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This year we will cover two subjects that every snowboarder has in common: Where to ride and what gear to ride with.
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in this episode we follow the path that took Josh from the small mountains of rural Pennsylvania all the way to Alaska. At one time in the sport Alaska was considered the domain of the professional athlete or the super rich. NO MORE. Today recreational riders are pushing the bounderies of access further than riders with corporate budgets ever have.
This is the journey that one rider took to become a local in one of the best areas to be a skier or rider - Valdez, Alaska.
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Josh McPain is an unlikely suspectto become a local at one ofthe. ostchalle gingsnowboardingspots in the world: Valdez, Alaska. In this two part series we beak down what it takes to ride the best mountains in the world. In the second episode we will coverJosh's story coming from rural Pensylvania to the mountqains of Alaska.
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In this episoide of The Snowboard Project we talk with New York Times best selling author Eric Blehm about his latest book: The Darkest White, the story of snowboarding legend Craig Kelly.
This is an interesting tale documenting the life of the sport's first superstar, 4 time world champion turned backcountry pioneer Craig Kelly - following his life and adventures in the world of snowboarding.
Eric Blehm, the author cut his literaryt teeth at the snowboarding publicatiln Transworld Snowboarding before turning to writing full time.
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In this episode of Real Talk, Chad Otterstrom, Eddie Wall and Mark Sullivan discuss what it takes to become a pro in today's media and competition landscape.
They also talk about The Darkest White, a new book by author Eric Blehm that focus' on the life of nowboarding legend Craig Kelly.
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On this episode of the Snowboard Project we talk with artist Scott Lenhardt who has created the graphics for more than 60 Burton snowboards - including the women's first pro model, Free Thinker series and much more. His boards have been regularly featured on the podiums of the X-Games and Olympics.
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This week we talk with former snowboarding super pro Eddie Wall. This interview is somewhat different than the other ones Eddie has done and was both fun and interesting.
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In this episode of Real Talk, Chad Otterstrom and Mark Sullivan discuss current snow conditions, events, videos and more.
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On this episode of The Snowboard Project, we talk to one of the godfathers of powder surfing, Shark Powderboard's Tim Wesley. ( http://sharkpowderboards.com ) Along with Wolle Nyvelt, Jeremy Jensen and Greg Todds Tim's long time dedication to pow surfing puts him amongst the most iconic contributers to the discipline.
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We are back with a new episode of Real Talk with Chad Otterstrom and Mark Sullivan. In this episode we talk about the preseason as well as the beginning of the new snowboarding season. Then we discuss the question, "What is wrong with snowboarding?"
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Mark (00:20.844) Today we have another episode of Real Talk on the Snowboard Project. I'm joined by Chad Otterstrom. Chad is a contender for greatest of all time status in the sport of snowboarding. He would never claim that for himself, so I'll just claim it for him. How you doing today, Chad?
Chad (00:27.892) Yeah.
Chad (00:47.722) I'm good, just, you know, I just moved out of Breckenridge for the season. I'll be back and forth. But I've been living in my truck for the last 16.5 months.
Mark (00:57.756) 16.5, okay. You were counting the days, I see.
Chad (00:59.963) the
Yeah, now I'm back. I'm back and I got a place and you know, for my dogs, I live by a river. It's awesome. I'm doing good.
Mark (01:09.464) Okay, well maybe you can explain this. It's like you were living in your truck for 16 and a half months. Why?
Chad (01:16.978) Um, because I'm trying to crack the code, uh, of passive income. I was trying to Airbnb my condo and see how that went. And instead of renting a place, I just put a topper on my truck and just went rogue. And, and, uh, that, you know, six months to a year turned into 16 months, which is longer than expected, but, uh, now I've cracked the code and, uh, yeah, I was just going to, yeah, I got a place to sleep. I have a bed.
Mark (01:19.535) Mm-hmm.
Mark (01:36.22) Mm-hmm.
Mark (01:41.772) You cracked the code and you're back in the house?
Chad (01:46.186) outside of the back of my truck.
Mark (01:47.82) Okay, so you were on the road for 16 and a half months. What's like the coolest thing that you saw while you were on the road?
Chad (01:53.274) Um, I saw way too many whole foods parking lots. Uh, I did get hit by a semi and Edwards. I was parked at a rest area and the semi clipped me and then took off. And that cost me thousands of dollars because the insurance didn't cover that because they took off. Um, that wasn't the coolest thing. That was for sure. But, uh, I did, I went to Japan. I went to Canada. I went to Alaska. I went to Mount Hood. I did all these things that didn't require my own home. So, uh.
Mark (01:56.684) Okay.
Oh.
Mark (02:17.372) That's right.
Mark (02:21.509) Mm-hmm.
Chad (02:22.742) I did all the, yeah, like last year, the only thing I didn't do last year was go to Rick's Grants. And I wanted to put that in the May category. No, it's Colorado, Canada, or Colorado, Japan, Canada, Alaska, Rick's Grants, and then Mount Hood. That would be the ultimate year.
Mark (02:29.735) Mm-hmm.
Mark (02:40.804) You pretty much like spent the whole year riding.
Chad (02:44.49) Yeah, for sure.
Mark (02:46.38) Now, is it hard to do works? I know you also are an owner of Academy Snowboards. Was it hard to work for the road or find wifi or whatever? Are we able to pull that off pretty effectively?
Chad (02:56.446) Uh, I, you know, what I wasn't able to do was like demos and clinics and things like that. I'd had to do kind of a little more communicating online, but no, I mean, I basically do a lot of the social and organize that. So I, um, I was able to do that wherever I had wifi, which I had everywhere.
Mark (03:01.96) Mm-hmm.
Mark (03:14.636) Okay cool so it sounds like you were able to maximize your 16 and a half months for your bank account sake.
Chad (03:22.546) Yeah, no, I cracked the code. I'm hoping and fingers are crossed, you know the next couple years. We'll see what happens
Mark (03:28.216) Okay, so now you've had a couple of months off. I mean, have you been getting ready for this season? What have you been up to?
Chad (03:33.858) Um, I mean, I haven't been living in LA going to art shows, but, uh,
Mark (03:38.08) Yeah, that's what I've been doing. So, I mean. Ha ha.
Chad (03:43.222) No, I, yeah, I mean, what do you do early season? This is the time in the year, like, if you ride till, if you're like really into like riding every day for like meditation is kind of why I do it, but then that ends in July. And you have from July till now to like keep your sanity. So I just find other forms of like, you know, kind of getting out there and doing things. So yeah, I've been, you know, staying in shape. I do, I've gotten into jumping into rivers. It's trending, cold plunging and.
Mark (03:59.474) Mm-hmm.
Mark (04:12.616) Cold plunging, yes. What's the coldest river you've jumped in?
Chad (04:13.974) and it's turning. Oh, it's as close to ice as I can get is what I'm looking for. I want it to be like an ice cube. And I can do like up to five minutes and yeah. And then you do this thing called grounding where you walk around on the ground and then you do, you know, I, yeah, yeah. And then when I do the Wim Hof scene, it's funny cause I listen to a lot of podcasts and then they're telling me what I've already been doing, which is I feel like I'm on the right track, but.
Mark (04:21.14) Okay.
Mark (04:30.188) like barefooted or something, you're barefoot on the ground.
Chad (04:42.878) Yeah, do that and then work out a little bit. Once you're able to hike up hills though, we'll start split boarding just to stay in shape. I'm not a fan of going to the gym, but you're gonna have to a little bit, I guess.
Mark (04:54.692) Well, the world is your gym when you're a split-boarder. Ha ha ha.
Chad (05:00.696) Yes, this is true.
Mark (05:02.816) Yeah, okay. So you're in shape. You're ready for the season. I know resorts are opening, you know, all over the country, but especially in Colorado. I mean, what are you like looking to like get done this season? Do you like goals for this season? Do you like have a list of things that you want to accomplish? Or like, how do you kind of like approach a new season? And like, how do you kind of set yourself up to accomplish things and keep pushing that ball downfield?
Chad (05:28.106) Um, pushing the ball down the field. I, uh, well, first of all, I set myself up for a place to live. That's a hard thing to do now in mountain towns because there's, they call it a housing crisis and I think everybody likes to use the word crisis and everything they do these days. We started a production company, you know, with our movies called midlife crisis. So first thing you got to do is find a place to live and then get your season pass. And then, um, yeah, I don't know.
Mark (05:46.696) Mm-hmm.
Mark (05:56.488) Okay.
Chad (05:56.578) just kind of move forward, get the ball rolling. Get your boots broken in, your sticker job done, if you're into getting a good sticker job. Yeah, yeah.
Mark (06:02.748) Right?
That's all preseason stuff though. I mean, how about for goals for riding? Like, are you like, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do 122 foot, you know, 50, 50. What kind of like riding goals?
Chad (06:11.278) Oh.
Chad (06:15.214) Oh yeah, yeah. Goals. I have, it's just kind of funny, I guess the more aged you become, you get more into like, I wanna ride that mountain as opposed to I wanna do that trick. I think kids are more into I wanna do that trick or I wanna do that challenge rail or I wanna do this and that. But yeah, for me, I have a list of mountains around where I live right now that I wanna go hike and just ride down and enjoy it. I wanna...
Mark (06:25.992) Mm-hmm.
Chad (06:44.79) Do some more drone filming this year as opposed to GoPro filming. I'm trying to work on figuring out how to make a drone, do a little more follow than, as opposed to your head cam, you know what I mean? And then that, and then yeah, do a lot more split boarding just cause it keeps me in shape and outside and exercising more.
Mark (06:48.356) Mm-hmm.
Mark (06:58.408) Totally.
Mark (07:06.636) Indeed, indeed. And so, you know, I know a lot of people, you're in Colorado, and a lot of people are like, I want to do all the 14ers. Is that kind of your goal? Or is it is it just like, wow, that's a beautiful mountain or that that's got a great line on I want to ride that.
Chad (07:21.066) Yeah, I'm more of the aesthetically fun looking line as opposed to the 14ers. There's a lot of 14ers that are not that fun. They're just high mountains and they're far away. It would be cool to kind of go, I do enjoy like kind of go just tacking certain zones off, not exactly every 14er, but just so I could kind of get a lay of the land of Colorado. I went down to this place called Lake City this summer and hiked a 14 year called Uncompatible Peak.
Mark (07:43.67) Mm.
Chad (07:49.57) And I've never been there. It's kind of like the Eastern San Juans. And that was kind of cool just to go there and see, you could see Telluride from there and you could see a couple of other things. So it's fun, but I'm not into the ticking off teeners lifestyle. I'm more into like, they're fun looking, ripping lines. You know what I mean?
Mark (08:07.596) Yeah, totally, totally. Okay. So hopefully, I know you went to Alaska this year. Do you think you're going to make it back this year?
Chad (08:15.114) If I do, it will be for fun. Yes, I did go to the natural selection. I stood on top of some of those peaks and you know if I do go back, I'll be going to where you're at the Valdez era area and I'll probably split board and go hike to the top of a you know an area or I'll hitchhike with a snowmobile, you know, something like that.
Mark (08:18.353) Okay.
Mark (08:30.982) Yeah.
Mark (08:40.716) Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's all good. And you know, there's snowmobile rentals, there's other ways to get there. And people are pretty, you know, helpful as far as like helping you bump yourself out to different zones. So hopefully you do make it back.
Chad (08:51.722) Yeah. So yeah, no, it was cool. I went there this last winter. I've been there, you know, before, but this last winter, I stood on one of the peaks that you're supposed to ride down as opposed to a blue-green run. And I got to look down. It looked like, you know, you go left and right, maybe backwards and a 2,000-foot run. Looks like a good time, you know?
Mark (09:13.128) Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that the, there's a lot of like challenging type of peaks in Alaska. There's, there's mellow ones too, but you know, I think the thing that Alaska is known for these kind of like high consequence or things that kind of require your focus and attention to the best of your ability. And so that's something that I think sets it apart a little bit compared to a lot of other areas, I think in Colorado you get that too, but sometimes.
Maybe you're more worried about like the avalanche conditions and other things than just like the treachery of the mountain face.
Chad (09:47.654) Yeah, I mean, you know, Trollhagen's pretty intense too, you know, like, uh, Yeah.
Mark (09:53.036) Yeah, but that's like the lift lines and like the line and like the rail, you know, runouts from the rails, that kind of thing. It's a different kind of, you know, gripping type of emotion that you feel in Trollhagen. But, but, you know, it doesn't matter really, like what you find enjoyment in snowboarding. It's like, as long as you're enjoying yourself and you're kind of like.
Chad (10:02.876) Yeah, no for sure.
Mark (10:14.54) you know, pushing yourself and being in that moment, I think that you can do that in Alaska, you can do it in Trollhagen. And like the same feelings I got, you know, riding on the East Coast as a kid or some of the same feelings I got as I kept progressing kind of the mountains and terrain that I was able to ride. So.
Chad (10:30.999) Yeah, it's like catching the feeling, but like you say, everybody says it, the Super Bowl of freeride and freestyle freeriding is in Alaska at the top level. You can catch that feeling anywhere, but if you're looking for it, you can go up there.
Mark (10:45.094) Yeah.
Mark (10:51.288) We just got, by the way, Chad, we got at my cabin in Alaska, I have a cabin up there as you know, but maybe not everyone knows. Anyhow, we got six. Yeah, yeah, that's true. We got we got six feet of snow this week in Alaska, literally one storm. We got six feet. There's a base now.
Chad (10:58.742) I mean if they watch the show you definitely know.
Chad (11:09.726) at your cabin so that means probably like 12 feet up where you're at, you know?
Mark (11:12.544) Oh more. Yeah, yeah. I mean people are starting to head out. So it's like game on in Alaska right now, which is pretty cool. Pretty early, but yeah, it's going.
Chad (11:22.032) Nice, yeah. It's the same with here. Like that's early. If we had a six foot storm here, I've actually ridden a hundred inches at Wolf Creek on Halloween before. Still kind of bony always, even with a hundred inches here, we need 20 feet here to have that boniness go away. But we got blue green groomers. You know, we were, I think it was two weeks ago now that we got first share at A Basin. And...
Mark (11:31.217) Yeah.
Mark (11:45.632) Okay, let's talk about that real quick. So I know like Nate Dogg, Taylor Tom, yourself, you guys have pretty much gotten first chair in the country, maybe the world, like every year in the last like, I don't even know how many years, how long has it been going on?
Chad (12:00.551) Um, Nate likes to claim 31 years. I, uh, yeah, it's interesting though, because I, I mean, trailer Tom has had 31 years. I don't know if they've been consecutive, but you know, he's on, on the page, but I think 31 years would put you at 1992, right?
Mark (12:03.036) 31 years of first chairs. Wow.
Mark (12:18.941) Yeah, I think so.
Chad (12:20.15) And I think Maydog moved to Colorado in 1998. So I'm just saying, I don't know, but I still believe him. I don't know. I mean, I wasn't here, so I can't say that, but I know. No, I think I actually do think that he might've driven out here those years. I'm not sure, so.
Mark (12:24.096) Oh.
Mark (12:27.628) That sounds like a call out.
Mark (12:33.2) You better be careful what you say, because Nate Dogg is your property manager. Ha ha ha.
Mark (12:42.982) I don't know Chad, a pipe burst.
Chad (12:46.07) So it's great, you know, I think last year it was 25 years. I don't know how that six years popped up on him, but either way, it's a great, um, you know.
Mark (12:53.911) So what was that scene like? Like what time did you guys get there? I'm sure you got there like the day before or something. Like what does it take to like get first chair?
Chad (13:00.362) Yeah, so these are the rules. Nate's really good at articulating it. I'm going to do my best. So you know, you kind of like go to the resorts, you'll see them, there's no other blowing snow, you go talk to the mountain ops in the parking lots, you know, a couple weeks before, kind of get a feel. And then usually on a Monday or a Tuesday, they like to announce that they're going to open. They usually open on weekends just for crowds, so it's usually a Friday. So if they announce on a Tuesday,
Mark (13:25.33) Mm-hmm.
Chad (13:27.37) You gotta gun it and go lock down Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday night. Three days.
Mark (13:31.452) Three days. Like when does the second person show up? Like if you're there for three days, when does like chair number two show up?
Chad (13:39.434) Oh, that usually happens like within, you know, the last day. So then chair number two usually hangs for a good 24, 36 hours. And then, but usually we, this dude Ant has been kind of a fourth member of the crew, but it's trailer Tom, myself, Nate, and this dude Ant. And I did two days and I slipped straight on the ground this time right out in front of the lot or the lift. I have a baby and a mat, but it's a...
Mark (13:42.82) Okay.
Mark (13:46.335) Okay.
Chad (14:07.69) It's just kind of something entertaining to do. It's like a, you know, when you get, like I said, when you need something to do with your life this time of year and you just want something exciting and people to talk to, people are constantly coming through all day long. So you're hanging out with people for like two days, which is fun. Except for, you know, that period from 10 at night till about 10 the next day is freezing cold. If not even six, cause it gets dark. But otherwise, I do negative 40.
Mark (14:28.453) Mm-hmm.
Mark (14:31.844) So is it like a negative 20 bag that you have to like stay warm in this negative 20? Okay. Negative 40. Okay.
Chad (14:37.406) Actually, yeah, I won it at the love games from the satellite board shop love games. I really pushed hard for that because I knew I'd need it. But yeah, I don't know, it's something to do. And then now they're all opening, like resorts are opening. I think Breck opened today, Veil opened today, Keystone's open, Copper opens Monday. So the groomer lifestyle is on, you know what I mean?
Mark (14:42.056) Cool.
Mark (14:47.662) And that was at.
Mark (14:58.796) Right now are they setting up parks or like little rail features? Like what kind of stuff do they have besides like a white ribbon of death? You know.
Chad (15:06.206) Um, yeah, white ribbon of life is what we called it. We did.
Mark (15:10.429) Oh, that's because you had first chair. If you were on like the 140th chair, you would have been like right ribbon of death. Oh really?
Chad (15:17.19) And it was pretty fun. Actually, it snowed like a foot. So it was like kind of slasher pal on the side with groom slasher pal. But they have I think, Keystone has a little hike park, a base and probably has a couple slide bars. And then I don't really know I do know that Breck was on the verge of like kind of ending their park lifestyle. And now I hear they have a four speed, four pack high speed trailer for the five chair was and they're putting a park in with a half pipe this year. I heard.
Mark (15:45.916) Really.
Chad (15:46.634) I don't know. I'm not going to be around this year to find out really, but we'll see. You know, I think.
Mark (15:50.552) Okay. Yeah. And it's not just Colorado, by the way, Chad, like Mammoth opens today. Wild Mountain is open in Minnesota. Killington, I think, is open right now as well. They may have been the first open. I'm not sure if they beat Colorado this year. Okay. And then also in Canada, you got Lake Louise, Mountain Workway.
Chad (15:56.359) Oh yeah yeah.
Yeah, troll Ogden as well.
Chad (16:09.046) I think Abason was the, I think Abason.
Mark (16:17.333) Sunshine Village is going to open this weekend and then you got Sommet Saint-Solvier in Quebec is open as well. So I guess there's riding all over America and Canada right now.
Chad (16:29.514) Yeah, it's awesome. Everybody's gonna check out for the next five to six months. You know, it's that kind of a life.
Mark (16:34.228) Yup.
Yeah, well it seems like it's shaping up. I know we have like a Super El Nino coming this year. What does that mean for Colorado?
Chad (16:45.29) Um, well last year La Niña was supposed to end, you know, mid late winter. And then El Niño is going to kick in and El Niño is better than La Niña. I don't really know what it means. It has to do with the weather pattern, I think. But, uh, I, uh, yeah, it's, uh, it just means, yeah, more fresh blue green groomer, you know, for Colorado.
Mark (16:59.6) Yeah.
Mark (17:03.565) More powder.
Mark (17:08.909) Okay, right on. Well, it sounds like you're ready though. It sounds like you've gotten prepared as far as, you know, traveling and working out and your sticker job is done. Your board has probably been waxed a couple of times already. And yeah, it sounds like you're ready to get things going here.
Chad (17:29.406) Yeah, I mean, if I was in Valdez, I'd be like potato sacking off cliffs, but I'm here. So it's just going to be groomer. I'm excited.
Mark (17:38.404) Yeah, well, it should be fun. So have you been checking out any of the snowboard movies this fall? I know there've been, you know, obviously every year, there's like this time of year, there's movies that have been coming out for a couple of months now. Anything standing out to you so far this year?
Chad (17:54.538) Um, uh, there's a few there's, I'm, uh, I went to the, I was back in Minnesota a couple of weeks ago and I went to the ride premiere and that was cool because it was kind of an industry event. Uh, and I was going to say the last time I went to a premiere in Minnesota was with Gillian Yoder and I went and saw a fear of a flat planet and the movie never showed up, so we just hung out on like Hannappin or something and he didn't know who I was, but I knew who he was. He would have randomly was back in Minnesota.
Mark (18:02.248) Mm-hmm.
Mark (18:14.257) Heh.
Chad (18:22.934) That was like 1994. And then I went to this premiere in Minnesota this last time, the ride premiere was really good. Jed Anderson, I mean the movie was a great, it was a jib movie. Jed Anderson's awesome and he ended up hitting this rail at the end of his part that my dad is an usher for at the church. It's the cathedral in St. Paul and he had this double line and I was always telling my dad, if you ever see kids hitting the rails out of it on those stairs, don't kick them out. So my dad wasn't there the day they were doing it, but.
Mark (18:24.729) Yep.
Chad (18:52.886) So that was a good one. And then I see that you wrote East bump up.
Mark (18:56.752) That was my favorite like video that I saw just because it had a different approach. It was like somehow fresh and it was like one dude, three shovels, one tripod. That's how I made this. And it was just cool. And like all the shots were steady, no shaky cam because it was on a tripod for all of it. But for me, it was just different. And I guess, you know, I'm less into.
a lot of the tricks, you know, I watch a lot of these movies and there's like people doing pillow lines, you know, in BC or whatever. And I love powder riding. But then it's like, wow, Jonathan Moore did that in like 1998. You know, and it was just as good then as it is now. But it's not really that much different now than it was then. And so to me, it's kind of like a little bit of repetition when you see all these people just riding powder or doing basic tricks into powder.
It's fairly consistent with the kind of footage we've seen over the last 20 years. And so to me, East Bumfuck was something new.
Chad (20:01.166) 100% hold on. I agree with you. I think I really enjoy like he didn't talk in his video but he was kind of telling a story the whole way through. And I love watching that dude ride. He's like pigeon-toed. It seems like he's riding negative three, negative three. And for snowboard movies, I think I was looking earlier the Quicksilver movies up to 1.7 million views.
Mark (20:13.126) Yep.
Mark (20:19.865) Yeah.
Mark (20:29.544) That's a lot of views.
Chad (20:30.73) And I think those guys are great, but it was just like you just talked about it. It was like, cool, we saw the same movie last year and the year before and the year before and the year before. But I think that they have the outlet to put it out there. So it got that many views. But I mean, these kids from Michigan, I know this kid, Derek Lemke, Brent Bann and Drake Warner put together a movie that's going to come out in the next couple of weeks. I'm really excited to see it's probably going to be a lot of challenge rails and a lot of dangerous kinks and things like that. But
I really enjoy like local movies or people I know or, you know, movies that are gonna have a feel as opposed to like a kind of a been there done that. We owned two movies from here last night and we're like, cool. And that was happened at Buck Hill 30 years ago. You know?
Mark (21:15.692) Yeah, but you know you guys actually made a movie this year called Midlife Crisis. What did you do for that one to make it stand out?
Chad (21:24.315) Um, we... Um...
Chad (21:30.814) We just, you know, we filmed and edited and put it up on slush to make it stand out, I guess. But it's more of an, I would always open it or end it and Blaze would open it and end it as well. And then we would put people in the middle of it, if that makes sense. And it was more about midlife crisis, like vintage snowboarders. And then we would put like the up and coming kids in the middle, you know? So we weren't just like all vintage.
Mark (21:59.524) You guys aren't vintage, you guys are like, you know, seasoned. I would say seasoned. Like you're like a fine wine. You've gotten better with age. Yeah.
Chad (22:03.166) Season, yeah, Season's a good name, yeah. Yeah, aged, all right. Aged, classic, you know, kind of classic. But yeah, I mean, what did we do to make it stand out? Nothing besides edit, and we made three movies this year called, the first one is Rock Bottom, the second one is Spring Chickens, and then the third one is the full meltdown, a play on MacDog Productions, The Meltdown Project.
Mark (22:13.061) Yeah.
Mark (22:22.78) Mm-hmm.
Chad (22:31.67) and that was in Mount Hood. And then, so we did that and yeah, you know, just pushing forward, we're actually making another one this year. We're gonna do a couple other things. I could ramble on, Blaze is way better at rambling on about it than I am. But, yeah, I am the editor of all the things. I'm the editor, Blaze is the talker. We're trying to make a brand. We're selling T-shirts and hoodies and hats.
Mark (22:31.783) Right.
Mark (22:51.432) But you're the co-host of this show, so damn it, it's up to you to ramble on.
Chad (23:01.434) And we're going to sell t-shirts to the kids and just say, life crisis with the mid crossed out. So we can kind of include everybody.
Mark (23:08.473) Okay.
Mark (23:11.881) life crisis of living in mountain towns.
Chad (23:14.118) Yeah, and then, so we're doing that. But yeah, I mean, it's just something to keep the dream alive, you know what I mean? Something to take away at life as opposed to sit there on the couch.
Mark (23:22.669) Yeah.
Mark (23:28.104) Well, that's cool. I'm glad you're doing stuff and it sounds like for this year, you're going to try to film yourself with a drone, which seems like it could add like a layer of complexity, but also, you know, just get a whole new kind of, you know, different kinds of shots for the films you're making.
Chad (23:44.926) Yeah, no, it should be exciting. I feel like I can sell film or whatever other friends to any kind of a 1500 foot line, uh, the way I'm going to approach it. We'll see if it works. I'm ordering the drone here in a week. So I'm waiting for black Friday so I can get a discount on one, but, uh, yeah, but no midlife crisis is, yeah, we we're actually coming out with a
Mark (23:58.442) Okay.
Right? That's the time to buy your drones, folks. Clock is ticking.
Chad (24:11.81) Blaise and I have full video parts coming out the next week on Slush. It's called Yearbook, where we put some old shots of Friends that didn't make it in like the other movies, not because they weren't good shots, but because they didn't really fit in the narrative of the movie. And then Blaise is going to have a full part. So he's got a 50-year-old full video part, like amazing part. Like I don't think anybody's ever really done that well anyways. Once you get to 50, a lot of people just start turning and give up. So he's got...
Mark (24:16.677) Okay.
Mark (24:40.956) So like who else is in that category? You got Todd Richards, film and video parts. You got...
Chad (24:45.874) Yeah, I don't know. He's not filming video parts, is he? He's filming clips.
Mark (24:49.496) I don't know. I mean he had a part in the in the. In the what's called Quicksilver movie. He was in that so.
Chad (24:57.218) Oh yeah yeah, I mean what kind of clip was it Parkshots?
Mark (25:01.744) I'm not sure I just remember him talking on the chairlift. I think he does a couple of shots. He always does like a switch McTwist. I'm not sure if it was a full part. I kind of like, I kind of fast forwarded through some of that to watch Powder and to watch Travis Rice and then when I was watching Travis Rice, I was actually just watching the mountains that he was riding. So I definitely agree with you on the, on the, you know, getting old and looking at mountains instead of like tricks and riding. So.
Chad (25:04.17) Yeah, he's got a couple. Um, he's got a full part though.
Thank you very much.
Chad (25:26.483) And I mean, Todd does have a part in my, a couple clips in my part that I'm dropping this week. But Blaze has a full part is what I'm saying. Like back country, park jumps, rails. You know what I mean? Like this is like a full four minute, like single part. Full song, yeah, full everything. And yeah, that's what I'm saying. But I mean, I wrote Richard's is.
Mark (25:33.319) Okay.
Mark (25:40.402) Yeah.
Mark (25:45.064) full song.
Chad (25:52.634) older than all of us. He's like 53, 54, maybe he's your age, maybe you're older than him. Yeah, so he's, you know, he's in that, you know, probably Tony Hawk era of snowboarders and I like, I rode with him at Woodward this May and he actually, just for, you know, showing up and riding, he warmed up pretty quick and he's pretty good. I think surfing might keep him in shape, you know.
Mark (25:57.592) I'm younger than him by a few years.
Mark (26:04.637) Yep, completely.
Mark (26:18.528) Yeah, yeah, for sure. I know he lives down in Carlsbad, so he's close to the beach, gets to go out any day of the surf. So that's probably pretty good. But you know, right now, aside from all these video parts, it's kind of coming to the end of video season, and we're kind of getting into the beginning of event season. And so I know that coming up in like a week or so, they have that event in, I think it's Innsbruck called Do It Yourself Extreme.
Chad (26:25.029) Yeah.
Mark (26:47.328) Or Dix, if you will, DIYX. Um, and it sounds like that'll be a pretty good one. Uh, you know, what do you know about the Dix event, Chad?
Chad (26:51.34) Yeah.
Chad (27:01.335) I mean, yeah, I know that there'll be a lot of dicks there and a lot of not-dicks there. And I hung out with a lot of the kids that went to it last year when I was in Minnesota right before they went and they said it's not really even a contest. They just set up spots in cities. And you know, there's a group of 20 kids that get invited to come up and...
Mark (27:18.502) Yep.
Mark (27:23.212) Yep, and it looks like Max Warbbington, Benny Malam, Dusty Hendrickson, Zeb, Jib Girl. So it sounds like a lot of the Americans will be there. I'm sure there's a full card of Europeans as well.
Chad (27:26.94) Bye bye.
Chad (27:36.262) Yeah. It's kind of like an Aaron style, but for jibbing and way more public. If that makes sense, not more as much of an arena style, but if you go and you see the video of it, there's hundreds of people surrounding like a rail or a flaming circle with Dylan Henderson back flip through that circle last year. Um, and they're all just hanging out and, you know, sipping on beverages and having a good time. It looks like a fun early season.
Mark (27:46.28) Mm-hmm.
Mark (27:56.377) Yeah.
Chad (28:06.102) You know, I wouldn't say warm up, because everything they do is pretty aggressive. But the early season, you know, kind of a raw, natural street contest, you could call it.
Mark (28:18.548) Yeah, it should be a pretty cool event. It's coming up 16th, the 20th of this month here in November. And then, you know, they also, I saw that they just recently announced the natural selection. And I know that last year you were a judge, so you got to go to BC and Alaska. What can you tell us about this year's natural selection?
Chad (28:39.027) Um, the only thing I can tell you is what has been gone on.
Spoken to anybody just yet about anything there, but I know there are three stops in Colorado. One down by Durango and two in Crested Butte. So yeah, yeah.
Mark (28:54.544) And I think those are for like the duels segment where they have like the riders face off. It says they're going to do it in Switzerland around Crested Butte and the, the what the Irwin Lake Lodge, Red Mountain BC and Purgatory Adventures in Durango. And somewhere in Japan sounds like they're going to be able to do as well.
Chad (29:06.623) Yeah.
Chad (29:13.262) Yeah, that'll be interesting. And then it looks like two stops in Revy, one at Selkirk's and then one off of the resort where I think they might've built some stuff, but I don't know. And then that's gonna be middle of March.
Mark (29:23.201) Mm.
Mark (29:27.284) Yeah, that's the 10th to the 17th of March. We'll look forward to that. But I was actually pretty disappointed that there wasn't a Alaska stop because to me it's like Alaska represents the pinnacle of free riding. It's where people can test themselves on like a higher level. And so, you know, and I thought that, you know, they were kind of able to do that last year and then no Alaska stopped this year kind of has me scratching my head because it's like, well,
How can it be the absolute pinnacle of free riding if you're not in the pinnacle place for free riding?
Chad (30:02.622) Yeah, that's a point. It's, I think they are trying to hone it in and figure things out, I would imagine. I mean, I would imagine that one day they wanna go back to Alaska, you know? For now, I think it's a little bit on hold. I know that the natural selection did have almost a 10-year break anyways, right? So I think that it's just kind of like a wave. It's like life, you know? Like...
Mark (30:15.212) Yep. Well...
Mark (30:24.432) That's true. That is true.
Chad (30:30.398) Some years, it might not be this five feet dropping in Jackson Hole or those pillows like last year at Rebel Stoke, where some years it might be kind of crusty Jackson Hole and Tomahawk King down ball face. So that's kind of how I see it. I think they have the same sights that you do. I think that they're just trying to work out the kinks and make it happen.
Mark (30:45.217) Yeah.
Mark (30:56.16) Yeah, I mean, I think the thing with Alaska, which they found out probably the hard way this year is that it is crazy expensive and, and there's a lot of curveballs in Alaska and so you can't, you know, you can't really plan things out to the day or the minute nature has the final say on everything in Alaska. And, uh, and so it, it can, it can lead to cost overruns if you're running an event.
Chad (31:22.014) Yeah, we were out there, we did a scope day hoping that we, riders would drop. Everybody went up and it just ended up being a rehearsal day that costs like in the fives of thousands, you know, the five figures of thousands of dollars just to go hang out and come back. So yeah, they're figuring it out. You know, they gotta, you gotta get those non endemic snowboard sponsors like, like Red Bull and, and donkey juice and whatever else there is, you know.
Mark (31:39.276) Yeah, yeah, so anyhow, but I...
Mark (31:50.516) Right. I mean, that's the thing is like a natural selection could bring that kind of free riding and what a lot of the athletes consider kind of like the, the most desirable part of riding, you know, to a larger audience. And so to me, that's like kind of the promise of natural selection. So I hope they can deliver on that this year from Revelstoke and from the dual series, and hopefully they can come back to Alaska soon.
Chad (32:06.391) Yeah.
Chad (32:19.31) Yeah, we'll see. I mean, there's a whole nother element too of the Olympics kind of buying the scene that they're probably gonna try to get their feet wet in a interesting way that we're gonna be able to watch. I'm more like kind of into sitting in the backgrounds and watching it unfold and enjoying myself snowboarding. These days.
Mark (32:40.681) It's crazy that you were in Alaska for like, I think about two weeks last year. And I was there the whole time you were there, we didn't see each other even though we were both hanging out in Valdez. So, but anyhow, well, hopefully you can make it back this year because I definitely know that's a place for you and I think you know it too.
Chad (32:50.286) Yeah, for sure.
Chad (32:57.873) Yeah, yeah. Honestly, the reason I took that job at Natural Selection was to go stand on a peak and kind of be involved. And now that that's been done, we'll see where it goes, you know?
Mark (33:09.132) Yeah, well, I mean, I think that you're one of the most qualified judges they could have. So let's hope they get you back.
Chad (33:16.81) Yeah, I kind of like snowboarding, so we'll see. I'd rather, I'd rather ride than judge, but I'm not going to say anything about that.
Mark (33:20.569) Okay.
Mark (33:26.164) Right, sometimes you gotta judge to ride. Okay. That's true, that's true. Sometimes you gotta not compete to ride as well. Otherwise, they're going to be standing around the top of a, uh, of a half pipe for half your life.
Chad (33:28.822) Yeah, no, not really. Sometimes you've got to not judge to ride.
Chad (33:37.503) Yeah, yeah, true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was the hard part about trying to go to the Olympics those years. It was like, wow, you have been complete riding half pipe from, you know, beginning of the year all the way till end of February. And you're like, but now that we've become more of a, you know, expert at figuring out the terrain and where to go and how to ride, you don't really start riding good stuff till after February anyways unless, you know, depending on where you're at.
Mark (34:06.38) Yeah, I mean you can in Japan, but that's just like for the powder.
Chad (34:10.921) And motorboat and power in Japan is the best.
Mark (34:13.076) Yeah. So, you know, I went to dinner last night with Scott Zergabel, who started holding with LeBlanc. You know, Scott? Yeah, he's yeah, he's a really cool dude. And he was telling me last night that ISPO, the European trade show, is going to be November 28th to 30th this year. And I was like, what?
Chad (34:20.346) Oh wow. I know Scott, yeah M3 remember? Yeah, M3 I see.
Mark (34:36.924) they've moved it now out of January. I remember when it was in March, when I first got involved in the snowboard industry, it was like the beginning of March every year in Vegas and they moved it to Colorado, I wanna say, and then they moved it up to like January or I guess before they moved to Colorado, they moved it up to the end of January. And now in Europe, they've decided to put it in November. Now, it's...
Kind of interesting because to me trade shows are kind of dead in America. I went to the outdoor retailer maybe three years ago, maybe four years ago. And it was like the endemic snowboard brands had pretty much given up on, on going to trade shows to kind of, to, to approach shops and to get new orders or try to increase their distribution. And, you know, it occurs to me that like moving the trade shows up to November makes it harder.
on small brands, I think it plays to people like Burton who want to run production all year long, or you know, a capita who has their own factory, they want to keep those people employed and not have to like ramp up seasonal laborers and then let them, you know, and lay them off at the end of production season for like six months or whatever. So it makes sense for these like big brands. How does it affect a brand like Academy though, that's what I'm curious about, because it doesn't make sense to me for this like
You know, just for like the organic grassroots aspect of the industry, it seems like that really plays into the hands of these like large major brands.
Chad (36:06.642) Yeah, I think even Never Summer quit doing, or Burton definitely quit doing trade shows a long time ago. Remember they had their own like, Denver, they had their own showroom there. And I mean, the one in Denver is gone, from what I understand. And I didn't even know Ispo was really still going. It's just, it's more of a, yeah, it's more of an event for people, brands that make a lot of money.
Mark (36:13.282) Yeah.
Mark (36:27.174) What?
Chad (36:34.054) non-independent snowboard brands, I guess you could call it. Like, you know, your Solomons and K2s and Arc'teryx and Smartwools and, you know, North Faces, these brands that, like, that's just kind of part of their program and they do it. But for us, it doesn't really affect us because we just call shops and, you know, we have our reps and we have our, we're pretty self-sustainable.
as opposed to these bigger brands kind of have to show face, I guess. Where I mean, it'd be great for us to be there if there was still a Denver trade show, it would be super fun to do because you get to see everybody. But every year, like the shops less and less would show up because it would cost them, you know, $5,000 or whatever to get four of their employees out there to go do loops and get hotel rooms for four days. And food and things would be...
Mark (37:29.272) No, it used to be like a family reunion at the trade show. Like every year you'd see people you haven't seen in a year. And then I went like three years ago to the last one I went to in Denver. And it was like, nobody was there. And so it wasn't a family reunion. I was just sitting there. I saw maybe five or seven people that I knew, but literally, I mean, the snowboard industry was absent almost completely.
Chad (37:50.174) Yeah, I think that's just e-commerce or whatever you want to call it. Everything kind of went to the internet and your computer and kind of how we are now as opposed to social interaction.
Mark (37:56.828) Yeah, it's kind of interesting because even ispo, they used to have 18 trade show halls. And so each trade show hall at ispo was about, I don't know, half the size of the entire si a trade show or outdoor retailer trade show, and they had 18 halls of this and they had also beyond skiing and snowboarding, they would also have like the outdoor industry. And then also even stuff like gym equipment would be at that trade show. But I saw that they have a map and now
Um, there are only 11 halls being filled in seven of the halls. They used to fill up with brands and, and people and, you know, and the industry are now empty and they don't even put anything in those halls. And so to me, that's like kind of a sign of the times, you know, between the internet and kind of how the retail environment has changed and, you know, the kind of direct consumer and these kind of macro big box.
online retailers, like your back countries or EVOs or whatever. It seems like it's really kind of changed the face of snowboarding as far as like the ability for people to get FaceTime with each other, you know? And to me as a kid, it was like, I would get that FaceTime in a snowboard shop and the sales reps would drop by and we get to hang out with them and understand all the different lines. And then we'd go and hang out after school at the shop. And, and we would have this kind of like.
you know, connection with the sport of snowboarding, even in the off season, like five days a week, we'd go hang out at a shop. And to me, it's like, now you get to hang out on Instagram and it's not quite the same thing.
Chad (39:39.226) Yup, it definitely is not the same thing. No, splitboarding is the answer, hanging out with your friends is the answer. It's the business. I feel like it's not just snowboarding. I would imagine it's like in every business, right?
Mark (39:43.727) Yeah.
Mark (39:51.688) Yeah, I mean, I would say every business has faced that, but snowboarding, especially, I mean, I just did some simple math earlier today. And so when I started Snowboard Magazine, there were about 800 snowboard shops that we would distribute to. And then I just looked on Slush the Magazine's website, and currently there's about 216 shops in the country. That's a 74%
Percent reduction in the amount of doors, right? That people can walk into to like interact with the culture of snowboarding. And so that's a negative thing. I mean, obviously people are getting it in other ways and other places, but. You know, to have that ability to just walk in and feel that culture of snowboarding. I think that's affected, you know, the. The overall size and scope of the industry and case in point is like.
At that time, the overall winter sports business between skiing and snowboarding was about $10.7 billion a year. And now it's about $4.28 billion a year. So despite the fact that 74% of shops have closed in the last 20 years, there's also a 60% reduction in overall revenue. And I would attribute that, and this is me, there's no science behind this or anything, but I would attribute that to...
just the lack of people being able to just like make snowboarding like a part of their identity by being able to walk into a snowboard shop five days a week or whatever as a 16 year old kid. That was my identity. I was a snowboarder first and foremost and today you know you do a lot of different things but snowboarding is kind of something you do in your own private time you know when you're sitting in front of your computer something like that.
Chad (41:42.426) Yeah, it's, it's true. You got to really, really search for it. I went to actually underground snowboards in Breckener's through their locals appreciation party last night. And there was a few hundred people at the Riverwalk center in Breck and we watched movie premieres and they gave away stuff and you know, but it's still, it's still, you know, it was still the, your, your 200 people as opposed to the thousands of people that live in Summit County. If you think about it.
Mark (42:00.173) Old times.
Mark (42:10.606) Yeah.
Chad (42:11.102) And it is interesting too, like things like lift lines and traffic and things like that have become more centralized or however you want to say it. Like if you look at I-70 coming up to Summit County, if you look at the canyons in Utah or I-80 coming up from San Francisco, they're just packed with vehicles and the parking lots are full and lift lines are crazy and resorts are tracked at, you know, before they even open if you're talking Jackson Hole.
Like what is that compared to like what it was when those billions of dollars were being made compared to what they are now?
Mark (42:47.416) And it's kind of crazy because it's like, there's less money involved, but there's also this other thing that's going on, like the Lyft Pass products where like, it used to be like to get a season pass at Sun Valley, it was like $3,500, some ridiculous amount of money. And now you can get like one of these kind of group season, epic icon, mountain collective passes, and, and they're affordable for pretty much anywhere. And, and
To me, at least it's affected the traffic on the 70, the 80, like all these like road corridors to the mountains, but it hasn't resulted in more money being spent in the sport overall. And so my question to you is, are these past products a good thing? Like, is this good for the industry or is this just a way for the resort companies to make more money in the short term? Is it...
Chad (43:24.238) True, they just smart cheeseburgers in real estate.
Mark (43:38.224) benefiting in the short term at the expense of the long term longevity and health of the sports.
Chad (43:44.614) Um, that's interesting. It's like a wonder where the, if there is, if you could do the comparison on board sales compared to like, you know, resort traffic.
Mark (43:55.328) Yeah, we'll look into that further as time goes on. That just occurred to me as we were sitting here talking, but it is kind of a question that I have is like, what's happening to snowboarding? We'll get a little bit more into that. One more piece of news, Slush the Magazine is about to launch Slush the App. And so you can actually download it right now. They haven't promoted it yet, but it's out there. And yeah, and so they have like copies of their stories and magazines online through the app that you can download through the App Store.
Chad (43:57.943) Yeah.
Mark (44:25.768) So that's kind of cool. Yeah.
Chad (44:27.018) That's awesome. I'm gonna be interested to have a Slush the Magazine app on my phone. It'll be my first kind of like snowboard app. What other app? Yeah, yeah, it's like Instagram or Slush. Which one are you gonna click? Facebook. What apps have I been using lately? I've been doing YouTube a lot. Just cause it's, I don't know, whatever. I'm trying to just load everything on my hard drives on YouTube just for fun for some reason.
Mark (44:32.824) Yep, just another icon on your phone to make you a snowboarder.
Mark (44:56.088) Mm-hmm. You get to like a point of like, you know, where you have enough videos that are getting plays here and there where it really adds up, you know, so the more videos the merrier, I guess.
Chad (44:57.462) and I'll...
Chad (45:05.097) Hmm.
we'll see what happens. But speaking of app, I would imagine this is gonna be on the app, the 2160 by Hirota Ogawara. Yeah.
Mark (45:19.188) Yeah, man, I'm kind of torn on the 2160, I gotta say, Chad, because, you know, yes, it is progression. No one's done a 2160 before, and I know you have thoughts on the 2160, but to me, it's like they've added a 180, you know, to what happened before, you know, and I don't know, I mean,
Chad (45:23.401) Yeah.
Mark (45:46.104) According to you Chad, you're like the matrix is complete now you can stop bullets with your teeth. Is that is that how it goes?
Chad (45:52.498) Yes, this is the truth 100% like I thought it was at five, but apparently 2160 is six pins. So this is another 360 pass bullet catching bullets. So that's pretty cool. When I was a coach, I always like to say I would always tell the kids that your trick doesn't count unless you did it on something never touched by a human or modified by human. So how many tricks do you got the kids to be like?
Mark (46:11.068) Mm-hmm.
Chad (46:16.99) If you went to, you know.
and it was like, how many tricks do you got? I bet he might not have any tricks either, but he does have a 2160 and a park jump, but technically somebody else built that kicker for him. So it doesn't really count. He doesn't own that trick, but I do enjoy the more spins, you know, like it's just entertaining. I don't think it's marketable or something that people wanna do, but I like to see.
The possibility is pushed in every direction. I wouldn't say it's necessarily good for the sport or for sales, but it's like, why not? I don't know.
Mark (46:59.656) I mean, you could definitely define it as progression. It's never been done before. Now it's been done. So that is progression, right? By maybe definition. But to me, it's like there's something missing from that. Right? It's like, when you watch that 2160, I mean, he is whipping around and it's getting closer and closer to helicopter status with each like added 180, but.
Chad (47:05.952) Right.
Chad (47:20.314) He might, if he put a little tweak on his board, he might like be able to just kind of levitate. You know what I mean? If you think about it, if he puts his board at the right angle, he might actually be able to helicopter and just kind of hang out up there.
Mark (47:26.607) Yeah.
Mark (47:33.716) Yeah, I mean, that's true. That might be the next level beyond stopping bullets with your teeth, it's just levitating. So we'll have to wait and see where this goes. But to me though, it's like, it's still missing like this essential creative element. It's like back in the day, let's go back to like the early 90s. It's like you watch Jamie Lynn do a method, you watch Chris Roach do a method, you watch Dave Alden do a method, and they were all different tricks, but they were the same trick. And it's like the way that each person
Chad (47:38.663) Man.
Yeah.
Mark (48:03.736) made that trick their own was part of the essence of like, of the creativity of snowboarding. It's like you would put your own mark on every trick you did. And once we got into like nine hundreds and beyond, that's when you kind of stopped making tricks your own. You just had to get it around to the landing, but.
I kind of miss the days where it was like your creative approach and how you did it. And I guess that's what I identified with like East bum fuck is like the way that he like just approached making a movie differently. Um, but to me, it's like that creative element doesn't exist when it's just a matter of adding rotations.
Chad (48:44.274) 100%. Yeah. I mean, Sean, like, like they like the claims that he was inventing tricks, but like you said, it was it's just not in our eyes is not really the progression we want to see. It's just more rotations.
Mark (48:56.344) Yeah, and I do see that there is some progression in the sport. I don't think progression is dead. And by the way, it's like, I don't consider like a 50-50 on a challenge rail necessarily progression, even if you go 20 feet longer than the last guy or whatever that to me isn't necessarily progression, but I do see progression in like the pullback tricks that you see guys, you know, like Marcus Cleveland and Ted Powell doing a little bit and, and I, so I see that as something cool, obviously like natural selection, they're bringing
you know, kind of like just back country kind of filming and then making it into full lines where you have to like really do multiple tricks on one face. And so that to me is a kind of progression. And then this other thing to me, where really I see the progression of free riding is in what I consider like adventure free riding, where people are going out and like discovering new areas or exploring to get to these areas and then riding them and then making it back out in one piece. And to me, that's kind of like this.
very potentially dangerous, but also rewarding part of freeriding that, that has kind of like really been progressing in the last like, like five or 10 years as far as like people going really to like further lengths. I know people have been using snowmobiles to access areas for about 20 years, but really I've seen like this progression in the last 10 years of crews going out to like new areas and going to places that literally have never been gotten to before.
And so to me, that's like a whole new level of exploration and therefore progression to me anyway.
Chad (50:31.334) I agree with you. I enjoy watching those movies as more documentary style and in-depth and what's going on. Like I didn't like watching Jeremy Jones's video parts ever. The big mountain, Jeremy Jones until he started telling his story. And then you're like, Whoa, that's pretty cool. Like what you're doing besides that. It was just kind of like, you know, turning down a hill or a steep hill, you know? And, uh, once you hear the story and you hear what's going on behind, it's great.
Mark (50:54.285) Yeah, we get-
Mark (50:58.968) Yeah, it's like I took it for granted when all those TV movies were coming out in the 90s. You just see Tom Burt on a mountain face a fly on the wall making his way down a mountain. And you didn't really appreciate all the thought and calculation and you know, figuring out what would go into like a big mountain line. And then when Jeremy Jones started talking about that's when I think the regular viewer kind of started to gain an appreciation of what goes on in like big mountains and
And really just how a risky it is, but B then how much more calculation you put into each line you're doing.
Chad (51:36.11) Yeah, like the story behind it is the progression I feel like. I did notice and I paid attention. I saw a lot of movies come out in the last couple of years, a lot of big brands, like big outdoor brands are sponsoring expeditions. And they do a lot of sponsoring expeditions to a lot of skiers and snowboarders. It might not be the best skiers and snowboarders. So they just go out and struggle and come back and tell their story.
That's kind of degression to me. Like a lot of these adventure movies that have come out that Travis and Jeremy put out over the last couple of years have kind of spawned a lot of people trying to go make their own and they don't have the talent that Jeremy and Travis do so it's kind of a boring... Yeah. I see a lot of those on YouTube. I'm like, oh, but they're still interesting to watch. And if they go to cool places, you know.
Mark (52:17.037) It's like a watered down version of that progression, you know?
Mark (52:25.204) Is it progression if you struggle more? Is that progression? It's like the bigger the struggle, the more the progression. I don't think so. Yeah.
Chad (52:31.71) Yeah, like DMX says to live is to struggle, to die is to feel good. You know, but anyways, yeah, yeah. So, but I do, I really love enjoy like, you know, all those climbing adventure movies, as opposed to your standard trick movie that happened here before. But like I said, unless it's very unique, like used bumfuck, or if I personally know them, then I'm excited to watch it. Like I just saw Jed at that.
Mark (52:38.504) Yup.
Chad (53:00.086) you know, premiere in Minneapolis. And I was like, what's up, Jed? I'm like, we're here for you. We heard you got a two song part. I wanna watch it, you know what I mean? And then my dad was at the usher at the rail at the end of his part. So there was like a little connection there, but otherwise it's just another challenge rail to me when I'm watching it.
Mark (53:08.124) Yeah.
Mark (53:18.788) Yeah, interesting. Well, you know, we I had another subject that I was going to talk about here, but I think we'll save it for our next episode. I think it's a pretty juicy subject that we could get really into. And so maybe we'll save that for the next time around. But I think we've kind of covered a lot of bases here for the preseason. Is there anything else that you want to talk about? I mean, I think that we got an open mic, we got, you know, an open platform for you to speak your mind, Chad.
Chad (53:33.111) Yeah.
Chad (53:47.502) Speak my mind, I'm like the more and more I'm involved in the snowboarding industry, the more and more I want to be more involved in just snowboarding, not outside of it, which a lot of brands are these days and I notice it. So I'm really excited at what we're doing with Academy and I hope on the next episode, I plan on this next November, December, I want to go ride Minnesota and then go surf the North Shore of Lake Superior.
Mark (54:17.58) Interesting.
Chad (54:18.674) And with a wetsuit because I guess it's really good in the winter and my buddy
Mark (54:22.5) I got a guy who's like a big Chicago surfer. Now I know that's like kind of an oxymoron to some people, but he's the guy for Great Lakes surfing apparently. It's snowboard or two. So he might be able to show you some spots, some secret spots on the Great Lakes.
Chad (54:26.09) none.
Chad (54:33.267) Yeah.
Chad (54:40.002) Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah. Like a, well, damaged Duluth. I'm gonna, there's a shop up in Duluth and that's kind of where we're going. We're going to go east of there, but I mean, there are secrets, but they're not because it's so cold up there that no one does it. You know what I mean?
Mark (54:42.084) I think they're all kind of secret.
Mark (54:57.144) Right. It's not like you're fighting for waves.
Chad (55:01.002) Yeah, my buddy Matt that I'm going to do it go surf with he lived in San Diego for 15 years and he's like a you know He's got a sailboat in Mexico and he's like the best place to surf is You know the great lace because no one's there Yeah, you just got to be able to deal with the cold
Mark (55:12.856) Really? Interesting. Okay, well, I guess now with all your cold plunge training, you should be ready.
Chad (55:18.051) We'll see.
Chad (55:21.523) I'm going that's kind of the goal. Yeah.
Mark (55:23.596) You know, if you really want to impress me, you're going to trunk it. Right on. Well, thank you for taking the time to jump onto this real talk. This has been real Chad, and I enjoy talking to you, uh, snowboarding. And, you know, I, I've, um, been progressing my, my interest in snowboarding and, and part of that progression though, is, is.
Chad (55:27.142) I'll die, are you? Yeah, we'll see.
Chad (55:37.642) It has, it's been a couple years.
Mark (55:50.132) as you have, I'm less interested in the snowboard industry and, and more interested in kind of what snowboarding can do for the individual, you know, and how that can impact your life and what it can contribute to your peace and happiness in your life. And so I think that snowboarding can still bring that to you. It's just I'm not looking at it through the same lens as I used to, as far as the industry and you know, then this kind of daily in and out of, you know,
Instagram posts or whatever.
Chad (56:21.002) Yup, you know, there's only one person made for Instagram that's Zeb Powell, you know?
Mark (56:25.9) Exactly. It's like you just have to watch what Zeb does and it's like, what are you going to do? What? You know, you can watch Marcus Cleveland too, you know, yeah, there's a there's a handful, but you can get your full fill pretty quick. Just saying. Time to figure out some new ways to sell yourself through Instagram, maybe.
Chad (56:33.978) Yeah, yeah, true. For sure. Five.
Chad (56:40.846) For sure.
Chad (56:45.43) Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean Who knows of my plan this winter is to go snowboarding every day I can and I live in an area where once I leave my house with my cell phone
Mark (56:55.076) That's, that's why you're a real contender for goat status is because your passion for snowboarding is like real. And you know, there's a lot of people who like just being around snowboarding for 30 years, there's like a lot of people who like became pros and like, we're all about it, had video parts and all this stuff. And then they lost their sponsor deal or whatever and haven't been seen from since. And to me, that was always disappointing. It's like, were you after the, you know, the accolades or were you after kind of the joy of snowboarding?
You know, and for me, I have no question in my mind about you, Chad. You love snowboarding more than anyone else. I know. I think so.
Chad (57:32.45) Thank you, I appreciate that. You are correct, snowboarding's not really that hard. So, well it is and it isn't, but some people are really naturally talented and then their passion doesn't really go along with their scene. So once they're done, they're done. And I love it, it's gonna be a good time. It's just a great way to get outside.
Mark (57:45.853) Yeah.
Mark (57:49.844) Well, apparently we're not done yet with the snowboard project. We're going to keep doing it. And we're not doing it with sponsors anymore because we just want to keep the talk as real as possible. So I think that's a good thing. And I want to thank you all for tuning into our first episode in about nine months. And you got to take a break from time to time. I mean, I literally worked in the snowboard industry from the 19, I think 1991.
is when I first got involved and I just, I worked a ridiculous amount of time in it for all these years and it was time for a break, you know, so.
Chad (58:28.49) Yeah, I'm down to get back on once we come up with another good list of awesome things to talk about.
Mark (58:34.228) I think it won't take long because we didn't even get to the juiciest part of this list this week. So we'll be back soon. I talked to Bjorn, by the way, he wants to jump back on as well. So we'll get, we'll get both of you guys back on here. I'm not counting Bjorn out, but he was busy with Cardiff business today. So he was doing that. There's some kind of snow safety kind of deal in Utah right now. And, you know, he's, he's involved with that. So more power to him.
Chad (58:40.138) Oh yeah, yeah. All right.
Chad (58:45.65) Nice.
Chad (58:52.238) Ah, that's it.
Mark (59:01.972) And more power to you, Chad. And I'm glad that you've got a roof over your head, some photos on the wall that you shot and a couple of Vordivox bags behind you.
Chad (59:11.462) Those aren't my photos, those are Jeff's. But yeah, a couple of order box bags, so you know. Pretty good gear. Speaking of, well, yeah, thank you. They do have a, I'm not sponsored by them, but they do have a beacon that his voice talks to you while you're searching. It says, go left, go right, start digging. Things like that, I believe so, yeah. It's pretty advanced, you know. Hopefully you never have to have that happen, but.
Mark (59:13.904) Okay.
Yep, you're ready for any kind of mishap.
Mark (59:30.604) Like what, go left, go right, five meters? Really? That is pretty cool.
Chad (59:40.706) They do that.
Mark (59:41.144) Maybe, maybe for our next episode, we can kind of do a review because it seems like, you know, like all this backcountry technology is still evolving as far as the airbag backpacks, you know, there's the canister ones, the electric ones. There's beacons seem to evolve every year. Now radios are part of the game. Um, they always have been, but they kind of have been refined a little bit by the industry. So maybe we could talk about some of the backcountry tools next time around as well. Cool.
Chad (01:00:07.362) That sounds awesome. I'm way into that.
Mark (01:00:10.284) Well, thank you everyone for tuning in and yeah, we will be back with some more snowboard projects soon.
Chad (01:00:18.539) Thank you.
Mark (01:00:19.592) And, uh, Chad, just hold on a minute. Let me just stop the recording and let me just
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We kick off this episode of The Splitboard Project with Markus Moser guide with Splitboar-camps.at - a guide in Austria about his season. We then turn things over to co-host and Spark R&D founder Will Ritter live from a mountain hamlet in Austria.
Will and Mark discuss the new trade shows in North America and Europe as well as highlighting boards from Cardiff, Burton, Nitro, Applied and Dupraz.
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We kick off this episode of The Splitboard Project with co-host and Spark R&D founder Will Ritter live from the ski track.
We talk with Silverton guide and former pro rider Chris Coulter about guiding on a splitboard.
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We kick off the new season of The Splitboard Project with co-host and Spark R&D founder Will Ritter.
Will also fills us in on some of the new Split videos this season with a Spark R&D movie event.
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The Earn Your Turns Movie Night feared
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First we catch up with Will - love from the skintrack at Bridger Bowl Montana. (https://bridgerbowl.com/ ). Then we catch up with Elena Hight who has two new film releases this season.
Ark (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roAyNph-muo)
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EARTH DAY • Season Two Episode Five
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The scene in Alaska is a unique one in the world of winter sports - full of risk, challenge and ultimaterly - unlimited powder and mountains. In this new series we go in depth on the scene in Alaska. We start off this week with a short interview with a guy who pushes the limits of what is possible on a snowboard - albeit without sponsors, media exposure or a paycheck. Gary is a guy who works all season to ride - and push his own personal progression in the sport.
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The scene in Alaska is a unique one in the world of winter sports - full of risk, challenge and ultimately - unlimited powder and mountains. In this new series we go in depth on the scene in Alaska. This week we with a number of participants and staff members from Tailgater Alaska - the annual freeride festival held on Thompson Pass. Artilect Studio
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The scene in Alaska is a unique one in the world of winter sports - full of risk, challenge and ultimately - unlimited powder and mountains. In this new series we go in depth on the scene in Alaska. This week we talk with Brady Longhurst, Kevin from Anchorage and Pat Cray about their experiences here. We also check in with Sean Clawson and Will Brommelsiek about their favorite runs around basecamp. http://artilect.studio
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The scene in Alaska is a unique one in the world of winter sports - full of risk, challenge and ultimately - unlimited powder and mountains. In this new series we go in depth on the scene in Alaska. This week we talk with Brady Longhurst, Kevin from Anchorage and Pat Cray about their experiences here. We also check in with Sean Clawson and Will Brommelsiek about their favorite runs around basecamp.
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The scene in Alaska is a unique one in the world of winter sports - full of risk, challenge and ultimaterly - unlimited powder and mountains. In this new series we go in depth on the scene in Alaska. We start off this week with a short interview with a guy who pushes the limits of what is possible on a snowboard - albeit without sponsors, media exposure or a paycheck. Sean is a guy who works all season to ride - and push his own personal progression in the sport.
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Spark R&D founder Will Ritter interviews attendees at there Bozeman Splitboard Festival including:
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Will breaks down some tips for making the most out a trip to a split board festival on the skin track.
Feature: Splitboard Festivals with Dan Ventura
The marketing manager of Sark R&D breaks down the 411 on starting a splitboarding festival.
Bucket List: Boliva, India, Norway & Alaska
Cardiff pro rider Neil Provo breaks down some of our sports most aspirational destinations.
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Career Starter Pack: So You Want to be a Photograher? In this episode we take an in depth look on what it takes to be a professional photographer through the lens of those who have achieved success in the game.
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Featuring snowboarding legends Stevie Alters and Jason ‘J2’ Rasmus, this is a unique look into the life and legend of J2. The first half relates some pretty funny stories. The second half talks about dealing with cancer. This is a heavy episode. Be warned there is some ‘adult, not P.C.’ content in this episode.
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Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
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Stevie Alters and J2
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This season our format will change to do deep dives on a single subject matter - in this episode we talk OLYMPICS and in particular all of the excitementaround judging at the Olympics with legend Bjorn Leines and legend and event judge Chad Otterstrom. Today's episode brought to you by
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The Olympic's have just kicked off and with it, controversy over the results from the slopestyle results. We check in with Brad Jay, on the ground in China.
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The Olympic's have just kicked off, so we checked in with brad J. who is on the ground as snowboarding announcer for host broadcaster OBS.
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The Splitboard Project
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That Time of Year • Season Two Episode Two
The Splitboard Project is a ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability co-hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In the our third episode of the new season, our segments include:
Live from the Skintrack
Spark R&D founder Will Ritter co-hosts the entire show live from the skin track in Montana
Bucket List: The Pyrenees with Victor Perise
The Pyreenees Mo9utaibs straddle France Spain and And0rra and offer easy access and good powder. Splitboard.Eus Victor Perise fill us in on some local knowledge.
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Tool Belt: Maple Syrup as Skin Glue?
Will breaks down some tips for staying energized on the skin track.
Feature: Robin Van Gyn
From cmnpetitor to guide to filmer to filmmaker and back to competing agin, Robin has had a diverse and remarkable career in snowboarding and splitboarding.
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Chris Wellhausen was the final photo editor for both SNOWBOARDER Magazine and Transworld Snowboarding before taking a role as photo editor of the Men's Journal. From his start as a dedicated East Coast snowboarder to the pilgrimage to the west, Chris followed the same path as any core riders, before picking up a camera and finding his calling. The rest, as some salt is history.
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Olympic Qualifiers Almost Live & Behind the Scenes
In this episode we take you one a behind the scenes look at The US Grand Prix at Mammoth, which wrapped up 12 hours ago. The Grand Prix serves as the qualification events for the US Olympic Snowboard scene. This is an experimental episode - so let us know what you think - email mark@thesnowboardproject.com
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Chip Wilson is a self made billionaire - who got his start as a snowboard clothing brand founder. After selling the brand he started, Westbeach, Chip went on to create the first yoga pants - creating the brand Lulu Lemon. Perhaps the most revealing part is the entrepreneurial struggle of starting brands - and achieving a good work/life balance - as well as some hard learned insights from the most accomplished person ever to get his start in snowboarding.
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REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.
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Real Talk 4.4 is coming. unfortunately one of our cohosts got a case of the Delta and is feeling pretty miserable - so we will wait for him to feel better.
The Splitboard Project
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Rad Dads & the Shire • Season Two Episode Two
The Splitboard Project is a ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability co-hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In the our second episode of the new season, our segments include:
Live from the Skintrack
Spark R&D founder Will Ritter do-hosts the entire show live from the skin track on Brisger Bowl.
Feature: Mike Meru & The Chuting Gallery
Professional by day, father by night and splitboarder by weekend, Mike Meru lives a full life. He also happens to be the first split boarder to do all of Utah's infamous Chuting Gallery lines. And that is only a small part of this in depth interview,
Tool Belt:Getting Your Gear Set for the New Year
Will breaks down some tips for avoiding catastrophic gear failures on the hill.
Bucket List: Mike Handford New Zealand
New Zealand is one of the most beautiful countries on the planet, most agree. It is also home to some amazing mountains and adventures. mike Handford, a British transplant breaks it down.
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On today’s episode of Pro Files: Well Seasoned - Gary land. Gary Land is an award-winning director and photographer whose career has produced an unparalleled portfolio of broadcast and print work. He began as a photography legend in the snowboarding industry, and from there has shot countless A-list celebrity athletes, numerous large scale ad-campaigns from Nike to AT&T to Coca-Cola, and collaborated with the likes of Stance Socks, Undefeated, and Bodega, who’ve all designed products that feature Gary’s images. He collaborated with Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp to create pre-visuals for the movie District 9, and his most recent photography books are Born to Play Baseball and AI, a collection of action and behind the scenes portraits of Allen Iverson that span over a decade. Gary’s scope of work, reputation and creative drive are unmatched in the history of snowboarding.
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Career Starter Pack: So You Want to be Sponsored?
In this episode we take an in depth look on what it takes to be a sponsored snowboarder and break down some broad ideas that can help you achieve or maintain sponsors in the sport.
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The Splitboard Project
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A New Season • Season Two Episode One
The Splitboard Project is a ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability co-hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In the our first episode of the new season, our segments include:
Live from the Skintrack
Pretty much anything on Spark R&D founder Will Ritter’s mind this month co ing to you from a local backcountry spot in Bozeman.
