TPM Episode 239: Skogen Sprang, Pro Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
While a lot of people know Skogen Sprang as the US Freeski Slopestyle Coach, before he held that title, he was one of the sport's true innovators, bringing new tricks and a snowboard style to the table. On the podcast we talk about doing every action sport as a kid, turning his pro snowboard dreams into a pro ski career, innovation, his prolific 2000 year, the injury, and what it took to come back. Don’t miss this one.
Skogen Sprang Show Notes:
3:00: Olympics, growing up in the bay, soccer, and skateboarding
11:00: Skiing, snowboarding gear, inline skating, and mountain biking
17:00: The culture of sport, switching to snowboarding, and quitting soccer
22:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
Dragon: Their glasses FLOAT, use the code Powell15 to save 15 %
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
24:45: Wanting to be a sponsored snowboarder, his parent’s reaction, and his crew
28:00: The influence of Troy, switching to skiing, instant progression, Constantine and his Chapter 3 Part
35:00: Vision of being a pro in both, Line Skis, and Poor Boyz Productions
42:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports:
Alpine Vans: Upgrade your adventure, Upgrade your life
Rollerblade: Find out all about the award-winning Skate to Ski program
44:00: MSP, McConkey and the crazy year that 2000 was: Covers, tricks, contests, and the injury that threatens to end it all
64:00: Inappropriate Questions with Shane Anderson
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Powell Movement. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I'm excited to announce that I have a new sponsor that is very important to me. |
| 0:20.0 | They are important because |
| 0:21.3 | they are dragon and they make sunglasses and goggles. Those are really important accessories in my |
| 0:26.5 | life and what I quickly learned about my dragon sunglasses is that they float and that is a game |
| 0:32.0 | changing feature for me. I'll tell you all about the tech and get to a discount when you hear |
| 0:36.4 | their ad within the podcast. But if you listened to my podcast last week, you all about the tech and get you a discount when you hear their ad within the podcast. |
| 0:38.2 | But if you listened to my podcast last week, you heard about my dog chief, and it was a saga behind chief. |
| 0:44.3 | And well, to keep you updated, our dog seems to be working normally, but he does have a Frankenstein of a scar. |
| 0:50.7 | But whatever, it's near his balls and we don't see it that often. |
| 0:53.7 | And really, he doesn't |
| 0:54.6 | have balls, so it doesn't matter. So now we're testing our pet insurance and I'll let you know |
| 0:59.0 | if pet insurance is worth the hassle and the money as our paperwork plays out in the next |
| 1:03.7 | month. Other than that, I am just back from the OR trade show, but really, I'm recording this |
| 1:08.9 | intro before I go to OR. So I'm not sure if the show |
| 1:11.5 | is going to be good or bad or if I'll get a podcast out of it, but I'm going to try. I'm kind of on |
| 1:16.5 | the fence about the show. It's almost like I want to cancel because you hear about this new delta |
| 1:20.5 | variant, but I know that I'm going to be masked and I'm going to try to be as careful as possible, and I'm going to do it. I'm going to be staying with Roy Tuscany |
| 1:27.8 | of the High Fives Foundation, and I'm excited to see Roy. I'm excited to talk some people about the podcast, |
| 1:33.3 | and hopefully, like I said, I'll get a podcast out of it. But who knows, I've never been to the |
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