I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.
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.
I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.
We faced blizzards, sub-zero temperatures, and of course dangerous snow conditions and vertiginous drops. That's what you get when you're working with fickle mother nature - you start out with a solid plan and it always changes, so you have to evolve and adapt.
When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.
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.
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.