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Travis Rice Biography

Travis Rice (born October 9, 1982) is an American professional snowboarder. He is #13 on Snowboarder magazine’s list of the 20 most influential snowboarders of the last 20 years. The 35-year-old has featured in more than twenty snowboarding films. Rice’s biggest claim to fame was when he arrived at Snowboarder magazine’s Superpark contest at Mammoth Mountain and launched a 'mammoth' of a backside rodeo across a 117-foot gap jump. He has been considered "the Paul Revere" of the big mountain freestyle movement. In 2013, Rice was named the best contemporary snowboarder in the world by Red Bull; Rice was also hailed as one of the greatest snowboarders of all time by numerous writers and publications.

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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.

Blow, Grow, Riders, Storm, Wind, Window

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.

Contests, Effort, Energy, Revamping, Supernatural

I've been to Japan so many times, but I still constantly stumble across things that are so foreign to me.

Constantly, Japan, Stills, Stumble, Things, Times

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.

Girlfriend, Home, Past, Point, Three

We pretty much had crazy weather, historically speaking, in every location we filmed [The Fourth Phase]. Nothing has been normal in the past three years.

Crazy, Historically, Past, Pretty, Three, Years

I'm very much looking forward to doing nothing fixed, just riding for fun.

Doing Nothing, Fun, Looking, Nothing, Riding

The Tokyo Dome Big Air contest (in 2003) was my first trip to Japan. I think I won it with a double back or something. Those events were fun. I was underaged, like 19 or 20, and going over to Japan in the very beginning was insane. It was amazing.

Air, Amazing, Fun, Thinking, Tokyo

Even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment is what I live for.

Amazing, Environment, Live, Pristine, Shots

There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.

Actually, Alaska, Came, Doubt, Filming, Spring

I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport. For me it's just a way of life. It's a chance to finally shut your brain off, and live within the moment. And, for as long as I am able, I will ride until the day I die.

Sports, Snowboarding, Long, Sport, Chance, Live

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.

Landing, Moving, Oneself, Openly, Want, Weather

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.

Epic, Fourth, Home, Incredible, Journey, North

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

Discovery, Full, Full Potential, Places, Self

When it comes down to it, it’s pretty simple. Adventure is what you make it. And whether it’s the travel, the discovery or just the feeling of letting go, the only way we’ll ever find out is to get out there and do it. Enjoy the ride.

Adventure, Letting Go, Simple, Way

We needed to do "Community Project" to feel comfortable doing our own thing, and then "That's It That's All" was this experiment with camera technology and shooting snowboarding a little differently. "Art of Flight" was that dream of "That's it That's All" realized. Then we didn't want to make an "Art of Flight 2," so we stepped back and tried to take a different approach to create a more multi-faceted film. "The Fourth Phase" has more of a storyline, and it was much more personal for me.

Art, Different, Dream, Snowboarding, Technology

When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.

Blew, Japan, Mind, Mountain, Ride

Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also a lot of symmetry. They each have their own biorhythms from a motherly embrace to tempestuous wrath. What I love about being out in nature is that you are at the mercy of your own decision making.

Decision, Different, Love, Motherly, Ocean, Wrath

I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.

Actually, Enjoyed, Farm, Finding Myself, Getting Lost, Japan

It's probably the most personal project [The Fourth Phase] I've done, which changed the dynamic a little bit.

Changed, Done, Dynamic, Littles, Phases, Project

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.

Different, Everything, Ideas, People, Think, Thinking

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