TPM Episode 303: Connery Lundin, Pro Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Connery Lundin's ski career should be as prolific as he's manufactured it to be. This is a kid from Oakland who was so burnt out on ski racing that he decided at 18 that he would never ski. That all changed with the right roommates, who got Connery back into skiing on his terms…and once Connery fell back in love with the sport, he went all in on becoming a pro skier. But, to make things harder for himself, he didn't do much to promote himself off snow…. but that didn't matter, and it all worked out. Connery graduated to his day job of filming with Warren Miller and MSP, and we talk about it all….
Connery Lundin Show Notes:
5:30: Random acts of kindness, Oakland, skiing every weekend, JT Holmes, and ski racing
15:00: Product of Olympic Valley, moving to Tahoe with his mom and going to Sugar Bowl Academy, money, influential skiers, and being competitive
22:00: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there
Outdoor Research: The best outerwear ever built just got better
25:00: Bringing twin tips on trips, race results, when he realizes he's not going to make it, quitting skiing, University of Colorado and Tony Siebert
32:00: His first Free Skiing Word Tour event, more contests here and there, and going all in on the pro skier thing
36:00: Moving to Jackson Hole, Powder days at Palisades, Powder Days in Jackson, and networking
41:30: 10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers; they support action sports more than anyone
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better
43:00: Winning the 2015 Free Skiing World Tour, JT the mentor, filming, it's who you know, and the momentum is building
50:00: Injury, does it set his career back, Warren Miller trips, what's next and
55:00: Inappropriate Questions with JT Holmes
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 it's time for some good old-fashioned sharing of how I'm feeling, |
| 0:21.9 | because if you've been listening the past few weeks, you know my wife has stage three colon cancer, |
| 0:26.8 | and that news fucking rocked our world. We found out our diagnosis on October 19th, |
| 0:32.4 | and when I say we, it's my wife who has the real battle, but I plan on being there every single |
| 0:37.0 | step of the way. |
| 0:38.1 | So we had a choice after getting our diagnosis. |
| 0:41.2 | Go get the first cancer doctor we can see, or find out who's considered the best, |
| 0:46.4 | and then go and lobby and try to get him to treat us. |
| 0:49.6 | Lucky for us, Ange's best friend married a doctor who worked at Swedish for a long time. |
| 0:54.6 | He knows all the oncologists, and when he heard the news of Ange's diagnosis, he wrote a friend |
| 0:59.4 | of his, we'll call him Dr. Diamond, asking him to treat us. |
| 1:03.7 | Dr. Diamond was on vacation, but he got back to our friend within an hour, and we now had |
| 1:08.4 | our doctor. |
| 1:09.6 | But since he was out on vacation when he accepted |
| 1:11.4 | us as a patient, we had to go through his appointment system and we found out that we would |
| 1:15.5 | have to wait a week to see him before we could get in. That was so difficult because we sat |
| 1:20.1 | at home, and was in agonizing pain and we both were thinking the worst every day and at night, |
| 1:26.0 | we were ready to go back to the ER at a moment's notice |
| 1:28.3 | because the pain was that bad. |
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