 He's the best snowboard in the world. Rumor has it they blew some snow, so let's go see for ourselves. I can't wait to just see everyone. It's like you go all summer without seeing any of your snowboard homies, because everybody lives all over the place. It's like a big family reunion this time of year. Oh, they got the culverts set up today too. It's the best part about Wild Mountain pre-season right there. Look at that. Definitely not as much snow as I thought, there's going to be, but it's day one. You can't complain. It's looking good. Are they going to set up both ropes today? Let's get this money. Hello, Barry. How are you doing? Good. How about you? Good. What time did you get out here today? Like 11. Hell yeah. Yeah, not bad. I don't know about you, but I'm so freaking excited right now. Dude, I'm snowed. It's finally here. Seriously, I'm snowed. What's up, juice? Oh, I missed this rail. I know. So you get first lap. Someone's getting it. You want to move this rail real quick? Get into position. I met him about 15 years ago, right near where that green tube was. Just kind of started boarding together and then became super good friends. Hey, man, you think you could make that a ride-on? Yeah, should make this a ride-on? If you want. He was the ride-on good forever. And everybody kept asking to make him ride-ons. Like everything might be a ride-on. Yeah, and he just wanted everything to be no bigger than three feet tall and a ride-on. Doing my cap dues and front board pretzels and things like that. So it's better than everybody, but you wanted the minimalist setup. That's my first memory of Benny is when he was young but still dumb good. I wish I could just pull a photo out of my pocket of what I remember seeing him as. He always had this huge head when he was younger. So that's really what I remember about him the most was this little kid, long hair, really big helmet. And just like a child prodigy, really. Doing stuff way outside his age is pretty impressive. Don't throw that term around too much, but he's been good for a long time. First-year coach, I mean, he's just doing insane things for like an eight-year-old. I mean, he definitely hasn't slowed down, which is cool to see, like, going from this little bobble head, little kid with a giant helmet, you know. Now, and he's progressed every year since. So that's cool to see. It is so much fun. Yeah, I feel like it never usually slides first day, but. I had about the same. It is so much fun out here. It's always, all the time, first day. Tell you what, 20 minutes of rope, feet, definitely feel it. I don't know what I'm doing on the last trail yet. When we showed up, and I was just like, oh, this is insane. Like, kids aren't riding like this. Once we saw what was really happening from the kids riding the ropes in Minnesota, you were just kind of like, wow. In relation to, like, the type of snowboarder that Benny became, it's 100% because of the rope hose in Minnesota. It's obviously a breeding ground for good snowboarding due to how many laps you get, and it's in a way, I guess you could say, a training facility. You're just the repetition of you don't have to strap, and you probably are getting two runs in a minute, if not more. I'm from Southern California. So for me, it's like, you went to Big Bear in Mount Hine. You sat on a chairlift, and you had to wait, like, sometimes in line for an hour to get your next run. You go out west, and if it takes you 10 tries to learn a trick, that's your whole day. Here, you can take 10 laps in five minutes and get your trick in, and then go on to the next one. 100 laps a day will do insane things for your creativity riding. Being creative in the Midwest is a lot different because we don't really have mountains. It's very flat, so first things first, you got to try to figure out speed for anything, and that's where it gets hard. There's so many fields driving out to Bob, and I was a little kid, he'd be looking out the window, seeing all this opportunity for big old money booters. I'm sure most snowboarders, they never looked at hay bales the way we did. Look at a barn as a feature, hay bales, for example, or anything. Anything that you could have fun snowboarding on, you dream about hitting. I really thought I'd be doing projects like this. Like, if you had told me 10 years ago that I'd be getting pulled behind Levi hitting some hay bales, or jibbing an ice house in the middle of the lake, there's no way I'd believe that, but opportunity came about, and we were able to make dreams come true. Benny's just pretty much fulfilled on all the promise we saw in him when he was 15 years old. He's doing great for himself. He's doing really cool video parts. He's making awesome projects through Red Bull and things like that, as well as, like I said, filming street parts, which is what we grew up caring about. So I think he's really proving himself to be like the kind of pro snowboard that everyone wants to be like. His work ethic is, I think what drives him to be as good as he is at stuff, too, so. Some people are good at rails. Some people are good at jumps. Some people are all right at both. But like, the skill level on jumps and rails, as far as like where he's at, is like top tier. It's not easy to learn all these tricks and get as good as he is. But yeah, not at this point. He's put in the work. So it seems like he's able to just have fun with it at this point. I've seen Benny here probably every single opening day that there's been for the last like 15 years. I feel like it says something about a person when you like, you remain like very grounded to like where you started. And so like knowing he like does what he does at the level that he does to see him out here today, raking just because he loves this place. I feel like that alone says a pretty good amount about the type of person he is. I mean, he's the same kid he was when he was eight years old. It's always been true to himself and true to everything he believes in and always gonna be that dude, I think. For his foreseeable professional career, too. Could it answer a better pro snowboarder than Benny? Yeah. And is down. If people didn't know who Benny Mylon was, he would still be doing exactly what he's doing right now. Which I think is like the best quality in someone in pro snowboarding because they're doing it for the right reasons and like they're actually gonna wanna create things that are unique and not just what they need to do to be a pro. Benny Mylon's a ripping boarder, he's sick. He's the man, Benny's the man. I love Benny. One of the best people in my life.