Torgeir Bergrem, Olympic Snowboarder and X Games Medalist – UNLEASHED Podcast E325

One of the most stylish snowboarders joins the podcast! UNLEASHED is proud to welcome Olympic snowboarder and X Games medalist Torgeir Bergrem. In his candid interview with The Dingo, Danny, and Brittney, the 32-year-old from Oslo, Norway, shares his pro athlete journey and latest video project, “Temple of the Dawg.”

Growing up in the icy winters of Norway, Torgeir Bergrem picked up snowboarding at the young age of nine and never slowed down. Hailed as a young prodigy, Bergrem rode with style and confidence beyond his years, drawing inspiration from all-time greats such as Travis Rice and Norwegian trailblazer Terje Haakonsen. Known for his talent for performing under pressure, Bergrem represented Norway in both the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics and took home the Big Air bronze medal at X Games Norway 2017. He extended his career beyond the competition circuit by filming massive tricks of consequence and NBDs on extreme backcountry terrain, including his latest video project, “Temple of the Dawg.” Learn about Bergrem’s unique pro snowboarding journey and the genesis of his new Monster Energy-produced film – only on UNLEASHED!

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You know, as always, Danny Kass and Britney Palmer. How you doing, Bret? I'm doing good. Yeah, Dingo, I'm good. That's good. Alive. I'm happy. We love that Torgeir’s here. It's like, come. This is the time of the year when the snow starts to fall. And then the snowboard movie premier start to happen. Yeah, right. Yeah. So, like, are you more excited that summer's over and you're getting back into winter? Or you bum that summer's over and you're like, I got to go back to work now. It's kind of weird. In the spring, you're glad that the summer's here, but now you're kind of starting to feel the itch again. And I'm excited to go snowboarding. I'm excited to put on my layers and get out there, you know? So we just saw the teaser for Temple of the Dog. Yeah. Which is coming out like right now. Literally right now. Literally right now as we speak. Yeah, as we speak. Are you excited for this premiere tour? Yeah, I'm excited for it. It's my first, first ever solo video project, so it's kind of just like a lot of pressure. Yeah, people like they have to show up just because they want to watch me snowboard. You know, like, normally you're part of a movie with other riders, too, but now it's just me, which is weird. Do you feel nervous at all? Yeah, Yeah, 100%. So instead of having a video part, you have an entire video? Well, I mean, it's a long video. It's just a long video, but it's a real terrible songs now. It's just one song. One song. A long song, though. Okay. I don't know if we're allowed to talk about it, but we don't want to give away the song because I don't think the song's in the teaser. Oh, no, it's not. No, it's not. Talk about it, so give it away. Is there a short teaser then? Because it's a short teaser, It's one of the is it one of those teasers where you don't show all the landings? We don't show any landings, and it's a proper teaser. It's not a trailer or a snippet of the movie. It's just just a clip. A clip. I like slam reels. You have a good slam reel in this one. We have a slam reel and it's it's just a crash. It's all the different crashes from the year. Oh, yeah. You'd have a good slam, really. I would say don't fall that much. I don't fall that much. But that just goes to show how much like I am very reserved, not holding back. I'm holding. So Britney actually does snowboard quite a bit, but Britney is more concerned about how she looks than how she's snowboards. Oh shit. No, you are. You send me like, videos of you snowboarding. You're like, how can I look cooler? Then I'm like, Put your watch. So I do run away. Since that, I still run away looking like, you know, you're doing me and you know what you're doing. So looking cool doing it is like I feel like it goes hand in hand. I kind of have to think it is half the thing. Like she clearly knows what she's doing because she looks cool because looking like knowing how to snowboard looks cool. You look like a snowboard. One tip, that's what I'm trying to do, I feel like, is why can't I have like it? Because like, no, I like stance and tight pants. Yeah, you can't. Yeah that's one thing that rhymes is usually kind of bad in snowboarding. White pants tight stance. Yeah well I have tight pants and a wide stance and I still make it work. I feel like you're pretty arm in neutral. I feel like all Norwegian is like, throughout history of snowboarding. Like, we were talking about Terry in a meeting yesterday and he we always like he never overdressed around his dress He was pretty stylized. Pretty yeah you're a pretty near man. They're not trying to they're not trying to floss and they're not trying to undo it. They're not like they're just they're just kind of like good looking people that dress somewhat normal. But then it's. Yeah, we just kind of blend in, right? Yeah, but how can you separate your. That's what you're years apart thinking about that on the way down. Like you need to, like let your riding do the talk. Oh, here in America, it's all about what we wear at the time. Well, yeah, you can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dingo Whoa. He used to dress cool. I used to see people playing huge food that just came out. Yes, I just. That just came out. Dropped a sick with aliens, which is in stores right now, but it'll probably be sold out within the next 20 minutes. Yeah, because they only made like 400 pairs. I got a pair like a year and a half ago. I wasn't that insecure about them. I got them before Danny did. He actually did. Yeah. I'm trying to pull up something here that I saw of you. No, that's not you. What did you see of me? Well, no, Danny, we having a conversation? Obviously, we've been around for a while and you write for sessions? No, I write for like there's a board shop called. Oh, okay. Yeah, Because you're on Volcom. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. As a board shop sessions 1988. Yeah, in Oslo. It's in Norway, it's Norway. Norwegian, local. Yeah, it's. It's address here, is it? We'll stop by there. Is it. Is it? Where is it? Norway. They have a few different shops, but they have one in downtown Oslo. Downtown Oslo? Yeah. There you go. So by sessions 1988, we were talking about that. So. No, you're on Volcom. Yeah, Been for 16 years. Jesus, that must feel good. Yeah. Any good? More stories? Uh, you like? I hate that guy. No, I mean, everyone keeps saying that Patmore always, like, eat shit and all of his video parts, you see, like, he has, like, temper tantrums because he, like, falls so much. He's a hothead. Yeah. We went to Japan, and I didn't see him fall once. That was, like, super disappointed that I had more experience. Yeah, but he was like, He's out of head. Is he out of that? Chowder Head is kind of a reference to people from Boston or Massachusetts. I think he's in New Hampshire. New Hampshire? Yeah, it's nice. Yeah. He has a live free or die tattoo. I think you have to. Yeah, sure he does. His mom usually work. What do they do it in the hospital? I think it's when you get your license plate for your car because it starts in free or die. And then you take that immediately to attach. Do they shop? Do they do it at the DMV? They actually do do all they do. The tattoo, The DMV. That's it. Yeah. Live free or die. That's where they can do it. You see the world quarters and his mom worked at the resort. I've actually I was on. He was a youngblood when I was on Genius. