This is The Outside Podcast with Paddyo.

So what about Halfpipe is making you really excited right now?

I saw Halfpipe as a new challenge to conquer, and that's fun for me.

When I stopped Slope style, it was because I was bored, it's, it just got very routine and I didn't want to do it anymore. When I looked over at Halfpipe, it was like I was rhyming what I was doing, but it wasn't the exact same thing. The tricks and the and the practice and the, in the locations and the environments are very similar with half pipe.

It's a different group of people.

It's like similar but different.

It would be like playing half court basketball versus full court basketball.

It's like the same thing, but it's like a little bit fundamentally different.

It was just like enough change for me to excite me and get me stoked to

like want to try, try out what I was good at, but in a different venue. Well, that's an interesting

thing that you say there with different people. Did it feel like when you entered into half pipe?

Did it feel like more like warm and inviting? Did it feel like you're like, oh, I think I kind of

found my people

in skiing? No, because I started winning.

Have you ever heard of a plant called the Rose of Jericho? It's fascinating. For one, it doesn't

look anything like a rose. It's small, green,

with tiny roots. It kind of looks like a tiny Christmas wreath that someone threw into the dirt

of the deserts where it's usually found. At least, that's what it looks like when there's some water

lying around. The rose of Jericho is legendary amongst florophiles for its ability to survive complete desiccation.

In a drought, it folds itself into a little brown ball, pulls up its roots, and blows in the

wind like a mini tumbleweed until the rain falls and it comes back to life in all its pretty

green glory. Apparently, these things can survive dormant for up to 50 years.

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