Bucket List: Alaska with Ryland Bell
Ryland has been a backcountry athlete for Jones for quite some time. He used to spend his winters in Tahoe. Now he hangs out at his cabin in Haines Alaska -and makes the most of the limited hours of light in the 'dark season'.
Tool Belt: Sharp and Pointies in the Early Season
Will breaks down some tips for making the most of your spring. From communicating with your group, to waxing your skins - there is some good practical knowledge here.
Pro Tips: Chad Otterstrom
Chad is a legend of freestyle snowboarding. He is also a long time dedicated split boarder. In this segment he gives you tips for the new season.
Yeah/Nay
What would you not do again - what would you always do - Will weighs in on what not to do again - and things that are worth repeating.
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On today’s episode of Pro Files: Well Seasoned - Jeff Baker.
Jeff got his start in media as a photo assistant for Snowboarder Magazine. When I took over as Editor in Chief, I promoted him to photo editor of the publication.
When launching Snowboard Magazine, I tapped him to be the first Editor, creating what are known as the best snowboarding magazines in the history of the sport.
After a brief independent stint, Jeff was lured back to work for Snowboarder to take on a high pay, high pressure position, selling ads as publisher of the magazine.
That said, the first half of the interview focuses on the current state of media in the sport of snowboarding. The second half covers his background and ride in the sport.
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This season our format will change to do deep dives on a single subject matter - in this episode we talk new snowboard movies for the 2021/2022 seasons.
Wind Slab
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Living Room
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REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.
This season our format will change to do deep dives on a single subject matter - in this episode we talk new snowboard movies for the 2021/2022 seasons.
Wind Slab
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On today’s episode of Pro Files: Well Seasoned - E Stone. He got his start as an aspiring pro with a number of flow sponsorships. Upon graduating high school he promptly moved to colorado - in no small part to watching the seminal Mack Dawg film The Hard, The Hungry and the Homeless. And in his first season out West he started what many would consider one of the important brands in the history of the sport Tech 9. In this episode we hear all about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur in the sport of snowboarding.
Indeed, starting a brand is no get rich quick scheme as many might expect - it is in fact lon g hours, empty bank accounts - and doing something you believe in.
During his time running Tech 9 Ethan picked up another skill - becoming a photographer - then senior photographer for snowboarder Magazine.
But riders want to ride - and E Stone is a rider, starting The Bombhole podcast with pro snowboarder Chris Grenier.
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Mark_sullivan00:03
Yeah, I got. I got a few good ones that tookck this one out theres. one got sponsored for this one.
E
Ethan00:08
Really?
M
Mark_sullivan00:09
This is uh, electro voice
M
Mark_sullivan00:12
y. That's a good mike. too.
M
Mark_sullivan00:14
this is the Mac Daddy. Though,
E
Ethan00:16
that thing looks dude.
M
Mark_sullivan00:19
Yeah, so too ki. what you got? Yeah,
E
Ethan00:20
Yes, sorry, it took me a minute to get this all figured out.
M
Mark_sullivan00:25
worries that worries.
E
Ethan00:26
Not used to talking to about myself. You know what I mean. so it's uh,
M
Mark_sullivan00:29
I know we're going to change that right here. It looks like you got some sound padding on the walls there behind you, too.
E
Ethan00:36
that's not what it
M
Mark_sullivan00:36
that's
E
Ethan00:37
is. It's some mirrors or something,
E
Ethan00:40
and I got a dog next to me.
M
Mark_sullivan00:43
nice. nice.
M
Mark_sullivan00:45
right on. Well, uh, you know, maybe we should kick this thing off Interview with E. Ste, normally a guy who's behind a Mike. asking people questions today. I' get to ask him some questions. How you doing today? Ethan,
E
Ethan00:57
I'm doing good a little nervous.
M
Mark_sullivan01:00
Little nervous. Why are you nervous today?
E
Ethan01:02
I don't know, dude. I'm not used to talking about myself' chilling here with
M
Mark_sullivan01:08
Okay?
E
Ethan01:08
the O. Know,
M
Mark_sullivan01:10
Oh nice.
E
Ethan01:12
he doesn't talk though
M
Mark_sullivan01:13
Oh yeah.
E
Ethan01:13
he's not order of the interview.
M
Mark_sullivan01:15
yeah.
E
Ethan01:16
You just want to laugh.
M
Mark_sullivan01:16
you always got to have a dog as part of the interview. Though
E
Ethan01:19
Yeah, true.
M
Mark_sullivan01:19
that always makes sense.
E
Ethan01:21
Yeah, so I'm
M
Mark_sullivan01:22
So
E
Ethan01:22
a little nervous, but I'm hyy. to talk with you.
M
Mark_sullivan01:26
right on. Well, I'll make it pretty easy on you because I'll just roll back to right in the beginning of your snowboarding career. Um. Arizona Snowball. How did you get there and what were you doing snowboarding in Arizona?
E
Ethan01:38
How did you know I was in Arizona?
M
Mark_sullivan01:41
I know these things.
E
Ethan01:42
You know these things. you know. I went there with Bloto. Um. he grew up there,
E
Ethan01:48
So I was living with him in Vail at the time and we kind of had a bunch of similar sponsors and uh, oh no, let me trace this back. Actually, I went. I, I met Bloto there. I'm I'm actually wrong. I'm a little. uh. I got some memory issues so that's where I met Bloto. I was traveling around with. Uh,
E
Ethan02:09
I think they were called Hollywood films at the time,
M
Mark_sullivan02:12
Mhm.
E
Ethan02:13
and Uh,
E
Ethan02:15
kind of working on my first time filming snowboarding
E
Ethan02:19
And it was Uh, Rick and Tillion was the filmer and uh, I think I just jumped in the car with these guys that went on a filming trip.
E
Ethan02:29
I think that was when I got my first photo in East Infection
E
Ethan02:33
with your magazine, was actually on that same trip. But yeah, we stopped in Snowball, and uh Bloto just happened to be there and started shooting with us.
E
Ethan02:43
And uh, that place was awesome.
E
Ethan02:47
I think Uh,
M
Mark_sullivan02:48
I would say. actually, that mag that mag was play or mag, because I got a copy of it right here.
E
Ethan02:52
Player magazine, not East infection. Yeah, it was your magazine All right.
M
Mark_sullivan02:57
Yeah, Yeah, that was my mag back in the day.
M
Mark_sullivan03:00
You know that that's how I got started. But you were actually one of the writers we featured in that mag.
E
Ethan03:05
That was probably my first published photo anywhere.
E
Ethan03:09
It was like a seven twenty sequence or something. I don't think it was
M
Mark_sullivan03:13
Yup,
E
Ethan03:13
at. Uh in Arizona. I was on the way to Arizona, somewhere in Utah, I think,
E
Ethan03:18
but uh, yeah, that was awesome.
M
Mark_sullivan03:19
So you had dreams, though of being like a pro writer, being filming movie parts doing the whole thing.
E
Ethan03:24
Yeah, I moved out from Vermont, Kinda got fueled by the hard, Go hungry and the Homeless. That movie I think that came out when I was in eleventh grade
E
Ethan03:35
and uh, kinda just made me want to move to where those guys were And that was Bracken Ridge, and uh, right when I graduated from high school, I just made the move. I actually graduated a half year early, so I could get out there even sooner, and uh, I remember when I told my mom she straight up cried 'cause I wasn't going to go to college.
E
Ethan03:56
and uh, she just thought I was throwing away my life and there was no future,
E
Ethan04:00
but I did it anyways and just uh made the move to. We couldn't get to Brack and Ridge where we wanted to move 'cause all the housing was filled up, so we uh, moved to Vale, which actually ended up being dove because we kind of met a really good community with people like ▁j two and Nj, Adam Merriman, um Tarquin, And uh, yes, I was just kind of following that dream of trying to become a pro snowboarder,
M
Mark_sullivan04:29
So what kind of job did you work in Vail when you first arrived?
E
Ethan04:33
all dishwashing,
E
Ethan04:35
and
M
Mark_sullivan04:35
All dishwashing.
E
Ethan04:35
Uh, Hydro ceramic technician was the uh, official term, but uh yet,
M
Mark_sullivan04:41
Okay,
E
Ethan04:41
basically you know in Vale there there's a lot of tourism. Obviously, this, it's a lot different than it was. Uh than it is. Now you know, now it's even crazier. but back then I mean the only jobs were really working for the mountain or working for Uh, a restaurant
E
Ethan04:57
and I lived, Uh, moved out there with all Egu lay, and then a couple of other good friends from Vermont, and we all just got dishwashing jobbs. I think we had eight of us in a two almos, seven of us in a two bedroom in Uh, Avon, Colorado, which is just right next to Vale,
E
Ethan05:14
and Uh,
M
Mark_sullivan05:14
and were you a sponsored writer at the time? do you like sponsored?
E
Ethan05:17
when I moved out there, No sponsors. Um,
E
Ethan05:21
but quickly
E
Ethan05:23
through meeting people like ▁j two and all that you got introduced to a lot of different raps and picked up some sponsors. Um, I got picked up by six, eight, six pretty early, and that's how Uh. Bloto was riding for them as well, so I think that's why we met him at Snowball Snowball and Uh, Scott boards, and
E
Ethan05:44
Um,
E
Ethan05:46
I was kind of like a rap rider for Original Sin, but I wouldn't consider that sponsored. like when I moved out from Vermont, Just like a little bit of board flow. You know,
M
Mark_sullivan05:56
Okay? So you're in Colorado. You're starting to shoot video. You are starting to take photos. You know. I mean, at what point did you decide that like? Okay, Actually, I'm going to start a binding company Because
E
Ethan06:10
you know that.
M
Mark_sullivan06:10
you started that pretty early on in Vail.
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Ethan06:12
Yeah, we actually started that our first year living in Vale, and uh, what we were doing was go in the Home Depot and getting metal brackets, and my buddy from high school. ▁j, three would kind of cut them into the parts we needed to make the first baseless bindings, and uh, we would use straps from just whatever available binding was out there, and the highbas as well, And then at the Uh, he worked at the Beaver Creek. Uh, he was a snowmaker and W had access to like the shop at Beaver Creek, the workshop, and was able to use like a metal bender to. We would just cut like diamond plate metal into uh heel cups and then bend themem on this uh bending machine they had up there, And so we had kind of the first baseless bindings going, And he made Paris for myself and for Tarquin and forer all, Lee and uh, My dad came out and saw what we were doing and he was like, Oh, I could help you guys get these made, actually manufactured for real, and uh, so we made some samples and then we went to Uh, the trade show that year, which I was eighteen. So this was like nineteen ninety four. We went to the trade show in San Diego,
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Ethan07:27
and Uh didn't have a booth or anything. We were just kind of walking around and we met a uh, Japanese distributor and they saw what we had, and Uh instantly made a giant order and all of a sudden we were just a company and they ended up being our distributor for the the whole time we were a company, too, which was pretty cool. So like twenty three years or something,
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Mark_sullivan07:47
Okay, so how long did you like try to wear two hats in that you were trying to be a team rider for different brands and then you were starting your own brand? How long did you keep both of those balls in the air?
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Ethan07:57
I would say until uh, around ninety nine two thousand, I moved out to Co, to Utah from Colorado, and Uh, the mountains out here were a bit different than Colorado, As as people know, they're a little bit more aggressive. The jumps got a little bit bigger and snowboarding got a little more serious. I was riding with Marco a lot, kind of following him off jumps and he was just so good and I would end up, you know, trying to go as big as him and then just eating shit. End up worked after the day, like barely able to walk. trying to follow Marco. You know, so I kind of realized I just wasn't on this dues level and maybe I should start focusing on Uh, Tech Nine a little bit more, and at the same time, Bloto kind of uh, gave me a camera, so I started shooting photos as well, which got me to be able to still be out with guys like Marco, but not, uh, didn't work.
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Mark_sullivan08:53
Was that his nice way of being like your riding is and cutting it?
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Ethan08:57
No, he. it was actually, he. Uh, He had gone to the East coast. He was working for Tech Nine at the time as our team manager and he kind of snuck off to the East Coast for a meeting with Burton, and uh, I think he felt bad that he was taking the job and leaving Tech Nine, so he just handed me down his camera. But yeah, maybe it was a kind of a nice way to say, Maybe maybe you're not uh as good as the rest of the te.
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Mark_sullivan09:21
Okay So so now you're running Tech nine and you are starting to learn how to be a photographer? Take us through that of like what it was like to, actually, you know, get your chops developed for taking photos of. People, how long did that take?
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Ethan09:33
You know, I was pretty blessed. In that sense, I was able to uh, go out with guys like Kevin ▁zacher, and Nate Christensson, who were top photographers at the time. I used to shoot with them on the other side of the camera, so they let me come out, and uh, kinda just stand right next to him and ask him any question I wanted And why they were doing what they were doing and what their settings were.
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Ethan09:59
And and Ah, they basically topy the ropes, and I think both of them went to photo school, so they're pretty well trained at what they were doing. I know, ▁zacher did for sure. Um, so yeah, I just got to stand there and and was able to ask them anything, and and learn pretty fast and shoot the top talent that they uh were shooting. so uh, eventually they were kind of like man, you gotta. you're getting better shots than we are. You gotta kinda get off on your own. now you know that eventually they, they sent me away, But at first they were as cool as it, kids, and taught me everything I needed to know about flashes and light. It was filmed too, so it was a little bit harder than digy. and uh, yeah, they really gave me everything I needed to know, And's why when photographers asked me questions now I'm always really nice about answering them. because Uh, those guys did that for me, you know, 'cause some guys
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Mark_sullivan10:51
Yeah,
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Ethan10:51
like Andy Wright was a little more competitive. He would never let me come out with them.
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Mark_sullivan10:56
Okay, so
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Mark_sullivan10:55
no, okay, but you're still friends with Andy Wright, Correct.
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Ethan10:58
Yeah, no, Andy's the man he was. He was kind of the top top photographer in the streets for all those years, so it was uh, always shooting with the people I wanted to be shooting with too, so I kind of got his scraps for for years, which uh
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Mark_sullivan11:12
Oh yes,
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Ethan11:12
ended up working out.
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Mark_sullivan11:14
so what was that like? Like? If you were going to go go to a spot to shoot photos Andy Rightr was already there. Did you have to kind of turn tail and go go home?
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Ethan11:23
Yeah, it was pretty competitive and then, even as they got more competitive with, uh, I think in Utah, back then there was like ten photographers living here. Um, so you had to have your crew like lined up, or else you wouldn't have anyone to shoot. And Uh, obviously the Ridrs wanted the most established photographers they could have. So for a new photographer it was always pretty hard. Um, but you just had to keep fning.
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Mark_sullivan11:47
So so who was that crew? Who were the guys that you would shoot with regularly?
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Ethan11:51
Um. You know what one one thing I had that a lot of people didn't have is they had access to the Tech Nine team, so that did help me out a bit of. If Andy was out with a bunch of yii' crew, let's say, or, uh, robot food or something, then I would always have whatever tech Nine Ridrs were hanging around, and then at the same time Cole kind of started f o d t. So that was always a crew for me to to kind of join up with no matter what, and he was always kind of grabbing new riders that no one had heard of at at the time, like Daryl Mathis or Justin Habble, who ended up becoming big pros. so no one knew who they were at that time when I was shooting them. During the time they were kind of cutting their teeth and figuring it out, so it kind of just all worked out. I
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Mark_sullivan12:39
right? So who? who was your first photo published? And how long did it take From the time you picked up a camera Ti, the time you actually got a photo published.
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Ethan12:37
guesse I think it was pretty quick and uh, my memories is horrible. but I want to say it might have been Bobby Meeks at Brighton, and uh, it was like the first year I was shooting. Um. He was my roommate at the time, so I had access to like him in blue, Montgomery and Cody Dresser, and and people like that, But yeah, I think uh, it happened that first year. Um in snowboarder
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Mark_sullivan13:09
Okay, Okay,
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Ethan13:09
magazine. Imagine you were working there at the time.
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Mark_sullivan13:13
I probably was. If it was around two thousand, two thousand One was there.
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Ethan13:17
Yeah, I can't
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Mark_sullivan13:18
So
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Ethan13:18
remember who the photo editor might have beent Baker, But no, it, George
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Mark_sullivan13:22
Mhm,
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Ethan13:22
Cavala, Actually,
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Mark_sullivan13:23
Okay, then I was. I was there.
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Ethan13:24
and I knew him from back in Vermont, too, so I think that kind of helped when I sent in my stack. You know,
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Mark_sullivan13:30
Okay. so let me ask you about this. Like going back to the Tech nine days, You know, Techn had like a pretty, um, unique image in the sport when that kind of stood apart. Where did that come from? How did you guys kind of get this like ▁urban image to go with? Like Tech Nine Binding? And maybe where did the name Te nine even come from?
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Ethan13:50
you know we were really into music growing up in Burlington, Vermont, Um, a lot of people wouldn't believe it, but there wass like a huge Jamaican dance hall, Reggae, the music scene, and uh,
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Mark_sullivan14:02
Flextonone?
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Ethan14:04
yeah, yeah, there's just I don't know why Burlington's liked that, but just a huge scene. And uh, so I kind of grew up listening to that type of music and they're always talking about techniying the gun. And since the bindings were all metal like that, the first ones were made out of metal. Um, I just mentioned that name and everyone's hyped on it, so it kind of stuck. So that's how we got the name. but I'd say the image really just came from
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Ethan14:30
from music. as. well. You know, we're big into a lot of us, Like Tarquin was a d. ▁j. At the time, Ali was a t. ▁j. Um, so the riders were all super in the music, so we just tried to really bring what was going on in cities like the style that you would see too snowboarding. 'cause no one has really done that yet.
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Ethan14:52
And uh, it really all just came from listening to music.
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Mark_sullivan14:57
It seems like you know, like that image is something that is really stuck with snowboarding to this day and a lot of people still kind of have that like Tech Nine looking fi. I mean, how does it feel to like? look back on the sport and be like Wow, Nine really had a lasting influence here.
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Ethan15:13
It's pretty sweet. Um, I, I've heard baggy stuff coming back too, so hopefully we'll start seeing seeing it even more, 'cause I think it always makes people the. S. not. I mean, you can go too baggy. Obviously it looks a little ridiculous and that did happen. you know, I think we saw certain writers go that way, but when tastefully done, I think it looks pretty good when you're snowboarding, So yeah, it's awesome to see. I still see people riding the old tech diy outerwe like all the time That actually up Brighton.
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Mark_sullivan15:40
What? What team writer like embodied the tech style for you the most?
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Ethan15:45
Jeeze, that's a tough call. Um, I think a lot of them took it too far eventually, but
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Mark_sullivan15:52
Yeah, like whats too far? Like where's take it too far?
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Ethan15:55
too far. Just when the the triple excel. I don't know Gooer and Bradshaw and them were definitely taking the bagginess a step too far, but now they rock it all tastefully, so I think it was just uh. I mean, I don't know what it was. The bright colors and the bagginess came in with logos everywhere. I think that's when it went too far for me,
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Mark_sullivan16:19
Yeah, Okay, So what are like the accomplishments that you had during Tech Nine that you are like proud of, most proud of today. looking back on it.
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Ethan16:26
man, just uh, I still see so many people with techline tattoos. I think that's pretty crazy to see a logo that Um. we created up just people so hyped they're goingnna tattoo it on themselves. Um,
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Ethan16:40
just the excitement around the brand and what we were able to do with bringing up different team writers, and I think with f o d t, we made uh, I wa, to say almost twenty movies. So we werere super proud of that and uh, actually, I'm probably way off. Probably ten movies. I think it was only ten movies.
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Mark_sullivan16:59
Ten, twenty, whatever.
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Ethan17:00
Whatever. I only worked on like the first five, so I start to
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Mark_sullivan17:05
Yeah,
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Ethan17:05
lose lose, Uh, lose track of it. Cole would have to straighten me out on that, but uh yeah, with the movies, Um, bringing up riders, And you know, having the first baseless binding out there was pretty pretty cool. Just being on the forefront of a technology. it ended up not sticking. But it lasted for some years and was kind of on the forefront of like new school snowboarding, Um, and then when we got into boards and outer, where it made us kind of more of a competition or more competitive to other brands. So things got a little bit more real and it was a little bit harder with team writers 'cause we had to get 'em like head to toe and and uh, we would bring up new riders and have other brands kind of swoop 'em after we got a breako part with f o d t or something, So that was kinda hard,
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Ethan17:52
but it was all lot,
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Mark_sullivan17:52
it seems like a lot of writedrs like started with Tech Nine and then moved on to other larger brands. Like who were some of those team writers who are like, kind of still. to this day a little bit sore that they left Tech Nine and kind of left the fold. If you will,
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Ethan18:06
you know, I was never too sore about it. Coal would kind of get sore about it, but I was always just like Man, make the money while you could make it, because most of them they wouldn't leave just for a little bit of money. It would be like tripleling their pay or something and getting a budget to be able to travel around the world. Um, like Aaron Bitner, when he went to D. C. I mean that was like a big change in how he was going to be able to to uh, tackle pro snowboarding to be able to travel everywhere with Macog, So for me I was always kind of just like man, Do it. Do what you gotta do. So I was uh, never really that sore about it.
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Ethan18:43
We also had eighteen.
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Mark_sullivan18:43
who are your favorite writers? Like the whole history of Tech Nine be cause you had everyone from Tarquin through Gruner. So like who are your favorite guys who embodied Tech Nine for you?
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Ethan18:54
Jeeze, man I, They were all. I was able to spend so much time traveling around and going on trips with them because I have oy. T that a lot of them? Uh, hold a special place you know, like tarkinn. Obviously, in the early days Evan Whitlake on Um, he did that first one, black one white binding, which was Uh. no one had ever done two different color binding. So that always is something pretty cool and was cool to have Whitlake be part of the program and then, in the later years, definitely Gooner and Bradaw, where some of my favorites deadlong was always sick to cruise and shoot. Um. Just if Benny was Ra to, I mean, everybody was was sick to have on the program. We tried to kind of sponsor our friends. You know, so it was always uh. They just happened to be good at snowboarding too, so it all kind of just worked together.
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Mark_sullivan19:42
So you say you sponsored your friends? Did any of them become enemies when the business got involved? Do like not get along with someone that you used to get along with based on them working for you Now Instead
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Ethan19:54
Um.
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Mark_sullivan19:54
of just being a friend,
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Ethan19:56
I was always chilll. If Cole maybe had some issues like that, Um, when we did have to make some cuts, it always sucked,
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Ethan20:04
but
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Ethan20:06
now there's nobody on the team that I'm not friendly with. You know everybody
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Ethan20:10
is, Uh, is still still chill. but you know, sometimes, yeah, we would have to make hard decisions and cut a team rider that we didn't want to cut, And that did suck. And Um, I always tried to maintain a a friendly disposition with Themem, and Cole would have been the guy hand. he. He was a team manager, you know, so he had to kind of deal with that a little bit more than I did. and uh, I think they understood that it. Nes wasn't necessarily his call. It was budgets and ever changing budgets and snowboarding. as as things change, you know, Um, I know, maybe for a short time there was some riders that maybe were bumms if they got cut,
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Ethan20:50
but shit happens. I guess they got over it,
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Mark_sullivan20:54
you know, it seems like the snowboard industry is pretty tough to deal with. I mean, you had this image and people have this like image of Tech Ninee from the outside. Look in. What is it actually like running a brand and maintaining that cool factor for all those years and trying to keep everyone happy?
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Ethan21:10
dude. it was narly, Especially as our team got bigger. it was. Uh, there's a lot of mouths to feed. and as we'd put out a f o d T movie, and everyone would work hard and get a good part. You know, then you got like ten riders that you gotta try to look after and take care of, and they all worked hard the season before. But then there'd only be so much money to go around. I think people also thought we were a lot bigger than we were, because we were definitely seen kind of worldwide and around the mountain. And I think it was just 'cause the product was pretty pretty noticeable, so people thought we were larger than we were, But it was always a struggle to try to take care of everybody, and and do what we needed to do. And then when you're dealing with uh, binding moulds to make new binding moless, it's so expensive. It's uh, it'snrly and then when you throw in we minimums and trying to do board moulds and all the graphics and the artists he need. It's pretty much was just endless enough to spend money on, and not a lot of money to be made at the end of the day, and the the winter cycle is so hard, too, When you're only getting paid one time a year, and then shops don't even pay you sometimes, um, I mean, a lot of times on time, so that was a struggle trying to collect the money. They're They're usually paying the bigger brands first to make sure they can still carry Burton in the future, so the smaller brands would get paid last. So it was just a constant struggle. And uh,
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Ethan22:34
I think a lot of people don't realize that, but maintaining the cool factor wasn't that hard 'cause we had so many minds to kind of help help us with that when with all the team writers and all that, so it was kinda that was kind of the easier part. I guess just all the creativity between all the different writers.
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Mark_sullivan22:52
Okay, so you mentioned the creativity? Like? what? What are like? Some of the favorite products that you developed over the years. The things that you would like look back on today with pride
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Ethan23:03
Um, you know who was awesome to work with on boards was Lucas Macgoon. All of his graphics were kinda just straight from the mind of Lucas, and he just had to kinda. s, kind of take notes on his ideas and then translate that to Dave, Dom and the artist, and when done right, they just came out insane, And those are some of my favorite board graphics. Still today. Like Lucas had, his first one was like a Gremlin's Gremlin's take off, which was pretty sick. And just every different one of his art pieces that he'd come come straight from his mind was just insane. Um. On the technical side, we just tried to make products that made sense. So just trying to always make bindings better and better. Um, we came up with the first tow strap that went over the front of the toe of the boot, and uh,
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Mark_sullivan23:54
was that Marco's idea?
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Ethan23:54
so that was always pretty. It was actually just in Hebble, and Mark O
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Mark_sullivan23:58
Okay?
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Ethan23:58
Po adopted it to binding, so they called it the Baltimore Toastrap, and uh, we knew here on the Something Rad. When all of a sudden Burton hit us with like a simultaneous invention and they showed up at the trade show like a handmade one. When we had one that was already molded. You know theyd caught wind of what we were doing, so uh, there was like a little bit of a a weird lawsuit there, but we kind of all just squashed it and move forward and that's why you see the strap on everybody's uh findings now,
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Mark_sullivan24:28
I mean, you talk about lawsuits. I mean, what are the most challenging parts about running a business and
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Mark_sullivan24:34
keeping keeping it rubberide down?
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Ethan24:36
Um, you know we had good insurance, so
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Ethan24:40
when the lawsuit does happen, they kind of it's all handled with insurance, but we never had any like injury suits or anything like that, which is dope. Um, but yeah, you have to make sure your products are, are are on point, or else that stuff can happen. you know, but I guess the the trick is to just get insurance right away if you're a company that's being uh, ridden like snowboards are ridden. You know,
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Mark_sullivan25:04
Yeah, okay, so like how did like Tech Nine come undone? As far as like I know, you guys were an independent brand for a number of years and then you became part of this collective or the collective, I want to say, And you are part of Likeoms and Tech Nine and a few other brands. What was the thing? though, really, kind of like was the thread that you pulled on that kind of unwound. the whole thing
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Ethan25:29
you know, the biggest issue we always had was cash flow. Um,
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Ethan25:35
even when we got that first order our first year in business, you know all of a sudden. If you get like a five hundred thousand dollar order, you need like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to make a product, And uh,
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Ethan25:48
we did not have that. Um. I actually found out later that Uh, my dad took credit cards out of my name, and that's how we funded the first
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Ethan26:00
Tech Nine products And I found that out, actually, like a couple of years after the fact, when I was at his house and a very large credit card bill showed up and I was like I
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Mark_sullivan26:09
with's. Your name on it
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Ethan26:09
don't have an American Express. What's that?
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Mark_sullivan26:12
with your name on it.
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Ethan26:13
Yeah, with my name on it and I opened it up. I was at his house like. Oh, this is weird and just like a couple hundred thousand dollar bill. Just like Whoa. It got me more ownership of Tech Nine when I saw that he did that, But that's basically kind of a sneaky way. He started the funding of the company. Um gave me good credit at the time, I guess, 'cause he did end up paying it all off, which he said he always would, so I guess he was true to his word on that, but it was a little uh sketchy When I did see it as a young kid when you get a bill like that, but yeah, cash flow was always the tough part. So as we got bigger, you know all of a sudden you're a million dollar company at retail. you need five hundred thousand dollars to get your product made and you gotta wait like six months until you're gonna get paid back anything. and you gotta pay the factories or else they're not gonna ship. And so we didn't really have that. So we had to get investors, and that comes at a price. You know they're gonna want ownership. And if someone's injecting a couple of million dollars so you can actually operate and and do ads, and and really kind of step up the brand, they're gonna want a big chunk, you know, and probably gonna want ownership at a controlling interest. And so that was, kind of. uh.
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Ethan27:30
I guess the step in the direction that kind of is a bummer. So anyone who's got a company going, try to hold out on uh, getting controlling interest and that's kind of the beginning of the end. I would say we lasted a twenty two years or something, but I would say after the first five years, you know we were already. We already had an investor. We weren't that stoked on. So then we had to find another one and then that came out of price. And then we had to find another one and that came out of price. And uh, eventually, I mean, it was always. it was still rad, Because when you get these new investors, you do get a cash injection and you're making more money. You're all of a sudden calling up Snowboarder and you can do an advertising campaign. and uh, it definitely had its perks and I think it did help us grow to be the biggest. Like the biggest we ever were was when we were part of that. Uh, it was called brand base. When it was no misss and tech Nine Together we were
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Mark_sullivan28:26
Mhm.
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Ethan28:26
almost. We made an offer to buy Grenade at one point, and that was going to join up. Um, and that's like when we were the largest we ever were as a brand. So there's something to be said about having that cash flow and what you can do with it. But then it's also there's just so many hands in the pot that it. Uh, and other people that you have a vision for a brand that you kind of started with the original team, but then other people can kind of veto that and make decisions. You're not that stoked on. And and then you' all of a sudden, not the same brand that you were when you started. you know,
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Mark_sullivan28:58
Yeah, so I mean you talk about cash flow and I think every start up business has issues with just keeping the lights on and
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Ethan29:05
Yeah,
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Mark_sullivan29:05
keeping the the bills being paid. Like what's the tightest rub you ever had with a cash flow situation with Te nine? Just something weir like, I'm not sure if we're going to get out of this.
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Ethan29:15
um, jeeze, I think we were at that point pretty much every year There was. there was no
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Mark_sullivan29:20
Really?
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Ethan29:20
time when we weren't like that. Because of the whole cycle of being a winter sports brand. You know where you have to give all this money to the factory or else they won't ship you, and then the brand. The shops still haven't paid you back, and you have to get on the phone and call every single one of themem. I mean, that's why there's so many less less shops right now than there was before. Because they've had they have it. just maybe more tougher than brands 'cause they get stuck with all that inventory. So this, the whole cycle is just so hard that there, probably there
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Ethan29:51
every season we were at a point where I mean, I shouldn't say every season there were some seasons where it was like. I don't think we're going to make it through this. like if we don't get another cash injection or an investor, we're definitely going to shut down. There's probably like three seasons like that and every season we would somehow get through it and something would happen. and um, maybe the factory would give us better terms or something. And I guess where there's a will, there's a way you know, so we would always figure it out, But there was definitely three seasons where it was almost like all right time to. I guess I'm going to start shooting photos more aggressively or or something like that. So it was uh, but it's always pretty tough just being uh a brand. That depends on one season.
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Ethan30:36
We
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Mark_sullivan30:36
Yeah, I mean you,
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Ethan30:36
even tried, tried at one
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Mark_sullivan30:37
you.
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Ethan30:37
point to maybe develop clothing to be a more seasonal brand, But it's so hard when you're rooted in snowboarding. You know,
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Mark_sullivan30:46
Yeah, so I mean, you mentioned that you know that you had like three seasons where you could have pulled the plug and then you were like Okay, Maybe I'll shoot more photos. It seems like you were shooting photos a lot at this time that you were working on Tech Nine. How did that ramp up as you were trying to run a business at the same time,
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Ethan31:04
Um, it was tough. Luckily, with my dad working with us, you know, he would deal with a lot of the stuff on the uh, warehouse level and the back end, which he kind of understood. The stuff we were doing out in the field with boots on the ground is what propelled the brand to where it was. You know, so he really understood that, but as we got more investors that got harder to kind of explain like, Oh, you're out shooting photos and you're making a career that, But then you're also like the brand manager at Tech nine, so I'd have to really be really transparent with what I was doing and work really hard to uh, kind of do my tech di stuff as well as shoe photos, and, and kind of uh, make it all work towards the end and all that, but and towards the end after twenty years of doing tech. Nine photography was kind of a lot fun. just 'cause twenty years of trying to develop a board line gets pretty. Uh. It gets pretty monotonous, you know, or, or rewriting a catalogue for the twentieth time, and gets pretty crazy, so I was kind of maybe towards the end my heart was just more in photography anyways, and it was going really good with snowboarder Mag, and I was able to team up with a lot of different crews, kind of outside of techline, So uh, and you know, go on helly trips with Volkum or who knows what else, other opportunities would pop up, and with Tech Di, I wasn't able to do that stuff, so towards the end I. Think, uh, the passion was definitely more towards photography.
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Mark_sullivan32:39
So you were getting better opportunities from other brands outside of Tech Nine. Despite working at Tech Nine,
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Ethan32:45
Yeah, at. at some points even with Tech nine, I was like the staff photographer for Sims. Well, I was the brand manager for Tech Nine and it kind of just worked out 'cause Mark Frank rode for Sims at the time, and a couple of other ridrs like Nko Dros Road for Sims and some of our B riders. So uh, it was mellow. I was able to maintain those positions. Well, I worked for Tech Nine, Um, as well as we. A. What's that?
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Mark_sullivan33:10
was there ever a point? Was there ever a point where you started making more money on the photography than off of Tech Nine,
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Ethan33:17
for sure? there definitely was and that's why another reason I was like Man, this is. uh. Maybe I should be focusing more on this and working more with brands. and uh 'cause Tech Nine couldn't couldn't really pay as well. especially in those seasons where we' almost going to go to business. you know, so yeah, there was
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Mark_sullivan33:36
Mhm?
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Ethan33:36
definitely a point where photography was was kinda what was really paying the bills.
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Mark_sullivan33:42
So how much money could you potentially make running a small brand and snowboarding? I mean, Is it lucrative like you' like counting to retire one day off of this, or is it just something where you like doing what I love helping my friends out?
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Ethan33:54
It's funny when I was young and naive, I was like. I'm definitely going to be able to retire one day from this and then as you kind of really get into the business and hownarly it can be. Um, as you get older, and I guess open your eyes a little more. I started to realize there's no way I'm goingnna be retired from this, and uh, just as there was more owners that own part of the brand. And and also like how often our snowboard brands really sold, except when they're like in dire straits, and they're kind of bought for pennies on the dollar. You know. it's only
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Mark_sullivan34:29
Yeah,
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Ethan34:30
happened like a couple of times.
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Mark_sullivan34:32
what? what was your ownership equity in Tech Nine? Like percentage wise when you started versus when you finally left at the end
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Ethan34:39
Um do. When I started. I only had like three percent 'cause young and naive. My dad kinda uh, gave us a very small percentage 'cause he said he was putting all the money in, but then when I realized it was my money, I jumped up to like twenty percent and then uh, but there was like five of us who started it, So it wass all split up and then uh, it would have to get diluted every time a new investor came in, And so I think by the end I was at like, I don't know, like ten percent or something, but I started to realize it was better to make. More money than it was. even, hold on the percentage because like I said, how often do these brands really sell unless it's pennies' on the dollar? You know, so I kinda just went for getting a bigger salary as opposed to percentile?
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Mark_sullivan35:27
right, I can't really think of too many brands that have had like a big pay day at the end, so to speak, one that have been around even for fifteen or twenty years, really is not a lot that have some kind of successful outcome for the people who. Started the brands.
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Ethan35:42
Yeah, it's pretty harsh and it's uh. it just comes. There's all of a sudden, sharks in the water when they really need money and they just make an offer. That is the only way to keep the brand around, you know,
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Ethan35:54
and uh.
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Mark_sullivan35:54
Y, So did did that like turn you off from like running the brand. The fact that you are owning last and getting pen nes on the dollar from what you thought it was worth?
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Ethan36:02
Well, the more responsibility I took the more I was able to get paid though, so it's kind of like a.
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Ethan36:09
It was kind of better just to take. I. I, in my mind, knowing that a lot of brands don't sell, and seeing how a lot of these deals go down, Um,
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Ethan36:19
the more responsibility I would rather instead of shares, just take a bigger salary, you know,
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Mark_sullivan36:24
Y. okay,
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Ethan36:24
and uh, I don't know. if that's always the case. I just feel from what I saw in snowboarding it kinda seemed that that's that's how it kind of goes. You know, so even if we did sell one day, it would just probably be
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Ethan36:39
not for what. The you're never. really. You don't really sell when you're in a strongvantage point. You know you, you end up selling shares when you're when you need the money. It seems like otherwise you're trying
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Mark_sullivan36:50
Mhm,
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Ethan36:50
to hang onto the brand. And there are brands that have
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Mark_sullivan36:52
but
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Ethan36:52
done it right out there Like six, eight, Six is awesome. They, Mike West built that company from the ground up with his own money, and never had to bring in an investor. And that's how you need to do it. You know you need to just figure out a way to do it that way and not have to. uh, always bring in an investor every time there's a cash crunch.
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Mark_sullivan37:10
yeah, it seems like that's one of the few brands though that has really pulled that off
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Ethan37:14
Yeah, I mean,
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Mark_sullivan37:15
as far as like building a brand under the same ownership that has started under. I can't really think of too many
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Ethan37:19
yeah, ▁qu's to show how smart Mike is. you know, the the way he's kind of handled his business, but you know I wouldn't give up
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Mark_sullivan37:25
y, yp.
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Ethan37:25
those tech nine years for anything. I mean it was so much fun and uh, working on products something you love and learning that much about business and tons of rad trips, and go into different trade shows and manufact learning how to manufacture products in Europe and China. I mean it was awesome and it was super fun and uh, probably that was my college education. you know
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Mark_sullivan37:49
Okay, So like what was like your favorite trip out of all the tech Nine Days? One was like Tech Nine, the full flag flying. Uh, somewhere around the world.
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Ethan37:59
Coal and I, We try to go on one like crazy trip every year with the team, and Uh, definitely one that stands out is like going to Moscow for the first time. I think we were like the first crew to go there and kinda shoot in Moscow, and it was just crazy how different it is. You know that from our lives here it was. It was. uh, just kind of eye opening. but we got to do that kind of like every year we'd We'd had the advantage to reach out to it. We had distributors all over the world, you know, so we could just call the distributor and be like Hey, do you guys got snow? And if if they were, if they had snow, they would like, kind of help us out once we got there and treat us really well. You know, get hotels for us. Drive us around. Make it really easy. so we were able to go to all sorts of wild places like we went to Spain and we went to. I mean, we went pretty much everywhere there was snow and we had a distributor. We would go there with the team 'cause after making ten movies or whatever, you know, that was ten rad trips for the movie. But uh, I would say Yeah, going to Moscow the first time kinda really stood out. Um,
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Ethan39:02
it was just such a such culture shock. That place. we almost died a couple of times. it was. It was just kinda like nothing, like nothing you'd see shooting around the U. S. You know
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Mark_sullivan39:13
When you say you almost died, you' mean like you had runnings with the authorities like you almost died.
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Ethan39:18
well me, we had one ends on the florid authorities Every day. It was to the point where we just alternated who was going to pay 'em the hundred dollar bill to let us off. But uh, we almost had A. The traffic there was so crazy. We were on the highway. Coal was driving. I was in the backs. I don't know exactly what happened, but at one point we were on like two wheels, and um, pretty much about to die to the point where we, when we pulled over like muzzy, ran out of the ban and ran out in the field and like started praying or something. and uh, just 'cause it's so crazy over there, people drive like I, there's no laws, you know. I guess that's the only way to explain it. And uh, yeah, so we literally almost died in a car accident. And uh, but yeah, every day. well, like when we get busted, it would be like military with machine guns there to bust to you. But then they'd end up being pretty cool 'cause I'd never seen anybody snowboarding before, so they were actually kind of rad. Luckily, we had a
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Mark_sullivan40:12
Okay, Okay,
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Ethan40:12
someone to translate, so they would uh tell him what we were doing. Otherwise it might have been different, but yeah, every day we would have to give the A the cops a hundred dollar bill, pretty much
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Mark_sullivan40:22
just for your rail spots, Basically
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Ethan40:24
just or who it would could be either a driving thing, a rail thing, or just walking through town and they'd give you shit. It's like they basically are like. we can take your passports and bring in to jail, or you can give us a hundred dollars. It's kind of like
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Mark_sullivan40:37
right.
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Ethan40:37
Mexico, you know, And so you just have a hundred dollar bill ready. You alternate who pays them and move on with your day. you know.
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Mark_sullivan40:45
So did the travel get crazier when you went into becoming like a senior photographer full time, or did it get kind of more mellow, more taken care of. As far as like you now, had you know editors or whatever to report on or report to back at the magazine headquarters?
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Ethan41:01
Um, well, it was pretty rat, so I would do a trip with Tech nine like that and then I would also get to do, or I would also kind of bundle that up as a feature for the magazine, So it was
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Mark_sullivan41:11
Mhm.
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Ethan41:11
almost on like a trip to Moscow or anywhere we went. It would also always be a feature for snowboarder since it was such a cool location, so it all kind of went hand in hand, and uh,
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Ethan41:24
it was able to give me. I was able to maybe use the magazine's budget for my trip. So it that allowed us to bring another rider for Tech Nine, you know, So it kinda just
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Mark_sullivan41:34
So you're double dipping? Basically
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Ethan41:34
worked together. Yeah, double dipping.
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Mark_sullivan41:38
yeah,
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Ethan41:38
I, I wasn't sending invoices to both brands, but I was kind of just making it work together. You know,
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Mark_sullivan41:44
right.
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Mark_sullivan41:45
were Were you ever able to like get three or four brands involved with paying for your trips?
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Ethan41:50
for sure, back in the heyday man, it was nice you could. there was a lot going on. You could. there was a lot more budget than there is today. I mean today there's hardly any budget and you can't ly anywhere 'cause a coved anywhere fun. You know you can't go overseas. so uh, it's a whole different landscape Now. back then it was so easy to get a trip together. As long as it was a cool location, it would be guaranteed to go in the s in in the magazine and then you could send it to another magazine overseas and they would package up the feature, so you'd get the feature and snowboarder in Japan, also in Europe, and so you're able to get paid like three different ways from for from magazines at the time on one trip, not to mention selling photos to brands as well, so uh, yeah, it was a whole different ball gameam back then with photography, I'm hoping
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Mark_sullivan42:40
Right? And so
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Ethan42:40
they tas come back.
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Mark_sullivan42:42
nowadays it' changed. Can you compare you know what it was like in the early two thousands, when the budgets were big to where where it's at today, and like how you can maintain a career as a professional photographer today? Because I know there's not as many print publications today.
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Ethan42:59
Yeah, it's crazy how different it is. Um, back in the day,
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Ethan43:04
The this is the the biggest difference. I think back in the day I would basically just go out and shoot every day and try to shoot as many different people as I could And there was probably about a ninety percent chance that that photo I shot with that writer would end up printed somewhere and today and by printed somewhere else. I' mean that I would get paid for that photo whether it's an ad or it's in a magazine today. It's almost it's. It's not worth your time to go out and shoot unless you know that photo's already sold for something like. You know. there's going to be an interview on that writer, or you know a particular brand needs a photo of that writer. And so that's the biggest difference. And that's that sucks. You know, because it basically deters you from going out and shooting, because it's like what am I even going to do with this photo now at this point, and so a lot of photoraph ers are only shooting if they're hired for a shoot, so they won't go on a trip and definitely won't go on a trip and spend money their own money, 'cause they're never going to recoup it, You know, back in the day you would definitely recoup it without a even doubt in your mind, and now you hear most of the photographers when they. Say they had a good year. It means they were hired a bunch in advanced to go shoot and back before it was never like that. You would just go out and shoot as much as you possibly could. so it's really changed and uh, it makes it a lot harder.
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Mark_sullivan44:32
Do you still have like a lot of contracts with different brands to shoot the writeders?
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Ethan44:37
Um.
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Ethan44:38
Well in the past year with the bomb hole, it's made it a bit different for me. Um,
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Mark_sullivan44:44
Mhm,
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Ethan44:44
but I would say, up until I mean, I'm not sure what's gonna happen this season, but up until like last year. Yeah,
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Ethan44:51
um, but you really at? for
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Mark_sullivan44:52
Yeah, I mean, what. what would your photography look like last year with the pandemic and everything?
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Ethan44:57
it was T. It was definitely my roughest season ever. Um, and it was kind of compounded by the fact that Utah didn't get any street snow, so that was
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Mark_sullivan45:08
Yeah,
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Ethan45:08
kinda not happening. I think we had two days with snow in the streets, and then
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Mark_sullivan45:13
hm,
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Ethan45:14
when we got out all our snow in the mountains it was when it was like that black rows of uh, avalanche danger. Where every different
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Mark_sullivan45:21
yeah,
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Ethan45:21
direction was danger and the ski patrol was saying, Don't even like. inbund Its risky. You know, so
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Mark_sullivan45:29
Mhm.
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Ethan45:29
uh shooting last year was. I mean, I shot a bit, but it was uh, just really hard. A bad year on top of coved just made it almost impossible. But I know a lot of crews still got after it. All the kids that still wanted to get video parks were were driving to where they needed to go. I mean, Dust Box was on the road for like, pretty much the whole winter just following snow. But I don't have that luxury to be gone all winter, nor I don't think I would make the money back if I went away all winter and shot photos. you know, so yes,
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Mark_sullivan46:00
Yeah, so now you've
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Ethan46:00
it's a different landscape.
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Mark_sullivan46:02
and now you've got a third career, maybe fourth career? I'm
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Ethan46:06
Yes,
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Mark_sullivan46:06
not sure where you're at, but now you now you get to do the bomb hole full time.
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Ethan46:10
Yeah, and that's uh, pretty sweet as you know. I mean it's pretty fun just to sit and have conversations with people. and uh,
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Mark_sullivan46:18
Yeah, totally
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Ethan46:18
you know, like we're doing now, just chopping it up and learning about people and and hearing their story. I mean, everyone seems to have an interesting story, so it's been pretty fun to kind of learn about it,
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Ethan46:30
and uh,
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Mark_sullivan46:30
yp,
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Ethan46:32
definitely taken my focus off a photography a bit, but with cooveto, I guess maybe it was the right time you know, and it's made me actually more excited to go shoot 'cause I haven't shot as much, so it's
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Mark_sullivan46:44
Mhm.
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Ethan46:44
uh this winter. I'm hoping we're gonna have a good winter so I can get back out there more. but when we have a show
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Mark_sullivan46:50
So
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Ethan46:50
coming out every week, it's harder though I can't just hit the road anyt time I want unless we're ahead on shows, so it's kind of a.
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Mark_sullivan46:56
yeah, so let let's talk about like how the bomb hole came about. What? The kind of like What got you started as far as doing the bomb hole?
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Ethan47:05
You know, it's funny, Um, Chris and I, We always go on trips every year and we like always, Jo. He's kind of he started. Uh, he had a show.
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Ethan47:15
I forget what it was called. Um,
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Ethan47:19
something banter and handry, I don't remember what it was called, But he had a internet show. He was kind of working on. Um. And so he was kind of always messing with the space on Youtube.
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Ethan47:30
And uh, we would go on trips and kinda joke about how it would be sick to have something like this so last year,
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Ethan47:39
or I guess it was two seasons ago. now, not last season but the season before we were in Uh Kazakstan,
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Ethan47:47
Um, on one of those rad trips, And it was Uh, it was for the thirty two movie
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Ethan47:52
and Uh Chris. Oh, can you hold on one second?
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Mark_sullivan47:56
Yp,
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Ethan47:57
someone's out my door. Hold on one second. right.
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Ethan48:02
I'm going to pause. You will pick up from Kazakstan Now.
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Ethan48:07
I might have to move locations if this is someone from my cheick.
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Ethan48:11
Hold on one sacker.
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Mark_sullivan48:13
Yeah,
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Ethan50:01
Can you hear me
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Mark_sullivan50:02
yep, yep,
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Ethan50:03
dupe? Sorry about that dude.
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Mark_sullivan50:05
no, wors
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Ethan50:06
So I was at Kazakstan
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Mark_sullivan50:08
yup,
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Ethan50:09
right,
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Ethan50:10
so
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Mark_sullivan50:10
Yup,
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Ethan50:10
uh yeah, so Chris and I would go on these trips and we kind of realize the most fun part of the trip was the the time in between the spots when we were in a van and we were just talking shit. and uh,
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Ethan50:26
kinda, everyone would always just listen to Chris and I go back and forth. We'd sit in the back kind of trash up to our waist, 'cause we'd been on a trip for who knows how long, and uh, the banter was always the most fun. And so Chris on that trip was like it would be sick to do a podcast And you're like the dude I'd like to do it with. And so the whole time we were on that trip, we were uh, kind of telling O. other people on the trip. Like what do you think if we did this and we were like we had a list of like fifty names going. And
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Ethan51:01
and uh, I didn't really know how serious he was, though I was kind of just like. Oh, this is dope. This would be super fun. And so we got home from the trip and then Chris went on another trip, and uh, kinda him and his girlfriend broke up. Um, thankfully they're back together now, which is red, but I think that
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Ethan51:21
time of being uh, all of a sudden single, and it's also right when the pandemic kicked in, So he's alone at his house. He has like, can't go out and see people. He. He doesn't really have anything to to focus on 'cause Pro riding's kind of at a halt, so all of a sudden he just put. he, just all of a sudden ordered all this stuff for podcasting. He ordered like a road podcaster, some mikes, and uh started messing around figuring out how to use it,
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Ethan51:51
and uh, all of a sudden just started hitting me up with like a test video like I think we could figure this out and we kinda just said Uh, You know, consistency would need to be the key, so Wed need to make sure we put out a show every week, No matter if somebody likes it or doesn't like it, we just need to keep doing it, and uh,
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Ethan52:12
I mean, we looked at your model, you know I. Mean, you're the one who's been doing it for a long time. Chris kinda wanted to bring a video element to it 'cause that's what he was doing with his his other banter Youtube show.
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Ethan52:24
Um,
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Ethan52:26
so yeah, we just kinda all of a sudden. It just we just boom. Let's do it. Let's have a podcast. us to interview somebody. And uh, we kinda debated who we would interview first and it ended up being just in. Benny and his story was just crazy, so like we knew we had a pretty rad thing going, Um, 'cause he really just got honest with us about so many things. Is his uh, drug use in the past and what went on with his career and uh, so boom we put it out and it was when coved was going, so I think we had a a captive audience
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Ethan53:01
and uh, we kind of just went from there and went one at a time. We had no sponsors. We didn't really, uh, know what we were doing whatsoever. I mean, I'm sure in the early episodes be kind of just sounded like dip shits. Um, but I think maybe that was a good thing, too, 'cause people like to laugh, and Chris and I being dip shits maybe is a good thing. And uh, and we knew our show needed to be different than yours because you already had that market kind of locked in. So Uss Beingian Idiots was kinda like the line, you know, And then also with the bomb hole, we wanted to, kinda
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Ethan53:35
as we were idiots, also get into serious things that happened to them. But then no one to lighten it up with our dip shittery, and uh,
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Mark_sullivan53:44
yeah.
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Ethan53:44
yes, we just just kinda went from his garage and started going from the house. And since we had that cop captive audience, I think uh, it kind of helped us out at all. This kind of went at the right time. You know, timing's kind of everything. Now we
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Mark_sullivan53:58
y.
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Ethan53:58
got a whole office too, so it's like it's crazy Just how fast it's been moving.
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Mark_sullivan54:03
So tell me about getting in the office. Like At what point where you guys are like? Okay, I think we got this, you know, to the point where we should have an office and have like a permanent studio and all that this is a real deal
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Ethan54:14
Um, the point when we got decided to at the office is when I think Chris just couldn't handle his house had turned into a full business. We had somebody showing up doing shipping out of his guest room, and you know he's back together with his girlfriend, and this this dude showing up the ship whenever he wants kind of odd hours. and 'cause it's not real structure when you're at somebody's house, you know, and then there's
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Mark_sullivan54:36
right
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Ethan54:36
another. Uh, We hired this girl jewels. He was like our our office manager and she's working from his kitchen table. And then guests are like. Russell Winfield came in to do his episode and he was supposed to stay two days. He ends up on Chris's couch for two weeks, which was awesome 'cause I have Uncle Russ there as great, you know, but all of a sudden his house just wasn't his house anymore, you know, so I think that's
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Mark_sullivan54:59
right?
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Ethan54:59
the point when Chris was just like we. We gotta figure something out here like it's definitely you know, an expense that we didn't want to pay. But it was just like we. half we can't. We're outgrowing his house. You know we had Jamie Thomas come in and tell us like we could never leave the garage 'cause it's like such a cool feeling and we were just like we can't just like Chris doesn't have a garage anymore. It's like I. I had heard the nine clublu guys. Actually, they did the same thing. They started at their apartment and then their apartment's just our office now and they moved out of it so we would have basically either
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Mark_sullivan55:31
yeah, yeah,
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Ethan55:31
had to move out of Chris's house. He wouldn't live there anymore. else. We get an office, so we decided to get in office and Chris is, Chris is crazy, just forthinking and uh, bigger picture, thinking like he always has all these ideas of all right. We need to now hire a graphic designer to help with Merge, 'cause Merch is selling. We need to do this. We needed to do that and I'm always like man. How do we just start putting some money in our pockets? He's like, Oh, we gotta think bigger, and thankfully he's like that because that I think has been the key to our growth is like Okay. If we hire this person, it's gonna exponentially down the line. help us, or we can think small and give ourselves each a couple of thousand dollars. Now you know, so that's kind of uh, been just Chris's. I think what he does is take his drive of a pro snowboarder that he learned to kind of come up. It's not easy. and he's applying that to the podcast Youtube world, and just putting in a hundred and twenty percent And it's and it's working. You know. He's pretty intense.
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Mark_sullivan56:32
y. yp.
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Ethan56:32
He's had a lot of concussion, so sometimes it getsnarly but at the he always has the right idea, though, so it's pretty cool.
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Mark_sullivan56:40
So what's your role in all this? You just show up and do the interviews or I mean, it sounds like it was taking place at his house for a while, and his house was the office.
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Mark_sullivan56:49
Would you just show up like twenty minutes before the interview and get it rolling? Was your role?
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Ethan56:55
Um, he would always have me show up like an hour beforehand, just to make sure I was going to be on time, as you learned. I'm not so punctual when we were putting this podcast together.
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Ethan57:05
Um, so yeah, I'd always show up an hour in advance and then I would work at my house.
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Ethan57:11
Um, like when we started like, we just kind of dibbed up what we needed to do like. I kind of started the patrion. Well, he started
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Ethan57:20
doing something else. At first. I would answer all the comments on Instigram and he would do all the ones on Youtube. So at first when it was just the two of us, we just kind of split up the jobs,
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Ethan57:32
and and uh, just did what we could, And then as we got to the point where were at maximum overload, you know we'd hire somebody like we hired rego, Um, this dude in Salt Lake, who's just crushing our social media now, and uh yeah, we'll just we needed. Kinda Chris. Chris was at his band with with editing, too, 'cause he was doing the editing at first, and
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Mark_sullivan57:54
Mhm?
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Ethan57:53
that'snarly when you got three cameras, one for each person plus your uh, your go pro, and you got to sink all the different sound and then edit each camera. Each time everyone's talking, I mean each video we, we do a three hour recording It takes. I don't know. It probably takes like nine hours of editing. So we eventually hired this guy Paul to help with that, and that's been huge, so we kinda would just hire as we needed now that we're in the office. Though it's sweet, we just show up office hours and get done what we need to get done, and we have people in in place to help with certain things, And you know we realize our times, folk. like focusing on the show is where it all started, so making a good show is really where we need to like, put Chris and Myce energy into and then just makes sure everyone's. Everyone's really excited to be working with us, so they're all very passionate. and um, we have a kick ass team, so it's been pretty rad. and having that office has really created a uh, creative space to like. go in and talk about stuff. And you know we get their feedback as much as we can, so if we're blowing it, they'll tell us, and they're honest with everything. And so yeah, we just have a kick ass group of people working on it now, so it's pretty pretty cool and I think that office has really helped us. And like we're seven episodes ahead right now, We before we were never able to get seven episodes ahead. You know, we' usually be like one episode ahead and then panicking. the next one's gonna come out, You know,
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Mark_sullivan59:24
Okay, So now you have like a runway for yourself, so you're not like. Just like getting ready for next Tuesdays episode or
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Ethan59:31
Yeah, panicking.
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Mark_sullivan59:31
whatever? So that's yeah, that. that's probably a good thing. How many people are the office now?
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Ethan59:38
Um,
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Ethan59:39
there's uh. I think all together there's like seven people that. Uh,
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Mark_sullivan59:43
seven?
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Ethan59:44
not all of them come in full time. Some are
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Mark_sullivan59:46
Mhm.
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Ethan59:46
just in and out of there, Um, myself, Chris and Jewless, the office manager are like full time, But then we have our graphic guy in Drake. He's coming in. Um like three days a week. Tuckers in their full time. Who does our shipping rigo? comes in, but he doesn't really need to be there. He just comes in to. He does our social media so he's more boots on the ground, and then Paul's editing, and uh, Ronky is our agent and helps us with the brands and all that, so I think altogether, I hope I'm not missing anybody, But there's like seven of us and uh, you know that's the team at this point and I don't see
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Mark_sullivan1:00:25
Yeah, yeah,
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Ethan1:00:25
us needing more people And it's just more about taking care of the crew,
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Ethan1:00:30
and uh, having everyone grow as we grow.
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Ethan1:00:33
Um,
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Mark_sullivan1:00:34
okay, so here's a question. It's like not every interview is easy to do. Some people have more uh stuff going on in their lives. some people only no snowboarding. Have you had any interviews where you were like? this is going to be great and then you sit down to do the interview and you're like Oh man. that was tough. Actually,
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Ethan1:00:53
yeah, Lucas magoon,
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Ethan1:00:56
only
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Mark_sullivan1:00:56
yeah,
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Ethan1:00:56
because he gets so sidetracked
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Ethan1:01:00
and he kinda he got really stoned
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Ethan1:01:04
and
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Mark_sullivan1:01:04
Mhm.
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Ethan1:01:05
it was maybe hard to understand him And he went on for like four and a half for five hours
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Ethan1:01:11
and uh, Chris was just like Dude, what are we going to do here and we chopped it all up and sen it to Lucas And he was just like this is perfect And so we were like All right. Let's just put it out and we put it out and people loved it. So we just kind of realize that sometimes
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Ethan1:01:28
we just gotta like. look at it a different way. I. I noticed the.
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Mark_sullivan1:01:31
yeah, yeah.
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Ethan1:01:31
I mean, and he had a lot of awesome stuff to say in that five hours. it was more just harder to chop up. Let's say,
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Ethan1:01:38
Um, and
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Mark_sullivan1:01:38
y.
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Ethan1:01:39
maybe we should just put out all five hours. Who knows? but there are some people you get like a young person in there who hasn't lived as much as an older person. So yeah, maybe they only know snowboarding. And and that makes it not as interesting for some people. But then the snowboard heads love it 'cause it's just all snowboarding. So it's it's I've just kind of found that you're not go to make everybody happy, so you just gotta do your best. Put it out there. Some people are gonna love it. Some people might not like it, but either way they're hopefully gonna watch it and just kind of take it from there. you know,
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Mark_sullivan1:02:12
What was your favorite interview? Like the one where you just it just went perfectly.
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Ethan1:02:16
Um, My favorite isn't out yet. It was Uh, Jason Allise
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Ethan1:02:21
and we did it. Uh, I want to say, like two weeks ago when he was in town for the street league and man
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Mark_sullivan1:02:27
Mhm.
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Ethan1:02:28
one, he's a professional talker. You know, he has his own radio show and too, his story is just insane and his level of honesty is just I don't know. It's inspiring, Um, and that to me in the show that we only had like an hour and a half 'cause he was so busy out here, so we had to just like sit in. Make like we couldn't really bullshit 'cause usually we spend like five or six hours with people and we only had an hour and a half total with him. We like to like talk shit for a little while. First, maybe have some food, you know, like just kick it and get to know each other, but with him it was like All right, let's jump in the booth, and the second we hit record, he was just on and uh it. I think as far it's not out yet. we'll see how it's received, but it's I think it's my favorite episode we recorded yet,
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Ethan1:03:14
but I like him all
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Mark_sullivan1:03:15
okay now,
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Ethan1:03:15
for different reasons.
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Mark_sullivan1:03:17
yeah, I mean, what was like? What prompted the decision to feature? also not just snowboarders but also skateboarders and skiers and other athletes as well,
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Ethan1:03:28
You know what started that decision is, we were chilling one day at Chris's house, and Jeremy Jones called us up and he was like Hey, do you guys have any interest in interviewing Jamie Thomas,
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Ethan1:03:42
And uh, he was like I could get him here tomorrow night so we had no time to plan or anything, but we're like Jae Thomas, Are you kidding me? Of course, like we just were like. Let's do this, and uh, we got him in the booth and it was awesome. I mean, look, we all looked up to him growing up his skateboarding and he's such a interesting dude with the business he has going on and just his life story is awesome. and uh, it was well received. so we kind of thought to ourselve E. maybe we should explore other sports. Um. skiing is kind of the same way. You know. We just got the opportunity to kinda showcase two pretty cool skiers,
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Ethan1:04:24
Um, and it was the same thing like we're friends with those guys. So, and they both snowboard as well, Um, and then the ski community was so stoked on it. Um, They, I was at Mammouth at the end of the season and a bunch of skiers just came up to me and we're like, Oh, you guys have the best the best podcast in skiing and we were like, Oh, we've only
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Mark_sullivan1:04:43
No,
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Ethan1:04:43
done skiers, you know, and they're like, Oh, it's just so much better than everything out there, so we kinda just decided. Hey, why not? let's let's kinda branch out and it, also for me, it goes back to the tech nine days, realizing like when summer hits, it's tough.
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Ethan1:04:59
Um,
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Mark_sullivan1:04:59
yeah,
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Ethan1:04:59
maybe winter brands aren't gonna wantnna sponsor. you know, And and we felt that a little bit this summer. They definitely their money's better spent now you know until Christmas, So I think that's a thought too like you know. How are we gonna transcend snowboarding. And uh, and we try to get people in that snowboard as well, or or their friends of snowboarding. And and uh, it also helps Ronkies our manager, and he's a lot of their managers too, so he'll just kind of send them our away. And then
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Mark_sullivan1:05:28
H.
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Ethan1:05:28
uh, you know when we look at our analytics on Youtube, the next biggest watch show is the Nine club, So it's obvious that
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Ethan1:05:38
the people are watching our show skateboard. You know, so that's why we got Jason Allis in there, and then we got Kelly Hart from the nightclub Nine Club in there as well. And uh, it kinda just makes sense, you know snowboarder skateboard, and and vice versa. Maybe a lot of skaters don't snowboard, but snowboarders seemed to skateboard. And and it's just cool stories. You know cool stories and meet these people
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Mark_sullivan1:06:02
yeah. Okay, so like
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Ethan1:06:02
mountain biking, And well, that was a stretch, but it still uh, stoked a lot of people out.
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Mark_sullivan1:06:08
Yeah,
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Mark_sullivan1:06:09
are are there any sports you're not going to cover? Is there anything off limits?
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Ethan1:06:12
I would say we're just more focused on action sports, you know, 'cause like I didn't know mountain bikers.
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Mark_sullivan1:06:18
What? What are action sports? though? I mean it's like it's getting a wider and wider
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Ethan1:06:22
That is true. What
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Mark_sullivan1:06:22
definition. I mean, it's all olympiced out now. I mean gymnastics might be extreme. Now. Who knows?
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Ethan1:06:27
that is true. Huh,
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Ethan1:06:29
yeah, but they're not really extreme until they're like they're doing what the mountain bikes are doing on the rampage and gymnastic cart wheels down some hundred foot cliff face. I guess you know, like I didn't even know mountain bikers were doing that.
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Mark_sullivan1:06:43
Yeah, Yeah, I mean, but what happens when when runkies like man, we got this great scooter rider for you guys. You going to take a scooter scooterist?
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Ethan1:06:49
That's probably where we draw the line.
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Mark_sullivan1:06:51
You going to draw the line there
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Ethan1:06:51
You know what it quite depends on on their character and what their story is. You know.
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Ethan1:06:51
You know what it quite depends on on their character and what their story is. You know.
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Mark_sullivan1:06:57
right? Right if they got something going on
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Ethan1:06:58
I, I shouldn't say no until you kind of hear the story about the person. If it's interesting and it adds to our listeners, you know, then it's cool, I guess, 'cause that's a big thing.
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Mark_sullivan1:07:07
right.
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Ethan1:07:07
You know. you want to figure out how to add to your listeners lives. And if you can make ' laugh or make them think it's it's a win. you know.
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Mark_sullivan1:07:16
Yeah, totally okay. So like what? What are you doing new this year? Like what's new for the bomb hole this year? And like, what are you looking forward to like doing in the future here with the bomb hole?
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Ethan1:07:27
Um, you know we are. Uh, we're doing a bomb hole snowboarding event at Bright in in March
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Ethan1:07:36
or April,
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Mark_sullivan1:07:36
Okay,
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Ethan1:07:36
first week of April, and it's called the Bomb Ho cup. I mean our, our. Our whole idea of the company is bringing the community together. You know, Like what ways can we bring people together in these wild times? And and maybe it's through listening to us talk and introducing people to the the people we're talking to and you get another story. But we also figured why not get people together and meet each other. You know, so the the contest is not just for pros, it's for anybody to show up and all levels, and and more of just a a ripping weekend. You know, we're gonna have brands, kind of set up tents and and demo boards and have uh food there, and pup beer will be there and just make it a hangout. You know, a whole weekend. And so that's new for us. Um. we're also gonna. Chris and I are want to go on a trip this year with a crew of people like that have been on the bomb hole, and uh, go on like a trip with the riders like a trip like we've always done the idea that kinda spawned the podcast from the beginning, and uh, have it in the Mac. one of the magazines or something, and do interviews from the road and all that. So we're talking about doing that, and uh, really just trying to hone in our craft and get better at it, 'cause as you know, you know, you learn every time you get on and record, so I think you can definitely get better.
