Weekly Update 8/9/2010

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LISA – Well hello everybody, and welcome to yet another episode of BodyBoarder International Magazine – Live! You’ve found us again here at Podcast 85770! I am Lisa Smith, your “Hostess with the Mostest” – or whatever that cheesy phrase is! And I have Patti here with me because I just couldn’t go on without her! Patti, how’re you doing?

PATTI – Ha ha! Oh, I miss you too Lisa!

LISA – Oh! How’re you doing?

PATTI – I’m doing great! Gosh, there’s so many things I’m seeing about the bodyboarding world out there lately. I’m sure you’re going to give a rundown on your updates and stuff…

LISA – Oh that’s right!

PATTI – But just for my own thing, I did see… well, the girls over in Australia are just… I mean, they rock! They really give the Brazilian girls a run for their money! They’ve just really got a lot going… And of course Lilly Pollard and her Milkshake Designs, and Emily… Emmy – and just… I don’t know, it just seems that the girls are doing really good.

And then of course Surge Bodyboarding came out with their online magazine which looks awesome!

So to me – I don’t know about you – but does it seem like the sport is just kind of getting like this little resurgence?

LISA – I think so! I really, really feel that way. And, hey, that’s Surge Magazine – it’s a new surge, right? So they’re right on the money with that one! It IS a resurgence I think.

And I think… oh my gosh! You know, one of the things I’ve been working on and doing behind the scenes is I’ve been working on getting a handful of different interviews scheduled and lined up. That’s been fun! Just the whole process of lining up the interviews… but I’m going to do a couple of different series; and I’ve got a list of probably like about five or six people who are set to go, and then I’ve got a list of a whole bunch more to bring on. So we’ve got a lot of interviews coming up.

I was going to do a series on, like you said, the Australian and Brazilian bodyboarders – I’m going to do like a “Women in Bodyboarding” series. So I’ve got that in the works…

PATTI – Wow!

LISA – So it’s there, it’s just behind the scenes! So I just want to let everyone know, “Hey, we’re still here! We’re working!”

PATTI – Yeah! Well I think one of the things that probably you just made me think about something for a minute, because I know for me, Lisa – and I think that the listeners should, you know, as you start building your listenership here – that these interviews, number one, are very hard to line up…

LISA – They are.

PATTI – They say things like, “Why don’t you have more…?” I mean, in this day and age, with people in different time zones, and miscommunication and, you know, I just personally think, Lisa, that if a bodyboarder’s listening right now and they want to buff-out their sponsor, what better way than to have a little podcast or videocast that we can do for you, that can go up on YouTube and have some nice graphics with the… I mean, to me it’s like a no-brainer!

LISA – Oh, absolutely!

PATTI – But for some reason – because I guess water people aren’t as like, you know, up to snuff or something, I don’t know what it is! – they don’t jump on this opportunity! But Lisa, you know, Lisa’s got the ability to do all this – and I say get hold of her!

LISA – Well you know, one thing that I have learned – and I’m not directing this towards any of the business people in the sport of course – but… and this is cool – you know, I have a handful of bodyboarding friends and stuff, and it’s sort of they’ll “fly by the seat of their pants;” it’s like, “Oh, let’s make some plans for next weekend.” “Oh, well I can’t because I don’t know what the surf’s going to be like yet.” And it’s like, “Oh…”

So it’s like you can’t really plan anything because you don’t know from moment to moment or from day to day what the Break… what’s going to happen out there. So if you plan something and the waves are great that day – forget it!

PATTI – Uh-huh.

LISA – And that’s great, that’s alright! I love that…freespirited!

PATTI – You know, really that’s the basis of the sport. I can remember like working with Tom Morey, if there was a swell, he knew that there would be less people willing to work knowing there was a swell going on, so he would just like close down the plant! It was like so cool!

LISA – Yeah!

PATTI – What plant do you know, that is a manufacturing plant, closes down when the surf’s up? I mean, maybe probably some of like Quicksilver and some of these other ones do – but it was really cool!

LISA – Sure! Yeah!

PATTI – So it is hard to find people to interview. But I guess what I’m saying is, “Folks – guys, girls from around the world – buff-out your sponsors! Or just buff-out yourself and your portfolio and get a little interview on a podcast or video… I’m doing the video for Lisa right now until she moves into that area, and she’s doing the podcast. So it’s like, “Why not?”

LISA – That’s right, that’s right. Yeah, well I’ve got… I’ve got three video interviews that I know that I’m slowly getting lined up.

