TPM Episode 391: Tommy Czeschin, Pro Snowboarder, Pro Wakesurfer, Olympian
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Tommy Czeschin was born into a life of mountains and lakes, so it’s no surprise that he loves snowboarding and water sports-but what’s shocking is that he was able to go pro in both. Not too bad for the quiet kid with talent who started ski racing and was the forerunner for the Jr Olympics before seeing snowboarding and making the switch. Within 5 years, he was traveling the world with the US Snowboard Team, standing on the top of World Cup podiums, winning X Games medals, and eventually making the 2002 Olympic Team. After his snowboarding, he was an early adopter of wake surfing and these days, he gets paid to ride behind a boat among other things. It’s kind of like Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson, or a Shaun White-type story, only different. Don Wallace asks the “Inappropriate Questions”
Tommy Czeschin Show Notes:
4:00: Wake Surf trips, growing up near Mammoth, ski racing, and snowboarding
12:00: Early contests, Mammoth snowboard team, making the US Snowboard Team and the traveling family
19:00: Liquid Force: Since 95, Liquid Force has outperformed the competition and turned a sport into a lifestyle. Use the code POWELL15 for 15% off LF orders at LiquidForce.com
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22:00: Pranks, his personality, sponsors, so many different events, 2002 Olympics, money, faith, and the end of snowboarding
38:30: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
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41:30: Athletes, coaching success, The order of Ikos, wake surfing, Crowley Wake, Liquid Force,
48:00: So many categories within wake, working with boat brands, other jobs, and The Great Race
55:00: Inappropriate Questions with Don 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 what a scary week this has been for my family. |
| 0:21.4 | If you're new, I'll give you the Cliff Notes version. |
| 0:24.1 | My wife had stage 3 colon cancer. |
| 0:26.3 | We found out when her stomach exploded and she almost died. |
| 0:29.4 | She had a major surgery, went through chemo, she beat cancer, only for it to come back three months later at stage 4. |
| 0:35.9 | Then she had another major surgery, |
| 0:37.7 | more chemo and radiation, which brings us to the scan that she had yesterday. I was preparing for |
| 0:42.8 | the worst, as we always seem to get bad news. But today, we came in for our scan results, expecting |
| 0:48.2 | the worst, and we found out that Angie's tumors have shrunk by more than 30% after radiation, |
| 0:53.8 | and they still could be shrinking. |
| 0:55.5 | What does this mean for us? A fucking win. That's what it means. But back to our day-to-day, |
| 1:00.8 | it's more of the same. She'll continue to suffer through chemotherapy every other week, |
| 1:05.3 | but at least it's working. While the doctor hasn't seemed confident that we'll ever beat this |
| 1:09.7 | cancer entirely, for the first time he did map out the plan of what confident that we'll ever beat this cancer entirely, |
| 1:11.2 | for the first time he did map out the plan of what it would look like to beat this thing. |
| 1:15.4 | So there's a chance. |
| 1:16.8 | This is the first time that we've heard there could be a finish line since stage four came up in August. |
| 1:21.4 | So there's hope on our end. |
| 1:23.1 | And while this has been shitty to go through, I know that you don't tune into a podcast to hear about this kind of crap. |
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