Chris Rogers, Brian Donovan, and Matt Larson return to recording in the garage after a difficult Hawaii remote episode, sharing stories of extreme island weather, a missed volcanic eruption, and Matt surfing alone on a standup paddleboard in a big swell. They then do a first-time watch-along of the Red Bull Yeti Natural Selection Snowboard Finals Day at Revelstoke, providing timestamps, reactions, and commentary on logistics, terrain, snow conditions, tricks, and scoring as Zoe and Sarka battle in the women’s finals and Nils Mindich and Brin Alexander compete in the men’s finals, with Zoe and Nils winning. They discuss how Natural Selection allows imperfections like butt checks compared to other contests, touch on melting conditions in Montana canceling plans, and end with a listener question debating whether frontside or backside boardslides are harder.

Use this link to queue up the video they’re watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePt3-udc8Tc

02:13 Big Swell Surf Story

04:01 Natural Selection Watchalong Setup

06:22 Womens Finals Run One

07:25 Run One Reactions And Scores

12:32 Mens Finals Nils Vs Brin

17:24 Replay And Method Debate

19:37 Muted Mic And Scoring Talk

24:11 Gear Nostalgia And Winter Roots

25:37 Women’s Finals Lap Two

26:42 Run One Reactions

27:30 Why Vests Unzipped

28:17 Switch Five And Recovery

29:44 Run One Scores And Revelstoke Hype

31:54 Community And Access Talk

32:18 Mens Finals Run Two Setup

34:11 Brin Bold New Line

35:56 Nils Ninja Run

37:53 Judges Recap And Winner

39:37 Why Natural Selection Rules

45:00 Hot Take Board Slides

57:38 Wrap And Next Episodes

59:36 Post Show Email Tease

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The snowboard podcast All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Snowboarding is a weekly podcast with AASI Snowboard National Team Members Chris Rogers, Matt Larson, and Brian Donovan. Tune in each week as we discuss snowboarding, snowsports instruction, instructor certification, and how, well, basically, we learned everything we need to know from snowboarding!

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