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Mark_sullivan1:08:57
yeah, oh yeah. now, I mean, what's your? what? I mean? what do you feel about the state of magazine? you photographer? You' now a podcaster, Maybe the largest media outlet and all the snowboarding. I mean,
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Ethan1:09:07
Mhm.
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Mark_sullivan1:09:07
let's talk about like where the magazine's at, where the video iss at what happened. I mean this is a different world we're living in now.
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Ethan1:09:15
Yeah, it's crazy right. It's uh, at
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Mark_sullivan1:09:17
Yeah,
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Ethan1:09:17
one point last winter and that's another reason. why didn't shoot much. I wasn't sure if there's going to be any magazines. and now,
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Mark_sullivan1:09:24
Mhm,
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Ethan1:09:24
thankfully, you know there's torament slush snowboard snowboarder might still be around. I have no idea.
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Ethan1:09:32
Um, so now at least there are some magazines, but they're all still just trying to figure it out and they're probably fighting for dollars. and uh, it's just a a crazy landscape and I think also brands aren't excited to just sponsor a video like they used to. You know, so it's just riders, kind of making their own parts. Um, as a media outlet, we've talked about putting rider parts on our channel as well,
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Ethan1:09:58
and and putting for riders, maybe riders that we've interviewed before you know, letting that be where they're goingnna launch their video part, So I mean it's all stuff we're discussing. But yeah, the landscape's just changed. I'm excited for when slush and snowboard actually come out, so we can see what's going on. You know, see what we're working with and I'm sure, I mean they're
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Mark_sullivan1:10:18
Yeah,
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Ethan1:10:18
They're run by incredible people, so there're gonna be strong magazines. Um, the only thing weird for them is that there's probably a lot less photos floating around because of last year how weird it was.
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Ethan1:10:31
but I'm
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Mark_sullivan1:10:31
that's true.
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Ethan1:10:31
sure they'll I'm sure there's enough to make a strong magazine. You don't need that many. you know, and they're all not
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Mark_sullivan1:10:37
Yeah,
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Ethan1:10:37
putting out. I mean, Torment puts out one issue right, so that's pretty easy to fill up. slosh. I think's doing like four or five, and snowboards maybe doing three or something. too.
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Mark_sullivan1:10:49
it seems like though there is a lot less people aspiring to be photographers today than say ten or fifteen years ago.
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Ethan1:10:55
Yeah, I mean in town now there's like Bob Plum and myself and a couple of others where there used to be like fifteen that you're competing with. you know. So it's
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Mark_sullivan1:11:06
Yeah,
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Ethan1:11:07
uh, it's a whole different landscape and it's just I think it's just hard to survive. You know
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Ethan1:11:12
brands aren't as
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Mark_sullivan1:11:13
So
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Ethan1:11:13
quick to pay.
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Mark_sullivan1:11:15
what what advice do you have for someone who is trying to make a living as a photographer today?
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Ethan1:11:19
Man, I would never want to say, Don't do it because there's always a way to recreate the wheel and figure out how to be successful. I mean, look at black. That dude's making so much money,
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Ethan1:11:33
and he's you know, he's working in all sports. Now he's shooting mountain biking. His girlfriend's a top skier, so he's shooting skiing. He's sh. He's really smart about the brands he works with and he's making an amazing living. so um, a blot of making an insane living. I'm sure Bob's killing it as well. So there's there's definitely still a way to do it. You just gotta get out there. Do it your way, and uh, and I guess gotta always be ready to change with the times and right now we're just at a one of those times where everything's changing and you just gotta figure out the next way to do it. You know,
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Mark_sullivan1:12:10
Do you think there is like a life expectancy for photographers? How like guys like you know? ▁zacher kind of moved on beyond snowboard photography, Or a guy like Gary Land was a snowboard photographer and went beyond it. Do you think there's like a life expectancy to being in the trenches if you will, in the snowboard media?
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Ethan1:12:28
Um, you know, I've thought about that a lot. I think ▁zacher was never passionate about it. Like some of us where I don't know Gary, so I can't speak to him, but I think ▁zacher, always aspired to move to the top tier of photography. He went to photo school and I think just kind of fell in the snowboarding, and it paid well, so he stuck with it and he saw that change a little bit and then moved to where he was always headed. You know he's so talented. Um, I mean, I plan on being in the trenches as long as possible, And look at blotto. He's older than I am. He's still out there going strong, Um, you look at skateboarding. You know theres guys like Blayback. He's been shooting forever and he's still shooting strong, so I think it just depends on the passion and if you're able to survive doing it and you just gotta always recreate and team up with brands 'cause they seem to pay better than other people. And
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Ethan1:13:21
and hustle it's hard for me with the podcast 'cause it takes up a lot of time, so someone' going to have to figure out what that looks like in the future. But um, I think uh, it just depends on the your back to your question. It just depends on the passion they have, and if somebody wants to, they can probably do it as long as possible, 'cause it's not. you don't have to like, get out there and go to Alaska and be in the nuarliest conditions ever. You know. It's not too hard to just go up and shoot ▁x games or something. You know. that's pretty easy. so I imagine you could do it as long as he wanted.
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Mark_sullivan1:13:54
Yeah, okay,
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Ethan1:13:54
The streets are pretty mellow too. You know
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Ethan1:13:54
The streets are pretty mellow too. You know
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Mark_sullivan1:13:56
so so how about for for podcasting? Are you going to ever run out of Guess are going to run out interesting people to talk to. Do you think ever? I mean that's question. A lot of people ask me Actually, if I would run out of people.
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Ethan1:14:05
if people actually always ask us that, And uh,
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Mark_sullivan1:14:09
Yeah,
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Ethan1:14:09
I feel like there's so many interesting people and you've been doing it. How long now?
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Mark_sullivan1:14:16
I don't know most up to three hundred episodes now, So got a lot.
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Ethan1:14:19
Yeah, and I feel like there's still plenty of people for you to do so. And then there's going to be new people and
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Ethan1:14:26
I, That's a question often asked. and I feel like No. we're never going to run out of interesting people. I hope anyways.
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Mark_sullivan1:14:34
It's funny because it. It's like there's this pressure to interview a certain type of person who the industry maybe is behind financially, but maybe not the most interesting say of interviewes. And do you do you find that you run into that a lot where there's someone who the industry is getting behind who actually is not a good interview or
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Ethan1:14:53
Um,
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Mark_sullivan1:14:53
is not that interesting when you do the preca with them?
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Ethan1:14:56
we're pretty new to us. I don't know if that's happened to us yet. Um, we do have one rule that, Umm, I should probably say on here, because a lot of people don't know it. Um, don't ask us to get interviewed Will come to you
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Ethan1:15:12
because, uh, it just creates an awkward conversation. Sometimes if we're not ready to interview somebody you know.
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Mark_sullivan1:15:18
How many people have asked to be interviewed on the bomb hole?
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Ethan1:15:20
Oh, there's better more than you would think that Sliideing the D Ms. that aren't even professional snowboarders. Let's say they just you know. I'm I'm a. I'm a hardcore snowboarder Like I should be interviewed just for that perspective. And it's just easier if we come to you so we can avoid an awkward conversation. And and uh, so that's kind of our rule.
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Mark_sullivan1:15:38
That that could be the basis for a great interview. Though, just making it super super awkward right from the beginning.
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Ethan1:15:43
Yeah, right from the start right.
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Mark_sullivan1:15:45
Yeah, it's like. so. Uh, so you you ask to be on the show?
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Ethan1:15:49
Yeah, now, what? what have you got?
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Mark_sullivan1:15:49
How? Wh? what's up? What? What did you want to talk about? Anyhow?
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Ethan1:15:53
But they probably have a really interesting story who knows you know, and it's
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Mark_sullivan1:15:57
Yeah, but it be pretty.
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Ethan1:15:57
up to us as intervenes to bring it out.
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Mark_sullivan1:16:00
It'd be pretty funny to put people in
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Ethan1:16:02
Yeah, put 'em on. Bls. Itd probably getous.
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Mark_sullivan1:16:02
Blas. though. So what? What's your favorite part? What's your favorite part of doing the podcast? Like? what's what's the thing that keeps you going. It keeps you excited to keep doing more.
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Ethan1:16:11
um man, just sitting in there having these powerful conversations with. I mean, lately we've had some pretty amazing people in there. I just hope some of their uh, what they have rubs off on me. You know, because these people have some just crazy outlooks on life that are so positive and you know, like we had Ken block in there and just the stuff that dudes done incredible. You know, Like Li, being able to hear those stories straight from their mouth to me is the the most exciting part of it. you know. And and getting to know these people on a personal level, and hearing kind of how they carve their own path, Because that's really what it is. These people seem to carve their own path. No storyories the same. you know, so it's really cool to kinda hear that and uh, I don't know. Just learn. learn from everybody and get to know ' that. that's definitely the interviews are my favorite part.
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Mark_sullivan1:17:00
Yeah, I mean, I'd say though that, like you know, back in the nineties two thousand, because snowboarding wasn't such like a professional living, a lot of people had a lot more story involved, Whereas today it seems like you have to just dedicate all of your time becoming a good snowboarder. And so there just isn't time to be like uh,
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Mark_sullivan1:17:20
a passionate fisherman or something else on the side.
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Ethan1:17:21
That's true. Huh, Yeah, that is so true. Also say conus.
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Mark_sullivan1:17:24
You know that's what. That's what I've I started to see anyway.
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Ethan1:17:26
Yeah, They, all they could do is work out. eat right snowboard and they have to have
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Mark_sullivan1:17:31
right,
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Ethan1:17:31
all the repetitions. and yeah, they don't have as much room for life, huh
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Mark_sullivan1:17:36
uh,
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Ethan1:17:37
w.
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Mark_sullivan1:17:37
maybe maybe I'm not sure, but I would say that I find like the
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Ethan1:17:38
I imagine as they get older, they will, though you know.
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Mark_sullivan1:17:42
I. I would say so I would hope so. anyway. you know, but it it's interesting to see.
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Ethan1:17:44
Yeah, it's like the nineteen year olds are the tough ones because they all they know is snowboarding. But then there's
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Mark_sullivan1:17:51
Yeah,
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Ethan1:17:51
somebody that wants to hear about how they got good, So it's interesting for somebody to hear how how they made it as a nineteen year old. That got to be the best you know.
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Mark_sullivan1:17:59
right, so I mean, here's the question. how did you get so good to still be doing this thirty years later?
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Ethan1:18:05
I don't know it. just uh, staying with it. I guess just not giving up and I guess maybe that a lot of people we interview that's kind of their. The thing you learn from them too is just to never take no for an answer and just keep trying. I guess you know, like Chris and I always joke, we'd We've thrown a lot of shit at the walls and seeing what sticks, I guess is the key, and uh, hopefully the bomb hole sticks because I thought techn was sticked, but that went for twenty years, but I guess I at least got paid well for twenty years, so that's nice, but yeah, it's
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Mark_sullivan1:18:39
Y.
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Ethan1:18:39
just throwing shit at the wall, seeing what works and and uh, putting your heart into it and staying passionate and enjoyin what you do right.
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Mark_sullivan1:18:47
yeah, well, it seems like the bomb hole is working out pretty nicely right now. As far as like you have an office, you work with seven people, and you get to interview all sorts of interesting people and hear their stories, so let's that's a win in my book anyway.
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Ethan1:19:00
Yeah, it's been awesome. It's fun. The coolest part too, is uh, the feedback we get when we have a crazy episode like maybe Jess, Camerra's, or uh, deseriss. you know, with some real narly mental health issues and hearing how that helps somebody and maybe save their life is Uh,
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Mark_sullivan1:19:20
Mhm.
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Ethan1:19:21
is crazy. Um, we actually had a I had someone contact me. They uh started watching the bomb hole because a Lizard King or a skateboarder, and uh
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Mark_sullivan1:19:32
Mhm,
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Ethan1:19:32
they went. They watched Lizard Kings episode and they went to the bar and they just left Youtube running and he decided when he got home he was going to kill himself. He had everything ready and he sat back down in his computer and Desere Episode was playing. Talking about, Like staying around one more day, and and just not doing it, and uh home, he stayed around another day and is still around today and hearing stories like that is amazing. Know like that makes it all worth it.
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Ethan1:20:02
And it's kind of just like just fate that that episode happened to be on while he sat down again at the end of the night. like four hours later. You know. so
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Mark_sullivan1:20:11
Yeah, it's like Uh,
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Ethan1:20:11
that kind of got. Make it worth it.
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Mark_sullivan1:20:14
words have like a different kind of power than than images do. Even though
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Ethan1:20:18
Yeah,
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Mark_sullivan1:20:18
a picture is worth a thousand words. hearing someone's personal story and hear then be vulnerable. You know in those moments is like that, something that really isn't replaced in another medium. I don't think.
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Ethan1:20:30
Yeah, exactly. and you can read an interview in a magazine. It just doesn't hit you the same way as hearing their passion and their voice and what they're thinking. You know.
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Mark_sullivan1:20:39
Yp, indeed, indeed, so
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Ethan1:20:41
Yeah, so yeah, those those things make it all worth it. I think just hearing how it affects people that are watching and listening to the show.
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Mark_sullivan1:20:49
okay. So if you could interview anyone for your next show, who would it be anyone like Out of the sky? who could you pick out of the sky? Someone you haven't gotten yet?
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Ethan1:20:57
Uh, I wantnna interview Post Malone, just 'cause he's like he
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Mark_sullivan1:21:01
Okay?
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Ethan1:21:01
lives about a mile from me,
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Ethan1:21:03
so
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Mark_sullivan1:21:04
Really?
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Ethan1:21:03
I've always. I've always joked'd, be sick to meet him at the Seven eleven. See if he wants to come on the podcast. And uh, have him say yes, and then he and then we do it. But uh,
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Mark_sullivan1:21:12
how did he end up a mile from you?
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Ethan1:21:14
I don't know. Do he like lives right in Beors neighborhood? He just has like a sick house up there, or I do
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Mark_sullivan1:21:20
Really?
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Ethan1:21:20
know actually how he ended up there. He. he was, uh, he got like robbed in California and was so fed up with their gun laws. he wanted to move to Utah, where his whole crew could actually be armed. And so uh, now they're here and they have guns on their hips and they're not going to get robbed again And he has like the a sick house, just like a mile away from me.
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Mark_sullivan1:21:40
Wow? Well, that would be a pretty interesting interview. I would say, definitely not from the Action Sports Wheel House, But
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Ethan1:21:46
Not from the action sports.
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Mark_sullivan1:21:46
Uh would probably be interesting. nonetheless,
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Ethan1:21:49
Yeah, but I think I wouldn't uh, not do it.
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Mark_sullivan1:21:53
Anyone, you wouldn't interview anyone there Like No, No Trump. I don't care what he wants. No Trump, or is there anyone who would interview?
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Ethan1:21:59
I, actually, I would love to interview Tru just as see what's up with them. You know,
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Mark_sullivan1:22:05
Yeah, give them a forensic analysis.
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Ethan1:22:06
I've heard he's a pretty chirming dude, though, maybe you'd end up liking them after and that would suck.
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Mark_sullivan1:22:10
You probably would. do you hear all about his cheddar biscuits?
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Ethan1:22:14
Yeah,
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Ethan1:22:15
I think
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Mark_sullivan1:22:15
You'd have a lot to talk about with that.
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Ethan1:22:15
he justmingles other people's. He swindles other people's chedtar biscuits. So and it uses
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Mark_sullivan1:22:20
I, I think he does.
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Ethan1:22:20
other people's money to make his money.
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Ethan1:22:26
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Mark_sullivan1:22:26
wouldn't interview. Though,
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Ethan1:22:28
uh, I don't know, man. I would take that case by case right,
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Mark_sullivan1:22:32
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Ethan1:22:33
just because
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Mark_sullivan1:22:34
interesting. Okay,
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Ethan1:22:34
you just never know who's got a rat story.
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Mark_sullivan1:22:37
yeah, okay, so where do you see yourself in like five years? Ten years are going to be doing the bomb hole? Is this like the new thing? Audio? Is that going to be a audio on video? Is that the new thing or are you going to? you know? Keep just in being involved with snowboarding wherever that takes you?
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Ethan1:22:52
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Ethan1:22:56
hopefully they just go hand in hand. you know, I mean my passions for snowboarding. It's been good to me over the years,
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Ethan1:23:03
and uh, I'm definitely really enjoying what we're doing at the bomb hole, so uh, yeah, hopefully I'm able to maintain a foot in both worlds, you know
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Mark_sullivan1:23:14
Cool. Well, thank you for the interview, Eth, and I think that's a pretty good one. and
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Ethan1:23:18
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uh,
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Mark_sullivan1:23:20
yeah, come me one second here.
REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.
This season our format will change to do deep dives on a single subject matter - in this episode we talk about loyalty in snowboarding - specifically The US Open of Snowboarding being cancelled after a 36 year run.
Today's episode brought to you by
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In today's episode we talk with Selema Masekela - perhaps best known as the face of the X Games. But there is more to Selema's story than meets the eye. Son of a world renowned jazz musician ( Hugh Masekela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Masekela ) Selema grow up on the East Coast going to late night jazz clubs on the weekends, rubbing elbows with the greats. From there, he moved to Carlsbad, where he took naturally to the surf and skate culture. From working odd jobs to answering phones at Transworld, once Selema got his foot in the door, there was no looking back.
From Board Aid to Planet. X, X Games to Redbull, Selema has held down hosting responsibilities at arguably the most important events to 18-35 year olds all over the world.
Never one to rest on his laurels, today Selema is still hosting with Redbull as well as taking on entrepreneurial adventures and spending his free time holding down a board seat for a little company called Burton Snowboards (http://burton.com).
This is an interesting and wide reaching episode.
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REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.
This season our format will change to do deep dives on a single subject matter - in this episode we talk about loyalty in snowboarding - specifically Terje not riding for Burton Snowboards anymore.
Today's episode brought to you by
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The Splitboard Project
Presented by Spark R&D
Welcome to Corn Season • Episode Six
The Splitboard Project is a new ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability co hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan.. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In the sixth episode, our segments include:
Will’s Mind
Pretty much anything on Spark R&D founder Will Ritter’s mind this month.
Bucket List: Norway with Melissa Brandner
Melissa is an English ex-pat living on an island in the north of Norway. In this segment she discusses split boarding in Norway as well as riding in both 24 hours of sunlight - and dark.
Ask Will
Listeners of The Splitboard Project ask questions of co-host and founder of Spark R&D. Questions were collected from Instagram posts.
First Ascents: Griffin Siebert
Griffin Siebert is an extremely talented individual. From sponsored snowboarder to art director for Nitro Snowboards, you have to ask yourself - is there anything that Griffin can't do?
Tool Belt: Pointers for Spring
Will breaks down some tips for making the most of your spring. From communicating with your group, to waxing your skins - there is some good practical knowledge here.
Yeah/Nay
What would you not do again - what would you always do - Will weighs in on what not to do again - and things that are worth repeating.
This episode is sponsored by:
Spark R&D
@sparkrandd
www.sparkrandd.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummerindustries
http://neversummer.com
Hosted by:
Will Ritter and Mark Sullivan
Music by:
The Shoot Dangs
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfg9nFSHL82SWVWN3YUe2w
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Business Development:
Mark Sullivan
Mark@thesnowboardproject.com
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
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Please support The Snowboard Project:
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To get free The Splitboard Project and Spark R&D stickers send a self addressed stamped envelope to:
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THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Pro Files : Sam Klein
Sam Klein is one amazing rider - his approach to street may fall outside today's popular mini shred type features. Instead, Sam draws inspiration from riders like Frank Bourgeois and Jed Anderson and instead of focusing on what is the flavor of the day, goes for big rails with immnediate consequences for coming up short.
This story is an interesting one - and traces the career of a snowboarder fueled by determination and the hard fought road to achieving goals in the sport.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Melvin Brewing, Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://melvinbrewing.com
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
http://towpro-lifts.com
http://unitedshapes.us
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
In this, our final real talk episode of the season, Chad Bjorn and Mark talk about events like the natural selection, and do a deep dive into the best of the 2020 and 2021 season. Pretty crazy but Chad dropped Johnny B’s passing during this episode and so today show and our season of real talk is dedicated to the legendary snowboarder Jonny Baiocchi.
Today’s episode was brought to you by Melvin brewing, Cardiff Snow craft and Never Summer snowboards.
In this episode, recorded live on Clubhouse we cover the Natural Selection Tordillo and learn from the organizers of the event including Travis Rice, Liam Griffin and Circe Wallace and are joined in a live Q/A setting by some wintersports legends.
In this episode we learn about future plans of the Natural Selection tour as well as the importance of Alaska to the snowboarding world.
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
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United Shapes
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In this episode, recorded live on Clubhouse we cover the Natural Selection Tordillo and learn from the organizers of the event including Travis Rice, Liam Griffin and Circe Wallace and are joined in a live Q/A setting by some wintersports legends.
In this episode we learn about future plans of the Natural Selection tour as well as the importance of Alaska to the snowboarding world.
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
www.neversummer.com
Melvin Brewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Tow Pro Lifts
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In this episode, recorded live on Clubhouse we cover the Natural Selection Tordillo stop with a live watch party. Travis Rice takes on all questions in the in depth and unique look at the Natural Selection tour. In is episode we are joined by Travis and two of the other organizers of the tour, Liam Griffin and Circe Wallace. Bjorn Leines, Gavin Jocais, Annie Fast, Lyndsy Dyer, Mark Warner and others join in and put Travis on the spot for an in depth behind the scenes look at what made the Natural Selection tour tick.
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
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Never Summer
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Lago Snowboards
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In this episode, recorded live on Clubhouse we cover the Natural Selection Tordillo stop with a live watch party. We were joined by the event organizers - Liam Griffin, Travis Rice and Circe Wallace. In this episode we cover the qualifiers - and get a real insiders perspective from two of the people who put the event on. These shows will give a unique, inside perspective on one off the sports most highly anticipated events.
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
www.neversummer.com
Melvin Brewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
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United Shapes
@unitedshapes
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Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan
Episode Five
Welcome to our new show, Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan. This weekly show will appear one it's own RSS feed moving forward.
This is our first ever show to focus equally on skiing and snowboarding as well as our first dedicated show to backcountry safety.
Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan is recorders on Clubhouse even Thursday as Shred Spaces weekly show, and is released the following Thursday.
In this week's episode we are joined by Canadian Legend Ken Achenbach, Seth Levy, Simon Parrot,Emily Sullivan and Renee McCurdy - to share stories of close calls. With the recent helicopter crash in Alaska, we talk dive into the relative risks of heliskiing.
Special thanks to Karine Shauli and Elise Bernal for helping to make this show possible.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Melvin Brewing, Cardiff Snowcraft and Never Summer Industries. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://melvinbrewing.com
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
Tip Line: (208) 471-8007
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Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk 3.15
Hosted by: Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Produced by: Mark Sullivan
This episode is sponsored by:
Melvin Brewing
@melvinbrewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
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Check them out!
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We’re back with video for Real Talk with co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering the latest in snowboarding news including season pass products for the 21/22 season and X-Games Real Snow.
Pass Products 2021/22
Epic Pass
http://epicpass.com
20% less next year... is that a good thing?
$783 Epic Pass
$583 Local Pass
Ikon Pass
http://ikonpass.com
$999
Or 899 renewal
729/649 renewal w/ blackout dates
Mountain Collective
http://mountaincollective.com
2 days at each resort plus 1 bonus day at one resort - 50% OFF additional tickets
Indy Pass
https://www.indyskipass.com/
21/22 prices announced april 27
This year was $149 with 2 days at 63 small resorts - also had an add on pass for season pass holdeers at other resorts
X Games REAL snow (Lines concept) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flYZuKXHwS0
3rd Stale Sandbech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgJGYdIzxWM
Dusty Hendricksen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Jy9l-S45o
2nd Kevin Backsytrom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFkwtTPTK8c
Danny Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXPH2mRz_Q
1st place SageKJotsenberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFMNnHrgiWY
Brock crouch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Jy9l-S45o
OTHER VIDEOS:
Ryland Bell
Alaska Full Part 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmMRAKDARgY
Austen Sweetin - Boardslide Worldwide
Miracle March at Mt. Baker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRCrkxKWkLs
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Pro Files : Jeremy Tofte
Jeremy grew up in the shadow of Mt. Baker, in Mt. Vernon Washington, home of Craig Kelly, Dano Donnelly and the MBHC. Growing up in one of snowboardings' favorite spots gave him exposure to then world's best, which quickly quashed his dreams of pro rider super stardom - but Jeremy wanted to see where snowboarding could take him - so he set out in an old VW van for a road trip that would eventually take him to Jackson Hole. It was many years and odd jobs before he started the Thai Me Up restaurant in Jackson - which led to the founding Melvin Brewing.
After winning three medals at their first American Beer Festival - Melvin quickly became a household name in craft brewing circles.
Staying true to his roots in snowboarding and brewing, Jeremy has kept his brewery independent - in a world where small craft beer labels get regularly snapped up by the larger, international brands.
This is a story of a snowboarder turned entrepreneur who never gave up on his first passion - riding.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Melvin Brewing, Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://melvinbrewing.com
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
http://towpro-lifts.com
http://unitedshapes.us
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk 3.14
Hosted by: Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Produced by: Mark Sullivan
This episode is sponsored by:
Melvin Brewing
@melvinbrewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk} www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
We’re back with video for Real Talk with co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering the latest in snowboarding news including the Natural Selection at Baldface.
This episode covers the second stop of the Natural Selection Tour at Baldface. We recorded this one live in Clubhouse and had feedback from an international panel including Gavin Jocius, Mike W., Frank Pedretti, Dustin James and Jeremy Jones.
This episode is sponsored by:
We have launched the Tailgate Alaska 2022 festival - so you can start planning now. We’re also pleased to announce the lowest ticket prices we’ve ever had!
But here’s the kicker to get those prices you gotta come to Tailgate Alaska the World - which is a good thing because it’s gonna set you up with everything you need to know to make the most out of your shred trip to Alaska.
So head to www.tailgatealaska.com and sign up.
Also - bring a friend. As listeners of the snowboard project we’re offering you a special two for one on tickets to the digital festival. Use the code “shredalaska” on the special “Snowboard Project Ticket”.
We thank you for listening and hope to see you in Alaska.
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Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan
Episode Four
Recorded 3/11/21
Welcome to our new show, Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan. This weekly show will appear one it's own RSS feed moving forward.
This is our first ever show to focus equally on skiing and snowboarding as well as our first dedicated show to backcountry safety.
Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan is recorders on Clubhouse even Thursday as Shred Spaces weekly show, and is released the following Thursday.
Special thanks to Karine Shauli and Elise Bernal for helping to make this show possible.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Melvin Brewing, Cardiff Snowcraft and Never Summer Industries. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://melvinbrewing.com
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
http://towpro-lifts.com
http://unitedshapes.us
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
Tip Line: (208) 471-8007
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
What does Go Snowboarding! mean? In our fourth episode Mark Sullivan talks with Max Holzman, maker of MTN Local snowboards, at his house in Vermont. A lot of people dream of making their own snowboards and Max has taken that idea to fruition, building unique boards one at a time, utilizing a horizontal laminated construction. Each board is a reflection of its intended rider - but the real satisfaction comes from the incremental progression and problem solving challenges that comes with each new build. Learn more about Max and MTN Local at http://mtnlocalsnowboards.com Check out our other episodes at www.plnk.to/thesnowboardproject This episode is sponsored by companies that love snowboarding: Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
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Please support The Snowboard Project:
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Go Snowboarding! is produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Edited by:
Dustin H. James
Welcome to the third episode of THE HAMBIRD MEATGRINDER SHOW. A podcast hosted by snowboarding personalities Andrew Hardingham and Willie McMillon. In this episode we talk with one of snowboarding's most interesting characters - Marek Carter.
Hosted by Willie McMillon and Andrew Hardingham
Guest: Mark Carter
Produced by Willie McMillon and Mark Sullivan
Artwork by Mark Kowalchuk
This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
The Snowboard Project Microcast is brought to you by:
Melvin Brewing
@melvinbrewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
The Splitboard Project
Presented by Spark R&D
Episode Five
The Splitboard Project is a new ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability co hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan.. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In the fifth episode, our segments include:
Will’s Mind
Pretty much anything on Spark R&D founder Will Ritter’s mind this month.
Ask Will
Listeners of The Splitboard Project ask questions of co-host and founder of Spark R&D. Questions were collected from Instagram posts.
Bucket List: Colorado with Chad Otterstrom
Chad Otterstrom is an undeniable legend in the sport of snowboarding. He is known. as the 'King' of Colorado snowboarding. He also happens to be a dedicated split boarder. In this feature we cover where to ride in Colorado as well as some of Chad's history with splitboarding.
Tool Belt: Skintracks with Dave Zinn
Dave Zinn is an avalanche forecaster in the Bozeman area. In this segment Will and Mark talk with Dave about planning your uptrack - to maximize your backcountry experience.
Yeah/Nay
What would you not do again - what would you always do - Will weighs in on what not to do again - and things that are worth repeating.
This episode is sponsored by:
Spark R&D
@sparkrandd
www.sparkrandd.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummerindustries
http://neversummer.com
Melvin Brewing
http://melvinbrewing.com
Hosted by:
Will Ritter and Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Business Development:
Mark Sullivan
Mark@thesnowboardproject.com
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
To get free The Splitboard Project and Spark R&D stickers send a self addressed stamped envelope to:
Spark R&D c/o Free stickers!
PO Box 3284
Bozeman, MT USA 59772
Real Talk 3.12
Hosted by: Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Produced by: Mark Sullivan
This episode is sponsored by:
Melvin Brewing
@melvinbrewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk} www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
We’re back with video for Real Talk with co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering the latest in snowboarding news.
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan
Episode Two
Featuring
Matthew Bates
David LaPlante
Gary Land
Chris Kelly
Gavin Jocias
Katie
Welcome to our new show, Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan. This weekly show will appear one it's own RSS feed moving forward.
This is our first ever show to focus equally on skiing and snowboarding as well as our first dedicated show to backcountry safety.
The idea behind the show is to share close call stories and then give expert analysis and advice with our panel of experts led by Bjorn Leines. In addition, snow safety professional Grant Alexander lend their expertise in sharing Close Call stories.
Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan is recorders on Clubhouse even Thursday as Shred Spaces weekly show, and is released the following Thursday.
Special thanks to Karine Shauli and Elise Bernal for helping to make this show possible.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Melvin Brewing, Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://melvinbrewing.com
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
http://towpro-lifts.com
http://unitedshapes.us
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
Tip Line: (208) 471-8007
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Welcome back to Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in Covid Times.
For this show we’ve brought in one of the industry experts - Christian Knapp - to fill us in on how the multibillion dollar resort industry is adapting to a virus that has turned the world upside down.
Christian has managed some of the biggest resorts in the world for the past 20 years including Breckenridge and Aspen Snowmass and now he is on the hunt for The Snowboard Project.
The season is underway - and with it cases of Covid and ever changing restrictions being put into place around the country. Fortunately we are still able to ride - a very bright spot on an increasingly dark year.
In this, our final episode of the mini series we examine what resort riding is like right now, what we can expect from the rest of the season as well as what we can expect next year.
We are still game on for this season even if it is shaping up to be much different than expected. We ask that all our listeners do their part now to try and slow the spread of Covid so that we can keep these resorts open. Also tag us in your posts and stories so we can see how your experience is going riding resorts this year. Our next episode will cover the perspective of the riders. Tag us with the hashtag #liftticketpodcast and shoot us a DM - we want to know how it’s going on your end!
This is Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in COVID Times
Episode 6: Full Pull
Hosted by:
Christian Knapp and Mark Sullivan
Developed & Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
www.neversummer.com
Melvin Brewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan
Episode One
Welcome to our new show, Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan. This weekly show will appear one it's own RSS feed moving forward.
This is our first ever show to focus equally on skiing and snowboarding as well as our first dedicated show to backcountry safety.
The idea behind the show is to share close call stories and then give expert analysis and advice with our panel of experts led by Bjorn Leines. In addition, snow safety professionals, Emily Sullivan and Grant Alexander lend their expertise in sharing Close Call stories.
Close Calls in the Backcountry with Bjorn Leines and Mark Sullivan is recorders on Clubhouse even Thursday as Shred Spaces weekly show, and is released the following Thursday.
Special thanks to Karine Shauli and Elise Bernal for helping to make this show possible.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Melvin Brewing, Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Real Talk 3.12
Hosted by: Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
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We’re back with video for Real Talk with co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering the4 latest in snowboarding news including current snow conditions in the backcountry. the King's and Queen's of Corbetts and the Freeride World Tour stop in Andorra.
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Pro Files : Ken Achenbach
Ken may be Canada's first snowboarder - if you don't believe me find someone who went riding before him.
While that may be in dispute, The Snowboard Shop is not - it was the world's first snowboard specific retailer - inspiring a generation of Canadian riders.
He also built the world's first twin tip snowboard - the Barfoot Twin Tip, created an early snowboard specific clothing line and started The Camp of Campions - a snowboard camp that trained aspiring riders for 25 years.
To say Ken is a legend is an understatement - to say that he is still, 40 plus years on, a dedicated snowboarder, is simply a statement of fact.
This is a long one - but a good one.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Melvin Brewing, Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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In this episode we cover day one of the Natural Selection Tour in Jackson Hole. In this episode we talk with Canadian legend Ken Achenbach, Mt. Baker Hardcore Bas, street rider TJ Homan, Jackson Hole OG Rob Kingwill, course builder Sam Phillips and ops guy Tim Carlson for a wrap up of the instantly legendary Natural Selection event.
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Real Talk 3.11
Hosted by: Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
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We’re back with video for Real Talk with co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering the Natural Selection. In this Real Talk you will hear insight and analysis not available anywhere else. Because Chad is a judge of the event, Bjorn and Mark do not press him super hard on details, nonetheless, this is. one of the most in depth looks at the event yet.
In this episode we cover day one of the Natural Selection Tour in Jackson Hole. In this episode we talk with Nic Drago about the evolution of the event, Romain De Marchi and John Cavan about their takes on day one. Then we dig deeper with ops crew member Tim Carlson for a perceptive from the Hill. Finally we wrap up with Bob Klein to hear about the first World Championships of Snowboarding - the sport's first major event - and have him compare it to perhaps the sport's best.
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This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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Pro Files : Valentino Guseli
This is the youngest rider we have ever interviewed. This is also his first interview. Why? Because Valentino Guseli may be the hottest up and coming male freestyle competition rider in the world today.
At the age of fifteen, two weeks ago, at his first FIS World Cup event, he won the qualifiers, besting his countryman and undeniable top halfpipe rider Scotty James. He did it by going big. Not just large but mega. I've always said amplitude is the hardest trick. If that is true, Val may be the rider doing the hardest trick, consistently. In fact, perhaps no other riders today can make big spins in the pipe look lazy and slow rotating.
Talk about a bight future. Look for Valentino to quickly make a name for himself - not unlike Zeb Powell, who was a relative unknown when we talked to him a few years ago. We expect the same from Val.
Valentino Guseli. Definitely a name to remember.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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Welcome back to Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in Covid Times.
For this show we’ve brought in one of the industry experts - Christian Knapp - to fill us in on how the multibillion dollar resort industry is adapting to a virus that has turned the world upside down.
Christian has managed some of the biggest resorts in the world for the past 20 years including Breckenridge and Aspen Snowmass and now he is on the hunt for The Snowboard Project.
The season is underway - and with it cases of Covid and ever changing restrictions being put into place around the country. Fortunately we are still able to ride - a very bright spot on an increasingly dark year.
In this episode of Lift Ticket you can listen to there latest resort news from both Europe and North America.
We check in with Maya Samara in Switzerland about their current COVID situation.
Then we talk with Steve Wright from Jay Peak in Vermont to see how they have had to pivot their business model due to a boded closure with Canada.
We are still game on for this season even if it is shaping up to be much different than expected. We ask that all our listeners do their part now to try and slow the spread of Covid so that we can keep these resorts open. Also tag us in your posts and stories so we can see how your experience is going riding resorts this year. Our next episode will cover the perspective of the riders. Tag us with the hashtag #liftticketpodcast and shoot us a DM - we want to know how it’s going on your end!
This is Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in COVID Times
Episode 5: Walking a Tightrope
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Christian Knapp and Mark Sullivan
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This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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Real Talk 3.10
Hosted by: Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Produced by: Mark Sullivan
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We’re back with video for Real Talk with co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering the Laax Open
We finish with our new Instagram Clip Show. Check it out on YouTube! CLIP SHOW We review the latest Intagram clips. Make sure to watch on YouTube.
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The Splitboard Project
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Episode Four
The Splitboard Project is a new ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability co hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan.. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In the fourth episode, our segments include:
Will’s Mind
Pretty much anything on Spark R&D founder Will Ritter’s mind this month.
Ask Will
Listeners of The Splitboard Project ask questions of co-host and founder of Spark R&D. Questions were collected from Instagram posts.
Bucket List: Exploring the Cascade's with Byron Bagwell
Byron Bagwell lives in Bellingham and has been one of the more colorful characters in the Mt. Baker backcountry scene for some time. In this segment he shares some great spots in the Cascades to dream about.
Tool Belt: Jury Rigging
Will and Mark discuss trailside fixes and more in this segment.
Granlitude: Riding the Arctic Circle with Antti Autti
Antti Autti was one of the most famous halfpipe riders in the world before walking away from the competition scene to focus exclusively on the backcountry. Fast forward ten years and Antti has a wealth of experience and accomplished objectives under his belt. We talk to Antti about riding in the arctic circle and his upcoming project Roam.
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Yeah/Nay
What would you not do again - what would you always do - Will weighs in on what not to do again - and things that are worth repeating.
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This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
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This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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Welcome to the secondt episode of THE HAMBIRD MEATGRINDER SHOW. A podcast hosted by snowboarding personalities Andrew Hardingham and Willie McMillon. In this episode we talk with arguably the sport of snowboarding's original artist Mike Parillo. Mike's style has evolved over the years - but his style is unmistakable - and perhaps he above others is synonymous with both snowboard art and the snowboarder as artist.
Starting with the cover art of Volcom's The Garden, Mike quickly progressed to painting board graphics for his sponsor Lib Tech. One board led to a series - and his influence as a fellow snowboarder created more opportunities to create - and ride - and travel.
And live in different places - like Prague, for many years, and more recently Hawaii, where we caught up with him.
Hosted by Willie McMillon and Andrew Hardingham
Guests: Kevin Jones and Kurt Wastell
Produced by Willie McMillon and Mark Sullivan
Artwork by Mark Kowalchuk
This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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Pro Files : Sven Thorgren
Sven first made his mark on professional riding by winning the 2013 Air and Style in Beijing China. Soon he found himself narrowly missing the podium - and an Olympic medal - in Sochi. He has gone on to many victories and podiums - at World Cup and X-Games events.
But we start out with his most recent finish - 2nd place at the first post pandemic World Cup event.
We touch on a bunch of subjects in this interview - notably his opening part in the recent Scandalnavians 2 movie as well as the backyard park he has been perfecting his home in Sweden for the last couple of years.
We will be giving away one of Sven's favorite rides - a Nitro Beast 157. To enter to win
1) Follow @thesnowboardproject and @nitrosnowboards on instagram
2) Tag a friend in a comment on a post about this episode.
3) Each comment will give you an entry into the sweepstakes
4) Listen into the Microcast on February 1 to hear the winner.
Enjoy the episode
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Hosted by Mark Sullivan
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Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
Mons Roisland checks in from Laax.
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We have done a lot of different episodes this fall - but not a lot on pro riders. It seems like with the travel restrictions, lack of events and premieres, it became a lot more difficult to 'do your job' as a professional snowboarding athlete.
So I checked in with two of my favorite Norweigan pros - Fridtjof Sæther Tischendorf aka Fridge and Mons Roisland who just came off a podium finish at the first major contest in ten months.
Enjoy the episode
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
Fridge checks in from Norway
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Real Talk 3.9
Hosted by: Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Produced by: Mark Sullivan
This episode is sponsored by:
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We’re back with video for Real Talk with co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
We talk about the newest movies in the sport and talk conditions, riding spots and more.
We finish with our new Instagram Clip Show. Check it out on YouTube! CLIP SHOW We review the latest Intagram clips. Make sure to watch on YouTube.
This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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Pro Files : Bob Carlson
25 years ago the snowboard industry was a much different place. There were hundreds of brands competing for a foothold on what many people saw as a lucrative marketplace. Fast forward 25 years and almost all of those brands are gone - save for two - Never Summer and Arbor Snowboards. Over the years they have created a unique place in the market through differentiation - namely being the first environmentally oriented brand.
In this interview we talk to Arbor founder Bob Carlson about the rocky road to being a major player in the sport today.
Enjoy the episode
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
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Trond Dyb is a dedicated snowboarder that you probably haven't heard of. That is because he spends his season chasing powder oil remote Norway, Japan and Alaska. And those are the common ports of call. What sets Trond apart is his day job - helping manage Norway's arctic research station in Antartica. This job has led Trond to snowboard places few if anyone has ever been, bringing new meaning to the term 'First Descent.'
Enjoy the episode
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This is a new short format show - 3-5 minutes in length, dropping multiple times per week to keep you abreast of current snow conditions and where to go riding - right now - and in the next week, as well as current news, in bullet point format from across the sport.
This new format is intended to deliver a new way of delivering snowboarding news to The Snowboard Project audience.
This show is hosted and produced by Mark Sullivan
The Snowboard Project Microcast is brought to you by:
Melvin Brewing
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Cardiff Snowcraft
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www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
What does Go Snowboarding! mean? In our third episode Mike Arzt and Mark Sullivan talk to a man called 'Jeff' who build his own resort - featuring 40 runs and almost 2000' vertical feet. According to Jeff, "If it were about making money, it would be so much less interesting." Indeed. Stay tuned for more projects - including a DIY snowcat on GoSnowboarding! Check out our other episodes at www.plnk.to/thesnowboardproject This episode is sponsored by companies that love snowboarding: Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Go Snowboarding! is produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Edited by:
Dustin H. James
Real Talk 3.8
Hosted by: Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Produced by: Mark Sullivan
This episode is sponsored by:
Melvin Brewing
@melvinbrewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk} www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
We’re back with video for Real Talk with co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
We talk about the newest movies in the sport and talk conditions, riding spots and more.
We finish with our new Instagram Clip Show. Check it out on YouTube! This week we have 9 new clips. CLIP SHOW We review the latest Intagram clips. Make sure to watch on YouTube.
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Building a Snowboard with Never Summer's Tim Canaday
Tim Canaday founded the Never Summer brand thirty years ago with his brother Tracey. For the past 30 years they have been building some of the most indestructible boards on the planet.
From humble beginnings, Never Summer has become one of the most successful brands in the sport - due in no small part to the quality of the boards their factory turns out.
In the episode, Tim Canaday walks me through the building of a Never Summer board from beginning to end.
Enjoy the episode.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
http://towpro-lifts.com
http://unitedshapes.us
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Building a Snowboard with Never Summer's Tim Canaday
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Pro Files Featuring Skyler Gallardo • Living Outside the Box • 3.29
Skyler Gallardo has one of the most distinctive styles in the sport. His compact approach and deep presses make a standout impression. Watch him ride and you will not forget the name.
He also leads a fairly unconventional lifestyle - spending three years living in his compact Toyota pickup RV.
@skylergallardo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLQfheFmfVI
Enjoy the episode
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
http://towpro-lifts.com
http://unitedshapes.us
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
Tip Line: (208) 471-8007
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
We have four episode left for 2020
12/21 - Slyer Gallardo
12/24 - Building a Board at Never Summer
12/28 - Real talk with Chad and Bjorn
12/31 - Go Snowboarding! Building your own 'Resort'
Welcome to the very first episode of THE HAMBIRD MEATGRINDER SHOW. A podcast hosted by snowboarding personalities Andrew Hardingham and Willie McMillon. In this episode we talk with one of snowboardings brightest stars, Kevin Jones. If you don't know who he is, you better do some homework. We also are joined by bonus guest Kurt Wastell.
Hosted by Willie McMillon and Andrew Hardingham
Guests: Kevin Jones and Kurt Wastell
Produced by Willie McMillon and Mark Sullivan
Artwork by Mark Kowalchuk
Welcome back to Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in Covid Times.
For this show we’ve brought in one of the industry experts - Christian Knapp - to fill us in on how the multibillion dollar resort industry is adapting to a virus that has turned the world upside down.
Christian has managed some of the biggest resorts in the world for the past 20 years including Breckenridge and Aspen Snowmass and now he is on the hunt for The Snowboard Project.
The season has arrived - and with it rising cases of Covid and new restrictions being put into place around the country. Fortunately we are still able to ride - a very bright spot on an increasingly dark year.
In this episode of Lift Ticket you can listen to our global roundup where we check in with Europe to see how they are handling the new 'surge'.
Then we check in with Jack Mitrani to find out what is happening with COVID and snowboarding in Vermont.
Finally we check in with Ninja - Jasen Isaacs - to see how the reservation system is going in Vail.
We are still game on for this season even if it is shaping up to be much different than expected. We ask that all our listeners do their part now to try and slow the spread of Covid so that we can keep these resorts open. Also tag us in your posts and stories so we can see how your experience is going riding resorts this year. Our next episode will cover the perspective of the riders. Tag us with the hashtag #liftticketpodcast and shoot us a DM - we want to know how it’s going on your end!
This is Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in COVID Times
Episode 4: Boots on the Ground
Hosted by:
Christian Knapp and Mark Sullivan
Developed & Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H. James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
www.neversummer.com
Melvin Brewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Real Talk 3.7
Hosted by:
Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
We’re back for season 3 and welcoming our new Real Talk co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
Movies and teasers, upcoming gear & tech, and a whole lot more.
The first three episodes of the seasons real talk her up on YouTube now. Check it out on YouTube!
Http://YouTube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
It's snowing in the northwest and resorts are already open.
For more info check
http://onthesnow.com
MOVIES & TEASERS NEWS
New movies are winding down but there were a few releases in the past two weeks worth talking about:
Scandalnavians
Riders:
Sweden: Sven Thorgren, Nisse Arvidsson, Johan Nordhag, Ludvig Billtoft
Norway: Alek Østereng, Fridtjof "Fridge" Tischendorf, Len Roald Jørgensen
Finland: Antti Jussila
Iceland: Halldor Helgason, Eiki Helgason
(3) SCANDALNAVIANS 2 - FULL MOVIE - YouTube
Big Band by k2
Big Band Features K2 Team Riders; Pat Moore, Parker Szumowski, Jonas Harris, Dan McGonagle, Noah Peterson, Kennedi Deck, Gabe Ferguson, Mark Wilson, Matt Belzile, Jody Wachniak, Melissa Riitano, Tim Eddy, Hannah Eddy, Daisuke Watanabe, Nick Erickson, Leanne Pelosi, and more.
K2 Snowboarding Presents: "BIG BAND" - YouTube
Spotheads
- LJ Twombly, Joey Leon, Jake Fournier, Dave Brown, Zeb Powell, George McKeever-Parkes
CAMEOS: Maggie Leon, Zebadiah Cousins-Joyce, Nate Haust, Drayden Gardner, Jonat
EDITED: Joey Leon
FILMED: Joey Leon, IV Stuart, Devin Bernard, Kyle Murray, Everyone Else
SPOTHEADS - YouTube
Made in the Mitten
On December 25th, 1965, amidst the blustery winds and sand dunes of Muskegon, Michigan, Sherman Poppen made history by strapping two skis together and sending his young daughter careening down his backyard hill. His invention, soon dubbed the Snurfer, laid the foundation for snowboarding as we know it.
Made in the Mitten on Vimeo
Let it Ride
Filmmaker Jacques Russo examines the life and career of champion snowboarder Craig Kelly.
Let It Ride: The Craig Kelly Story - YouTube
AND A WHOLE LOT MORE...
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
The Splitboard Project
Presented by Spark R&D
Episode Three
The Splitboard Project is a new ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability co hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan.. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In the third episode, our segments include:
Will’s Mind
Pretty much anything on Spark R&D founder Will Ritter’s mind this month.
Ask Will
Listeners of The Splitboard Project ask questions of co-host and founder of Spark R&D. Questions were collected from Instagram posts.
Bucket List: Sailing Fjord to Fjord in Iceland with Asgeir Hoskuldsson
Asgeir Hoskuldsson aka Geiri is a pioneer of both splitboarding and snowboarding in Iceland. In this interview we talk about a ‘bucket list’ trip he puts on in Iceland, sailing a yacht from Fjord to Fjord, connecting the peaks with splitboarding missions.
Learn more here:
https://aurora-arktika.com/adventure/iceland-snowboard-and-sailing-adventure/
Asgeir Hoskuldsson’s Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/boardiniceland/
Tool Belt
A common problem on the ascent - running out of steam. In this segment Will and Mark discuss fueling up on the way up. Some basic knowledge and tips can go a long way.
Granlitude: Colorado’s 14ers by Splitboard with Laura Hadar
Laura Hadar has spent the past four seasons working toward a larger objective - doing all of Colorado’s 54 14,000 foot peaks - by splitboard. Already, she has done 53 of the peaks - and some are much more difficult than others.
Laura Hadar’s Instagram
http://www.instagram.com/holyfrozenwater/
Do Over
What would you not do again - what would you always do - Will weighs in on communications.
This episode is sponsored by:
Spark R&D
@sparrandd
www.sparkrandd.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummerindustries
http://neversummer.com
Hosted by:
Will Ritter and Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
Business Development:
Mark Sullivan
Mark@thesnowboardproject.com
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
To get free The Splitboard Project and Spark R&D stickers send a self addressed stamped envelope to:
Spark R&D c/o Free stickers!
PO Box 3284
Bozeman, MT USA 59772
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Pro Files Featuring Jason 'Bas' Basarich
This Is What Hardcore Looks Like
Bas could easily be considered one of the most core riders out there - he hd a pro model on Gnu snowboards almost 30 years ago - and still works at, and rides Mt. Baker multiple days each week.
He also started a board company - sold exclusively in the Northwest, featuring local artists to give Baker lots the opportunity to get a high quality constructed board for a reasonable price.
Anyway you cut it, Bas not only 'gets it' he has the experience and perspective to influence change - one baby step at a time.
Enjoy the episode
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
http://towpro-lifts.com
http://unitedshapes.us
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
Tip Line: (208) 471-8007
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Pro Files Featuring Jason 'Bas' Basarich • This Is What Hardcore Looks Like
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Sangye Namdrol • A Quest for Enlightenment • Episode 3.23
Sangye Namdrol has led two different lives - the first was as a kids who grew up in Connectecut, who developed a reputation for being fearless in any kind of bike or snowboarding situation.
Then he picked up Buddhism and you might say the rest is history, starting out at Boulder, Colorado’s Naropa University, after a few semesters, he made his way to Nepal and never looked back.
We talk about the journey - in snowboarding and in pursuit of spiritual fulfillment. Sangye has a different perspective on life snowboarding and the grand scheme of things - something we find pretty refreshing here.
Enjoy the episode!
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Never Summer Industries Tow Pro Lifts and United Shapes. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://neversummer.com
http://towpro-lifts.com
http://unitedshapes.us
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
Tip Line: (208) 471-8007
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Sangye Namdrol • A Quest for Enlightenment • Episode 3.23
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk 3.6
Hosted by:
Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
We’re back for season 3 and welcoming our new Real Talk co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
Movies and teasers, upcoming gear & tech, and a whole lot more.
The first three episodes of the seasons real talk her up on YouTube now. Check it out on YouTube!
Http://YouTube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
It's snowing in the west and 49 resorts are already open.
For more info check
http://onthesnow.com
MOVIES & TEASERS NEWS
New movies are winding down but there were a few releases in the past two weeks worth talking about:
T32M - 32 team movie
25 years of 32
Scott Stevens, Chris Grenier, Jordan Small, Dylan Alito, Toni Kerkela, Corey Smith, Bode Merrill, Pat Fava, Joey Fava, Johnny O’Connor, Phil Hansen and of course Zeb Powell. With a special appearance from Jeremy Jones!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9woOcU8tCCo&feature=emb_logo
Halcyon - Sage Kotesnberg Movie
Sage Kostenberg, Gabe Ferguson, Nik Baden, and Jared Elston
Jackson Hole, Park City, Whistler, and Alaska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=_gZJwDqMSLw&feature=emb_logo
Gutterball - Videograss
Riley Nickerson, Harrison Gordon, Jacob Krugmire, Kas Lemmens, Zak Hale, Brady Lem, Justin Fronius, Joe Sexton, Ben Bilodeau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_r-AuMbxz8&feature=emb_logo
Betty Ford - Beyond Medals
Kevin Backström, Tor Lundström, Max Buri, Sebbe De Buck, David Babacar Djité, Kazu Kokobu, Torgeir Bergrem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXZvZYZh73g&feature=emb_logo
Uninvited II
Ylfa Runarsdottir, Miyon Yamaguchi, Savannah Shinske, Naima Antolin, Taylor Elliott, Maggie Leon, Darrah Reid, Elena Graglia, Corrine Pasela, Kaleah Opal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIgcYSQyrSk&feature=emb_title
Facets
Leanne Pelosi, Jess Kimura, Marion Haerty, Mary Rand, and Amanda Hankison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGH_qeWSFuo&feature=emb_logo
AND A WHOLE LOT MORE...
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
What does Go Snowboarding! mean? In our second episode we ask snowboarder TJ Homan about his self made rope tow. We go over the details then bring in mentor and Kingvale Terrain Project founder Day Franzen to give some sage wisdom to TJ. This is our first episode covering a DIY project in action, and TJ was able to put together his own rope tow for less than $500. Stay tuned for more projects - including a DIY snowcat on GoSnowboarding! Check out our other episodes at www.plnk.to/thesnowboardproject This episode is sponsored by companies that love snowboarding: Never Summer
@neversummerindustries
www.neversummer.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Go Snowboarding! is produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H. James
PRO FILES: Nate 'Dogggg' Nadler
Season 3 Episode 20
Nate ' Dogggg' Nadler is not your typical person we feature on he show - and that's what makes this episode special. You see, Nate Dogggg has gotten the first chair in North America every year, for the past 25 years.
He is not a pro rider or an industry insider, no, Nate is a dedicated, passionate snowboarder who followed his dreams to Breckenridge, Colorado and never looked back.
We talk about what it takes to get first chair every year
The inevitable confrontations for first chair
Running for Mayor of Breckenridge
Being a Mountain local
Why stay in as mountain town
and much more...
plus a bonus story about Chad Otterstrom from his youth.
Hosted by:
Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Melvin Brewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including our Real Talk series}
http://www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
This week marks the one year anniversary of losing the sport’s most influential rider - founder of Burton Snowboards, Jake Burton Carpenter. This was a heavy episode to put together, as it all so fresh and the people close to him so profoundly affected.
But we did manage to talk with Chris Karol, the sport’s first World Champion, Steve Hayes, arguably Burton’s first prodigy rider, Ross Powers who won two Olympic medals and ushered the sport into the mainstream and two former Burton employees, Mike Arzt and Frank Phillips who run a business together (thepublicworks.biz.)
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
www.neversummer.com
Melvin Brewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Welcome back to Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in Covid Times.
For this show we’ve brought in one of the industry experts - Christian Knapp - to fill us in on how the multibillion dollar resort industry is adapting to a virus that has turned the world upside down.
Christian has managed some of the biggest resorts in the world for the past 20 years including Breckenridge and Aspen Snowmass and now he is on the hunt for The Snowboard Project.
The season has arrived - and with it rising cases of Covid and new restrictions being put into place around the country. Fortunately we are still able to ride - a very bright spot on an increasingly dark year.
In this episode of Lift Ticket you can listen to our global roundup where we check in with France, Japan, and Canada to find out the situation with the pandemic in their countries.
How are border restrictions changing the way Canadian snow operators do business? Will Americans be able to go to Japan this year? Are French ski resorts already shut down?
We get the lowdown from the north island of Japan, the French Alps, and Banff, Alberta.
We also check in with Eric Webster, Events Director for the US Ski and Snowboard Team, about the status of competitions from olympic qualifiers, to the X-Games, and even regional comps.
We are still game on for this season even if it is shaping up to be much different than ever before. We ask that all our listeners do their part now to try and slow the spread of Covid so that we can keep these resorts open. Also tag us in your posts and stories so we can see how your experience is going riding resorts this year. Our next episode will cover the perspective of the riders. Tag us with the hashtag #liftticketpodcast and shoot us a DM - we want to know how it’s going on your end!
This is Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in COVID Times
Episode 3: Around the World
Hosted by:
Christian Knapp and Mark Sullivan
Developed & Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H. James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
www.neversummer.com
Melvin Brewing
www.melvinbrewing.com
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Real Talk 3.5
Hosted by:
Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
We’re back for season 3 and welcoming our new Real Talk co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
Movies and teasers, upcoming gear & tech, and a whole lot more.
The first three episodes of the seasons real talk her up on YouTube now. Check it out on YouTube!
Http://YouTube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
It's snowing in the west and eleven resorts are already open.
For more info check
http://onthesnow.com
MOVIES & TEASERS NEWS
Channel Zero checks out Rosa Khutor
Follow the Absinthe Crew while they travel to Rosa Khutor in Russia whilst filming for their latest full movie CHANNEL ZeRO. Located in the western part of the Caucasian mountain range, Rosa Khutor is a diamond in the rough surrounded by steep mountains on one side and the Black Sea on the other. Worth checking it out.
Riders: Roope Tonteri, Wolle Nyvelt, Tom Tramnitz, Joon Ivanov, Andrey Moskvin
Filming: David Vladyka, Anton Zubkov
Music: Brandon Cocard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQca6xz5jA&feature=emb_logo
Echo Chamber
"Echo Chamber was filmed and edited by Sam Tuor. It’s my full part from winter of 2020 with cameos by Miles Fallon, Kazu Kokubo, Taylor Elliott, Brendon Rego, Kevin Backstrom, Mike Rav, Kaede Yasunaga, Keisuke Yoshida, and Chris Beresford. We wrote and recorded all the music with our record label @mirrormachine_slc. Music by myself, FutureMystic, hi again, and Ryan Taylor. " Visuals by Sam Tuor and @jmelart . Filmed in Japan and Salt Lake City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdNRmzxVxy0
Quiet
Stop. SHHH. It's QUIET. Follow Forest and friends on a few snowboarding adventures before everything stopped. Film/edit: Brendon Hupp Boarders in Order: Forest Bailey, Temple Cummins, Alex Lopez, Mark Landvik, Niels Schack, Gus Engle, Baltimore Loth, Antoine Provencher, Cooper Whittier, Max Warbington, Patrick McCarthy, Darrell Mathes Additional Filmers: Freedle Coty, Tim Stanford, Logan Beaulieu, Forest Bailey, Colt Morgan, Niels Schack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC3-XhsVMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfVR6JaOYZU&feature=emb_logo
Deep dive on video vies and the state of video in a short attention span world.
AND A WHOLE LOT MORE...
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
The Splitboard Project
Presented by Spark R&D
Episode Two
Hosted by:
Will Ritter and Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
Dustin@thesnowboardproject.com
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
Please support The Snowboard Project:
www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
To get free The Splitboard Project and Spark R&D stickers send a self addressed stamped envelope to:
Spark R&D c/o Free stickers!
PO Box 3284
Bozeman, MT USA 59772
The Splitboard Project is a new ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In the second episode, our segments include:
Will’s Mind
Pretty much anything on Spark R&D founder Will Ritter’s mind this month.
FEATURE: Splitboard History
Drew Zieff breaks down the the history of splitboarding inn this feature. Based on the epic 11,000 word story he recently did for Backcountry Magazine.
Ask Will
Listeners of The Splitboard Project ask questions of co-host and founder of Spark R&D. Questions were collected from Instagram posts.
Gnarlitude: Justin Lameroux
Justin Lameroux talks about taking your kids into the backcountry. How old do they have to be before you take them with you. there are a few extra things to consider.
Tool Belt
A key part of safety in the backcountry is communication with your crew. This story breaks down the different things to consider as well as tools you can use to assist you communicate to your crew as well as the outside world.
Do Over
What would you not do again - what would you always do - Will weighs in on communications.
This episode is sponsored by:
Spark R&D
@sparrandd
www.sparkrandd.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummerindustries
http://neversummer.com
PRO FILES: RYAN RUNKE
Season 3 Episode 15
On today’s show, Ryan Runke with a special edition of Pro Files. This one is about what it take to make as a pro today. Ryan has had a long history in the sport - starting like many, working in a snowboard shop. This proved to be a stepping stone for Ryan who went on to jobs at Version, K2, Rome and Red Bull before becoming an athlete agent. And that’s what we focus on here - what it takes to make it, get noticed and maintain a career as a professional athlete in the sport.
Normally we cover a lot more with our Pro Files - and they end up between 1-2 hours long. This one we cut back to the single subject, because we believe there are a lot of riders asking themselves similar questions. Conventional wisdom would hold that a shorter interview is more quick to make - not when yiu pair down a full length interview to something more digestible. Either way, let us know what you think: email mark@thesnowboardproject.com
We talk about:
Difference between athletes from different sports
How to break through from a sponsored amatuer to a paid professional
How an agent discovers talent
Managing career vs. lining up deals (80%manager 20% manager)
Challenges of being an agent - managing expectations
Managing Shaun White, Travis Rice and Ryan Sheckler at the same time for Redbull
What does it take to maintain a pro career and not fall off.
Creating a business plan from an athletic career
The importance of social media to athletes today
Social media training for athletes
Analytics vs. talent
First half hour digs into what it takes
Content is king- media landscape is changing
Hosted by:
Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
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Welcome to The Business Roundtable.
A special series brought to you by The Snowboard Project where we sit down with industry players to discuss the machine that runs snowboarding.
Today’s Episode: Shop Survival 101 with Jason Borgstede.
This is part two of our conversation.
We met up with Borgstede at his snowboard shop, Blue and Gold, in Anchorage Alaska and asked him how he has managed to run a successful snowboard shop for the last five years.
We discussed turning weaknesses into tools, the competitive advantage of a local skate shop, how MAP pricing works, should shops carry Burton, are independent shops at war with the brands, and how he has adapted to the global pandemic.
This is an episode everyone can learn from, whether you run a small business yourself, or you’re just curious about what goes on behind the scenes of the snowboard industry.
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
Dustin@thesnowboardproject.com
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
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Melvin Brewing
http://melvinbrewing.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
http://www.neversummer.com
TOWPRO LIFTS
http://towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
http://unitedshapes.us
Real Talk 3.4
Hosted by:
Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
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We’re back for season 3 and welcoming our new Real Talk co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
Movies and teasers, upcoming gear & tech, and a whole lot more.
The first three episodes of the seasons real talk her up on YouTube now. Check it out on YouTube!
Http://YouTube.com/c/thesnowboardproject
MOVIES & TEASERS NEWS
Dustbox I Wanted Most
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5TbSNbMXc&feature=emb_logo
One hell of a journey, from SLC to Fargo, MN, Montreal and more we drove nearly 10,000 miles before Covid-19 had us headed home.
Dan McGonagle, Robby Meehan, Cody Warble, Peter Cerulo, Cooper Whittier, Reid Smith, Jonas Harris, Brett Kulas, Ryan Collins, Noah Peterson and Benny Milam.
With support from: Vans snow, Ride Snowboards, Bruhlers, GNU, Sims, and Ashbury
Film & Edit
Colton Morgan & Mo Jennings
Channel Zero
Featuring Nils Mindnich, Hans Mindnich, Wolfgang Nyvelt, Jeremy Jones, Ivika Jürgensen, Garrett Warnick, Clemens Millauer, Ylfa Rúnarsdóttir, Jamie Lynn, Estelle Pensiero, Sam Klein, Chris Corning, Skyler Gallardo, Tom Tramnitz, Roope Tonteri, Johan Rosen, Joon Ivanov, and Sammy Blaze.
Lungie Land #59
https://vimeo.com/469339569#at=13
Me and Casey Nelson warming up for the spring we didn’t get. I’m happy with the days we did get though! It was fun while it lasted. I always wish I could have gotten more tricks even when I get a full season anyways. I hope you enjoy this and get stoked to ride your snowboard down a hill!
Thanks to Burton for all the gear needed to shred and thanks to GoPro for the camera to document the shredding.
SENSELESS - FREEDAWGERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfVR6JaOYZU&feature=emb_logo
A fresh freedawgin’ cut featuring Skyler Gallardo, Adrian Mitchell, Tony Ceccarelli, Keegan Hosefros, Nick Strother, Caleb Kinnear, Demetri Bales, and Jesse Gomez.
Film/edit: D. Holcomb
SUCKS. - DRAYDEN GARDNER FULL PART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8mM3SqEXk&feature=emb_logo
From California to Canada, take a trip with Bataleon Snowboard’s newest family member, Drayden Gardner as he takes his creative riding style and fresh perspective to the streets. Sit back, relax and enjoy the visual experience crafted by Drayden and Jupiter People’s Kyle Schafer.
SUCKS. Volume 1 is only the beginning and such phenomena must be respected by science, the world will take heed.
Director: Kyle Schafer
Riders: Drayden Gardner, Dylan Burnley
Jupiter People
Bataleon Snowboards
Reality BREAKDOWN - JED ANDERSON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLdcFEKJBc4&feature=emb_logo
Film/edit: Jake Durham
Guest Riders: Chaney Gilmore, Billy Cotie, Reid Smith, Dan Liedahl
Additional Filming: Justin Meyer
Graphics: Michael Corpuz
Six Days - Eric Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thHDdorK4JA&feature=emb_logo
Eric Jackson's season came slamming to a halt, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to spread. Filmed entirely over just six days in the month of February, here is how his season was going before being cut short.
Snomosapiens - DEEP POWDER IN WHITEFISH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VB90qeyVXA&feature=emb_logo
Some of the Bonfire Outerwear Team, Ralph Kucharek, Beau Bishop, and Aspen Rain Weaver travel to Whitefish, Montana for a heavy dose of DEEP Powder! We were super lucky to have it snow 6 feet before we showed up and another 2 feet as we stayed in Whitefish. We got to rip at Whitefish Resort for a couple of days before making our way to some epic and unreal Snowcat Boarding at Great Northern Powder Guides. Enjoy our take on a stellar snowstorm.
Song: Pharcyde by our good friends Little Stranger Music
AND A WHOLE LOT MORE...
