TPM Episode 350: Colby Stevenson, Pro Skier, Olympian

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

While Colby Stevenson won’t be remembered for the car accident that broke his skull into over 40 pieces, it sure had an impact in steering his life from middle-of-the-pack pro athlete to absolute dominance. In part one of Colby’s podcast, we talk about growing up in the shadows of Wallisch and Hall, forerunning the X Games at 8, the confidence and cockiness that comes with early success, and his life-changing accident. Olympic Gold Medalist Joss Christensen asks the Inappropriate Questions.

Colby Stevenson Show Notes:

3:00: Having way too much energy, West Coast Sessions, partying, and cockiness.

15:00: The Accident

20:00: 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.

23:00: The Accident, his face, and side effects

32:00: Finding Park City, his parents, flipping at 6, racing in twin tips, X-Games at 8, and the pros of Utah

41:30: 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

44:30: Tanner Hall after he broke his ankles, breaking his heel and losing his confidence, and coaching/camps

50:00: Doing well in contests, how divorce impacts skiing, sponsors, and his favorite skiers

63:00: Inappropriate Questions with Joss Christensen

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 man, I'm really starting to dread recording these intros.
0:21.5	I find it harder and harder to hold my shit together when talking about what's going on with my wife.
0:26.9	If you're new or haven't heard the show in a while, the really short history of what's going on is this.
0:32.4	My wife, Anz, was cleared of her stage three colon cancer last May, and in August we found out it's back
0:38.3	and it's stage 4 this time.
0:40.2	She had a major surgery a couple weeks ago, but they couldn't get all of the cancer, and
0:44.2	that was so disappointing.
0:45.9	So we've been playing the waiting game while Ange healed, and we finally went back to the doctor
0:49.9	this week.
0:51.2	What we know is that there's one more good chemo option left before we need to look
0:54.5	into trials. So Ange is going to start chemo again next week and I'm so upset for her. While I don't
1:00.5	want to go into it, chemo sucks. And I'm not looking forward to watching her suffer through all of this
1:05.3	all over again. Hopefully it works out this time, as last time it shrunk the tumors, but they're able to grow back.
1:11.7	And my wife, she's only 41 years old. We have a 14-year-old, and we're living scared right now.
1:16.9	And we can't get away from these daily reminders of our situation. And the reminders aren't cool,
1:21.3	obviously. I mean, this week we lost Rob Gaffney, a legend in the sport of skiing, a dad, a husband, a champion of all things good in
1:28.4	Tahoe. A guy I really should have had on my podcast. As I look at my job as creating the living
1:33.1	history of people in the sports we love, and I'm really, really disappointed in myself for not
1:37.3	having Rob on. I'm sorry for the whole Gaffney family. I know how difficult life must have been
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