TPM Episode 244: Trennon Paynter, Olympian, Canadian Halfpipe Coach
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Trennon Paynter is a legendary Canadian mogul skier, he’s also an Olympian for Australia, and the Head Coach of the Canadian National Halfpipe Team. His unbelievable ski story starts with cigarettes, partying, and good times in Banff before Trennon became a self-taught badass in the moguls of Kimberley BC. From there, Trennon competed against the New Canadian Air Force and beat them, made the National Team, Raced on the World Cup, and got into coaching...This podcast is a fun history lesson.
Trennon Paynter Show Notes:
3:00: How young are the kids he coaches, what doesn’t he understand about them, and the lack of risk-takers at the highest level the world
8:00: Being unsafe is not crazy if risk is managed correctly, the super trampoline, and born in Australia to adventure hippies
20:45: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
23:15: Moving back to Canada, skiing every day in Kimberley, BC, and quitting ski racing to party
28:00: Banff, seeking out danger, moguls, and living on the Easter Run under the lift
33:00: Found by the hotdoggers, winning contests, getting invited on to the Canadian Development Team, and potential (age)
38:00: Dragon: Their glasses FLOAT, use the code Powell15 to save 15%
Alpine Vans: Upgrade your adventure, Upgrade your life
Rollerblade: Find out all about the award-winning Skate to Ski program
40:45: Ski School 2, the influence of Shane Szocs, 97-98 he starts doing well on moguls, and getting some World Cup Starts on the Taxi Squad
49:00: Him being passed over for the World Cup Team because of age, making the team over JF Cusson, doing well, and then breaking his pelvis
54:00: The regret of not training as hard when he came back, the narrative of the New Canadian Air Force is not true, and don’t talk crap about moguls
64 :00: Inappropriate Questions with Rory Bushfield
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.3 | It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell, |
| 0:18.5 | and while I don't want to jinx anything, |
| 0:20.5 | it seems like life is getting back to normal. |
| 0:23.0 | And I will say, I recorded this intro a couple weeks ago before I went to the Proving Grounds event. |
| 0:28.8 | So while it's a week late, it's still my thoughts and feelings and I'm not re-recording the intro. |
| 0:33.6 | So it feels like things are changing for the better, and my intros don't need to revolve around the pandemic, about an angry, racist America. |
| 0:42.2 | I mean, our presidential situation still kind of sucks, but it's better than it was before, in my opinion. |
| 0:47.9 | Other than the leadership situation in this country kind of blowing it for the past five years, |
| 0:52.1 | the big red flag that I'm seeing these days is the |
| 0:54.3 | whole Texas abortion thing. I feel bad for Texans as it is, but this is fucking crazy. No man |
| 1:00.4 | to tell a woman what she can or can't do to her body like they're doing today. I mean, my wife wanted |
| 1:05.8 | me to get a vasectomy, and I said, no, you can't tell me what to do with my body. Why should someone else be able to tell |
| 1:11.8 | her what to do with hers? And this new abortion law? Well, it's so Texas, and I hope we don't |
| 1:17.5 | start seeing it elsewhere, or else women everywhere will be fucked, literally and figuratively. |
| 1:23.6 | Someone who isn't fucked is my guest this week. He's an Australian Olympian and moguls and a guy ESPN called the 46th most influential |
| 1:31.5 | person in all of action sports. |
| 1:33.9 | He's fitter and riskier than almost anyone listening, athlete or not. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm talking about Canadian half-pipe team head coach Trennan Painter and his podcast is so |
| 1:43.1 | interesting. |
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