Saw this on Facebook. Sheds some light on the Pearce beef.

 

Yeah good article.

 

That was a great interview.

Unfortunately people that hate white have no idea why they hate him. They just do because of some bullshit they hear. I dont give a shit what people say, everytime I have been around the kid, he has been great. A good friend was with him for 9 months doing a documentary and had nothing but good things to say. Dunno how he was as a teenager or 20 year old but I know I was pretty fn wild and cant imagine how crazy shit would be if I had hundreds of thousands of dollars at my disposal... I am sure he has had douchbag moments and fucked some shit up at times but please show me one dude that hasnt done that at some time in their young lives....

 

He is the most competitive (winningest) snowboarder in history for a reason.

 

I have ALWAYS respected and liked Shaun White's snowboarding. I know that there are A LOT of Shaun White HATERS but after reading this article...I think I have gained even more respect for him and just REAFFIRMS my opinions about him...not only as a snowboarder...BUT...as a PERSON.

I have followed snowboarding for quite some time now (10-11 years) and I have seen how Shaun White has grown as a person. Personally...I think he has grown into something thats good not only for the sport...but for youth in general.

The article definitely shed some light on a whole lot of issues. Not just issues in snowboarding...but issues in our society with politics, religion/morals, business practices and just life in general.

I AGREE 100% with what Shaun is saying to the "T". To me...he has always been humble in dealings both inside and outside of his snowboarding and has earned everything has has in his life in a morally correct fashion.

Sorry for the little rant.

 

maybe I can quit my job and get food stamps....

I mainly hate SW cuz he has not given me any of his money yet.

Fuck that shit!

I have a pretty sketchy feeling about the lotto tix I have for tommorow nights drawring.

 

Nice to hear Shaun's side of things with the whole KP thing... also makes me wonder why Mason Aguirre lied and said Kevin and Shaun were living together... hmmmm.

 

Why does he where leather jackets in competitions?

 

Leather provides the wearer with more amplitude and an extra 180 degrees of rotation over conventional jacket material.

 

Some people hate people that are at the top of their professions simply for being successful and wealthy. People like SW, Jeff Gordon, and LeBron James immediately come to mind but there was a poll a couple of months ago where Peyton Manning was on the NFL's most popular and most hated lists.

I think what a lot of these people have in common is that they're all ultra competitive, A type personalities. They all hate to lose at anything and anything that they try they strive to be the very best at. This type of drive is what makes them successful and sets them apart from most people but it also alienates some fans and fellow competitors.

I don't hate SW at all, hell he's one of the biggest reasons (in my opinion) that snowboarding has turned into a mainstream sport. All of us would have a lot less board, binding, boot, etc options if snowboarding hadn't gotten so popular. We'd probably still be having arguments on who makes a better board, Burton or Sims.

I DVR'd Crash Real and thought it was excellent. What KP went through was unbelievable and I'm glad that he's got some semblance of his life back and is at least able to ride recreationally.

 

The Crash Reel could have been a better movie if it left out the Shaun White vs. the Frends crew narrative. That was fucking cheap and phony. Everyone was shitting on SW except for Lago...and Lago is the only dude in the group I even give a shit about.

 

That was a pretty good article. His stance width was pretty wide at 25", anyone here ride at that width on every terrain? just wondering:dunno:

 

That's my stance width but I'm also 8" taller than him....

 

Stance widths are weird. I'm 6'5" and am not comfortable any wider than 23.5".

 

The Frends crew is horribly fake. Their "we're all friends with everyone and get along on the mountain" is marketing BS. Jack Mitrani is a fucking cock goblin and one of the biggest pricks when he's around. Lago is really the only stellar dude in that group.

Shaun nailed it on the Frends side of things.

As cliché as it is "with great power comes great responsibility" is the best way to sum up Shaun. He has the potential to do things that no other snowboarder can and yet he makes fucking scooters. I'm more curious to see what he does with Air&Style because if it becomes the contest that is anti-X games/Dewsh Tour/Olympics that is something that benefits snowboarding.

 

That is a superb interview (and the second in a row from Snowboarder - they'd an excellent piece with Terje last month EDIT: Woops, that wasn't Snowboarder, it was Snowboard).

