TPM Episode 204: Danny Davis, Pro Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Not too many household names in snowboarding come out of Detroit, and not all snowboarders live the free-spirited life that Danny Davis does. An all-around fun laid back person, Most of Danny Davis' career has been performing under the pressure of halfpipe events on the global level. And he crushed it for a long time. On the podcast we talk about his midwestern roots, coming up, Frends, Shaun White, near-death experiences. Inappropriate Questions are all-time and asked by Luke Mitrani. Do not miss Part 1 with Danny Davis.
Danny Davis Show Notes:
3:00: Working on his house, Mountain Dew, and Michigan
16:00: Sports, being small, getting hurt, and rough places
23:30: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
25:30: The Middle Earth Series, Hood, and pro-level events
34:30: Frends, madness encouraged, and Shaun White
44:00: COAL Headwear Use the code powell15 for 15% off
46:00: Olympic dreams for the Frends, Kevin injury, making the team, bad decisions, and hospitals
60:00: Inappropriate Questions with Luke Mitrani
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 finally got back on the snow. |
| 0:20.3 | And you know what? |
| 0:21.4 | It wasn't all time conditions and there were lines, but it felt so good to get back to life |
| 0:26.5 | as I used to know it. |
| 0:28.1 | The last day I got to ski was March 15th, and this felt way more normal than that. |
| 0:33.4 | I only saw one person not wearing a mask, and this was walking to the lift from the parking lot. |
| 0:38.9 | And three-fourths of that family were wearing masks, but the mom wasn't. |
| 0:43.1 | And my go-to move for something like this is to tell my kid pretty loudly, |
| 0:47.4 | Hey, buddy, let's go over this way away from the lady who is not wearing the mask. |
| 0:52.1 | That's my passive-aggressive way to tell her to take a hint. |
| 0:55.5 | And as far as safety goes, the summit at Snoqualmie did a great job making me feel like it was a |
| 1:00.4 | smart choice to come out and go skiing. And on snow, my brand new Elon ripsticks stayed away from |
| 1:06.9 | the rocks and they carved the mountain up like a Thanksgiving turkey. They were so fun and |
| 1:11.6 | I can't wait to get them on soft snow. But it was a real treat to be out there and I could |
| 1:16.2 | have skied forever. While I'm usually in terrible shape when ski season starts, something |
| 1:21.5 | strange happened to me this off season. For the first time in my life, I embraced exercise. |
| 1:27.2 | And it all happened because I started to get |
| 1:29.2 | fat and I could feel it. I'm sure you remember my beer drinking challenge. I pretty much slammed a beer |
| 1:34.7 | for the first 30 weeks of quarantine. My drinking record was 31 and 2, and it was super fun, |
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