{"id":803973,"date":"2020-02-07T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378691"},"modified":"2020-02-07T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:08:21","slug":"red-gerards-journey-continues-with-burton-backcountry-film-love-hate-relationship-with-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/red-gerards-journey-continues-with-burton-backcountry-film-love-hate-relationship-with-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Gerard\u2019s journey continues with Burton backcountry film, love-hate relationship with contests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Snowboarder Red Gerard talks Friday, Feb. 7, about his latest film, future plans and his thoughts on the competition at Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

COPPER MOUNTAIN \u2014 The snowboarding journey \u2014 the balance between the contest scene and backcountry filming in the world\u2019s best snow \u2014 continues in a new decade for Red Gerard.<\/p>\n

Chatting candidly Friday afternoon at Copper Mountain, Red was in the middle of his latest successful life moment. The night before, the Ohio native and Summit County resident walked on stage with his older brother and filmmaker, Malachi Gerard, and pro snowboard friends to accept Snowboard Magazine\u2019s Movie of the Year award for his first foray filming in the backcountry: \u201cJoy: A Snowboard Film.\u201d<\/p>\n

The honor was validation that his time spent last winter delving into the deep backcountry of places like Japan was the best way to spend the season after his 2018 Olympic gold-medal win and rise to fame.<\/p>\n

Red also was nominated \u2014 along with \u201cJoy\u201d co-star Sage Kotseburg and backcountry slayer Travis Rice \u2014 for Snowboarder\u2019s Rider of the Year award, which Kotsenburg won. And earlier in the day, Red competed for Team Burton in the Dew Tour team challenge, two days before he drops into the men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle final at 12:15 p.m. Saturday at Copper to face the world\u2019s best snowboarders.<\/p>\n

All of that followed Red\u2019s trip last week to Japan. His second time in the legendary bottomless powder on the other side of the planet, Red was there with fellow Burton riders for his latest snowboard film project. Dubbed \u201cOne World,\u201d Red said the film will take him and other Burton snowboarders to Jackson Hole and then \u201cwherever the snow is good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust follow it,\u201d Red said.<\/p>\n

These past two weeks of globetrotting with his board in tow summarize Red\u2019s snowboard life two years removed from his win on the Pyeongchang slopestyle course, which made the then-17-year-old the youngest American male to win a gold medal in an individual event in Winter Olympics history. On the competition side, Red is still warm to the contest scene. When a contest goes well, when he can lace a line through the puzzle of a slopestyle course like he did in winning the Burton U.S. Open last year, it\u2019s like nothing else he can do on a board.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a high that you can\u2019t get anywhere else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Snowboarder Red Gerard has a conversation Friday, Feb. 7, about his latest film, future plans and his thoughts on the competition at Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

That said, Red is not a fan of the other side of contest riding, when things don\u2019t go as planned on landings or weather is not cooperating. He\u2019s candid that contest riding often brings out the worst in riders like him. But Red has done a good job finding fun at competitions, and his clutch skills on a snowboard have helped keep things positive.<\/p>\n

If Red learned anything last year, it was that he can find and create more fun for himself and his snowboarding friends in the backcountry when it might not be there at the contest scene. Japan doesn\u2019t have the steep faces he\u2019s used to here in the Rockies, but the natural jumps of Japan\u2019s rolling terrain is bliss, he said. It\u2019s perfect to huck fun tricks like back rodeos and 540s, the kind of riding he can\u2019t do off contest jumps where bigger is better, even if it isn\u2019t as beautiful.<\/p>\n

It also is the perfect warmup to strengthen Red\u2019s legs for all the backcountry riding to come later in winter and a contest like Dew Tour. Saturday\u2019s Dew Tour final is the latest contest that features a long list of riders who are all elite and capable of winning. Defending champion Stale Sandbech of Norway made a statement in Thursday\u2019s team challenge, popping off rails and onto redirect hips and wall rides in eye-popping fashion. Canadian Darcy Sharpe is riding the high of X Games gold at Aspen, Swede Sven Thorgren is snowboarding with amazing energy, and Canadian competitor Max Parrot is looking to make up for X Games struggles.<\/p>\n

Then there are young American riders, and Red\u2019s friends, Brock Crouch, Judd Henkes and Luke Winkelmann, all of whom are ready to shine in the podium spotlight. But if there\u2019s one rider Red thinks will be ready Saturday, it\u2019s accomplished Canadian and fellow Burton rider Mark McMorris.<\/p>\n

Whatever happens Saturday, Red is ready to keep finding the fun \u2014 the joy \u2014 wherever his snowboarding takes him, whether it be contests mere miles from his family\u2019s home near Silverthorne or powder pillows on the other side of the globe. He\u2019s candid that he really doesn\u2019t know what he still wants to accomplish on his snowboard. If anything, it\u2019s to achieve what Kotsenburg did Thursday night<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to win Rider of the Year,\u201d Red said. \u201cI\u2019d really like to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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