TPM Episode 211: Shannon Dunn Downing, Legendary Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Shannon Dunn-Downing was the first dominant woman in the world of snowboard halfpipe and another absolute living legend. Shannon rode everything and learned tricks at a time when there weren't many pipes or jumps to practice on. If that wasn't enough, Shannon was also responsible for not only building a new sport, but also blazing a path for women in this new sport…Another do not miss episode!!!
Shannon Dunn-Downing Show Notes:
3:00: Making Dave Downing's snowboard career
5:00: Weedmaps.com Weed question and ad
9:30: More Dave, money and equality
24:00: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
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26:00: Growing up in Chicago, rink life, gymnastics, and moving to Steamboat Springs
31:00: Skiing, finding snowboarding, and quitting skiing forever
35:00: High School prankster, contests, and getting her big break on a road trip
43:30: ISF title years, dropping out of school,
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45:00: Finding god, her faith, and what happens with Morrow
54:00: Finding Tina, Air and Style, Boarding for Breast Cancer and the Beastie Boys
63:00: Leaving Sims, her pro model saga, and Burton pro model drama
70:00: The 98 Olympics, the 2002 Olympics, and ending her snowboard career on her own terms
77:00: Tara Dakides and Inappropriate Questions with Barrett Christy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mmm, baby, you listening to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I'm going to share my kind of embarrassing and very painful ski experience with you. |
| 0:22.6 | So I headed to the summit at Snow Kwame this past week to do some skiing with my kid, |
| 0:27.6 | and we were psyched to check out Hyatt or Summit East or whatever you want to call it. |
| 0:32.6 | And anyways, we get into the parking lot to boot up, and I'm carrying me and my kid skis to the ski area. |
| 0:38.2 | My kid has our poles. |
| 0:39.7 | And it is icy in the lot as I'm walking, and I slip a few times, but I catch myself. |
| 0:44.2 | No big deal, but it is slick as shit. |
| 0:47.0 | But then it happened. |
| 0:48.5 | My feet slid out from underneath me. |
| 0:50.6 | I was airborne, parallel to the ground, and I slammed so hard, tailbone first into the ground. |
| 0:57.3 | I was writhing in pain on the ground while people were walking by, stopping to look at me, but no |
| 1:01.9 | one really asked if I was okay. They were just staring at me, which I understand. We are in the |
| 1:06.7 | middle of a global pandemic, and there is no need to help the guy who was on the ground. And I stayed on the ground for about three minutes in total agony. |
| 1:14.2 | But really, I have a high tolerance for pain, so I was able to get up, shake it off, |
| 1:18.5 | and Keaton and I headed over to the ski lift. |
| 1:20.7 | I tell him that I think I'd be able to ski and I see if he's shaken up at all. |
| 1:25.4 | He has a little headache as my skis hit him in the helmet |
| 1:28.3 | as I was falling down. Like with all my weight, I fell down, my ski edge went right into his helmet |
| 1:33.9 | and you can see a goutes that I took out of it, but it didn't hurt him too bad. He was just a little |
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