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In the 2026 Freeride season, New Zealand's Ben Richards reaffirmed his position as on of the world's best Freeskiers, winning the inaugural FIS Freeride World Champs in Andorra and winning three events on the FWT Tour to claim the overall 2026 Freeride World Tour title. Ben was in Wanaka when Reggae Elliss spoke to him, happy to be home after a storm dropped 40cms across his home mountain Treble Cone . It is a wide-ranging chat, covering the Freeride World Tour, competition v filming, Wanaka's mountain culture,. Freeriding's appearance in the 2030 Winter Olympics and a lot more

Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey return with latest episode of Pow Pow Reggae, the snow/surf show from Ain't That Swell. The Snow Report is in and cold white shit is starting to fall from the heavens! Plus: An update from the first WSL Challenger surf event of the year in South Africa and Reggae's top 3 Rando facts about Tracks Magazine in the 1980s.

The latest Pow Pow podcast with Regae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey, takes a deep dive into the infamous Robbie Page Tracks Cover Scandal, the horrendous start to the Aussie Snow Season, Cooper Woods best on ground performance at the Mick Fanning Charity Golf Day, plus which gigs and events to keep an eye on during this year's Aussie winter! Yeeeeeew

Snow radio with Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey

Reggae and Vaughan Deadly corner Aussie Olympic mogul Champs Cooper Woods and Jakara Anthony together for the first Pow Pow episode for 2026.

Reggae's guest is Australian mogul team member Charlotte Wilson, a 20 year old from Jindabyne who is on track to compete in her first Olympics in Milton/Cortina in February 2026. Charlotte had a huge rookie World Cup year last season, with a number of top 10 and top 5 finishes before she won gold in dual moguls in the final event of the season in Livigno Italy, the venue for moguls at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Reggae chats with mogul skier Cooper Woods who has been a member of the Australian team and competing on the World Cup tour since the 2019/20 tour. Copper consistently makes finals, his best result a second place at Waterville Valley, USA in January 2024. Cooper finished 6th in moguls at his first Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022, the highest placed Australian male. After recovering from a knee injury that ended his 2023/24 season early, Cooper is 100% fit, feels he is skiing the best he ever has and his focus now is on a medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan/Cortina in February.

Reggae's guest is Michael Milton , who is not only an Australian snowsports legend, but a legend of all Australian sport, elevated to Legend status in the Australian Spporting Hall of Fame in 2024. Australia's most successful snowsports athlete Michael has represented Australia in in alpine racing at five Winter Paralympic games and has won 6 gold, three silver and two bronze medals, retiring after the Turin games in 2026. He still holds the record for the fastest Australina on snow at 213km/hr and also represented Australia in cycling at the summer Paralympic games in Beiijing in 2008. A three-time cancer survivor, Michael recently announced a return to ski racing and will be competing on the upcoming World Cup tour in a bid to qualify for the 2026 Winter Paralympic games in Milan/Cortina in February 2026. What a story he has to tell!!

Reggae chats with snowboarder Sean Pollard who has been named captain of the Australian team for the 2026 Paralympics in Milan/Cortina in March 2026. Sean suffered horrific injuries in shark attack while surfing in WA in 2014. He took up snowboarding 12 months later and is now heading for his second Paralympic games. Sean's story is one of determination, positivity and grit and one you want to hear. The Chillfactopr podcast is presented by XTM Performance

Reggae's guest is Briony Johnson, freeride snowboarder who will be representing Australia in the Freeride World champs in Spainnext January. Briony is also the terrain park manager at Mt Hotham and one of the many women making a career in the Australian snow industry

Pete Forras is a legend of the Aussie snow industry, Buller born and raised, ex-racer and Winter Olympian, co-founder of Australian snbow brand XTM performance and a full on snow frother!

Billy grew up in Melbourne and go into skiing on a few family ski holidays to falls creek. His skiing career started in classic ski bum fashion, working night jobs in falls Creek and later Mt Hotham so he could ski during the day. That lead to season’s overseas and during a Canadian season he started competing in freeride world tour qualifying events. Over the past few years he has been more focussed on filming and content production and he released his first film, aptly titled Passion, two years ago. His latest project was filmed in Iceland last winter and is due for release in late 2024

Reggae's guest is Kiwi freeskier Hank Bilous who has just released a new film titled The War On Style, an exploration into the skill sets and self expression he finds in skiing and surfing. Hank grew up in Wanaka and talks about his life there, his time on the Freeride World Tour and is open about mental heath and some dark days a few years ago. The Chillfactor podcast is brought to you by XTM Performance.

As we near the halfway mark of the season Reggae and Vaughan Dead frtoh on the recent snow dumps, the big ski and snowbiard events coming up and doff the beanies to Scott Morrison's cool younger brither Skimo, who coul dbe heading to the Olympics. Pow! Pow!

Reggae's guest is Australian freeskier Zanna Farrell who had a solid rookie year on the Freeride World Qualifying Tour with a number of podium finishes including a couple of wins in Europe.