Gray Thompson | Hot Boy’n | Banked Slaloms | United Shapes | Warp Wave | Fly Fishing | Snowboard Design

Episode #25

Gray met up with Aj and I joined in via skype. We covered the following:

• Rally for Rocker – Slalom in Donner Summit
• Banked slaloms
  

  Silkscreen from Steven Kimura of Owner Operator and United Shapes

• Closing day at Boreal
• Riding with Eric Messier
• Building Slalom courses
• The Secret Mountain
• United Shapes and board design
• Soft launching the Space Cadet
• Work Ethic
• Warp Wave
• Fly fishing and fly tying
• Fuck, Marry, Kill errr Unfollow
• Would you rather
• What Youth Dot Com 
• Sierra Surfer
• Hot Boy’n

 

 

 

 

Quotes:

“It kinda rubbed me the wrong way… When it came down to competing it was super serious – gave me butterflies. That’s no the feeling when you’re snowboarding otherwise.”

“I think the trend towards jam sessions is the best thing in competitive snowboarding right now.”

“You could be having an ok day and then go rip around with five of your best friends and then it’s the best day of the year.”

“We just take turns following each other as close as we can….”

“My weekend was like mini vacation where I didn’t have to leave my home.”

“We all came together  like – lets just go out on a limb and start a board company. We have all these ideas, lets create an outlet for them.” 

“We want this cool relationship with the consumer and the brand.. I feel like I could call up anyone who buys a board from us and be like, lets go ride.”

“We’re going to be releasing a few more shapes this fall. Each model only comes in one size.”

“It’s a brand for snowboarders who love the mountain and love the feeling of snowboarding. It’s a brand for the person that wakes up at five in the morning on a pow day….”

“If you took the park away and just looked at the mountain, you would visualize a park.”

“Work is life and life is work and you gotta lean to enjoy it all.”

“Every week we get together and have knitting club…We get together and tie flies and talk about the river.”

“When the river’s low you gotta back off and go skateboarding, don’t put too much pressure on them (the fish).”

“I go to Vimeo and watch hundreds of movies to get inspiration outside of snowboarding.”

“When you get to the mountain and you’re feeling a little risky. You wanna get close and uncomfortable – then you go hot boy’n for the day.”

 

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