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I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.
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Travis Rice
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 10
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More quotes by Travis Rice
I'm passionate about capturing amazing snowboarding action. I get so much out of the artistic endeavor of even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment, using specialist cameras to showcase how fun and dynamic snowboarding is. That's what I live for.
Travis Rice
It was just on a whole other level, getting to experience and ride that terrain. We spent a fair amount of time in the Hakuba Valley.
Travis Rice
Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.
Travis Rice
My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small, 24-foot trimaran.Three weeks a year, I'd go with him and we'd sail from Florida out around the Bahamas.
Travis Rice
Pretty much everywhere we went we had crazy weather. I think Russia was probably one of the toughest places for us weatherwise, but even Alaska, the last three years have been somewhat subpar when you look at historically how Alaska can shape up.
Travis Rice
I'm really interested in revamping the Supernatural contest, so I'm going to put a lot of effort and energy into that going forward.
Travis Rice
One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.
Travis Rice
I knew Shin [Biyajima] a little bit early on, but it's funny because where I really met Shin, and where he made a strong impression on me, was in Jackson Hole. I sledded back to a secret zone way deep in the Jackson backcountry to some freeriding. I got out there and followed some snowmobile tracks figuring it's just some snowmobilers.
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We're all doing what we love. It's how we express ourselves - operating in a space where you don't know if something is possible or not.
Travis Rice
Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.
Travis Rice
I was picking up surfing, which I also fell in love with. Then I was like, man, to combine the two [free ride and surfing ] would be perfect.
Travis Rice
I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.
Travis Rice
If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth
Travis Rice
Over the past six years, my girlfriend and I live on our boat two or three months a year. It's just one of our seasonal homes at this point.
Travis Rice
When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.
Travis Rice
Apart from those other riders there is a whole production team [ of The Fourth Phase] behind the cameras too, hauling hundreds of kilos of fragile and awkward filming equipment up those same frozen landscapes. They're the real heroes.
Travis Rice
Sometimes storms come through with wind and blow the features off or sometimes they come in heavy and grow the features to the point where we have to shovel them off again. Leading up to the window for our event we try to get everything lined up and safe for the riders.
Travis Rice
You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life
Travis Rice
We started out making a film [ The Fourth Phase] about the incredible snow we get at home in Wyoming, the journey soon macroed out into this epic 16,000 mile trip around the North Pacific, taking us to locations in Japan, Alaska, the Kamchatka Peninsula in far-eastern Russia, and back to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Travis Rice
I love to snowboard with no cameras: 100 percent.
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