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DJ ate all the bananas – many of them he didn’t even have to bite once!
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AJ mini-golf tree pose Mike Talley Photo
DJ ate all the bananas – many of them he didn’t even have to bite once!
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:
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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Episode #16
Aj sits down with Lane and Mini (the dog – see pic below) at Boreal for a chat about the following:
Some of my favorite quotes:
“If I ever have it (splitboard) on the mountain I have it split in ski mode – for shits and giggles.”
“There’s a million things that can go wrong while you’re out there…. I’ve just always enjoyed snowboarding by myself.”
“Snowboarding’s been my life since I was a child… it’s something I will do as long as my body will let me.”
“I’ve listened to Brooke’s (podcast episode) quite a few times… that chick is amazing…. I love what she does with Yobeat”
“That place is the shit (Kingvale), Rest in Peace.”
“I’d just go put my VX on a tripod and hit record and film until I’d run out of tape.”
“If you eat shit and no one is there to see it, you didn’t eat shit.”
“When you’re doing things on your own it’s because you love it.”
“That’s one of the best things about Smokin – Jay’s a diehard snowboarder.”
“If you’re not that much of a religious person having a random stranger marry you is weird.”
“After about five minutes of surfing the web and 10 minutes of figuring out how to pay for it – I was ordained”
“I went through the whole ceremony and married them without actually asking them if “they do”…. I was so embarrassed until the entire crowd started laughing.”
“I ate 7-11 twice a day there (Japan) and I ate better food that if I ate at Trader Joe’s here.”
“Hopefully my dad doesn’t hear this… We were about as smooth as sandpaper… we got busted for drinking vodka.”
“Crotch rockets are so much fun, but they are just a deathwish”
“I saw too many Juvenile videos on MTV and wanted a street bike.”
“We got our own motorcycle club out here… The Death Diggers.”
“Never worry about am I going to get hurt… Rodney Mullen breaks everything down to the most simplistic plan of events.. your brain can’t tell the difference between visualizing and doing.”
“Danny Kass would say think of the worse case scenario and try to think of a way out of it before it happens.”
“It’s something that I fucking love so if i hrt myself doing it fuck it, I hurt myself doing it.”
“Bring your splitboard to a rail in the park.. Hit it, Split-it…”
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