TPM Episode 187: Daron Rahlves, Pro Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Daron Rahlves is the greatest American Downhiller of all time. He's an Olympian that owns X-Games gold and is the only American to ever win the most important race in the world, the Hahnenkamm Downhill at Kitzbühel. Daron has done so much in his life and in part 1 of Daron's podcast we talk about growing up with opportunity, how his dad was hard on him, jet skiing, skiing, boarding school, The US Ski Team, Rossignol, Atomic and more…So much good stuff in here.
Daron Rahlves Show Notes:
3:00: Thought he was sick, Pain McShlonkey and Shane
11:00: His mom and dad, his dad being a hard-ass and participation trophies
17:00: Team Sports and family money
22:45: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
24:00: Jet Skiing, the Myers Family, and NASTAR
31:00: Family skiing, moving to Tahoe, then the East Coast and boarding school life
38:00: Skiing on ice, the crossroads and making the team
42:00: Being small, strategies, the World Cup and gaining confidence
45:00: Peter Glenn Sports
49:00: Atomic v Rossignol, better skis and evolving with Atomic
55:00: Famous in Europe, doping, and Herman Meier
63:00: Crashing at Kitzbühel and then winning the Hahnenkamm
73 :00: Inappropriate Questions with Junior from Le Chamois
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a show with inappropriate language, the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host, Mike Powell, and while I've been talking about |
| 0:18.1 | COVID and systematic racism a lot lately, I'm not going to do that this week. |
| 0:23.2 | What's on the top of my mind is that summer is almost over. |
| 0:26.7 | It's so crazy that it's almost September. |
| 0:29.3 | Time isn't supposed to go by this fast when you aren't doing shit, but it has. |
| 0:34.1 | So I'm getting ready for homeschooling 2.0, which I dread. Last year, I taught fifth grade math. |
| 0:40.6 | That shit was hard and created a lot of fights between me and my kid. My wife, she focused on the |
| 0:46.3 | English stuff, and really, I think she did most of the work herself. But now we're going |
| 0:51.1 | into sixth grade, which is a whole different animal. You have a bunch of different classes, which means a lot more for me and my wife to learn and teach. |
| 0:59.0 | So I'm kind of nervous going into middle school. |
| 1:01.0 | But before we go back to school, we're doing something else that I totally hate doing, a big house project. |
| 1:07.0 | I grew up hiring people to do stuff, so not only do I not enjoy the work, I never |
| 1:12.3 | learned to be handy either. So that's what my shitty life is all about. But my guest this week |
| 1:17.5 | does not have a shitty life at all. He is the greatest American downhiller of all time. I'm talking |
| 1:23.3 | about Darren Ralph's. I see Darren most years at the Payne McSlunky. I usually make fun of him |
| 1:29.3 | on the microphone and that's it to our relationship really. But the dude is incredible, so |
| 1:34.2 | incredible that we had to do two separate podcasts to capture his story. Before I get into it, |
| 1:40.1 | I want to ask you to subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to it, tell a friend about the show, and follow me on Instagram at the Powell movement. |
| 1:48.1 | Finally, I want to ask you to support my great sponsors who make this thing happen. |
| 1:52.9 | They are Stanley, Peter Glenn Sports, and the 10-barrel brewery. |
| 1:56.8 | Now, let's talk to Darren Ralph's. |
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