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is he on genius? He was on forum. He was, Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So we all too traveled around. It was. I was trying to. It. It was Travis Kennedy. Yeah. How's he doing? I thought. No. Yeah. Last I heard something in Alaska. Yeah, that's the last I heard. I do want to find him on Instagram. Yeah, he was a good he. He was a good snowboard. Oh, hell, yeah. Larry Asghari. Yeah, but he, like, went for that year with that movie of Jake Love Out of out. Who was the Tahoe guy? The kid. The cool kid. Get Jimmy Toma. Jimmy Toma. You know, now you know, he randomly won an X games one year. No way. Yeah, randomly won. And then Mike was Tahoe kid and then was kind of around and then gone crazy. So. Louie Vito Yeah, that was the original in there. Yeah, he was on the original Youngblood team. Ricky Melnick was the team manager. We were just a natural circus talking about this. Anyway, we're here to talk about Temple. We know we're more excited about your snowboard career. I Hey, So tell us from After Youngbloods what happened? That's the only shot I had to have the movie. So you retired? I retired. The famous jet ski? Yeah. Did you come up with the name? It was actually Page Austin's dad. Page? Yeah. So it's just favorite snowboard, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. I love him. Yeah. You and Kevin. I said come back to him. No, that's Steve Katzenberg's favorite snowboarder. Really dropped Danny's name when Axl and I were on the bubble. There you go. He said, What's your favorite snowboard? He was going to guess. Yeah. Yeah. This was like, That was pretty fast. So you don't want another second? Yeah, think about it. Oh, he's talking about. No, We were at the monster house in Utah and we were listening to Temple of the Dog Music because we were looking for music for the film. And then we also bought a whole bunch at Camp Gear because we were going to Whistler. We camped out for 21 days in the snow wall, and then we kind of figure that that was like that was kind of our tempo for the month. So we kind of just. You camped in the snow. Yeah, it's only one day we had a sign that said Temple of the Dog, and then that was it. Explain this to me. So it's it's you. Who else may Spinney and Judd in a tent. And then another tent was Brendan Davis. Ryan Finder and our guide Mason, Michonne and Stalin came in for a little bit, too. And the nicest thing I have a little is there. Maybe a little. I wish there was, but we the eclipse. We didn't get any. He cut him. He got shot from the movie. Well, that's what happens when you're the director. The main star. Yeah, well, I've heard. I've heard you don't like to be showed up in your movie before, so I don't know exactly. Those shots are just too good. We couldn't fit in 21 days keeping to anyone in the snow. Yeah, I built a sick outhouse. I'm going to send you. I send you a video. You can? Yeah, Yeah, send me a video so we can put that in. You made us sick out outhouse. Yeah. So there's, like, a huge tree, and then it fell over and there was like, a root. And then, like, the snow made this huge, like, snow pillow. And I, like, I made a big snow cave and made a nice like wood toilet thing. Yeah. I'm like a seed. And then we made a hole and then we had like, you know, that was like when you Millwood, you get all this sawdust. Yeah. Because we had, we milled like kitchen counters and tables and everything up there in the woods in the 21 days, a long time to do it. You just composting. Yeah. So we threw like through that on the, you know, so like didn't smell anything and it was like it was nice. Super nice actually. Any, any animal, any animals. We didn't find too many. No. There was a lot of animal tracks, but all the bears were still in hibernation. So we did. It's good. So and I know there are other animals we saw like lynx. You know those cat animals, like big cats. Yeah. That was pretty sick. Were you guys hunting or are you eating? We ate a lot of dry food. I wish we hunted. Right. And women way cooler. What's dry food like? Dehydrated. Yeah. Freeze dried. Freeze dried food. And you just pour, like, boiling water in there. And. And then you let it sit for a little bit. And so how many times did you guys do like food runs to bring more food out? We did two food runs down, we did one. So I went down once and we got extra gas and propane and some extra food. And then when Stalin came up, he brought a bunch of extra stuff too. So how did you guys decide 21 days? Like, was that like supposed to be three weeks? Yeah, it was kind of like we had March, the month of March, and then we kind of just went up there and it was good already, so we just went up straight away and then kind of 20 days was kind of our cap, like 21 days before you start eating each other. Yeah, exactly. Who would be the first one to go? Davis Judd probably. Josh Yeah, it looks like his meat just comes straight off the bone. Yeah, some nice little Hoya. Me I really like you. You're the first to go. Any moments up there that, like, I don't know, like, was it weird? Was it like, did you guys, like, feel claustrophobic or was it like just a bit of groundhog Day every day? There was definitely a bit of Groundhog Day. Yeah. But we did film at night in the Alpine, which was pretty crazy. So we went up with the snowmobiles at like 8 p.m. and then we stayed up there until was completely dark. And you know, and when you're in a very dark place with no light around and it's like clear skies, this, the stars are like beautiful saying look in. Yeah, we've, we've been there, we've been there. Had that feeling up in Alaska. Yeah. So sick And then you don't have any like death of like your vision and so like you can't really if you hit something when you're riding and it's dark, you can really feel like your balance is way off. I saw the shots. The shots look amazing. Yeah, the shots look pretty cool. So would you guys build the jumps during the day or was everything done at night? We did most of the stuff we did at night. It was just natural stuff and just like small pillow lines and some drops and patterns and stuff like that. So