Most people seem to either love or loath Shaun White - I'll be honest, I'm completely neutral about the guy. I don't "like" him because he's not what snowboarding is about to me (all about the competition, not the love of the activity) but at the same time I don't hate him for that either. It's just different and not relevant, for the most part, to what I love about snowboarding. I don't like how he has foregone the opportunity he has to do something with the "sport", but that's not his focus and not what he's about. It's the difference between loving snowboarding and loving being great at snowboarding. Lost opportunity but he's under no obligation if that's his thing.

With that in mind, I loved that interview because it's the first time I've seen someone go in depth with him, really ask him revealing questions and him give good answers. I don't have to like or agree with all he says (I don't buy his stance on the TTR/FIS stuff for example) but it is fantastic to actually hear his opinions on these things, his take.

As cliché as it is "with great power comes great responsibility" is the best way to sum up Shaun. He has the potential to do things that no other snowboarder can and yet he makes fucking scooters. I'm more curious to see what he does with Air&Style because if it becomes the contest that is anti-X games/Dewsh Tour/Olympics that is something that benefits snowboarding.

This - as I said above it's a missed chance up to now but actually he talks a lot about "giving back", contributing. That's to be applauded.

Reading that interview if that's what you hang up on I think you missed some of the finer points in there and should probably re-read it. That is probably the first interview that actually personalized Shaun in the last 10 years.

Exactly.

 

I agree on lago too, he was chillin in vail for like 10 days while we were getting hammer in late dec/ early jan just riding around with my son and all our riding buds(my son is the youngest @14, the rest are early twenties through thirties). He just wanted to ride the pow all week and could care less about anything seemingly to do with fame or his events that were coming up.... No other "frends" around and he never brought any of them up.....

 

I actually liked the Frends crew better before I watched The Crash Reel. Mason Aguirre and Jack and Luke (esp Jack) Mitrani struck me as full of themselves. Sure it's unfair and I've never met them IRL, but they did not come off as very cool guys IMO. I'm undecided about Danny Davis, he seems like he'd be a fun guy to be around but man he talked a lot of shit. I'm also biased towards him cause he's a Michigander. Lago, became a fan of his watching the Vancouver Olympics a full year before I got on a snowboard. Still a big fan. Comes off as a legit dude.

Yea,yea,yea I know how can you like/dislike people you don't know. Let's not go into that argument again though.

 

I don't get why hater-haters claim people hate Shaun for being successful. Is it really hard to accept that they hate him simply because he's a dick?

Also, lol @ this:

For example, imagine downtown Los Angeles and you put a giant snowboarding jump there and a skate ramp and then like five different stages with, you know, a fashion show also going on.

In case the fanboys are interested, he also has an interview in Vogue magazine this month. Not even kidding. :eusa_clap:

 

I don't get why hater-haters claim people hate Shaun for being successful. Is it really hard to accept that they hate him simply because he's a dick?

Also, lol @ this:



In case the fanboys are interested, he also has an interview in Vogue magazine this month. Not even kidding. :eusa_clap:

BFD. So he's into fashion, which anyone could already tell by the style of clothes he chooses to wear. So what?

I'm sure you have other interests other than snowboarding that other people think are completely ridiculous.

 

What does any of that have to do with him or his ability. I would not classify myself as a fanboy, I would not have any desire to hangout with the guy but I do respect what he does. People that talk shit about him out of ignorance are ridiculous. I would hope that every one of the people that post in this forum have more to life than snowboarding only. His "fashion sense" is something that makes him stand out of the crowd.... Makes him marketable, like a clothing line..... Something totally aside from the fact that he rips in board sports. It would be refreshing to see an event that had more to it than what the current venues do. The only event I go to now is us open because it is like 500m from my house. There is almost zero draw for people to go to them. People wanting to go to these events is what helps spread the sport. Doing it in downtown LA is where the crowds are, throwing fashion and monster concerts in it..... All smart and fresh.

 

that was good, probably the longest thing i've read in 6 years

 

LOL... same.

Great interview, honestly whoever manages Shaun White's PR should have had him doing things like this long ago. So much of the hate he receives is because he closes himself up and doesn't make himself personable.

