I hate that I had to sign into this website because one of your or maybe it wasn't sent me this crap.
First and foremost, don't ever besmirch the legacy that is Fred Rodgers. EVER! That guy deserves Sainthood status. Buckhouse will NEVER BE ON HIS LEVEL. All of us posting here could learn a thing or two from Mr. Rodgers and how to be good humans and I say this completely hypocritical because I hate everyone.
Now lets dive into the 10,000 word essay I'm about to write because unlike Buckhouse I didn't learn how to read in the 5th grade and can actually articulate a thought beyond the wet farts he expels from his suck hole.
To anyone that says he "rides better than me so that makes him pro", "his videos are slick and polished", or " I wish I could be like him". You need to up your standards because they're fucking dog shit!
As someone that's done team development and brand building he isn't even good enough to be considered D team. The regional guys that ride Copper are better than him on their worst day. Early offs, zeaches, only hits the small shit and yes the jumps he hits are the small line, his 630 to 90 reverts and claiming 720's, and the fact he CAN'T EVEN FUCKING HOLD AN EDGE! Don't even get me started on his switch riding. Dudes skill level is so mediocre maybe some of you praising his riding should spend some time upping your game because it's soggy. I say this as someone that's watched him ride in person multiple times a season.
Polished and quality? He uses a whack follow cam angle with a wide angle lens. There's nothing cinematic about it, he's doing the basic minimum to cut the start/end of a clip and try to sync it to music, music he just found for free on Soundcloud and isn't given the artist any credit. You want polished and stylized, go watch an old ISENSEVEN edit and you'll see they were surpassing anything he did 15 years ago. His angles are whack and he's beholden to the Hypersmooth 2.0 on his GoPro. If you gave him a real camera he would look like a monkey fucking a football as he fumbled it. Once again repeat after me "UP YOUR STANDARDS!"
Anyone that wishes they could be like him I feel bad for. I'm in a unique position that 1. I live locally to him and see how he treats people here. 2. I also get a lot of DM's on the gram with conversations people have had with him. Who he projects himself as vs who he is are two different things and a lot of people have a para-social relationship with him that puts the blinders on them. Dude would sell anyone out for a dollar and he has. I've seen him belittle a 15 year old kid for being "poor" because the kid called out his sloppy spins and claims of being pro. You're a 32 year old male talking down to a kid about how much money you make, how his parents pay for his phone still, and how you're getting paid to snowboard and make mediocre content. As much as I love talking shit to 15 year olds, it's mostly because I understand the cultural aspect of snowboarding and how to make them rethink their I know everything attitude and hope that it enlightens them. The generation above me did it to me and so I shall continue it.
Is he a pro snowboarder? NO! Unequivocally he's not even in the realm of a real pro snowboarder. What he is, is a professional vlogger who uses YouTube as his medium coupled with snowboarding. By the peoples standards that he is a "pro" I too am a pro then. I get paid to ride snowboards, it's a great job, and I'm making a good living at it. But I am not a pro snowboarder and neither is he. Which going into the whole aspect of him claiming he's pro, he started giving himself that title when his fan base kept asking if he was. They asked this because their standards are too fucking low. In that time he tried to change the narrative at one point to say that his "haters" gave him that title and put it back on them. What he realized was that using "pro" in the title of videos became clickbait and it upped where his videos are presented in the YouTube Algorithm. It's much like how I use the tag "expert advice" in all my reviews and videos. It pushes them higher internally in YouTube. Is he paying his bills from vlogging about snowboarding? Yeah. But I'm also paying my bills by doing video reviews about snowboards. If you put him on the pro level, you have to put people like me and idiot Kevin from SnowboardProCamp there as well. News flash, we all suck as riders and shouldn't be on the pro level. Casey on the other hand is an anomaly in the YouTube sphere as he rides at a professional level, films at a mostly professional level, and in a true sense of the word is a real professional. I'm stoked to see him get a legit promodel and hope that it helps elevate his personal brand to the people that snowboard.
