{"id":2449694,"date":"2019-10-09T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/olympian-danny-kass-joins-vail-club-as-snowboard-coach\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T04:00:00","slug":"olympic-medalist-danny-kass-joins-ski-snowboard-club-vail-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/olympic-medalist-danny-kass-joins-ski-snowboard-club-vail-as-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic medalist Danny Kass joins Ski &amp; Snowboard Club Vail as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.4501510574018\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-314161-791\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/dannykass-vdn-100719-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/dannykass-vdn-100719-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Screen shot from 'Snowboarding: For me' | Danny Kass in the 2014 Oakley film\" snowboarding: for kass is a seven-time x games medalist who saw competition snowboarding through its transition into bigger halfpipes and higher degrees of class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Danny Kass in the 2014 Oakley film &#8220;Snowboarding: For Me.&#8221; Kass is a seven-time X Games medalist who saw competition snowboarding through its transition into bigger halfpipes and higher degrees of rotation.<\/strong><br \/>Screen shot from &#8216;Snowboarding: For me&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/dannykass-vdn-100719-1.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Danny Kass in the 2014 Oakley film \" snowboarding: for kass is a seven-time x games medalist who saw competition snowboarding through its transition into bigger halfpipes and higher degrees of><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/dannykass-vdn-100719-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/dannykass-vdn-100719-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Special to the Daily | Danny Kass in 'Snowboarding: For me'\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Danny Kass in &#8216;Snowboarding: For me&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/dannykass-vdn-100719-1-1.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Danny Kass in 'Snowboarding: For me'\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/olympian-danny-kass-joins-vail-club-as-snowboard-coach\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/olympian-danny-kass-joins-vail-club-as-snowboard-coach\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">VAIL \u2014 Two-time Olympic silver medalist Danny Kass has joined the Ski &amp; Snowboard Club Vail staff for the 2019-20 season, coach Ronnie Barr has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Barr said the timing was right, as the club had an opening just as Kass had been pondering a future in coaching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cSo we were able to arrange getting (Kass) on our staff,\u201d Barr said. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Kass will be coaching all around, with a main focus on halfpipe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Kass is a seven-time X Games halfpipe medalist, winning gold in 2001. He became well known outside the sport in the 2000s, when he appeared in numerous product endorsements and a reality TV show. Kass saw the sport of competitive snowboarding through its transition into larger halfpipes and higher degrees of rotation, becoming known for performing back-to-back 900s and 1080s with a smooth, stylish spin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">In the 2014 film \u201cSnowboarding: For Me,\u201d produced by Oakley, Kass predicted the two avenues of progression that would mark the 2018 Olympic halfpipe competition, where Shaun White and Ayumu Hirano performed back to back 1440s for first and second, while Ben Ferguson and Chase Josey performed switch McTwists and switch Michalchuks for fourth and sixth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cI think you\u2019re going to see some people come out with some insane style, and you\u2019re gonna see some progression that\u2019s gonna scare the poop out of people,\u201d Kass said in the 2014 film. \u201cTruly, I believe at this point, the more snowboarding progresses into tech tricks, like doubles and triples and corks, it only makes doing a frontside 360 indy that much cooler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Kass finds a fitting home in Vail, where the Burton U.S. Open has taken place since 2013. Kass is originally from New Jersey and enjoyed an eight-year reign at the Burton U.S. Open when it took place in Vermont. Between 2001 and 2009, Kass won the Burton U.S. Open halfpipe competition five times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">In 2018, Burton Snowboards, the town of Vail and Vail Mountain officially announced a three-year contract extension that will keep the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships in Vail through 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jlaconte@vaildaily.com\">jlaconte@vaildaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/olympian-danny-kass-joins-vail-club-as-snowboard-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Kass in the 2014 Oakley film &#8220;Snowboarding: For Me.&#8221; Kass is a seven-time X Games medalist who saw competition snowboarding through its transition into bigger halfpipes and higher degrees of rotation.Screen shot from &#8216;Snowboarding: For me&#8217; Danny Kass in &#8216;Snowboarding: For me&#8217;Special to the Daily Show CaptionsHide Captions VAIL \u2014 Two-time Olympic silver medalist [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 01:26:59","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}