Sander Hadley on Expectations, Evolving, & Longevity
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
I sat down with Sander Hadley at Snowbird to talk about his entrance into the world of professional skiing; shifting expectations; his gear setup; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- The Dynastar M-Free 108 (4:31)
- Growing up & releasing his first GoPro edit (8:35)
- Pebble Creek with Rachael Burks (13:03)
- Life after that first GoPro edit (18:57)
- More on the mental game (23:25)
- From the resort to backcountry (27:12)
- Longevity in skiing (29:30)
- Fitness (31:49)
- Skiing as meditative (39:55)
- Working with Picture Organic (44:20)
- Sander’s inbounds & backcountry setup (52:54)
- Lightweight setup vs CAST (57:16)
- What are you reading & watching? (1:02:30)
RELATED LINKS
- Video: Pro Skiers on The Mental Game
- Sander’s Film, Nix
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- Subscribe to our Gear Giveaways & Newsletter
- Video: Blister Labs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:12.8 | blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.8 | Our guest today is Sandra Hadley, who is a professional skier from Idaho, and somebody who has already had a very interesting trajectory in his ski career. |
| 0:30.2 | Now, at our last Blister Summit this past February, Sander was part of a panel session we did called The Mental Game, and you'll hear |
| 0:39.9 | us reference that panel session a few times, and you can also watch that panel session. |
| 0:46.2 | It's on our YouTube channel and on the Blister website, and we will include a link to that |
| 0:51.4 | panel session in the show notes to this episode. And as you'll hear me say, |
| 0:56.8 | I think that conversation with Johnny Collinson and Wendy Fisher and Drew Peterson and Sander |
| 1:04.1 | is a conversation that many people, certainly many outdoor enthusiasts, but really probably just anyone of any walk of life |
| 1:14.0 | is going to benefit from hearing. I really was looking forward to have a chance to sit down with |
| 1:19.4 | Sander and just have a one-on-one conversation where we got to dive a bit deeper into his own story |
| 1:26.2 | and his own path. And that is exactly what we did here today. |
| 1:30.9 | So it was great to circle back and catch up again with Sander, this time at Snowbird in Utah, |
| 1:37.8 | and get some more skiing in and have a number of conversations. And I'm really excited to now share this latest one with you. |
| 1:47.9 | And so here it is my conversation with Sander Hadley. |
| 1:52.3 | Here we go. |
| 1:58.3 | All right, well, I am here at Snowbird with Sander Hadley in your hotel room. We've done a number of hotel room podcasts recently. I guess this is a new genre of ours. But anyway, nice to see you again. We've had a few different sort of conversations, recorded conversations opportunities, but never just a one-on-one. |
| 2:23.3 | So happy to be doing this. |
| 2:25.1 | Me too. Thanks for having me. I'm nervous. |
| 2:27.5 | We'll be gentle. |
| 2:28.8 | The other thing that we've been talking about in the lead up to this conversation is like, well, we kind of want to have like a |
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