we didn't really build too much for that. But, but yeah, so the small things we did set up, we just patted down at night. Did you like plan your line during the day? At least I go up and say like, okay, this is going to be a good run. There's a tree there Mark that. But I just go, Yeah, yeah. And like one of those like planted one of the spots. We found like three different options on that one Clif Band that we, that we hit. But the, the small pillow lines, we were kind of just winging it because we had a drone with a 10,000 lumen light on it. It was like hovering above and just following us down. So you kind of just have to wing it and just like wherever the drone go, you go, You're going for the light. Yeah. If you tracked it out, what a mess up a shot like you wanted untracked shots. Kind of, right? Yeah. I mean, like, maybe you don't. You don't notice it that much. So, like, in some of the clips, you can kind of see some tracks, but for like, the overview shots, so like the faraway shots that are shot on, like the tripod, like the long shots, you definitely want like clean snow. Clean snow. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Any did you guys burn through any of these flying drones or anything? Anything flying the trees? Because I feel like we did it went down once we went and got it and it was completely fine. So like we didn't destroy any. But one of the days got cut short because we flew into the snow. But I feel like we were pretty lucky. It was more getting Chad unstuck from the the snowmobile snowmobile. Yeah, well, let's talk about that. Yeah, you're going to talk about, uh. Yeah, you know, very good at snowmobile and Judd Judd hasn't snowmobile too much and he's also very light. He's a little like a little guy. Wrangle the sled. Yeah, I heard you got to really bounce from side to side. Yeah. And then if you do anything, you don't have too much weight. I, I you thinking about what I'm thinking about in Alaska, where your legs just leave me here. So we were tumbling up like a crazy steep hill and that was like one of those moments where, like, I don't know what happened. Do we get stone weight was a little imbalanced Also, the way it was a little imbalanced meaning and pulling. And we kept kind of like getting spun to one side and he just wanted to give up. But yeah, like I was like, I'm like, Get back on, we're going again. Yeah, It's really it can be so Dolly It is like straight people don't get it. It's like once you like, got to dig out a sled and then dig it out again and then it's, it's so much effort. I know. And then once you get it stuck, once you get frustrated, you just keep getting and stuff. Yeah, he was like ten times like and you're just like two miles from the road or from the middle of nowhere and you use a fork and then you just keep doing it, keep doing it, and it gets more tiring every single time it happens. And then end of the day too. And you're tired. Want to go back? It just it sucks. I'll never forget that was just stupid. I was like, he literally tried and then the best he dropped in for this like super long run in jump this one lip job. But he's a microphone and he like, so tired that he just kind of is like, I'm just going for him. Like, give yourself a minute or two to, like, catch your breath. And he's like, No drawback. And he drops it and he catches it is like nose edge. You just tomahawk that he comes to complete like, you know, stop flipping after like four tomahawks and you just goes, Oh God, that's his shirts, his pants. That good. But it is tough because also is still feeling like you have to learn how to get it unstuck. Yeah, yeah. Usually, sometimes it's the opposite where you think like you're like, all right, I'm going to go up there and really just roll the thing over itself and like, yeah, until like you're pointing it downhill and away from anything. So you guys are going like, off trail snowmobiling. Like when I go, it's like a trail, a park city, like, right? They stop and I show champagne and like, can you're doing a meadow. They give us a little mat other like, go crazy. We're like, okay, let's go do it. You look at the white horses and there's some dude like, hold the horses, like single file line, everybody, you know? Yeah, your snowmobile is a little different. It is slightly different, though. Yeah. Yeah. You kind of want to go where no one else goes. Yeah, I feel like that's the most fun. That's what I hear, that I'm doing it wrong. Right? Cause you guys are making it sound like as lost as you possibly can to find something. Yeah, Yeah, exactly. Any. Any good Spanish stories? Well, while out on this camp mission for 21 days. Oh, my God. I feel like that's a TV show. Just like the amount of, like, work he puts in to getting everything ready. He, like, I think we spent what was it, like, maybe 17 grand or something on camp supplies? How much of it did you use? Like, I don't know, I, I have no idea. Half of it still in his truck? Yes. It's crazy that this does all the research. It's like you have to get this tent from Alaska shipped down is like, why can't we just get a normal day? No, no, no. We need this one is like it needs like, all he's had is like, that's the only one that's like, ever going to work. And you see all these other videos of people doing the exact same thing as us with the fucking ten from our. Yeah, I, you know, but I mean he's, he's a fucking I the question does he back up filters. We don't we kind of he has backup cameras so, so we like set up these like angles. You see the matching one man band. Yeah. That's gimbal God. Yeah. And then they're like, oh, just jump in and I have to go and be B angle. Who, you know. Yeah, they're, we're kind of weird. I, I, I just came to my head. I just noticed that like, holy shit, I've never actually seen him with, like, an assistant or like, a backup, like a, a second angle filmer. Yeah. You're like, we did have one for a parts of the trip though. So like, uh, Brandon Davis is film. He came with us, but for, for when we were in Logan and in Jackson and stuff like that, it's just sometimes you just, you only have one film in. Yeah. And you have to make do you know, I mean if you only got one film, that's probably the guy to have. