First Descent

00:00:36 [ Narrator Reading ]

00:09:02 There's a big gap here. We're talking 20 years.

00:12:43 jake influenced the growth of snowboarding on the East Coast.

00:16:28 Which, you're all the best riders in the world in the freestyle genre.

00:21:19 [ Gunshots ] You won't get that. I knew you wouldn't get that.

00:24:32 He has stayed right there. He's done it and done it.

00:28:34 What it did is gave you that angst and that energy to go out and prove them wrong.

00:31:45 We land the helicopter, and you look at this big mountain face and you're, like, ""Okay, pick your line.''

00:37:10 I was just standing up there like, wow, I'm just doing the total opposite of what everybody's told me.

00:41:11 The mountains are taking half their budget to make a sick park, so kids will show up and ride.

00:45:59 And there's now bigger hard-core guys.

00:49:38 ; 'Cause he's a powder-ridin' longboard freak, hey ;;

00:53:39 It was just something that was bringing the whole new wave of snowboarding right to him

00:59:10 And to come here and kind of get a sense of that, like

01:02:24 We were bringing kids back on to the mountain, and lift ticket sales started going back up.

01:06:22 [ Cheering ] [ Announcer Shouts In japanese ]

01:11:28 [ Helicopter Whirring ]

01:17:45 And that's about pushing limits...

01:22:31 it was just, like, ""Yeah. Cool.''

01:26:09 I was just more pumped that my family was there. A lot of them came out.

01:30:02 We werejust being, like, a nice team.

01:35:47 I swear to God, for the finrst three or four hours, man

01:41:19 The thing to d0- I think, it's morejust-

01:44:49 I look at a mountain completely different than a person that mightjust be a recreational skier does.