TPM Episode 227: Alex Hall, Pro Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Alex Hall has the world in the palm of his hands. In only a few years, Alex has gone from an up-and-coming Swiss kid to arguably the best American Slopestyle skier... What's different about Alex is his basketball player height and the hunger he brings to the table. The best part about Alex is that he is a throwback… He's the X Games Gold winner in Real Ski, in Slopestyle, and in Big Air but he always makes sure that he's filming for something. And he's just getting started.
Alex Hall Show Notes:
3:00: Comparing winning Real Ski to a X Games Slopestyle, who is his top 3 in Real Ski, and the Tanner controversy
10:00: Growing up European, dual passports, and his parents
16:00: Soccer, skiing and having to pick one, taking trains to ski, and being tall for a skier
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
22:45: Events as a grom, who he looks up to, and the EU vs US parks
27:00: Newschoolers, moving to the US, The Winter School, and the US Ski Team
34:00: What does the US Team do for him, moving out of the house at 16, and filming
40:45: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Getting you outside for over 70 years
Rollerblade: Find out all about the award-winning Skate to Ski program
42:00: Why urban, what do sponsors care about, contracts, and sponsors
52:00: Not doing well his first couple years on the world cup and X games, his first win in Switzerland, and having a healthy career.
56:00: The road to the Olympics, the Olympic experience, and 2022
61:00: Winning X Games, stadium events,
65:00: Inappropriate Questions with Joss Christensen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mmm, baby, you listening to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and for the first time, in a long time, I've had a little taste of freedom. |
| 0:20.9 | And you know what? It tasted amazing. |
| 0:23.6 | Now that I have my vaccine, it's all about celebrating what America is all about to me. |
| 0:28.8 | Freedom, smoke try tips on my Traeger grill, friends who enjoy my meat in their mouths, |
| 0:34.2 | and ice cold 10 barrel and Stanley pine glasses. And I experienced all this freedom |
| 0:39.6 | because I believe in science. Does that make me right about this whole pandemic and my belief |
| 0:44.7 | that the vaccine is going to minimize my risk of getting sick or dying? It sure doesn't, but it also |
| 0:49.9 | doesn't make me a sheep for following what scientists say is the right thing to do. I mean, I'd rather |
| 0:55.2 | listen to a scientist than an antivaxor any day because, to be honest, I haven't heard a good |
| 1:00.5 | argument from a smart antivaxer yet. They usually just insult me in my intelligence, and that's |
| 1:05.7 | totally fine. They can think I'm dumb for believing science to the government. What do I care? |
| 1:10.2 | And while I won't say to their faces, I think they're dumb too. |
| 1:13.1 | But you know what? Who cares? |
| 1:15.1 | Dumb people can be my friends. They just can't come to my barbecue. |
| 1:19.1 | So while I won't say the whole pandemic is over, |
| 1:21.6 | my attitude is drastically changed with the new mask rules. |
| 1:25.1 | And life will be back to the normal for the powells once my kid |
| 1:28.2 | gets his shot in July. That's what he wants for his 12th birthday present, which is music to this |
| 1:33.2 | Jewish dad's ears as the shot is free. Shit, I'm going to get him two of the shots. So this is |
| 1:39.0 | going to be my last rant on COVID for a while, hopefully. And I say that, knowing that it could |
| 1:43.9 | come back up after the infection rate starts getting way hopefully. And I say that, knowing that it could come back up after the |
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