Nick Hyne | Trick Bag Snowboarding App | Diaries Downunder | Japan | JBMC

Episode #26

In this weeks episode Aj and I talk with New Zealand snowboarder Nick Hyne. Nick’s also a filmmaker, an App developer, and quite the world traveler.

We get into:

• Cinemagraphs
• Air New Zealand and Diaries Down Under
• Working with major corporations
• The Trick Bag Snowboarding App
• Getting tickets clipped in Japan
• Language barriers
• Méribel France and Three Valleys ski area 
• Luxury snowboarding in Switzerland
• Yawgoon’s, Superpipes and Daewon Song
• Snow Park’s demise
• JBMC

Quotes:

“It’s all snowboarding so it’s all pretty fun to me. I’m obsessed with snowboarding!”

“Japan is actually the biggest market for the Trick Bag App. US is number 2.”

“I’ve spent twelve New Zealand summers (winters) in Japan now.” 

“I didn’t even know that Japan (had snow) – I mean, I knew they had snow, but I didn’t realize that it was the powder maker of the world.” 

“There’s a different kind of culture in Japan. What you do is not for yourself, it’s more for society.”

“When you get a good day at your home resort it’s kinda hard to beat.”

“The progression that snowboarding is taking relies less and less on the conditions…”

“To learn a new carving variation –  you can do it literarily on grey bird rainy day and it might break the internet.” 

“Not everybody wakes up at seven in the morning like, ok, today’s 1080 day…”

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