TPM Episode 352: Nate Holland, Pro Snowboarder, 8X X Games Gold Medalist, 3X Olympian

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Nate Holland is a born and bred Idaho boy who grew up in a log cabin and spent his time hunting, fishing, skateboarding, and skiing and then he found snowboarding, and life changed. Nate was hellbent on making it in the halfpipe and big air world of professional snowboarding and racked up 20k in credit card, infuriating his co-signing family. But freestyle was never going to be the route for Nate, and when he pivoted to boardercross, he found success beyond his wildest imagination. On the podcast, we talk about the Palmer, Farmer influence, living in tents, the X-Games, the Olympics, and a lot more. Jimbo Morgan asks the Inappropriate Questions.

Nate Holland Show Notes:

3:00: Ripping sleeves off of others, Palmer and Farmer, Hippy lifestyle in Idaho, and snowboarding

11:00: Critical Condition, USASA, football, living at Hood in a tent for the summer, not wanting to snowboard year-round, finding a mountain town, and living poor.

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23:30: Pipe and Big Air, Budweiser Ariel Assault, finding out boardercross is in the Olympics, and wining X Games Gold in Ultra Cross

32:00: World Cups, making the US Team, his brother, qualifying for the Torino Olympics early, sponsors, developing boards that would never be sold, and money

42:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.

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44:00: Not cool enough to sell, dominating X Games, his intensity, bad courses, fights on the snow, no chill in him at his first Olympics

54:00: His different Olympic experiences and then being passed over for Korea, and hi retirement party

62:00: Inappropriate Questions with Jimbo Morgan

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.
0:16.9	I'm your host Mike Powell, and if you're like me, while summer was awesome, you're ready for snow, and right now I can feel it coming.
0:24.1	The weather has turned back to rain in Seattle, which means it's movie premiere season for us.
0:28.5	But for the Utah and Colorado folks, you should be gearing up for the white ribbon of death that's just a few weeks away.
0:34.7	I can't believe we're here because it feels like it's been forever.
0:37.8	Speaking of forever, I've been working on my guests for what seems like forever.
0:41.9	I first asked eight-time X-Games gold medalist and three-time Olympian Nate Holland to be on
0:46.8	the podcast about seven years ago when I met him at one of the Payne-Mkshlonkey events.
0:51.2	He did the hard pass on the podcast, and I thought he was just a way too cool
0:55.1	snowboarder who didn't want to be associated with a podcast that wasn't 100% snowboard focused.
1:00.5	Boy, was I wrong. Nate isn't anti-skier at all. He's just an old school Idaho boy who doesn't
1:05.9	feel comfortable talking about himself for an hour. Anyways, I stayed on Nate, emailing him about once a year,
1:12.4	and finally he's like, I'm ready, let's do this. And we did, and I liked it. I think you will too.
1:18.3	Before we get into it, I want to give you my update. So, and started chemo again, and that was tough.
1:24.5	Just having to go back in that scary place that you thought you were done with brings
1:27.8	back all kinds of old emotions and creates new ones.
1:31.2	It's six hours in a little room every other week, with IVs going and all these things
1:35.3	and alarms constantly going off that makes it hard to focus on anything.
1:39.3	And that's just me complaining about sitting in that little room.
1:42.4	While I'm at it, the other thing that sucks for me is that I can't really sleep well
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