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
Business Roundtable: Shop Survival 101 with Jason Borgstede
Show Notes
Welcome to The Business Roundtable.
A special series brought to you by The Snowboard Project where we sit down with industry players to discuss the machine that runs snowboarding.
Today’s Episode: Shop Survival 101 with Jason Borgstede.
We met up with Borgstede at his snowboard shop, Blue and Gold, in Anchorage Alaska and asked him how he has managed to run a successful snowboard shop for the last five years.
What do independent shops mean to the culture of snowboarding?
Does the economic machine of snowboarding even care about the small shop anymore?
Why did shops come to die in the first place?
How does Jason manage to compete with internet retailers and chain stores... and can core values alone drive business success.
This is an episode everyone can learn from, whether you run a small business yourself, or you’re just curious about what goes on behind the scenes of the snowboard industry.
Stay tuned for part two of our conversation with Jason and thank you for listening to our special series Business Roundtable.
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
Dustin@thesnowboardproject.com
Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk}
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Please support The Snowboard Project:
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Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer
http://www.neversummer.com
TOWPRO LIFTS
http://towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
http://unitedshapes.us
A look at our six unique shows.
Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines co-host REAL TALK. We play an excerpt from the Clip Show with Bjorn and Chad looking at a clip from Fridge.
Mason Aguirre takers us into our Pro Files episode with a candid look at a professional career.
Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in COVID Times takes an in depth look at resort riding this season. Christian Knapp takes on co-hosting in this look behind the velvet rope of ski area operations.
In The Splitboard Project, our first magazine style show, Mark is joined by the founder of Spark R&D Will Ritter for this wide reaching look into all things splitboarding.
Go Snowboarding - The DIY snowboarding podcast with co-hosts Jeff Pensiero and Mike Arzt - with guests coming on for mentorship and the OG Mike Basich who has done just about everything - himself.
Finally we have The Hambird Meatgrinder with Andrew Hardingham and Willie McMillon co-hosting. Should be entertaining. Hosted by:
Dustin H James and Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
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Welcome back to Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in Covid Times.
For this show we’ve brought in one of the industry experts - Christian Knapp - to fill us in on how the multibillion dollar resort industry is adapting to a virus that has turned the world upside down.
Christian has managed some of the biggest resorts in the world for the past 20 years including Breckenridge and Aspen Snowmass and now he is on the hunt for The Snowboard Project.
In episode 2 we take a look at how the resort industry has planned and prepared for the upcoming winter and what changes riders can expect to see at their resorts.
We also get the local perspective on the changing face of ski towns and discuss the effects of the virus on snow media.
Christian talks to Olivia Rowan about how she mobilized the entire resort industry to face Covid-19 head on.
We get an update from Jackson Hole about what policies they have put in place to keep riders safe this year and the current status of Travis Rice’s long anticipated Natural Selection competition.
Then we talk to journalists Jason Blevins from the Colorado Sun and Mike Rogge, who recently purchased the Mountain Gazette, about what it’s like to have so many new neighbors in their local communities.
This is Lift Ticket: Resort Riding in COVID Times
Episode 2: Opening Day
Hosted by:
Christian Knapp and Mark Sullivan
Developed & Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H. James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
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Real Talk 3.2
Hosted by:
Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
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We’re back for season 3 and welcoming our new Real Talk co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
We talk about there newest movies in the sport and do a deep dive into sponsorship and filming in the 20/212 season.
We finish with our new Instagram Clip Show. Check it out on YouTube!
This week we have 15 new clips.
CLIP SHOW
We review the latest Intagram clips. Make sure to watch on YouTube.
The Splitboard Project
Presented by Spark R&D
Episode One
Hosted by:
Will Ritter and Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
Dustin@thesnowboardproject.com
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The Splitboard Project is a new ‘magazine style’ podcast for splitboarders of every ability. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners.
In this first episode, our segments include:
Will’s Mind
Pretty much anything on Spark R&D founder Will Ritter’s mind this month.
First Ascents
Jay Moore from World Boards (http://www.worldboards.com) talks a little bit about his history in splitboarding (He started selling them in 1994), then gives some advice to first time splitboard customers.
FEATURE: The Shakedown
Will gives some tips on things not to forget as we head into the season. Here is a checklist of gear to make sure you have sorted out before the snow flies:
Riding and Touring Gear
Splitboard
Spark Bindings
Split Crampons
Skins
Glop Stopper
Boots
Pack
Boot Crampons
Whippet
Poles
Sunglasses
Goggle
Helmet
Safety and Orienteering
Beacon / Transceiver
Shovel
Probe
First Aid Kit
GPS
Spot Beacon / Delorme InReach / Satellite Phone
Map
Spark Tool
Leatherman
Voile Strap
Zip Ties
Duct Tape
Spare Parts
Altimeter Watch
Miscellaneous and Everyday Gear
Phone
Charger
Wallet
Keys
Batteries
Headlamp
Food
Water
Sunscreen
Chapstick
Extra Socks
Extra Layers
Feature: Bucket List
We talk to Spark R&D ambassador Frankie Devlin about his best splitboarding trip, ever. A few years back, Frankie went to Denali for 25 days - and make the summit twice. We cover the ups and downs - and some details to think about before planning an expedition trip like this one.
Tool Belt
I think everyone can agree, more people are heading to the backcountry this season than ever before - beyond the gear and the knowledge to use it - an essential skill is understanding avalanche conditions for the area you plan to go out. In this segment, we talk about some of the resources available to splitboarders to make the experience safe.
This episode is sponsored by:
Spark R&D
@sparrandd
www.sparkrandd.com
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummerindustries
http://neversummer.com
Pro Files featuring Will Mayo
In this episode we check in with Will Mayo, the man behind the Towpro rope tow. Although we did this interview before Tow Pro was fully funded on Kickstarter - they haver shot past their funding goal and are now selling remaining units that will be available.
From beginnings building his own winch - to creating the world's first commercially available backyard rope tow, Will's contribution to the sport - and the engineering behind is not insignificant.
This is his story.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/towpro/towpro-the-backyard-rope-tow/?ref=kicktraq
or goto their webpage at:
http://towpro-lifts.com
Hosted by:
Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
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What does Go Snowboarding! mean? In our first episode we follow along as Mark and Dustin ask themselves what it really means "to go snowboarding" and along the way way they end up convincing Jeff Pensiero and Mike Arzt to join them as co hosts for an exciting new winter exploring the do it yourself spirit that exists across all of snowboarding. Jake Aaronson (@east.bumfucc) has a phone call with Mark about rope tows which ends up helping to inspire this new podcast. Mike Chantry recounts snowboarding in 1965 and working with Tom Sims to bring freestyle to snowboarding in the 1980s - and how Craig Kelly was always too tech, On the search for more answers on what it means to "Go Snowboarding" they turn to Jeff Pensiero and Mike Arzt. Jeff founded the Baldface Lodge, a backcountry mecca for snowboarders in B.C. Mike used to work for Burton and Airwalk before founding his own creative agency and fabrication studio in Denver with his partner Frank. Soon after hearing their histories and asking what going snowboarding means to them Mark and Dustin realize they are the perfect mentors for a new generation of DIY snowboarders. Starring: Mike Arzt Jeff Pensiero Mike Chantry Jake Aaronson Mark Sullivan Dustin H James Mike Basich Did you like hearing the stories from Pensiero, Arzt, and Chantry? Then check out their full episodes at www.plnk.to/thesnowboardproject This episode is sponsored by companies that love snowboarding: **Cardiff Snowcraft**
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
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Please support The Snowboard Project:
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Go Snowboarding! is produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H. James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
dustin@thesnowboardproject.com
Real Talk 3.2
Hosted by:
Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
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We’re back for season 3 and welcoming our new Real Talk co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
Movies and teasers, resorts news, Snowboarder Magazine, upcoming products, Nicolas Mueller, upcoming gear & tech, and our new V3.0 lineup.
We finish with our new Instagram Clip Show. Check it out on YouTube!
MOVIES & TEASERS NEWS
-Tangle - Ted Borland’s new flick / Paul Osbourne
Featuring: DESIREE MELANCON, JILL PERKINS, NIRVANA ORTANEZ, PHIL HANSEN, BODE MERRILL JEFF HOLCE, DENVER ORR, AND DYLAN OKUROWSKI
Simulation - SRD
Featuring:
Tom O'Reilly
Finn Westbury
Gregor Zed
Sebi Springeth
& Friends
Presented by Snowboarder Mag.
Sponsored by Salomon, K2, and Riders on Board.
Filmed by JJ Westbury & Matt Bryson.
Edited by Finn Westbury
@srdsucks
Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPokenYr7fc
Full Movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxH88Ol0xLk&t=110s
FUCCVIZZ
Featuring Jake Aaronson & Austin Vizentainer
Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vujcqAmE4
TEAL
Produced by Chris Corning
Filmed and edited by Alex Havey
Directed by Chris Corning and Sam Klein
Featuring riding from:
Chris Corning, Sam Klein, Windham Miller, Brett Moody, Chase Blackwell, Colton Carroll, Conor Carroll, TJ Homan, Sam Anderson, Josh Oakes, and friends..
Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV7YqGdQdl8
ManBoys - Snowdance
Presenting Snowdance, the latest and greatest from the Manboys! Full movie drops right here November 2.
Featuring Matt Belzile, Rusty Ockenden, Beau Bishop, Chris Rasman, Jody Wachniak, and Eric Jackson.
Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCNrsuuAKfQ&feature=emb_logo
HOTZONE PARK OPENING
THE 16TH EDITION OF THE HOTZONE.TV PARK OPENING IN HINTERTUX/AUT TAKES PLACE FROM OCTOBER 1ST – 4TH, 2020
Hintertux glacier proudly announces the 16th edition of the Hotzone.tv Park Opening in Hintertux. The snowboard community comes to the traditionally first opening of the season from October 1st – 4th, 2020, to start into the new winter season.
Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV5TmBsoEPA
Highlights from first weekend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXXgc-ZQsx4
RESORT NEWS
-Opening Days
Battle of Loveland v. A-Basin.
-Covid Plans are being released
-
Vail Alterra etc. have issued guidance.
-
Basically you can expect the resort conglomerates to have plans that apply across their holdings
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Smaller, one off mom and pops following state issues guidelines
-Bluebird Resort, Colorado
New, non lift, uphill only, touring resort
Guided and non guided
Ski school
Rabbit ears pass
No lifts, but amenities and patrol
1/2 hour from steamboat and kremmling
-Snowboard Revival Project
Jake AARONSON AKA EAST BUMFUCC is trying to get the Snowboard Revival project off the ground.
Is an initiative in order to establish an open space for the general public to be able to ride without restrictions and create openly in the Wenatchee area. As of this moment the Ski Industry is suffocating the market place by making prices unaffordable and unattainable to the public. In order to revive the industry and get more people out boarding we need places for kids to learn and people for these kids to learn from. With creating a skatepark style SNOWPARK we can create just that! PLEASE SUPPORT BY COPYING AND RESHARING
Snowboarding News
Hotzone park opening in Austria.
Trollhaugen session.
Baldface teams up with Wasatch Powderbirds
Snowboarder, Surfer, Bike and Powder Magazines to cease production
DEEPER DIVE
The Social Dilemma Movie
Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0&feature=emb_logo
This is a longer discussion of AI and its impact on snowboarding media
CLIP SHOW
We review the latest Intagram clips. Make sure to watch on YouTube.
Pro Files Featuring Mason Aguirre
The Snowboard Project Episode 216
Season 3 Episode 4
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
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Mason Aguirre was one of the most celebrated halfpipe riders in the world, he had X-Games and Dew Tour Medals, got 4th at the Olympics and even beat Shaun White. Consistent results along with being an original member of the Frends crew along with Kevin Pearce, Scotty Lago, Kier Dillon, the Mitrani brothers and Danny Davis opened the door to big time deals with sponsors. Then the double cork changed everything. Soon Mason found himself on the outside looking in. When the contracts dried up, the substance abuse began. This week we go deep with Mason - about his rise - his fall - and the phoenix rising from the ashes.
Pro Files Featuring Jerry Dugan
The Snowboard Project Episode 215
Season 3 Episode 3
Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
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For our first Pro-File episode of the season, we tapped Jerry Dugan, founder of Fall Line Films - not only did he make the first 16mm snowboard movie, he was the first guy to film in Alaska and Japan.
Jerry Dugan was an important figure in early snowboarding - he created Fall Line Films - and with it the first 16mm snowboard films ever made. Known for plot - traveling the world with unruly snowboarding pros of the era - guys like Farmer, Ranquet, Damian Sanders and others. His films were the first ‘hero makers’ from the 1990s. In fact, many of those heroes are considered legends today.
Since FLF Jerry has pursued a number of ventures as a commercial film maker, and with his hobbies - that include flying fixed wing planes. Did I mention he was the first guy ever to film snowboarding in Alaska - and the woods of Japan? His legacy is still felt by riders around the world today.
Lift Ticket: Resort Riding In COVID Times
Episode One - Complete 180
Hosted by:
Christian Knapp and Mark Sullivan
Developed & Produced by:
Mark Sullivan
Dustin H. James
Business Development:
Dustin H James
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Tow Pro Lifts
@towprolifts
www.towpro-lifts.com
United Shapes
@unitedshapes
www.unitedshapes.us
Check them out!
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Welcome to the first edition of Lift Ticket. In this monthly series, Christian Knapp (former Aspen CMO) and Mark Sullivan explore what resort opening will look like in COVID times.
We look at the shut down, making plans and the turn toward reopening.
In other words, in the past six months the resort industry has had to do a Complete 180 - hence the name of this episode.
In this episode we talk with Woodward Park City’s Jeremy Jones, Big Snow American Dream owner Joe Hession, Ski NZ’S Paul Anderson and Highland Mountain’s Mark Hayes.
Special thanks to @effective_edge and @sammagazine
Real Talk 3.1: We’re back!
This episode is sponsored by:
Cardiff Snowcraft
@cardiffsnow
www.cardiffsnow.com
Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)
Never Summer Snowboards
@neversummer
www.neversummer.com
Lago Snowboards
@lagosnowboards
www.lagosnowboards.com
Check them out!
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We’re back for season 3 and welcoming our new Real Talk co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:
Movies and teasers, resorts news, Snowboarder Magazine, upcoming products, Nicolas Mueller, upcoming gear & tech, and our new V3.0 lineup.
We finish with our new Instagram Clip Show. Check it out on YouTube!
MOVIES & TEASERS NEWS
-Tangle - Ted Borland’s new flick / Paul Osbourne
Featuring: DESIREE MELANCON, JILL PERKINS, NIRVANA ORTANEZ, PHIL HANSEN, BODE MERRILL JEFF HOLCE, DENVER ORR, AND DYLAN OKUROWSKI
-El Sueno:
Erik Leon and Kyle Schafer - teasers out
-Channel Zero:
Absinthe Films
-Scandalnavians:
Helgasons new project coming too - Ruka Odyssey out now on Vimeo - filmed this past summer
-Burton One World:
I know they have been editing
-Purple Mountains:
Purple Mountains follows Jones’ journey to engage his detractors, consider the future of clean air, clean water and a healthy planet, and search for common ground in the mountains—one voter at a time.
-We Love You Larson
Chris Larson tribute footage.
-Our Social Dilemma
Social Media and its influence over us and politics, globally
-Movie Premieres
RESORT NEWS
-Opening Days
Battle of Loveland v. A-Basin
-Covid Plans are being released
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Vail Alterra etc. have issued guidance.
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Basically you can expect the resort conglomerates to have plans that apply across their holdings
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Smaller, one off mom and pops following state issues guidelines
-Bluebird Resort, Colorado
New, non lift, uphill only, touring resort
Guided and non guided
Ski school
Rabbit ears pass
No lifts, but amenities and patrol
-Snowboard Revival Project
Jake AARONSON AKA EAST BUMFUCC is trying to get the Snowboard Revival project off the ground.
Is an initiative in order to establish an open space for the general public to be able to ride without restrictions and create openly in the Wenatchee area. As of this moment the Ski Industry is suffocating the market place by making prices unaffordable and unattainable to the public. In order to revive the industry and get more people out boarding we need places for kids to learn and people for these kids to learn from. With creating a skatepark style SNOWPARK we can create just that! PLEASE SUPPORT BY COPYING AND RESHARING
GENERAL NEWS
-Snowboarder 33.1 Issue
issue dedicated to snowboarders of color
-Nicolas Mueller
Dropped by Gnu, Oakley and 32...
PRODUCT NEWS
-GoPro 9
-Cardiff news
-Academy news
SNOWBOARD PROJECT NEWS
-REIMAGINE SNOWBOARD MEDIA
Because of all we have talked about, The Snowboard Project has set out to reimagine snowboard media based on issues facing riders everywhere. GET PEOPLE OUT SNOWBOARDING. RALLY AROUND PARTICIPATION!
-Real Talk
Of course you are listening to real talk - adding video this year.
-Profiles
We will also bring back profiles - cutting as deep as we can - and adding video.
-Hambird Meatgrinder
Hardingham, Willie, video - interviews in a unique way
-Lift Ticket
Resort riding in covid times - Christian Knapp co-hosting, being read in by the resort industry
-Go Snowboarding!
The Do-It-Yourself show - showing people how to build lifts, rails, private parks etc.
Co-hosted by Basich, Arzt, Pensiero
-The Splitboard Project presented by Spark R&D
Co-hosted by will ritter - we expect this segment to grow significantly with the ride of resort uncertainty
-Watch Party
Our livestream show on YouTube where world of snowboarding watches the movie or edit with its creators.
CLIP SHOW
We review the latest Intagram clips. Make sure to watch on YouTube.
Real Talk is brought to you by the Uncharted Waters Network.
Hosts: Mark Sullivan, Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines
Executive Producer: Mark Sullivan
Supervising Producer: Dustin H James
Sound Design: Mark Sullivan & Dustin H James
Intro: Dustin H James
This week on our new series - FOREWORD - where we approach respected people from the sport and ask them to talk about their favorite episode. In books, a foreword covers a general overview, their opinion about the book and why someone should consider reading it. This is the audio version - and our guest is Jeff Pensiero, founder of the Baldface Lodge - who introduces Jen Brill - founder of Silverton Mountain. Enjoy!
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BONUS EPISODE
FOREWORD vol. 5 •Jeff Pensiero Introduces Jen Brill
Produced by Mark Sullivan
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Megan Pischke-Porcheron • Episode 184
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Megan grew up as a professional snowboarder in the nineties Colorado jib scene. Soon she was traveling the globe, featured in magazines and movies. A successful pro career by any measure.
She went on to a job at North Face - and had a couple of kids with husband and pro shredder DCP. Then one day life changed - Megan was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Megan is not just a survivor - she is a thriver. Having held retreats for cancer survivors for over a decade with B4BC - she thought she knew what she was a in for - little did she know.
I caught up with her in Costa Rica where she4 is living with David and raising their kids.
Truly an inspirational story of living a life by design.
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PATHS • Megan Pischke-Porcheron • Episode 184
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Sam Bawden • Episode 183
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Sam Bawden grew up as a snowboarder in Utah, before achieving significant success as an architect.
Buildings designed by Sam can be found on multiple continents, but you don't have to go much further than the Cardiff Fork in Utah to find where Sam finds both escape and connection - to his family, friends, work and personal passions.
There is a level of integrity in Sam that I think everyone can learn from. The fact that he has led a successful career - which allowed him to start a snowboarding brand is the cherry on top.
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PATHS • Sam Bawden • Episode 183
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
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PATHS • Travis Wood • Episode 182
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Pro rider. Forum marketing guru. Sims snowboards.. that was fun, learning how to really maker money in snowboarding, real estate and beyond came later. This is an in depth look at a man of vast experience.
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PATHS • Travis Wood • Episode 182
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Herb George • Episode 181
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Herb has had an amazing career as an art and creative director. His prior ventures include being there marketing guy for O Sin, working with Burton and Forum, magazines like Slam, XXL and Honey and brands like Etnies and Globe.
He also shot a pictorial for Playboy Magazine. Needless to say an interesting path.
Enjoy.
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PATHS • Herb George • Episode 181
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
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PATHS • Javas Lehn • Episode 180
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Javas got his start as a rider - then pro for Gnu and Oakley. For most people, that would be career enough - but that wasn't even the beginning of Javas' path.
He went to design school and worked agency jobs for a number of years before moving to NYC. A job initially at MOMA led to him starting his own agency, JAVAS LEHN STUDIO (http://javaslehnstudio.com). Surface Magazine, Holden Outerwear and a number of 'art' books have led Javas to developing a minimalist design sensibility all his own.
This is a fascinating interview and path. Enjoy.
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PATHS • Javas Lehn • Episode 180
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Javas Lehn • Episode 180
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Javas got his start as a rider - then pro for Gnu and Oakley. For most people, that would be career enough - but that wasn't even the beginning of Javas' path.
He went to design school and worked agency jobs for a number of years before moving to NYC. A job initially at MOMA led to him starting his own agency, JAVAS LEHN STUDIO (http://javaslehnstudio.com). Surface Magazine, Holden Outerwear and a number of 'art' books have led Javas to developing a minimalist design sensibility all his own.
This is a fascinating interview and path. Enjoy.
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PATHS • Ben Pruess • Episode 179
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Ben Pruess • Episode 179
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Ben Pruess is a bad ass. He got his start in snowboarding as a pro rider before becoming the Rev team manager in the early 90s.
From there, things on the career track went a little bananas - launching Salomon Snowboards, running Bonfire, running Adidas Heritage - which he quickly transformed into Adidas Originals - yup he started that. A brief stint running and owning Holden before launching Under Armor's Sportswear division before becoming president of Tommy Hilfiger.
That's at least three multibillion dollar companies he has served as VP or better. He has come long way.
In the second half of the interview we have a conversation about the state of the economy, the impact of Corona and a lot more.
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PATHS • Ben Pruess • Episode 179
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Nelson Woremstead • Episode 178
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Nelson Wormstead dreamed of becoming. a pro rider - then reality set in - other kids had more talent. So he set his sights on getting a job that could pay the bills. With a college degree in hand, Nelson proceeded to take a job in a unrelated field - as a sub-rep for Oakley.
One thing led to another and now, 15 years on, and Nelson is running the show for Oakley on the East Coast.
But there is more, much more. Nelson is also an announcer - for the Street Leaguer and has even found time to earn a MBA. Not bad for a guy who has a full time job - and plenty of side hustle.
Nelson is an inspiration - of seeing where following your dreams can take you.
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PATHS • Nelson Wormsteqad • Episode 178
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
In this week's bonus episode, Chad Ottersatrom gives a little insight into one of his favorite The Snowboard Project episodes - #90 Todd Franzen
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS •Pirmin "Peterman" Wey • Episode 177
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
We consider Pirmin a professional snowboarder in its purist form - as a carpenter - in his home town of Flims (LAAX) in Switzerland. Working through the summer and fall at home has allowed him to travel the world - becoming considered a local in both Revelstoke and Alaska. This is this story.
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PATHS • Pirmin "Peterman" Wey • Episode 177
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Steve Fisher • Episode 176
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Steve Fisher was a pro rider - a pipe jock - who won the X-Games in 2004. Fast forward a few years and Steve was sponsor less and trying to figure out what would come next. After a few gigs in sales and marketing around the Denver area, Steve moved back to the mountains and took up selling real estate - a decision that has given him plenty of time to enjoy the mountains of Colorado.
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PATHS • Steve Fisher • Episode 176
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
In this week's Foreword Barrett Christy introduces her favorite interview from The Snowboard Project - Maria Thomsen.
Enjoy this bonus episode.
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Pat Parnell • Episode 175
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Pat Parnell is a dedicated snowboarder - and has a bad ass job - television host.
Find out about more than a decade of working at NBC Sports, Fuel TV host and the pursuit of following a career path you enjoy.
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PATHS • Pat Parnell • Episode 175
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
PATHS • Pat Parnell • Episode 175
Paths is a new series from The Snowboard Project covering people who dedicate their recreational time to snowboarding - but have a ‘real world’ job.
Pat Parnell is a dedicated snowboarder - and has a bad ass job - television host.
Find out about more than a decade of working at NBC Sports, Fuel TV host and the pursuit of following a career path you enjoy.
This week’s interview is brought to you by CBDAYZ, and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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PATHS • Pat Parnell • Episode 175
Hosted by Mark Sullivans
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This week on our new series - FOREWORD - where we approach respected people from the sport and ask them to talk about their favorite episode. In books, a foreword covers a general overview, their opinion about the book and why someone should consider reading it. This is the audio version - and our guest is Jeff Pensiero, founder of the Baldface Lodge - who introduces - favorite episode - Pat Moore (Originally episode 137). Enjoy!
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BONUS EPISODE
FOREWORD vol. 2 •Jeff Pensiero Introduces Pat Moore
Produced by Mark Sullivan
This week we introduce a new series - for mud season - FOREWORD - where we approach respected people from the sport and ask them to talk about their favorite episode. In books, a foreword covers a general overview, their opinion about the book and why someone should consider reading it. This is the audio version - and our first guest - Mike Arzt - picked Chris Coulter (Episode #55) as his favorite. At first I thought it was because of the personal connection to Coulter - I found out it goes deeper than that.
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BONUS EPISODE
FOREWORD vol. 1 • Mike Arzt introduces Chris Coulter
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding
Season Two in Review
In this Real Talk we take a wide ranging view on the 2019/2020 season. We interviewed more than 137 snowboarders and brought their stories to you each Monday on our Real Talk shows. In this Year in Review Episode, we share more than 40 interviews - including Jake Carpenter, Scott Stevens, Joe Sexton, Mon Roisland, Zeb Powell, Skyler Gallardo, Rene Rinnekangas, Scotty James, Sage Kotsenberg, Dustbox, Leanne Pelosi, Nora Beck... and the list goes on.
Former Snowboarder Magazine Rider of the Year Bjorn Leines Co-hosts - and even offers ‘sage’ wisdom to the current Rider of the Year, Sage Kotsenberg.
Perhaps of all our 174 episodes - this one demonstrates the possibilities of audio as a medium - at least in our second season, as just like snowboarding, we view audio, as a medium as a canvas for creative expression and progression.
Real Talk This Week in Snowboarding
35 Episodes
137 Real Talk guests
From 18 countries
56 Movies covered
36 Events
WHAT WE COVERED
Jeremy Jones testifies to congress on climate change
The drought in South America
Hot Dawgz and Handrails
Holy Bowly Down Under=
686 Yearbook
Launch of “Women’s Lib” from Lib Tech
20 Years of Volcom Outerwear in snowboarding
Rendezvous Mountain Culture Festival (Salt Lake City)
Joe Sexton cover on Snowboarder Magazine (Omaha Rail)
Absinthe Films Isle of Snow Premiere
New GoPros, Hero 8 and Max
Joy Snowboard Movie Premiere
Chloe Kim’s Retirement
Ruka, Finland first resort in world to open
New Zealand Spring Season
Nate Dogggg gets first chair in Colorado for 24 straight years
Opening of Big Snow in New Jersey - America’s first indoor snow park
Bonezone Opening
Norwegian Snowboard Awards
Curator Book
iF3 Awards
Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark
Backcountry.com Boycott
Modena Big Air
Dylan Alito talks about Absinthe Euro Tour
Tim Humphries on Boreal Opener and new GoPros
Pat Bridges on the Mammoth Opener
Jake Burton’s Passing
Joe Sexton does the “Omaha Rail” (interview)
Building Snowboard Cross Courses with Eric Themel
Dirksen Derby
Pat Moore’s Methodology Contest
Air and Style
Grand Prix of Snowboarding - Copper Mountain
Woodward Park City Opening
Premiere of Joy/Trash/Permission in Denver
Premiere of Dark Matter, Travis Rice and Elias Elhardt in Tordrillo Range, AK
Interview with Scott Stevens about his movie Suzy Greenberg 270
Victor De La Rue signs with Jones Snowboards Global Team
Maria Thomsen signs with Burton Global Team
Skolf, the league?
Vans HiStandard Series
Ride A-10 release
Chloe Kim off Burton - on Roxy?
Brandon Reis Mona Reisa Gnu board
Introducing Never Summer Harpoon
Japan Condition early January
UK Snowdomes
New Uzbercki resort
Serious snow at Mt. Baker
Hold Fast Tweak Hard book
Make Waves Move Mountains - ride with Robin Van Gyn
Craig Kelly 17th anniversary of passing
Zak Hale gets arrested atr street spot
Freeride World Tour Hakuba
Spark R/D Love My Avy center contest
Laax Open with Mon
Sebbe gets ready for X-Games
King/Queen of Extreme
X-Games Recap with Nelson and Mons
SIA recap with Cardiff, Jones, Nidecker, Lib Tech, Never Summer, 686, Yes, DC, Now, Ride, Airblaster, Volcom, CBDayz, Spark R&D, Rome
Snowboarder Awards
Freeride World Tour Kicking Horse
Dew Tour
Mt. Baker Banked Slalom
King/Queen Corbetts
70 degrees in Antarctica
Snow blankets West
Calgary World Cup
Joy behind the scenes
Skolf Finals
Lord of the Ropes
US Open
A Day for Jake
Stan at the Open
Blake Lamb quits his sponsors
Methodology
Police Blotter Nate Bozung and Dean Cummins
Freeride World Tour Fiberbrun
Ms. Superpark
Shapers Summit
Coronavirus around the snowboard world
Aspen on resorts handling virus
Owner Operator on making masks
Spark R&D retools factory
Having Coronavirus
Real Talk Guests
Bjorn Leines
Sage Kotsenberg
Kyle Kennedy
Hans Mindich
Aspen Rainweaver
Bode Merril
Mikko Rehnberg
Charles Reid
Ted Borland
Mons Roisland
Jake Aaronson
Leanne Pelosi
Dylan Alito
Tim Humphries
Pat Bridges
Jon Miller
Wille McMillon
Pat Moore
Max Tokanaga
Max Kucharek
Chad Otterstrom
Billy Anderson
Chris Karol
Steve Hayes
Ross Powers
Mike Arzt
Frank Phillips
Jason Wolle
Michael Kary
Eric Themel
Atsushi Yamanaka
Martin Gallant
Romain DeMarchi
Nelson Wormstead
Joe Sexton
Max Morrill
Mikey Ciccarelli
Dustin Craven
Alexey Matveyev
Marcel Dolak
Kyle Mack
Trevor Gerard
Scotty James
Yuto Totsuka
Scott Stevens
Dan Clark
Nick Campiglia
Ahmon stamps
Dave Morris
Jeremy Allen
Martin Cernik
Jason Borgstede
Stacey Alonzo
Tim Carlson
Dave Jessen
Geoff Perkins
Jim Linnberg
Geoff Perkins
Rob Kingwill
Skyler Gallardo
Harry Winnard
Richen Wangyal
Mike Baker
Jason ‘Bas’ Basarich
Nial Romanek
Blake Hamm
Aaron Lebowitz
Stan Leville
Mark Clavin
Sebbe Debuck
Max Parrot
Ryo Ayazawa
Zeb Powell
Sven Thorgren
Darcy Sharpe
Jesse Paul
Thierry Kunz
Peter Saari
DCP
JP Solberg
Pat McCarthy
Bobby Meeks
Mike ‘Gags’ Gagliardi
JF Pelchat
Jack Hewitt
Jesse Grandkowski
Frank Bourgeois
Seth Lightcap
Kaelin Cassidy
Seth Huot
Matt Stillman
Ben Morse
Dan Ventura
Becca Ritter
Jeff Pensiero
Zoi Sadowski-Synott
Cooper Whittier
Dustbox
Jill Perkins
Luke Winkleman
Jamie Anderson
Sage Kotsenberg
Maria Thomsen
Drayden Gardner
Rene Rinnekangas
Benny Milam
Nora Beck
Martin Hardy
Zack Knabel
Steve Decker
Pat Cray
Lydia Ames
Peter Harvieux
TJ Harmon
Blake Lamb
Christine Savage
Melissa Riitano
Sam Klein
MFM
Christian Knapp
Tron Dyb
Mike Chantry
Ricky Melnik
Jeff Fulton
Ken Achenbach
Giacomo Kratter
Iztok Sumatic
Joey B. Howyadoin
Eric Luthart
Lt. Sullivan
John Cavan
Ingemar Backman
Thunder Tindall
Travis Wood
Will Ritter
Steven Kimura
Andrew Hardingham
TOTAL = 137
VIDEOS/EDITS COVERED
56 Videos Covered
Contrast - Bode Merrill, Eric Leon, Desiree Melancon
BLP III - Calgary Crew
Cast and Carve - Jones Snowboards
East Bumfucc Shithole - Jake Aaronsen
Folklore - Arbor Team Vid
100 North - Vermont Shred Movie
Isle of Snow - Absinthe Films
Offline - Nitro Movie
Out of Bounds - 3D IMAX featuring Torah Bright
Joy - Sage Kotsenburg, Red Gerard, and homies
Veer - Urban snowboarding feat. Jesse Paul, Jordan Small, Melissa Riitano, Nirvana Ortez, and more
Who Cares - Charles Reid, Darcy Sharpe, and more
Cloud - GNU edit filmed on phones
Buzzin - Edit from Young Doli
Goner - Japan street edit with Riley Nickerson, Jacob Krugmire, and Jake Moore
Week of Privilege - Quiksilver Team at Baldface
Lovely Day - Vans team edit from 14 day trip down west coast
Triple Overhead - Sharksnowsurf pow surf edit
All Ways Down - Rome Team Edit from Absolut Park in Austria
Project Hijinks - Rusty Toothbrush
Chris Grenier’s Boardslides and Banter
Fanatics - Fanatic Snowboards Edit
Skolf the Movie - Airblaster Movie
Fast Forward The Girls in Motion - Girls rail trip to Edmonton
Buddy Cam - A Short Film by Madison Blackley
Tenderfoot - 4 part snowboard series from Garrett Warnick
Mons Roisland in Saas-Fee
Umami - Manboys Edit
Sunokero - Japan edit from Korua Shapes
Future Mystic - Brandon Cocard and Mike Rav’s Movie
Dustbox Presents - Dustbox Crew
Defiance - North Face Big Mtn Movie with Victor De La Rue, Leanne Pelosi, and Jake Blauvelt
Life in General - Bryan Fox Movie
The Great Powderhound Migration
The Glacier Express - Holden
Channel - US Shapes Movie
Inexact Odyssey - Volvom Movie
ThirtyTwo Spot Check - Loon
Losers - Lobster Movie
Highest of Hopes - Adidas Team Video
Trash - Zac Hale Movie
Hi8us - Dope Industries Edit
Balance Beam - Videograss
Dark Matter - Travis Rice, Elias Elhardt, Curt Morgan
Suzy Greenberg 270 - Scott Stevens and Friends
All Ways Down - Rome Snowboards
Where Land Ends - Jones Snowboards
Rocksand - Braincage
Immolate 2 - NZ crew@Saas Fee
Rooster Tail - Austen Sweeten
Honey - Ivinka Juergenson
Backyard Boogie - Griffin Siebert
Sunday in the Park - Ep 1-2
Test Pressing - Brandon Coccard
Sunday in the Park 5 - Skyler Gallardo
Teal - Sam Klein/Chris Corning
Bye for Now - Dustbox
Test Pressing #3 - Brandon Coccard
Overtime - The Bruners
Favorite Episodes
Most interesting guests
Where is snowboarding going?
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Aftermath of Corona? Next Season?
Or don’t go there? I think we put it for end of show? Could be or we ignore i - but kind of hard to given it is global and effecting everyone . Save discussion for end? We have edit time since we are recording sunday. Werd
Room for Improvement
ONSITE EVENT COVERAGE
30th Anniversary of Mt Hood Summer Camps - Government Camp, OR
Rendezvous Mountain Culture Festival - Salt Lake City, UT
US Grand Prix - Copper Mountain, CO.
Winter X-Games - Aspen, CO.
Outdoor Retailer Tradeshow - Denver, CO.
Live Studio Audience with Founder of Silverton Mountain Resort Jen Brill - Silverton, CO.
Snowboarder Magazine Awards - Copper Mountain, CO.
Dew Tour - Copper Mountain, CO.
US Grand Prix - Mammoth, CA.
TOTAL = 9
A lifer is someone who dedicates their life to something. Bobby Meeks has done that to the sport of snowboarding. First as a pro rider - for 5150, Joyrider, Subtle and K2. He was one of the founders of the Robot Food crew - a story he tells here.
After riding, he leveraged his connections into a job - which has led to a fulfilling career behind the scenes in the sport - first for Nike, then DC and now, We Are Camp.
An inspiration to riders of every stripe - Bobby has led the life of a snowboarder.
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 4/27/2020
SEASON IN REVIEW - INTERVIEW Episodes
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer.
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In today’s year in review we look back over our 35 interview episodes. We also broing in some clips featuring J2 and Stevie Alters, Lucas Debari, Bud Fawcett, Blue Montgomery, Jen Brill, Bjorn Leines, Fridge St and Gigi Ruf.
We also do a little talking on the state of snowboarding, but mostly we talk about the interview episodes of The Snowboard Project.
Interview Episodes
AKA The Pro-Files
35 Long Forum Interview Episodes
Pro Riders 17
Industry 9
Legends 9
Jason “J2” Rasmus - Professional Snowboarder
Stevie Alters, 90’s Superpro
Pat Bridges, Creative Director for Snowboarder Magazine
Gigi Ruf, Superpro
Mike Schipani, Park Builder
Chris Prosser, Snowboard Coach at Windells
Jason Borgstede, Former Pro Snowboarder and Shop Owner in Alaska
Chad Otterstrom, Professional Snowboarder
Christine Sperber, Former Summer Camp Director
Blue Montgomery, Founder Capita Snowboards
Bud Fawcett, One of the First Photographers in Snowboarding
Michael Akira West, Founder and CEO of 686 Technical Outerwear
Mons Roisland, Norwegian Olympic Snowboarder
Judd Henkes, Professional Snowboarder
Maria Thomsen, Professional Snowboarder
Victor De La Rue, Professional Snowboarder
Red Gerard, Professional Snowboarder
Steve “Stix” Nielson, Marketing Veteran in Snowboard Industry
Lucas Debari, Professional Snowboarder
Nik Baden, Professional Snowboarder
Jill Perkins, Professional Snowboarder
Serge Dupraz, Early Innovator in Snowboard Industry
Pat Moore, Professional Snowboarder
Kyle Mack, Professional Snowboarder
Jeff Pensiero, Founder of Baldface Lodge
Desiree Melancon, Professional Snowboarder
Mark McMorris, Professional Snowboarder
Jeff Fulton, Founder of Mt Baker Hardcore
Fridtjof Saether Tischendorf a.k.a. “Fridge”, Professional Snowboarder
Jen Brill, Founder of Silverton Mountain Resort
Giacomo Kratter, Italian Olympic Snowboarder
Charles Reid, Professional Snowboarder
Bjorn Leines, Professional Snowboarder
Aaron Biitner, Professional Snowboarder
Danny Larsen, Professional Snowboarder and Artist
Circe Wallace, Professional Snowboarder and Athlete Agent
Erik Leon, Professional Snowboarder
Marc Morisset, Canadian Distributor for Forum
Brad Jay, Professional Event Announcer
Bobby Meeks, Pro Snowboarder
Total = 40 people, 35 episodes - due to 30th anniversary Mt. Hood episiode
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 4/27/2020
SEASON IN REVIEW - INTERVIEW Episodes
Hosted by Mark Sullivan, Dustin James and Chad Otterstrom
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Brad Jay • The Voice of Action Sports • Episode 171
Brad Jay has been announcing action sports events since the early 2000s. More than 40 X-Games later and Brad’s voice has become a hallmark of most major action sports events- in snow, water or skatepark.
Brad has a great attitude and a booming voice that has earned him the moniker, “Dr. Mahogany.”
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Brad Jay • The Voice of Action Sports • Episode 171
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 4/20/20 • Episode 170
Featuring Wille McMillon on having Coronavirus
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer.
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Wille McMillon has been a Jackson Hole local for more than two decades. After a pro career, he went on to start Bluebird Wax - sponsoring some of the best riders in the world. He is still a dedicated local at Jackson and in his spare time is the frontman for the band Risky Livers.
On a recent trip to BC he caught the Coronavirus. We talk about his experience having - and recovering from Coronavirus.
This is a pretty heavy episode, enjoy.
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 4/20/20 • Episode 170
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Marc Morisset • A Pro Career and Beyond • Episode 169
Marc Morisset had an incredible career as a professional athlete - movie parts, magazine covers and pro models. But that was just the start of his career in action sports. He went on to become the Canadian distributor for Forum Snowboards, Four Square and Special Blend, before starting his own Str/Ke Movement footwear brand.
https://strike-mvmnt.com/
He also built Whistler’s first modern house called the Mountain Chalet. Check it out here...
https://www.trendir.com/mountain-chalet-for-snowboard-pro-marc-morisset/
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Marc Morisset • A Pro Career and Beyond • Episode 169
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This episode is brought to you by Never Summer Snowboards. For more information visit www.neversummer.com
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Dustin walks us through his “incident” last Monday in the backcountry here in Alaska.
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Interview with TJ a.k.a. J.P Walker’s Chin
The Chin updates us on what is happening in Salt Lake during the age of Covid
We get his take on the latest edits that have just dropped:
By For Now by the Dustbox Crew
https://www.snowboarder.com/featured/the-dust-box-bye-for-now/
Test Pressing Episode 3 by Brandon Cocard
https://www.snowboarder.com/featured/test-pressing-with-brandon-cocard-episode-3/
The Bruners’ Overtime
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/the-bruners-overtime-full-video/
Easter Cruise by Marcus Kleveland
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/marcus-kleveland-easter-cruisin.html
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Interview with Steve Kimura, expert Seamster and Founder of United Shapes and OwnerOperator outerwear, about sewing masks.
https://www.unitedshapes.us/
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Interview with Will Ritter, founder of Spark R&D, about retooling his binding factory to develop “Montana Masks.”
https://www.sparkrandd.com/
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What will the effects of Covid-19 be on the snowboard industry and what can we do to save ourselves?
https://www.methodmag.com/features/covid-19-an-interview-with-harry-mitchell-thompson.html
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Real Talk Featuring JP Walker's Chin, Steven Kimura And Will Ritter
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Erik Leon • For Fun & Friends • Episode 167
Erik is an amazing rider - originally from Riverside, he cut his teeth on the Big Bear scene. Soon he was spending his summers at Hood and began riding for Airblaster and Arbor.
He has gone on to see the world - and considers Japan his favorite spot. With a pro model binding on Flux and upcoming signature gear from Arbor and Airblaster, Erik has arrived.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Erik Leon • For Fun and Friends • Episode 167
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 4/6/20 • Episode 166
Featuring Travis Wood, Thunder Tindall, Mike Chantry, Nate Holland & John Cavan
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer and 686.
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http://686.com
First up Travis Wood gives some advice on the Coronavirus, then Thunder Tindall talks about Nidecker Snowboards as well as telling a story from Summit Counties past. Mike Chantry tells about setting the world’s first halfpipe and weighs in o n Tom Sims curse setting, Nate Holland talks about an USO tour in Afghanistan and John Cavan fills us in on some entertainment for the week.
Some links worth checking out:
The Scheme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylAG1MBDzb0&fbclid=IwAR2LuH8C3v3MqTF_AsTCG-7PWFhQDnuzndB53HQQojCVvjIlIzOw40z8MBw
Being Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R92EDpRTEPo&fbclid=IwAR1AiL4GdQZHs8rX4Rmaemoh-UqcUnd-T-8XQyTyF7lixnq7Z4FBnPFbWbE
Yawgoons 22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao1vBxIg24M&fbclid=IwAR1_RSJNx2b1VdwoObPW51daAZwD2vlyvs3uWBSYI9DfJv9Kyblgahu27IM
Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_hSIhDOwVU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1uNzFXuRpUVxXJqsebM7TMXHqk_8Sy5EWt4p5jAjb20oE_tBrgJ9fD5Mg
Tricks and Waffles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6TkBm7ers&t=6s&fbclid=IwAR2GvZbhynec12AJzB98-X6S1_8649zPWwYrojnqLr9q7iKbEOhzbXQe8iY
Turbo Levo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=582&v=TrBqlbaZf1Q&feature=emb_logo&fbclid=IwAR2uP7UNGBRmbUeHbcT0Io9QSIPsG0XtxeHACbD0KUPFhJLmRVU8zgPh5uA
Narcis
https://vimeo.com/383514704
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 4/6/20 • Episode 166
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Circe Wallace • Travis Rice’s Jerry McGuire • Episode 165
This is her bio on the Fullmoon website: (a movie she produced)
http://www.fullmoonfilm.com
Circe Wallace has been a pioneer in the field of athlete representation. Starting in the Action Sports business 25 years ago as a Pro Snowboarder she has evolved into one of the industry's top agents and executives. Today she represents over 13 stars including Olympic Gold Medalists Torah Bright, Scotty Lago and Iouri Podladtchikov.
She also is the long term agent of Paul Rodriguez, AKA P-rod, for whom she has helped build the SB P-Rod franchise with Nike.
Wallace has developed and produced shows for MTV, BET, RBHM, RBTV, ESPN, NICKELODEON and she has Executive Produced many of the most successful films in Action Sports, such as "ART of FLIGHT" featuring her client Travis Rice.
This year she also serves as EP on "THE FOURTH PHASE" the latest production between Travis Rice and Redbull Media House. To be released Fall 16', and will be the largest RBHM Film project to date.
Circe is extremely talented in identifying and managing emerging talent in addition to building really creative programs around them. She is creating opportunity across all media, which is really important in Action Sports.
She is also behind Travis Rice’s Dark Matter and is helping put together Travis Rice’s Natural Selection Tour. She has crazy accolades and looks at action sports, as a whole, and snowboarding specifically from a 30,000 foot level.
This conversation was recorded on 3/27/2020.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Circe Wallace • Travis Rice’s Jerry McGuire • Episode 165
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This week we talk snowboarding history with Ingemar Backman and the infamous method seen on magazine covers around the world in the fall of 1996.
Then we talk with Bob Klein about the world's first halfpipe contest and him making the podium at the 1986 World's.
Then we talk to Rob Kingwill about weathering the Coronavirus in Jackson and him winning the 1998 US Open halfpipe.
Today'[s episode is brought to you by Never Summer and 686.
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Real Talk:This Week in Snowboarding
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
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Danny Larsen • Pro Rider, Pro Artist • Episode 163
Danny Larsen became an acclaimed snowboarder in the Pirate snowboard films - racking up a ton of memorable parts - as well as pro models with K2 and 32 - but what really set Danny apart from other riders is his art.
Developed during his time as a pro, he has gone on to take his unique stippling style to galleries and shows around the world.
You can check out his unique art at http://dannylarsen.no
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Danny Larsen • Pro Rider, Pro Artist • Episode 163
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 3/23/20 • Episode 162
Featuring Joey B. HOWADOIN, GIACOMO KRATTER, IZTOK SUMATIC, ERIC LUTHARDT, LT. SULIVAN AND JOHN CAVAN
Coronavirus updates from Long Island, Italy, Slovenia, Michigan, Vermont and California.
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer and 686.
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Some links worth checking out:
Chasing Bubbles
https://vimeo.com/184028703
Wabi-Sabi
https://vimeo.com/398419242
The Big One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot8o2O8dKCg&fbclid=IwAR0WWnrCQWAJ58eeklT0xjp_YQy-_J-xo04kd68xSTfBLSaRFYaVPZbZi6M
Narcis
https://vimeo.com/383514704
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Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Aaron Biitner • Episode 161
Aaron Biitner has had a pretty amazing career
He started on the slopes of Snowbird before moving to the streets and being rercognied for his determination and work ethic. Which led to video parts - many of them - and pro models - six with DC to be exact.
After winding down his riding career, Aaron went on to be the marketoing guy for a brand named Skullcandy6. This is hi9s story, in his words.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Aaron Biitner • Episode 161
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT EPISODE 160
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding
Today’s episode is brought to you by:
686
Never Summer Snowboards
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The Snowboard Project is now broadcasting from our Alaska studio, Cloud Mountain. A lot has happened over the past week with the coronavirus so we checked in with snowboarders around the world to try and make at least a little sense of what is happening.
TODAY’S GUESTS:
Marc Frank Montoya - Legendary pro rider checking in with us from Carlsbad, CA talks about building your immune system up.
Ken Achenbach - Founder of Camp of Champions in Whistler and one the first snowboard shops in the world - “The Snoboard Shop”. Ken talks about hunkering down in Whistler.
Jeff Fulton - Founder of Mt Baker Hardcore tells us what’s going on in Glacier, WA.
Mike Chantry - One of the Tahoe OG’s and organizer of the “Retro Worlds” event in Tahoe talks about what it’s like to cancel for public safety.
Ricky Melnick - Runs Nitro Circus and Street League. He talks about having a positive outlook on the situation.
Trond Dyb - Trond is a Norwegian snowboarder and he clues us in on what’s going on across the Atlantic. Lockdown.
Mike Gagliardi - Gags is the Sales Manager for Never Summer and he talks about the effects of the coronavirus on the wintersports industry.
Christian Knapp - Christian is the CMO of Aspen Resorts and we discuss the closing of ski resorts with him.
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BJORN LEINES • Part 2 • Super Pro • Episode 159
Bjorn Leines is a super pro - from riding for HOT snowboards to the Forum 8, Rome Snowboards and most recently with Cardiff Snowcraft. He has done it all - from the streets to Alaska and all points in between.
In this first of two parts, we cover Cardiff, trends in the sport, the Forum 8 and the characters behind it, as well as the challenges of starting his own glove brand Celtek.
Bjorn is a true inspiration for those who seek a long term career in the sport.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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BJORN LEINES • Part 2 • Super Pro • Episode 159
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer and 686.
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Shapers Summit with Rob Kingwill,
Ms. Superpark with Christine Savage and Melissa Ritano
Teal with Sam Klein
plus Freeride World Tour
Methodology
Police Blotter
and more...
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BJORN LEINES • Super Pro • Episode 157
Bjorn Leines is a super pro - from riding for HOT snowboards to the Forum 8, Rome Snowboards and most recently with Cardiff Snowcraft. He has done it all - from the streets to Alaska and all points in between.
In this first of two parts, we cover Cardiff, trends in the sport, the Forum 8 and the characters behind it, as well as the challenges of starting his own glove brand Celtek.
Bjorn is a true inspiration for those who seek a long term career in the sport.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, and Melvin Brewing. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://melvinbrewing.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
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BJORN LEINES • Super Pro • Episode 157
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 3/2/20 • Episode 156
With special Co-Host JP Walker’s Chin and Special Guest Blake Lamb
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer and 686.
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http://686.com
- Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 3/2/20 • Episode 156
With special Co-Host JP Walker’s Chin and Special Guest Blake Lamb
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer and 686.
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A DAY FOR JAKE
A global day of snowboarding to celebrate the legacy of Jake Burton Carpenter. In honour of Jake, 13 resorts around the world are offering free lift tickets on March 13, 2020. Register on or before March 8, or just get out and ride wherever you can. Ride to remember, and ride because snowboarding is what brings us together.
https://kingsnowmag.com/a-day-for-jake/
2020 BURTON U.S. OPEN MEN’S HALFPIPE FINALS WITH STAN—LAST RESORT LIVE Halfpipe poach in honor of Jake Burton Carpenter
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/2020-burton-u-s-open-mens-halfpipe-finals-with-stan-last-resort-live/
SLOPESTYLE RESULTS
1. YUKI KADONO
2. DUSTY HENRIKSEN
3. RED GERARD Womens
1. Jamie Anderson
2. Anna Gasser
3. Miyabi Onitsuka HALFPIPE
Mens
1. YUTO TOTSUKA
2. JAN SCHERRER
3. SCOTTY JAMES Womens
1. XUETONG CAI
2. HARUNA MATSUMOTO
3. RUKI TOMITA **BJORN LEINES interview drops Thursday! (Also up now on Patreon)**
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 3/2/20 • Episode 156
With special Co-Host JP Walker’s Chin and Special Guest Blake Lamb
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Charles Reid • A Snowboarder’s Snowboarder • Episode 155
Charles Reid has had a pretty amazing 15 year pro career, first going to open qualifiers at the US Open (where he finished fourth in the slopestyle.) He went on to back to back rail jam victories at the Open in 2011 and 2012 - before qualifying for the 2014 Canadian Olympic team in 2014. After injuring his leg- he had complications - the kind that had him going under the knife five times in six months and almost cost him a leg, literally.
So he turned his efforts to the backcountry where he has been carving out a name for himself since 2016, culminating in his own movie project this season called Who Cares.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Melvin Brewing and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Charles Reid • A Snowboarder’s Snowboarder • Episode 155
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding
Skolf Finals and Lord of the Ropes
Featuring Max Tokanaga and Peter Harvieux
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer, DC Snowboarding and 686.
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http://686.com
http://dcshoes.com
This we we talk moving, Skolf Finals with organizer Max Tokanaga and Lord of the Ropers founder Peter Harvieux.
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding
Skolf Finals and Lord of the Ropes
Featuring Max Tokanaga and Peter Harvieux
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
HEAR ALL ABOUT TAILGATE ALASKA - FROM THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IT.
This episode is about Tailgate Alaska (TGAK), the World Freeride Festival, that takes place every spring in Thompson Pass, Alaska.
Mark Sullivan, host of the Snowboard Project started Tailgate Alaska in 2008 to make riding Alaska safe, practical, and affordable for backcountry snowboarders of all levels.
13 years later the festival is still going strong. Mark handed the operation down to Real Talk Co-Host Dustin H James in 2018. TGAK has now invited over 5,000 people to ride the mountains of Alaska.
HEAR FROM:
MARTIN HARDY, EAST COAST SNOWBOARD INSTRUCTOR, FOUR-TIME TAILGATER
Martin has been to Tailgate Alaska the past four years straight and attends annually with his 25 year-old son. Martin tells us about his first time riding in a helicopter and what it likes to get sled bumps (rides on a snowmobile to the top of a mountain). We discuss the terrain around basecamp and what it takes to progress in those mountains.
PIRMIN ‘PETERMAN” WEY, SWISS CARPENTER, TAILGATE BASECAMP MANAGER
Peterman hitchhiked to Thompson Pass with only a sleeping bag 6 years ago. Now he is the number two at Tailgate working his butt off every year to make this festival happen. We talk about what he has learned about riding and living in Thompson Pass in the spring over the years and what drives him to share the experience of snowboarding in Alaska with people from around the world.
ZACK KNAEBEL, BUSH PLANE PILOT, FLIES PLANE OUT OF TAILGATE ALASKA LOT
Zack talks about how he got involved flying snowboarders around the glaciers of Alaska. We discuss what Zack has learned over the years and the history of ski planes in Thompson Pass. He outlines how it works to do plane access in Thompson Pass.
STEVE DECKER, SNOWMOBILE LEGEND, RENTS SLEDS TO TAILGATERS
Steve Decker works for OTG Rentals. They bring snowmobiles to Tailgate for the participants to rent every year. Steve discusses the rental process and why he fell in love with Tailgate. He also talks about the time he held the record for fastest speed in the world on a snowmobile.
MAXWELL MORRILL, SERIOUS SPLITBOARDER, TAILGATE ALASKA PARTICIPANT
Max is a dedicated and sponsored splitboarder out of Utah who found his way to Tailgate Alaska. He tells us about interacting with the different user groups in Thompson Pass and how to go about splitboarding out of the TGAK basecamp.
PAT CRAY, TIMBER FRAMER, LORD OF THE GYPSIES
Pat Cray builds cabins and heli pads in the bush of Alaska so it just made sense for him to start building a cabin at the festival. Over the years his crew has become quite established as a mainstay of Alaskan locals at the festival and Cray talks about what keeps bringing him back and how he interacts with newcomers to Tailgate.
Pat conceived his first son with another important TGAK family member - Loan. Lil P now is a Tailgater as well. We talk about bringing two month old babies to Tailgate Alaska.
LYDIA AMES, CAPTAINS GIANT SHIPS ACROSS THE OCEAN, LEARNED TO SNOWBOARD AT TAILGATE ALASKA
You don’t have to be a pro to ride Alaska, in fact, you don’t even have to be that awesome at snowboarding. Lydia learned to link her first turns at Tailgate Alaska last year. Give her a few more years and she will be teaching the newcomers to Alaska how to handle the mountains of Alaska. We are super proud of Lydia and everyone who shows up to Tailgate with the desire to progress their snowboarding in the backcountry. That’s what this festival is all about.
MUSIC BY THE SHOOT DANGS, THE TAILGATE ALASKA HOUSE BAND
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Giacomo Kratter • The Italian Stallion • Episode 153
Giacomo Kratter is one one of Italy’s most famous snowboarders. In the 2002 Olympics he missed the bronze medal by .01 points. Giacomo went
on tho represent Italy again in 2006 at the Olympics in Italy, representing in front of his hometown crowd - who went nuts every time he dropped in.
Giacomo’s career, cut short by injury forced to to reinvent himself, this time as a coach. In this interview we spend an hour with The Italian Stallion himself.
This week’s interview is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft, Melvin Brewing and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Giacomo Kratter • The Italian Stallion • Episode 153
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
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Reath Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 2/17/20
Featuring Jason Wolle, Mark Clavin, John Cavan, Nora Beck and Chad Otterstrom
Today’s Episode is brought to you by
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We are going to try to keep this episode short - kind of like the news in snowboarding this week.
Lord of the Ropes This Week
US Open is a week away
5th Sunday in the Park (featuring Skyler Gallardo)
Test Pressing with Brandon Cocard - ep1 just dropped - mixing street and BC
KINGS AND QUEENS OF CORBETTS
Snow Across the West
20” overnight in Jackson (53” in the past week)
22” bighton
Alpental 18”
Steamboat 15”
Timberline 10”
And Antarctica hit 70 degrees - setting a new record - one of a few records they set in the past week.
We start off with the World Cup in Calgary.
Charles Beckensale Course -
Jason Wolle was there compent and filled us in on the scene.
Scotty James
Women HP
- Xuetong Cai (6th WC win)
- Mitsuki One (15 YO)
- Jiayu Liu
Men HP
- Ruka Hirano
- Scotty James (12 Straight)
- Pat Burgener
Slopestyle Women
- Laurie Blouin (1st WC win)
- Silje Norendal (back from Air + Style Shoulder injury from Dec)
- Katie Omerod (4th podium of season, on a roll)
Slopestyl;e Men
- Tiarn Collins (back from nagging shoulder injury suffered at Pyongcheng)
- Ruki Tobita
- Liam Brearly (16YO canadian, won medals in pipe big air and slope at youth Olympics recently)
Scotty James
“It’s a good thing I won this, because if I walked out of here with nothing there might have been some tears tonight,” James joked from the finish area after awards were wrapped up.
“It’s hard, obviously, not to win tonight,” James went on, more seriously, “It was a long streak. You’ve got to show up for every run, every contest. Ruka brought an absolutely amazing run tonight, but maybe I should have brought a little more myself a little sooner. Obviously I’m disappointed, mainly in myself. Everyone else did an amazing job, rode really well, but I slid out on the last hit of my last run and it is what it is.”
Check Ins
Clavin - Dew tour, socal powder and contests witrhout contests
Cavan - Winning best film for Joy and current projects
Nora Beck - working on getting a film part going
Otterstrom - Riding Pow in Colorado
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Jen Brill • Founder of Silverton Mountain • Episode 151
Silverton Mountain was founded by Aaron and Jen Brill and opened for business on January 19, 2002 with one double chair that had been purchased from Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. Known for lift accessed backcountry skiing, Silverton Mountain also maintains educational programs such as Avalanche Level I, Avalanche Level II, and Backcountry 101. The ski area is designed to have minimal impact on the environment. Based purely on skiing and not on development Silverton Mountain has no plans of building condos or high-speed chairlifts. Voted Best of the West: Skiing in Colorado, Utah, California and Nevada for Extreme Terrain by USA Today.
We sat down with Jen at Silverton’s historic Grand Imperial Hotel with an audience of almost 100 people. This is that show.
This show was a benefit for http://firstdescents.org
Also thanks to http://thepublicworks.biz for helping put the show together.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft, Melvin Brewing and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more at their websites.
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Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
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Jen Brill • Founder of Silverton Mountain • Episode 151
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: Legendary Banked Slalom, Snowboarder Awards, Dew Tour, Freeride World Tour and DCP’s Deeply Rooted.
Featuring Jeff Pensiero, Zoi Sadowski-Synott, Cooper Whittier, Dustbox, Jill Perkins, Luke Winkleman, Jamie Anderson, Sage Kotsenberg, Maria Thomsen, Drayden Gardner, Rene Rinnekangas, Benny Milam, DCP, and Jeff Pensiero.
It’s a jam packed show featuring the Mt. Baker Banked Slalom, Snowboarder Awards, Dew Tour, Freeride World Tour and DCP’s Deeply Rooted.
Today’s show is brought to you by
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Mt. Baker Banked Slalom
Jeff Pensiero Interview featuring George Johnston
| CATEGORY | NAME | BEST TIME | HOME | AGE | | Pro Men (All Ages) | Seth Wescott | 1:00.30 | Carrabassett, ME | 43 | | Pro Women (All Ages) | Audrey Hebert | 1:05.26 | Banff, AB | 31 | | Pro Women Masters (40+) | Murielle Imhof | 1:06.99 | Grindelwald, SWITZERLAND | 41 | | Pro Masters (40-49) | Pontus Ståhlkloo | 1:02.80 | Sollerön, SWE | 46 | | Pro Legends (50+) | Tom Burt | 1:05.69 | Kings Beach, CA | 55 | | Next Gen Girls (11 & under) | Jade Knox | 1:12.31 | Snoqualmie Pass, WA | 11 | | Next Gen Boys (11 & under) | Rafe Hudson | 1:10.80 | Whistler, BC | 11 | | Junior Girls (12-15) | Madrona Raney | 1:07.93 | Bainbridge Island, WA | 14 | | Junior Boys (12-15) | Cannon Cummins | 1:03.87 | Sequim, WA | 15 | | Younger Amateurs (16-19) | Milo Malkoski | 1:04.35 | Seattle, WA | 19 | | Older Amateurs (20-29) | Hunter Knoll | 1:05.75 | Hood River, OR | 27 | | Women Amateurs (16-29) | Svenja Schallner | 1:07.51 | Gortipohl, AUSTRIA | 25 | | Women Masters (30-44) | Janessa Bork | 1:07.46 | Bend, OR | 34 | | Masters (30-39) | Che Contreras | 1:03.60 | Bellingham, WA | 34 | | Women MidGrands (45+) | Rosanne Lauderdale | 1:13.42 | Glacier, WA | 45 | | Mid Masters (40-49) | Chauncey Sorenson | 1:03.67 | Juneau, AK | 40 | | Grand Masters (50+) | Mike Cummins | 1:07.41 | Olympia, WA | 50 |
Dew Tour Results
Womens Slope
- Jamie Anderson
- Miyabi Onitsuka
- Anna Gasser
Mens Slope
- Red Gerard
- Brock Crouch
- Stale Sandbech
Streetstyle
- Miles Falcon
- Rene Rinnekangas
- Benny Milam
Girls Streetsyle
- Maria Thomson
- Alex Roland
- Emma Crosby
Mens Mod Pipe
- Scotty James
- Yuto Totsuka
- Pat Burgener
Women Pipe
- Jiayu Liu
- Maddie Mastro
- Queralt Castelett
Freeride World Tour
Men
- Johnathan Pennfield
- Sammy Luebke
- Victor De Le Rue
Women
- Marion Haerty
- Claudia Avon
- Erika Vikander
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Fridtjof Sæther Tischendorf AKA Fridge • The "Livsnyter" • Episode 149
Today's episode is brought to you by:
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Fridge St AKA Fridge AKA Fridtjof Sæther Tischendorf is perhaps best known as the rider always wearing a backpack when riding. Perhaps he should be better known for his innovative approach to the sport. First breaking out on the scene at the 2017 Superpark event, Fridge has got on to win the inaugural X-GFames knuckle puck. this year his inadvertent line in the X-Games Slopestyle course went viral - doubling his following overnight - literally.
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Today's Episode brought to you by
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THE TRADESHOW EPISODE PART TWO
The Snowboard Project (well at least Dustin as Mark was announcing the Grand Prix in Mammoth) went to the tradeshow in Denver this week with their mobile recording studio to get the 411 on all things brands and products. We got so many interviews that we had to break this episode up into two Real Talks.
Mark and Dustin take you on a tour of the industry featuring interviews with all those who make it happen behind the scenes. Here is the second part of this groundbreaking episode.
DCSHOES WITH GLOBAL MARKETING DIRECTOR BOBBY MEEKS 9:17
Bobby tells us about DC’s new EMB board (everyman’s board). He talks about what their team is up to this winter. We talk about trends in outerwear and how DC is now licensing Burton’s step-on technology for their boots.
NEVER SUMMER SNOWBOARDS WITH MASTER OF SALES AND FRIENDSHIP MIKE ‘GAGS’ GAGLIARDI 16:20
Gags talks about being a tradeshow master after attending 35 of them over his career then he talks about their new Proto line that features their new Shockwave camber. We then talk about the future of snowboard design and how having a factory here in America allows them to test boards at a much faster pace than those who have overseas factories.
NOW BINDINGS WITH OWNER JF “WILDCAT” PELCHAT 26:00
JF spits hot fire about why he got into bindings and how he has been innovating the game with skatetech and new for this year the kingpin toolless technology that allows you to take bindings from board to board in under two minutes. He also talks about being a snowboard dad to two daughters.
AIRBLASTER WITH FOUNDER JESSE GRANDKOWSKI AND MARKETING DIRECTOR JACK HEWITT 34:58
We go deep into colors...we’re talking real deep. Jesse and Jack talk about creating affordable outerwear with team rider Erik Leon. Finally, we continue an ongoing discussion about bringing Skolf to the older guys in the form of Skolf Masters.
CBDAYZ WITH CO-OWNER FRANK BOURGEOIS 50:10
Frank jumps on the mic real quick to tell us about a CBD brand he started with DCP and how he hasn’t taken pain killers for two years since he got on the CBD tip.
VOLCOM WITH SNOW MARKETING GURUS SETH HUOT AND KAELIN CASSIDY 54:35
Seth and Kaelin walk us through the new Arthur Longo Signature Series as well tell us about designing the uniforms for the US Olympic Team. We also talk about women’s outerwear design.
