Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.

Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also a lot of symmetry. They each have their own biorhythms from a motherly embrace to tempestuous wrath. What I love about being out in nature is that you are at the mercy of your own decision making.

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.

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.

It's probably the most personal project [The Fourth Phase] I've done, which changed the dynamic a little bit.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life