Episode 57: Zachary Sanford (skateboarding Professor) - ALL I NEED SKATE PODCAST

In this episode of The Shetler Show, Anthony Shetler and University of Dayton Professor, Zachary Sanford educate each other on the business of action sports for the podcast. Plus, Anthony Shetler gives away an Olloclip, listen for more details on how to snag it. 

They start off talking about how Zachary Sanford came to be a guest on the Shetler Show. They begin to discuss the reasoning that Zachary decided to become a professor, and how he decided to dive into the niche of teaching students the history and business of action sports. 

Zachary Sanford feels that skateboarding has evolved into an anti-intellectual culture. They discuss skate journalism losing its value, including the potential of it growing into new media. Anthony Shetler recommends podcasting to Zachary in order to teach online. They get into why self-expression should be the heart of skateboarding and podcasting. 

Zachary Sanford talks about the assignments in his class that deal with the skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing. He speaks about the core versus the mainstream brands of the sports, possibly being the ones to have killed the essence of the sport. Anthony Shetler goes into finding out what the Olympics and other commercialized contests offer to the culture. Zachary goes into how skaters could do a little more to support the communities around us, since it is an illegal sport that we all truly love.

Host: Anthony Shetler

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Guest: Zachary Sanford 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/zachary-sanford/26/b17/52b 
Website: http://crasche.com/blog 
Email: ztsanford@gmail.com

Shoutouts:

Josh Kalis
Chris Haslam
Rob Dyrdek
Ryan Gallant