TPM Episode 215: Mark Fawcett, Legendary Snowboarder

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

Hobbies, Sports, Leisure

4.9 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Mark Fawcett is a legend in Canada and in snowboarding period. One of the true OG's in the sport, Mark still finds himself in the trenches of a sport that has created his amazing lifestyle for the past 30 plus years. On the podcast, we talk about the beginning of snowboarding in his part of Canada, being the first-ever snowboard Academy kid, riding with Jeremy Jones, filming with the Jones', his infamous photo, his Olympic tragedy in Nagano, and a whole lot more. This one is a history lesson with one of the best.

Mark Fawcett Show Notes:

3:00: Ross winning the gold

8:00: Weedmaps.com Weed question and ad

10:00: Growing up in New Brunswick, ski racing, and seeing snowboarding for the first time

15:00: Getting his first snowboard, rowing, getting into CVA

21:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast

10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone

23:30: Snowboarding camaraderie, New England Cup, specialization, and The Cross-M Team

32:00: Staying in the states, K2, being small, and changing personality over time

33:00: Sims, and the Greenland trip, and the most famous photo in snowboarding

42:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports

Glade Optics: Get 10% off with the code TPM10

41:30: Working with Chris Prior, on fire in contests, and TGR

48:00: Press leading up to the Olympics, crushing the Olympic training, equipment malfunction, and the aftermath

60:00: The sport is changing, continuing his snowboard career outside of competition, and coaching

70:00: Inappropriate Questions with Tyler Turner

Transcript

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0:00.0	Time to talk some shit, motherfucker.
0:02.5	It's the Powell movement.
0:11.3	Welcome to the Powell movement.
0:14.8	I'm your host, Mike Powell, and this season has been a wild one in the snow world.
0:20.1	When this pandemic went into full effect last year, snow season was canceled like a racist or sexist
0:25.8	actor.
0:26.7	And while people weren't out making turns, they were at home behind keyboards in a divided
0:31.4	country and for the first time in a long time, people I know personally were talking about
0:36.7	race, white privilege, and the lack
0:38.9	of diversity in the world of snow.
0:41.2	Skiing and snowboarding happened to be the whitest, most non-inclusive sports on the planet.
0:46.2	And this talk that started with the Black Lives movement and propagated throughout the
0:50.6	snow industry has already started to create some change.
0:56.4	The SIA just named Stan Evans as its first non-cookie cutter board member in a long time, which is a big deal and hopefully
1:00.6	Stan can make a difference. People like Russell Winfield, a man who his and in many other people's
1:06.0	words is the Jackie Robinson of snowboarding. Well, now he's on magazine covers, he's back on the
1:11.8	ride snowboards team, and that's the good. The bad, in my opinion, is that the snow world
1:16.7	makes it really hard for anyone to get in the sport, regardless of your color. And to grow the
1:21.7	sport with new participants, something has to be done about cost. I've talked about the insane
1:26.9	costs of skiing and snowboarding before and how much it would
1:29.6	cost for a family of four to head up to the mountain and how it's ridiculously expensive.
1:34.2	But even if Joey Dirtbag from Bury in Washington wants to go see if he likes snowboarding,
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