I'd have to agree with this. Personally I never gave a shit about SW (the person), that has nothing to do with my dislike. I just don't think he has good style and I've seen a lot of comps where he did a so/so run and somebody else did an impressive run with more style/harder tricks and SW got a 97 while the other guy got a 92. That was just frustrating to watch, like his name came with a 5% bonus on any run he did. I've never felt he wasn't talented or didn't put in the work.

Off the hill I never paid any attention to what he did or who he was, the interview was definitaly a different perspective on him and I liked it.

 

More like a parade of androgynous dudes wearing skinny jeans.

 

So a fashion show is mentioned and you instantly think of dudes in tight pants instead of hot chicks and hot chicks interested in fashion. I think we know where your interests lay.

 

Does anyone even remember the MTV Sports and Music Festival? While being too young to convince my parents to let me go on my own, it was actually a pretty stellar event that drew the right kind of attention to the right people and presented it in the right light. It wasn't some over the top spin to win, chuck your carcass, judged bullshit. It was genuinely entertaining to watch. Hell X-games in the late 90's wasn't bad to watch either, then something changed.

Having Perry Farrel as one of the hosts walking around getting weird with people as well as skateboarding going on, Morgan LaFonte doing topless backflips, and music that didn't suck were all good things.

It's a lot like Snowboard On The Block in Denver. Sure I personally think the event sucked because it wasn't done right, but it did introduce a lot of people to snowboard companies, a down town rail jam, and a lot of metal music. If that gets some people that were metal heads there for the music saying "I'd try snowboarding" then good it worked. If it got snowboarders interested in metal great. And if it drives up peoples interest in snowboarding then it did a damn good job.

If he markets Air & Style the right way you can have people from many different interests mingling and exchanging ideas as well as body fluids.

Reading that interview if that's what you hang up on I think you missed some of the finer points in there and should probably re-read it. That is probably the first interview that actually personalized Shaun in the last 10 years.

 

i would go to an A&S event. sounds great

and dissing fashion is ign...not good, we are all following some fashion whether you admit to it or not

 

that article/intreview is really a estament to how awesome Pat Bridges is. he single handedly made me feel retarded for hating on Shaun White, which is something probably no other human being is capable of. very, very interesting stuff in there....specifically the Frends crew piece. it really gives you a sense of how much drama and bullshit pro snowboarders have to deal with and how many people demonize SW for being the best

 

Great interview, honestly whoever manages Shaun White's PR should have had him doing things like this long ago. So much of the hate he receives is because he closes himself up and doesn't make himself personable.

He may not like it (and from the sounds of the interview he would rather not have this responsibility) but his fame puts a lot of power in his hands to affect the future of our sport. It's really up to him what he does with that power, it's his life after all, but as BA said, I really hope it's not more scooters.

Funny reading about the frends crew. I've ran into them once in NZ and what I remember from the experience is one of the Mitrani's riding around Snow Park NZ snaking and cutting people off as if he owned the park. Was not impressed.

 

Funny reading about the frends crew. I've ran into them once in NZ and what I remember from the experience is one of the Mitrani's riding around Snow Park NZ snaking and cutting people off as if he owned the park. Was not impressed.

That was more than likely Jack. He does the same shit here all while pushing his bullshit agenda for his crappy headphone company and crew.

 

Hater's hate. Chit happens in elementary school too.

When you are young - it's the best to be the best.

When you mature - it's not always best to be the best.

As far as Shaun's leather hipster look, I don't care for it. From a marketing stance it's ingenious, but techincally, maybe there is more to it than we think.

I personally always root for Scotty Lago & Horgmo, but Shaun is still the chit in my book... He's done so much for the sport.

Hater's just hate. Hope Shaun gets gold next month, but I would rather see my favorite Horgmo top the podium even tho that would mean one less Gold/medal for the US and one for Norway.

Hater's will always hate the best, and they only care about the chit they care about in their daily chitty lives.

Shaun White is the chit.

 

I did say no to rollerblades because I just had to morally draw a line.

finally reading this, favorite quote so far.

Scooters are awesome.