TPM Episode 199: Dave Downing, Pro Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Dave Downing is a living legend in the snowboard world who is married to another living legend, Shannon Dunn Downing. But he's so much more than just a husband. He's a surfer shop rat who landed a job as a snowboard sales rep and somehow, was able to turn that into 15 years of pro snowboarding before becoming one of the most real ambassadors/whatever he does for Burton, that there is. It's a history lesson this week that brings it all the way to today….
Dave Downing Show Notes:
5:00: Religion, sports, and surfing
10:30: Surf Shop days, finding snowboarding, and college to be a fireman
14:00: Working for the Burton Reps, Big Bear, and meeting Craig Kelly,
17:00 Going out to Utah, filming, and learning from legends
23:00: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
24:30: Style, transitioning from rep to rider, developing product, and contests
32:30: Sponsors, equality, and how is involved is Jake?
41:00: Splitboarding
45:00: COAL Headwear Use the code powell15 for 15% off
47:00: Giving Craig a Splitboard, going from Standard to Mack Dawg trips, and magazines
57:30: What he does with Burton and titles
64:30: Inappropriate Questions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There lies a porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.8 | You're listening to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, and this week I'm recording the intro the morning after the election. |
| 0:21.6 | Four years ago at this time, I recorded my first Powell Movement podcast ever with Jeremy Jones. |
| 0:27.6 | That morning, the minority of our country was happy, and the majority of us were shocked and |
| 0:33.1 | bummed out. Jeremy Jones was especially bummed out. All of his hard work on the Protect Our Winners |
| 0:38.7 | program that he had been putting in and all the wins that he had had had, they were at risk of |
| 0:43.2 | disappearing. And over the past four years, a lot of the regulations in this country have been |
| 0:48.4 | pulled back in favor of big business. Sucks for the environment, but this is America. But what |
| 0:54.0 | is different about America this |
| 0:55.5 | election year is that while most years we would already have a president, this isn't most years. |
| 1:01.1 | Most years, I'm proud to be an American, but for the past four years, this country has been |
| 1:06.0 | fucking crazier than I ever remember, and I'm embarrassed. We all should be. I mean, you can't even talk |
| 1:11.7 | politics without having a fight with someone, and I'm just as guilty as everybody else about this. |
| 1:16.9 | I've never seen this country so divided. We've gone from the greatest country in the world |
| 1:21.2 | to a place that I don't even recognize. It kind of reminds me of what happened to Vail after I |
| 1:26.2 | moved out in 99. |
| 1:32.2 | Good thing this isn't a political podcast, so there's no need to talk politics anymore. |
| 1:34.2 | It's time to talk about snowboarding. |
| 1:37.1 | And this week, I have another living legend on the show. |
| 1:41.6 | I could really say that about every guest I've had on lately, as they all are truly legends for the most part. |
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