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.

Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Blakey are back, talking snow and a lot more in the latest episode of the Aussie snow chat show Pow! Pow! Reggae.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Valentino Guseli setting a new world record for a hip jump over three stories high! Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Deadly are back with episode 3 of Pow Pow Reggae to talk all things cold and slidey, and their special guest is Olympian, world record holder, halfpipe legend and Aussie snowboarding freak Valentino Guseli

Episode two of the new Aussie snow chat show with Chillfactor editor Reggae Elliss and Ain't That Swell's Vaughan Deadly

Here we go, the first episode of of Pow!Pow!Reggae, with Reggae Elliss and Vaughan Deadly, a new podcast covering all things white and cold in STRAYA! Is it any good? Well, if you take the 100% elite level knowledge of Australian snow culture Reggae has and combine it with the 0% knowledge of anything snow that Vaughan has, you have an average 50% something worth listening to - which is pretty bloody good, sort of.

In this episode Reggae catches up a with mogul skier Matt Graham, one of Australia’s most successful snowsports athletes. Matt was just 15 years old when he competed in his first World Cup and since that time he has put together an impressive list of achievements that includes World Cup wins, World Championship medals and he is also a three-time Olympian and won the silver medal at the 2018 winter games in South Korea. Matt is about to head off for his 15th World Cup season and has no thoughts of retiring, his eyes firmly set on competing at his 4th Olympics in Milan in 2026.

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Reggae's guest is Australian World Cup park skier Cameron Waddell, a born and bred Jindabyne local who grew up skiing Perisher from the age of two. Cam's competitive career started as a mogul skier but when he was 13 he followed his old brother Thomas into the Perisher park, started hitting the jumps and mogul skiing was done. 10 years later Cameron is our lone male skier on the FIS Freeski World Cup Tour and has been through the highs and lows of elite sport, now focussed on consistent top 10 finishes, his sights set on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.

In this episode Reggae's guest is Kiwi freeskier and 2022 Freeride World Champion Jess Hotter. Jess grew up in the small North Island town of Ohakune, skiing in nearby Turoa before moving to Wanaka for the NZ winter in 2017 and working as pro patroller at Treble Cone for 3 years. She also started competing in Freeride events chasing events and points in the northern hemisphere winters and qualified for the 2020 Freeride World Tour. Two years later Jess won three out of five events and was crowned world champion.

Reggae Catches up with Andrea Binning, Australia's first internationally renowned big mountain skier, winner of the 2000 World Extreme Championships in Alaska who enjoyed a lengthy professional skiing career competing and filming in some of the biggest and steepest mountains in the world.

In this episode Reggae chats with the legendary Glen Plake, freeskiier, ski mountaineer and an icon of the sport. Glen's a natural raconteur and this conversation covers growing up in Lake Tahoe, mogul skiing, his multiple ski film appearances, his strong connection with Australia, "extreme" skiing, Chamonix and more.

Reggae's guest in this episode is Austrian/Australian professional freeskier and 2017 Freeride World Tour Champion Lorraine Huber. Lorraine was born in Austria but moved to Australia with her Australian mother when she was eight years old and grew up in Torquay and went to school in Geelong. So how does a girl from Torquay become Freeride World Champ? Well, every Christmas holidays Lorraine and her sister would head back to Austria to spend time with their father in Lech, a ski resort in The Arlberg where their dad was a ski instructor. Lorraine’s skiing developed every year and she also became a ski instructor and qualified mountain guide. Lech and the Arlberg have some in incredible off-piste terrain and Lorraine developed a passion for freeskiing which drew her into competition and a 10-year career on the Freeride World Tour, culminating in being crowned World Champ in 2017. She has a Masters in Mental Strength Coaching and is wokiging in that field with athletes and business leaders.

In this episode Reggae Ellliss' guest is Kiwi Professional Freeskier and mountaineer Sam Smoothy who talks about life growing up in Wanaka, his path into big mountain skiing and filming and his next ambitious project to climb the highest peaks in New Zeland.