TPM Episode 261: Birk Irving, Pro Skier, US Freeski Team
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Birk Irving got his first ski sponsorship at 7 years old and has never looked back. While he was the small kid throwing 540’s at 7, he’s matured and grown into one of the best halfpipe skiers in the world. On the podcast, we talk about his Academy Award winning grandfather, his upbringing in Winter Park, getting signed really young, making the US Team, the X-Games, Olympics and so much more. Torin Yater-Wallace asks the Inappropriate Questions.
Birk Irving Show Notes:
3:30: The last Olympic qualifier, Covid, and 2021 X-Games
11:00: John Irving, his parents, growing up at Winter Park, and 360’s and 540’s at 5 years old
20:3 0: 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
22:30: Getting on K2 at 7, no pressure from anyone, and being the little guy
37:30: Smith, Red Bull, broken leg in 2013, focusing on becoming a pro skier over anything, winning the Junior Olympics on a broken leg, and making the US Team
40:00: Alpine Vans: Upgrade your adventure, Upgrade your life
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better
42:00: Perks of the US Team, getting invited to his first X-Games, and being the annoying grom
48:00: Making the US Team is the hardest part, the Deviate crew and filming
54:00: Inappropriate Questions with Torin Yater-Wallace
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. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and I have a great show for you this week. |
| 0:20.1 | That's going to start with a long intro because there are so many things going on. |
| 0:24.0 | First, I'm going to talk about my least favorite topic, myself. |
| 0:27.6 | I posted an update of my body transformation on the internet for New Year's and I got an overwhelming response of comments and emails asking what I did to lose 40 pounds. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'll tell you, if you want to get in shape, there are a million people who can give |
| 0:41.7 | you better advice than me. |
| 0:43.4 | But here's what I did. |
| 0:44.7 | I rode a bike for two hours a day for a year, and I cut out dairy. |
| 0:49.2 | That's it. |
| 0:50.1 | The bike riding was just bat-shit crazy, but it seemed like the easiest way to burn four times the calories that my aura ring was telling me to burn every day. |
| 0:58.1 | And if you don't have an aura ring and you're into wearable technology, it's a game-changing device. |
| 1:03.3 | But back to me. |
| 1:04.6 | Once I hit my weight goal, I cut my bike riding down to an hour a day. |
| 1:08.3 | The cutting dairy part, well, that really sucked because |
| 1:11.4 | dairy is my favorite food group in the world and now it's gone. But my stomach feels so much better |
| 1:16.8 | and I'm going to spare you all the details on that. One thing that I didn't do was stop eating. |
| 1:21.8 | In fact, while I'm snacking less and making better choices, I have thirds at dinner almost every night |
| 1:27.3 | and I don't starve myself |
| 1:28.7 | ever. On top of that, I've been taking NEMA vitamins. They really have been giving me that |
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