I realized pretty quickly just how big and aggressive some of the mountains were down in Nagano Prefecture.

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

I was picking up surfing, which I also fell in love with. Then I was like, man, to combine the two [free ride and surfing ] would be perfect.

I knew I wanted to shoot in Japan early on. Years ago, we did a Japan segment in "The Community Project," and at the time I felt it was one of the better Japan segments ever captured.

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

When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.

The idea [of the Fourth Phase ] was that by taking a closer look at where our weather comes from, and the processes involved in making it, we could all walk away with a greater appreciation of water in its various magical forms.