{"id":1301707,"date":"2018-12-21T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=438306"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:45:18","slug":"anna-gasser-takes-home-multiple-honors-at-transworld-snowboarding-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/anna-gasser-takes-home-multiple-honors-at-transworld-snowboarding-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Gasser takes home multiple honors at Transworld Snowboarding awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Canadian rider Kennedi Deck won the women\u2019s Rookie of the Year award while Icelandic snowboarder Halldor Hellgason won the men\u2019s Readers\u2019 Choice award. The men\u2019s Rider of the Year award went to veteran Japanese snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cKazu is as respected by his pro rider peer group as much as any,\u201d Transworld wrote. \u201cIt is a calculated approach to major career decisions and a loose approach to split-second decisions on the mountain that make Kokubo who he is. As a rider who made a name for himself in the competitive halfpipe realm, Kazu has always been exceptional at riding natural terrain \u2014 whether many of his fans realized it or not \u2014 but this season marked a new height for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That new height for Kokubo was the film he directed and starred in, \u201cKamikazu,\u201d which won for movie of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cKamikazu documents some of the best backcountry freestyle riding ever captured,\u201d Transworld wrote, \u201cby a diverse list of riders. From Keegan Valaika\u2019s loose and skatey style, to Blair Habenicht\u2019s powerful approach, this eclectic riding is captured in locations around the globe. Kokubo favored a session-based approach to filming \u2014 riding the backcountry in the way one would skate a park with friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For more information on this year\u2019s award winners, visit Snowboarding.Transworld.net\/riders-poll.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" src=\"about:blank\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-was-processed=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7hr9RW03VM\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7hr9RW03VM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7hr9RW03VM\" data-was-processed=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/sports\/anna-gasser-takes-home-multiple-honors-at-transworld-snowboarding-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian rider Kennedi Deck won the women\u2019s Rookie of the Year award while Icelandic snowboarder Halldor Hellgason won the men\u2019s Readers\u2019 Choice award. The men\u2019s Rider of the Year award went to veteran Japanese snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo. Recommended Stories For You \u201cKazu is as respected by his pro rider peer group as much as any,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:36:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}