ROME WITH MARKETING TEAM MATT STILLMAN AND BEN MORSE 1:05:58
Stillman and Ben tell us about the new Stale line of boards and their new toe strap technology auxtech. They also predict that we will be seeing more and more directional twins in snowboard about design and bindings will continue to become lighter and lighter.
SPARK R&D WITH MARKETING DIRECTOR DAN VENTURA 1:11:58
Dan tells us about the new Spark skins, their new tip and tail clips that function with the more crazier snowboard shapes, and about getting out into the backcountry for the first time.
Todays episode brought to you by:
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THE TRADESHOW EPISODE PART ONE
The Snowboard Project (well at least Dustin as Mark was announcing the Grand Prix in Mammoth) went to the tradeshow in Denver this week with their mobile recording studio to get the 411 on all things brands and products. We got so many interviews that we had to break this episode up into two Real Talks.
Mark and Dustin take you on a tour of the industry featuring interviews with all those who make it happen behind the scenes.
CARDIFF SNOWCRAFT WITH TEAM RIDER BJORN LEINES 26:13
Bjorn tells us about being a newer, smaller brand and making an immediate impact in the industry with their boards. He also predicts that more younger, freestyle oriented riders will start splitboarding as the technology has now caught up.
THE NIDECKER BRAND FAMILY WITH NIDECKER BRAND MANAGER THIERRY KUNZ 34:12
Thierry Kunz explains the philosophies behind the Nidecker Group of snowboard brands and how the industry needs to work together to solve our big industry problems that affect us all.
LIB TECH WITH FOUNDER PETE SAARI 49:00
Pete Saari takes a moment out of his day to tell us why he has stayed at Lib Tech for so long and continues to innovate and design snowboards. He has a kitchen and loves to cook.
YES SNOWBOARDS WITH OWNERS DCP AND JP SOLBERG 1:00:02
DCP and JP tell us about their new splitboard designed with the help of Eagle Pass heli guide Scott Newsome. They talk about their “Greats” series of boards and how they feature the Uninc Pig and about the 420 Powder Hull technology. JP is heading up a new clothing brand called Yes on Life and he makes a prediction that we will be seeing more 3D board technology in the future.
686 TECHNICAL OUTERWEAR WITH TEAM MANAGER PATRICK MCCARTHY 1:22:11
686 Team Manager Patrick McCarthy walks us through the new 686 line including all their collabs like NASA and SEINFELD. He also tells us about the rider driven products like Gigi Ruf’s new pro model jacket.
Todays episode is brought to you by Yes and Cardiff Snowcraft.
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http://cardiffsnow.com
Jeff Fulton is one of the most legendary living snowboarders today. He was one of the first people to ride at Mt. Baker - perhaps being the very first. He introduced Caig Kelly to the Sport, helped start the Mt. Baker Banked Slalom and was there founder of the MBHC. (Mount Baker Hard Core). It was a great honor to record some real history of the sport - and there are few people more directly connected with the roots of the sport than Jeff.
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Jeff Fulton • The Pioneer of Mt. Baker • Episode 147
Produced by Mark Sullivan
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding
with Guest Co-Hosts Nelson Wormstead and Mons Roisland
And interviews with Max Parrot, Ryo Ayazawa, Zeb Powell, Sven Thorgren, Darcy Sharpe and Jesse Paul
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer, DC Snowboarding and 686.
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http://686.com
http://dcshoes.com
This week we recap all of the action from the X-Games
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding
with Guest Co-Hosts Nelson Wormstead and Mons Roisland
And interviews with Max Parrot, Ryo Ayazawa, Zeb Powell, Sven Thorgren, Darcy Sharpe and Jesse Paul
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Mark McMorris • Winning the Game • Episode 145
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
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Mark talks about being on Saskatchewan snowboard team from a young age while playing competitive hockey at the same time. He talks about the injuries he has endured over his career, training to bounce back from them, and almost dying from a ruptured spleen.
Mark talks about his competition results (17 X-Games medals and 2 Olympic medals) and which ones stick out most to him and which one was the sketchiest.
Mark has a brother Craig - who is also a professional snowboarder - and he tells us about that dynamic. He also discusses what it takes beyond doing tricks to make it as a professional snowboarder, the people and mentors in his life, and his personal relationships with Terje and Jake Burton.
McMorris tells us about his foundation and the work they do for underprivileged kids getting to play sports.
He tells us about filming in the streets of Finland and the backcountry of Alaska.
“Be the person you want to meet. Be the coolest guy you can be and treat people with respect and it’s not all about how many f*ckin spins you do and this and that. That’s my main advice to those kids is: don’t be a dick, literally. They can be punks sometimes so you gotta slap it in.”
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Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 1/20/20
Featuring Mons Roisland, Stan Leveille and Sebbe DeBuck
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer, DC Snowboarding and 686.
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Moment of Silence for Craig Kelly - 17th Anniversary of Craig’s Passing
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/films/let-it-ride
BLOCK 1 - NEWS_This week in snowboarding
Zak Hale gets busted at a rail spot - then goes to jail.
Zeb Powell’s B-Day
This Week in Video
HONEY - IVIKA JUERGENSON - FULL PART
https://www.snowboarder.com/featured/vans-presents-honey-ivika-juergensons-highly-anticipated-full-street-part/
BACKYARD BOOGIE - DREAM POWDER RUNS WITH GRIFFIN SIEBERT
https://www.snowboarder.com/featured/backyard-boogie-dream-powder-runs-with-griffin-siebert-in-utah/
SUNDAYS IN THE PARK
https://www.snowboarder.com/featured/sunday-in-the-park-2020-episode-2-from-bear-mountain/
Freeride World Tour Hakuba
- Victor De La Rue
- Nils Mindnich
-
Elias Elhardt
-
Marion Haerty
- Michaela Davis-Meehan
- Erika Vikander
BLOCK 2 - LAAX OPEN & X-GAMES
Dusty Hendrickson rainbow knuckle shot by Kevin Backstrom
Slopestyle Results - Mens
- Sebastien Toutant
- Judd Henkes
- Red Gerard
Slopestyle Results - Womens
- Julia Marino
- Reira Iwabuchi
- Katie Omerad
Pipe Results - Mens
- Scotty James
- Yuto Totsuka
- Taylor Gold
Pipe Results - Girls
- Queralt Castellet
- Xuetong Cai
- Jiayu Liu
Mons Roisland Check-In
Mons talks with us about competing in the Laax Open slopestyle and getting ready to compete at the X-Games where he will compete in big air, slopestyle, and knuckle huck
X-Games happens this week from Aspen
Check-In with Snowboarder Magazine Editor Stan Leveille about the Extreme King and Queen Contest
McMorris interview drops Thursday! (Also up now on Patreon)
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Block 3 - Bigger Check in with Sebbe DeBuck
We check in with Flemish rider Sebbe DeBuck about filming in Japan, traveling with Torstein Horgmo and Ikka Backstrom, learning to ride in Belgium, and the X-Games including his take on competition riding vs other types of snowboarding.
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 1/20/20
Featuring Mons Roisland, Stan Leveille and Sebbe DeBuck
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
DESIREE MELANCON • The Mentor Legend • Episode 143
Desiree came from Riverside CA. She knew, early on, that she would be a snowboarder. From Big Bear, she went to Mammoth, Bend, Portland and finally Salt Lake. This season she is working on filming with Ted Borland for the Snowboarder Movie, which she will also art direct. She is also doing artwork for her signature model on Salomon and well as the aesthetics for her signature 32 boots.
In interview we touch on a lot of subjects - street educate, filming, sponsors, state of the sport and more.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
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Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
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DESIREE MELANCON • The Mentor Legend • Episode 143
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer, DC and 686.
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WHAT’S UP WITH JAPAN?
Reports from Nial Romanek, Blake Hamm, Aaron Sababba Lebowitz about the conditions, the onsen, the ramen, and the Freeride World Tour.
GLOBAL CHECK INS
Harry Winnard from England about Snow Domes
Rinchen Wangyal about being a monk in Nepal
Mike Baker about his own Banked Slalom
Jason ‘Bas’ Basarich from the parking lot of Mt Baker during their dumpfest. Sshhh’ don’t tell anyone.
THIS WEEK IN SNOWBOARDING
Grouse bought by agliardi family - owners of Revelstoke
-20C temps in interior BC this week
Amirsoy - Uzbekistan’s newest resort
https://www.snow-forecast.com/whiteroom/a-new-ski-resort-opens-in-uzbekistan/
Books
Hold Fast, Tweak Hard - 25 years of European Snowboarding - Method Mag.
https://www.methodmag.com/features/order-hold-fast-tweak-hard-book-now.html
Being Green - Tanner Pendleton - Dillion Ojo Photo Book
Events
Vans Hi Standard Series
January 18 – Beijing Nan Shan Mellowpark, China
January 18 – Les Sommets Saint-Sauveur (Versant Avila), Canada
January 18 – Phoenix Snow Park, South Korea
ROXY MAKE WAVES MOVE MOUNTAINS TOUR Ride Day with Robin Van Gyn January 18 - whistler
Movies
Narcis https://vimeo.com/383514704movie - Elias Elhardt in Kosovo (released Jan 8 - already a vimeo staff pick)
All Ways Down • Rome Team in the Midwest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Ld2ZHPlGM
Jones snowboards presents ‘where land ends’ in chile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tm_SWU4-s
Braincage - Rocksand - whistler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxZvO62-6Zg
Immolate2 - NZ crew in Saas Fee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gls6IzfE8ig
Rooster Tail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzYaQwaFfJI
1st Annual Snowboarder Awards - February 6th at Copper
RIDE MORE POW!!!!!!!!!
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 1/13/20
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Jeff Pensiero • Live Q&A • EPISODE 141
When Jeff Pensiero (owner of the Baldface Lodge came by Ketchum. we sat down with him and did a live Q&A with him - the video was broadcast via instagram and facebook and this audio is the final result. We cover a bunch of subjects and this proved to be an interesting conversation.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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Jeff Pensiero • Live Q&A • EPISODE 141
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Jeff Pensiero • Live Q&A • EPISODE 141
When Jeff Pensiero (owner of the Baldface Lodge came by Ketchum. we sat down with him and did a live Q&A with him - the video was broadcast via instagram and facebook and this audio is the final result. We cover a bunch of subjects and this proved to be an interesting conversation.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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Jeff Pensiero • Live Q&A • EPISODE 141
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk 1/6/20
Featuring Jason Borgstede, Stacey Alonzo, Tim Carlsen, Dave Jessen, Geoff Perkins, Jim Linnberg, Rob Kingwill and Skyler Gallardo
Today’s Episode is brought to you by Never Summer and 686.
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Snowboarding News
Sponsorship Department
Victor DeLa Rue off Nitro, on Jones
BRANDON Reis Skate Banana redesigned Mona Reisa
Maria Thomsen on Burton
CHLOE KIM OFF BURTON, ON ROXY?
Markus Keller on TSG protective gear (clip of markus on swallowtail in modified superpipe. )
NEW RIDE BINDINGS - SNEAK PEAK AT THE 2021 - NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Product News
ORCA KILLERS! - midseason
Never Summer Harpoon - Orca Killer
Jones Mid-Release The Stratos - brick and mortar only Jones’ Orca Killer
Ride A-10 Binding
Jim Linnberg check in from Japan.
Event News
Mini Skolf Kicked off 1/3 Sugarbush, 1/4 Copper
SKOLF Austria jan 11 at Damuls
VANS HIGH STAndARD SERIES KICKS OFF THE 11TH AT HORSESHOE RESORT IN ONTARIO
Tailgate tickets on sale
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Skyler Gallardo
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 11/6/20
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Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
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1/2 • Kyle Mack
1/9 • Jeff Pensiero Q&A
1/16 • Desiree Melancon
1/23 • Mark McMorris
1/30 • Jeff Fulton
KYLE MACK • Like It Ain’t Nothing • EPISODE 139
Kyle Mack came from the suburbs of Detroit. As a promising up and comer, racking up results, he moved to Summit County in Colorado to pursue riding full time. Clearly it paid off, as Mack went on the US Snowboard team and the Olympics where he took home the silver medal at Big Air in Korea throwing down his 1440 Bloody Dracula - demonstrating a different approach to the competition - which Kyle takes to his riding outside of competition - beit designing a signature pant with 686 or filming for his film Permission, has an understanding of the sport that goes well beyond his 22 years.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
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KYLE MACK • Like It Ain’t Nothing • EPISODE 139
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This week we look over the year 2019 in The Snowboard Project. We also make some plans for next year.
Today’s episode is sponsored by Never Summer Industries, 686 Technical Outerear, and DCShoes.
http://neversummer.com
http://686.com
http://deshoes.com
PAT MOORE • IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF LEGENDS • EPISODE 137
Pat Moore has done it all - from the streets to the backcountry, from New Hampshire to Alaska. Pro model gear on Vans, Volcom and Electric makes him one of the legends of the sport.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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PAT MOORE • IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF LEGENDS • EPISODE 137
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk 12/1/19
Today’s episode is sponsored by Never Summer Industries, 686 Technical Outerear, and DCShoes.
http://neversummer.com
http://686.com
http://deshoes.com
We start of with a discussion of movies befoemoving id.
O our interview with Scott Stevens abuotuhis Susi Greenberg 270 movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQurG_Yrjz4
Then we check in for the holidays with recreational riders:
Daniel Clark and Nick Campiglia from North Pole Alaska
Ahmon Stamps from Oregon
Dave Morris from New Jersey
Jeremy Allen from Maine
And Martin Cernik from the Czech Republic
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 12/23/19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Serge Dupraz • Creator of Sidecut • Episode 135
Serge is a True legend in european snowboarding. In this episode we talk the origin of sidecut and neon, about the brands he started, Hot and Dupraz, and the evolution of shape - the Dupraz D1. Herte is a hint, think sails and wind.
Check out Serge’s Dupraz boards at http://http://www.dupraz-snow.com/
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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Serge Dupraz • Creator of Sidecut • Episode 135
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
For our third Stocking Stuffer Special, we cover products from Cardiff Snowcraft, Ride Snowboard and DC Snowboarding.
CARDIFF SNOWCRAFT FEAT. BJORN LEINESWHY CHOOSE CARDIFF SNOWCRAFT?
Backcountry specific designs
High end construction
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:
GOAT
https://www.cardiffsnow.com/products/the-goat
CRANE
https://www.cardiffsnow.com/products/the-crane
POWGODA
https://www.cardiffsnow.com/products/the-powgoda
THE SWELL
https://www.cardiffsnow.com/products/the-swell
THE BONSAI
https://www.cardiffsnow.com/products/the-bonsai
RIDE SNOWBOARDS
WHY CHOOSE RIDE?
Supporting rider culture since the 90s
Maker of great products from boards to boots to bindings
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:
ALGORHYTHM SNOWBOARD
https://ridesnowboards.com/en-us/p/algorhythm-snowboard
CAPO BINDINGS
https://ridesnowboards.com/en-us/p/capo-bindings
FUSE BOOTS
https://ridesnowboards.com/en-us/p/fuse-snowboard-boots
DC SHOES
WHY CHOOSE DC?
Longtime institution in action sports
DC employs snowboarders and it reflects in their products
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:
SHUKSAN BOOTS
https://www.dcshoes.com/shuksan-boa%C2%AE-snowboard-boots-191282498736.html#cgid=snow_men-shop_boots&start=10&hitcount=19
SPACE ECHO
https://www.dcshoes.com/space-echo-snowboard-191282502280.html#cgid=snow_men-shop_boards&start=5&hitcount=9
PODIUM JACKET
https://www.dcshoes.com/podium-snow-jacket-191282539842.html#cgid=snow_men-shop_jackets&start=16&hitcount=30
This week Bjorn Leines joined Mark and Dustin to host Real Talk. This week we cover Clip of the Week, Contests, Check-ins, events and movie premieres.
More detailed notes will come once we get some rest.
Today’s episode is sponsored by Never Summer Industries, 686 Technical Outerwear, and DCShoes.
http://neversummer.com
http://686.com
http://dcshoes.com
CLIP of the WEEK
Contests
Dirksen Derby
| Elite Men (All Ages) | 1 | 244 | Harry Kearney | 30.69 | 23.42 | 54.11 | | Elite Men (All Ages) | 2 | 249 | Travis Rice | 30.38 | 23.81 | 54.19 | | Elite Men (All Ages) | 3 | 241 | Felix Dallaire | 30.84 | 23.74 | 54.58 | | Elite Men (All Ages) | 4 | 243 | Nils Mindnich | 31.02 | 23.72 | 54.74 | | Elite Men (All Ages) | 5 | 260 | Curtis Ciszek | 31.08 | 23.91 | 54.99 |
| Elite Women (All Ages) | 1 | 292 | Desiree Melancon | 33.63 | 26.08 | 59.71 | | Elite Women (All Ages) | 2 | 293 | Colleen Quigley Voutilainen | 33.88 | 25.93 | 59.81 | | Elite Women (All Ages) | 3 | 296 | Marie-France Roy | 34.12 | 25.88 | 1:00.00 | | Elite Women (All Ages) | 4 | 291 | Mary Rand | 34.44 | 25.80 | 1:00.24 | | Elite Women (All Ages) | 5 | 294 | Isabella Gomez | 34.75 | 26.09 | 1:00.84 |
| Classics- Men (40-49 yrs) | 1 | 430 | Justin Mooney | 31.94 | 24.55 | 56.49 | | Classics- Men (40-49 yrs) | 2 | 496 | Billy Anderson | 32.83 | 24.52 | 57.35 | | Classics- Men (40-49 yrs) | 3 | 422 | Adam Haynes | 33.70 | 24.77 | 58.47 | | Classics- Men (40-49 yrs) | 4 | 421 | Peter Butsch | 33.14 | 25.53 | 58.67 | | Classics- Men (40-49 yrs) | 5 | 423 | Marcel Dolak | 33.52 | 25.40 | 58.92 |
| Gentlewomen (35-49 yrs) | 1 | 351 | Marni Yamada-Entrop | 35.64 | 26.72 | 1:02.36 | | Gentlewomen (35-49 yrs) | 2 | 321 | Amy Eichner | 36.65 | 27.08 | 1:03.73 | | Gentlewomen (35-49 yrs) | 3 | 328 | Shannon Downing | 36.48 | 27.48 | 1:03.96 | | Gentlewomen (35-49 yrs) | 4 | 323 | Annie Fast | 37.11 | 27.37 | 1:04.48 | | Gentlewomen (35-49 yrs) | 5 | 322 | Leslee Schader | 36.66 | 27.84 | 1:04.50 |
| Gentlemen (30-39 yrs) | 1 | 417 | Che Contreras | 32.04 | 24.75 | 56.79 | | Gentlemen (30-39 yrs) | 2 | 386 | Tim Rechetniak | 32.98 | 24.13 | 57.11 | | Gentlemen (30-39 yrs) | 3 | 373 | Jake Price | 33.38 | 24.70 | 58.08 | | Gentlemen (30-39 yrs) | 4 | 413 | Tyler Blackburn | 32.99 | 25.44 | 58.43 | | Gentlemen (30-39 yrs) | 5 | 375 | Dustin Norman | 32.89 | 25.58 | 58.47 |
| Women (20-34 yrs) | 1 | 171 | Hannah Eddy | 35.63 | 27.14 | 1:02.77 | | Women (20-34 yrs) | 2 | 177 | Kelsey Boyer | 36.21 | 27.02 | 1:03.23 | | Women (20-34 yrs) | 3 | 315 | Gillian Andrewshenko | 35.83 | 27.52 | 1:03.35 | | Women (20-34 yrs) | 4 | 204 | Bryn Valaika | 36.49 | 26.90 | 1:03.39 | | Women (20-34 yrs) | 5 | 179 | Devon Schnake | 35.46 | 28.00 | 1:03.46 |
Marcel Dolak interview
Methodology
Air and Style
Mons
Max Parrot
Sven Thorgren
Chris Corning
Miyabi Onitsuka
Anna Gasser
Laurie Blauin
Montafon Podium
Allasandro Hammerle (Aut)
Cameron Bolton (Aus)
Omar Visintin (ITA)
- Hagen Kearny uSA
Eva Samkova(CZE)
MICHELA MOIOLI (ITA)
Belle Brockhoff (AUS) - back after two years off and 3 knee surgeries
Jacobellis 5th
Grand Prix HP
Winner Interviews
Scotty James
Yuto Totsuka
Woodward Opening
Joy/Trash/Permission Denver
Kyle Mack/TREVOR GERARD
DARK MATTER
Our second StockingStuffer Special highlights suitable presents for the Christmas season from One Ball Jay, Arbor Snowboards and Arva Equipment.
ONE BALL JAY
WHY CHOOSE ONE BALL JAY?
The original snowboard wax company. Countless Mt Baker Banked Slalom victories.
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:
SNOW WAX:
https://one-ball.com/collections/snow-wax
TUNING KITS
https://one-ball.com/collections/tuning-kits
ARBOR
WHY CHOOSE ARBOR?
Environmentally conscious and sourced with sustainable materials. Arbor has been keeping it real since 1995.
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:
SHILOH CAMBER
https://www.arborcollective.com/collections/unisex-snowboards/products/shiloh-camber-20
SHILOH ROCKER
https://www.arborcollective.com/collections/unisex-snowboards/products/shiloh-rocker-20
BRYAN IGUCHI ANNEX
https://www.arborcollective.com/collections/unisex-snowboards/products/annex-20
ARBOR APPAREL
https://www.arborcollective.com/pages/apparel
ARBOR FOOTWEAR
https://www.arborcollective.com/pages/footwear
ARVA EQUIPMENT
WHY CHOOSE ARVA EQUIPMENT?
ARVA IS THE NUMBER ONE CHOICE OF FRENCH SKI PATROLLERS FOR SAFETY EQUIPMENT. MAKING TRANSCEIVERS SINCE 1984 - ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MANUFACTURERS. THERE IS A 10% CUSTOM PACKAGED DISCOUNT
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED?
AXIO BEACON
https://us.arva-equipment.com/avalanche-transceivers/20-axio.html
REACTOR AIRBAG
https://us.arva-equipment.com/11-avalanche-airbags
PROBES
https://us.arva-equipment.com/14-probes
SHOVELS
https://us.arva-equipment.com/13-shovels
Our first StockingStuffer Special highlights suitable presents for the Christmas season from Yes, 686 and Never Summer.
YES! SNOWBOARDS WITH STEVE STEVENSON 3mins 32secs
WHY CHOOSE YES SNOWBOARDS?
RIDER DRIVEN
FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:
TYPO (INTRO BOARD)
https://www.yesnowboard.com/products/y20/typo
**Underbite
GREATS (ALL MOUNTAIN PARK AND CARVE BOARD)
https://www.yesnowboard.com/products/y20/greats-uninc
**Asymmetrical Midbite
GHOST (ADJUSTABLE STANCE FOR POW OR GROOMER DAYS)
https://www.yesnowboard.com/products/y20/ghost
**Directional Volume Twin + Midbite + Slamback
686 OUTERWEAR 8mins 14secs
BRAND: Independently owned, technologically driven, with a focus on kaizen. They pay attention to fashion and trends - you’re not gonna look wack!
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:
YEARBOOK
https://www.686.com/products/686-yearbook?variant=30146031976515
KYLE MACK TRACK PANTS
https://www.686.com/products/686-mens-kyle-mack-waterproof-pant
SOCKS
https://www.686.com/collections/accessories
*GORE-TEX PATCHES*
https://www.686.com/collections/accessories
RUCKUS PIPE GLOVE
https://www.686.com/collections/mens-snow-gloves/products/mns-ruckus-pipe-glove-1?variant=29415707738179
LINEAR GORE-TEX GLOVE
https://www.686.com/collections/mens-snow-gloves/products/mns-gore-tex-linear-glove-1?variant=29415699349571
NEVER SUMMER FEAT. ANTONE CONTENTO 14mins 36secs
WHY CHOOSE NEVER SUMMER?
Made in America
Durability
Rocker Camber Profile - giving you the best of both worlds
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:
WEST BOUND
https://www.neversummer.com/westbound
HERITAGE
https://www.neversummer.com/heritage
CHAIRMAN
https://www.neversummer.com/chairman
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Stocking Stuffer Special #1 : Yes, 686 & Never Summer
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Jill Perkins • You can’t front on that • Episode 133
Jill grew up in SoCal, getting a relatively late start at snowboarding - quickly racking up a number of impressive AM parts. She lives in Salt Lake City today and has quickly become a fixture of the street scene there. An avid skateboarder - Jill has arrived but has just begun to show her true potential. This episode is a candid look at following your dreams in the sport.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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Jill Perkins • You can’t front on that • Episode 133
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Recorded at Chad Otterstrom house, edited and uploaded from a car on the way to the Dark Matter premiere.
Check ins from:
Maxwell J Morrill - Utah
Mikey Chicarelli - Yukon
Dustin Craven - Revelstoke
Pat Bridges - Mt. Baldy
Alexey Matveyev - Kamchatka
More notes to come...
Nik Baden • Making it Look Easy • Episode 131
Nik Baden is on fire. Winner of the last Rookie of the Year title from TRANSWORLD Snowboarding and featured in the Joy Snowboarding Movie, he is the envy of riders around the world. After turning his back on a promising career in Olympic and World Cup Slopestyle competition, Nik has been refining his signature style. Something that has the world of snowboarding focused on Nik - and for good reason.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards SNOWBOARDING. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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Nik Baden Episode 131
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This quick episode outlines our December scheduale.
12/2 • Real Talk - Seven interviews in seven countries - plus Joe Sexton behind 'Behind Balance Beam'
12/5 • Nik Baden
12/9 • Real Talk
12/12 • Jill Perkins
12/16 • Real Talk
12/19 • Serge Dupraz
12/23 • Real Talk
12/26 • Pat Moore
Real Talk 12/1/19
Today’s episode is sponsored by Never Summer Industries, 686 Technical Outerwear, and DCShoes.
We start off with Clip of the Week and we are giving away a Spark R&D swag pack this week. Next we review around 30 different snowboard videos that dropped in the past two weeks, using ingle sentences to describe each movie. We finish by going behind “Behind the Beam” with an extended interview with Joe Sexton about 50-50ing the world’s longest street rail. Our last block is a check in with seven different riders around the world.
CLIP OF THE WEEK BLOCK
Head over to our Instagram page to vote for your favorite instagram clip from the past week. This week’s prize is a swag pack from Spark R&D, a splitboard binding company.
@thesnowboardproject.com to vote now and win!
Last week’s podium for Clip of the Week Special ‘Burton Edition’ went to:
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Gigi Ruf - The Futureproof Crash
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Terje Haakonsen - Arctic Challenge Quarter Pipe
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Danny Davis - X-Games Pop Tart
Last week’s winner is : @thegooddirtbag
MOVIE BLOCK
Bryan Fox - Life in General
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4gV3tuwoQ
Tenderfoot Part 4 10:59
See Chile from a storyline perspective - sledding and surfing with locals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdajuX5z7aY&t=520s
The Great Powderhound Migration
British Narrator, night lapse and funner crew. Relatable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHAvswMVJmQ&t=656s
The Glacier Express (Holden)
Vacation video, Riding trains in Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGhzzB4e_BM
Future of Snowboarding - Nico Bondi - 8 Year old Stale Life
The future is now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC81INxxjtM
Scan - Antii Autii Splitboard Spark (7:18)
For split enthusiasts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQZ7m8G79ZY
PORB Ninja Suits
Powder, onsen, ramen, beer - japow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9etPiOwiRE&t=482s
Path Finding Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POQN72R4ReM
Triple Overhead - Shark Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-sRC4pOPOU
Channel - US Shapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDZxmeL7oU
Inexact Odyssey
Bad exposure. Cut my ear off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33xlc0ZYqI&t=125s
ThirtyTwo Spot Check Loon
Zeb Powell and Johnny O’Connor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFdKVO0QoPE
Torment Mag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYMDJSeSLNg
From Scraps
https://vimeo.com/373963438
Tweakend - Dreamland
https://vimeo.com/376641474
Lobster - Losers
Frank, Fridge and Hallador
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHGT1izv8V0
Triple Chapter 2 - Vans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8iBBLsbyJs
Bryan Fox - Life in General
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4gV3tuwoQ
Tenderfoot Part 4 10:59
See Chile from a storyline perspective - sledding and surfing with locals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdajuX5z7aY&t=520s
The Great Powderhound Migration
British Narrator, night lapse and funner crew. Relatable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHAvswMVJmQ&t=656s
The Glacier Express (Holden)
Vacation video, Riding trains in Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGhzzB4e_BM
Future of Snowboarding - Nico Bondi - 8 Year old Stale Life
The future is now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC81INxxjtM
Scan - Antii Autii Splitboard Spark (7:18)
For split enthusiasts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQZ7m8G79ZY
Veer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O4o6qVkm7E&t=18s
Highest of Hopes
Most views of last two weeks .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJb2IsWfd4&t=379s
Trash
Salomon hits the streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28tHuJa3guw&t=264s
Hi8us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrv2k813viE
Balance Beam
https://vimeo.com/370763007
Behind the Beam
https://vimeo.com/375833566
Joe Sexton Interview - The Nebraska Rail
THE CHECK-IN BLOCK
Jason Wolle (Yes! Team Rider checks in about the fall european park sessions)
Michael Kary (Update from Poland)
Eric Themel (Snowboard Cross Course Builder)
Atsushi Yamanaka (Works at Diggin Magazine in Japan)
Martin Gallant (Quebec legend Checking in from Nicaragua)
Romain De Marchi (Hair of the Dog in Revelstoke)
Nelson Wormstead (The Marketing Guy for Oakley with a real good Boston accent)
LUCAS DEBARI - Mt. Baker’s Favorite Son- Episode 129
Lucas was a phenom growing up in Glacier Washington at the foot of Mt. Baker. Early in his career he rode for Burton and even won the title of Rookie of the Year from Transworld before moving on to Rome Snowboards. He was featured in many an Absinthe Film and then walked away from professional riding with years left on his contracts.
On this episode we had a break on our ISDN line part way through so we pick up the interview in the middle - unfortunately you will not hear the part about his new passion of rock climbing, what it is like growing up in Glacier and walking away from lucrative contracts at the end of his professional riding career.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft, Yes Snowboards and DC SNOWBOARDING. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
http://dcshoes.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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LUCAS DEBARI Episode 129
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
STEVE “STIX” NILSEN - Episode 128
Steve Nilsen is accomplished in the world of sports marketing. From humble beginnings as a product line manager for Airwalk. After he moved onto a sports marketing role at Red Bull, lifestyle marketing for PBR and his current position as marketing guy for Liquid Death canned water. This one is chock full of valuable career advice from a guy who has done it.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft, Yes Snowboards and DC SNOWBOARDING. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
http://dcshoes.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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Stever “Stix” Nilsen Episode 128
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding - Episode 127
Remembering Jake Featuring Chris Karol, Steve Hayes, Ross Powers, Mike Arzt and Frank Phillips
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Never Summer Snowboards and 686 Technical Outerwear. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://neversummer.com
http://686.com
Last Thursday we lost the sport’s most influential rider - founder of Burton Snowboards, Jake Burton Carpenter. This was a heavy episode to put together, as it all so fresh and the people close to him so profoundly affected.
But we did manage to sit talk with Chris Karol, the sport’s first World Champion, Steve Hayes, arguably Burton’s first prodigy rider, Ross Powers who won two Olympic medals and ushered the sport into the mainstream and two former Burton employees, Mike Arzt and Frank Phillips who run a business together (thepublicworks.biz.)
Clip of the Week - Scroll Awards
Share your favorite clip from this week’s selection of Burton riders (In honor of Jake) to be entered to win a Haglöfs Nengal PROOF Kurbits jacket (Worth $595).
http://haglofs.com
Kimmy Fasani
Mark McMorris
Terje Haakonsen
Danny Davis
Gigi Rüf
Red Gerard
Darcy Sharpe
Mikkel Bang
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding - Episode 127
Remembering Jake Featuring Chris Karol, Steve Hayes, Ross Powers, Mike Arzt and Frank Phillips
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Red Gerard - Episode 126
Red Gerard leapt onto the world stage - by winning the Slopestyle Gold Medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. After he became a sensation in the media, quickly becoming known for his easy going attitude on shows like Jimmy Kimmel. But there is life after gold for the nineteen year old professional snowboarder. He has gone on to film the shred flick Joy with fellow Olympian Ben Fergusson and Olympic Gold Medalist Sage Kotsenberg - discovering the backcountry and sledding, as well as the resolve to be safe when accessing the avalanche prone conditions out of ski area boundaries.
We also go deep on his family - and the support they provide him in achieving his dreams.
It is fairly safe to say, this is Red’s most in depth interview to date. Enjoy.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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Red Gerard Episode 126
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Interview Transcription:
[00:00:00] Man like Mark Sullivan, the warrior. So stay tuned for the cheating episode.
[00:00:04] Well, quite a lot of uncooperative.
[00:00:17] Just flip this off. You to get lost. Mind your own business. So dangerous.
[00:00:21] Most of them have no brakes on them when you get skiers and snowboarders together on a rainy day looking for trouble. We just like to say that we don't want them at all.
[00:00:32] This is The Snowboard Project season to the story. I'm Stowe Stowe. So.
[00:00:46] Today's episode is brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft. So today I want to tell you a little bit about one board in particular, because while it's caught my eye. So, you know, all the Cardiff boards are beautiful. But in particular, I want to tell you about the goat. It's like the freeriding board.
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[00:02:08] Welcome back to the Snowboard Project. I'm Mark Sullivan. And so we're going to start out the show today a little bit. Definitely going to start out with a moment of silence for Jake Burton Carpenter. And I know that well, anyone is listening to this is probably a snowboarder. And so they have been affected directly by Jake Burton Carpenter's influence in the sport.
Mark Sullivan: [00:02:42] Ok, so on today's show, we have an Olympic gold medalist, a guy who is still a teenager, getting into the back country making snowboarding movies. You know, the world is his oyster as far as snowboarding is concerned. I'm talking about Red Jerod and Red Jerod. We get pretty deep in this interview. We talk about making joy. We talk about kind of the the interview crush post-Olympics. We talk about his family and about riding and about all sorts of things. So this is a pretty in-depth interview with Fred Gerada. Hope you guys enjoy it. Thank you.
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Mark Sullivan: [00:04:36] Ok. So you just had your your movie premiere, Red. Joy, tell me a little bit about the premiere. How did you decide on Hollywood versus like doing it in Tahoe or Salt Lake or in a ski town, let's say? Yeah.
Red Gerard: [00:04:50] I don't really know. I think so.
Red Gerard: [00:04:53] Aaron Black and Ryan Honkey are the producers of Joy. And I think we we just kind of left it up to them and they wanted to do it in like a pretty main city.
Red Gerard: [00:05:02] Yeah. For like the first one. But on November 2nd, it's going to be in Salt Lake. And actually I think I'd like the thirty first of this month. It's in Bend, Oregon. And then I'm going to do one in Cleveland, Ohio on November 16th or the 18th or something. Right. So our idea was just to do the opening one in in a bigger city.
Mark Sullivan: [00:05:28] Were there like a lot of snowboarders who showed up, who flew in for it or traveled specifically to Hollywood for the premiere?
Red Gerard: [00:05:35] I don't know. I didn't. I mean, there's definitely some people there. Apparently, they sold out on tickets. I've heard it. But a. I think a lot of it was just people that lived in L.A. like Ex-wrestler Zion, Ray and Alex Smith.
Red Gerard: [00:05:47] They're like pro skaters. That area, which we're pretty is pretty sick to see us.
Mark Sullivan: [00:05:52] Yeah. Now, this is like your your first movie that you were like more involved than just like being an athlete filming in the movie. re-look more involved with that. Were you pretty much still a guy who was just going out and filming to try to get a good part?
Red Gerard: [00:06:07] Not I think I definitely, like all three of us, felt pretty way more involved, you know, I did the two transferal movies, but that had like eight to 10 writers and actors or something. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [00:06:20] But yeah, no, I think we I was is pretty cool because I was filming with my brother like all season, which was really nice. So I got to see little leaks of the movie and all that where it was a trans world. And with trans well, you know, I just saw my part and then saw the movie when it premiered.
Mark Sullivan: [00:06:39] Yeah. So what was like the concept behind Joy? Like what was like the idea that you guys kind of sat down and put together that would make this different than just like a trick part movie?
Red Gerard: [00:06:51] I know I would say, oh, like when we originally sat down, we our idea was to not just like look at just storms and where where all the storms are heading, but let's spend, you know, a month at a time in one location, like when we go to Jackson Hole and say, just go in there for a week. Let's go through let's go there for a month and sit out through the bad weather days.
Red Gerard: [00:07:15] And, you know, when it heats up, because eventually I feel like every location at times can get good and sucks. When you go to go somewhere, you're like, oh, man, shitty. He's like, let's go somewhere else. Then you go somewhere else. And all the sudden Jackson Hole is firing again.
Red Gerard: [00:07:31] You missed out on that. So I think that was our original idea. And other than that, I mean, just having it based on like the main three like me, Ben and Sage, and then having some other people come along and bring in different people on each trip was kind of our idea.
Mark Sullivan: [00:07:50] Would you and Sage wear your gold medals everywhere you went with Ben just to kind of rub salt in the wound?
Red Gerard: [00:07:56] Yeah, for sure. Yeah, that was that was definitely a nice piece of jewelry. Yeah. That's the only accessory that he couldn't get. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. No but he he had the Olympic ring too.
Red Gerard: [00:08:09] So we were just throwing around a little picked out.
Mark Sullivan: [00:08:19] It seems like a pretty cool crew and you guys are like known for competition, right, for a stage and you both at the Olympics were Ben the Olympics and other events.
Mark Sullivan: [00:08:28] But they're really from my understanding, anyway, I haven't seen the movie yet, but there isn't really a focus on competition in there. In fact, it's mostly powder.
Red Gerard: [00:08:37] Yeah, definitely. That was the main focus for they would definitely go.
Mark Sullivan: [00:08:41] Is that related to the named Joy? Like you find Joy outside a competition?
Red Gerard: [00:08:46] I don't know. I don't even know. I think Ben's age came up with the name Tyler Orton and there in summer movie. I don't know where they came up with joy, but I was in for it.
Mark Sullivan: [00:08:58] And where did you guys film like it was? Where were the trips that you guys went on together?
Red Gerard: [00:09:04] Yeah. So we start off the year in Jackson Hole and that was me then, Sage.
Red Gerard: [00:09:13] Nick Payton was there for a little bit. And then Brock Crouch as well. Mm hmm. And we were there for a while. And then from there we went to X Games and we did a little piece on that.
Red Gerard: [00:09:25] But then from there, me and Brock went to Japan and then we went back to the U.S. Open and then to Tahoe for a while and to Canada to hand it off.
Red Gerard: [00:09:40] But Ben and Sage kind of we we split up after X Games and Ben and Sage went back to Jackson Hole for a sec.
Red Gerard: [00:09:47] And then I think they went on up into Canada and then to Montana for a sec and then Madison Tallyho. And then they went back to Canada with us.
Mark Sullivan: [00:09:58] Ok. It sounds like you did a variety of different trips, went to a variety of different locations. What was your favorite trip?
Red Gerard: [00:10:06] My favorite trip was going to. I never I mean, I've always I kind of grew up there a tiny bit just because my brother Brendan always lived there and I always went out there, visit him, but go on there to film.
Red Gerard: [00:10:19] I never knew, like, how much a place actually had to offer when it came to backcountry snowboarding. It was just like pretty eye-opening to me, amany like how many good days we had there and the different varieties snowboarding. You know, you could read lines or you could build a jump or, you know, there's just some good like actually some little pillow lines and stuff. And I never thought Tato would have that.
Red Gerard: [00:10:43] And me and Brock almost spent like a month there, just really pretty hyped on the whole situation.
Red Gerard: [00:10:49] Yeah, that was a pretty crazy season as far as snowfall went last year. And Tom. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [00:10:54] Yeah, it was nuts. And you know, you always hear people saying about how they get that cycle where it's like snows for four days, they get sunny for three days and snows birds for days. And like I never knew that was actually a real thing in this year that it definitely and we definitely get to experience it.
Mark Sullivan: [00:11:12] Right.
Mark Sullivan: [00:11:13] Right. So was there like like one shot in particular, one jump that you built or one line that you did something they like sticks out the that made it into the movie that people can like look at and be like that was the the most fun thing that you did last year.
Mark Sullivan: [00:11:28] The the thing that you really kind of hang your hat on as far as like that was like my best run or trick or whatever of the season.
Red Gerard: [00:11:36] Yeah. Hundred percent the one this one jump that we hit in tow. Here's me and Brock and we both like it was like kind of like our first show that we built without Ben's age there. And it was me, Brad Crouch, my brother Malachi, that built it, just us three. And I don't know, I I've always had a hard time building, just like seeing the exact picture of how I wanted to turn out. And I always end up building them just with a ton of lip by that. But we built this shop and we kind of did build it with a ton of live, but ended up working out really good. And both me and Brock like landed. I think I had three tricks on it in the movie and Brock, too, in the movie. In that jump, really, it's like the best day of our year. I think it was just such a fun session and it was Amy 'tween that cycle where it snowed for days and it was like sunny for three. So it was like third day. I was actually really warm outdoors, like snow is heating up, but it was really, really sick. It was like fun. There's a lot of people there like watching the session and says is kind of cool. Right on, right on.
Mark Sullivan: [00:12:45] So when do you go out and you break off from Sage and Ben? Guys, we're a little bit older than you, maybe a little bit more experienced in the back country. Who's like the stand and trail boss, the guy who's like kind of leading the charge and like deciding like this is the jump spot.
Mark Sullivan: [00:12:59] This is where we're going to stop and we're going to start yelling, who does?
Red Gerard: [00:13:03] Yeah, I don't know. So is it between me and Brock for Sheriff Brooks sometimes as a little bit a different idea than I have? Ηe likes you tend to like the lines, I think. I think he's like a he's an AK guy.
Red Gerard: [00:13:17] I actually closet AK a guy. A closet. A exactly closet. AK guy.
Red Gerard: [00:13:22] But I don't know. I think we try to come together as both, but we also had some other people looking over us. Aaron Black, which has done a lot of all that, definitely helped us out a little bit there. And he was with us every day, so. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [00:13:39] Ok. Now, do you already have like. You obviously have a schedule for a tour to do all these premieres around the country, including back in Ohio. Do you have you already made plans for this season or are you going to film this season? Like, do you have a project already lined out?
Red Gerard: [00:13:54] Yeah, actually, I do. I don't really. I actually don't really know if I can totally say yet. But yeah, I do.
Mark Sullivan: [00:14:02] Martin OK. So I wish I knew more.
Red Gerard: [00:14:04] I wish I knew because I think I can, but not where are you going to be working with, like a similar crew of writers or a different a new crew of writers? I mean, can we can we dig a little bit here?
Red Gerard: [00:14:14] Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Kind of similar crew a definitely a few more. I think this movie will have more of like the movie base where all these section writers and not so much more like Joy was location based.
Red Gerard: [00:14:29] Like it started off the movie and Jackson then moved on to Todd and all that. Right. So that's how Joy was. I think this one will be more rider influence just part by far. By far. Okay. And they'll have some pretty heavy hitter writers.
Red Gerard: [00:14:45] So there are. Are there any goals that you have as far as like filming for this new upcoming project that that like things that you kind of had on your list to accomplish for last season? And now you're like, OK, I didn't get that done last year. I need to do it this year.
Red Gerard: [00:14:59] Yeah, I mean, I think so. I think maybe just trying to spend some more time on the snowboard.
Red Gerard: [00:15:06] I get so distracted with all the toys in the back country like snowmobiling and all that, that I'll get all this me and I really want to fill that job for you. A sled around. So I think my my goal for next year with all of that is to make sure to snowboard as much as I can.
Mark Sullivan: [00:15:23] Yeah. Because you end up just riding powder on the sled.
Red Gerard: [00:15:27] Yeah, exactly. It's like so easy to look at as Bob and be like occupy you like find one thing wrong with your head and just like sticks in your head. So yeah, it's easy to get distracted and just keep snowmobiling around looking for spots all the time.
Mark Sullivan: [00:15:44] Right. So are you becoming like a sled neck?
Red Gerard: [00:15:48] I don't know. That's that's maybe more of a question for Sage. And then they can they can decide you better coming on. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [00:15:56] Yeah, OK. Whereas sitting learned like, how competent are you? Are you on a sled? Like, could you do like one of these like downhill to uphill turns where you're headed downhill and then you drop a foot to a foot plant and come back around and go back uphill?
Red Gerard: [00:16:10] I don't know. That's. I'd love to try, but I feel pretty confident on one for sure. I kind of grew up back in Ohio, not really riding dirt bikes, but always around motorbikes and like knowing how to work a machine like that wasn't too hard for me to learn.
Red Gerard: [00:16:31] And once I figured out the counter steering, I was like, kind of in love with it just felt really sick to do it turns and stuff and lakebeds.
Red Gerard: [00:16:39] And I mean, obviously the worst parts get stuck. But yeah, I'm an expert at that. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's the that's the easy part.
Mark Sullivan: [00:16:51] Yeah I know. Right. It's crazy because it's like it's serious. You really get the hang of riding a sled. It's like you're riding powder now downhill and uphill.
Red Gerard: [00:17:00] Yeah, exactly. It's like you almost get the same feeling on your snowmobile as you can snowboard at times. It's deep enough and whatnot. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [00:17:09] Yeah, totally. Okay. So are you gonna be doing a lot more sled missions this year? Zach, kind of like you're focused like going to contests and then sledding in the back country. You kind of mix it up among everything or. Or like, what's your focus for the season?
Red Gerard: [00:17:23] Like when you say sledding, do you mean like snowboarding with it? Obviously do.
Mark Sullivan: [00:17:27] Well, at least having the snowboard with you. I mean, some of us have harder times and other people like stopping and holding jumps and actually us snowboarding off the sled. But. Yeah, yeah.
Red Gerard: [00:17:37] No, definitely. So yeah, my goal is definitely to snowboard a lot more with that. But I'd say I'm definitely doing a few contests this year. I I actually really enjoy doing the contests. I I don't mind them at all. So I don't want to lose sight of those. But I'm doing a lot more a lot more film chips that are a lot more filming, I would say. And yeah, hopefully build and build some more jumps and stuff. A lot more. Right on.
Mark Sullivan: [00:18:06] Have you ever done like a film shoot, like a straight street, like gone to Quebec and like filmed in the streets of Montreal or Quebec City?
Red Gerard: [00:18:15] That's actually yeah. It's pretty funny. I have. We were watching Jordan Smalls part yesterday that just came out and I was telling my friends as I went on a street trip with that guy, actually. But I only when I say Chip, but Jordan Smalls, Theodore muz and Jesse Paul and I went like one day and I kind of hit my head like midway through. And I was like, all right, I'm actually Blackhomb is like right before the U.S. Open. So I shan't heal up and make sure as I'll get there. So I went on a small one. I haven't done too many. No.
Mark Sullivan: [00:18:49] Is that something that you want to do more of in the future, or is it something where you're like, man, I can't afford to hit my head and get taken out for the X Games? No, for sure.
Red Gerard: [00:18:59] I think so. Like, I don't I enjoy hitting the rails and stuff, too. And I think next year, that's also some dimension. I think I might try to do like one or two street trips because I do enjoy that. And I think there's like they know unless you guys have a lot of creativity that I think is really cool. So totally at least try to do one ship and see, you know, if I can come up with something cool or if it's something I like. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [00:19:25] And try to do one right on it. So how do you like Sage? Like I mean you you're obviously exposed to every aspect of snowboarding.
Mark Sullivan: [00:19:35] Like how do you like kind of rank in terms of how gnarly it is like or like how sick or whatever, how how bad acid is like the the street versus the the backcountry all riding versus the line type riding like the AK right versus like the park riding and resort riding.
Red Gerard: [00:19:54] Yeah. I don't know. It is hard because if each one has its own you know, its own like scary parts did not like street guys slam you know like all the time that they have that the risk of getting hurt. I feel like a lot you know, each railhead is like I feel like they can get hurt pretty easily, which is crazy. But then that country writing like maybe I mean, you stole the chance to get hurt, obviously. But the good news, you if like fluffy snow below you. But then, yeah, I deal with the chance of like being in an avalanche and all that, which is life or death. Yeah. So that can get really scary and then park riding. The good news is, I mean I don't know Cartright. I mean you can get smoked doing but I say don't know where I am, where my stand is there with like all three.
Red Gerard: [00:20:45] Which ones natoli. As I said, they're both pretty pretty gnarly and kind of scary to do. But I don't know.
Mark Sullivan: [00:20:52] Have you ever caught like a serious injury, like one that took you out for like off or more?
Red Gerard: [00:20:58] I've been really lucky. Actually, I have. I've never broken a bone, which is so awesome. Knock on wood you have, right?
Red Gerard: [00:21:05] Yeah. No, I had asthma. I'm pretty psyched on that.
Mark Sullivan: [00:21:08] Do you think that's like part of your success is like the fact that you have.
Red Gerard: [00:21:12] Been like kind of laid up on a couch for a month every season up to this point in your career. You know, because I think a lot of people like it. Like small injuries or medium sized injuries, and they kind of lose part of their season. Right. And if you haven't had any serious injuries, it seems like you've probably been able to ride almost year round now for a while.
Red Gerard: [00:21:33] Yeah, for sure. I've been so lucky with all that.
Red Gerard: [00:21:35] Now I think back. I think it's awesome. But maybe a little bit. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [00:21:41] I don't know how. I mean, definitely I'm almost nowhere near, you know, counting injuries during the season. I've been lucky enough where I haven't had many. So I mean, maybe that's part of my leg. Minor success.
Mark Sullivan: [00:21:54] Okay. So like, how do you like prevent yourself from getting injuries? Are you doing stretching? Do you have like a strict diet? Do you, you know, surf every day in the summertime to be in good shape?
Mark Sullivan: [00:22:05] I mean, what are you doing to like prevent injury, like ahead of time?
Red Gerard: [00:22:09] I mean, to be honest, I really don't do much. I've been shine in the last two years. I've been definitely trying to work out quite a bit during the summer and just stay really active is my thing. And not like sitting around all day like I when I'm here in So Cal right now, like the days this I like I actually like it Donner so much. You never find yourself or like, you know, I was on a really cool program this summer especially I wake up in the morning to workout with Chaske all the bond at like 6:30 in the morning and after the agard shaped like a surf sesh and then go skate for a little and then end it at nighttime with like a succession too. And I think it's really cool here, like how active you can be.
Red Gerard: [00:22:53] So I don't know if that plays into it all, but I just try to stay super active. Sure.
Mark Sullivan: [00:22:58] Right. Is it enough just to skate and surf or do you also have to do I mean, I see all these clips like Scotty James doing all these crazy like, you know, like the rope on the ground and jumping through all the steps of it and then, you know, jumping over things and balance exercise and stuff like, yeah, that stuff, too. Or you pretty much just like skating, surfing, what whatever. Fun things that'll keep you busy.
Red Gerard: [00:23:22] Yeah. I feel like I mean, I don't know how much Scotty. I know he serves actually. I think he's pretty good surfing. I don't know how much he does it, though, but I feel like, you know, Scotty does all those like workouts where the crazy balance ones know where like if you just skateboard and surf, maybe you don't have to do those crazy exercises. At least that's that's what what's going on in my head. I'm like, maybe I don't have to do all that. I can just go skate, surf and have fun. But I definitely I try to do a lot of like when I go to the gym, just a lot of, you know, body weight stuff and try to do some stretching and just shut it like namely tight like it the surround the muscles around your joints and all that and get a nice and, you know, ready for the season. Right.
Mark Sullivan: [00:24:11] Right. Now, how long have you been surfing? Because I know you're living pretty close to the beach right now, but I know you're not from the beach.
Mark Sullivan: [00:24:18] You're from Ohio via call California via Colorado. But like, how long have you been surfing?
Red Gerard: [00:24:24] I've been surfing place. That is like. I don't know. I mean, I definitely just started doing it in the last two or three years. Like every day. When I have off time. But I mean, I started like first time I went maybe five years or something. And I am still so shitty on this airport. Like even like yesterday when I was paddling out, you look around, there's like people ripping all around here, like, how do I even get to that level? I don't know how to do it.
Red Gerard: [00:24:50] So are you longboarding or short boarding?
Red Gerard: [00:24:54] I like the shortboard for sure. Have you ever been barreled? No, not really. Actually, once. I will say on a wave store one time I like I felt foam go over my heads. I'm counting out. Yeah, that's me. That's my Batchelor at their peak.
Mark Sullivan: [00:25:10] Ok. OK. So. So have you ever been on like a surf trip, like out to the mental wise or to Indonesia or someplace like that? Have you ever done those trips?
Red Gerard: [00:25:20] I want to do one really bad. I when I was younger, when I wasn't really surfing, I went on to surf trip for more, just like a vacation with Brock Crouch to Nicaragua. OK. And that was fun. It was like a couple of our friends. And then me and Gabe Ferguson were on it, too. And we really surf.
Red Gerard: [00:25:38] So we just like rented these dirt bikes and rode around the whole time while those guys were like literally getting their old and stuff.
Red Gerard: [00:25:44] Really? But then, yeah, last summer this summer, my family did a family vacation in Costa Rica. And like me, my brother brought our surfboards and definitely surf quite a bit. So that was pretty fun, but not like a Stowe.
Mark Sullivan: [00:25:57] Where would you go? Like, what's your dream destination for surfing? Is it like Mexico? Is it like Southeast Asia? Where would you go?
Red Gerard: [00:26:05] I don't know. Somewhere where I don't know enough about it.
Red Gerard: [00:26:08] I'd have to ask Brock or someone, somewhere where it is like three to like five feet or something, which is like a mellow wave recognition, sir.
Mark Sullivan: [00:26:18] Right. It's more about actually catching the waves than like just getting shanked or something.
Red Gerard: [00:26:24] It's totally about like how long my ride can be, not just like if I can get there or they're not. I just want to, like, ride the wave, I guess, you know, until the end and show you some cool cars or something.
Mark Sullivan: [00:26:36] Ok. So how do you compare like, you know, like the difficulty of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding? Because obviously you've won a gold medal in snowboarding. So maybe that's easier to you just based on your experience. But how do you compare all three of those?
Red Gerard: [00:26:52] I don't know. I mean, I think each. Like I look at what scape are doing now and like it's like saying like, I can never pinch myself to the stuff that they're doing. And I look at that was surfing, too, like I compare. I looked at we went some big wave surfing videos the other day and the like. I compare the big wave surfing to like snowboarding AK like, you know, if there was going to be a comparison, I think that that would be nice.
Red Gerard: [00:27:18] But I don't know.
Red Gerard: [00:27:19] I have no clue like necessarily why. I guess I've just been snowboarding for so long and that's been the one that I've been doing for ages. And since I was young, I would say.
Red Gerard: [00:27:32] That that's the easiest, I guess.
Mark Sullivan: [00:27:35] Right. So do you have ambition to become a big wave surfer or an AK snowboarder?
Red Gerard: [00:27:41] Probably more of a case snowboarder because I just can't see myself on a big wave surfing, honestly. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [00:27:51] So when do you think that you would be ready for that, do you think you need a few more years of doing backcountry boosters? You think you're ready right now? I mean, you've probably written a ton of power ready for sure.
Red Gerard: [00:28:02] Like last year, we we did had one day in Canada, which was a pretty good little warm up. Not as big as Alaska and all that. But I don't know if I'm necessarily completely ready for that.
Red Gerard: [00:28:16] I had a lot of fun stuff that in Canada, but I honestly I really like to go out and build jumps in, like look for little poppers and pillows and stuff. That's like I feel like it's my type of snowboarding a lot. Yeah, I really like to like I mean it was really fun doing all the healthy stuff and is cool being in a healthy.
Mark Sullivan: [00:28:37] Was that your first time in a heli?
Red Gerard: [00:28:39] It was my second time. I did like one just free lap heli haliday in New Zealand. It's really sick.
Mark Sullivan: [00:28:46] Ok, so how would you describe like heli boarding to people who have never done it before?
Red Gerard: [00:28:51] It's I mean, it's pretty sexy, just like you're in a helicopter, which is insane. I like love that.
Red Gerard: [00:28:57] But basically they just like for us, we were hellion around in our L.A. pilot had like a couple ideas of where we wanted to go. So he would take us to that range and we'd just like a couple spots.
Red Gerard: [00:29:10] We landed at the bottom, looked around. Everyone pointed out their lines. And then we would take the heli up and go over the lines, which is really cool. You get to see it like almost like in a riding perspective in the helicopter when they go over it, because that's like something crazy.
Red Gerard: [00:29:24] And back in chains, like everything's so different when you're actually riding it.
Mark Sullivan: [00:29:28] Right. You can look up at it and it's like it looks one way looking up at it and it looks nothing like it. Looking down from the top.
Red Gerard: [00:29:35] Yeah. One hundred percent. Exactly. So you kind of got that was like a big plus. You got to like look at it as you like if you were writing, you know.
Red Gerard: [00:29:45] By.
Red Gerard: [00:29:48] I mean, that's kind of it. You just like buzz around an AK or whatever looks fun you whenever you think it shoots edge. That's what you're you're right.
Red Gerard: [00:29:57] You know, like, I guess I like to plan out some escape crowds. If an avalanche were to happen, which is really scary to think about.
Red Gerard: [00:30:05] I'm terrified of avalanches, but the right car with the right ways to go about it. I think they be safe.
Mark Sullivan: [00:30:13] So are you looking forward to doing more heliing this season? Are you? Is that something that you're like, OK? I want to keep doing this and learn more about this side? Or you kind of like that comes my way. I'll do it. Or is it something we're like my thing. I want to get healthy again.
Red Gerard: [00:30:27] I think I'm right in between there because I'm like, I'm down to go do it again. But it's not one of my priorities. OK.
Mark Sullivan: [00:30:34] What are your priorities in snowboarding? Are you more interested in, like filming, like just the sickest video part or like winning another X Games medal or like going to the next Olympics and defending your Gold Medal? Like what? What do you like seeing as like your goals inside of the sport?
Red Gerard: [00:30:50] Right now, I would say kind of both of them, honestly. I'm going to try to split my time pretty evenly and hopefully I can do it, manage it pretty good now. But I'd say they're both pretty equal. I mean, I would love to win an X Games medal.
Red Gerard: [00:31:06] I haven't done that yet and I would honestly love to go to the next Olympics, too. That was a really cool experience. I'd love to do it again, but I definitely want to sell my shit too because I have a lot of fun doing that and I really like the idea of how you can make your party your own. A lot of times in contests that's like the bomber. You can't make your contest. You're on your own because you know, the the course only gives you so much. And with that country you have a whole whole mountain ranges of your own creativity to go to do and your how to meet how you want you look.
Mark Sullivan: [00:31:41] Right. So so where do you get like this creativity from? Like, what are you looking at to like? Are you watching skate videos and being ICOM? Maybe I can take a little piece of that trick or I mean, what were you kind of getting influence from? Because you're already at like this cutting edge of the sport where basically it's like there's no one who's already done the tricks in front of you. Now used to be five years ago, you could watch video and be like, I want to go learn that trick. And now you're like, you don't know all their tricks. And so now you have to create new ones. So where do you get that inspiration from to create new tricks?
Red Gerard: [00:32:13] I mean, let's see for a contest run. My idea is just it's like it's a hit, such a high peak. I'm not really at the point where, like, I don't really want to, like, invent new tricks or anything. Like, I don't really want to do that. I'm more to the point where, like, I want to start having the part features built differently and get the average three jumps out of the contest scene and just to try to take different lines throughout the course of it that way. But with. With that, can you found that I'm just kind certainly get into it. I don't really know. I'm just trying to fill a really good part. Owners then. I don't really know where my creativity is at there.
Mark Sullivan: [00:32:55] Ok. So like, let's say that you had your own contest and you could design your own slopestyle course. What would read Jarod's slopestyle course look like in comparison to like what you would see in current slopestyle courses?
Red Gerard: [00:33:13] I think my slips, of course, would be something that both typewriters and slopes our writers would write in, and it would kind of be what do Toure is doing right now, let them modify the super pipe. But I think maybe have it a little bit more slips out like, you know, in that way. But no, I think it would have a couple of half its and then a couple of slopestyle features and maybe it ended off with like one big quarter pipe or one big wall read.
Red Gerard: [00:33:42] I've written down like a few ideas more in depth of that. But I think you know, and the gist of it all, a contest where it hits Bode half-white and slopes down and rails as well.
Mark Sullivan: [00:33:54] Now with the rails, do you see the current rails as kind of like skate style rails or as wakeboard style rails like on the classics?
Red Gerard: [00:34:04] Yeah, I never really thought of as wakeboarding, said Stowe rescues like waypoints. It rails are massive, right. They're really kind of big. Yeah. In stuff, but I kind of signed on type of rails.
Mark Sullivan: [00:34:14] Right. It's like you're kind of dislike you. Yeah. Right on it. Right there isn't like a lot of. Yes. Is not to make it on.
Red Gerard: [00:34:20] Yeah. I kind of see it as that honestly. Like when you go to axioms and shit like those rails are massive, they're like huge and. Right. Definitely not. Escape was dile I would say. But like sometimes they can be created.
Mark Sullivan: [00:34:35] Would you change the real setups in these slopestyle courses to be more skate style than just like just these massive kind of spectacle style things that look good on TV?
Red Gerard: [00:34:45] Yeah, I think so.
Red Gerard: [00:34:45] I think I would include a lot more training with the rails, you know, maybe having one on like a half pipe wall or something like that. Not just yet. You know, the average down bar, I think would maybe be a thing or something.
Mark Sullivan: [00:35:01] So maybe a little more technical as far as like how you get on the rail and how you get off the rail.
Red Gerard: [00:35:06] Totally. Yeah. I don't think I'd be anything massive not wait for rail or anything. I think it would just be, you know, a more creative approach or something more creative. Wherever creativity and where the rail is placed. Right.
Mark Sullivan: [00:35:22] Ok, that makes sense. But I'm not sure.
Red Gerard: [00:35:24] I'm totally just free with that. No clue. These are only thoughts that I had.
Mark Sullivan: [00:35:29] Ok. I mean, to be cool, though, to see you like draw out your designs and like, really, like, have you know, your influence because obviously you're qualified. You've won the Olympics. So I think your opinion matters. And it would be cool, though, to see kind of your take on like what an ideal slopestyle would be and see like how these park builders would react to actually changing the terrain and making it like make the terrain progressed. Because I don't think we're going to go much further than like 16 backside, 16 triple by my.
Red Gerard: [00:36:01] You know, I mean.
Mark Sullivan: [00:36:03] What's your favorite trick to do? My 14s. Or is it honest that I love the backside 360.
Red Gerard: [00:36:12] I think it's a really fun check. But I actually think I think the park builders would love to do it. I mean, I have to imagine I've talked to a lot of them. I've talked to Chris. Chris Gunnerson and all that. But I think that they would actually love to do it.
Red Gerard: [00:36:29] It's your standards with F-5s and all that that you like to qualify for the Olympics. There's actually a appreciators a certain way that, of course, has to be right.
Red Gerard: [00:36:38] And that's why I like I love showing up to like to do tours and stuff when it's not Olympic year because they're always they're not under any qualifications, then it's just a building.
Mark Sullivan: [00:36:48] Right.
Red Gerard: [00:36:49] I mean, me as a park builder, I would think that I would want an open canvas just to go make some stuff.
Mark Sullivan: [00:36:55] Ok, so what's your favorite kind of event? You have these kind of standardized fice events where they have three real three jumps. You have like a X-Games where it's just these massive gym, massive features and like gym session style qualifiers, finals. And then you have like the Dew tour, which is kind of a hybrid, but with like really creativity in the courses, which is your favorite, what do you gravitate to?
Red Gerard: [00:37:20] My favorite, my two favorites are due taun U.S. Open.
Red Gerard: [00:37:23] I think do tours try some really cool creative stuff and it's pretty cool.
Red Gerard: [00:37:30] And then I think the U.S. Open like every year, they just they do more stuff that I think more contests look at and they start to try and do. And like I think even like this year will be a crazy year for I think there'll be some really new stuff. And I actually made a solid peach. But I think it'll be a really cool year for all that. And they're always at the front line for creativity courses and they they kill it.
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Mark Sullivan: [00:38:46] Ok. Well, I want to change subjects here. I have some questions, you know, about the Olympics, but actually not the same questions you've been asked before. Because I've seen air interviews of them. There were a lot of them. Right.
Mark Sullivan: [00:38:57] You did a lot of interviews and that's actually the same.
Red Gerard: [00:39:00] Yeah. Right. It's like, OK, you know, 18 of your family members were there. We knew you forgot your jacket. Right.
Red Gerard: [00:39:07] We have you know these things, right, Billy? Yeah. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [00:39:10] All these things are like the kind of common knowledge, but it's like, what was it like? Like after winning, like in all of this? And then what was like the interviewer tour like? I mean, you've probably never done anything like this. I've never seen anything like this. It is like 50 interviews in a week. Right. What was that like? How did that go down? Can you describe that? Like that scene with next week after winning gold was like.
Red Gerard: [00:39:35] Yeah, it was not. It was even like the next week. It was like the next 24 hours is crazy. So, yeah, I did that.
Red Gerard: [00:39:43] And then I light up until that moment after my run like I after I won. Like I still thought the Olympics was just like in X Games the whole course.
Mark Sullivan: [00:39:54] And I now I know like where the Olympics gets his big name because of how many. I think it's because of how many.
Red Gerard: [00:40:01] And like all these interviews and stuff and all the publicity around it makes it the Olympics, you know? Yeah, it's definitely not the cause or anything because I mean, that course was actually pretty cool, is definitely more creative. I thought I thought I was sick when I was pretty sick.
Red Gerard: [00:40:15] The real sections were pretty sick and there were definitely. Yeah. Interesting. Joe takes on the jumps, too, like you did that like over like from a transition over the rail at reentry in the rail section.
Red Gerard: [00:40:25] That was. Yeah. Yeah I know. That's exactly what I thought. Like I like out of all courses. There's definitely more plain ones that you know like that. Yeah. You know, top three most creative at bottom. So I. After that I went into like just so many interviews that day like twenty four hours of it almost just go and did some interviews at that mountain. And then did my drug testing all that.
Red Gerard: [00:40:53] And then I went like this in this car car ride down to the media center and I was there prior to like 12 or 1 a.m. I think just doing back-to-back interviews. And that's where you saw those 50 you know, the 50 interviews, the same exact questions. It was just like hopping from each station to each station, you know, is a massive it was like being in a Lowe's just full of interview, interview people, you know, like each race, like CBS or whatever had their station, ESPN had theirs. It was like being a different photo booth.
