 Jake's legacy is unlimited freedom in the form of snowboarding. Appreciate the mountains, share it with your best friends, never forget who you are. Just going straight down this little hill behind an ice rink in Switzerland. Watching my neighbor's snowboard in my backyard, and I was like, I want to do that. School got cancelled and we were slow because we had to just play around in the snow, walking to kindergarten in the snow, getting my boots wet. I was five years old and my dad had taken me up to Big Bear. He taught me how to snowboard. Learning how to ski with my dad in one of those harnesses. Falling on my face as my dad's trying to teach me how to snowboard. First going sledding and like immediately I was like fully in love. Looking at how big these mountains were and all the snow on top of them and it was nuts. I was terrified. Riding sleds was a lot of playing. I'm from a small town so we had a lot of snow where I lived. Going outside and either putting on some hockey skates or riding a sniffer off the ledge near my house. There's so many good ones, you know. It's almost hard to choose what the happiest memory is. Most of the memories are damn happy. Ripping down the mountain, nothing in life compares to it. When I was a kid, it was a slushy day. We all learned how to do backflips on this little spine. Spring days where it's really slushy. It's a huge party. Everyone's around you, all your friends are around you. Playing around at the US Open, like it was insane to me, I got fourth. After doing a contest just up at Mount Bachelor on my home resort, having all the homies like shredding together. This trip to New Zealand with Jake, life has never been that bright and full. Riding with my friends, perfect bow day after like some stressful times at the Olympics. Just learning and having fun. When I got to hug my parents right after the Olympics, that whole moment from being able to like run around everybody, push through security and hug my dad and mom. Definitely snowboarding with my dad. He is the whole inspiration for me as to why I started snowboarding. My dad used to give the snow plow driver. He used to plow the parking lot below our house a cup of coffee in the morning and get him to plow all the snow right under this hill. My brother and I used to spend hours out there just trying to build the craziest feature and that's probably my happiest memory, snowboarding. When I was 15 years old, when I was 7 years old, 12. 12 I think, maybe 7. 7 to 8 years old. When I got a contract when I was 15, I was going to travel and snowboard. 13 years old was my turning point over to like, this is going to be full time. I realized I could be better than my dad if I really tried. Pretty much laugh in first sight. 15 is when I really found my own style. My brother and I, all we wanted to do was get sponsored by Bert. And so in ninth grade I was like, we're doing this. Like, let's give it everything we have. I was 14 years old. First year snowboarding was in the Olympics. I knew then and there that I wanted to pursue this. You just feel super free. Free. Satisfied. Ultimate happiness. Best feeling in the world. You're in the moment. Totally in the present moment. I just kind of forget about everything else. Rosh of excitement. Adrenaline. Makes me feel at home. Kind of the one place in my life where I really feel like I can express myself. There's really nothing to compare it to. You just have to experience it for yourself. For me it's just the satisfaction that I get from it. Like you're laying your self worth into your snowboarding. I don't think about anything else and I just live in the moment when I'm on my snowboard. Kind of an undescribable feeling in a way, but it's something that brings me back year after year. How you feel like you need to express yourself to the world. You can show that on your snowboard. You can put your own personality into tricks. Take what you have in your head and just like put it out there. Wear what you want and ride how you want. Riding your own wave and making your own line. Everyone has their own style, everyone has their own way of doing it. Snowboarding has allowed me to just be creative. You notice exactly who's the most creative because they're taking those lines you would have never even thought of. Pushing myself and what is my human ability and what's the maximum of that. Disability to separate myself and do something that was mine. Giving me like a platform to express myself. It has to feel good from within. I just want to be the best of myself to see how far I can go. There's this inclusivity to be you. That creativity and that individual expression never gets left behind. I could describe the snowboarding community in one word and that's family. We might be competing against each other every day and like, yeah I want to beat you but if you get to the bottom and you land your run I'm still going to give you a high five and congratulate you. There's no anger between us. Everyone just feeds off each other's energy. You want your homie to do well. Everywhere you go everybody has each other's back. There's an energy like no other. Like a big group of outcasts and misfits that kind of come together and somehow fit together like a perfect jigsaw puzzle. You don't have to be one of the top dogs to really belong. I'm doing it as a profession but of course I also love it. You share that even with people that just love the snowboard. Full on global sport. There's people all around the world enjoying it on a daily basis and it's pretty amazing to be a part of. I've never, no. I haven't. No. Definitely not. Can't really see that being possible. No. I've never lost my joy of snowboarding. There's definitely a couple of times where you take snowboarding too much like a job. There's been times like where it's difficult. If you get injured like that's just part of it I guess. I was upset with the whole process of trying to be a competitor, trying to flip more and spin more and I was just like, is this worth it? It's just like a roller coaster. It's a love-hate relationship. I mean I've had the best days of my life and the worst days of my life. When you love something so much there's always like that easy way to find that love again. The way to get it back is to just disconnect, put on some music and go ride some powder. Go ride with friends, find some powder, kind of restocking the joy. I've kind of re-found my love for snowboarding because I've been able to go ride out in the back country with my friends. Once you get that real good turn, get a slash, you get to look back and see your plume behind you. Snow billowing, it's just like, that's it. That's the real snowboarding.