TPM Episode 195: Chris Davenport, Legendary Skier, Part 2
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Chris Davenport is a legend in the ski world…I call a lot of people legends and Dav is worthy of that title. On part 2 of the podcast we pick back up in Argentina and meeting Doug Coombs, how Dav's pro career came together, money, death, athlete projects, and more. Part 2 is even better than part 1.
Chris Davenport Show Notes:
5:00: Doug Coombs, contests, and new product
15:00: New Zealand, Salomon, 24 Hours of Aspen, and X Games
30:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
32:00: Training Red Bull style, McConkey, and other sponsors
43:30: Money, Kastle, and jokes
49:00: COAL Headwear: Use the code powell15 for 15% off
51:00: Mentoring younger athletes, Freeze Magazine, and MSP
58:00: Wake up calls, risk, and The 14ers Project
72:00: Mountaineering projects and what is going to happen in the BC this year
80:00: Inappropriate Questions with Murray Wais
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a show with inappropriate language, the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome! |
| 0:14.0 | To the Powell Movement, I'm your host Mike Powell, |
| 0:17.0 | and if you haven't been keeping up with snow news, |
| 0:19.0 | you missed a huge blow to the ski and |
| 0:21.3 | snowboard worlds. |
| 0:23.1 | This is the week that we mourn the death of powder and snowboarder magazines, and you can't |
| 0:27.5 | forget surfer and bike mags as well. |
| 0:30.0 | They've all been shut down, and this is so fucking sad, as print has been the lifeblood |
| 0:34.8 | of these industries forever. |
| 0:37.3 | Print has built the heroes, told the stories, and created the froth in the fall that gets us |
| 0:41.5 | all ready for the season. I love these publications, and I feel terrible for the Dave Reddicks |
| 0:46.9 | and the Pat Bridges of the world, who gave their entire lives to these publications, and I'm |
| 0:51.6 | guessing they didn't get much more than a phone call, letting them know their 30 years of service are over. |
| 0:57.3 | Hopefully, they at least get two weeks for every year they were there. |
| 1:01.7 | But in this world of corporate America, who knows what's going to happen? |
| 1:05.7 | Now, as you may or may not know, I have a serious history with powder. |
| 1:10.2 | I work with them a lot during my K2 days, |
| 1:12.9 | and when I left K2, I pitched them on sponsoring a podcast that I was planning on doing. |
| 1:18.2 | They were stoked on my idea, saying they had been thinking of doing the exact same thing that I had |
| 1:23.1 | pitched to them, but they didn't have anybody in-house who could do it. And they asked me to create a |
| 1:27.7 | podcast for powder, and they would pay me to do it. So we created the sponsored podcast. Pretty much |
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