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[Birds chirping]
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[Waves crashing]
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[Wind blowing]
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[Fire wood crackling]
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[Wind blowing]
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[Wind blowing]
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[Waves crashing]
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There's a certain shift happening
right now in the world of snowboarding
where people have seen a lot of physical progression for a long time
and when you break down tricks and competitions and even video parts
it's been about sort of physical progression,
how many times you can spin or flip,
or how far you go off a jump,
or how steep and fast you can ride a very technical line,
or outrun an avalanche,
or ride down something icy,
or go to the far reaches of the earth...
and that's all good and
it really does progress the boundaries of what is possible
but I think now you're starting to see more of
a spiritual and emotional progression in the sport,
where people... are open to finding a new experience...
or a new way to experience what they are doing.
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When you are taking off on a serious wave
you have trained your self to
rid your mind of all those expectations
and be focused and be able to concentrate on what you are doing and
trying to open all your entire sensory apparatus,
to be receiving all the input that's coming at you
...basically from
that sensation of the glide of your board...
you know the shape of your board flowing over the snow
and it just becomes accentuated when
you are able to go down a slope that's certainly steep enough that you can have that speed
and then have the snow be of such great quality that
you are able to feel the whole board.
I mean not just the edges but
the entire board from
nose to tail
and rail to rail.
There's nothing like it because
there's nothing going on in your mind...
your mind is just completely turned off really
except for just accepting input that the sensory apparatus is flooding you with. I mean...
your vision... trying to see where you wanna go, avoiding the trees,
looking for the better patches of snow,
looking for those banks that are just like waves to try and bank a turn off
and feeling it through your feet
and feeling it just infuse your entire being with that,
that sense of, that energy that you get that you know,
I mean it's there. It's just kind of latent,
but, suddenly once you start down the hill
it just starts flowing through you and
you know, if you're sensitive to it
you understand that something really great is happening
and you try and channel it in a way that,
that's good you know
It requires an intense amount of concentration and,
almost the focus is to not let any
dumb thoughts interrupt what's happening,
and that's really the hardest part.
The challenge is to be able to shut your mind off
and just let the snow do it all for you.
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