Dave Sypniewski | The Bomb Hole Episode 227
The Bomb Hole
Chris Grenier
5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 192 minutes
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Summary
For every beautifully scenic and carefree day we have on a snowboard there is countless hours of work, brain power, planning, collaboration and marketing that went into it. Dave Sypniewski is one of those passionate individuals who has dedicated much of their life to making sure money flows in and out of snowboarding to help power fun community driven events and keeping pros paid well. He’s worked behind the scenes at places like Thrasher, Burton, and Boost Mobile and understands the where snowboarding meets marketing like no other. Learn the ins and outs of the business side of the snowboard world we all know and love on this week’s episode of The Bomb Hole!
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
2:24 Tail Grabs
6:51 Early Days
16:57 Contests & BTS
31:47 Ads (RTAW, Woodward)
33:34 Transworld Magazine & Brown Trout
49:25 NTVP
51:39 Ads (Arbor, Yeti)
53:42 The Media Landscape
1:17:23 Ads (Bubs Naturals, Pub Beer, Nidecker)
1:20:14 Peak Pro & Product Talk
1:35:15 Burton
1:48:32 Story Time
2:00:33 Capitalism & Boost Mobile
2:18:16 Education
2:28:15 Interesting Boarders / BDC
2:33:27 Mental Health
2:41:53 53 Years Old And Skating
2:46:48 Open
3:00:02 Hot Takes
3:06:09 Set Ups / What’s Next / Thank Yous
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, this week's episode is with Dave Subniewski. He's a hilarious human being, a beloved member of our snowboarding community. |
| 0:08.0 | He was a pro snowboarder in the 90s, which we talk about. And then he became an industry heavyweight. |
| 0:14.5 | He worked over at Trans World doing some editorial. Then he worked over in the marketing department at Burton, |
| 0:20.2 | when Sean White was agrom tell some |
| 0:22.0 | great stories about that worked over at Boost Mobile and then Thrasher magazine he also worked in the |
| 0:28.3 | beer industry at new Belgium and fat tire spending a lot of beer money in the snowboard industry |
| 0:34.5 | he's one of those people at brands behind the scenes making it happen, |
| 0:38.5 | and he has a high-level understanding of the industry. So it's really interesting to hear him |
| 0:42.8 | talk about that. And in this show, he's brilliant talking about marketing, but then he also |
| 0:48.0 | has that blend of telling hilarious partying stories. So I think you're going to like it. |
| 0:52.3 | We get into his latest endeavor, |
| 0:59.8 | Open, a startup beer company with a cool brand philosophy. He hates tail grabs. |
| 1:05.5 | But before we get into the show, I got to say thank you so much to all the sponsors for coming on board. We have Woodward, Pub Beer, Bubbs, Arbor, Yeti, and Nidaker. |
| 1:11.8 | Thank you guys so much for supporting the show, as well as our Patreon members. |
| 1:15.8 | You guys rule. |
| 1:17.6 | Thanks for supporting the show. |
| 1:18.6 | You can find a link on our website if you want to sign up for our Patreon. |
| 1:22.5 | But let's get into it. |
| 1:23.8 | The Dave Subniewski episode. |
| 1:25.8 | Here we go. |
| 1:26.4 | You are listening to... |
| 1:28.3 | Bye cold punch! |
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