PATTI – Cool!

LISA –I think one person got sick, and another person… you know, it’s just to get it going…

PATTI – Life got in the way… yeah.

LISA – Life got in the way, yeah.

PATTI – Well I guess I probably should get on my “Old School rant” on that because I know that all the ones that I interviewed on the original podcast, you know, I knew most of the people: Jay Reale, and Pat Caldwell, and Tom Morey and, you know, Vicki Reale and Debbie Colwell and all these people – so they knew that I pretty much was going to… if I said 9 o’clock I was going to start the podcast then – but, you know, if Lisa DOES set something up with you, gosh, you know, honor her time!

LISA – That’s right, that’s right.

PATTI – You know, honor her time. Because she’s waiting for you; you know, we wait for you to… And you know, with us going live now I think – or with you going live maybe that might put a little bit more push on people showing up on time, you know, by just having the live project.

LISA – That’s right, that’s right.

PATTI – That’s my other little thought…

LISA – No, that’s a good thought! I’m just… I don’t know, I’m… you know, it’s been raining here the last couple of days so it’s been just raining.

PATTI – Oh, yeah.

LISA – And so, you know, it’s like when it rains it’s like, “Oh… I don’t want to do anything!” When it’s nice and sunny, and the waves are good, it’s like, “Let’s go out – let’s go to the beach!” So the last few days it’s been raining, so of course what have I been doing? I’ve been working on the website. And I’ve got more… the tabs are organized a little bit differently; I’ve got some short Bios of Allison and myself; and I think that Patti I have a link to your site as well.

PATTI – Oh, cool!

LISA – Yeah, so I’m busy working on the website and stuff, and of course posting things on Facebook. But Patti, oh yeah! I just remembered! We’ve got a great… Patti has a great program everybody – and I’ve been so psyched about it; I’ve been getting involved with it bit by bit, and I think that this is a program that has incredible potential – and I just wanted to give you a chance to talk about it if you’d like…

PATTI – Well, you know, the thing of it is, we were going to take the end of the year – and I know a lot of the bodyboarders are already in just like great shape, so, you know, this is a program that I came up with. It doesn’t cost anything, it’s all free – and don’t let that turn you off because it’s free! But we are going to start paying attention more to our health.

And you’re young; most of the people that listen to this are young. And even if you’re forty you’re young, okay!

LISA – Hah!

PATTI – In my book! But I just thought we would kind of focus more and narrow in on various different ways that we can work on our health. So I did put up on the program, on our calendars, on www.GettingAnchored.com – if you go over there you can put on the weekly schedule… And a lot of us are running… you know, Guilherme and I, Lisa, for years ran together – I mean, we even ran in races together, you know…

LISA – Oh yeah! That’s awesome!

PATTI – And also he uses running as a big part of his cardio workout. Because when you’re trying to plug through waves or punch out through waves, you know, what better way than have a good cardio base? Running really does that.

So anyway, part of the program is running – and you will see there over on www.GettingAnchored.com – just as it’s spelled: www.GettingAnchored.com – there’s a weekly schedule. I did put the weekly podcast for Bodyboarding in there under “Health…”

LISA – Okay!

PATTI – Because I think those that… I mean, to be honest with you Lisa, even out in California, there’s a little women’s bodyboarding team that meets in Encinitas every morning and they go out bodyboarding…

LISA – Oh that’s cool!

PATTI – Oh, it’s so cool! Because we think of bodyboarders as these hotshots that ride big waves – but there are actually other people that are actually bodyboarding for health and exercise reasons too. So I think, you know, I like the idea that that will be on there, on the schedule; and then of course you helping me spread the word is always good…

LISA – Right. That’s right.

PATTI – So in the “Health” part of the Getting Anchored we’re going to take on bodyboarding, and the podcasts, and try to promote it as much as we can there, too. So thanks for giving me that opportunity! I hope you go over there and… Oh, and by the way, we do have a Fan Page too!

LISA – Oh, that’s right!

PATTI – It’s called Getting Anchored!. Go over there and join Getting Anchored! Get anchored with us!

LISA – Oh yeah, that’s right! Yeah, you know, I just… check it out – I’ve been really psyched about it. I know you have the “Couch to 5k…” which I’ve really been more focusing on doing stuff in the water rather than the actual running and stuff. I started with the running – but I’m like, “It’s way too hot! I would rather be out in the ocean!”