Mark Sullivan: [00:41:27] And then what? That next day actually is pretty chill. I like I listen until it's well, I got to go up and watch the women's slopestyle, which was really cool. And then right after that was done, I went back down to the coastal side of the Olympics, which was like a two hour drive.
Red Gerard: [00:41:45] And did went to their media center and did all theirs.
Mark Sullivan: [00:41:49] And by this time I was a chauffeur and like the handlers going everywhere with you in that kind of thing.
Red Gerard: [00:41:55] Yes, sort of. Sort of.
Red Gerard: [00:41:56] It was just mainly like my brother Malakai and my agent Ryan Rocchi. And then there was like a little media team set up for for all that that was controlling it. Mm hmm. And then that next day I flew back to America, went to L.A. for I did like three interviews there, which was the Jimmy Kimmel one. Mm hmm. And then I was a good interview.
Red Gerard: [00:42:22] Oh, thanks. I mean, people felt different.
Red Gerard: [00:42:24] There's like some people that didn't like it. Some people did like it.
Red Gerard: [00:42:28] But yeah, it was it was thought I was doing the snowboarding. I thought you came across like a snowboarder. That's what I get, right?
Mark Sullivan: [00:42:34] Yeah. And then the people that weren't snowboarders didn't like it.
Mark Sullivan: [00:42:37] So you weren't polished enough for them. It's like I'm 70 gaborik.
Red Gerard: [00:42:41] Exactly. I'm jet lagged as hell right now. I'm so I hate. But. And then from there I went to New York for two days and did like Good Morning America and all that and did those and then went back to the Olympics and no more interviews.
Red Gerard: [00:42:55] When I went back to Korea, I was like a.
Red Gerard: [00:42:59] I show is just getting ready for big air. There is one more time. You know, but my I wish I like after doing the contest and after settling down like I was so already, like complete, you know, after winning slopestyle that I was going back.
Red Gerard: [00:43:12] I didn't even care how I did it. Big and big air. You know, I actually ended up making finals. I was like, oh, my God.
Red Gerard: [00:43:19] Like, kinda like, oh, almost a little bummed at the time. And like making finals and like, I don't even know what to do, you know, like I have I don't have enough shakes for Big Bear. Like, I have no clue. But I wish I was a little bit more focused going into it.
Red Gerard: [00:43:32] Like once I settled down I I kind of realizes like, dang, that would've been cool. You know, try to go for another medal or something.
Red Gerard: [00:43:40] But yeah, but maybe like I didn't have the pressure on you like to the same degree. And maybe that's also why you made finals, you know.
Red Gerard: [00:43:49] Yes. Like 100 percent. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [00:43:51] And I lose your time zone. Like what? Did you stay in like Korea time when you went back to America? Did you try to stay in the Korean time zone? I do. I got so messed up. I went to Korea. I was just on the way there for like a week and a half, two weeks. Like most of the Olympics. I was jetlagged.
Red Gerard: [00:44:07] Yeah, yeah. Not I was pretty good. I mean, I went back to America, was super jetlagged, waking up at like 2 a.m. and stuff. But I didn't. I just kind of dealt with it like I just did it all. It wasn't that bad.
Red Gerard: [00:44:20] Like going back to Korea was super easy for me because I felt like I still was a little down at times and I never really adjusted.
Red Gerard: [00:44:27] Like I remember waking up at like like in New York, waking up like 3:00 a.m. and I called my girlfriend at the time, which was she's over. She was over in Korea. So I never really adjusted. I felt like. But, yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [00:44:43] Do you feel like a little bit weird about the fact that you had like another contest at the end of the Olympics and you won the gold, but then they're like, OK, we're going to take you out of the Olympics, take you out of the way from your friends. And now you have to go on this tour and jump through all these hoops. It's like, yeah, you know, dance, clown dance. Right. You did that for a week and then you're like, oh, get back into the mindset of competition and Olympic victory right now.
Red Gerard: [00:45:06] It was a little bit weird, but I was actually so psyched at the time, like, yeah, I was like all sick. I get to go back to America like this can be so fun. Just guys like I love on trips, like I I love going back home and stuff.
Red Gerard: [00:45:18] I love taking the time and, you know, going back home.
Red Gerard: [00:45:22] But it was weird coming back into it like my head definitely was a little bit like, you know, outerspace and all that. And I think if I was more focused, I would have made more of like a stretch to say, like, I'm good at like, I don't I don't want to go back to America.
Red Gerard: [00:45:40] I want to stay focused for a big error. But I just wasn't really like took it all there for Big Bear. Right.
[00:45:46] So they put the decision partially in your hands, whether you do this whole media gantlet EPU room.
Red Gerard: [00:45:52] Yeah, it's pretty 50/50 for sure. Like I think I could argue did to go.
Mark Sullivan: [00:45:56] Ok, so what was the first meal that you had after winning your gold medal in America? What was like the thing you're like, okay. I can't wait to have Taco Bell or whatever. What was it, dude?
Mark Sullivan: [00:46:05] I think it was to pull away. Honestly, I have no. I'm trying to think. I think is viable. Yeah. Really?
Mark Sullivan: [00:46:12] So you're Donner maybe you maybe like.
Red Gerard: [00:46:14] Yeah, maybe even room service. I can't really remember. I know once I got the first thing I did when I got back from Korea after Big Bear we went on like a whole other media tour, but it started in L.A. again.
Red Gerard: [00:46:25] The first thing I did when I got off the plane, I went straight edge. Okay. Nice. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [00:46:30] What do you think of the food in Korea? I thought the breakfast was a little bit crazy. Yeah. Yeah, I like the food there, but it was definitely different, you know.
Red Gerard: [00:46:39] Yeah, for sure. Definitely was a little different. I thought his Big Bear the Korean barbecues. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [00:46:46] Like the ones in the athletes village. I thought I thought that the village food was not that great, but we were super lucky. The US team had like their own USA house which left athlete village.
Red Gerard: [00:46:57] There's like a bus leaving every 15 minutes and they were always cooking up food for us, which is really nice of them. All right.
Mark Sullivan: [00:47:04] So you could get something anytime you want. That was actually like healthy. Good. Do they have, like me? Exactly. The athlete village.
Red Gerard: [00:47:11] It was it was a weird scene like the they had at anything you want. It was like a world class one.
Red Gerard: [00:47:16] it was like you could get like sushi. That was not that great sushi or like pizza that like totally tasted like, you know, I got it was out of a frozen freezer. But then like Hailie and Kyle Mac. But I was in America doing my like inbetween contests. They went down to the coastal one night, the coastal athlete village, how much the eating place there. And they said the food there was like fantastic.
Red Gerard: [00:47:41] And they loved it. Really, really. But the mountain wasn't that good.
Mark Sullivan: [00:47:45] I guess you got the short end of the stick up in the mountains.
Red Gerard: [00:47:48] So yeah, I guess that was pretty mellow though I think in the athlete village because it's like people who were in the media.
Red Gerard: [00:47:55] We don't get to go into the athletes village. So I'm just curious. Like what? Sassine, like, what's your accommodations like where you're staying?
Red Gerard: [00:48:02] Accommodations were a little interesting, we were actually pretty squished. It was like me and Kyle Macro's shared a room. But in our apartment building, in the same building, it was like Chase Josie and Jake Pates were in the room right next to us. And then Ben Ferguson was there in Ryan's day. So Chris chording were in a room, those really small apartments with like 30 rooms in each apartment. But it was cool where with like we knew everyone. We had a really good squad. It would have been different if it was like you roomed up with someone that did like bobsledding or something, you know, because everyone was in the same building, like we had a USA hotel. Basically, it was like a tower, you know, just rooms in it. That was all USA. So school then to Paris up with their friends and stuff.
Mark Sullivan: [00:48:50] Did you guys get in to any run in with the authorities? I mean, I know you guys are snowboarders and I know that you're out to have a good time as well. And after the pressure was off, I guess you were probably caught up in this, the media crush after that and probably on your best behavior, I would imagine as well, because all eyes were on you. Did you get into any trouble or have any.
Mark Sullivan: [00:49:12] Like, you know, hijinx over in South Korea? No. Let's see.
Red Gerard: [00:49:21] No, no, I didn't actually in like, you know, any time I was messing around, my whole family was there. So I went to hang out with them. And that was actually the best meal I had was with my family and some Korean barbecue. Right now, everyone was so fire.
Mark Sullivan: [00:49:37] Everyone knows it. Like 18 of your family members were there. I think your brother was at the top of the half pipe or the slope style rate before you dropped in. Is that correct?
Mark Sullivan: [00:49:49] Your brother? No. He was in because he was so hard to get your attention since I write a lot of data in there, but he wasn't. But I remember Frankie Chapman was there, which is really cool.
Red Gerard: [00:50:01] He's like one of my best buds. OK. That was said to have them up there. But now they were all down on the bottom. It was so hard to get your attention.
Mark Sullivan: [00:50:08] Something right. I mean, it's pretty, pretty gnarly. But who.
Red Gerard: [00:50:13] Who were the family members that came out? Obviously, your you have a big like God direct family. But then, I mean, not 18 brothers, sisters and parents. So who were the people there from your family? Let's talk about your family for a few minutes, because you I think in a lot of your interviews, you're like, hey, man, I'm stoked. My family's here. Right. Let's talk about your family being there and pay them the respect they deserve.
Red Gerard: [00:50:34] Yeah, totally. So all my brothers and sisters, there's seven of us, including me and then my mom, my dad and then my cousins were there.
Red Gerard: [00:50:44] And then basically, I think was. Just my cousins.
Red Gerard: [00:50:50] Other than that, which is basically like we were we were on a really tight family, like my cousins are basically your brothers and sisters and stuff, and we're always spending Christmas together in a few of my cousins live like 30 minutes from where I'm at right now.
Mark Sullivan: [00:51:04] So we hang out with them like every weekend and stuff. So are they snowboarders, too?
Red Gerard: [00:51:09] Yeah, everyone Stowe was not as much as I do, but it was nowhere.
Red Gerard: [00:51:13] All right. So let's talk about that. Like, how did you actually, like, learn how to snowboard? I understand that your older brother kind of taught you how to ride at a very young age.
Red Gerard: [00:51:24] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My older brother and my dad, I think from what I can remember, my dad, just like we're in Whistler Blackhomb only family trip was super. Yeah. I think they remember this, but my dad used to just carry me up the hill because he wanted in lift tickets for me and just send me down the hill. And I remember moving out to Colorado the first you removed out here. I thought I was such a king on us. No, we're back in Ohio like ribbon on nails. Got here, went up a chairlift. I was like, oh, my God, these men are so much bigger. And we're just bombing down the whole hell and sliding my sliding to my butt. And if I did that for like the first seven, 10 days out here and then I finally learned to like link some cars.
Mark Sullivan: [00:52:06] So do you learn how to ride a bike first or how to snowboard first?
Red Gerard: [00:52:11] I think it was kind of both that same year, too, it was two years old, that was a big year for me apparently because I learned how to ride this little dirt bike that we had, this little Honda 50 and a bicycle. That same year. And so it's skateboarding and snowboarding.
Mark Sullivan: [00:52:26] So how did you actually like what was the impetus to actually move from Ohio to Colorado? Because I don't really you know, I don't understand how that happens. I would like a whole family picks up and moves like across the country, you know?
Red Gerard: [00:52:42] Yeah. It wasn't even it definitely wasn't for me by any means. It was. My mom, just like my brother Brandon, went to Crestview Academy in Colorado and my mom and dad did like a couple, two years in a row. They did like visits to him out there and they loved it a lot. My mom hates when I say this, but she was hit. I was is like a little bit like a midlife crisis sort of thing where she has had to get out of Ohio because I'm in the winters is like it can get pretty ugly. Pretty depressing. Depressing. Sorry, depressing. Yeah. Just so dark. And, you know, it's like really cold and so dark.
Red Gerard: [00:53:24] And my dad can work from home, from home. So it was a pretty easy thing to do. The first year we just rented a house and kind of brought everyone out there for the winter. And then we did that for a couple of years and we went out there in the winter and then went back to the summers, did that for three or four years.
Red Gerard: [00:53:45] And then one year we just stayed out there full time. And eventually my parents ended up selling the house in Ohio and buying a house out there.
Mark Sullivan: [00:53:54] Cool. You know, my mom actually came from a big family, like kind of like yours. And it struck strikes me that like every kid in that family is like different. Right. They all have different flavors. They all went on to do different things in their life. What is it like? What is your what do all your brothers do? Like what is Creighton do right now?
Mark Sullivan: [00:54:14] Where's he at? Core?
Red Gerard: [00:54:18] Honestly, they should know this. And I kind of do. He's like. He's like. And his lawyer's assistant, which I'm probably saying that really wrong and has some title. But he lives actually back in Cleveland. He's lucky with his jobs every month. He gets like he gets like 10 days off every month. So he'll usually go back out to Colorado and go hang up my parents because he he's slowly turned.
Red Gerard: [00:54:46] I think get out of Cleveland a little bit. Right. And then Trevor works for fall shoes and Malachi works. I mean, he's a film or he's he's filming the then our next year project as well.
Mark Sullivan: [00:55:00] But any and Trever, live with you right now in Oceanside.
Red Gerard: [00:55:04] Yeah. Yeah. They live. Yep. And then what? So then, yeah. Chi also helps out with my sister.
Red Gerard: [00:55:13] She does. My sister's a food blogger. She Bone zone business called half a Tavis. Right. And my brother Malik makes all of her videos over food and all that.
Mark Sullivan: [00:55:25] Really? She's like famous. So she's like in certain circles, she's more famous than you.
Red Gerard: [00:55:30] Oh, she's way more famous than me. And she. She kills it. She, like, has almost a million Instagram followers and all that and really always is flying to New York and find Ali and stuff on talk shows like every day.
Red Gerard: [00:55:41] And people love love her. He has got to check it out. There is less than you know.
Mark Sullivan: [00:55:46] But what's the best meal she's ever made for you? Because I assume she knows how to cook.
Red Gerard: [00:55:51] Pretty good. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [00:55:52] And I've been trying again to cook, too, as I've done, like, you know, living in my own house. Now, I've been trying to get into it, but she. The best to try this one. It's been going around in the family for a while. It's pretty easy. But she's potato chip chaikin. Get some chicken crush ups and potato chips and put LONGERGAN over the college meal.
Red Gerard: [00:56:14] But it's pretty fiery. I love it.
Red Gerard: [00:56:16] And she makes amazing, amazing dishes, though, like really good pastas and all that. And her sweets are unbelievable. I like your desserts.
Mark Sullivan: [00:56:26] And that's Teagan, right?
Red Gerard: [00:56:28] That's Teagan then Brandon.
Red Gerard: [00:56:30] He is like a manager of a shipping warehouse in L.A. that is now wife.
Red Gerard: [00:56:39] It's his like his wife's sister owns this business and he runs the shipping department of the business.
Mark Sullivan: [00:56:44] So how does he feel about having a younger brother who is like an Olympic gold medalist?
Red Gerard: [00:56:51] I think he loves it.
Red Gerard: [00:56:53] I don't know.
Red Gerard: [00:56:54] I actually cannot really tell you anything they ask them, but I think he likes it. I love when he likes. There's a couple of contests that he'll fly out for.
Red Gerard: [00:57:03] And like, it's funny seeing him snowboarding isn't really. He lives in L.A. now and doesn't snowboard as much as he used to. It. Do it, runs it, and then like I was sleep on, like how good he was. All right.
Mark Sullivan: [00:57:16] Ok. So I imagine that your family is, like most others, their sibling rivalry. Right. And so all of your family's snowboard zoĂ. And so, you know, I remember this very distinctly when I actually considered myself least on my own, had better as a snowboarder than my older brother.
Mark Sullivan: [00:57:32] When did you get better at snowboarding than Trever, Brendan Chye and Crighton?
Red Gerard: [00:57:39] I don't know. I would say when I got better than Chi Chi was my main competition and his younger brandnew was out of reach.
Red Gerard: [00:57:48] Yeah, yeah, he was too good. But I got better than Chi Chi like had some unfortunate injuries and all that from snowboarding when he was younger. And I think he'll save. And I just passed him on to one of his injuries out of that. Well, I just came home and I was a little bit older than him or something.
Red Gerard: [00:58:07] And then, Brandon, I know that you could eat.
Red Gerard: [00:58:10] That's a question for him.
Mark Sullivan: [00:58:13] He'll never forget that day.
Red Gerard: [00:58:15] Yeah, he's still sleeping. He thinks he is the better one still.
Red Gerard: [00:58:18] Yeah. You've got you've got some other hardware to contests that.
[00:58:22] Yeah. You know, but he's pretty good at arguing. He's the arguer of the family. You can win any argument so.
[00:58:29] Well you think you're winner and legal brother Creighton would be the better arguer.
[00:58:33] Yeah he is. But he sleeps. He's real quiet about it. He's the, you know, really low key about everything. He just kind of hangs out. Okay. Okay. Cool.
[00:58:43] Yeah. And Trevor still writing to write.
[00:58:46] Yeah. Yeah. All right. He actually just flew to Colorado today. He's going to get some work out there. And you snowboard, too.
Mark Sullivan: [00:58:54] Cool. So. So when does your season actually begin? Like, when are you like, pack in your bags from Oceanside and being like, this is winter time now. I'm now in snowboard season.
Red Gerard: [00:59:07] I think it kind of already happened.
Red Gerard: [00:59:10] I always feel like it happens like right when we go to New Zealand, but I think it realistically full time happens like when we go to go to Europe for all those training camps.
Red Gerard: [00:59:21] So you're going to have to start talks at the end of the month. Stuff like that. Yeah. I flew from Europe to like Joy for the premiere there. So you guys are stomping ground park session. That's awesome.
Red Gerard: [00:59:34] Yeah, I did that. And I feel like that's where it always starts. And I'm supposed to fly back to Europe all. On the thirty first of this month. But I don't know. The snow's a little low over there so we'll see if it everything goes there. But yeah I'd say where are kind of started.
Mark Sullivan: [00:59:49] I feel like you ever get sick of like going back and forth to Europe or like cross the world, jetlag, everything. I mean, you're like, I've got to come back for a few days and I got to go over here for three days near a different time zones and locations, languages, foods, all that stuff. Do you ever get sick of that?
Red Gerard: [01:00:06] Dude, totally. I mean, like all the time, especially when I'm over there, like, I feel like I was younger, I used to deal with that, like I feel like I remember myself. I go to Europe with the U.S. team for like months on end and like, loving it, you know, like 9V going to leave when I like when we are leaving. And now I'm over there for like ten days and like I'm ready to be home. And a big thing for me with all that, it's just like if I had the option to leave early, like paying the is to change your flight and go home early helps me out a lot or not even change the cost. But leaving the location of like sore SFAE or something and going down as Erik like two days early and spending my time in Zurich instead of, you know, up in the mountains helps me out a lot. But pre-Iowa, does it mean like when you have to go to places and the place you get my airline miles and all that and you can look forward to that.
Mark Sullivan: [01:00:59] Did did winning the Olympics change your like financial outlook in life?
Mark Sullivan: [01:01:05] Like what kind of impact did that have?
Mark Sullivan: [01:01:07] Did you like having all these major sponsors just flooded so you could make decisions like to go to zerk for two days and you had a little more freedom to travel the way you wanted to to go to where you want to, because people are like a little more accommodating of an Olympic gold medalist, let's say, than not. Did that also change like your sponsorship deals and your financial situation as well?
Red Gerard: [01:01:28] I mean, I honestly like maybe a little bit, but I I don't really know. Like, I feel like. Did you get my distance? I got one for personal, not one that was out there, but who I always leave it all up to my agent.
Red Gerard: [01:01:46] They made one for you that you got to have that you have under article or something. Gotcha.
[01:01:51] Yeah, exactly. Not one that they like advertised. I think Chloe Kim got that one.
Red Gerard: [01:01:55] You were in competition with Chloe and they're like, oh, she's.
Red Gerard: [01:01:59] Yeah. Any time I'm in competition with her, I'm like, OK, I know where this is headed. Right. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [01:02:06] Like, she deserves it. She's killers. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
Red Gerard: [01:02:11] I always just try to keep that up to my age and stuff and focus on what I what I know how to do right now.
Mark Sullivan: [01:02:19] Do you have like you obviously have an agent Runke. Do you have like a financial manager and do you have a manager as well. Like obviously Runke is making all these deals from you. You have someone who's like telling you like, okay, here's what you should be doing and this is what you should be getting ready for. Like actually managing your time. Yeah. Versus like managing your your financial wherewithal.
Red Gerard: [01:02:39] Yeah. Yeah. A little bit. I mean I. My brother Malik does a lot of that for me. He's really good with all that and kind of plans a little bit of my season and what I should be doing whenever I've questions was area a full on manager.
Red Gerard: [01:02:55] But yeah, I definitely definitely lean lean on him a lot. For all that he it manages my schedule on because it's just random stuff that pops up and then he kind of looks at some of that like denies some of them and you know, whatever is going to be better for my head. I think he's got the best interests.
Mark Sullivan: [01:03:16] Do you and your brothers still fight?
Red Gerard: [01:03:18] Because I know that I know my brother the time. OK.
Red Gerard: [01:03:22] I guess the last argument you got in with your brothers that got heated all the time.
Red Gerard: [01:03:29] Every time.
Red Gerard: [01:03:30] But Brandon, with Brandon and we're always on family vacations, I'm always arguing with Jesse, like on an argument in person. And he's argumentative person. So it's like if something pops up, it's no brainer. Like, Oh, I know that. Like, I know that for a fact we'll go at each other for days. Really and.
Red Gerard: [01:03:47] Yeah. Well now guys, I'm getting like little fights but nothing. Nothing too bad.
Mark Sullivan: [01:03:51] Just answer age. The bigger the fights.
Red Gerard: [01:03:54] Yeah. Like we're always getting in fights here. So that's like never has changed.
Mark Sullivan: [01:03:58] Ok. Do you guys what? You're 19. How old is. How old's Brendan now.
Red Gerard: [01:04:05] Twenty eight or nine. He's getting close to 30. He's getting older. OK.
Mark Sullivan: [01:04:12] So there's like some distance. Like, how old is your oldest brother? How old is your younger sister?
Mark Sullivan: [01:04:17] Like, what's the range? It's nuts. Yeah. My younger sister is ten or eleven and my older brother is.
Red Gerard: [01:04:24] Oldest brother is.
Red Gerard: [01:04:26] Like thirty six, I want to say thirty five, thirty four. OK. Somewhere in that range. Yeah, I got it.
[01:04:33] There's a lot of kids. But spaced out quite a bit. A heavy space for. Right on. So is it strange having a brother who's like.
Mark Sullivan: [01:04:45] You know, I mean, literally from a different generation than you, I mean, you're all gathering as a family, but it's like you have one brother who's 15 years older than you and a sister who's almost 10 years younger than you, you know?
Red Gerard: [01:04:56] Yeah, a little bit. But like I say, we'll make it together. Like the people, the person that like I get along with the best and have like sometimes the most fun.
Red Gerard: [01:05:03] Bonwit is my oldest brother. And just because really is the best is also positive. But everything in life is all about having a good time. And I think that like all the cool stuff that like I get to do.
Red Gerard: [01:05:16] Like when I tell him about it, he kind of freaks out about it like more than I do. And I'm like, this is way too cool to have like that. I really like to share these things easier said with nice.
Mark Sullivan: [01:05:27] So what is it like a Gerard family gathering look like? I mean, do you start getting Gerarded? Do you put on the Cleveland Browns game? I mean, what does it look like?
Red Gerard: [01:05:37] You just said it right there. Yeah, yeah. It's like a mix of what everyone saw at the Olympics to the Cleveland Browns to a couple arguments popping off and.
Red Gerard: [01:05:52] Sub it's honestly like just a big gathering, like if you can just manage in a big gathering.
Mark Sullivan: [01:05:58] Is how many cases of beer at a good Gerard family gathering a lot, honestly, like I couldn't even tell you then. But let's see the last one in Costa Rica, there is multiple store ships every day.
Mark Sullivan: [01:06:14] Really? OK. So who's gonna puke? Centralia Police. Oh, who's pre-code first?
Red Gerard: [01:06:21] My brother Brandon. He's got that one dialed and he's got that one down. And he's known as the Big Brother. So, yeah, it all amounted to. It's funny is his wife Lindsay is like, you know, they'll be late night. She'll just be telling stories all the time about how like a different drug story or something. Really? OK. It's hilarious. It's just fun. Fun times. Yeah, right on.
Mark Sullivan: [01:06:48] So where do you see yourself like going with snowboard? Do you have ambitions in the sport? Like, okay, you've accomplished I mean, on paper, what most people would say are like the highest goals that you could achieve. You got a gold medal.
Mark Sullivan: [01:07:01] You know, you. Yeah. Here on the national team, you've had a one off Wheaties box, I guess, sort of, you know, what are your goals like long term personal where you want to pro model, you want to have your own video production company sponsor kids. I mean, what would you want to do, like with your life and snowboarding? To me, they like every opportunity, anything you could want to do is going to be laid out for you.
Red Gerard: [01:07:26] Yeah, I mean, I know I'd say it's something I'm trying to figure out right now, which is, you know, maybe try to look a little bit at my future. But one thing that like has always interest me is like, you know, I definitely I just want to be like the like the snow whereases. Getting Writer of the year would be like a really cool thing. I think that would be awesome.
Red Gerard: [01:07:47] K. Rider of the Year. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna dove into this a little bit because we can figure this out right now. Get some good goals and you know, totally.
Red Gerard: [01:07:55] Yeah.
Red Gerard: [01:07:55] But I wanted it to be like a for a couple more years. You know, it choose nowhere that films video parts, you know. Does the contest see and I would love to win an X Games gold medal or not. Not X games. You'll not just X Games medal in general. I think that's always something I wanted to do as a kid. But I love just to keep them on video parts. And then something that's always interested me was like being, you know, an interview person. What what's that call like? That's a professional term for that. A journalist. A journalist.
Mark Sullivan: [01:08:28] Yeah, I think you're right. You make a good interviewer. You know, you really have an easy way of dealing with it, you know? Yeah. So I do appreciate that. And also, by the way, in all of those interviews you did. post-Olympics, it's like men. You actually just stepped into all these weird, crazy situations, like what was the craziest interview you had? Like, what was the craziest like situation you got thrown into right after the Olympics? I saw it. It's like NFL video with these guys who are like football players.
Mark Sullivan: [01:08:57] Yeah. There's so many of us.
Red Gerard: [01:08:59] There's so many of them, for sure. The one that always got me, you know, the shark tank shell. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [01:09:04] Yeah, that's true. As in like some New York building some interview and they like jumped into my green room. I was like literally sleeping on the couch. So jet lag and this is even an interview situation. But I talk to them for a while. I was like, I am literally just talking like billionaires. I.
Mark Sullivan: [01:09:22] I said, OK, I've got this idea for this amazing product.
Red Gerard: [01:09:26] No. They said they said they're like, you got any idea? Like, if you ever got any ideas, like, hit me up, here's my card and it's a hit.
Mark Sullivan: [01:09:35] I'm never gonna be anything. But what about like starting a snowboard company?
Red Gerard: [01:09:39] Like I mean, there's certain people like Jeremy Jones. Let's say he would be like the the most direct account put us through.
Mark Sullivan: [01:09:44] Hey, you got a whole you got a whole business right there between your brothers and your family. You've got a whole staff of people right there that could run a snowboard company with you.
Red Gerard: [01:09:53] Yeah. I'm saying it's no company.
Red Gerard: [01:09:56] I maybe, maybe in the long term. But I don't. I don't know if I can ever do it.
Red Gerard: [01:10:02] Okay, let's go. You know, a lot.
Mark Sullivan: [01:10:04] Yeah. And the journalism, that's a little bit harder. Like how how do you, like see journalism moving forward, though? It's like I'm doing interview with you here right now. But there's now Instagram. There's videos. I mean, where is snowboarding journalism going? Because if you're gonna be a journalist here in the future, I need to know where to start setting my sights for the future.
Red Gerard: [01:10:23] Yeah, I don't I don't know. Like I look at Jackman, Charlie, I don't even know if he's like a journalist necessarily. But I think that he does a kind of cool in a way at times.
Mark Sullivan: [01:10:34] Yeah. It's like purchase tonality turned journalist, right?
Red Gerard: [01:10:38] Yeah. Yeah, I don't. But it's it is weird because it's like, you know, where is journalism going? Necesary is like how I mean to know it's like Instagram.
Red Gerard: [01:10:49] I think Instagram is just ruined. So many things. And especially in snowboarding, like video parts and stuff, it's like everything's just like an Instagram video now. Like I get even like it's like my news and like stuff that's going on around the world from. From Instagram.
Mark Sullivan: [01:11:03] So I thought it's such a crazy thing that, you know, that we're gonna break this interview up into a one hundred Instagram posts.
Mark Sullivan: [01:11:10] Each one has an answer. Yeah, that's what I felt like. The show, all the joy stuff.
Red Gerard: [01:11:15] I was like and we are breaking this up into like a lot of Instagrams right now.
Red Gerard: [01:11:21] Right. And you're going to REI's average it like 100 different ways and like have a new clip to drop every day from now until next year, I guess.
Red Gerard: [01:11:29] Something to eat. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
Mark Sullivan: [01:11:32] It's like it's like the whole process of making the movie. But then there's the whole process of like repackaging the content. One hundred different ways.
Red Gerard: [01:11:40] Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Just how long can we push yourself.
Mark Sullivan: [01:11:44] So where do you think Instagram will go. Like what do you think. Like the answer is for that stuff.
Red Gerard: [01:11:50] So I can't see it. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [01:11:51] I mean I mean you probably have an Instagram. Do you manage your own Instagram page or did someone else do?
Red Gerard: [01:11:56] I do. I do. Yeah, I do my own. But then like my brother Malka does all my posts basically. Okay, like all the all the ones that I have to get done and all the sponsored ones, he does that. And then I'll make some all the random like dumb ones. You see those ones are usually me.
Mark Sullivan: [01:12:12] Okay. Okay. So. So do you have like a strategy for Instagram or are you just kind of like, oh, that was cool posts up reserve like, okay. On Mondays at 8 a.m., I I dropped this thing and then I engaged with people after they they interact with me. So I get the best all algorithm hit or something like that or. Yes.
Red Gerard: [01:12:29] Like kind of having I just kind of throw it up a little bit.
Red Gerard: [01:12:32] Like I think when my brother Malcolm does it, he knows he's not totally like that, but he'll look at like the best time or something like p.m. is like I'll post it then or something. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [01:12:43] So it's a little bit of strategy. Okay. And you get back to the journalism thing here for a minute like so let's say you're now a journalist, you've been a professional snowboarder.
Mark Sullivan: [01:12:53] Your career is kind of you have a lot more accomplishments, Donner all those other boxes when the next Olympic gold medal. Who is gonna be your first interview? Who do you want to sit down with and ask questions to?
Red Gerard: [01:13:06] Someone that's going to throw some like really different responses, you know, like especially just going through the all the Olympic interviews and stuff and send the same old stuff like I have so much respect for the interviews that happen or it's just like talking about weight and stuff. You know, something so out of the ordinary. So someone that's going to say something different would be my first my first interview, which I have no clue would be.
Mark Sullivan: [01:13:29] He takes him, takes some time and think about it.
Red Gerard: [01:13:32] But if you don't, you don't know who that person would be or maybe not off my head.
Red Gerard: [01:13:39] I wish I.
Red Gerard: [01:13:40] I'll get back in an hour and say, OK.
Mark Sullivan: [01:13:42] Ok. Like all kind of questions. Would you ask what would be your first interview question on your first major interview? What's your opening question? How do you crack the ice?
Red Gerard: [01:13:51] Oh, God, I have no. Oh, I see.
Red Gerard: [01:13:56] That's where that's where my journalism would go right back to like that average interview. You know, I like first. First question would just be something that I would not be psyched about. Ask any. No, sir.
Red Gerard: [01:14:07] I feel like I have to grow up a little bit more and think about how I would want to take my my actual journalism in the route that I would actually want to pursue myself as being. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [01:14:19] Ok. So. Yeah. So like, you know, like if I were to ask you a crazy question, would you be able to answer it?
Red Gerard: [01:14:26] Like like, you know, would you rather if you had to lose one limb, what would it be?
Mark Sullivan: [01:14:33] One Len Yeah, one lane what which one is that includes fingers and all that are just focus on lands.
Red Gerard: [01:14:41] You cut off the whole hand. But yeah, I don't know. I haven't thought this through very much. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [01:14:47] I think the other two like are reserved for. Okay. I'm talking big lane.
Mark Sullivan: [01:14:53] Ok. I have nowhere really to take this question. Maybe you're not going to be able to double fist. OK, that's gonna get in the way of double fisting beers just so you know. True.
Red Gerard: [01:15:02] So that's a problem. Yeah. Yeah. No, I cannot do that.
Red Gerard: [01:15:04] You gotta think it through all the way over. No, Edward. Forty hands. No.
Mark Sullivan: [01:15:09] Yeah. Okay. Okay. Here's another crazy question. Beer, liquor for the rest of your life.
Red Gerard: [01:15:16] Once I turn twenty one off the record. Beer. OK. OK. Let's see, blondes are brunettes. Who?
Mark Sullivan: [01:15:30] I'm not biased.
Red Gerard: [01:15:31] You know, like I've never been like, oh, I just like blonde, blonde girls. I like it. I like everything, you know. Oh, well, I don't really matter with hair.
Mark Sullivan: [01:15:40] Right. Both at the same time, maybe.
Red Gerard: [01:15:43] Yeah. OK. Let me ask you this. That's a plus.
Mark Sullivan: [01:15:46] Did it become a lot easier for you? Because I knew how awkward I was when I was your age. Is it easier for you now that you have a Gold Medal to meet girls?
Red Gerard: [01:15:56] I actually read.
Red Gerard: [01:15:58] I have a girlfriend. I had a girlfriend like this whole time, so I haven't even. Yeah, basically. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [01:16:04] Yeah. Is it Hayley Langlands.
Mark Sullivan: [01:16:06] Yeah. Yeah. OK. Well congratulations. Or some time. Yeah.
Red Gerard: [01:16:10] She's great. So it's like. Yeah I don't really have a dad. Does any girls.
Mark Sullivan: [01:16:16] Are there any like jealousy issues where you're jealous of her traveling across the world or she's jealous of you. Going to fly to New York to have big time interviews or something like that. And people everywhere you go kissing your ass.
Red Gerard: [01:16:28] No, I mean, not too much.
Red Gerard: [01:16:31] She's got such cool stuff going, though, she's got like, you know, she's got cool stuff coming out with all of her sponsors and stuff. And I'd say sometimes I'll get jealous with that and whatnot. But it's cool that we get to live the same life necessary, you know? We both get to travel around together, which is really sweet.
Mark Sullivan: [01:16:48] Do you consider it a long distance relationship or you travel enough during the season where you're together that it's not really a long distance relationship?
Red Gerard: [01:16:58] I consider it that, but like she she had gives her shoulder surgery this summer. Like going to New Zealand at now is a pretty long year since for we we're not having like her on a trip and all that.
Mark Sullivan: [01:17:10] Ok. Do you have any advice for people in your situation like how to make that kind of relationship work? Like what is your secret to the success of like staying in a relationship? You know, sometimes with long distance, sometimes with not some both of you are kind of like well known and famous. Like what? What helps you, like have a relationship and maintain a relationship?
Red Gerard: [01:17:33] What helps me, I mean, I feel pretty lucky.
Red Gerard: [01:17:35] Just because she's I've known her since I was like so young and like before we even date was really good friends in a sense.
Red Gerard: [01:17:43] So it was just like pretty pretty easy for me. And like, you know, if if we were to break up or something, it would even be a weird thing. Like, I think we would just be really good friends all time.
Red Gerard: [01:17:54] Yeah. You're not going. I know. Or at least until it happens.
Mark Sullivan: [01:17:58] Yeah. Yeah. Because they'll be traveling together.
Red Gerard: [01:18:01] Yeah. I have no clue about relationship advice. I know. I'm 19 years old. I got nothing.
Mark Sullivan: [01:18:07] Ok. Well, I figured, you know, maybe you would have some because you got the Gold Medal. And I think that might help me, but I'm never gonna find out.
Red Gerard: [01:18:14] Yeah, yeah. Yeah, totally.
Mark Sullivan: [01:18:18] Ok. So. So when do you move to Tahoe? When are you going up there?
Red Gerard: [01:18:23] I'm actually technically already moved in. I spent like ten days up there before I went to south Spain and all that.
Mark Sullivan: [01:18:31] What are your roommates up there?
Red Gerard: [01:18:35] My roommate's up there, I'm just living by myself. But up in like in the winter and stuff like my brother Malachi, I'll live up there. I definitely have some friends that come up and stay. But I'm not necessarily going to do the roommate thing. I think like maybe Christmas and New Year's and all that. I'm just going to try to rent it out for like a month or two.
Red Gerard: [01:18:54] Right. And hopefully I won't have to do a roommate thing.
Mark Sullivan: [01:18:57] Right. So where are you going to do your most laps in Tahoe this year? Like what's going to be your home resort up there?
Red Gerard: [01:19:05] My home resort will be I don't know. Hopefully the backcountry.
Mark Sullivan: [01:19:10] I like that answer. Although, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of resort operators and park builders up there who are going to try to vie for your attention with your board.
Red Gerard: [01:19:20] Yeah. But it will be boreal mountain for if I'm a you know, if I'm going to go right resort. I like Boria. I love I really am not back in Vail Resorts these days. Also, why not? Why not? I just think I think they sucked it. I think they're trying to take away, you know, train parts from. From the mountains and stuff and.
Red Gerard: [01:19:40] Ok, we got to get into this for a minute.
Red Gerard: [01:19:43] Yeah. Easy Woodward resorts and powder and all that. I think that those guys are killing it over there and they are trying to do the opposite of take away park riding snowboarding and fullfill resorts is like those are all your home mountains.
Red Gerard: [01:19:57] That's like Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone. Yeah. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [01:20:01] So what are they doing? That's like taking away from like from the sport. Like how is what moves are they making that's actually detracting from the sport and sort of contributing to its advancement?
Red Gerard: [01:20:12] I mean, I've heard. Well, I mean, holy crap. I know a lot of mountains, you know, lift tickets around Christmas time or massive. I know that.
[01:20:19] But like two hundred dollars a day this year. So, you know.
Red Gerard: [01:20:22] Yeah, that's what I'm saying right there. It's Vail Resorts. Like those lift tickets are insane.
Red Gerard: [01:20:27] Like, I don't know what Copper's prices are and when all of that. But I know, like, you know, they they offer cool, cool deals in the in the fall and all that for Lib Tech for season passes. But I I've heard rumors that like Villers or is this trying to at Keystone and Brak like take away, you know, their five year plan. Is that like no part or train park or anything really. Which is a massive Bode. Right.
Red Gerard: [01:20:53] I think they'll be a Yeah. Or two or a sport. And I don't know, I I've been working with powder and wood word resorts lately and I've just I've been back in their whole their whole vibe over there and like the Woodward Park City that's happening right now, like that's going to be the biggest game changer ever.
Red Gerard: [01:21:12] I've been spending time out there just because we're doing like a Redd's backyard thing at three resorts this year, Copper Killington and Park City.
Mark Sullivan: [01:21:21] What is that? Which is Red's Backyard.
Red Gerard: [01:21:23] It's going to be this little like Hike Park for this year. Hopefully Roboto in the next year. But this little hike parks that like you don't have to paid that copper. You're not gonna have to pay any money. You have to sign a waiver and you can show up. It's like right by the half-pipe, right. Like in front of the shoot. Forget the bar that's in front, but like right on the main mountain incline or something.
Red Gerard: [01:21:45] Yeah. Show up and you sign a waiver and you can hike the park for free and and do all that. And that can be the same thing at Killington and Woodbury Park City.
Mark Sullivan: [01:21:56] Wow. That's pretty cool. Whose idea was that?
Red Gerard: [01:22:00] Well, I mean, the Reds backyard idea that came from like my brothers. And then this one this one came from Ryan Rankin.
Red Gerard: [01:22:08] My mom actually, my mom is she's super. She's all about like given back to the community and so on. So my I tried my best to doing it, but my mom really liked the idea of not having to pay for Christmas and all that. Those times a year's not having to pay $200 for a ticket, that a kid can just show up to the mountain and hike some rails and not have to, you know, pay that massive fee.
Mark Sullivan: [01:22:34] And then you'll be putting in a Honda 50 each of these resorts eventually.
Red Gerard: [01:22:40] Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully a little bit more of an upgrade from the Honda Fiesta. But yeah. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [01:22:44] Are you still running that thing?
Red Gerard: [01:22:46] 50? We've upgraded actually it's we got like an all electric one now really at the backyard. You say plug it into a wall. Flip a switch. It's pretty easy.
Red Gerard: [01:22:56] Wow. That was the first. That was a real change. You won that thing. That dirt bike maybe had like another month in it by the end of the year. Right. Right.
Red Gerard: [01:23:04] I mean, it's pretty cool having your own rope tow in your own backyard. You know that. It's like a dream.
Mark Sullivan: [01:23:26] So let me ask you this. Like you focus like your whole life pretty much on snowboarding, right? I mean, it ticket as good as you've gotten, as young as you have gotten there, you've had to focus a lot of your efforts towards snowboarding. So let me ask you this. It's like if snowboarding was for some reason taken away from you, for some reason, like you couldn't snowboard again, what would you want to do?
Red Gerard: [01:23:51] I don't know. See, like I was on the plane, I was going to Zurich or whatever the other day. And I sat down next to this guy and he was asking me about what I do and all that. And he's that. So what if you were to get hurt the next day, which is such a realistic thing?
Red Gerard: [01:24:04] I'm like, I have no clue what I would want to do. You know, I've always thought about it a little bit, but it's definitely not a realistic thing where that can happen in the snap of the fingers of like you, your job. In a way that quick. So I don't know. I think I'd be. Have no, I don't have too much of a clue, but it would be really cool stay in the snowboarding industry or in the action sports industry. So something like that. But I don't know. I mean, I think it has to go to school and do some things.
Mark Sullivan: [01:24:40] Yeah. OK. So so now that you're going to Tahoe, new season starting.
Mark Sullivan: [01:24:46] You got your your plan for the year. Do how long term are you actually planning things out like. Are you planning through the entire season or are you planning for all the way through the next Olympics? Are you planning for your entire snowboarding career? Like how do you plan into the future? What kind of goals do you set out there for yourself and how long range are you actually like looking into the future?
Red Gerard: [01:25:10] Well, I plan for I mean, I plan probably my each year for contest things, you know, like I know what contests imagine next year. I plan for that for filming. I had no clue. You know, just depends on where the storm is heading. But I mean, my long term, my goal, I guess I'll kind of plan for the next Olympics. Just saying in my head, like seeing where my headspace is at, if I want to go to the next Olympics, I'll go there, which I do, you know, loves to make that team again. Button that I really try not to plan too many things that I like to definitely just like live by the moment. What's that? Carpe diem and roll over later.
Red Gerard: [01:25:52] Seize the day. A moment. Yeah. Live in the moment. Yep.
Mark Sullivan: [01:25:56] Ok. So you know, every year it seems like in snowboarding the bar gets raised right. As far as progression goes where you see like what do you see like a winning run in slopestyle looking like in 2022.
Mark Sullivan: [01:26:12] I don't know. I mean, I feel like we're at a point where it's pretty like you're not going to see a lot more tricks happening.
Red Gerard: [01:26:17] New checks happening in twenty twenty two.
Mark Sullivan: [01:26:20] What is he perfect look like? I mean I'd say I think a lot of people ask me that. The courses have to throw different obstacles in as far as all that. But they try to be a perfect meal. I like to 16 or something then Iran around all that. But if the is the course goes in the way, I would want to go.
Red Gerard: [01:26:42] We'll see more bringing it back to just some 10, 80 years out and depending on what what's what the course offers.
Mark Sullivan: [01:26:50] So basically the course would become more challenging by the terrain design where you wouldn't just be able to pop the biggest gnarly spin that you have in your bag of tricks. And so you'd have to actually be more technical with your writing.
Red Gerard: [01:27:04] I think yeah, I think that would be my goal. OK. And the way that I would see it happening. But I mean, other people have different thoughts, too. Right.
Red Gerard: [01:27:17] I mean, would you start your own contest series with with these newly designed type of courses or do you think that's something that. Because I know Danny Davis has done the Peace Park and we've seen other writers kind of the supernatural. True. Natural with Travis Rice. Would you. Is that something that you would consider doing if these courses don't evolve to what your vision of slopestyle snowboarding is? Would you actually take it on yourself to make it reality free for your friends and competitors?
Red Gerard: [01:27:46] I think that I I think I maybe like when I'm older, I wouldn't want to do it right now. But once I have things more like you figured out, I guess I would consider something like that. But I don't even know if I'd be necessarily. You know, the typical podium thing, like, I feel like it could just be like a stand up thing, like piece park or just not even like a thing or just like a session.
Mark Sullivan: [01:28:14] Yeah. But I mean, more so than maybe any other slopestyle besides you and Sage. It's like you've benefited from that podium. You know, it's like you're remember the guy who landed on top of the podium at the Olympics, which is arguably the biggest prize in the sport. And you're saying that like you don't actually like contests with podiums. You like a jam session and a standout?
Red Gerard: [01:28:36] I do. I am kind of saying that, but I actually do. I love doing contests. I don't mind them at all. Like have a lockout. I'm doing them. And I think the pressure that comes off them is kind of cool. Like I felt like at times I can snowboard a little bit better off than that.
Red Gerard: [01:28:51] Yes, I am saying that right now, but I do I actually don't mind that a lot.
Red Gerard: [01:28:56] But if if it were to keep going that way, my idea would be to change up the course. You know, if you're going to. Yeah. One, two, three. Stowe. It would be to change up the course. Right. But I'd also. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [01:29:11] I mean it seems like you're one of these guys who actually thrives under pressure just based on the fact the first 14 you pulled was in the finals of the contest. You won the gold in your third run right. At the Olympics. And so a lot of your biggest victories or successes has come really when you've been under the most aggressive, most pressure as an athlete. Do you think that that's something? How did you learn how to, like, step up in those situations?
Red Gerard: [01:29:41] I just feel like at times it it works and whatnot. Like, I feel like I don't really have a total answer for that. Just like I like when it comes down to that moment, I'm like, I know like for the Olympics shows, like I travel all the way out here, like I just want to land or run.
Red Gerard: [01:29:56] And that's what I always say during every contest.
Red Gerard: [01:29:58] It's just like, let me just land a run. And then after that, it's not up to me. And I think that's helped me a ton. Just saying that in my head, so much of it is just mental. So I don't really know how that all works, but.
Mark Sullivan: [01:30:14] Ok. Let me ask you this, because maybe I can tap into this a little bit more. But it's like I see you wearing headphones when you're right. You're listening to music. I take it.
Red Gerard: [01:30:24] No. I mean, during practice as well. Not one of snowboarding in a contest.
Red Gerard: [01:30:28] No, not in the final. OK.
Red Gerard: [01:30:30] So well, just like nobody around. I will. But not not when I'm doing contests.
Mark Sullivan: [01:30:34] Ok. So does music play a role in you learning tricks or evolution?
Red Gerard: [01:30:39] When I'm learning tricks. Yeah. But it depends on like the ones like I'm a Chris Corning's headphones the other day and I know that he loves to listen to his music. Full blast doesn't want to hear anything. Right. And like other super noise canceling. And I hate that. Like I had to come out early. I only listen, I want to hear from really like I want to hear what's going around really bad.
Red Gerard: [01:31:01] And that's why I don't do it in a contest is because I really want to hear what's going on and hear the wind and all that. But what I'm learning shakes out. The only reason why like I'm wearing them is just because I want to have that. The way the you know, the vibe of that music. You know, I want to have that pumped up.
Mark Sullivan: [01:31:21] Right. What kind of music are you going to listen to when you're practicing or learning new tricks? Is it a specific genre or band or is it just like what you listen to on the way the mountain where you're stoked on in that moment?
Red Gerard: [01:31:32] Yeah, it's just kind of once they've done that moment like. Of rap playing one song, then the next song will be, you know, like just some rock n roll or something. But a lot of the music that she really gets me hyped up is that kind of depressing at times. You know, like kind of snowboard parts, songs will get me hyped up and then I listen to some rap the next hour and it's all over for sure.
Mark Sullivan: [01:31:54] Ok. So what are you listening to right now? Like what's in your playlist right now?
Red Gerard: [01:31:59] You'll see me play this right now. Definitely some rap. I you know, I think it was a.
[01:32:09] The art of flight or something, but they had this this one song, it's definitely more harder of Cobram and I'm really like I really like that a lot.
[01:32:18] So do you go out of your way to listen to snowboard movie soundtracks, to get stoked, to go riding sometimes?
Red Gerard: [01:32:24] Like this song called The Black Angels is a young man. That is what it's called.
Red Gerard: [01:32:29] And that song like I'll put down on January and you check that one again. Maybe more than I need. All right.
Red Gerard: [01:32:38] But definitely like just some rap song, that young thug or something is on the right ones.
Mark Sullivan: [01:32:46] So you mentioned like listening to the wind earlier. Like how you want to end the wind definitely has an effect in Big Bear end in slopestyle. Have you ever been like forced to drop into a slopestyle course where you weren't actually feeling it because of the wind and they're like, OK, it's your turn dropping next nextweek go. And you're like, yeah, I don't really want to go right now.
Red Gerard: [01:33:08] I think I have been. But there and you do have time. Like, I think people always forget about that. You have like you can say, even if you're a I called up, I'm waiting for the wind. I think I've always just dropped because as family, I'm late for the wind right now. It's like maybe if it's blowing , but time I get down to the jump, there won't be wind.
Red Gerard: [01:33:28] And if I were away, you know, like it's say, I can't control the wind. I have no clue. Right.
Red Gerard: [01:33:34] I always just drop whenever you do have time. And I feel like I have been sometimes forced into that. But it's just a nice start. Anyways, it's you're going to do your run anyway, so you might as well just go home.
Mark Sullivan: [01:33:49] Right. Have you ever been affected, like taken out by the wind where you're like just like a gust hits you and you're like thrown off or whatever?
Red Gerard: [01:33:57] And I've gotten pretty bodied actually just from that, like, really in that way. But like the first to run the Olympics, like I felt that was all wind. I'm pretty sure. I mean, yeah, I definitely felt the wind. Those two rounds is a really windy day there.
Red Gerard: [01:34:12] I know it's it's pretty crazy that like all the round the venue at the Olympics. So like during the girl slopestyle, it was like blowing hard that morning and it was hard during the guys event. But like, I just remember being like, oh, man, they can't do an event today.
Mark Sullivan: [01:34:24] This is crazy.
Mark Sullivan: [01:34:26] I look around the venue and the hillside across from the venue is covered with wind turbines.
Mark Sullivan: [01:34:32] I'm like, oh yeah. They put those there for a reason, huh? Like it's windy here, right? It's real windy there, dude.
Red Gerard: [01:34:38] Every tap into that mountain. They did a test event there. Do. And it was windy there that day too. As many other competing, you know, it was just a windy setup.
Mark Sullivan: [01:34:48] Is that the biggest challenge you generally face in competition is like it for in terms of like conditions. It's really the wind that's going to have like a effect on on your ability to ride well or is it like part course design?
Red Gerard: [01:35:01] Sometimes the wind, sometimes the snow conditions. I mean, what's going to have a big effect? I won't say.
Red Gerard: [01:35:07] I would say the biggest thing in my me, I think he chose different.
Red Gerard: [01:35:10] Like, I don't mind if it's snowing out. I think the wind is really big and I hate that. He adds, The biggest thing for me is the wind, but I'd say other people think knows the worst. But I actually kind of like when it's snowing out, I'm like it kind of gives you that that had that like mindset.
Mark Sullivan: [01:35:29] Your head rides up if it's, you know, it's snowing. And so if I fall, you know, maybe it's because it's numb in its largest my writing.
Red Gerard: [01:35:37] He gives you a nice little excuse. Yeah. Yeah, maybe a little excuse. You know, right on.
Mark Sullivan: [01:35:43] Right on. OK, so throw you've been down there in Southern California for a while. Do you get to go and visit your sponsors while you're down there? Do you go and visit the magazines while you're down there? I mean, what else do you do until really.
Red Gerard: [01:35:56] Yeah. Yeah. Transworld skateboarding or Transmode offices have a crazy skate park there, so.
Red Gerard: [01:36:02] Right. My brother used to work there. So we go there all the time and we still go there. MARK COLVIN And they're just obviously.
Red Gerard: [01:36:10] So let's get there and then I go to Oakley in Lake Forest.
Mark Sullivan: [01:36:14] How do you describe their building? Because people have no idea how crazy that places.
Red Gerard: [01:36:19] I know, right? Just a massive bunker. Places place is nuts. But yeah, love going there. Like picking out the crazy sunglasses. That's really fun.
Mark Sullivan: [01:36:26] Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [01:36:27] What do you think of like the the whole like the design of that place? Because it's almost like a like the movie Alien, like some H.R. Geiger type of like spaceship of birth or something postmodern.
Red Gerard: [01:36:40] Totally. Yeah, I know. Every time I went there, I was really young and I had like crazy thoughts about it. Now I know there I just feel like I'm like so used to go in there. But it really is nuts, especially inside. Like, everything is just massive in metal. Like it's everything's metal and just massive.
Red Gerard: [01:36:58] Yeah. Now it seems like you're like one of the top guys on the Oakley team who are the other guys that are like on the Oakley team and like what? What's the deal with Oakley and having. All the top athletes in terms of snowboarders.
Mark Sullivan: [01:37:12] I think they make great product.
Red Gerard: [01:37:15] And I also mean, they do they make great product. I think they've always had a really cool team. And that's the reason why I went over to clichés, because they they have a history of just having a team.
Mark Sullivan: [01:37:28] It seems like at times they do a lot for the riders, you know, which I'm all about, and even the Oakley, which I'm bound I got to attend. But those seem fun and seem cool. But my some my favorite writers on Oakley right now, it just hangs at Sage Kotsenberg.
Red Gerard: [01:37:49] Nik Baden's on this is yeah, there's there's some good riders for sure.
Mark Sullivan: [01:37:55] Do you have any like pro model type gear? I know it's a goal for a lot of riders is to have signature products either aboard. And I know I know Burton doesn't make like a lot of pro model boards, but do you have any signature products in the market today or do you have the goal of having signature proxies getting involved with the design process for snowboarding gear?
Red Gerard: [01:38:16] Yeah, I don't even know if I can like say any of this, but like, I think like my Olympic gear, I think I'm hopefully a Oakley signature goggle does.
Mark Sullivan: [01:38:31] I hope you do, too. Yes. Yeah. But no, no, like Burton and stuff. I always have ideas and they're super cool. Like with they are, you know, a third me, I was do these roundtables, they get the U.S. Open and stuff or we help design all this stuff which is really cool. That's pretty rare fluids. Right.
Mark Sullivan: [01:38:49] So four years in a row, you've told them they've won the one improvement I could see as a pro model for me. And so me and getting the message after about four or five years.
Red Gerard: [01:38:57] Yeah, exactly. And for the whole team, I'm just saying. Yep, you guys need to make me a pro model. No, no, not really. Yeah. I wrote cause the max. I love the custom that. Yeah.
Mark Sullivan: [01:39:12] They want to make you an equal but it works right on.
Mark Sullivan: [01:39:15] So. So you don't have the ambition of like being a product developer getting into that side of things necessarily a little bit benign as a profession.
Red Gerard: [01:39:24] I'm more just like there's like a couple pieces that I would like to make, like have maybe like a line but never like to develop a whole company's outerwear and all that.
Red Gerard: [01:39:36] No.
Mark Sullivan: [01:39:36] Ok. So, you know, you've had this like expansive and successful career in snowboarding. And I think there's a lot of kids out there that look up to you. And so maybe you can give them some advice and like how they should approach snowboarding and how they should perceive the sport in terms of like how they're going to get the most enjoyment out of it. Because it occurs to me that you're still having fun, despite all the pressure, despite all the people out there kind of like pulling you in different directions. It just occurs to me that you're still having a good time. So what advice do you have for kids to get the most out of the sport?
Red Gerard: [01:40:10] I mean, my advice is like what? What I did when I was younger, I rode my brother's high road, my friends.
Red Gerard: [01:40:17] And that's what I do to the day. You know, I am on the east numbering team. Ideal of a coach necessarily. But like one of my coach, my coaches like my best friend, you know, he's a great guy. Both of them are really great guys and they're fun to ride with. So, I mean, my my thing is, surround yourself with people you like to be be around and surround yourself with. Snowboarders that are better than you if you want to take it to the next level. I always grew up a snowboarder is that we're ripping and doing shapes that I wanted to do. And eventually I kind of Cardiff, you know, rode with them to the point where I could do the tricks that they were doing. I think that I'll be a lot, but never take it too seriously. Snowboarding is never like, I guess it is Olympic sport, but I never did take it just years because it's not worth it. Just snowboarding, you know, like some football. You.
Red Gerard: [01:41:07] You know, you don't have these concepts that are making you do it and stuff. I guess you do. But just have fun.
Mark Sullivan: [01:41:14] Cool. Well, thank you so much for your time here today. Read. You are an incredible athlete. Also, though, a great person. Right. And that's the thing that impresses me. Like when you won the gold at the Olympics, I was like, cool. There's a good representative for the sport of snowboarding in that I didn't see you as a guy. You took it like so seriously that you wouldn't have fun with it. And I think certainly the example that you've given to kids is like someone who really enjoys the sport, enjoys what he does, and and has a great time with the sport of snowboarding.
Red Gerard: [01:41:46] So thank you, Mark. Thank you for having me on. They appreciate is fun. Yeah, cool.
[01:42:25] You know what, I can't stand like when all these people like, oh, I listen to this podcast, .
[01:42:36] You know what you're doing? Doing nothing unless you listen to The Snowboard Project. Season 2, end of story. Forget about it.
We are going to hold off on our Red Gerard episode in light of the news today that Jake Burton Carpenter has passed away. We will be working on another episode for release later today.
This week we are taking a break from discussing video. We may have reached maximum saturation and are experiencing the ‘law of diminishing returns’ in that while the videos that were released this week were no doubt impressive - checking the boxes - after a blitzkrieg of edits - my brain is feeling a little overloaded.
METHODOLOGY - PAT MOORE INTERVIEW 34:10
SKOLF SERIES - MAX TOKANAGA INTERVIEW 43:41
EUROPE - MONS ROISLAND 1:05:12
EAST COAST - RALPH KUCHAREK 1:08:21
COLORADO - CHAD OTTERSTROM 1:20:45
MAMMOTH - BILLY ANDERSON 1:28:18
Instead we will focus on the upcoming season, checking in with BILLY ANDERSON in MAMMOTH, CHAD OTTERSTROM in BRECKENRIDGE, RALPH KUCHAREK with a big storm in VERMONT, and MONS ROISLAND at the DC STUBAI ZOO SESSION in AUSTRIA.
Then we check out the event landscape for the 2019-2020 Season - looking at both the major events and the creative ones that are springing up and talk with PAT MOORE about his METHODOLOGY event series as well as the SKOLF series with AIRBLASTER’S MAX TOKANAGA.
Thank you to the people and brands who support The Snowboard Project.
And speaking of the people who support us (ON PATREON) we now have PATREON Exclusive episodes releasing once a week. Last week was DAN HUDSON, a famous photographer and fine artist from CANADA. This week TIM WESLEY is on the PATREON show. Tim is the owner of SHARK SNOWSURF and he gets into snowsurfing!
BLOCK 1 - CLIP OF THE WEEK
Last week’s winners:
- Nick Larsen - ice rink carve
- Boris Moutin - legless snake
- Jakob Blees - one footed rock drop
Winner of this week’s prize package consisting of two tickets to TAILGATE ALASKA, a LOT SPOT and two SLED BUMPS from Dustin (worth $800) goes to: @emmachambs
This week’s prize for Clip of the Week is a brand new @haglofs jacket! Head over to our Instagram and share your favorite clip to enter!
This week’s clips:
- Mike Skiba ( @_skiba_ ) - Ballerina Press
- Mike Skiba ( @_skiba_ ) - The Shuffle
- Skyler Gallardo ( @skylergallardo ) - The Human Press
- Stian Kleivdal ( @stiankleivdal ) - 540 Stiffy to Late Method
- Sven Thorgren ( @sventhorgren ) - Swedish Pow Run
- Clemens Millauer ( @clemensmillauer ) - GoPro Max Angle
- Matty McCormick ( @mattymccormick ) - Friendly Lawn Dart
- Ron Moisland ( @monsroisland ) - Austrian Jib Line
BLOCK 2 - EVENTS
Two types - Pro/Highest Level VS. Unique/Fun Formats
Pro Level / standardized formats like Halfpipe/Big Air/Slope/SBX
World Cups
Dew Tour
FEB 6-9 Copper
X-Games
January 23-26 Aspen
US Open
Feb 28-29 Vail
Events like Dew Tour and X-Games push these new formats in new directions
ie Knuckle Huck, Jam Format Big Air, and Modified Superpipe
PARTICIPATION EVENTS
Mt. Baker Banked Slalom
Feb 7-9 Mt. Baker
Holy Bowly
Private days April 20-24 / Public days April 25-26
Sunshine Village, Banff, AB
Butter and Plants
December 7
Highland Hills, MN
Tailgate Alaska
March 27 - April 5, 2020
Thompson Pass, AK
METHODOLOGY - PAT MOORE INTERVIEW 34:10
SKOLF SERIES - MAX TOKANAGA INTERVIEW 43:41
BLOCK 3 - CHECK-INS
Europe
Mons Roisland 1:05:12
Vermont
Ralph Kucharek 1:08:21
Colorado
Chad Otterstrom 1:20:45
Mammoth
Billy Anderson 1:28:18
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 11-18-19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan & Dustin James
Featuring Pat Moore, Max Tokanaga, Mons Roisland, Ralph Kucharek, Chad Otterstrom and Billy Anderson
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Victor De Le Rue - Freeride World Tour Champion- Episode 124
Victor is a legend in the making - like his brother before him (Xavier). Originally Victor pursued freestyle before being taken under the wing of his older brother and introduced to the joy of big mountains and free riding. We cover a lot of ground in this episode - including an avalanche that took him out in the movie Defiance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUN-2fAgp0A
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THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Victor De Le Rue Episode 124
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 11-11-19
Brought to you by 686 Technical Outerwear & Never Summer Snowboards
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Movies discussed this week:
RIde Sicky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgYFTB_PSuQ
Videograss Balance Beam
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/balance-beam-a-short-film-from-videograss/
The North Face Presents: Defiance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUN-2fAgp0A
This week we had no less Han six guests on our Real Talk Show - while this may have been a lot - it demonstrates the possibility of keeping content current.
Leanne Pelosi talks about the Defiance Movie
Dylan Alito talks about the season and Absinthe Film Tour
Tim Humphreys talk Boreal opening and new GoPro Cameras
Pat Bridges Talks Mammoth opening
Jon Miller Talks about the Backcountry Boycott
and Willie McMillian introduces his new album.
We also have our clip of the week contest featuring:
Benny Milam
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4njLFwnY0O/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Boris Mouton
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4upUb9lH24/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Fricz Botond
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4kS_pCh14E/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Jakob Blees
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4n8ikJnofP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Kiril Rikkila
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4M6htkh9wt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Nick Larson
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4vO9HihUq0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Rene Rinnekangas
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4h9ph-HiT4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Tim Humphreys
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4sOgjtAJkF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Gigi Rüf - Episode 110
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Maria Thomsen - Mom First, Snowboarder Second - Episode 122
Can you balance life and follow your dreams at the same time? After sitting down and talking with Maria Thomsen the answer is a resounding YES! Snowboards have only been a part of her life since 2008 but it did not take Maria long to make her mark and become a professional athlete. Moving to Whistler from Denmark Maria would soon start filming with the Too Hard crew and from there she would go on to film another part in Jess Kimura’s the Uninvited which would lead to her being INVITED to compete in X-Games Real Snow - the only female in a crowd of men. She won “Female Video Part of the Year” at the Transworld Rider’s Poll Awards and “Breakthrough Athlete” at this year’s iF3 awards. Maria is on her way to big things in the world of snowboarding this year but as a mother of a five year-old boy she knows where her priorities lie. Maria shows snowboarders young and old how to make time for the important things in life.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
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Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
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Maria Thomsen Episode 122
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 11/5/19
With special guests Ted Bordland, Mons Roisland and Jake Aaronson
Brought to you by 686 Technical Outerwear & Never Summer Snowboards
Http://686.com http://neversummer.com
On today’s show we discuss the growing boycott of Backcountry.com over their trademarking of the word “backcountry.” We also take a tour around the world to look at riding this week and check in with Mons Roisland in Italy and Ted Borland at the Bonezone. We discuss with Jake Aaronson the importance of filmers and editors using The Dustbox Presents and Nitro’s Offline as examples. The episode finishes off with Clip of the Week and we’re giving away tickets to Tailgate Alaska.
Block 1 - THE BACKCOUNTRY.COM DEBACLE
Backcountry.com has been suing small businesses and startups over their use of the word backcountry. We take a look into this developing story and the rising boycott that has arisen in response.
Resource:
https://coloradosun.com/2019/11/05/backcountry-com-trademark-lawsuits-boycotts-backlash/
https://gearjunkie.com/backcountry-boycott-lawsuits
https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/31/backcountry-com-sues-anyone-who-uses-its-namesake-is-it-bullying-or-just-business/
You can also join the Facebook group "boycott backcountryDOTcom" to stay updated.
BLOCK 2 - WHERE ARE PEOPLE RIDING (BONEZONE, BIG AIR)
We go behind the scenes at the Modena Big Air in Italy with Mons Roisland and we also talk to one of the founders of the Bonezone, Ted Borland.
*MIDCOVER & SNOWBOARDER FORECAST*
BLOCK 3 - DUST OFF THE OLD BOX WITH JAKE AARONSON
Another conversation about movies. This time we dissect some of the tricks and segments in both The Dustbox Presents and Nitro’s Offline. Jake Aaronson tells us why he thinks The Dustbox Presents might be movie of the year for him.