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's a psycho. The gimbal. God, Yeah, he's sick. He is sick. Yeah. The music in this movie. Mm hmm. Where did the inspiration come from? I've always been a fan. You know, we can't. We can actually say what it is because they don't know. So it's the, like, the band that I've listened to the most in my life. I think. Because you play music, do you play guitar? Yeah, I've played guitar since I was like 12, I think, Right? Yeah. So I played a lot of guitar and I was in a band when I was younger and like, yeah, obviously super influenced by yeah, eighties and nineties metal and then obviously skateboarding as well. I feel like most Norwegians are all the same. Yeah, probably good looking. I mean they're pretty snowboard, They're always very talented at many things. Yeah, but style's kind of a little bit different. Who's top five five all time? Best Norwegian taste. I just mean like there's like a back side style. There's a frontside style. Yeah. And then there's just like, there's not very many loose styles, though. And I'm trying to think except one. Mikel Bang. Yeah. Stole a solid. I mean. Terry obviously. Ground zero. Yeah. And then you have like the Tar Stones and the Andre style dress wig. Yeah. And then you. JP, JP is all very wow. He's like my style. I know. Yeah. It makes Eric look up to when I was younger. There's another style. I know. We're forgetting, though. Who? Someone who has a lot of flair. Oh, yeah. Uh, fridge. Yeah. Your fridge is not quite right. Is. Yeah. Fridge. Norwegian. Yeah, I always thought he's American. No, he's, uh. Jesus. Norwegian. As they phrases the one. The rise of the backpacker. He's fucking Norwegian. Yeah, he's Norwegian. I guess. I never spoken to him. I just thought he was American. He's got flair. Yeah. The only one who doesn't have, like, back country much shots. What's in the bag is the backpack. I don't know. That's. That's the big mystery. That's why he keeps wearing it, you know. Yeah. Because nobody. No guess. And Floyd Mayweather has money. Yeah. Who else? Who else is known for carrying a bag? Maybe there's nothing in the bag. And maybe I think it's a stuffed animal or something. He grew up with little. Oh, a little stuffed animal. Yeah. Interesting. Do we? I think we just named. Is there anyone else we're missing? Like Norwegian professionals in Norway? Yeah, Different than our share. The slippery hot dog yourself? Yeah, I still follow on Instagram. Growing up, it was like, teary eyed him, and I guess I was more of a Daniel Brandt guy now going to be on. It's like I was like, I love Solomon because he was on Solomon. He was always like the underdog in you Slippery. And then also if you get to meet him in real life, he really like I met a couple of weeks ago, It was just amazing couple of weeks ago. He's crazier now than it was when he was snowboarding. Yeah, I didn't know him back then when he was snowboarding, but he still shreds. And when I see him on the hill, he's always like. And I was like, Hey, I'm going to film you. And then he always like Chucks, like Hawkins was. I know he's the goes for it. It's so good. Yeah. No he's he's a good follow on Instagram. Yeah. If you don't follow him follow. I forget what it is but it's I think he's making art right now big time. Frank or something. Frank Anyway, Daniel Frank does look it up. You'll find him growing up for you, what were you some of your inspirations in snowboarding? Well, obviously a lot of Norwegian snowboarders have done a lot of cool things, but but like early on, like Terry and Daniel, for sure, and then Andre, I started winning a bunch of contests and then towards down to he's from the same place as me and he's Where are you from? Trondheim, Norway, Trondheim. And there's a, there's a ski hill that's like 10 minutes from where I grew up. So. But you guys don't have the best, like, mountains in the world, right? No, no, no. That was. It was five tea bars. No chairlifts. It was just it's a hill. It's not similar to Finland, but not as icy and cold. Pretty much just as icy and cold. So basically Finland. Yeah. Yeah, I was watching that because, like, no one ever, like, goes to Norway to go snowboarding. Yeah, well, you go there for some legendary park stuff. I mean, is hemp's at all, like, the biggest resort happens at all? Yeah. So that was probably the biggest one. Yeah. Hands down trees to, like, the two biggest resorts. Yeah. And then like, if you go up north, the terrain is insane. Like you've been the Arctic challenge up there. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, insanely beautiful up there. You know, the only Nordic challenge I ever went do is in China. What? Yeah, they did a quarter pipe in China. I hosted it. Jesus, I never heard of that. He speaks Chinese, Terry. I put it on. Not very good. Can you say something? I can't actually. I speak fluent Mandarin. These units aren't coming. No, we. They did the Arctic challenge there in 2006. I hosted it with our challenger, Erin style. No, I was on a challenge. Oh, wow. Crazy. I've done there in styles in China. But never. No, no. This was like Erin Star was the big air. You and you obviously competed in that series. Yeah. How does that how was that? Because I feel like I went to a few of those and they were done really well. Yeah, it was like fun. It was like I remember at that time with McMorris and like, the whole kind of crew, you guys were all kind of coming up and it was like, it was like a bit of a traveling, like Rockstar Circus. It was pretty cool. I remember the day I only went to the ones in L.A., but the ones in China looked cool and it was just a spectacle. Yeah, no, 100%. And they put us up in nice hotels and like, yeah, it was super regulated. There was a lot of, like, guards and like military everywhere and stuff. And I don't in China. Yeah, it was super weird to like the crowds weren't close to you come out wrong, but like, was it where the Olympics were? Yeah. Bird's Nest. Yeah. Yeah. Because I remember seeing those, those like big stadium that they get big stadiums and then it looked like, like, like a plant of some sort. Yeah. It's like, it's almost like a spider web, almost. And it was like a built in job. Like that job they used for the Olympics. Correct me if I'm wrong. Oh, no, that's a different one. But that's like pretty much the same thing. But now that jump is still stationary there. So like, the Chinese team can go there and ride that jump every single day of the year. That's why I volunteer. They're actually starting to get pretty good at snowboarding. I noticed that, like me, you know, you're good. I mean, the Chinese. Sorry, Ming. Yeah, I mean, not me. No Ming being made. I did not mean Ming. No. Yeah, he's like, Right. Yeah. And then I noticed too, like when the last Olympics came around that there were a lot of Chinese people. Not the best style, but like half pipe. I watched it and I saw it was like a lot of the Americans are already qualified or whatnot, but it was a growing breed, mammoth. And I notice there are a lot of Chinese guys. They're are competing and they could spin. They would spin it. Yeah, yeah. There's another one that's like worthy of following. Wang Man Oh, Wang. Oh, my God, I feel so bad. But it's like. WANG He'll try any trick, and it doesn't matter if it's four feet off the ground, like his Instagram is built on him doing really impressive tricks, but also these tricks going wrong. Yeah, and like, just dying, like slam real stuff. So that's. Yeah, real. Yeah. If you don't know, slam real is you should go follow Wang. All