PATTI – Well that I totally understand, you know, totally understand. Florida, like the girl that was over here today, she was talking about, like, “When DO you run?” you know; “Is it during the day? At night? Inside? Treadmill?” – because it IS hot out there. But I think the main thing is once you get into like any kind of like groove, and you become aware that if you want to, let’s say, if you are a competitor, you want to reach the highest level of competition, you’ve got to be in pretty good doggone shape! I think Guilherme at, what, 37, is a perfect testament to that.

LISA – Absolutely!

PATTI – Mike Stewart, at 43 – perfect testament to staying in shape. Yeah, yeah, I know you want to go out and have beers and all that – but, you know, hey! Well, health is our focus, you know… I don’t want to go on too much more because you get me on that health rampage and – eugh!

LISA – Oh, I know!

PATTI – So tell us a bit more about the bodyboarding world…

LISA – I’m sorry, I’m jumping right in there because I want to hang on to this line of thought for just a second longer before we switch gears.

PATTI – Okay!

LISA – I know that, you know, for everybody that listened to last week’s podcast, the previous podcast, we interviewed Allison Cohen who is my co-owner… what is it – cohort in crime, or whatever! But she has a really big… she is really into yoga, and she does a whole thing – well, it’s called “Yoga for Surfers” but I guess it could be “Yoga for Bodyboarders” as well. And so that is sort of her big thing. And I’m going to get her on again here soon to talk a little bit about that.

But I think the thing that I just wanted to drill in is that people like Guilherme, people like Allison, you know, one of the things that they embrace with their bodyboarding is, you know, keeping themselves in shape; doing a yoga routine before surf and after surf, you know – it helps with the joints… it is just keeping yourself… the idea being these people want to bodyboard when they’re eighty or ninety – which to me is just completely awesome!

PATTI – I know! Isn’t that cool?

LISA – Yeah, I think so! And I was actually – I haven’t posted on Facebook yet but I am going to – is I found a handful of videos of some pretty old people out there… everybody wants the big shots, you know? So I am going to post it; it’s like, you know, “Get out there and think about it!” We’re not always going to be twenty, twenty-one, nineteen, whatever – and I want to be, you know, I want to be able to be out in the water enjoying myself for a very long time to come. And I think what is VERY important about that is staying healthy and taking care of yourself, and, you know, what goes into the body is what comes out of it! So putting good stuff in; good stuff comes out…

PATTI – Yeah, there you go! That’s a good way to put it!

LISA – Yeah, absolutely! Well I know… ha! I get so excited, my brain goes faster than my mouth! I’ve got to slow down here! Yeah, one of the things that we’re going to be focusing on with the bodyboarding podcast also is that we’re going to do interviews; we are also going to do a whole Health series, like, you know, “How can you improve your game out in the water? Here are some ways to do that…”

PATTI – Wow, that’s awesome!

LISA – I mean, like I said, I’ve got lots of stuff planned, there’s lots of stuff. So I had to throw that out there – to make a short story long.

PATTI – Sweet! Well I think that’s going to be great! And like I said, to me it just seems like there’s all kind of new excitement going on. I think – correct me if I’m wrong – but does it seem to you like Facebook is just going off with bodyboarding?

LISA – I think so!

PATTI – I mean, I’m over there right now scrolling through; I mean, there must be like five places I could go look at bodyboarding footage right now, just on my one top news page. It’s just awesome!

LISA – It is great! I mean, it’s been… I was like really shocked. When I first got on there and was starting, you know, I had a few people here and there – but it’s like I’m seeing more and more people coming on line, making friends, “Hey, I’m a bodyboarder from Portugal,” “I’m a bodyboarder from Spain;” you know, and a handful of other places. It’s like they’re connecting; they’re sharing their shots, they’re… you know? It is GREAT how Facebook can act as a platform for connecting everybody out there.

PATTI – It is. It really does bring the world together – it’s awesome.

LISA – So everybody check it out, www.Facebook.com/BIMwebTV – I know, I had to plug that, right?

PATTI – Oh yeah! Segue to that, absolutely!

LISA – So, I’m just sort of rambling at the moment! What else do we have? I just want to let everybody know that we’re here and that we’ve got a lot of stuff lined up – and I can’t think of what else to say, Patti!

PATTI – Well, I think you did a pretty doggone good job if you ask me!

LISA – Well thanks very much! And thank you guys all for listening. And this has been another episode of BodyBoarder International Magazine – Live! brought to you at Podcast number 85770. We’ll see you next time!
Source: Bodyboarder Int’l Magazine – Live! – Weekly Update – 8/9/2010