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/the-dustbox-presents-full-video/
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/films/offline
BLOCK 4 - Clip of the Week / Housekeeping
86 entries for the 686 clip of the week
- Mans Hedberg - Disaster Revert
- Kevin Backstrom Nose Butter land
- Bode Shove it, kick flip at Bonerzone
#scrollawards winner:
@jplippens - Joseph Lippens
THIS CLIP OF THE WEEK - 2 week contest
PRIZE - TAILGATE ALASKA.
www.tailgatealaska.com
LOT SPOT - 2 ALL ACCESS SPOTS ($800)
You can give them to a friend, resell them. Alright here’s the catch. Dustin will personally double you guys out one day for a run on a sled.
Housekeeping:
686 Yearbook - photo annual - available on their website
Overture - never online
686 dealers/shops - Follow @686 to find out about the tour
Never Summer Premiere
TEAM MOVIE Premiering Saturday Nov, 9th, Punchbow Social - 1st and Broadway Denver
CHASING FUN
Judd Henkes - The Prodigy - Episode 120
Judd Henkes is a snowboarding prodigy. At the age of 14 he made the halfpipe finals at the US Open, arguably one of the toughest cuts in the entire sport. Also, he is a slope rider, making the achievement that much more remarkable. Last season, he podiumed a Grand Prix and the World Championships, and was in an Absinthe snowboard film. And Judd is just getting started.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
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Judd Henkes Episode 120
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
The Snowboard Project
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 10/28/19
-Look at the riding that’s going on now (Check in with RUka)
-Take a look back at Snowboarder Magazine with Mark
-Two amazing Pow movies
-Mainstream vs not mainstream
-Clip of the Week
WHERE IS THE RIDING AT YO?
-Ruka, spoke with Miiko, who is 22 and on the Finnish national team.
**Copenhill - Denmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwqLXGhiiv4
Or a better video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ggBOzvMLM
**Early season red flags. With massive snowfalls heading to Colorado, etc. We should bring up a few things to think about as you being venturing into the BC. What mindset and information do you need flowing through your noggin?
-temperature
-layers
-elevation
-wind
-sun
-aspect
-time
-group communication
-hand pits
CALL OUR TIP LINE AT 208.471.8007
Midcover:
Canadian Psychedelic Snowboarding Team by Bowser and Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JWidFSF-_o
Block I: Deep Dive
History of park riding and Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark
Block II: Videos online this week
Moral of this story:
Two of the most legit pow movies of the season came out last week (also see Umami)
Movies
Who Cares - Charles Reid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70X75gTEb4&t=76s
BC Canadians are the real deal. You can tell that just from hearing charles reid in that interview. If you live and ride in BC, and you’re at the highest level your shit is no joke. You can rip a sled. You can throw double corks off backcountry booter, You know how to ride in avalanche conditions. You’re a boss in the backcountry. I know this, you know this, this is a known fact.
The crazy thing to me is seeing Joy, and more specifically Overjoy which really laid out the backstory to what the movie Joy is and how these guys who are at the top of the game in competitive snowboarding were able to take it to the backcountry. Obviously they had mentors in certain spots. Iguchi and Carter in Jackson, Danny Davis in Tahoe. What we are witnessing here is a passing of the torch if you ask me. It would be amazing to see the crew from Who Cares link up with the Riders from Joy and see what kind of crazy shit would come out of that.
Sunokero Korua pow movie Japan - snorkel
https://vimeo.com/367935705
Every shot is framed so well that you could pause it at any moment and there you would have a photo you could mount on the wall of your chalet. If there’s one thing we cant count on year after year is footage coning out of Japan. The Korua crew was able to showcase the vibe and feel of the ride in Japan. Utilizing camera angles that highlight the depth of the snow and the placement of the trees as much as characters as the snowboarders themselves.
Overjoyed
The making of the movie Joy. Aired on the World of X-Games on ABC.
Future Mystic
Brandon Cocard and Mike Rav's movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6q_j6Wgfs
Clip of the Week
Last week
- Powder in Alaska
- 1260 double nose Seb Koninjenberg
- Vlad Khadarin with a revert
Click on the paper airplane to share your favorite Clip of the Week to your Story #scrollawards
Scroll Awards for 10/28/19
Eero Ettala
Early Grab FS3
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4CxOw4HXqD/
Fabian Fraidl
Ghost Slide
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4IFkVEAAwd/
Mans Hedberg
Disaster Revert
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4KWiISFR7v/
Kalle Jarviehto
Murphy Flip
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4IFbgBgmmK/
Kevin Backstrom
Slash Crash
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4KUyzrn9dw
Kevin Backstrom
Butter Landing
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Hp5EQnMdR
Sebbe DeBuck
Double shifty FS 3 w/ grab
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4AL_8lCFCR/
Bode Merrill
Shuv it to flip
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Kt2QGpOZm/
CONCLUSION/GOODBYES/HOUSEKEEPING
Correction: Helgasons did not win a Norwegian snowboard award because they are not norwegian. They are from Iceland. Sorry bros. (Mark: I thought everyone knew that.)
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft, Yes Snowboards, Snowboarder Magazine and Tailgate Alaska. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
http://snowboarder.com
http://tailgateak.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject @mediaknievel @duckskins
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 10-28-19
Episode 119
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin James
Guests: Charles Reid and Mikko Rehnberg
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Mons Roisland - Norweigan Olympian - Episode 118
Mons is a name you may have not have heard of - but probably should have. He is a Norweigan snowboarder, an Olympian and X-Games Medalist, but has often been in the shadow of higher profile Norweigans like Stale Sandbech and Marcus Kleveland. He is also likely to make the finals of any event he enters - and is becoming more likely with each passing season top end up on the podium.
At 22 years old, Mons has a bright future in the sport and plenty of years to compete, film and ride at the highest level in the sport.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Mons Roisland - Norwegian Olympian - Episode 118
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 10-21-19 Episode 117
Welcome to the show. Where does the soul of snowboarding live?
Splitboarding with Andrew Hardingham RIDING NEWS** Timberline Preseason opener. They opened from Sunday, 10am-3pm with 23” at the base and a fresh 7” layer.**
Mt. Hood pow day with Kurt Heine
**
Bachelor also opened - and had their woodward terrain park going.
**
Ruka Finland
*BoneZone - Peeps Pass - no uphill travel - dangerous*
**
A-basin - $20 tickets 2-4pm and $5 beers and Apps until Nov. 22, 3.5 mile run.** T-12 days to trollhaugen **West Coast Snowboarding vs. East Coast Snowboarding.
CLIP OF THE WEEK
Announce last week’s clip winner by voting.**
Entries: 100 for a NS snowboard of your choice
PODIUM:
3rd: Sean Fitzsimons - THE SAVE
2nd: Mr. Skin - THE SPRAY
1st: Torgeir Bergrem - METHOD CHANNEL GAP
THIS WEEK’S CONTESTANTS**
Go over format. @686 @thesnowboardproject #scrollawards
Judd Henkes BS 16 (smooth)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3mZIMzHTL1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Kyle Mack
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3mgBI4gwEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Seb Konijnenberg (12 double nose)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3hf8wbIT3x/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Anna Gasser
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3uXuzlF8r7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Vlad Khadarin (3rd trick)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ogu-GonQA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Roope Tontori
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3hf4dhHiAo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Bode Merrill
https://www.instagram.com/p/B33AWUuJqqX/?igshid=d6yfo7cpouk3
Matanuska Thunder Films
https://www.instagram.com/p/B31FaFZgwcW/?igshid=1hgo79djv3agc
Midcover: @scottyarnold
Snowboarder Weekly Forecast with StanFREERIDE WORLD TOUR ATHLETES
NORWEGIAN SNOWBOARD AWARDS
**
Video Part of the Year - Torstein Horgmo - Shredbots unnamed
**
Rookie of the Year - Stion Kleivdal
**
Women’s Rookie of the Year - Thea Cassandra Vatne Larsen
**
Tricks of the Year - Fridge forfeited to Samuel Aero
**
Club of the Year - Tyrili Brettklub (help drug addicts out of addiction through snowboarding)
**
Photo of the Year - Sigurd Vaagland / Rider: Stion Karlseen - https://www.instagram.com/p/B26aAC2CbZz/
**
Edit of the Year - Brages Partylaps 3.0
**
Powderhounds - Knut and Roald Christoffersen @knut_christoffersen
Best Style Award - Dedicated to Dillin OJ**o - Knut Christoffersen
**
Firery Soul - Fredrik Perry
** RIDERS OF THE YEAR
Stale Sandbach - Male Rider of the Year
Silje Norendal - Female rider of the year
iF3 AWARDS
ATHLETE CATEGORY
Snowboarding
Discovery of the Year, presented by Ski Saint Bruno
Maria Thomsen in Isle of Snow - Absinthe Films
Best Female Performance, presented by Protect Our Winters Canada
Jamie Anderson in Unconditional - Snowboarder Magazine
Best Male Street Segment, presented by Newschoolers
Frank Bourgeois in Isle of Snow - Absinthe Films
Best Male Freeride Segment, presented by Freeride World Tour
Rene Rinnekangas in Everybody Everybody - Snowboarder Magazine
THIS WEEK IN VIDEO
PREMIERES
JOY PREMIERE**Hollywood, Saturday, Montalban
**
WHO CARES - Charles Reid & Darcey Sharpe
Canada and Alaska Charles, Darcy Sharpe, Ryan Paterson, Jamie Anderson, Dustin Craven,
EDITS/PARTS
GOOD WEEK FOR FEMALES
**
VEER—NIRVANA ORTANEZ & MELISSA RIITANO FULL PART
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/veer-nirvana-ortanez-melissa-riitano-full-part/
A part that has been getting a ton of cheers on our premiere tour, Melissa Riitano and Nirvana Ortanez’s section from Veer has finally hit the internet! Just click play and it is pretty easy to see why. Spending last season filming in Japan, Quebec, Minnesota and more, the two put their creative take on snowboarding in front of the lens for Veer and the final product does not disappoint.
WEBISODES/FULL MOVIES
**
FAST FORWARD - THE GIRLS IN MOTION
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/fast-forward-the-girls-in-edmonton.html
This is the second video in a series highlighting women’s riding. On this trip they were surviving in -30° C, shovelling snow in the streets of Edmonton. Frozen toes, banged up bodies but a lot of laughing and a bunch of bangers to show for it! Featuring riding from Veroniqi Hanssen, Sophie Nicholls-Austin, Jenaya Jenkins, Kayli Hendricks, Taylor Davies, Madeline Kuss and Georgia Nicholls-Austin.
BUDDYCAM - A SHORT FILM BY MADISON BLACKLEY**https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/buddycam-a-short-film-by-madison-blackley/ With clips from a ton of riders, the project features Darrah Reid Mclean, Taylor Elliott, Nora Beck, Howard Eyre, Christine Savage, Kieth Rutherford, Fancy Rutherford, Savannah Golden, RJ Sweet, Alexa McCarty, Dusty Miller, Kelsey Boyer, Sumer Fenton, Emma Crosby, Melissa Riitano, and Jake Flood.
LOVELY DAY - A VANS SNOWBOARD FILM**https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/lovely-day-a-vans-snowboarding-film/
“In celebration of Jake Kuzyk’s signature boot, the Vans Snow team embarked on a 14-day road-trip down the coast of North America. Watch Jake and crew on their exploits in the new short film ‘Lovely Day’.”-Vans Snow
TENDERFOOT PT. 1—PACIFIC NORTHWEST WITH GARRETT WARNICK**https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/tenderfoot-snowboarding-pt-1-pacific-northwest-with-garrett-warnick/
A four part travel snowboard series, Tenderfoot Snowboarding is Garrett Warnick’s celebratory project focusing in on the community of snowboarding.
MONS ROISLAND IN SAAS FEE**https://www.methodmag.com/videos/mons-roisland-in-saas-fee.html
SCROLL MASTER
103 Entries
@Cody.Schram is our winner!
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode 686, Never Summer and SPARK R&D. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://neversummerindustries.com
http://686
http://sparkrandd.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
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Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 10-21-19 Episode 1127
Hosted by Mark Sullivan, Dustin James and Andrew Hardingham
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Michael Akira West - Founder of 686 - Episode 116
Michael Akira West started Jib 686 Enterprises in 1992 as a college project. Influenced by the early skate culture in SoCal and the Big Bear snowboard scene Mike launched a small collection of denim, technical outerwear, and accessories and never looked back. In 1995 Jib 686 became just 686 and that's when Mike launched the Smarty 3-in-1 layering system spawning more than two decades of innovation in snowboarding outerwear.
We stopped by their headquarters in Compton, CA. to talk with Mike about what it takes to start a company and grow it into one of snowboarding's powerhouses, the business philosophy of Kaizen, and the importance of cultural influence in product design.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Michael Akira West - Episode 116
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk 115
10-14-19This week we talk premieres, new edits, resort openings, Saas-Fee, the Impaler battles a nine year old and your chance to judge the best clip on Instagram this week - while entering yourself to win the Never Summer Snowboard of your choice.
MOVIE PREMIERES
**JOY: A Snowboard Film
Along with Red Gerard, the film also features elite snowboarders such as X Games superpipe medalist Ben Ferguson and 2014 Olympic slopestyle gold medalist Sage Kotsenburg.
The film also features Red Gerard, Sage Kotsenburg and their friends Brock Crouch, Danny Davis, Nik Baden, Gabe Ferguson and Hailey Langland
Saturday, October 19th in Hollywood at the Montalban.
**LOVELY DAY by Vans
A short film by Vans. The Vans team took a 14 day trip down the west coast of North America Directed by Tanner Pendleton and Jake Kuzyk
Friday, October 18th in Vancouver BC at The Clubhouse
**Triple Overhead
A Pow surf movie premiering Saturday, October 19th in Pemberton BC
------------------------------------- THIS WEEK IN VIDEO (teasers, edits, and full movies) - 165 MINUTES*TEASERS*
*DP MOVIE TEASER BY DIRTY PIMPIN (JAPANESE STREET CREW)
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/dirty-pimp-s-dp-movie-teaser.html - 2 Minutes
*10 BY TERROR SNOW (teaser)
10 year anniversary of Terror Snow / Russian Street edit - OCTOBER 25th Moscow
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/terror-snow-10-movie-teaser.html - 2 Minutes
*EDITS*
GRANDE ROCHA - BIG BOULDER SEASON RECAP*
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/grande-rocha-i-big-boulder-2019-season-recap.html - 6 Minutes**
*DOWN WONDER BY SHRED BOTS (PERISHER PARK EDIT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kq9ZFHOGwU - 4 Minutes
GUS WARBINGTON PART FROM EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY*
https://www.snowboarder.com/featured/the-snowboarder-movie-everybody-everybody-gus-warbington-full-part/ - 4 minutes**
ALL WAYS DOWN - ROME TEAM EDIT FROM ABSOLUT PARK LAAX (MATTY COX)*
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/all-ways-down-rome-team-tweak-at-absolut-park.html - Rome Edit - 4 minutes**
GARGAR3 BRYCE BUGERA’S PARK FOOTY - CANADIAN PARK RIDER*
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/piitb-s-gargar3-bryce-bugera-park-footy.html - 3 Minutes**
* HEAD 2 HEAD BATTLE: The Impaler vs a 9 year old girl*
MARCUS RAND - YAWGOONS*
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/yawgoons-marcus-rand-street-edit.html - 3 Minutes**
ANNIINA PERHOVAARA* - LITTLE STREET EDIT**
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/9-year-old-anniina-perhovaara-little-street-edit.html - 2 Minutes
PROJECT HIJINKS by RUSTY TOOTHBRUSH (European Street Crew)*
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/rusty-toothbrush-s-project-hijinks-teaser.html - Rusty Toothbrush - 2 Minutes**
INDOOR RAIL JAM VIDEO UITHOF - NEDERLANDS*
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/daily-chaos-fire-in-the-uithof.html - - 5 Minutes**
*FULL MOVIES & EPISODES*
BRENDAN SULLIVAN INTERVIEW by JAKE AARONSENhttp://kingsnowmag.com/saturday-morning-cartoons-2/ - 40 minutes**EBF: JOONA SAIKKONEN INTERVIEW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUaYC4V31Ig CHRIS GRENIER’S BOARDSLIDES AND BANTER EPISODE 2: SCOTT STEVENS AT HOME*
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/chris-grenier-s-boardslides-banter-days-with-scott.html - 6 Minutes*FANATICS by FANATICS
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/fanatics-snowboards-presents-the-fanatics.html - 15 Minutes*SKOLF THE MOVIE
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/skolf-the-movie-airblasters-latest-masterpiece/ - 27 Minutes
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SKOLF THE INTERVIEW with TUCKER ANDREWS
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SAAS - FEE GIVEAWAY SEGMENT
Hagen Kearny - SBX
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3kYtqolDPW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Max Parrot - Jib
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3cML7PA_ST/?igshid=1xxpyn8qnz2d3
Jason Wolle - Pipe Clip - FS 5 double rocket
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3cX9fTnbRB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Laurie Blouin - Stomp Clip
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ZwIkXHGvY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Torgeir Bergrem - Method
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3XE_JsnhQa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Sean fitzsimons - Crazy Save
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3h74nnnl6W/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Mons Roisland - Best Knuck Trick (Turtle Roll)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3mvCd5Aen4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Marcus Skin - Pow Spray
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3d6rCelmvb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
SAAS-FEE isn’t the only place with snow!
It’s still Springtime in New Zealand
It’s springtime in new zealand - snowboard pro camps made a trip and rode the small and medium features and spring in the southern hemisphere is just like the spring in the north - its all about park laps.
Mt. Hutt, the Remarkables and cardrona as well as a handful of club fields are still open as the season winds down.
RUKA FINLAND
Now up north to Ruka in Finland - the first resort in the world to open this season.
Currently they have 2 of their 30 ‘Alpine’ runs open (and 98.8 miles of nordic trails) and 3 lifts operating. They currently have a base of 8” of frozen granular - aka a majority of man made snow.
Let’s go to Colorado. Colorado Traction Law - new law requires special M+S designated tires, snows, or chains from denver through Vail September through May - Denver to Gypsum (aka through Vail).
NATE DOGGGG INTERVIEW
Instagram: @nate4gs
October opening days:Subject to change mother nature has the final say
10/19 -
Sunday River, ME
Loveland, CO
Killington, VT.
10/21
Wild Mountain Ski & Snowboard Area, MN
10/27
Wildcat Mountain, NH
Mt. Snow, VT
10/29
Mt. Rose, Tahoe
Speaking of opening days we have a new resort opening in New Jersey!
Big Snow - America’s first indoor snow park opens december 5th in E. Rutherford NJ. -
10 miles from New York City. 160 vertical feet and 1000’ long run. 3 surface lifts and a chairlift - a fixed grip quad. Perhaps most promising is their $50 LEARN TO RIDE DAY THAT INCLUDES RENTALS AND LIFT ACCESS.
If you’ve missed any of our Season 2 interviews make sure to check them out on our RSS Feed - we’ve had the J2 episode, Pat Bridges, Gigi Ruf, Mt Hood 30th Anniversary of Snowboard Camps, and Bud Fawcett. Stay tuned for another interview episode dropping on Thursday!
This week we talk with veteran professional photographer Bud Fawcett. Bud was snowboardinbg’s original photographers documenting the sport’s original legends - guys like Craig Kelly and Terry Kidwell. Bud has shot a ton of cover photos as well as some of the sports most iconic images. Take a walk down memory lane in this episode.
In this episode we discuss:
- Getting a job in the industry through an employment agency
- First photo roadtrip - to the first ever Mt. Baker Banked Slalom
- The challenges of shooting in a pre-digital age.
- Paying your dues to work in the snowboard industry.
- Shooting with Kelly, Kidwell, Palmer, Ranquet and others.
- Discusses current favorite photographers.
- Getting hit by a rider in a life changing crash at Squaw Valley.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Bud Fawcett • Episode 114
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk:This Week in Snowboarding 10-7-19
WINTER KICK OFF EVENTS
Art of Arc in Salt Lake City
Hintertux Opening
https://opening.hotzone.tv
Metal Battle
Railjam first in town event ever. For the regular park fog and wind so big air was cancelled.
For regular Hot Zone Park - weather was a factor. Free board test. COPENHAGEN SKI SLOPE
https://snowbrains.com/copenhill-ski-slope-power-plant-copenhagen-opened/
Tallest mountain in Denmark. It’s a fake mountain.
This week in weather!
-Mt. Baker is forecasted to get up to 4 feet of powder over the next couple of days
-Southern Montana staying in the news with another dump coming - up to 16 inches. Big Sky, Bridger, Whitefish all looking to capitalize off this early season dump!
New Camera’s GoPro Hero 8 and Max, and Sony A9
Max is Fusion replacement
Hero 8 features Hot Shoe for accessories like light and shotgun mic
Out of Bounds, a 3D IMAX film, will be featuring Torah’s journey from through the world's longest chain of mountain ranges extending from Antarctica all the way to Alaska. She will encounter penguins, polar bears, and other wildlife, and meet with scientists and environmentalists to uncover a deeper understanding of our mountain ecosystems.
The debut screening will be in Seattle, WA on the evening of Oct 29th
Joy Snowboard Movie Premiere
Oct 19 Hollywood, Red Gerard, Sage Kotsenberg, Ben Fergusson
World Premiere MPLS 10/7 “VEER” INTRO—TONY WAGNER AND MIKE LIDDLE We made four movies this year. That’s right. Count ’em. FOUR. All for your enjoyment. So enjoy the intro with Tony Wagner and Mike Liddle. This one also stars Jesse Paul, Jordan Small, Melissa Riitano, Nirvana Ortanez, and plenty more.
With Veer, six riders set out to reinterpret urban snowboarding in their own creative ways. The smaller roster highlights each rider’s take on tricks and terrain in a dense, action-based, intimate ensemble format. Shot primarily in Midwestern locales, Veer avoids the bells and whistles that have become the snow porn norm, in favor of raw action that is as relatable as it is inspiring. Directed by Dan Tyler.
Check out the full thing at the world premiere on OCT. 7 in MINNEAPOLIS, MN! RSVP for a free ticket here!
WHO CARES
A diverse and dynamic group join forces to make movie magic. Ryan Kenny operates the cam and stitches the footage. Darcy Sharpe gets his in the backcountry, Charles Reid continues to power through pow, Ryan Paterson gets better every year, Jamie Anderson takes Olympic stomping skills to Revelstoke and Dustin Craven shows ’em where to go and how to do it.
Can’t wait for this one. World premiere in Whistler October 11th, get tickets, presented by Gibbons Aprés Lager.
Chloe Kim Retirement for College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgJt8fuSLK8
THIS WEEK IN VISUAL SNOWBOARDING
Gnu Snowboard’s Cloud
Filmed on phones, vertically, it is basically just a bunch of instagram stories.
Nico Muelleer
Forrest Bailey
BLAKE PAUL
MaxWarbington
B-Side Tweakers | Jan Scherrer & Markus Keller Halfpipe Snowboarding Buzzin - Young Doli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wqc-SRG-Q1I
It’s all ping pong and shiftys in this one. At first I was wondering what buzzin meant. Slowly as the story unfolded I realized that these guys were buzzin the whole time. Buzzin off Corona, buzzin off vodka tonics. They had a hotel room party. It was three dudes dancing and one girl hanging out on a bed. Fear and loathing in SoCal. I’m backing the stranger things interlude music. Especially the girl who failed miserably at shotgunning a beer.
Goner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Hrgp5c7vQWE
Did they ride powder? Probably not. An all street part from Japan. Featuring Riley Nickerson, Jacob Krugmire, and Jake Moore.
Week of Privilege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=717&v=ea3anzpBKP0
Quiksilver team edit at Baldface Lodge featuring Travis Rice, Griffin Siebert, Todd Richards, and the rest of the crew.
FWT20 DATES HAVE DROPPED!https://www.freerideworldtour.com/news/fwt20-dates-have-dropped
The snow is beginning to fall in the mountains which means winter is definitely on its way and so is the FWT20!
The Freeride World Tour is back for another action packed season! 5 stops across 3 continents, all culminating on the legendary face of the Bec des Rosses for 25th anniversary of the Verbier Xtreme.
Hakuba, Japan Jan 18th - 25th
Kicking Horse Golden, BC Feb 6th - 12th
Ordino Arcalis, Andorra Feb 28th - March 04th
Fieberbrunn, Austria Mar 7th - 13th
Xtreme Verbier, Switzerland March 28th - April 5th
TAILGATE ALASKA
Tickets on sale now!
Access:
By Plane: Tok Air Service
By Helicopter: Rendezvous Heli Guides
By Sled: OTG Rentals and Tours (or bring your own)
Touring: Basecamp meetups
Basecamp Mini Events:
3 Concert Nights (Rock n Roll, HipHop, EDM)
Pizza Cook-Off
Man Games 3 Nights
Dog Show
Rendezvous Celebration of Life Party
Tickets and Lodging:
Just like season passes at your local hill the price goes up the longer you wait. Our presale goes until next Tuesday, 15th of October.
There are two types of tickets, All-Access Passes and LOT SPOTS
Everyone needs an all-access pass. This gets you the discounts with our operators, wifi, bathrooms, swag, and beer garden parties.
If you want to camp to stay at our basecamp, which is highly recommended, you need a LOT SPOT. Otherwise you can stay offsite or in a hotel in Valdez and commute up daily which is what some people prefer.
Head over to tailgateak.com or visit our instagram to get tickets!
REAL TALK DEEP DIVE WITH ANDREW HARDINGHAM
Snowboard Crews.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode 686 and Never Summer Industries. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://686.com
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Real Talk:This Week in Snowboarding 10-7-19 Episode 113
Hosted by Mark Sullivan, Dustin H. James and Andrew Hardingham
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Episode 112
30th Anniversary of Camps at Mt. Hood
In this episode we talk with a few people who have been shaped by riding Mt. Hood in the summertime. We talk with park builder Mike Schipani, spice-man Chris Prosser. Former pro and shop owner Jason Borgstede, pro athlete Chad Otterstrom, former camp director Christine Sperber and Capita Snowboards founder Blue Montgomery and their experiences at Mt. Hood over the years.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Yes Snowboards and Cardiff Snowcraft. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://yesnowboard.com
http://www.cardiffsnow.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
30th Anniversary of Camps at Mt. Hood
Episode 112 - 10/3/19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Episode 112
30th Anniversary of Camps at Mt. Hood
In this episode we talk with a few people who have been shaped by riding Mt. Hood in the summertime. We talk with park builder Mike Schipani, spice-man Chris Prosser. Former pro and shop owner Jason Borgstede, pro athlete Chad Otterstrom, former camp director Christine Sperber and Capita Snowboards founder Blue Montgomery and their experiences at Mt. Hood over the years.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Yes Snowboards and Cardiff Snowcraft. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://yesnowboard.com
http://www.cardiffsnow.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
30th Anniversary of Camps at Mt. Hood
Episode 112 - 10/3/19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Real Talk September 30, 2019 - Episode 111
In this week’s Real Talk we head down to the Rendezvous Mountain Culture Festival in Salt Lake City. We caught up with Bjorn Leines, Sage Kotsenberg, Kyle Kennedy, Griffin Seibert, Hans Mindich, Aspen Rain Weaver and Bode Miller to check out some of this season’s new movies...
[Bjorn on Movie Premieres]
Three subjects
Volcom movie premiere
[Sage Kotsenberg]
Hot Dawgs and Handrails
Joe Sexton got his cover presented to him by stan in a touching instagram story.
- Jesse Paul $7000
- Project pat $3000 Pat Fava
-
Miles_falcon $2000
-
@alexroland $4000
- @snore.a $2000
- @desireemelancon $1000
Rendezvous Mountain Culture Festival
Know before you go - Utah Avalanche Center
Panel Discussion hosted by Griffin Siebert for POW
AnnaPurna Presentation by Bob Plumb
[Kyle Kennedy]
Main attraction was the Movie Premieres
Isle of Snow was first
Similar to past movies - top quality, Narration &Soundtrack
Stand Out Parts
Overall the movie I am most looking forward to watching again. The kind of movie you just can’t watch once. And that in itself may be a good way to judge a snowboard video.
[Hans & Aspen]
Offline
Nitro Movie - didn’t see - but Zeb is in there as well as Sam Taxwood and rest of nitro team.
Contrast
Interesting filmed entirely in SLC - aside from one trip to WA for Deseree and Erik Leon.
Night stuff was cool but fell a little flat aka just bright flashes against a dark bkg.
[Bode Interview]
We would also like to give to thank Snowboarder Magazine and Stan with their segment called The Weekly Snowboarder Forecast.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode 686 and Never Summer Industries. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://686.com
http://www.neversummer.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
REAL TALK THIS WEEK IN SNOWBOARDING
EPISODE 103 9/2/19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin H. James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This week we talk with veteran professional athlete and company owner Gigi Rüf. Gigi has been around the pro scene for a couple of decades, filming with some of the most notable crews in the sport including Kingpin Productions, Absinthe Films and The Pirates. Born in 1981, Gigi has done it all - well just about, including winning Travis Rice’s Ultra Natural, and a stop of the Freeride World Tour and even had a signature movie called 9191. He was part of the old Burton UNINC crew, but left Burton after the rest of the team was disbanded, and his outerwear sponsors Volcom offered to provide him with pro model board sponsorship as well. After a long stint with Volcom as his main sponsor, he has now set up his own snowboard brand called Slash Snowboards.
In this episode we discuss:
- Olympics in Snowboarding
- Progression and self expression
- Direction of the sport
- Freeride World Tour Vs. Ultra Natural
- Getting paid by Burton, Nike and Volcom
- Why he started Slash Snowboards
- The Futureproof crash
- Riding in Alaska
- Working with photographers
- Beekeeping
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Yes Snowboards. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Gigi Rüf - Episode 110
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
In this week’s Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding, Andrew Hardingham is back for a talk about movie premieres - as well Dustin is back to talk news.
VIDEOS ROUNDUP THIS WEEK:
Contrast - Official Trailer - Bode - Desiree Melacoln - Eric Leon - short and sweet, not to mention a real tease.
BLP III Teaser - Godfather soundtrack - good old canadian fun.
Featuring - Taco, Manuel Calvo, Jake Whitburn, Gregor Zed, Conner Felix, Kevin Beaudet, Liam Glass, Taylor Davies, Jenaya Jenkins and Tyler Miller
Cast and Carve - Jones Snowboards
Jimmy Goodman does both. Spring Split / fish mission. Great job of showcasing that splitboard lifestyle. If you’re thinking of getting into splitboarding or you already love splitting this is for you.
https://www.methodmag.com/videos/jones-snowboards-presents-cast-and-carve.html
WE HAVE THREE EDITS OUT OF THE EAST COAST THIS WEEK
1 EAST BUMFUCC - SHITHOLE
By Jake Aaronson and featuring Andre Trofimov and Austin Visintainer
-B Roll (Canadian Geese, melting icicle, and the classic regular people stoked on your trick shot)
-The gig economy has officially hit snowboarding (Venmo)
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/fuccing-up-the-internet-eastbumfucc-shithole-full-video/
2 FOLKLORE - Arbor Team Vid - filmed in Eastern Canada
Frank April, Erik Leon, Mike Liddle, Jed Sky, Tony Wagner, and Andy James
Frank April invites the team homies to his hometown for some shred.
3 100 North
Featuring riding from Ralph Kucharek, Parker Szumowski, Tomas Ruprecht, Nathanael Asaro, John Murphy, Shayne Pospisil, Zach Nigro and Jake Blauvelt.
“Make it look fun, not good.” Pat Bridges
Rt. 100 is a road in vt. Mostly filmed off of the Chin at Stowe
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/vermont-is-for-lovers-of-snowboarding-100-north-full-video/
This week in Print...
2nd Issue of Snowboarder is on its way.
686 Yearbook - Ltd. edition of 400. Available exclusively through 686.com
Factavalanche.com - correcting climate change mis-truths (generally by republican lawmakers) POW initiative
Other News:
Womens Lib.
Spokesperson Estelle Pensiero introduces the C3 Dynamiss, No. 43, Glider, and Cortado.
20 years of Volcom. 2000 was first year for outerwear program.
Coming events:
The 2nd Annual "Rendezvous" Mountain Festival focusing on Snow Sports will be on September 28th 2-8 PM at The Gateway, Downtown SLC, UT.
There will be a vendor village with product on display and for sale, a speaker series from the best in ski and snowboarding. As well as, film premiers, music, food trucks, breweries, distilleries, and plenty of giveaways. Fun for the entire family and the event will be FREE.
Presentations/Speaker Series :
-Utah Avalanche Center "Know before you Go" Presentation
-Bob Plumb Photo Essay "Annapurna"
-Protect our Winters Climate Change Panel Discussion
-LIVE "Boot Pack Show Podcast recording with Griffin Siebert"
-SLC ONLY Photo show w/ T-Bird, E-Stone, Bob Plumb
-North American Premiere of "Offline" by Nitro Snowboards
-World Premier of "Contrast" W/ Bode Merrill, Desiree Melancon, Justin Keniston, and Erik Leon
-World Premiere of "Isle of Snow" By Absinthe films
Hot Dawgz and Handrails Sept. 28
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 2019
6PM - 9PM Athlete registration (Slopeside Speakeasy)
7:30PM Snowboarder Magazine Presents Everybody, Everybody
With Jill Perkins, Phil Hansen, RENE RINNEKANGAS, gus warbington, jj westbury, reid smith, gab jaques, Finn westbury, geabe fergussen, benny milam, brandon Davis, Cooper Whittier and others.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 2019
8:30AM - 11AM Athlete registration (Slopeside Speakeasy)
9AM Ticket windows, gates, vendor village, bike park, and Basecamp activities open
12PM Athlete meeting (Slopeside Speakeasy)
12PM - 1PM The Bronx live performance
1PM - 2PM Rail jam practice
2:15PM - 3:15PM The Vandals live performance
3:15PM - 4:30PM Rail jam final
4:45PM - 5:15PM Awards ceremony
5:15PM - 6:15PM NOFX live performance
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode 686 and Never Summer Industries. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://www.neversummer.com
http://686.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
REAL TALK THIS WEEK IN SNOWBOARDING
EPISODE 103 9/2/19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan, Andrew Hardingham and Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associate producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
Pat Bridges got his start as a rider in central Vermont in the mid-eighties. He went on to become a sponsored athlete, working at renegade Eset Coast zine, East Infection before moving west to work at Snowboarder Magazine. Nineteen years later and pat has had an integral role in shaping the public perception of the sport to the recreational public as Editor then Creative Director of the Magazine.
This conversation covers the past, present and future of snowboarding media, as told by one of the most accomplished people in snowboarding media. He also happens to be Mark’s oldest friend in the sport.
Today’s episode is brought to you by:
http://www.cardiffsnow.com
http://yesnowboard.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
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Pat Bridges - Media Legend - Episode 108
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Andrew Hardingham
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
In this week’s Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding, Andrew Hardingham has the week off to run his Whisky festival in Banff and associate producer Dustin James steps in to talk snowboarding. We also have a special guest midcover by the talented Allyson Wade (@sweetcheeksmerie).
We start out with a novel idea, ‘Climate Change is real.’
Jeremy Jones Testified to a Senate special committee on Climate Crisis.
Jones closed with a call to action, saying, “We are here today to demand progress on climate action. If, as lawmakers, you want to work with national influencers whose careers are dependent on a stable climate, look no further. If you want statistics as to how climate change impacts an outdoor retailer’s business bottom line, look no further. Our community is ready and willing to support your work toward a carbon neutral future. Because together, we can protect our winters, thank you.”
And there is a drought in South America.
Coming events:
The 2nd Annual "Rendezvous" Mountain Festival focusing on Snow Sports will be on September 28th 2-8 PM at The Gateway, Downtown SLC, UT.
There will be a vendor village with product on display and for sale, a speaker series from the best in ski and snowboarding. As well as, film premiers, music, food trucks, breweries, distilleries, and plenty of giveaways. Fun for the entire family and the event will be FREE.
Presentations/Speaker Series :
-Utah Avalanche Center "Know before you Go" Presentation
-Bob Plumb Photo Essay "Annapurna"
-Protect our Winters Climate Change Panel Discussion
-LIVE "Boot Pack Show Podcast recording with Griffin Siebert"
-SLC ONLY Photo show w/ T-Bird, E-Stone, Bob Plumb
-North American Premiere of "Offline" by Nitro Snowboards
-World Premier of "Contrast" W/ Bode Merrill, Desiree Melancon, Justin Keniston, and Erik Leon
-World Premiere of "Isle of Snow" By Absinthe films
Hot Dawgz and Handrails Sept. 28
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 2019
6PM - 9PM Athlete registration (Slopeside Speakeasy)
7:30PM Snowboarder Magazine Presents Everybody, Everybody
With Jill Perkins, Phil Hansen, RENE RINNEKANGAS, gus warbington, jj westbury, reid smith, gab jaques, Finn westbury, geabe fergussen, benny milam, brandon Davis, Cooper Whittier and others.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 2019
8:30AM - 11AM Athlete registration (Slopeside Speakeasy)
9AM Ticket windows, gates, vendor village, bike park, and Basecamp activities open
12PM Athlete meeting (Slopeside Speakeasy)
12PM - 1PM The Bronx live performance
1PM - 2PM Rail jam practice
2:15PM - 3:15PM The Vandals live performance
3:15PM - 4:30PM Rail jam final
4:45PM - 5:15PM Awards ceremony
5:15PM - 6:15PM NOFX live performance
Snow in the West THIS WEEK!
Most fatal Mountains in the World
23% of K2 Climbers die
Kangchenjunga 14%
MAKALU 9%
Everest relatively safe at 4%
Lhotse 3%
Denali .3%
HOLY BOWLY DOWN UNDER
9-15th September brought to you by Threadbo, Snowboy, Quiksilver, Lib and Modest eyewear
“It’s so much more than a snowboarding event, Holy Bowly is an annual international gathering of riders committed to getting as creative as possible on unique hand-shaped bowls, hips, spines, berms and transitions for all those looking to surf the snow, with the ultimate goal of sharing the true stoke of snowboarding.”
San Paulo Park World Championships (of skateboarding)
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode 686 and Never Summer Industries. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://www.neversummer.com
http://686.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
REAL TALK THIS WEEK IN SNOWBOARDING
EPISODE 103 9/2/19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Dustin James
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Associater producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This is the second of a two part series featuring snowboarding legends Stevie Alters and Jason ‘J2’ Rasmus. The first episode relates some pretty funny stories. This episode talks about dealing with cancer. This is a heavy episode. Be warned there is some ‘adult, not P.C.’ content in this episode.
About:
The Snowboard Projectis a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan.
The Snowboard Projectwill feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Projectis one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
About The Host:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Yes. and 686. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://yesnowboard.com
http://686.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Stevie Alters and J2
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Editor and Associate Producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
This year Andrew Hardingham joins the Snowboard Project team as the new co-host of Real Talk. This week we talk about snow conditions around the world, new video releases and take a deep dive into the role of sponsorship in the sport.
This was Andrew Hardingham’s first session on the Real Talk couch and we look forward to trying to make sense of what goes in that mind of his. (Cover artwork inspired by an original portrait of Sigmund Freud.)
We would also like to give to thank Snowboarder Magazine and Stan with their new segment called The Weekly Snowboarder Forecast.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Never Summer Industries. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://www.cardiffsnow.com
http://www.neversummer.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
REAL TALK THIS WEEK IN SNOWBOARDING
EPISODE 103 9/2/19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Andrew Hardingham
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
This is the first of a two part series featuring snowboarding legends Stevie Alters and Jason ‘J2’ Rasmus. The first episode relates some pretty funny stories. Perhaps the most compelling part is feeling like you are in the room, hanging out with two of the sports most legendary riders .
Be warned there is some ‘adult, not P.C.’ content in this episode.
About:
The Snowboard Projectis a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan.
The Snowboard Projectwill feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Projectis one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Projectis available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
About The Host:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Yes. and 686. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://yesnowboard.com
http://686.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
Stevie Alters and J2
Hosted by Mark Sullivan
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Editor and Associate Producer Dustin James
Art by Aaron Draplin and Sarat
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Thar she blows!
Welcome to Season Two of The Snowboard Project. This year Andrew Hardingham joins the Snowboard Project team as the new co-host of Real Talk. This week we talk X-Games Norway, Snowboarder Mag, Stale Life, New Zealand, The Nuclear Jump for Air and Style and the 2020 Winter Olympic Big Air.
We would also like to give a special welcome to Stan as the new editor of Snowboarder Magazine and introduce his new segment in Real Talk: The Weekly Snowboarder Forecast.
Shout out to the sponsors of this episode Cardiff Snowcraft and Never Summer Industries. We ask that you support the brands that support disruptive snowboard media. Find out more about these guys at their websites.
http://www.cardiffsnow.com
http://www.neversummer.com
Please consider supporting us at http://www.patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
You can follow us on Instagram @thesnowboardproject
First we talk about peanut butter, before moving on to X-Games Norway.
X-GAMES NORWAY
1)Max Parrot
2) Sven Thorgreen
3)Yuki Kodono
http://www.xgames.com/video/27507827/medal-runs-men-snowboard-big-air
FRIDGE ST. SLAM ON SNOWBOARDER INSTA -Check It!
1)Anna Gasser
2) Kokomo Murasi
3) Julia Marino
http://www.xgames.com/video/27506233/medal-runs-women-snowboard-big-air
Then we talk Snowboarder Magazine, Stan as the new editor, and the newly founded Midcover. What does the Midcover mean to you?
Then it is off to New Zealand for Stale Life and a World Cup big air.
We briefly talk injuries, laugh a little, and move on to the permanent home of the Air & Style Big Air as well as the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Can you say Nuclear AIR?
This was Andrew Hardingham’s first session on the Real Talk couch and we look forward to trying to make sense of what goes in that mind of his. Cover artwork inspired by original portrait of Sigmund Freud.
Welcome back guys - WE MISSED YOU!
THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT
REAL TALK THIS WEEK IN SNOWBOARDING
EPISODE 103 9/2/19
Hosted by Mark Sullivan and Andrew Hardingham
Produced by Mark Sullivan
Editor and Associate Producer Dustin James
Art by Sarat
Bonus Episode - Danny Kass
Daniel "Danny" Kass (born September 21, 1982) is an American professional snowboarder who has competed at the Olympic level.
Kass was born in Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey. He grew up in New Jersey where he began snowboarding at the age of twelve. His home slopes are what are now known as Hidden Valley and Mountain Creek ski resorts both located in the mountains of Vernon Township and Highland Lakes. After several years of shredding around the Mid-Atlantic States, Kass entered into the Okemo Mountain School to focus more of his time on riding some of the better pipe and park in the East. In 2001, Danny broke out into what has become one of the most successful contest streaks in snowboarding with four US Open Championships, seven Winter X Games medals and two Olympic silver medals.
During the winter of 2006, Kass fought his way back from a slow start in the US Grand Prix Circuit to qualify for the Olympics in Torino for the second time in a row. And just like in 2002, Kass took home another silver medal with back-to-back 1080s and his signature smooth style.
Kass and his brother Matt Kass were the founders of Grenade Gloves, which specializes in snowboarding gloves, accessories, and other extreme sporting gear.
Kass is one of the stars of The Adventures of Danny and The Dingo on Fuel TV.
Danny Kass has since road off into the sunset and has yet to be heard from in 2019...
Until today.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Episode 101 - the Year in Review. This week we take a look back at our first season of The Snowboard Project. Plus Skolf Finals, Hannah Teter at Cochella, Banked Slalom races and more.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
JP Solberg - legendary Norwegian rider - ten year veteran of Burton snowboards - and member of the Burton 7, JP was featured in numerous Absinthe Films. Following a similar path, Swiss rider Romain De Marchi is known for his hard charging approach to riding - and life. Together they started Yes Snowboards a decade ago. We sat down with both of them in Alaska to talk about the Burton 7, Yes, riding, and more.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
The Dingo, at only 33 years old, is a bit of a living legend. From Danny Kass’ right hand man with Grenade Gloves and with the Danny and the Dingo show on Fuel TV. He has gone on to other, larger media gigs, like hosting the MTV Music Awards, before getting involved with mentoring high school and college kids with Find your Grind. Success is a fickle beast, as we found out, taking to Dingo about the price of following your dreams.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Real Talk - episode 98. This week we talk about a number of events, like the Bode Merrill Quarterpipe Classic, and the Stuben Long board Classic,a break in our season, Terje slip up, Stale’s Lines, marketing of the sport, trivia, and much, much, more.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
In this episode we focus on building a good team for backcountry missions. Crewing up - everyone needs a crew when taking on the backcountry. Here, we talk about approaching self guided backcountry missions, Alaska, how ‘the pros’ think about missions and much more, plus the individual careers of the riders who make up this crew - Nial Romanek, Colin Langlois, Jeff Sponzo and Mike Burton.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Kelly D. Williams got his start in the industry with his own brand, Compatriot Snowboards. When that didn’t go to plan, he went on to become the art director for Analog clothing DVS shoes, before starting an advertising agency in his home state of Idaho.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
95 Episodes - this one is coming to you from Thompson Pass in Alaska and Sun Valley in Idaho. This week we talk about a few events, like SKOLF finals, and are joined by a special guest - Drayden Gardner, who got third. We talk about one of the craziest lines ever - and Beav gets pregnant.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Patrick Burgener is a Swiss snowboarder who competed in the men's halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He finished 5th overall. He also earned a bronze medal in the halfpipe event at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 and 2019. The 24 year old rider also has a record deal with Universal Records.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Bob Klein is an OG of snowboarding - from being one of Burton’s first west coast team riders to competing in the first Mt. Baker Banked Slalom, Bob was there. He went on to run Palmer Snowboards as well as being an athlete agent for the likes of Danny Kass and Shaun Palmer.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
In this weeks Real Talk we discuss X-Games Real Snow, Absolut Park Spring Battle, Freeride World Tour finals, the Launch, Alaska, new trivia and much, much more.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Now in his forties, Chad Otterstrom has had an amazing career in the sport. From pro rider, to photographer, film maker and judge, Chad has worn a lot of hats in the sport - perhaps none more important than being a dedicated rider.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Todd Franzen grew up in Breckenridge. By the age of 16 he was consider a pro rider prodigy, and had a career as a pro rider. Todd never left Breck and stayed in his hometown - still does. Then one fateful trip to his doctor, Todd got news that would change the course of his life forever - Todd had cancer. After a long - and successful - battle, Todd decided to try to give back to people like him - snowboarders affected by cancer - and started a non-profit called Strap in for Life. This is his story.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 3-18-19
This week there were a lot of contests including 10 banked slaloms, two world cups, King of the North and the Collegiate Championships. There were also some great edits, Jake Phelps passed, an interview with Dustin James who took over Tailgate Alaska and much, much more.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Chris Corning (born September 7, 1999) is an American snowboarder. A badass American snowboarder to be more exact. In 2018, he competed in big air and slopestyle at Winter X Games XXII. He also got second to Mark McMorris at the US Open and took home the world championship. He sewed up that title again at Mammoth, where we talked to the 19 year old rider about competition, the quad 18, new tricks, dealing with injuries, and much more.
Chris is well spoken, down to earth, with a strong desire to win. Here is his first major interview.
@chriscorning
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
In this episode we have a discussion with a panel of six of the top snowboarding judges in the world. Julien Haricot (FRA), Joachim Eltvik (NOR), Jonas Brewer (USA), Andrin Regli (SWI), Matthew Jennings (USA) and Phil Pilon (CAN) talk about their passion for snowboarding, how judging works and the future of competitive events and creative formats.
@larrogs @deigen @foto_ghoulag @andrinregli @1mattyj @master_p__
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
The end of Transworld, FIS in Mammoth, Supergirl, More powder, Freeride World Tour and more n this week’s Real Talk.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Elias Elhardt recently released the Movie “Contraddicition,” a complicated reflection on snowboarding's beautiful simplicity. Watch it here... https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/320329893v Already the movie is gaining critical acclaim from the snowboarding community and beyond.
- name: Elias Elhardt
- D.O.B. February 27th 1988
- Hometown: Oberstaufen
- Home resort: Kleinwalsertal
- Height: 173cm
- Weight: 73kg
- Stance width: 60cm
- Stance: regular
- Angles: +18° -13°
Cool things about Contests: exciting, it can be super cool if it works out and be rewarding if you ride good. Shredding a very good shaped park most of the time with friends you enjoy as people and competitors as well.
Filming: you can be so creative, no rules on what has to be done, no lines you have to take. It’s all you and your ideas and how you see snowboarding and you put it down as you see it. You can ride powder jumps, cliff…Do as you please and see where the fun in snowboarding is.
Session with friends: cool to see others enjoy the day and share something, being together. Often snowboarding is so individual and riding with friends can make everything better. Building moments together that you enjoy
Powder riding: you feel so light, from one pillow to the other you slide along the mountain, like surfing, you get hundreds of possibilities to use the mountain. In powder riding, you see and decide the way you want to use the mountain. You can do whatever you like and it's soft so you can fall and try stuff.
Slope shredding: I love it! Ride down the slope and slide, bonk or spin on things that weren’t made for it. It’s also a perfect training to get your board control which is something I like a lot in snowboarding and use the slope differently each time…it's endless.
Worst thing about Contests: Pressure, a lot of pressure. It's not the best conditions but you have to give your best and go for it. It can be dangerous sometimes and you have to think of what you want to risk and how much. You have to stomp the trick and do your best, you don't have the control of the timing.
Filming: It’s way different than I thought it would be. It's not about riding like you like. It's hiking, searching, making decisions with the crew and at the end of it you might just ride few laps and it has to be the craziest tricks you have ever pulled on a huge spot and that's it for the day.
Session with friends: nothing sucks
Powder riding: As beautiful as it can be it can be dangerous, not only the snow layer is dangerous, you have to watch out for stones, rocks and trees as well.
Slope shredding: when it's icy, it sucks.
What is your definition of ‘The Search’ ?
The Search for me is surely mostly looking to get out there and being on a snowboard, to get good conditions and searching for the most possible ways of having fun. It’s a search through the sport and for perfect snow to push new tricks while enjoying the moment with your friends.
Profile by Nick HaMILTON from 2010
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Christian Knapp has worked in ski resort marketing for more than twenty years, cutting his teeth at Breckenridge and then Keystone before heading over to Aspen a number of years ago. He is also a life long snowboarder. Today, he is the Chief Marketing Officer for Aspen, host of the X-Games, he also created the Mountain Collective pass, making season passes an affordable option for riders everywhere.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Real Talk - This week we talk about events - like the Shaper Summit, US Open, Ash and Steel and more, videos like Sunday in the Park, BTS and Contraddiction plus Who's on Drugs, This Week in Shaun White, Trivia and more...
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Drayden Gardner is a name you should know - if you don’t yet, you will. As one of Big Bear’s top up and coming riders, he is regularly featured in the popular Sunday in the Park series. When not riding the park at Bear, you can find him slaying the street, filming or skating. As a kid who graduated high school with a 4.0 GPA, he has already proven the determination needed to succeed in both snowboarding and life. Here is his first major interview - a nice insight into the life of an up and coming pro snowboarder.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Mike Arzt has had a diverse and interesting career - starting at a snowboard shop, before helping out his regional Burton Rep. From there a college education, jobs at Burton HQ, in media, for Airwalk before starting his own creative and fabrication business. Today, Mike works with a number of clients to ensure their authenticity of their brands.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Real Talk
Freeride World Tour
Lord of the Ropes
JLA Banked Slalom
Shaun White on Adidas
Forefathers of Snowboarding
Triva and more...
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
Legendary snowboarder Mike Basich has done a lot in the sport of snowboarding - but this interview really has a focus on creativity - and developing the creative in you. This was the very first interview we ever did for The Snowboard Project.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
This is an interesting interview with a fascinating character from the sport of snowboarding. Bud Keene got his start riding in Vermont in the early ‘80s. He went on to be a sponsored rider for Sims and competed in one of the first Mt. Baker Banked Slaloms. Since riding he went on a number of ‘expedition’ type snowboarding adventures - but what Bud is best known for is coaching. He coached Shaun White for ten years and now currently is the head coach of the Chinese national team.
This week: Contests in Jackson, Calgary, Big Bear, Mt. Snow and Korea. Too much powder in Tahoe, great pow everywhere else. FSI, FIS and the BSBL. A new board project announced and more...
Seth Wescott won Gold medals in both 2006 and 2010 in Snowboard Cross, and went on to win gold duct tape atMt. Baker in 2013 and 2019. He is also the shaper and co-owner of Winterstick Snowboards, one of the most legendary brands in the sport.
You may know him as Justin, Stan, J-Money the Mountain Man, or the guy from that show, Last Resort. Once described as a “snowboard journalist” by this very publication, Justin, or Stan, as he is more commonly known, has long been the sole flag bearer on his crusade to critique snowboarding with comedy. His show provides a rare perspective not otherwise found in snowboarding, and his opinions, while pointed, are well refined and refreshing. His ability to process his surroundings and scrutinize their reality has allowed him to carve out a niche in the media landscape not previously explored, and as such, it felt like due time for an interview. We invite you to continue below as we attempt to peel off the film surrounding the man with two names. - Owen Ringwall
Raised in the sunshine and slush of Big Bear, California, Hana has spent a decade plus living the pro-rider life; nonstop shredding on all terrain, all over the world. From her early days doing damage in the parks of Bear Mountain and Mammoth to producing heavy film parts in the proving grounds of the Whistler backcountry, to the latest chapter—a home-base in Washington where she localizes Mount Baker and charges the B.C. backcountry with a crew of snowboarding’s leading ladies, Hana is in a state of constant progression.
“I was born in 1976 in Maribor, Slovenia. I fell in love with skateboarding in 1989 after seeing movie Trashin’. Luckily my aunt went to USA that year and brought me a Valterra skateboard. Since then skateboarding defined my life and my character. It gave me bunch of good friends at home and around the world. It gave me Fugazi, Beastie Boys, Bad Religion, Primus and plenty more. Since there was no way I could become a pro I started earning a buck by selling skate and snowboard stuff, which my friend (and the best Slovenian skater) Marko Jazbinsek was smuggling from Italy. When the wild era was over I became a skateshop manager in my hometown for almost 3 years. After that I worked as a Snowboard coach for 18 years. Nowadays I still enjoy skating, snowboarding, and working in the action sports on various fields such as emceeing, organizing, judging, riding, filming, taking pictures, athlete management, partying… you name it I got it… I am like Macgyver dude ;)” - Iztok
Big news this week with SIA and major news from TEN The Enthusiasts Network. Industry turmoil, big events, retirements and X-Games/Tradeshow trivia.
With over 100 million views of his unique, follow cam videos on social media Spencer Whiting aka The Gimbal God has filmed some of the most watched clips in snowboarding history. Today he is mentioned throughout X-Games broadcasts, and is a rider favorite. In his first major interview The Gimbal God breaks down his set up, personal progression and the future of snowboarding events.
Barrett Christy is an American snowboarder and Winter Olympics Athlete. She currently resides in Washington. Christy was a member of the first U.S. Snowboarding team during the 1998 Winter Olympics. She has won more medals than any other female athlete in the Winter X Games, until Lindsey Jacobellis pass her. Christy oversees the design of women's snowboards for Gnu Snowboards, including the Gnu Barrett Christy Pro Model (B-Pro), which is the longest-running women's pro model snowboard.
Barrett Christy is an American snowboarder and Winter Olympics Athlete. She currently resides in Gig Harbor, Washington.
Christy was a member of the first U.S. Snowboarding team during the 1998 Winter Olympics. She has won more medals than any other female athlete in the Winter X Games, until Lindsey Jacobellis pass her.
Born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Bucks County, PA. Christy learned to snowboard in 1991, and has been competing since the mid 90's. Barrett lived in Breckenridge Colorado from 1991 to 1995, living hand-to-mouth in poverty like a "ski bum." Later moving to upscale Vail Colorado after going "Big Time." Baddest snowboarder ever to walk planet Earth.
Signature move is called the "Barrett Roll".
Christy has been featured in "Hardly Angels" (2002) and "Our Turn" (2001), both all-girl snowboard films by White Knuckle Extreme. In 2007, she was featured in the women's snowboard film "Float" with an interview and snowboarding footage.
The rock band Ween may have dedicated its song "Birthday Boy" to Barret. During the 2004 Bonnaroo festival, Gene Ween stated that "This song's about Barret Christy, a famous snowboarder, in case you all didn't know. She's a lovely girl."
Christy oversees the design of women's snowboards for Gnu Snowboards, including the Gnu Barrett Christy Pro Model (B-Pro), which is the longest-running women's pro model snowboard.
- 2003 Mt. Baker Banked Slalom - 5th
- 2002 Winter X Games - 3rd Slopestyle
- 2002 World Championships - 3rd Superpipe
- 2001 ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards - Female Snowboarder of the Year
- 2001 Mt. Baker Banked Slalom - 1st Pro Women
- 2001 Grand Prix in Mammoth and Breckenridge, 1st
- 2000 Winter X Games - 2nd Superpipe/ 3rd Slopestyle
- 2000 US Open - 3rd Superpipe
- 2000 Winter Gravity Games - 3rd Big Air
- 2000 Transworld Riders Poll Awards - Best Overall Female Snowboarder
- 1999 Transworld Riders Poll Awards - Best Overall Female Snowboarder
- 1999 Summer X Games - 1st Big Air, 1999
- 1999 Winter X Games - 1st halfpipe / 2nd slopestyle
- 1999 Gravity Games, 3rd Big Air
- 1998 Winter X Games - 2nd Big Air, 2nd Slopestyle
- 1998 Olympic team member, Nagano Japan
- 1997 Winter X Games - 1st Big Air, 1st Slopestyle
- 1997 US Open - 1st Halfpipe, 1st Big Air
- 1997 US Open - 1st in Halfpipe and Big Air
- 1994 Amateur National Halfpipe contest, 1st
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Video by Tim Humphreys & Brian Lindberg Jensen
https://radiopublic.com/the-snowboard-project-G3R2YV
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-snowboard-project/e/58261759?autoplay=true
https://player.fm/series/the-snowboard-project
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-snowboard-project-725233
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-snowboard-project/id1433971458?mt=2
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Snowboard-Project-p1151359/
This week in snowboarding Extreme Edition - X-Games, Missile intercepts, moose chase, Zeb Powell, Kelly Clark, The Bush Project, trivia and a bunch of random rabbit holes.
Zeb Powell may be the future of snowboarding progression. He has been on a path to professional snowboarding most of his young life - and it shows. Zeb takes a unique Hallador influence to his riding - you just don’t know what to expect when Zeb drops in. The day he did this interview he signed his first pro contract with Nitro. He recently had a standout part in a 32 video filmed at Brighton. Welcome to the big leagues Zeb Powell.
Tracey Canaday started the brand Never Summer Snowboards 27 years ago with his brother Tim, renting press time in Summit County Colorado from legendary rider (James Bond’s stunt double) Steve Link. Since, Never Summer has built its reputation for making indestructible boards that are made in America. Here is a rare interview with Tracey and a look at what it took to make Never Summer one of the most successful brands in snowboarding.
Real Talk 1- 21- 19 With powder come avalanches - and, unfortunately, fatalities. Freeride World Tour Hakuba Laax Open Max Perot Roberta Rodger 800 new resorts in China and one less in Korea Jesse Paul is on drugs as is Seb Toots editor Trivia.
Danny Davis (born June 22, 1988 in Highland, Michigan) is a snowboarder. He was voted 2006 Rookie of the Year in the Transworld Riders Poll Awards, 2006 Rookie of the Year for Snowboarder Magazine. In January 2010 Davis won a Grand Prix event but not a spot on the US Olympic Team. He suffered a back injury in an ATV accident, ending his 2010 season and Olympic aspirations] Danny finished in 10th place at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He continues to push the sport through events.
Steve started the brand Owner Operator a decade ago - and continues to be the only wintersports brand that manufactures in the USA. He also started United Shapes a brand of snowboards, which by the way are equally unique and fun to ride. He also started the Parts and Labor Tradeshow, to bring together small independant brands in the snowboarding industry. This one goes deep and gives a unique perspective following your dreams in the sport of snowboarding.
Powder planet, Hot, the Flite Rocket, Banked Slaloms, Government shutdown, World Cup Slopestyle, Trivia and our new Meme contest.
In a world where the lines between pro, am, and nobody are barely discernible, Tim Humphreys is still a professional snowboarder. What does that mean? Well, he’s a brand ambassador, a stunt man, a filmer and editor, and now a small business owner too. He’s gracefully spun past the “normal” age when Americans disappear from professional snowboarding and is now one of the rare breed of adult who’s managing to make a living with his snowboard skills. -Brooke Geary
Trevor Graves was one of the most influential people in the late 80s and early 90s over the sport of snowboarding. As a photographer he broke countless careers onto the media stage. He was innovative, creative and above all else, perhaps, driven. In 1988 he moved west from upstate New York to Salem Oregon to base his photography business in the west. Soon he was working for Morrow Snowboards. After, Trevor was one of the founders of Portland’s acclaimed Nemo Design agency (www.nemodesign.com).
Trevor Graves was one of the most influential people in the late 80s and early 90s over the sport of snowboarding. As a photographer he broke countless careers onto the media stage. He was innovative, creative and above all else, perhaps, driven. In 1988 he moved west from upstate New York to Salem Oregon to base his photography business in the west. Soon he was working for Morrow Snowboards. After Morrow, Trevor was one of the founding patners of Portland’s acclaimed Nemo Design agency (www.nemodesign.com). Handling creative for brands like Converse, Mastercraft, Signal Snowboards and the Ikon Pass, chances are you are already familiar with Nemo’s work.
Trevor has one of the best, most well rounded opinions on snowboarding - as well, he offers great advice in this interview.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Storms sweep the US and Canada, Sebbe DeBuck vid, and a deep dive into powsurfing on this week’s Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding.
Bell first broke on to the snowboard scene in 2005 while filming with Finga on Da Trigga Productions. Stevie went on to the Forum team. In 2009, Bell landed the cover of Transworld Snowboarding's Photo Annual, an accomplishment not to be taken lightly. Known as "The Kid," Bell has a fun and loose style of riding that would put most people to shame. With his outgoing and energetic personality, moving past the sport of snowboarding, Stevie has what it takes to usher his career to the next level.
Mike Chantry may be the most OG snowboarder alive. He introduced Tom Sims to Tahoe, help the world’s first halfpipe competition, and introduced Terry Kidwell and Shaun Palmer to the sport of snowboarding.
Episode 56: Real Talk This Week in Snowboarding 12-31-18 The Year in review - looking back at our most popular episodes.
When Chris Coulter was 14-years-old, he saw a snowboard video that inspired him to shape his life around snowboarding. His ultimate dream was to develop the skills he needed to tackle the massive lines that Alaska has to offer. That takes a lot of baby steps - including a stint as a professional athlete, living in Utah and three years without sponsors before transforming his career into being a brand ambassador and guide around the world.
When Chris Coulter was 14-years-old, he saw a snowboard video that inspired him to shape his life around snowboarding. His ultimate dream was to develop the skills he needed to tackle the massive lines that Alaska has to offer. That takes a lot of baby steps - including a stint as a professional athlete, living in Utah and three years without sponsors before transforming his career into being a brand ambassador and guide around the world.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics and announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Ryan Coulter may not be a household name. He is an industrial designer (product designer) who got his start designing Burton’s bindings. Since he has gone on to design products for Nike as well as launch The James Brand http://thejamesbrand.com . He has even done some work for NASA.
Dylan Alito DOB: 9-20-90 Nicknames: Doder, Dotrin, Tilly, Bobby Blumpkin Stance – Goofy or Regular:Regular Years Snowboarding: 18 Favorite trick: Wormhole Sponsors: Thirtytwo, Volcom, Never Summer, Drop, Ovan, Jammy Pack, Hobo, Denver Sports Recovery, Emage
Jesse Grandkowski — Airblaster (Co-Owner, Marketing guy, TM, clothing designer, copywriter, etc.). Works out of a roaming Toyota 4x4 Sunraider RV- Working, shredding and traveling to wherever the snow’s flying or the sun’s shining. Grew up in Montana, now calls Portland home. Was the cover boy for Snowboard Magazine Issue #2.
50 Episodes! This week we cover The Dew Tour, Dirksen Derby, Rider's Poll, Methodology, TSP in review and much more.
Ross Powers led the U.S. sweep in the 2002 Winter Olympics men's halfpipe competition, one day after his 23rd birthday.
Warning Adult Content. Rebagliati was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. After turning pro in 1991, he was the first ever to win an Olympic gold medal for Men's Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics. After winning the gold, he was found to have Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in his circulatory system following a blood test and he was automatically disqualified. This decision was eventually overturned... this is his story
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 12-10-18 This week we talk about the Grand Prix, Riders Poll, Dew Tour, Truffle Pigs, Mt. Baker, Mammoth, the Dirksen Derby and much more...
Chase Josey is an Idaho native that grew up on the slopes of Sun Valley. He has a technical bag of tricks that sets him apart from the field, including a switch double Michalchuk and switch backside 900. He's landed podium spots at many national and international competitions and made his first Olympic team in 2018.
Jeff Galbraith is today’s guest. He is a media veteran - from the wera of zines - and went on to be the editor of Snowboarder Magazine, before starting Frequency the Snowboarder’s Journal - which became, simply, The Snowboarder’s Journal. He also has some great advice for those looking to get involved with the media.
This week we talk Rock-A-Rail, Snowboarding videos, a new host?, Gear, a deep dive into the state of videos in the media, trivia and much more.
David Carrier Porcheron, also known as DCP, is a professional snowboarder from Quebec, Canada. He is the co-owner of Yes. He rode for Burton Snowboards for 14 years, before being dropped from the team and starting Yes. Over the course of his career DCP has had more than 40 video parts and is one of, if not the only rider to be featured in Mack Dawg, Kingpin and Absinthe movies. David now lives in Squamish, British Columbia with his wife Megan (Pischke) Porcheron and two daughters.
As a snowboard filmer, he's made over 35 snowboard movies filming for Mack Dawg, Standard Films, and Forum Snowboards during the years of 1991-2000. Kurt then owned and created his own movies under the movie production company called Strait Jacket Films during the years of 2000-2005. Following Strait Jacket Films, he then filmed for Forum Snowboards and Burton Snowboards from 2006-2014. Kurt is also known for filming John Jackson's X-Games Real Snow Backcountry 2015 Gold Medal run. - Jib Hunt
Real Talk: This week in snowboarding 11-26-18 This week we talk Air + Style, new video drops, and we interview a couple of recreational riders. We also cover trivia and much more...
