The Snowboard Project

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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 Silver...

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 me...

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 fu...

THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT 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...

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...

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 wor...

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 wor...

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 -...

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 deg...

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...

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 gig...

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 car...

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 car...

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 Moor...

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...

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 Galla...

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...

  Real Talk: This Week in Snowboarding 4/27/2020 SEASON IN REVIEW - INTERVIEW Episodes Today's Episode is brought to you by Never Summer.  http://neversummer.com 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...

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 intervie...

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.   http://neversummer.com 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 ded...

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 br...

This episode is brought to you by Never Summer Snowboards. For more information visit www.neversummer.com   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Dustin walks us through his "incident" last Monday in the backcountry here in Alaska.   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------...