snowboarding
inspirational conversation with the world’s leading competitors in snowboard freestyle and downhill
Elena Hight: making the transition
Elena Hight interview: “You know, in 2018 I did my last halfpipe contest. And I didn’t know it was going to be my last halfpipe contest.”
Blank Canvas is the latest big mountain film from acclaimed creator Jeremy Jones and goes on general release tomorrow. We talk to the film’s protagonist Elena Hight about life beyond the halfpipe.
Stepping Out of Bounds with Torah Bright
Torah Bright interview: “We have taken and taken for too long and now the earth is hurting.”
Olympic and X Games legend Torah Bright talks about her latest venture from Antarctica to Alaska, the wonders of our natural world and the fragility of the life system upon which we all depend.
Ester Ledecká
Ester Ledecká interview: “I tried and gave it everything I have. Even though everybody kept telling me it was not possible.”
Czech winter sports legend Ester Ledecká is the only person in history to have won Olympic gold medals on two different pieces of equipment. We look at the Ester Ledecká Snowboard and Ski story and try to crack the code of her unprecedented success.
Julia Pereira
Julia Pereira interview: “Simply believe in your dreams and never doubt, whatever happens – even if it is hard every day.”
At 16 Julia Pereira won Olympic silver at Pyeongchang 2018. Now she talks to us about coping with life as a professional snowboard cross athlete and balancing personal and professional objectives.
Michela Moioli
Michela Moioli interview: “I just thought that I really wanted to come back stronger and win again.”
Olympic Snowboard Cross Champion Michela Moioli on winning gold at Pyeongchang after rupturing her ACL in the big final at Sochi – and her future aspirations in SBX.
Pierre Vaultier
Pierre Vaultier interview: “There is nothing I regret in my career, everything happened for a reason, good or bad there was always something to learn.”
Two-time Olympic Snowboard Cross Champion Pierre Vaultier talks about the attitude and equipment needed to stay on top of the game.
Torah Bright
Torah Bright interview: “You are buying a handmade piece of art when you buy a Roxy snowboard!”
Olympic gold and silver medal winner Torah Bright talks about the snowboard that carries her name and her enduring relationship with the Roxy team.
Roope Tonteri
Roope Tonteri interview: “The Deep Thinker I use for backcountry, that’s why I have it a little bit longer than the Custom.”
Team Burton snowboarder and former Slopestyle and two-time Big Air World Champion Roope Tonteri talks about getting sponsored, and the technicalities of his Burton rides.
Kimmy Fasani
Kimmy Fasani interview: “This board is great for a more experienced rider who loves all types of conditions because it’s responsive with camber under foot and a little bit of rocker in the nose.”
Two-time Women’s Rider of the Year Kimmy Fasani talks about the Burton Story Board that she helped design and her life as a professional snowboarder.
Arielle Gold
Arielle Gold interview: “Even after the last competition, we are already scheduling for summer snowboarding camps in Mount Hood, Oregon, and Mammoth Lakes, CA.”
Winter Olympics halfpipe bronze medallist Arielle Gold talks about balancing sport and studies during the summer, and the relief of winning a medal at Pyeongchang following her Sochi injury.
Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis interview: “My time off and the summer months are the most hectic for me really.”
Lindsey Jacobellis, five-times World Champion and ten-times X Games gold medallist, talks about the sport/life balance and how she’s stayed at the top of snowboard cross for so long.
Olympic Reflections: Mercedes Nicoll
Mercedes Nicoll interview: “It hit me, if my body would let me snowboard again, I would work towards competing again.”
Mercedes Nicoll, Canada’s most decorated female snowboarder, talks about her Winter Olympics qualification after a career-threatening crash at Sochi 2014.
Julia Dujmovits
Julia Dujmovits interview: “At that moment I didn’t only lose my friends but also my entire faith and trust in the world.”
Austrian snowboarder Julia Dujmovits talks about the teenage tragedy that nearly ended her winter sports career before it had begun, and the subsequent journey to Winter Olympics gold.