TPM Episode 470: Kaya Turski, Pro Skier, Pro Rollerblader

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

Hobbies, Sports, Leisure

4.9 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Kaya Turski grew up in Montreal and was the little rollerblader who was blowing everyone's collective minds. While Kaya went ASA Pro at 14, she was known for being a gnarly street skater. One of the best women to ever do it. But the bottom dropped out of skating, Kaya decided to give skiing a try and within a year, she was standing on her first X-Games podium in a sport that wasn't her original calling. From there, Kaya went on to dominate competition skiing. Think 8 X Games Golds, 5 AFP Titles and so many more victories to boot. But her story is not all sunshine, the years of abuse has taken its toll on her body and mind and Kaya and I talk about all the glory but we also talk about the daily pain that is her reality. It's an interesting talk with a legend and Ashley Battersby asks the Inappropriate Questions.

Kaya Turski Show Notes:

4:00: Getting inline, finding the skatepark, D-Structure, street skating, IMYTA, Road to No Where her parents, sponsors,

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24:00: Making zero dollars from her skate career, skate going away, girls, getting back into skiing, moving to Whistler, go pro really fast, and almost dying.

40:00: Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.

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42:00: Did injury get into her head, fear, X Games, perfectionist, undefeated seasons, Sarah and the Switch 10, her Olympic nightmare, the aftermath, her headaches,

63:00: Inappropriate Questions with Ashley Battersby

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,
0:18.8	and while I keep saying I'm not going to get political in these
0:21.5	intros, and I'm not totally going to go on that kind of a rant, I can't not say anything
0:26.3	about what's going on right now because I'm afraid of losing listeners. Shit is fucked right now.
0:31.5	If you stop listening to this podcast because I say our country is turning into a global joke,
0:36.6	actually a global nightmare?
0:38.2	Well, then I feel that makes you part of the problem.
0:40.7	I can't turn a blind eye.
0:42.5	Look, at this point, regardless of what you or what I voted for, what is happening right now is
0:47.9	wrong.
0:48.5	Plain and simple.
0:49.5	People are dying at the hands of our government and things are getting worse by the day.
0:53.7	And you can be one of those people who are like, oh, fuck around and find out and don't mess with the government and stuff like that. You know what? People have messed with the government for a long, long time. Like people get the shit beat out of them by cops and things like that. But to die, to be murdered on the streets, that's the fucked up part for me. But either way, now, as the world collectively watches our implosion, we're fucked.
1:14.9	And not everybody will admit that the problem that we have is an orange man who thinks he's a
1:18.9	fucking God.
1:20.4	I mean, the good news is that that piece of shit eats McDonald's every day.
1:24.0	And while I never root for anybody to die because my wife just died and I know how
1:28.3	painful that is, I'll make one exception and wish him a big fucking McHard explosion.
1:33.7	And that's terrible of me.
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