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I love to snowboard with no cameras: 100 percent.

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Travis Rice
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 10
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Jackson's Hole
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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.
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While researching the project [The Fourth Phase] I stumbled across this amazing research by a scientist called Dr Gerard Pollack who had done studies on what he called a 'fourth phase' of water.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth
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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.
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The whole goal with this thing [Ultra Natural] from the start was to really let rider's style define them and their line choice.
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I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.
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Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.
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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.
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When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life
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Inevitably it's always a set-up you go somewhere, bring your own expectations, you think you have an idea of what you want to do but then the minute you get there everything changes, so trying to work with people who are able to ride in a lot of different conditions, sub-par conditions, people who are able to make the most of any situation.
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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.
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We were looking at weather and our relationships with weather. It goes to a few other places, and I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't go into it, but it's about a willingness to expose oneself a little bit more and share something openly and honestly. It's more than just landing tricks. Moving forward, this is just another stepping stone.
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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.
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