right, good. He has good slam rails. You also competed for Norway in Olympics in South Korea. Yeah. How was that experience? It was cool. It was cold, very cold. But, um, and we were there for a month and the the slopestyle was in the beginning and the big air was at the end. And so you were there the whole time? Yeah, we were there for like 25 days or something like that. When the opening and closing ceremony pretty much did, it was like we were there for like we had four days of competition in the beginning and then we had like two weeks off and then we had another block of big air contest at the end. What did you do in the off time? Nothing. That's the problem because like you could leave, I guess, but then it might have been hard to come back. So we were inside of that Olympic village eating the same food because there's a 24 hour food court in the Olympic Village where you just go in and they give you food. But the food isn't the best, right? So it's just like you're just in your room or at the food court and just kind of going crazy like gnarly cabin fever for four weeks. Wow. Yeah. It's not like the Olympic circus that you see from the outside. It's like you're just Yeah, you know, it's not as fun as it really should be. Yeah. No sex in the winter. One's different because you're, like, locked away at some a mountain village sometimes, Like all this fun actions going on in the city. And they're like, well, you can't really go there. Yeah, exactly. I think I feel like the Summer Olympics, Olympic Village, my pants off a little hot. I hard Did you go to Rio and never Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil in the summer Pretty dangerous. Well, they got Fred, they got the France is coming up Paris, Perry and then Italy. That be fun. So they go in there. Danny's a homeowner in Italy now, so he like, throws it in there every once in a while. I try. Nice. So way too. So like, but for you like in that setting because I know like big air and soap sells different what would you rather do first? I know we want to get it closer together, but would you rather do big air first and then slopestyle or slopestyle and then big air? It's a good question. I don't think I've ever thought of it. I don't think they've ever asked anyone. They don't ask about anyone anything. Yeah, they just make decisions. So this is what you're going to do? No, I think slopestyle first. Maybe that's the one you want to do best up. Yeah. You know, that's like if you win slopestyle, you're just. You're like, yeah, if you win big air, sometimes you get lucky. Yeah. And then something like a lot of people can do two tricks, you know, like you only have to do two tricks in big air to win at the Olympics. Yeah, that sucks for you guys. Back in our day, you only had to do one trick. Yeah, literally, you could have a cab. 900. Yeah. And win literally $60,000 seven Gamble. You want to sleep on the cab nine as it did? And I look back at some of those days, I'm like, I can't believe I didn't just do that. Yeah, like, why didn't I just go, Captain? I would have blown. Everyone's exactly blown because only 17. It's harder, you know, it was harder at that time to do a cab. 900. But apparently it was. Yeah, well, it's just progression, man. Nobody ever done it. So it's like the evolution of it. And then, I mean, a question for you and I think it's really cool for your transition and then to be, you know, obviously out in the backcountry and, and, you know, I think that's what happens in snowboarding. You've been snowboarding since you were a kid. You set your own been a Volcom for 16 years. Yeah. So you've been sponsored? Yeah. 2006 over half your life. Yeah. So you grew up on a fucking snowboard? Yep. Grew up junior competing? Yep. Junior worlds. I did. No, I did my first European Open when I was 14, I think. 14 or 15. Yeah. Yeah. Now. So you competed? Yeah. Your whole life? Yeah. Made it to the Olympics. You got a bronze in X-Games 2000. It's not in front of me. 1217. Oh, it is. Yeah. Thousand 17. Yeah. Right, right. You got bronze in Norway? Yeah, that's a big deal. That was pretty cool. My grandma came to us. That's actually awesome. Yeah. Yeah, that was sick. That must have been a fulfilling moment. Yeah, that was super cool like that, because that to that day, I was. Because I. I had slopestyle the day before I got fourth. Ooh, that sucks. Yeah. And then I last run, I knuckle the last jump and I hurt my heel. You know, you get the heel, bruises, your bruise. Yeah. Not very comfortable. And then the next day it was like it was hard to walk. I couldn't really put any weight on the heel. And then I went to the physio and we talked about things like, What can we do? And then and then we tried to cut out like parts of my heel, my insole, my boot to join. Like I thought you were going to say parts of your heel. Yeah. Yeah. That would have been, which is that, which is a little at my heel. That's very good. I think you want more padding. Yeah, I. But I think we felt like the last pressure. Yeah. Like not have room to have it touch anything that worked. And then we kind of just figured out nothing worked and it was like my left foot, so it might be my back foot when I ride normal. So we just figured that I could I could land switch and land on my other foot, and then that would be okay. So that's where we did to switch it up and land on your telling to switch it up. And I had to do tricks where I only landed switch and which worked out What about taking off. Taking off was fine because it wasn't like it was the, the like the impact of the landing that was the most painful. So taking off was okay. But yes, we figured out that if I landed switch, I was it was all right. And then I did that and then I went to Rosemount. So what did you do? Sorry, I did a cab. Triple cork, 1440. Okay. What is that? I won't break it. Why would you go mad? That's girl math. Hey, this is why I'm here. I'm asking the good questions. What is that? So you go switch. Which is the opposite direction. Got up. Go up. That's go backwards, Brit. Yeah. Other foot forward. And. And then when you take off, you go pretty much go. Sort of. Because I used to go looking for an extra 360 basically triple backflip with an extra three six. Yeah. But you kind of like intertwine them a little bit. Yeah. And then you land switch and you land switch again. And are you going off of heels or toes. That's heels. Heels. Yeah. Can't do that if you keep those one could be a todo. Yeah. I told you I would be even that could be because that same day Daniel Franco to respect that big time. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Okay here's a question I have because it's kind of like, you know, blows my mind where like when you first started competing even, Right, You're 15, 16. You're looking up to some of these amazing writers who were like, literally doing 1080s. At what point did you, like, blow past the limit you even imagined for yourself to the point where you start basically joining this race of progression to new tricks? Yeah, I think that when I was 59 I did because we were watching video parts and when like in my group of friends at my local like Hill, we we weren't allowed to learn a 720 until we learned all the five words. So like we had to like do the stuff, you know. And then I learned all the seven toes when I was like 15 and I started doing nine hundreds. And then that's when people were doing nine hundreds and 1080s in contests. And then that's when I was kind of like, Oh, maybe I can, you know, show up at a contest and actually do okay too, you know? But at that point when you were 16, like, what was your dream trick? You thought you were going to learn like probably a double cork, maybe like a front ten or a back ten. Yeah, that was like the like the top top, that's what. And then you learned that. Yeah. And then added a whole nother flip and a whole nother three. So yeah, actually, well, this is years later, but I think like so then all the triple corks came around and then I think towards the end, the first one in 2010 or something like that, 2011 and then Norwegian came. Yeah. He was solo. It was wasn't it. At the, it was at Vogue. If they had, they had a film shoot and then I think he was just feeling it and then he didn't kind of tell anyone. It was just like, Yeah, you need to film this. And then he started trying it. Dang, Yeah, what a savage, So gnarly. But then like three years later, I think we were in North Star and I did it at 1620 and I was I think that was the first 16 funny ever flat or corked backside like semi corked backside. 1620 Wow. Yeah, I'm sorry. Frontside of backside girl massage B Sponge regular backside and 20 So you lane switch big hole big big spin and double cork. Yeah like triple like triple you know like kind of like not really like it wasn't like, upside down, but it was definitely like, a little bit wobbles. Yeah. So like when you were, when you were 15 and you had your crew were you guys just holding each other accountable or did you have like a leader or like a coach? Like what? What ever? Coach? I've never had all of you guys just rocking it together. Like, do the levels do it right? Yeah. Just help each other. Kind of. Yeah, everyone. It was like it's very Norwegian. Yeah. You said you never had a coach. No, like when I were like, when we. And I ended up getting on the national team, that's when I first got to coach. But, like, it was never a coach, like in the traditional sense of the word where your coaches actually teaching you how to do things. It was more of like a just buddy. That kind of book Places to Stay and they like a tour manager, like base manager. Yeah, well, at that point they're doing tricks that have never been done. So, yeah, you know, I mean, yeah, I mean, you know, like you've, yeah, you coach people in the pipe and like I book hotels like, I mean they'll to us and the first person to do back to back 1080s and a half I've been accepted. Exactly. Yeah. No but like the progression of it you like to some extent obviously you can see what they're doing wrong for sure. Like if you see something that they're doing and then you can see like nuances of things they want to change or whatever. But it's not like you if you're coaching dudes now, like it's not like you've ever done the trick. That's yeah, I'm not going to do and teach them how to take it from 16 and 18. Yeah, on a feeling level, but on a watching level, Yeah. And you know, like simplifying for them to be like, hey, well this is the easiest grab you should go for this one and then learn it and then try it a different way. Yeah, but I also feel like a coach is like, I mean, like for the moral support aspect of it, like kind of, you know, helping them know that was great. You did a good job, like, right to like, boost the morale. Boost morale for sure. We have like nice, good team. Morale is like the most important thing, I think, for a coach, especially when you like for us growing up around people kind of coaching each other. Mm hmm. Like the best thing a coach could do for us was to just, like, facilitate us just keep progressing ourselves, kind of. Do you think that, like in your group, was it like a competitive like were you guys you're more supportive than, I think, competitive in nature, or did it get to a point where it started to be like, this is one man kind of thing? Well, I mean, I think like healthy competition, you know, like everyone was happy with like other people be becoming better. But it's also like you want to become better. You want to become better than the next guy, but you also want the next guy to be better so that you can progress more. You know? Yeah, it's one of those things like when you're competing, it's like, Good luck, buddy. I, I wish like, I hope you do as well as you can do, but not as well as me. No, but that's the thing. I want to beat you regardless, you know, like I want you to do the best that you can do. But I'm still going to try to do better. Yeah, you know. You know that's healthy. Yeah, right. I mean, you don't ever want to, like, win or beat someone without competing your best. Exactly. And truthfully, you know, like, you're always there just to, like, one up yourself, which is really winning in that I don't think that anybody wants to lose now or get second. Hmm. Well, it depends. I mean, if you're riding your best, that's not Olympic silver medal. Then second Olympics, it doesn't matter at all, to be honest, just to be there, to be honest in competitive sports where there's a podium and it's highly at the level these guys are at X-Games Olympics getting on the podium is winning. Yeah. Mean it's third, second or fourth place is sucks. Yeah. Fourth place in competitive is like remember Giacomo got fourth at the Olympics in Italy. No, us besides him. That's the hard part. Oh, I do. I was out bumper immediately. It was like the crowd was there. It's not like he didn't deserve to be on the podium. It just. It's the way that cookie crumbled that day. It's like Danny at the first Olympics, I thought, Danny, you know, won. But Ross powdered his massive backside air, like out of nowhere. Out of nowhere he went like 20 feet. Broke the world record. Huge. I've never seen anything like it. Back side of five. That's what won him the gold medal. Yeah. You know, Danny did a more technical run at the time. Probably should have. You know, it is what it is. It is what it is. Watch that run like two days ago. Sage. Just yesterday, I was literally like, I didn't even remember what I had done. I was like, Damn, that was a pretty good front. I remember it. Yeah, It was like 22 years ago and, you know, it's pretty, pretty wild because it's changed so much. Right? And even at that time it was like half straight air's half this. Yeah. So it was like, but how cool is a straighter oh two straight