He was given a 1 stop ban on the pro tour for hitting a pine cone with a wiffle ball bat? Chase Heavener is a former professional wakeboarder from Orlando, Florida, and has been around since the early days of the sport. Seeing it progress from "trick ski" style riding to where the sport is today has been a wild ride, and a ride that Chase had some influence in. When he got into the sport, he didn't feel as though the current contest landscape represented his crews style of riding, or their vision for the sport, and some feathers were ruffled in the pursuit of change. After his riding career, Chase went behind the scenes and helped create some of wakeboarding's most iconic videos. Getting banned from Wakeboarding Mag, the New Crew, running a 5 minute mile, Neptune, sinking a boat 4 times, and the current media landscape. Hear all that and much more in Episode 62 of the Grab Matters Podcast!

Follow Chase: https://www.instagram.com/chaseheavener/

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Chapters:
00:00 - 1:30 Intro
3:40 Tim Tebow Doc
5:20 Disqualified from the PWT
7:50 Running
9:20 First time riding
14:00 First sponsors
18:00 Finless
22:40 4x4 hole pattern
23:30 Neptune
27:00 New Crew
38:00 LF’n Wheel of Questions
43:25 Gnar ramp
45:50 Mayday
51:00 Getting into filming
56:20 Erik Ruck question
58:25 Attention Deficit 
59:23 Driftline “Deserves Some Love”
1:03:00 What makes a movie good?
1:08:30 Pre Pop
1:13:50 WSIA (Ad)
1:14:40 Alliance Wake
1:23:00 Fast Five by Fatsac
1:30:00 Setup
1:34:40 Banned from WBM
1:39:00 X Games Judging
1:44:00 Media landscape
1:51:05 Foiling

Links:
Byerly in Hit It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqpoqCLxxts&t=66s
Gnar Ramp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUEE2rZGxT4
Decline of the waterski monopoly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPvQjFfDQFk&t=1563s
Rave till dawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADe20Gns8QA

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