I've been to Japan so many times, but I still constantly stumble across things that are so foreign to me.

I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.

I'm very much looking forward to doing nothing fixed, just riding for fun.

Bryan [Iguchi] had this beautiful philosophy about our connection with these incredible cycles. There's a line from one of his poems that always stays with me about 'This process we follow; this cycle we ride' and it's almost become a strap line for the film.

We pretty much had crazy weather, historically speaking, in every location we filmed [The Fourth Phase]. Nothing has been normal in the past three years.

One of the deep routed motivations for looking at our connection to snow and its journey to our mountains came from Bryan Iguchi, who I rode with a lot when I was just a teenager.

Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.