Now lets talk about his bullshit at Keystone. First and foremost he never once put up the "unedited" interaction he had. It has jump cuts all over it and he puts himself in there to interject his .02 on everything. I actually got popped about 12 years ago in that same spot and had my pass pulled on a midweek day during the WWSRA demo for doing a Euro carve right around that corner. This was the first time I got banned for life from Vail Resorts. He was riding on a Saturday on School Marm doing jackass shit. I actually talked with one of the Mountain Safety that made the call to stop him, what you guys saw and what caused it and the interaction is not what happened. If he had played it cool they would have given him a verbal warning over the written one that goes into your pass holder file. He didn't have to attend a safety class, but if he did anything else that season that riled them up he would. What happened was his wife (she actually runs the show) convinced him to push it to the local media and make the vlogs about it (she's an even worse human than him). They made it a big deal, when it wasn't. Anyone that's ridden Keystone knows that Schoolmarm is a 2 mile long beginner run that is a family friendly zone. On weekends you don't do jackass shit on it. But he wanted to play the victim, and that's what he did. That video made him about 3k in revenue, gained him I think something like 39k new subscribers and boosted his ego. From there he changed to the clickbait format.
He is essentially the king of the kooks. His logo is stolen from a T-Shirt shop in Steamboat, he tried to trademark it. It's literally been on t-shirts since the mid 90's. Have you ever asked yourself why most self respecting brand will not work with him? It took him over 5 years to get that Christy's sponsorship and that only happened because they are in the midst of an organization change as the company sold. The reason he's on Clew is because he begged the local Union guys for free stuff because it would up their "amazon sales as he's a highly influential vlogger". My friend that runs the account he reached out to blocked him and laughed. Dudes so delusional he thinks that Amazon sales help the local reps sales. They don't. He should have done something to promote the local shops, but he has never once set foot in a core shop, because it's beneath him.
Three days ago a colleague of mine that runs the marketing department for a little resort sent me screen shots from their front office guy who had an interaction with Buckhouse. Basically he walked in dropped his business card, demanded multiple free lift tickets, and was offended when the guy at the counter didn't know who he was. This is a little mom and pop resort that the tickets are very affordable at. For someone that likes to brag about how much money they're making he sure seems to refuse to pay it into the industry that sustains him. Kind of a jackass move and shows how much of a peasant he truly is. Kevin from ProCamp is doing the same shit and actually tried to tell a resort in Idaho they needed to pay him to come to their resort and film a vlog. Entitlement is a hell of a drug.
Earlier this week I ran into Tommie B and had a nice long chat with him about Youtube, Snowboarding, Buckhouse, and the state of the culture and industry. Actually walked away with more respect for Tommie and a better understanding of where he's coming from. But I also got the run down of why he and Buckhouse aren't working together. It boils down to ego and how Buckhouse will sell out over and over for the first person to wave 20 bucks in front of his face. It's why he jumped from Outdoor Master to Khuno to Clew to whomever will dangle cheap cash in his face. Dude doesn't care about snowboarding at all he cares about exploiting it. But at the same time he wants the respect of people in snowboarding. It's rather comedic.
To add another reason why he sucks to this I'll talk about his interactions with my friend AJ who is a San Juan Guide. AJ saw in reels or some shit that he was talking about Backcountry and splitboards. For frame of reference AJ is a devoted guide, been buried, extricated bodies, and done rescues. I'd put my life in his hands without any hesitation because he's just that educated and devoted. But basically he reached out to Buckhouse to say "hey I see you're in CO and trying to do some BC stuff, you're giving out some bad advice, but if you wanted to learn the proper way to do things and make yourself a stronger rider and educated your base I'd be willing to help." His response was something along the lines of "yeah I don't know what I'm talking about but it doesn't matter because neither does my fanbase" That's some serious ego shit right there that needs to be put in check. This is along the lines of idiot Kevin filming and riding in Whistler in a avy zone as they were blasting (this is why Kevin doesn't have an epic pass this year and isn't in Whistler).
I'm going to have to continue this...