is in a run. It doesn't happen anymore. Yeah. If you're good at doing straight air. Yeah, but not, it's not everyone's total strength, you know. Is that why you did Tubes all the time in there to fake you? Please. Not another backside there. I can't even do a method, you know, I've never seen you do them. But I did one in that video that was like, Oh well, I was just telling kids last week that I've never done a method. There was one. Mike. Mike, my question for you is the progression of it, and this is going back to big our slopestyle. Where does it end? I don't know. Did like is it because if I was, I couldn't call it snowboard. There's no way I could call. I can probably call the competition. Yeah. There's no way I could call slopestyle run. No, absolutely not. No. That's the thing for me, too, because, like, I'm pretty into snowboarding and I feel like I know a lot about snowboarding and I still have to rewind and like, look at the slo mo to take count now because they're spinning so fast. Yeah, So a couple of X-Games ago, I don't think it was last year, I think it was two years ago Red did a 21 and then 1980 and 1980. Yeah, right. Yeah, I did it at the beginning of his session. Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like he got bucked because for sure the judges aren't going to stop bumping up high scores until the end. Yeah, and I was it was mind blowing because that trick had never been done in competition. Yeah, but yeah, he still didn't win or podium. Yeah. Yeah. I mean back to your question about progression. I think like I'm not I'm never surprised when I see an extra spin or an extra flip anymore like they did. I don't know if you remember, but like the Gap session, jump back in the day, like some lady that was like three point something seconds of hangtime and then some like physicist lady did the math on like how much force a human can generate and how fast you could spin and how much hangtime you have. And then she calculated that you could do six and a half corks, I think, on like a 9080 footer or something. Yeah, because what's the right now is there, there's sometimes one dude and then the five quark. So the Japanese guy. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. And that was at a 19 or 2020 that would be at 2160 I would vote. Yeah. I think I mean I feel like once you go over 2160 you're going to land and you're going to be in a whole different type of quantum in whatever universe or you know, you're going to be like, Wow, I'm back in the eighties. Yeah, back in the eighties. I remember I don't know if you remember cool borders. Cool Borders. You guys are in water coolers. And then I used to wind up like, you know, you could wind up the spin. I used to wind up the spin. The whole Enron on one of the jumps. And I did a 2520 on uncle board. And that's that. That's when I was like, oh, that's so like, that's so out of like this world that you saw. I'm on cool boarders. Yeah, but now I'm like, now I'm like, Dude, it's not that far off. I think we need to start playing cool boarders to again, see what's the next trick. Exactly. Yeah, I just go stale fish from there. Yeah. To wet old grab back to stale fish. Maybe that's what the Japanese Olympic team is doing. Yeah, maybe you looked up to Travis Rice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big influence. Still do. Yeah. I mean, who doesn't? He's not really. He was one of those guys that, like, we've known him since the first time I met Travis was in Steamboat Springs. Yeah, And he showed up, and he was in high school, and he had pulled up jeans over his belly. He was talking and he had a cowboy hat on. Nice. And. And then later on that night, he left car in a ditch. And that's what I realized. He was a mad man. Yeah, he is a man like a classic mad man. And then we competed on the Grumpy's a little bit. He's always kind of around in that he had that breakthrough at Swim Park? Yeah, back in the rodeo, back side Rodeo. Over a hundred foot hip. And it wasn't supposed to be said, is a jump. And the landing was like the side, you know, it was a small landing. Small landing zone. Yeah. And then he transcended. He was in the original grenade movies, Kurt Morgan film those his stuff. But then they took it to a another level. And my question is, are you like looking up to someone like that? Yeah, I think there's a bit of definitely a bit of crazy, but then also a lot of skill. So maybe it's the other way around. I'm not sure I'm more crazy. I don't know. Do you think my question is, do you think what he had done in the back country will be done again? That's a good question. I always wonder that because I feel like the the peak of those movies were like the peak of a madman in the middle of his like craze in his era. Yeah. And it was like what he was doing was seriously insane. Yeah. And I remember Pat Moore being like, And even you, you, you got a few clips and a couple of movies over the years and went out and built jobs with him. And I remember Pat Moore being like, Dude, it's literally scary going and building a job with this guy and he works his ass off and you build the biggest thing and he goes, Then you there and you've got to jump with Travis, right? No, Usually he makes you a guinea pig. It Yeah. Hey, he's not going to find this person to jump for. That's for sure. But I think you're right. Like, because there is definitely a movement, you know, where it went from just the biggest, biggest big. And Travis added, What was the next level of like tech, you know, double flips, back dub, you know, rodeos. And now I feel like we're seeing these bigger tricks being put down in the backcountry. But it's not really about like, are people still after just hitting 180 foot jump? I, I think like for me, that's what I looked up to when I was a kid and that's what I kind of want to do. So like, I want to hit big jumps and do big tricks. That's like because I feel like now there's a few still do it, like Sage and like Nils. They had like a big one in Jackson. They had Chad's cap again this year and like, they still had big jumps. But I feel like a lot of lot of movies now have smaller jumps and it's more focused on different things than the actual just sheer size of the jump. Yeah, And I think that there's there's definitely room for someone just going bigger. Yeah. I mean, well, look, we're like mods kind of left it off at all where he went and set the world record. Frontside three like 100 and shout out to 50 feet. Yeah. And I remember. Yeah. Willing to hit that jump with him in Standard Springtime one time. And we were with Mark Lindbergh, who's like backcountry wizard. He'd already finished his video part and we were all out the night before, during the 17th of May. Maybe you've heard of it? Yeah, Norway. I heard of it. Have you? But yeah, we spent 17th of May in, in Norway in like 2012 or 11 or somewhere around there. But anyways, before going