TPM Episode 348: Ashley Battersby, Pro Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
When Ashley Battersby came on the ski scene, a new era of style was unleashed upon the women’s slopestyle and big air. Growing up in Chicago gave Ash the confidence to develop one of the top rail games in the streets, and then she transferred her skate tricks to the ski world. Her move to Park City was her education in air awareness- which led to her being the first woman to land a Switch 10 in competition. On the podcast, we talk about her meteoric rise, sponsors, money, her battle at the X Games, and the injuries that ultimately ended her career. Ashley doesn’t do many interviews, and it was almost like she disappeared from the scene when she retired, so catching up with this pioneer was cool. Her brother Ty asks the Inappropriate Questions.
Ashley Battersby Show Notes:
3:00: Christmas, Skiing at the old Playboy Club, and wanting to be Peekaboo Street
13:00: Street skating, Kaya Turski
19:00: Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet.
Best Day Brewing: All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar.
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
22:30: Moving to Park City in the Olympic Year, The Bulls, what made her want to do slopestyle, The Winter Sports School, Line, and Sarah Burke
40:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code winteriscoming
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
Outdoor Research: The best outerwear in the world comes from OR and is built in the PNW
43:00: Did she have a women’s crew? Jossi Wells, straight edge, manifesting, winning the US Open on her Line Pro Model, and her baggy style
52:00: Sponsors and money, Olympics, living in 4th at X Games, the Switch 10 injuries take away her Olympic dreams, and calling it a career
69:00: Inappropriate Questions with Ty Battersby
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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, and man, I can't believe how fast life moves. |
| 0:21.1 | It feels like just yesterday I was having the summer of my life, |
| 0:24.5 | and now school is in session, football has started, and snow season is right around the corner. |
| 0:29.7 | And what's funny is, as important as snow is to my life, I don't even care about it right now. |
| 0:34.9 | All I think about now is Angie's health, how we manage it, |
| 0:38.3 | keeping her out of pain, keeping her and us positive, which is hard to do when every day |
| 0:43.5 | it feels like we're getting more and more negative news. And then on top of all that shit, |
| 0:48.3 | there's the regular stuff that needs to happen in life. So while right now I don't care about |
| 0:52.9 | snow, you can bet your ass that I'm going to be |
| 0:55.2 | fiending for it once the summit at Snow Kwame opens up. Last year, that mountain was the one place |
| 1:00.8 | where all my problems disappeared. And while they came back, every chairlift ride, I really needed |
| 1:05.8 | that mental break. Speaking of mental and physical breaks, my guess this week almost vanished from the snow for a while. |
| 1:13.1 | Ashley Battersby was one of the darlings of Slope style in big air, ushering in tricks like the Switch 10, among other insane moves. |
| 1:20.1 | But the snow wasn't always kind to Ashley. Life can be like that sometimes, and she suffered injuries at the most inopportune moments of her career, and eventually |
| 1:28.5 | those injuries forced her to retire. And when Ashley stepped away, she totally disappeared, |
| 1:34.2 | and I was stoked to be able to catch up with her and talk about her life and times. Before we get |
| 1:39.0 | into it, I want to thank all of you for your kind words and messages. It really does make me feel good |
| 1:43.7 | even when I get emotional when reading them. So thank you for those kind words and messages. It really does make me feel good even when I |
| 1:44.3 | get emotional when reading them. So thank you for those. Also, please review me wherever you listen |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Powell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Powell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.