How I Got Started Competing in Big Air Contests

"I was not great at riding pipe. I had a couple of years I could, you know, get two feet out," he says. "But everybody else was riding a pipe." He started competing in big air contests and soon they were held 20 days a year. The tour went from like Stowe to Stratton to Loon to Waterville on the New England coast.

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The unofficial commissioner, historian, and encyclopedia of snowboarding, Pat “The Eye" Bridges has documented the sport for almost 27 years starting with E.I. then Snowboarder Mag and now Slush Magazine. In this episode we talk snowboarding journalism, early big air events, the Olympics, snowboard data, corporate companies getting into snowboarding, best tail block and hand plants of all time, Superpark, Jake Burton, and so much more! It’s debatable whether Pat is the man who has seen more go down in snowboarding than any other human but without a doubt he remembers it better then anyone else. This week on The Bomb Hole we sit down with snowboardings encyclopedia and listen to him speak on the sport as seen through “The Eye”.

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Show Notes-

Whiskey | https://www.methodmag.com/videos/throwback-thursdays-whiskey-2.html

The Cage | http://www.snowboardinginsouthernvermont.com/the-cage.html

Snowboarder Mag | https://www.snowboarder.com

Ride 1996 Spends 4.3 Million On Marking | https://sec.report/Document/0000891020-97-000488/0000891020-97-000488.txt

Slush Magazine | https://slushthemagazine.com

Big Snow American Dream | https://www.bigsnowamericandream.com

Mount Rushmore | https://www.nps.gov/moru/index.htm

Super Park Movie | https://www.snowboarder.com/featured/superpark-movie-full-movie/

Super Troopers Maple Syrup | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPHXfJZpSms

Jake Burton Interview | https://www.snowboarder.com/featured/a-paper-trail-the-jake-burton-carpenter-interview/

HBO Jake Burton Movie | https://deadline.com/2021/10/jake-burton-snowboarding-documentary-hbo-dear-rider-the-jake-burton-story-1234855039/