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.

What is snowboarding to me? I'd say it's when I feel passion. That is, if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life.

When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.

It’s not the destination but the adventure along the way.

If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

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

Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.