Low Pressure Podcast: The Podcast For Skiers

Julian Carr has a mantra.  “Storytell, Produce, Monetize”.  Following this guideline, accompanied with excellent task management skills,  Julian has not only become one of the most interesting professional skiers today but he has created two successful businesses; Discrete Clothing and the Cirque Series running events.

Reine Barkered is a Freeride World Tour Skier from Åre, Sweden.  He is also a former World Champion.  Since winning the overall title in 2012, Reine has been a consistent threat at every FWT event since.   With his fast, hard charging, take no prisoners style of skiing, a podium finish is never out of the question.

Tyler Curle, like most of the guests on this show, grew up in a skiing family.  Born and raised in Reno,  both of Tyler's parents worked at Mt. Rose, the smaller, lesser skied hill in the Tahoe area.  His dad was a groomer and his mom has had her hand in almost everything thing else at the mountain.

Jackie Paaso has been a competitive skier for most of her life.  Originally from Foxborough Massachusetts, about an hour south-west of Boston, Jackie and her family ended up moving to Maine where she would harness her talent as a up and coming mogul skier. She would go on to collect many accolades throughout her mogul career and was touted as one of the best in the country.  For some reason though, perhaps politics, she wasn’t chosen for the US Olympic Team, which was her ultimate dream.

Markus Eder is one of the most well rounded skiers on the planet.  It's easy to fall into hyperbole when trying to describe the merits of someone who you believe is the one of the best.  In his case, it's the truth.  Raised in Klausberg, in the German speaking area of Northern Italy,  Markus started ski racing like most kids there did.   After a few poor experiences, at age 14 Markus decided to tell his parents he was done with racing.   His love for skiing and life took a huge turn when he was given a copy of PoorBoyz Productions, Happy Daze.

New Zealand's Jossi Wells has established himself as one of today's most versatile freeskiers.  He's represented his country at the Olympics and has won X Games medals in 3 separate disciplines including big air, halfpipe and slopestyle where he won gold in 2016.  He's achieved a lot in his career and there are two things he attributes his success to above all else; family and faith.

Tanner Hall has always been a polarizing figure.  Most people have a opinion on who they think he really is.   I've come to learn that those opinions are usually wrong.   Tanner is competing on the Freeride World Tour and we connected in Golden BC, at the event at Kicking Horse .  I expected we'd talk about things like his run and the mental and physical preparation leading up the events.   The conversation we had got much deeper and far more personal.

Chris Booth is a fascinating person.  He just spent the last 4 years building Black Crows Skis into one of the hottest and most desired brands in the industry.  When a company has that rare type of momentum and is experiencing yearly, exponential growth you’d think that would be a time to reap the rewards of a lot of hard work.  Perhaps even revel in your success.   Not for Chris.

If you have been a consumer of ski culture over the last 15 years or so theres a good change you already know the name, Mike Rogge.   Many of Mike’s major life decisions to have been heavily influenced by his passion skiing.

Andrea Byrne, or “Dre” as she prefers to be called,  is another fresh face on the scene.  Dre recently moved from her home in Fernie to Whistler, BC to be embraced by the “arms of opportunity”.  For an up and coming skier, Whistler is definitely a place where opportunity abounds.  

Speak softly and carry a big stick.  In the case of Sam Kuch, its big skis.  Based in Nelson BC, Sam grew up on the slopes of Whitewater ski resort and his skiing of late has has everyone else talking.  Sam tells us that he considers this past season as his coming out party. Check out all the LPP: https://linktr.ee/LowPressurePodcast