Last year, the internet lit up with a clip - a single snowboarding trick - so profoundly different - and, well, new, it seems it was a topic of conversation amongst most riders all season - and it stil is.Torgeir Bergrem’s Switch Backside 540 to method - did something fundamentally different - it combined two seperate tricks - into one trick. It could be a new direction for the sport. This is our talk with 27 year old Norwegian rider Torgeir Bergrem.
Now with 8-9000 members DMQ represents some of the most passionate snowboarders out there - guys who collect boards - and 25 is probably an average number of snowboards owned by its members with some having 200 or more. Give a listen top Chuck’s interview as he demonstrates, you don’t have to be a pro, or work in the industry to define yourself as a snowboarder.
Real Talk: This week in snowboarding 11-19-18 with special guest Stan. This week we talk Skolf with Stan, The White Festival in France, Anna Gasser’s triple and much, much more.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics ad announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Real Talk: This week in snowboarding 11-19-18 with special guest Stan. This week we talk Skolf with Stan, The White Festival in France, Anna Gasser’s triple and much, much more.
Dave Schriber - from the most important marketer in Burton’s history - judging by the legacy that still lives on in the brand - to VP of Global Brand Marketing at a little brand called Nike. In this episode we cover a lot of territory from Burton and before to Nike, NFL licenses, Nike ID, corporate culture in the world’s largest sporting goods brand, how Nike approaches social media marketing and - the future.
Holland won a gold medal in Snowboard Cross at the 2007 Winter X Games XI in Aspen, Colorado. He won another gold medal at the 2008. Nate has won 7 gold medals in the X-games, 5 of which were back to back, creating a new world record for most medals won in a row in Boarder-X. Nate Holland has been paving the way for his sport, competing in races long before it was an official Olympic competition. Nate has competed in the Olympics three times.
Nate Holland won his first gold medal in Snowboard Cross at the 2007 Winter X Games XI in Aspen, Colorado. He won another gold medal at the 2008 Winter X Games XII, beating Markus Schairer in the finals. He competed for USA at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, where he finished fourteenth; at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he finished fourth; and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals. Nate has won 7 gold medals in the X-games, 5 of which were back to back, creating a new world record for most medals won in a row in Boarder-X. Nate Holland has been paving the way for his sport, competing in races long before it was an official Olympic competition. Nate has competed in the Olympics three times.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics ad announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Real Talk: This week in snowboarding 10-12-18. Happy Veterans Day. This week, we talk to special guest Austin Smith about riding in Nepal, new movies, and some of our regular segments too.
A senior photographer at Transworld Snowboarding Magazine as well as staff shooter for countless snowboarding brands since first picking up a camera. Andy has been the most published photographer in the snowboard industry since Transworld started keeping track of those stats. He got his start as a sponsored athlete for Nitro Snowboards and pursued progression for years as a professional athlete before moving into the media, publishing the seminal Medium Megazine with legendary art director Jared Eberhardt.
Andrew Hardingham is perhaps most well known for his unorthodox approach to snowboarding. If he's not riding down one the sketchiest lines ever attempted (and survived) by a human, he's unleashing his quick-witted, erratic behavior upon the industry and world at large. In uniqueness, he has no equal. - Nate Deschenes
Real Talk November 5, 2018. This week in snowboarding. This week we look at the Modena World Cup Big Air, Shaun White’s girlfriend, Ross Rebegliati, trivia, November schedule, Beav drinks a beer, and much more.
Mike Bettera got his start as a coach in New Hampshire. He quickly changed over to managing the parks at Loon and Waterville, before moving to Tahoe to work at Snowpark Technologies. With Gunny and Jenn moving on, Mike decided to start his own consulting business, handling many of the same responsibilities as his role with Snowpark Tech. And so, Effective Edge was started - consulting with various park’s around the country as well as hosting the annual summit for terrain park builders.
Todd Hahn got his start in the snowboard industry working as a sales rep. He quickly moved up to team manager ( for the World Industries brand) before becoming an athlete agent, ala Jerry McGuire. While Todd has moved on from being an agent - he now makes wine with business partner Tommy Lee, he has a great perspective on the business of action sports.
Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding. For the week preceding 10/29/18. Announcements from the industry. Resort openings. And miscellaneous happenings from the world of Shaun White. Trivia. Win a Never Summer Chairman. And more.
Chris Copley was the New England sales rep for Burton Snowboards during their rapid rise in the world of wintersports. This conversation presents a look inside the world of being a sales rep for the largest company in the snowboarding world.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics ad announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Chris Copely was the New England sales rep for Burton Snowboards during their rapid rise in the world of wintersports. This conversation presents a look inside the world of being a sales rep for the largest company in the snowboarding world.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics ad announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
Please consider supporting The Snowboard Project. Go to http://patreon.com/thesnowboardproject
Benefits for our listeners include:
$2 per month gives access to Patreon exclusive content that we post behind our firewall. You are also entered in our history giveaway.
$5 adds shows a week ahead of regular release dates.
$10 doubles your chances in our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$20 triples your chances to win our weekly snowboard history giveaway.
$100 per month gives ongoing consulting with the host of the show.
Music by Nick Wheeler.
The Snowboard Project logo by Aaron Draplin.
Check thesnowboardproject.com
Rob Kingwill got his start as a sponsored athlete - going on to success in halfpipe competitions around the world. He went to win a Grand Prix titler as well as winning the coveted US Open halfpipe championship. Since he has gone on to be better known for riding powder in Alaska and for his event in Jackson Hole called the Shapers Summit. Rob still competes in events like the Mt. Baker Banked Slalom and Rat Race.
Real Talk 10-22-18 This week in snowboarding - episode 26 - resort openings, Killington, Sunday River, A-Basin, and Ski Wild Mountain. Disks and Sticks. Wanda Ski Park, China. Indoors riding. Norwegian Snowboard Awards. Whose on drugs? Trivia and more...
In the mid 90’s to early 2000’s, Jason Borgstede was known for his video parts, progressive big air tricks and switch 360 backflip affectionately known as the Borgaerial. Jason was a consistent top finisher in events such as the X Games and Vans Triple Crown. While his pro career came to a some what sudden end, Borgy never stopped riding and these days, he’s working to spread the stoke to a new generation with his Anchorage-based shop Blue & Gold.
Mr. Pat Schutte Schutte founded High Profile Public Relations (HPPR) in 2003, enjoyed a solid run of agency success working with a wide range of clients, including Chrysler/Dodge, Jeep, Ford, Monster Beverage, Source Interlink, Clear Channel, Live Nation, Feld Motor Sports, National Promoters Group, Advanstar and Vail Resorts. He also got his start as a skateboarder and snowboarder, prior to fidning incredible success in the world of motorsports public relations.
Wilderness closures, Tailgate Alaska, European Parks, Effective Edge, The Future of Yesterday and much more... Plus we have a new trivia contest - all on tap in Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 10-15-18.
In this episode we design the graphics for the Flite tribute board with some help from Chuck McLean and the Dig My Quiver community. This episode was recorded live and took more than 180 comments into account.
Eric Luthart has been designing snowboards for more than 20 years. In this episode we design a new Flite Snowboard.
Eric Luthart has been designing snowboards for more than 20 years. Here is a look into the life of a snowboard designer. We teamed up with Eric to design an all new Flite Snowboard.
Jeff Grell has many contributions to the sport of snowboarding, not least of which is the invention of the highback binding. Jeff was also a team rider for Flite and helped Stevie Derrah introduce the world to the heel side turn.
Eric Webster runs all ski and snowboarding events for the USSA, but he got his start as a team rider for Flite Snowboards. This is the kick off of Flite Week.
Not a lot going on this week in snowboarding so we talk about learning to snowmobile and small brands as well as Flite Week.
Before Chloe Kim and Kelly Clark, there was another prodigy in women’s halfpipe riding: Tricia Byrnes. From winning the US Open as a teenager, to going to the Olympics and today helping run the USASA, Tricia has made a life and career from the sport of snowboarding. Our first woman may be the best interview to date.
Aaron Draplin is a graphic designer, author and founder of Draplin Design Co. (DDC). Born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 15, 1973. He is now based in Portland, Oregon. His clients include Nike, Burton Snowboards, Esquire, Red Wing, Field Notes, Ford Motor Company and the Obama Administration. His book, Pretty Much Everything, is a mid-career survey of his work including case studies and advice which was released in May 2016.
In this week’s Real Talk we discuss the latest in news (not much this week), and talk to Board Bin owner Jim Slanetz who is celebrating his 30th anniversary as a brick and mortar shop. We also talk about Combo tricks, and go over last week’s trivia as well as announcing the winner of Danny Kass’s first avalanche beacon.
Smokin’ Jay Quinten has been snowboarding since the mid 1980’s. He first established a career as a pro rider in New England. Later he went on to a pro model with Black Flys before starting Smokin’ Snowboards 25 years ago. Today Jay continues to make his namesake boards in Sparks, Nevada, and handles all aspects of the business from sales and marketing to building the boards himself.
Dale Rehberg is an undeniable legend in the sport of snowboarding. From humble midwest roots, to helping redesign the shape of the snowboard, and introducing the world to street jibbing, his influence in the sport is undeniable. But there is much more to his story than just getting rad. In this interview we take a deep dive into the life and times of one of snowboarding’s most impactful riders.
Real Talk #3 9/24/18
On this week’s edition of Real Talk, we cover the Cold Front Tour and the movies Beta, Kamikazu and The Future of Yesterday, we talk about Hot Dogs and Handrails with special guest and second place finisher Dylan Alito, and cover our regular segments like Whose on Drugs and This Week in Shaun White. We also award the 1988 Sims Switchblade snowboard and have a new trivia contest, and much, much more.
About:
The Snowboard Project is a new podcast about snowboarding featuring snowboarding former editor of Snowboarder Magazine and SNOWBOARD Magazine founder Mark Sullivan and filmmaker, innkeeper and event announcer Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver.
The Snowboard Project will feature multiple shows per week covering two unique formats: Real Talk - This Week in Snowboarding, a weekly news show discussing current events in the sport, and long format interviews featuring individuals that have contributed to snowboarding in unique ways.
The Snowboard Project is one of snowboarding’s first advertising free media outlets, and is supported by listeners who subscribe to receive early releases of content as well as unique to subscriber content.
The Snowboard Project is available through all popular podcast syndicators including, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, RadioPublic and Stitcher.
The Hosts:
Mark Sullivan worked in snowboarding media for more than 25 years, starting at a grassroots level, making zines, to redefining print and online snowboarding media through Snowboarder Magazine and Snowboard Magazine. In addition, Mark is the most experienced color commentator in the sport’s history, announcing global events for the past 20 years including the US Open, Grand Prix Series and Olympics. Mark has also been the expert on snowboarding for NBC Sports, Eurosport Television and the annual ISPO Trade show in Munich Germany. However, Mark is most proud of bringing thousands of riders to experience the mountains of Alaska - to face their personal fears and find the sport’s ultimate challenge with his Tailgate Alaska event.
Mark ‘The Beav’ Oliver is a lifelong snowboarder from Sun Valley who has been involved with the sport on many levels, first as a competitive snowboarder, then filmmaker for brands like Smith Optics ad announcer of both local and international events. In addition, ‘The Beav’ runs Ketchum, Idaho’s Hot Water Inn, a lodge known for its affordable accommodations and vibrant music scene.
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This is the Snowboard Project featuring Mark Sullivan and the Beav. The Snowboard Project. The Snowboard Project.
: Welcome to the snowboard project. MARK SULLIVAN I'm the Beav and this is the new snowboarding podcasts that we're putting together.
: It's pretty exciting. This is this is show number one kind of talk to me what is The Snowboard Project?
: Well The Snowboard Project is is a little bit of a different take than traditional media to snowboarding and the goal is basically self-improvement through snowboarding like the snowboard has been my vehicle to travel the world to meet driven fascinating people and to have all these crazy life experiences and it wasn't just the tricks that I was doing it was through the people I met and the places I got to visit. And so you know to me the some of the more fascinating stories in the sport are with the pro riders but with the people who've dedicated a piece of themselves to the sport of snowboarding so those could be you know anything from the pro riders but also people who were sales reps people who are graphic designers people who who were there for the beginning of the sport right and were part of the genesis of snowboarding and so those are the stories that I find interesting and I want to cover with the snowboard project now.
: There are a few other podcasts out there. There are some action sports podcast from snowboard podcasts. What's really going to set us apart what's really going to be the difference.
: Well hopefully you know I can drill down into some real useful advice that these people have some of the lessons they've learned some of the mistakes they made and how they've learned from them and and really you know maybe take a piece of that to your own life beyond snowboarding.
: So who are some of the people that we're going to be kind of like covering through this through this season of the summer project.
: Well there's all sorts of people I mean I've I've talked to some of the legends like Mike Chantry and Bob Klein guys like Dave Seoane guys like Mike Basich and Ricky Bower the coach or the halfpipe team for the United States. So all sorts of different people Pat Bridges Aaron Draplin. I mean the list goes on and on.
: Let me ask you this personally what do you hope to kind of extract from these interviews that can not only be shared with your audience but do you feel like you might actually be gaining some some great advice just for your own self that you didn't actually know about beforehand.
: Yeah you know the funny thing is I kind of walked into this thinking that I knew a lot about snowboarding you know I was like I got this figured out just do a podcast I've been an announcer and been involved with media. That's a natural fit. And what I realized is that like every single interview I've actually learned something about the snowboarding by just listening to different people's perspectives and how they approach the sport differently than I did.
: And so with every interview I actually learned something about the sport and it has driven me to want to do more and more and more podcasts. We're going to start out with three shows a week. We're going to go to five shows a week in about a month. You know right now I'm actually just building shows on the side doing interviews with different fascinating people. But I will start with three shows a week and then go to five shows a week because snowboarding is such a rich sport. There's so many different characters and people involved with it. I think that it deserves to have a different kind of in-depth media than just like here the pros here the tricks or the edits. Right. And so this is supposed to give you something more to listen to.
: Yeah kind of talk me just a little bit about that. Why. Why do you feel like there's a need for this kind of media in our current state of snowboarding.
: Well you know the media has kind of taken a shift recently with with social media kind of becoming a dominant form of as a media outlet. And so you know when you look at what you get from the media now it's been boiled down to a single image or a single video clip and you really don't get those in-depth interviews you don't get those in-depth stories and you don't really you know have access to kind of the stories behind the stories and so that's really what I'd like to share.
: How do you feel like this is really good. It's like differentiate from kind of our current snowboard media I guess.
: Well I'd say this is going to be a completely different number one it's audio. So there's I mean normally like snowboarding is you know very visual in terms of the media portrayal of the sport. And so that's videos that's pages and magazines traditionally maybe not as much anymore but you know this is definitely not a visual medium so I'll try to tell stories that hopefully paint a picture in your head. And the interesting thing is that like when you're listening to this you have to actually use your mind to create kind of the image of your head of what was happening and so I think that's kind of a little bit different than actually being kind of force fed visuals the entire time.
: Now there's kind of been this like I guess classic structure on how like you know the media or magazines or movies would make would make money. Just tell me just a little bit about how you plan to fund something like that.
: Ok well this is pretty interesting and for the first time ever in my career this is going to be an advertising free model. Maybe I'll accept advertising from your company I'm not sure but that's a different story right that's totally different. But note no endemic advertisers is going to be no Bourton ads it's going to be no never summer ads. This is not to play favorites this is actually just to tell the real truth behind snowboarding as I see it. Right. And this is my own impression of the sport based on my 30 years experience with it. So anyhow I'm using what's called patriae on and you go to patriae on dot com slash the snowboard project and you can donate money to this podcast and so you know you can donate two dollars you can donate you know up to a hundred dollars to become an associate producer and have a monthly consult consultation with with us and we'll tell you about you know if you want to win a gold medal or where to go in January we'll talk to you every month. You know about snowboarding or over the phone. So anyhow there's different levels. Go to patriae on dot com slash the snowboard project and donate because this is actually the first time ever in my experience that this is a media outlet that is not reliant on advertising and not beholden to those advertisers to tell those stories so we can just tell the real truth.
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: Let's just rewind just a little bit let's go let's go into kind of the history of you and media and why you know why you feel like you're someone that it has the I guess ability to tell these stories just tell me just a little about your history of snowboarding.
: Ok well I started snowboarding when I was 14 years old and I was like one of the fairly early adopters. Let's say I was on a ski vacation in Jackson Hole first time out west and I broke my skis and I was like do I Telemark or do I snowboard. And I walked into a shop and there was Chris Pappas and he rented me a board and got me set up and and gave me a lesson. And so literally from that very first day though I was like This is what I want to do with my life and I've never looked back actually like you know 32 33 years later it's like I've never actually looked back and so you know roll that forward I was a sponsored athlete for a number of years and trying to follow the stream of professional snowboarding and then I got my hands on a Transworld media kit when I was like 18 living in Breckenridge and it was like you know three or four thousand dollars in ad breakdown and I added up all the ads and a copy of Transworld and I was like they're bringing in like a half million dollars in a shoe.
: Whoa.
: Yeah that was just the advertising they had subscribers and newsstand sales I mean they were bringing in a lot of money. I was like you know what. If they can bring in this kind of money and yet the story of what we were doing we were like jibbing and doing night. We had a little bit different style than was portrayed in the magazine. So I was like you know this voice maybe has a place in snowboarding media and so I started a Xeen based on working. I lived in a two bedroom apartment with 11 dudes and two pitbulls paid about seventy five dollars a month in rent for a bed. It was like a hostel.
: And and.
: And so of like I gathered together my roommate's big brother had just come out Big Brother Magazine Issue 1 had just come out and to maybe had just come out they were looking at issue one though. And that was kind of the inspiration was to do something like Big Brother. And and so you know my roommates were all kind of sponsored athletes and we kind of gathered round I was like myself. And T.J. Liese and Chad Schnacky and a guy named I believe Joe W. was involved as well. And Pat Abramson and so those were the guys kind of contributing to. We also had you know I also live with like Rowan Rogers and Dale Rehberg and that whole crew. Nate Cole and those guys were on the road though they were already kind of famous and we were trying. We're knocking on their door basically trying to become pro riders. And so we decide we're all pretty much led the charge. But like the idea was like let's tell the story of what's going on here with these kids in Breckenridge. That is a little bit less glossy and than the traditional media that was out there.
: Sure. Now so that was the start of Player Magazine Player Magazine magazine. Tell me. OK so you took that and he took that idea and model and you went out to like what.
: Yes. We made like a thousand copies. And you know I sold ads I was like the ad sales guy as well as kind of one of the editors of one of the four editors and and we came up about I don't know. Four hundred dollars short. So we had to kick in a hundred bucks to get the thing printed and we brought to Esai a thousand copies of the magazine. And you know we had it on the cover of the first mag was Stephanie Seymour she had just been in Playboy she was like the hottest girl in the world. Totally buck naked on the cover just naked girl on the cover of the magazine. And so literally I distributed like 1000 magazines in four hours and everywhere you looked at this trade show there were people reading the magazine and it was like a hit and people were like Man you got to do more of this and so that kind of like gave me my start in the media and gave me this direction. And so I made a second copy a player and like that. The thing is though I didn't know anything about graphic design didn't know anything about printing. All I knew about was snowboarding and my raw desire to kind of like tell our story from from our perspective which was different than what was happening in the traditional media. And so that was kind of the birth of my career in media and that was like 90 to maybe something like 92 93. Yeah.
: How was it. How was it walking into. Into SIA I did you have like where you were you scared about the outcome or were you like hey this is what I'm doing and I'm gonna kick ass and you know I don't know if we really had you know I think it was probably more like how we're going to sneak in.
: Right. So it's more like worried about like how we're going to get into SIA like guess snowboarder.
: Yeah you know and like I mean we were pretty raw I had sponsors at the time still and and so you know figured out we all figured our individual path and then brought boxes of magazines or at backpacks of magazines and to start handing them out. And and you know from the first reaction I mean everyone just loved the cover. What's not to love about a naked girl on the cover of a magazine when you are 18. Right. And so. So yeah immediately like people were like the immediate reaction from the first person who saw it was like wow that's that's something different. You know and that was kind of you know an unintentional success I guess. I mean I mean the print quality the typos everything with I look back on that and it was so bad from like a you know from a professional perspective. But yet it had this raw message that was different than what was out there real cool.
: So you took that experience and you then went back to college you decided hey this is going to be my my life path. Talking about college talking about the start of East infection and what that was all about.
: Ok well I made a second issue a player and I decided to go all color because it was always about improvement. Like just like snowboarding you know you want to get better and better and better so I was like OK how do you go from a black and white Color you make a color one so I made a color one printed on an offset press I remember you know printing and the idea distribution models and shops for free. Get them out there printed 10000 of them. And and I go to pick up the magazine and the guy who's the rep from the printer is like here's the magazine man.
: Looks like you guys are having a wild time up there in the mountains and I was like yeah yeah we are totally.
: And he's like so how do you do your color correction anyway. And I was like What's color correction.
: Right because everything like every photo is just like super dark. It was like literally flat bed scanned of prints basically and photos that we took of screengrab the forehead VCR and we like pause the the VCR and take photos of the TV screen to do video grabs. We were pretty ghetto. Right we just figured out how to make it happen.
: But that's when I realized that like OK there's more to this than than just like making it happen. It's not just about the idea it's about doing it as professionally as you can. And so then I was like OK well I should probably go back to college and learn more about this you know. And I was already I already done a couple of semesters in the fall in the summer at UVM and so I went back and and switched my major from environmental studies to marketing business and I figured I'd learn the business side of magazines and I could find the people who knew about color correction and about graphic design and all the while I was like graphic designing and doing all these jobs I did basically every job at some point for the magazine. And so then I had a friend Pat Bridges who I grew up competing with. And so I talked to him about hey I you know I'm back here and going to college full time I'm going to finish this thing out and I'm going to start a Xeen here to represent East Coast snowboarding and so he came up with the name yeast infection which captured the infectious spirit of snowboarding on the East Coast at the time.
: Sounds like it. Yeah. Oh man.
: And so you know but I liked it because it was kind of like you know little bit outsider and really and like snowboarder and Transworld at that time there was no coverage of these cause you might get like four or five photos a year of like someone on the East Coast snowboarding and yet here's this vibrant scene going on every weekend every day that we could go to the mountain we were doing it and and so that's kind of the birth of East infection and then so you know my strategy with the first issue the first one was 24 pages and it was like I wanted to put as many people in that first issue as I could so I put like 130 different riders in that first issue.
: Yeah the photos were small then it was like hey you're in the magazine hey you're in the magazine hey you're in the magazine. So all the sponsored riders kind of got a little piece of that.
: And so that kind of snowballed for three years got better and better and better for three years and I learned a world about publishing and about you know about how magazines were made and also just from you know a DIY perspective as well. There was no one kind of helping us do it. We got to the point where where we had a house that we rented for the staff and so that was like Pat Bridges and Evan Rose who's like now the creative director. Burn this guy Chaka. Michael Gardzina he'll be one of my interviews as well. And so all these guys all ended up sticking with snowboarding or skateboarding and like George CavalLA was my first followed Twitter. He's at 686 today. And Herb George with my ad sales guy and and he's OSiris shoes he like runs those Cyrus. And so I see how all these people had just had this genuine passion. It was our way of like going to college and learning but also doing what we loved. And you know and really that's what this podcast is about is like taking something you love and then pouring something of yourself into it. And so that's what these stories really in this podcast are about people who can can dedicate themselves and their passion their time and their work towards their passion. So they get a little bit maybe more satisfaction out doing something you love share.
: So you were able to snowball this thing to the point where you guys had enough capital to go out and rent to rent a space where you actually did this help put you through college.
: No I mean basically they paid the rent and we had a party every Tuesday night like a keg party every Tuesday night and there are some wild stories from those parties but so the keg party funded like the magazine know the Keg Party is funded itself. But we just wanted to have a good time we were snowboarders we were still competing we were all kind of want to be sponsored riders at the time but also had the drive to do something more with snowboarding than just ride. And so it was just quite an adventure you know to have a house and all your friends and just to be able to dedicate yourself and your spare time and that's kind of when I started working these crazy hours shows going to school and getting A's and B's in school full time and also making a magazine full time. And I was doing the sales I was doing the graphic design. I was writing a little bit of the stories. Bridges was really the writer. It came naturally to him it did not come naturally to me at that time. And so really and you know it was just this like trial by fire.
: So we would make mistakes we would make big mistakes you know and then we learn from those mistakes and tried not to make them again. Right. And so then you know after I graduated college it was kind of like OK I think I have done the East Coast justice as far as like I've made three years of magazines Time to go out west because I knew that like my experiences in Colorado that it's like softer snow bigger mountains for a variety of reasons I wanted to go out west. So I actually had like job offers from both snowboarder and from Transworld and snowboarder was like Do you want to be in sales or do you want to be an editorial. And I was like well what's the difference. And they were like well the sales people make a lot more money and the editorial people get to travel everywhere. And I was like I'll be an editor. And so that's how I kind of landed in California. You know as associate editor you know packed up the the Nissan pickup truck and dragged the U-Haul trailer across the country and showed up there just totally green.
: Now to me this kind of sounds a little crazy like you're like 24 25 26 right around there. Yeah kind of just keeps coming out of school. How was it that snowboarder and Trans World and all these magazines out West had this kind of bead on you basically and said look we want Mark Sullivan to come out here. We want him to come.
: Well I mean the magazine that we are make we were going to the trade show. Bridges and I would go to the trade show and try to sell ads to potential advertisers.
: And you know we did print you know 10000 copies of each issue so they were getting out there people saw and we sent them to snowboard shops. We had a handful of subscribers you know. And so it was kind of a known quantity. And I think that maybe they recognized the fact the desire to do this you know to be a part of this industry and to you know just be a part of snowboarding at a bigger level and so you know I remember it was kind of heartbreaking that like when I got out there like like on my first day of work my boss was like Hey man you can't be sponsored anymore that's a conflict of interest so I just drop all my sponsors and I was like Oh man that's this is going to help my sponsorship opportunities and now I can become a pro somehow.
: Like I still had that dream kind of in the back of my head that I'd be a pro but it made me like really come to that decision like no you're going to be working in the industry and not a writer right. Not that I ever gave up on writing or progression and writing but like that that was going to be my path.
: Basically from then on.
: Talk to me about day one. You walked in there. Were you scared or did you walk in there with all the confidence in the world that you were just going to change this magazine.
: I was scared shitless. I mean this is like let me paint a picture for you.
: This is like an old airplane hangar divided up into cubicles with a few offices. It's the home of Surfer magazine which is like just a legendary publication that started in 1964 basically to define surf culture. And there were like all these old surfboards around and really was like a you know like where the culture of surfing live while snowboarding was just like a stepchild basically to Surfer magazine everything was a stepchild the Surfer magazine. And so you know I got in there and you know the guys from Surfer magazine were really confident and I was a guy who just literally landed in California the week before. Couple of days before and was just out of my element in every sense of the word. But I was just like you know I'm just going to try to do college try and give it my all. And so that's what I did and like. And I was an editor and I never found writing easy but I was like I'll do it so like you know I was like this guy who would like write stories like four and five times from scratch I'd write at once and then like rip it up and like you know write it from scratch again and just do that over and over and over again until the point came seven or eight years later when I could actually just pick up a pen or typewriter or whatever keyboard and write you know. But it was hard fought really to do that but I knew that my voice was legitimate as far as like I was a snowboarder and I was one of the only people who defined them. I was the only person to define themself as a snowboarder. Like at that time like that's who I was I was a snowboarder just like the surfers that Surfer magazine they were surfers and then they got into media as a byproduct of that snow.
: So snow when it was kind of being run by people that snowboarding but not necessarily snowboarders.
: Yeah I mean they were competent. They snowboarded for sure. But it's like they didn't grow up like defining themselves as snowboarders and so they you know. Good job great people. But it's like they didn't just they didn't live and die by snow. To me snowboarding mattered more than magazines right. For them it was like hey I got this great job being you know working at a magazine or whatever. And so you know and they were great people they did a good job they tried to tell these authentic stories of the pros and the people who were out there doing it.
: But it was like I came from this other place which was just like I define myself by this and if I do a good job it's a byproduct of that of that determination.
: Now you came in as an associate editor basically how you kind of work your way up and how did you get to the point where you were like You know I guess calling the shots steering the ship.
: Well it's funny. You know I almost it was almost a really short term gig. I started at 24 grand a year which is actually like so my 24 grand and like what ninety three this is like 97 when I was seven 97 I started a snowboarder. And so Neal my six month review came and I was like Man this is like a dream job I get to work with people I like could just focus on snowboarding and I kind of kind of carte blanche as far as like just going and you know being a snowboarder I can go to all these different cool places I've always dreamed about going and. And so I go in for my six month review and my boss is like OK you've done an awesome job. You know we want to promote you to senior editor and I'm like patting myself on the back like I've made it right. And so then it comes time to negotiate the salary that he offered me 26 grand. Like a two thousand dollar a year raise to take that new job title I was like look here's all my bills I actually add them up ahead of time and and actually it cost me 27 five to live here in California. It's just that cheap the rent isn't cheap.
: You know whatever. And he was like you know hey look you can take this or leave it. There's a hundred people waiting for this position. And so I literally I took a couple minutes you know to think about it but finally I was like OK OK I'll do it I'll stay on you know and basically I had to call my parents to ask them to pay for my car insurance you know because I couldn't afford car insurance. Sure. You know and so and so you know and that kind of gave me the mettle to like to be like OK I'm here for snowboarding this isn't about the money. This isn't about you know about you know rising to the top or whatever this is about the sport of snowboarding and doing a good job for it. So then the dot com boom came and. And so they're all of a sudden was like you know a land rush for people who knew media. And so I was one of those people so we're like a lot of people and so actually the bosses at snowboarder ended up going and starting their own kind of new media company that was Internet. And I don't know whatever they had like a bunch of different facets to and they tried to get me you know to go with them and I was like well wait a minute I'm the last man standing here.
: That makes me by default I hope anyway the boss and so sure enough I stayed. Everyone else left and I had this Leicht negotiation which was like based on my prior experience with negotiation and wasn't going to get run over. Sure. And I became the editor in chief of snowboarder magazine at that point and really had completely staffed the whole magazine. We didn't have an art director we didn't have a photo editor we didn't have a managing editor. We didn't have any of the people that we had to rely on. So really it was like I got to redefine the magazine. At that point and that's when Bridges kind of came out I tapped him on the shoulder you know and he came out as a senior editor and and then I hired Jeff Baker and then took a while but I found Aaron grappling because I really had this passion for design and being authentic to design and that into working out. In fact funny story about that is I actually put my job on the line to hire Aaron Draplin right.
: It's like his first job he was in college and he was just about to graduate from MCAD in Minneapolis which is like a great design school. But you know the head sales guy publisher guy was like guy you know there's just no way that a guy from college can handle. So anyhow I'm just like look back and you can fire me if this doesn't work because I was also driven like I was I saw like a piece of me in him which was like he was driven to snowboard. He was driven to great design and that's something I didn't have the great design or the background design but I knew that he wouldn't let let us down you know because he loves snowboarding enough where it's like he didn't owe it for the job he owed it for the sport and man that really that first year it kind of I would say kind of redefined magazines as far as like the look the feel the content all of it because we just had all the sudden we went from having people who snowboarded to being exclusively people who are snowboarders running the magazine. And I think that was like the first time that that really had happened as far as I know I could be wrong but as far as I know that was really like the first time that had happened and like within a couple months like we were being copied by every other publication. Most notably Transworld but it's like we made waves. You know we had a good time doing it too by the way we got the snowboard all over the place.
: Yeah really quickly just rewind a little bit. Drapin when he has just just talk a little bit about who he is and how his what his influence has been one of those guys behind the scenes that we wouldn't normally hear about but his influence has been pretty huge I guess in snowboarding.
: I would say because you know snowboarding media and snowboarding in general such a visual thing that being a great graphic designer. I mean Draplin could like literally render drawings like he could sit here and draw a picture of you that looked more or less photorealistic when he was like in fourth grade. Right. Right. So he was a prodigy of art. I would say. And then he went kind of chased his snowboard dreams in Bend Oregon and then he was like OK similar to me is like I got to get an education get some Mike backbone behind all this passion that I have. And so he went to one of the top design schools in the country. And so anyhow he became the art director of snowboarder and you know on the side he would do stuff like design boards for it or other stuff. Oh yeah. He designed the shirt and custom and I remember you know we were really jealous because he got paid 13 grand to do a single graphic.
: That's unfair. You know that's half my salary I know that so. But anyhow. But he deserved it.
: You know the thing is it's like he had a real passion and like and a background in design that would allow him to be authentic with his artwork and so he went on to do graphics for basically most of the great companies of snowboarding. And you know he was actually the art director for snowboard magazine when he started. And then he's gone on to like these great things he does speaking engagements all over the world now. Like where he talks about design he's just he's done work for Apple from Microsoft for Ford for you know Nike. I mean he's really like at the absolute top of the game right now.
: You were able to hire all your friends hire the people you wanted to excuse me hire all the people that you wanted to hire and then you know you have this crew of people just like ready to kick ass for you talking about some of those days some of those days where you guys were kind of on top of the world and on top of I guess the media world.
: Well the thing is it's like we never saw ourselves on top of the world and really it was just like a hard fought battle we all had so much passion for snowboarding it was about the ideas and so we would get into like big arguments about like what was it. Make a good cover. And we tried to take the frame of like OK this is what works on the news stand or whatever but then we would have these you know arguments that would last into the night basically about what would make good content who's a good interview and all these different kind of aspects of snowboarding and you know we put in really long hours we didn't really actually have lives outside of you know showing up at that office and none of us really wanted to I mean we were in so cal we were snowboarders by definition which is like snowboarders at the beach right. And you know we all tried to learn to surf I would say but right with you know just so so results and so basically we poured all of our effort and energy into making that magazine.
: And you're saying yeah. Ok rewind a little beg me gimme gimme like a great story one time with all those guys. You guys were you know. Give me some give me some meat.
: Ok. Something to something to think about. Let's see. Let's see. Maybe the buyer's guide that was an interesting one. So we did. You know I'd I'd basically talk to our bosses into being able to being able to go to Whistler for the season we got Whistler to donate a house to us because I was like well we got to go to the mountains right in the winter. You're not publishing magazines. You finish in like December and then that issue finished in December comes out in like February March at the end of the season. So I was like so we had like the whole winter to develop content. So instead of traveling out of SoCal we went to Whistler and our whole crew our whole staff went to Whistler sounds like heaven.
: It was heavy actually. And so we had the south we had a bunch of pros staying there instead of telling you the buyer's guide story I'll tell you. I actually made my first snowmobile story yeah. Tell me the first snowmobiles is actually a much more interesting story. Maybe so anyhow. I also talked a Yamaha into giving us some sleds to demo for the season and like that was kind of like the beginning of like the snowboarding scene. And so I was like Yamaha we'll do like a feature in our British Columbia issue that we're going to do next year and we'll do a feature on snowboarding prominently featuring Yamaha snowmobiles and so they ended up giving us like the first two Yamaha Mountain max 6 and 7 hundreds in the country of Canada. And so we go and pick them up and grapple ends up there and I'm up there. And Boston Castaic Justin Hostynek is staying with us. And you know so we're going to go out on our inaugural mission Hossan it's got his own Polaris RMK 700 with a 136 track that was like State of the art back then. And so we go out to I forgot the name of the zone. But anyhow we have to go up this thing called the S Shoot we ride out through this trail through the woods. Draplin. No problem. He's from the Midwest. He's been on sleds from MI been on sleds like around fields and stuff. We get to the bottom of this thing called the chute and friend. Yeah I mean literally it's like like a thousand vertical foot or 5 700 foot vertical foot run and then a dogleg turn in the middle of it.
: And at Hostynek it kind of looks at Me and is like you and sleds before right. And I'm like yeah totally. And like in my mind I'm like yeah I've been sleds in Vermont around fields or whatever area I've ridden snowmobiles go stop. Yeah. So he just takes off and I take off behind him maybe like 100 yards back just to kind of gauge the speed and basically just wide open pinned straight up this thing right. And literally I make it to the top my first try which is like probably miraculous in and of itself. But then we get to the top and it's like and we turn around like where's Draplin. Oh he didn't make it so Hostynek let go. Don't go get them. And I was like OK. And so I really don't know what I'm doing. And so I basically you know I go to drop in back down the chute the way I came up. And the thing like rolls away. So you're just looking at the Valley for you can't really see the issue until you're actually in. And so right when I see the slope there's strapline capsized in the middle of the run. And so I ended up just basically grabbing a fistful of break the sled goes sideways. I get pitched one way it goes the other and it just rag dolls. Bing bang bang bang bang like 700 800 vertical feet and over ass over teakettle whatever. I mean just all the way down to just pieces of plastic flying everywhere and this is a brand new like six miles on the sled slope.
: Oh yes although by the time I got down to the speedometer it was brocaded like I picked up the speedometer was pick it up. The plant didn't want to litter I had this environmental studies background Yeah. So picking up all the pieces of plastic windshield hood all the way down. And you know I pick up the speedometer or whatever and you know locked on the speedometer 15 kilometers. So I had 15 kilometers on it before I total that. And how does it break in the news Yamaha about that one. We ended up paying for the sleds we had an insurance policy and we actually ended up using them but scrapped together I think Dan Hudson like artists who's going to be on the podcast. But he actually like to work or whatever. And those Yamaha's are bulletproof bulletproof that. They were like bulletproof because after this like ass over teakettle ride just breaking off pieces of plastic in every direction. You know it still worked. So interesting though that was my first snowmobile adventure and so that's like you know part of everything it's like OK learn from your mistakes don't do that again. You know and so I never threw a sled down a hill like that ever again. But I also kind of have never really lived that but I'll own it too. You know it's like you know it's like you learn from your mistakes. And so hopefully I won't be doing that too. Now a fifteen thousand dollar sled that I actually have to pay for. Right. So that was in 2000 or 2001. We did.
: So now some of the things you were at that snowboarder those years there were some pretty fun things that kind of happened between like super parks and talk to me just about kind of some of those ideas some of those kind of innovative things that you guys ended up coming up with just as you know your crew or did you come up with those are you know I came up with a bunch of the ideas I was always a person who had to sell the ideas to the management we wanted to do something different it was up to me to be like this is what we're doing and they'd be like No.
: That takes more work for me and then be like this is what we're doing this is what's right for snowboarding and I would just like fight tooth and nail to do what I thought was like good reason why I probably wasn't an easy person to have as an employee because I was like I was just really determined to do what was right in my mind for snowboarding based on my prior experience and mistakes I had made prior to that. So you know we but we came up with theme issues we had columns for guys like Peter line and Todd Richards and you know then those were just based on influences from other magazines I was always a magazine person. So like Racer X was a motocross Mango's into motocross and they would have a column by a racer and I was like we should have columns by pro snowboarders. And so you know that was something that we did. And you know the buyer's guide as well it's like we used to go out and shoot the buyer's guide at the trade show. We'd like literally go ten miles a day back and forth pulling boards and boots and bindings and photos shooting them in a photo studio and then we came up with it well basically I came up with this idea to basically take the influences like the Japanese buyers guides that were going on and apply it to America and so it turned and my boss once again was like No you can't do that. That's like that's going to take way more work for me and I was like we're going to do it this way or you could find someone else to do it. And there's the you know not being agreeable partner. So anyhow it turned like eighty thousand dollar cost into a four hundred thousand dollar a year gain in fact they still do that same buyers guide to this day. They've made millions of dollars on a single idea. I put my job on the line to do.
: Hey how crazy is that. But if you are a product and in the buyer's guide you know that's the way it's done sell.
: Now you are a snowboarder living in so cow it's kind of weighing in on you a little bit right. Talk to me just a little bit about kind of the decision maybe too. I mean it had to have been a hard decision. At the same time to just say like leave snowboarder Magazine.
: Yeah I mean it was a couple of factors really in that. So bridges had a blown out knee and he wasn't getting it fixed. And so I basically put a carrot on a stick form which is like bridges you get your knee fixed and you can like start really progressing your riding again gangs. We grew up riding competing against each other and all this stuff and he wasn't. He was still riding but not really like progressing right. And so that was kind of in a holding pattern. And so I was like you know Bridges if you get your knee fixed I'll go find a job in the mountains because I don't like so cow I don't want to be here and I'll go find a job in the Malon so it took about a year and he got his knee fixed it was the right carrot on a stick I suppose. And and so I found a job in Sun Valley Idaho or Ketchum Idaho as the international marketing director Prisca.
: And that was a great job for me because at least the first because it's like blended my two passions which were motocross and snowboarding skiing I could tolerate. But you know it just took my two passions and allowed me to kind of progress into a marketing role and I became like the international marketing director and I go to Switzerland like once a month and you know and then we started doing bikes and I wasn't like a bike guy per se and so you know it was cool to have like a tour de France team riding your bikes or whatever as the marketing guy. But it's like it just wasn't my thing. So. So you know at a certain point I decide to start snowboard magazine to get back into the snowboarding media. Did you ever get to go to the Tour de France really quick. No no no. I had actually no interest in the bike at that time. I smoke cigarettes right. And so like literally I go to these bike events and like I get up at like six thirty in the morning for like an 8 call time let's say I go smoke like three cigarettes in a row behind the dumpster and then I jump in the shower clean up like not smell like smoke. Do that until like 9 or 10 at night. Right over till like the company dinner wrapped up and then go sneak out to the dumpster and smoke five more cigarettes and go to bed. Right. And like that was like that. I mean I was addicted to nicotine right. And so like that was something that was like Man this is really interfering with my lifestyle you know and I don't want to be I wanted to be politically correct and smelling like cigarettes at a big bike event. Actually it doesn't cut it. Sure. Right. And so. So that was kind of one of the things like the addiction to cigarettes was more powerful than the addiction to my job. OK that tells you house how you know how powerful they are you know.
: And it's been hard to quit but I have so that's a good thing.
: So in turn you decided then to OK I'm going to go and start snowboarder or exceeding snowboard magazine and and talk to me just about the idea behind that and maybe just the different model of how that came about and how you structured it I guess it was different than most everywhere else.
: Well you know being a marketing person it was like I wanted to be like three different approaches in marketing you can be the leader low cost provider are differentiated. And so for me it was like we're going to be different on every level. And that doesn't mean just the content. That means that paper stock the distribution method the way we sell our ads will be different. Everything was to be different. Right. And so it also was like the first family friendly magazine as far as like we didn't print swear words you know and then we took a different focus on product and that was kind of the editorial vision was to integrate product a little bit more and I remember this phone call I had some of the best business advice I actually ever got was from Ken Block when I was trying to sell him spreads in every issue you know and it's just like I put together the team drap Blinn and Jeff Baker I had as the editor and and just put together a team of people who who were trustworthy in the industry known quantities right. So we weren't just like like kids in college making a zeen. And you know Ken Block who started D.C. She was like well what's the magazine. What's the mag about. And I gave him this.
: You know it's going to be dead.
: And I like went on for like two minutes about how radical and game changing it would be. And he was like That's great. Now say that in five words. And I was like oh shit hog and let me get back to you. And he's like OK. So I call him back two weeks later and I was like snowboard magazine products places and personalities he's like sold. And he bought spreads in every issue from that. Yeah it was like a big contract and we got good advertising you know. I mean basically like went from like zero to one point three million dollars in sales in a single year. Wow. You know so it was like a runaway success because of that idea of being differentiated in every way you know the distribution model. We sent the magazines to to shops right to support their culture and the culture of snowboarding at the grassroots level so it was like I'm not going to deal with your traditional return model where you have one person sitting there counting how many magazines got returned every month instead. You keep the magazines give me away for free with someone who purchases something or or sell them for the cover price if someone wants to buy it. And you keep all the money. Right. And so I figured you know I'd sent 40 copies per magazine to every shop in the country and I figured Zumiez got actually more in way more. But but I figured hey you can't make 40 sales in a month than than what are you doing in business though right. So anyhow that was like the the distribution model and that was different you know and then drew aplan had like a really clean take on design we upgrade the paper stock. I mean like a snowboarder it was always about like just getting away with the cheapest dentist this paper that we could get away with. So I was like Let's go the opposite direction and make it on the nicest paper we can afford. Sure. Right. So that was that was a pretty crazy time.
: I would say now you guys weren't just sitting in an abandoned aircraft hangar.
: No you guys were where were you guys when you were doing this. We were actually all over the country basically Draplin was in Portland. Baker was in Seattle I was in Sun Valley or catch him still and and then we would come together. We'd all kind of do our separate parts.
: We had a sales guy in Southern California Gary and that was kind of the initial team and so then we do our separate things and be on the phone every single day with everybody and then we came together to put that magazine together the first issue it Dragonlance house. And so we all kind of our pieces together and and then put together that first issue and then that was kind of our model is like we'd go our separate ways and then gather you know in the fall for a week a month or took a week to lay it out or whatever and then we'd all gather and put the magazine together.
: Now what was it what was the first issue about what was the big thing you were I mean you were I guess the splash into the back into into a magazine.
: You know I think it was just like the fact that it was differentiated at every level and I could look someone straight in the eye and be like not only does it look better in his eyes like this authentic voice or whatever but it covers products proxy you have you know that you're trying to sell and so like because I was an editor and a salesperson you know it was like really about kind of breaking down this thing of like church and state which I was always going to be authentic to snowboarding but to idea that the editorial and the advertising weren't related it was something I threw out the window at that point in time because it was like well we can do both. It's like in our photo gallery it's like we'd have captions that listed every product in the photo and the price of that product. So you can be like oh here's a shot of like Peter Line doing a jump and he's on the Division 23 Peter Line for ninety nine and he's got 32 boots.
: And so like it was just like this idea that like we could not it wasn't selling out to me at all to do it that way. To me it was just being giving more information in a different kind of information to the actual consumers you know.
: Now what was the reaction from from the consumers what was the reaction I guess from shops that kind of stuff maybe in comparison to other magazines that they had.
: Well based on those sales that we that I talked about it was a hit immediately right. You know and it was just different and it was quality and I just had a totally new voice compared to like Trans World and snowboarded were so close in terms of design terms of content in terms of direction. But this was something totally different you know. And so I think that it immediately got a place and then you know because of our distribution model I was able to go sell ads at the trade show and be like to any advertiser just like ask any shop in the world what their favorite magazine is. And it was always Armagh because I was giving them magazines for free and they were selling them keeping the money right. And so I think we put it like about a million dollars a year into retail. Like a million dollars a year directly into snowboard shops pockets of time. So yeah it was I felt pretty good about that
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: Let me just shift a little bit let me ask you a little bit about your I guess career as an announcer as someone that I always kind of did events. Talk to me just a little bit about how you first got into it and maybe kind of some of those early years doing events.
: Well I became an announcer kind of by accident. I would say I was at a event. I think this was even prior to working at Snowboarder. I was at an event and the guy who was announcing the event was like the father of one of the kids and he was like oh and Jimmy and Johnny they like going now on Saturday night.
: And he was just telling these personal stories had nothing to do with the the writing that was going on in the contest. And so basically I snatched the mike out of his hand was like that's a five 40. That is a make twist twist. Right. And I just started calling Trex because they weren't you know calling the tricks and I was like sponsored snowboarder at that time. And you know I was like that was what was important to me was just being able to call the tricks. And so I did that and then and then I guess that went well enough that I got tapped on the shoulder by this guy Jeremy forester who was kind of coordinating the Grand Prix series and basically my second announcing gig was like announcing the grand prix series and I've done it ever since.
: So about 20 years of announcing Grand Prix just based on just being pissed off at this announcer you know just not calling trick or not knowing even what the tricks were you know. And yeah. And so then I got to announce the Olympics. That was quite a rush. And now I've also gotten into doing TV stuff I've done this past Olympics I worked for Euro Sport and interviewed all the medalists right after they won their medals which was really rewarding at least as far as like I learned a lot.
: And I mean you're interviewing people that rate at the pinnacle of their lives they're going to look back on that 30 50 years from now and be like that was the best day ever. You know and there I am getting ready to ask them questions I did after like 60 different people. I did for free skiing and snowboarding and so you know I've learned that free skiing and snowboarding are are they have the same blood sweat and tears that go into both pursuits and sort of win a gold medal and free skiing or snowboarding takes the same kind of dedication and effort. So I have an appreciation for that for sure. Did you get did you get Ester Ledeka. Oh I did. Oh yeah I got it carried an interview with her. I'll actually posted behind our patriae on firewall. Yeah. Because I have like little behind the scenes stuff videos and stuff that I post behind the scenes so people who actually donate to the podcast make it happen will get unique content and things you wouldn't actually get as part of a free podcast. I'm also going to give away like I have a whole ton of snowboard historical items that I'm sick of carting around just about through the rearview mirror or out the window a while ago and I'm sick carding so I'll say you're going to give away everything that's in your apartment. Just like slowly over time. Oh more than that to my apartment. I'm probably about a hundred boards I'm going to give away and I'm just going to and I have like a trophy from the U.S. Open. And Danny Cas's original avalanche beacon all sorts of weird random stuff. You know that I've collected over the years and then carted around for 30 years and it's like you know what I don't need to live in the past young and live in the future. And so you know with Alaska it's like I'm still progressing. I still have my Alaska thing going on and so that to me is like the future. And so all I'll just look forward instead of back.
: Sure. Let's take it back a little bit. Talk to me just about like a in the announcing side of things. You know what is. What have you found have been the real keys to being I guess a successful announcer.
: At first it was just getting over the nervousness like I mean the first time you pick up a mike and you're sitting there and there's a crowd of people here and you hear your voice kind of squeak through the speakers or whatever people like on a crane their neck and turn around to see who's talking right. It's really you feel like the spotlight really burning through you and that was always for years. That was like the hardest thing was like the first minute of announcing every event I would kind of dread that first minute just like and then it just got to the point where I was comfortable with it and I could just just pick up the mike and talk you know to an audience or a crowd or whatever and then speak with confidence you know. And then beyond that have insights and then beyond that not only have like unique insights but also make those insights relatable to people who didn't necessarily understand what was happening as far as the tricks go in trying to explain things that a more basic level you know. And so you know it's always been this idea of progression not to SWID like magazines media or snowboarding but also with announcing so I've tried to you know develop tonality and and the ability to build a story to completion. And right now I'm doing well I'm not going to tell you what I do now because I have this whole thing that that I can now create a storyline that ties together from the beginning to the end of an event. Sure. Right. And so that's got a beginning a middle and an end. Whether they know the writers are doing it or not like I can create that beginning middle and end just by announcing. Sure. So those are some of the things that I'm always trying to push forward. You know.
: Yeah and you also do your homework. You go to that you go to the half pipe and you watch them all you know.
: Yeah that's like one of the most important things is just studying and knowing what's going to happen before it happens or having a good idea you don't know exactly what's going to happen if someone's going to crash or if someone's going to land that trick or they're even going to try the track. But there's a narrative that you can build before the event even begins. And so now these days anyway I've gotten to the point where I'm taking notes and studying and I'm writing intros for the beginning of the show and stuff like that where it's like I'd really try to make a genuine effort to to just make it a better experience for the people standing there watching and not just calling tricks I mean I did that for years like 15 years or 10 years of just calling Trick Trick Trick Trick Trick Trick.
: Wow great Ron Vrain you know. Or will that be enough. Will it be enough. You know it's like the story now is much deeper than that.
: Sure. Announcer Cher Yeah it's it's it's difficult being up there right and and like missing like a trick or announcing the wrong thing.
: Yeah. And you know it's like I've done that for years I've announced wrong things and I've been called out on it and occasionally you can't really pay attention to everything that's going on at once. I mean you got one set of eyes you got to start list and that's about it. And a microphone. And so you know in your notes and so like if you look down and then you forget the writer's regular goofy and then they're going backwards across the flat bottom not forwards to a different track and so you can call it wrong very easily just by like a simple lapse of concentration as far as those tricks go. And so yeah you're not going to always get it right and it's in Italian or you don't see something you know. I'll just try to say something that gives people a general appreciation for the effort that it takes to do something like that like I didn't see the trick. You'll see that I don't like try to call it or make it up or whatever else I'll try to give some people an appreciation of like how they departed Dilip where the tail came down at the landing and how they built their speed for the next hit or whatever you know and so when I get general it's because I'm not like really focused on the detail of the trick.
: It's hard you know.
: Have you ever been just like lambasted at the bottom of the hill by a bias no one had thought while you could you're calling of that track really cost them something not by writers I mean the thing is when I first started announcing I was like really raw and probably one of my best learning experiences actually happened announcing a Grand Prix was probably my first year.
: I know it's probably my second year announcing grand prize I was working at snowboarder and so I was just like I feel like I pretty much was on top of the world or whatever I knew what I was talking about anyway they validated it through giving me a job in the media and this girl drops and this was pretty early in the progression of women's writing not like it is today but this girl drops in and she double frontside hits like that meaning that she goes up she isn't even clear lit by the way she goes up knows like a turn inside the transition that goes and does like a turn topside turn on the flat bottom. She doesn't even attempt backside and that does another turn on the transition or whatever and so I just tore her apart. I was like oh accosts your dad like you know 150 dollars for the entry fee and 200 dollars for hotel rooms and the cost of gas to get here was 200 dollars and so what you're telling me is you just your dad just spent like 50 dollars a second for you to compete in this event. And she broke down crying. I just tore her apart and so my boss who probably should've fired me at the time but didn't then instead he goes you know I always respect him for this he took me aside just like that girl over there.
: Yeah Yassir is like that's the girl you just announced that like I know I know I saw our high announced it and he was like see what she's doing right now and I'm like take a good look oh she's crying he's like how does that make you feel. And I was like not very good actually right.
: And so then from then on I was able to kind of try to find positive and everyone's writing share right even if they were riding while I would find something positive to say about them. And you know sometimes you could tell the superficiality of the positive Nasserite I mean if I give you some really dumb compliment it's probably because it's not that impressive you know. But but now nowadays it's like at the Grand Prix level those riders all rip. No one's really rain like doesn't deserve to be there but to me anyway that girl didn't deserve to be in a quote unquote world class competition. She should cut her teeth in like a regional event first instead of trying to make the Olympic team with a bottom turn share. You know so. So anyhow though it's like a learning experience all along the way I've had these learning experiences through snowboarding and snowboarding has been that vehicle I guess that's the purpose of this podcast really is like to share some of the lessons learned through people's experiences in the sport. And so I've had a lot of experience.
: I thought I knew a lot about snowboarding but really interviewing the different people that I've been interviewing has really been an eye opening experience as far as like they all have different perspectives and different experiences and also you know talking to a sales manager or you know or like a guy who who is there in the beginning of the sport it's like they have different lessons they've taken different things away from the sport of snowboarding and yet it's all this one thing. And so you know to me it's not just about what is marketable like if you buy an ad page you are worth talking about in the magazine or something along those lines. To me those aren't the stories that are actually the most compelling ones in the sport. So hopefully this podcast can can kind of illuminates some of that stuff and hopefully it's good enough that you're going to want to support it through our patriae on page patriarch Dom slash the snowboard project. Please support this effort. I'd love to continue doing this I'm learning so much and enjoying sharing it with everyone.
: Suli I just want to ask you like let's talk about Alaska and why Alaska is why Alaska is important to you. And they may be kind of the early days of tailgate.
: Ok well Alaska is the most important thing to me in snowboarding today because when I first got there it's like 1998 99. It was basically like from the very first run the best run I had ever done by far hands down. Nothing even came close. And everyone got better and better from that very first run. And so it was like just mind melting right. The quality of the powder or the open terrain you know and the challenge that you felt like you know I was always built up in those TV movies like you could die you know and so it's like you have this fear and then all of a sudden soon as you drop in you know it goes. It transforms to elation. You know the incredible powder and whatever and so the pendulum swing from fear to elation happens in Alaska like nowhere else for me. And so you know I went back to Alaska a number times I was the editor snowboarder at the time so I could assign myself whatever stories I wanted to so I happened to write the Alaska stories because I wanted to keep going back and you know and then when I sold snowboard magazine built that up and then sold it.
: I wanted to do something nice I you know I had some money but it wasn't like you know the few money that some people get when they sell a company I just had like a little bit of money to throw around. So was I going to go on the best snowboard vacation of my life and so I went on a weeklong healthy trip with my buddy who was like the deejay of like all the snowboarding events I was announcing like the U.S. Open.
: And I was sitting there at the U.S. Open is like hey I'm going to go to Alaska. I sold them and going to Alaska is like I'd go. Oh perfect that I will go by myself. And I didn't think he was going to do it but he ended up like call me up weekly or like OK what's the deal with Alaska let's do this.
: So we ended up going to Alaska and we spent like a week helli boarding at this place called a B.A. and it's actually like where tailgate started and. And so it was basically like the whole scene in Alaska was about 20 people at that time. It's like away 070 and and it was just the Mack dog crew.
: A handful of French guys and then me and my buddy and we were like the only ones there who were like vacationing the French guys were like making a movie. MacDawg crew is like DCP and Yussi Oksanen and Andreas Wiig and those guys were filming the Mack dog movie. And so we would just hang out and all the downtimes.
: Right. And so I'm driving back from from that trip. And on the drive between you know baldies in Anchorage I was like Man I got to figure out a way to share this with more people. And that's where tailgate Alaska was born. So really it was just this thing where it was like the idea of sharing Alaska with more people and promoting that ultimate experience and you know getting people to slay their own personal dragons of fear to face your fear and overcome it. And I think everyone has that experience whether you're a pro or whether you're a guy from the east coast who's never ridden too much powder. It's like you can have that experience where you will face your fear. You don't have a choice. You're going to be scared and you have to face and overcome that to ride Alaska and so to me it's like this anybody can go there and ride.
: First of all it's only so challenging having the perfect conditions. You know you're not challenging yourself with difficult conditions you're challenging yourself with perfect conditions and the terrain is the challenger and the mountains are as big as challenging as you want to be and so you start at one level and just every run you can step up a little bit more and so that to me still happens I still challenge myself every year. And you know in the last decade it's kind of transformed from helicopter access to snowmobile access and that's just a natural progression with the technology of snowmobiles. Sure and but man every single year I'm in my 40s now I get better every year as a snowboarder I never gave up on this dream of progression in snowboarding and in the rest of my life and so snowboarding as it were are. Alaska is where that happens still you know.
: Yeah. So I was I was lucky enough to go with you on year number one how when we just hopped in the van and we went up there kind of what were the. You know like you were saying like only Mac dog were there and a handful of small people and I remember excuse me a small handful of people and then they were very like wealthy skiers. You know that's kind of what I remember being there. Yeah.
: That was the first that was a year after year after year thing my dog thing right. And that was a year after but yeah I mean basically it would cost. You know I don't know like a more than a thousand dollars a day to go skiing and so really not everyone can afford to go five or seven or 10 days the skiing you know. And so the idea would tailgate was to make like this Alec carte menu of options where people it could be affordable for people so you can sled you can skin you can you can take the helicopter for a day. You can just try all these different experiences in the ultimate mountains in ultimate snow conditions. And that is kind of the idea.
: Who were the people that were and that ended up showing up at these things and were the people you intended to attract.
: Well you know I mean I didn't know who I was just trying to share it with more people and really my friend network. It was like the idea was like to bring my friends and share those experiences with them that I had you know at first there a lot of pros who would come and and also my personal friends I grew up riding with people who had dedicated themselves to the sport.
: And then you know it evolved to this thing just through marketing and putting it out there that it was basically a majority of recreational people just average Joes from everywhere around the world. I mean 25 countries we've had people from a tailgate.
: And so you know everything from from Croatia you know the lot of Australians Japanese all over Europe you know Scandinavia you know and like upstate New York New York City you know we have people from the East Coast from the Midwest from the West Coast we got a guy from Chicago a couple of guys from Chicago come. And so it really you know the idea is is that anybody can ride those mounds and it's like you see what they show in the movies is like the most challenging stuff like the stuff that's like death defying. Right. But the thing is it's like 70 percent of the brain is intermediate. So anyone can write it it's just like intermediate train with perfect conditions. I mean you wrote what was your experience riding in Alaska like.
: I mean I was scared to death on a number of occasions I think year one. I think I you know I'm the son of a pastor. I probably hadn't been to church in like 10 years and I was like praying every time I got on the snowmobile that I wasn't going to die. But you know I didn't I didn't. You know. And there were definitely times where I was afraid when we were hiking up to the top of kind of like saddles to shoot something or you know like and different instances but mostly it was really fun like I you know I was perfectly fine. And I didn't think the actual terrain was all that challenging. But then again I've been snowboarding like as long as I could remember you know. And so it's like it wasn't it wasn't terribly hard but yes always always exciting always fun being there. Yeah there is always this level of like I guess being fearful of what might happen. And then I was always very happy when I would leave and I wouldn't I shouldn't say I would. I was happy when I left I was just happy to be in one piece when left because it kind of always held that like fear I guess for me you know but it was a great experience being a tailgate. I think the people that you met in the parking lot and the people that you ended up in the car with are you know taking a Halle lap with doubling up with all became really fast friends and definitely people that I still keep in touch with. Yeah.
: To this day you know so you know and the thing is it's like you're going to this like remote location you're out there and basically because everyone has to look out for everyone else's life hey if someone gets in an avalanche you're the one with the Beacon who's going to go find them right and probe and all that stuff. And so the idea is this is like basically you become instant friends because it's like hey I'm looking out for your life you're looking out for my life so we might as well be friends you know. And so here's to that and so you know it's going to continue. And luckily I made it through more than ten years of tailgates and it's going to continue I'm not going to run any more because it just like honestly it was probably a little bit too much stress. I have 500 people who could all Tench them like the barrier to entry is like you have to be willing to die doing what you love. Right. And so to have 500 people on your watch every year or close to that amount. And every year is different. But it's like it's actually kind of stressful. And and so I feel like this whole new lease on life not having that stress. And you know and also I have a lot of respect for Dustin Dustin James who's running it now a guy who basically sat on my couch for a year to learn all the ins and outs of tailgate and you know forced mentorship but he's running it now and it's in good hands and so it will continue until people will still be able to have that experience in Alaska and really you know the ultimate snowboarding experience for me.
: Sure. So sleeping on your couch basically leads to great things like bridges became the editor of snowboarder snowboarder and Justin took over tailgate. So can I come sleep on your couch.
: I'm trying to live by myself.
: Try to get that figured out. Anyway OK so I tailgate that kind of thing. Now we're on it now we're onto this. You know. Yeah. And then it's kind of like this new this new thing for a kind of what what where do you foresee this kind of going and why why and why this why now. You know.
: Well I mean I think that you know just the really it's because the existing me isn't telling the story of snowboarding to me it's not connecting with me anymore I'm still a snowboarder still to find myself that way. It's just that the conventional media doesn't fill that need in me for knowledge about the sport. And so I really got to the point where I was like OK I'm going to have to leave snowboarding and do something else and then I came back across this idea of like you know using snowboarding as a vehicle to to improve your own life outside of snowboarding and to have these experiences and to really use it as a tool of self-improvement. And then I was like OK that actually is something that I could you know spend a lot of time doing because there actually are some really interesting stories you know. And honestly the more I dig into it the more people I have to talk to the more curiosity I have about what I didn't know about snowboarding and. And so I think that there's basically an unlimited amount of people who've really dedicated some of their passion to the sport. So it's going to be told without advertising as an influence by the way it's like that's one of the most important things to me. For the first time ever I've created a new kind of media in that I'm not going to be looking over my shoulder to see what the advertisers thought of my last product. It's like I don't care what you think this is what I see snowboarding to be. You're welcome to make your own podcast if you disagree. I'm going to do this and put the story out there and hopefully people like it share.
: So we're going to hear things we're going to we're going to just really dive deep into the dirt and hear about you know all kinds of I guess things.
: Yeah. I mean nothing's off limits really. That's the thing. It's like there's I've already done a bunch of interviews for this and you know people talk about drug addiction with snowboarders and they talk about the ups and downs and like you know and people who got passed over and then also people who have had just like amazing success all the way across the boards with snowboarding. And so it's kind of like this whole you know I mean snowboarding is like life. It's like there's upstairs downstairs unexpected turns. There's cliffs we didn't expect to encounter below you you have to Landen. And so yeah I mean snowboarding to me is life and so I'm trying to connect those dots.
: All right. So again just let us know how how how do we support this kind of I guess open media the year that you are creating here.
Ok so basically we're doing it through patreon.com/thesnowboardproject you go there. There's like different levels that you can contribute to starting with I believe at the lowest level will be two dollars a month. Right. And that will get you you know that will allow us to make 20 shows a month 20 shows this isn't like a once a week thing I'm talking about five days a week. There's that many stories.
So we start out and there's like eight people like five shows on the course like 16 bucks.
You know it actually costs much more than investing in this stuff. I think it's a worthy endeavor you know and honestly it's like yeah I'm going into the hole to make this. But it's worth it because it's like I haven't heard these stories I'm progressing myself and you know and the thing is like OK Michel right there there's the barrier to entry to support it but then there's all different levels. You know and they'll also be a firewall so you do contribute that will be unique content behind this firewall and then I'm going to be giving away a bunch of snowboarding history stuff as well to those people who support on patriarchy. So patreon.com/thesnowboardproject you can find us also on Instagram. The snowboard project Twitter the snowboard project we're going have a Facebook page a snowboard project. It's all kind of slash the snowboard project. We kind of got a corner on all that. It's actually a domain I've owned for like 12 years. And and it's is the right time to turn the key.
: Well anything else we should leave the the listening audience with I guess before we take off.
: Well we're going to start out with the three shows a week right. That's just to build our initial audience actually we could do five shows right out of the gate. But it's like if there's five people listening to I want to spend all this money and all this effort on just cranking out these shows so there will be five shows a week from Monday through Friday and this will be all long form unedited more or less. You know just to try to tell these these whole stories instead of having this really well put together thing hopefully our audio is OK and it will improve. You'll you'll hear some bad audio and some of the interviews we're working on that. Trust me. You know there's always room for improvement but the ideas is out. We're going to tell the stories behind the stories you know. So get ready. All right. Strap in and get ready. Drop the next. Announcer. All right. So anyhow this will be a lot of fun though. We're going to and here's the thing that I hope that everyone will learn something by this and maybe take a little piece of it to their own lives outside of the snow.
: All right. Well I'm excited to hear what we have next. And yeah. I do want to end these things. What do we do
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