Hot: Olympian on Olympian action!

Todd Richards and Sage Kotsenburg discuss the joys of being the best!

Todd Richards won an impressive 16th place finish in halfpipe at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games. Sage Kotsenburg won an equally impressive gold medal in the first ever slopestyle at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Let’s listen in as these two legends chat in the rarified air… 

Richards: Tell me the most annoying thing about having a Gold medal.

Kotsenburg: Everyone asking where I keep it and asking if their son’s best friends cousin can get a photo with it on. Haha on the real nothing is exactly BAD about having it but people turn into Smeagol from Lord Of The Rings when they get around it.

Are you pissed that Mark McMorris got 3rd at the Sochi Olympic games and he got a video game and you won the thing and you can’t even get a signature App for the Galaxy 7?

I am pumped for Mark having a game. That is rad! Seems like too much work for me though.

Do you think this is your agent’s fault?

Definitely my agent’s fault. I can always blame him for stuff I don’t get. He did get me a lifetime supply of bacon which is cool. I never redeemed it though

You just signed with Oakley from head to toe. Have they tried to get you to wear some wacky glasses yet that look like they fell out of someone’s Halloween costume closet?

I am actually looking to get one of those Over The Top glasses… Those things are fuego!

Do you have any kind of pre snowboarding OCD behavior that is super embarrassing but somehow want to tell everyone in this interview right now?

I don’t have any pre snowboarding OCD behavior but if you have hung out with me you know I have twitches or tics whatever you want to call them every 30 seconds or so that switch up every 6 months to a year that I have to do or I get insanely pissed off.

Are you the coolest person in Park City? Trick question! Ken Block is. Do you hang out with Ken Block?

He is the undisputed King Of Park City. I hang out with him for sure when he is in town. We both have pretty hectic schedules but we kick it for sure.

I know you are super into Game Of Thrones. Who is the King Joffrey of snowboarding?

Shaun White?

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On a scale of 1-10 how awesome do you think you are?

6.5

What are you going to be for Halloween this year?

I have no idea but I take Halloween pretty serious I always go all in on costumes so I need to figure it out asap. My brain hurts from the premier tour I just got done with Halldor though so it is tough to decide…

Do you need any yard work done? Because Hondo is available.

Hondo is always welcome to help me with my yard. Or just come kick it and drink some @icywine_official

You’ve been to the White House to meet the president and got really close to him. What did Obama smell like?

I can’t remember but he told me I did the chillest interview he had ever seen…

Are you still tight with all the talk show hosts?

Not really… I’d say i’m closest with Conan me and him gel super well. He comes to Park City with his family every year I told him to hit me up to shred but he never did. Letterman was cool too but he put a lot of pressure on me saying he wants his kid to be like me when he grows up!

What was the dumbest thing you bought with all that Olympic loot that came pouring in?

I actually never sent it with any of the money really. Sorry that is such a boring answer. I got my girlfriend a YSL purse. But that was also cause I puked in her purse on my 21st birthday haha so I kind of deserved that one…

I hope you did something nice for your parents because they are nice people. My parents are the best!

Shouts out to mom and dad.

Do you ever skip leg day or is everyday leg day when you are Sage?

This is such a rogue question hahaha.

The Olympics were two seasons ago, do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and think you are still trying to qualify?

I have nightmares that I am back in 2014 trying to qualify and I haven’t ridden at all… Such a stressful time haha… The Olympics are nasty that way.


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DIY: Best failed pro snowboard brands!

Are you a pro? Did you start a brand? Did it fail? Join the club!

Pros always like to start brands. Don’t know why, but they always do. Maybe it’s the mindset like “Oh hey I was a “marketing consultant” for this brand, now I’m an expert and so let’s do this…”

But then real life comes along, bites them in the ass, and poof back to normal…. Now don’t get us wrong, the brands are fucking sick. It’s awesome DIY ethos, it’s punk rock, and it’s dope. But like it’s really hard to do something and run a business when you’ve spent your whole life traveling the world snowboarding, chasing chicks, and partying.

These are our top 5 brands that pros have started that didn’t work:

Elevation– Chris Engelsman was every tall snowboarders favorite snowboarder, and even he couldn’t make it last…

Forecast- Really? Pat Milberry? Does this look like the face of a business owner?

Pat Milbery... owner/CEO/n shit
Pat Milbery… owner/CEO/n shit

Omatic- Give us a fucking break Todd…

M3- These guys were the fucking shit for a while. But then they went to M4 and then to something else, and tbh they might still be around as some version. But you lost us with the M3 to M4…

Public Snowboards- Lol sorry Joe, I had to hahahahhhhh


Bad Santa chillin on da links.

Dear Bad Santa: Gimme cigs and booze!

The clock is ticking! Get your Christmas wishlist to Burlington, VT on the double!

Halloween is almost here and, as you well know, really launches the start of the holiday gifting season. Oh there is so much to want! There is so much to lust after! There is so much to crave!

And, sure, you can write your Christmas wish list to Kris Kringle (Santa Claus), post it to the North Pole, sit back and hop you’ve been nice enough to receive whatever your heart desires.

Or…

You can write your Christmas wish list to Bad Santa, post it to Burlington motherfucking Vermont then go out and rage! Here’s mine.

Dear Bad Santa,

For motherfucking Christmas ’16 I want:

-Booze

-Vodka

-Cigs

-Coachella tiks

-A fucken Mars space suit 4 my lady

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A Phish snowboard

-My two front teeth

-Hipster gout shoes

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-Some other shit

Ok. I’m gonna go out and rage.

Laterz dawg…

Love,

Chas


Dream: Come play with little Mark McMorris!

You can play with him instead of playing with yourself!

Do you enjoy playing with yourself? Have you ever been caught? Like, someone walking in right when you are giving ‘er hell? I think it might happen to Todd Richards sometimes. I saw him playing with himself on Instagram once.

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And I bet it is going to happen to Mark McMorris all the time. Like, I bet he will play with himself multiple times a day. But guess what? You can play with him too and as much as you want!

Today, Mark McMorris Infinite Air drops for your X-Box One, Playstation whatever, etc. Let’s read about it!

Infinite Air is the first open-world, physics-based snowboarding video game built in close collaboration with top pro-snowboarder, Mark McMorris. With dedication to recreating the authenticity and excitement of the snowboarding experience, Infinite Air features an all-star lineup of six highly talented pro-snowboarders available to play in-game, including X Games Gold medalists Silje Norendal, Torstein Horgmo, Danny Davis, along with notable pro-snowboarders, Ulrik Badertscher and Craig McMorris.

In Infinite Air, players will be able to use their imagination to carve out their own unique tracks in pristine powdery courses. Offering over 100 square miles of vast backcountry terrain across massive procedurally generated mountains, the options are near endless and guarantee that no course will ever be the same. Not even the high alpine snowy mountain tops are out of reach as the helicopter will allow players to land in any location offered in the game.

That sounds fantastic! Do you think Todd Richards is jealous? He looks a little jealous.

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Buy your Mark McMorris Infinite Air wherever video games are sold and get jerking that joystick!