊🏼

Today’s guest I have been following for quite some time. When I first started skating around 5 years ago he was legit the only guy posting skate tutorials over on YouTube. As the years went on I would catch glimpses of these crazy things he was up to like doing 50 tricks in 50 states and then breaking a Guinness record for skating across America.

 

It was after I heard him speak on other interviews about his journey through sobriety and how all of this had come from getting sober and rekindling his love with skating that I knew we had to have him on to tell his crazy story and man he did not disappoint. Join us for the poddy where we touched on topics such as:

 

Career ending knee injury and the spiral it sent him on

Getting sober and rekindling a love for skating

Letting go of worrying what the skate community thinks of you

Being a “core skater”  and starting a YouTube despite the negative views

50 tricks in 50 states

Skating across America and setting a world record

 

Plus much more.

 

If you enjoy the pod Chad is currently selling his book so be sure to head over to www.chadcaruso.com and check it out.

 

Enjoy!

Ever wanted to know if you should be heading in for surgery for your skate based injury?

 

Wondering what the process might look like?

 

Or whether it should be managed conservatively?

 

Then you won’t want to miss this weeks pod with the legendary Dr Simon J. Kramer.

 

Simon is a orthopaedic surgeon from Germany. Having cut his teeth performing surgery’s on ankles and knees (a skaters bread and butter) he has recently turned his efforts to his practice as a sport physician treating the German Olympic skate team as their head doctor.

 

If it wasn’t enough he is also an incredible skater in his own right. Having been sponsored by shops, competed in the European championships and had pics published in mags you will not find someone who is more qualified or has more experience to speak on skate injuries then this guy.

 

Join us as we do a deep dive on topics such as:

 

Surgery or Conservative methods? how you know which route to take.

Why we are seeing more and more recommendations towards training and therapy over surgery.

Why you shouldn’t compare your surgical journey with your favourite athletes

What the real reason is for not coming back from ACL surgery before 9 months.  

Belief around returning from injuries. What it takes and the mental side of the grind.

Studies for skateboarding. Why we need them to help the community and what you can do to help

 

Plus Much More.

 

 

Dr Simon is also funding a study on injuries for skaters which we need as many skaters as possible to go and take part in to begin collecting data to help assist the community. So please, head over to www.skateboardinginjuries.com and fill out the survey so the people that want to help skaters get the information they need.

 

Hope you enjoy this amazing episode