TPM Episode 235: Ross Powers, Pro Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Ross Powers had all the chips stacked against him…His life started in leg braces, and things weren't easy. What Ross did have, though, was a strong mom and snowboarding. He strapped in, learned to shred, started winning, and didn't stop until he was an Olympic Gold Medalist and one of the most decorated riders of our time. On this week's podcast, we talk about his journey from Vermont to just about every podium in the world.
Ross Powers Show Notes:
3:00: The Hall of Fame, growing up with a different childhood and finding snowboarding
15:00: Progression, contests, and getting hooked up by Burton
20:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
Alpine Vans: Upgrade your adventure, Upgrade your life
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
20:15: Everything starts happening so fast, the IFS and FIS, and starting to dominate the contest scene
42:15: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports
Rollerblade: Find out all about the award-winning Skate to Ski program
44:00: Winning slope and pipe at X Games, the first Olympics, Terje, and not maximizing the experience
48:00: The US Open, and Salt Lake Olympics, and winning gold
52:00: Being the alternate in 06, and finding Snowboard Cross.
59:00: Inappropriate Questions with Seth Wescott
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You don't know you but I ask somebody. |
| 0:01.8 | You listen into the Powell Movement. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and by the time this podcast is live, I'll be on the beach in Maui. |
| 0:20.0 | This was the vacation that we planned for last |
| 0:22.2 | April and it was wiped out by the pandemic. But for us vaccinated folks, the pandemic is kind of over. |
| 0:29.2 | Sure, we may know people who are going to die because they choose not to get vaccinated, |
| 0:33.7 | but we can't do anything about them. So I wish those folks good luck. |
| 0:38.1 | And for us, I'm excited for all the fun we're going to have. |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm also excited for all the single vaccinated people out there who really had a lonely |
| 0:45.4 | year last year. |
| 0:46.7 | It's time for you to party your faces off, make questionable decisions, and live with the |
| 0:51.3 | consequences. |
| 0:52.5 | For my family, or at least for my kid, this week is the week that he turns 12 years old, |
| 0:57.0 | and he sure is excited to get this vaccine as a present. I mean, when I was 12, all I wanted was a calico vision or something. |
| 1:04.0 | But it's sad that in this day and age, the one gift my son wants is a vaccination so he can get back to his normal life, |
| 1:11.6 | which we've pretty much already gotten back to. |
| 1:13.6 | But my guest this week, when he was 12 years old, he was pretty much already an adult. |
| 1:18.6 | Ross Powers is a kid who came from nothing, and he grew up with a new sport, snowboarding. |
| 1:23.6 | And Ross not only grew up with snowboarding, he dominated. So much so that during his career, |
| 1:29.5 | there was a five-year run where he was on the podium almost every single weekend, and he has two |
| 1:34.4 | Olympic medals to show for that dominance that he had. This podcast is really a rags to Rich's story in |
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