to this job, because it's so, it's so fucking big, I mean that happens it all quicker is like no other land. Rick broke down and started crying because he didn't want to even hit it. Yeah. And we're like, Don't worry, you don't have to. But like, we're going, yeah, like I need shots. Yeah. So I feel like there needs to be, like, these tricks need to go to that, jump in a resurgence where it's like 120 plus. Yeah. Then just perfect giant kicker. Yeah, that's kind of where I want it. You're going to make it happen. I mean, I would like. I would like to. I love this conversation. I would like to hit big, big things and do big checks on big jumps. Yeah, like I got to hit that. And it was so funny because I was with mods. You've met him before? Yeah. Yeah, I call him the Prince of Norway. Yep. And we left Mads out of the original Norwegian snowboarder catching. I mean, we're catching up to him. But anyways, catching him and I was like, it was just me and him. And I'm like, All right, we'll show me the speed. You've hit this a bunch. Know, it's kind of weird the way it kind of rolls down the hill. And he just Euro calves all the way down. Yeah, 15 turns and then just comes up to board, leans short on the knuckle, and he comes back up and I'm like, What do you want me to do with that? Yeah, I'm Not just like, follow that line. I'm like, Just give me one more piece to show me. And it was such a succession. I mean, definitely will always stick out in my head is like the scariest and biggest jump I've ever really hit. Yeah. Did he have did you need more speed than he did? I couldn't. I mean, he really didn't even show me a line. I just remember going, like, a quarter mile into this thing. Yeah, because I remember when he was when we were in. Happens at all on this. Like the chute at the bottom jump. I don't know if you ever hit the bottom jump. That's like there's just like a short, super steep Enron. And then it goes into like the bottom of the like the apres ski. No, I haven't hit that one. So and then he like there was a contest on that jump. It's like a 90 footer, like pretty big, but not like not like the top ones. And then he like, we were sectioning it and then just he just comes out of nowhere from the trees behind it. I don't know where he came from. I know him. Yeah. It was, it was slow going to paper Toman. Yeah. For all things, but we were almost like Teavana Ducks Ascending and then he just comes out of the trees and you just kind of like he just goes down like probably like 50 feet below where we're starting going straight line from. And then he just looks up, looks down, and then he just like starts cruising down to the jump. Heads it perfectly. And I'm just like, dude, it's like, how did you hit that? I would like half of the speed that I needed. So I it's gnarly. How, how much speed he gets? Yeah, I think it was his mental game to mess with it probably. Yeah, it was got me. I was like I'm not accepting that his again. Like, I'm not coming up. Three board lanes short on this thing. Yeah. Did Landry hit the jump? No. He just watched Justin hung out all day. Yeah, well, his 17th of May was a big weekend for us. You? He did it on the 18th. We left on the 18th. Yeah. So it was like a three day hangover. Oh, yeah. He was totally messing with you guys. He's like, Let me go into the city for their Independence Day. Let's get a messed up. And then I want to take him to the biggest jump in the world. Yeah, Yeah. He's like, Don't worry. I called in some favors. Mark was like, Oh my God, this famous. That's all I made fun to go to. Ever go to Norway? Go on. 72 Me Okay, then it's their Independence Day, the Great 17th of May, and then all the high school kids are like, breaking up from school. Are they're all to the 12th graders or whatnot, But they drive around these crazy two story busses and they're raging really high groans and they all wear like red suits. The drinking age in Norway. But that dress. Yeah, yeah. You got legal aged 18. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so it's Temple of the Dog. It's out November, November, November. Is there an actual day? 20 something? Okay. Funny, I don't know what I made a pot for somebody in the dog. Is there anything else that we need to know about this before we. We. We let you free? It's kind of like you don't have a lot of time to blink. There's no there's not a lot of slo mo. There's not a lot of, like, lifestyle shots. There's not no talking or anything like that. So it's just like your eyes need to be open for 8 minutes, 8 minutes before you blink. Yeah. Filmed and edited by Gilbert. God. Yep. Directed by yourself. Directed by myself and Gilmore. God, the music is picked up by you and it's basically me. And then I got to go from Monster. Hey, you got us. We? Yeah, it's a it's a big one. It's a big song. It's a big song. That's all you need to know. Yeah, I want to know anything I want to know now tell me later. Yeah. Okay. All right. So before we let you go, so we have a lightning round, and we're going to let Britney hammer you away. These are quick, quick, quick, quick answers. I think quick best Norwegian slang word. Uh, wow. Oh, Jesus. Slang word. Holla. What does that mean? Means hello. But is it? Yeah, Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. Advice to your younger self. Uh, don't worry too much. Okay. Now, favorite video Part of all time. Oh, that's a tough one. That is a very tough one. Um, maybe I'm going to go with Travis Rice and pop. Pop? Yeah. Tang. Wow. Yeah. That song that was filmed by Justin Hosty. Yeah. Best opening shot to right The overshoot. Fun fact on those movies. They were all edited in Hawaii. I know. So sick. I know he's he's a legend. I actually spoke to him when you did your little series. I forget where he was like living in some hot up in the mountains. Revelstoke Yeah, No, he lives in Nelson Yeah, yeah, that's the bald face. Yeah. Yeah. What a legend. Yeah. And then who else used to be JP was in those movies as well. I mean, that that was that. That movie. Yeah, Those writers. That was Good call. Thank you. Sick. I like that. Good questions. Best Norwegian food you must when traveling. Uh, I don't really eat too much Norwegian food, to be honest. Yeah, Brown cheese. I got to say, brown. That just cooked cheese. No, you put it on. Like, just if you have, like, a fresh piece of bread. Yeah. Butter and brown cheese is like goat cheese. Okay. Yeah, but it's sweet goat cheese. Most treasured thing you own my noise-cancelling headset for my flights. Well, no, I mean, that's the bargain that'll cancel out of baby crying. Best thing about writing for Monster Energy. You get to come to these cool things and do a lot of fun stuff with a lot of fun people. Yeah. Yeah, That's awesome. Sure. Danny, any last questions? That's it. All right dude. Congrats temple of the dog out this month, you’re legend. Thank you guys for having me. That's a wrap.