{"id":55142,"date":"2019-09-25T17:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T22:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=55142"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:49:27","slug":"tim-humphreys-tries-out-for-pornhub-on-hump-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=55142","title":{"rendered":"Tim Humphreys Tries Out for PornHub on Hump Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p>Originally Published on Yobeat | January 3, 2018<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Tim Humphreys Hump Day Interview\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EjcuEA0NvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\">\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Filming: Keith Rutherford<br \/>\nEdit: Daniel Evans<br \/>\nAdditional Footage courtesy of Tim Humpreys<br \/>\nTerribly transcribed by Alexander \u201cLEG\u201d Johnson hemingsworth III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a world where the lines between pro, am, and nobody are barely discernable, Tim Humphreys is still a professional snowboarder. What does that mean? Well, he\u2019s a brand ambassador, a stunt man, a filmer and editor, and now a small business owner too. He\u2019s gracefully spun past the \u201cnormal\u201d age when Americans disappear from professional snowboarding and is now one of the rare breed of adult who\u2019s managing to make a living with his snowboard skills.<\/p>\n<p>We ran into Tim on the hill at<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2017\/12\/19\/living-the-dream-trip-chapter-1-portland-to-mammoth\/\">\u00a0Mammoth Opening weekend<\/a>, where he and Sage Kotsengerg were testing out some GoPros from the future. Eight hours and 100 gb later, Tim was in our condo, still wearing all his snowboard gear, and ready to chat it up with Madison Blackley and I. If you hate reading and want the short, sponsor-friendly version \u2013 watch the video above. But if you want all the real dirt you can read it all below, and catch a few additional clips deemed TOO EDGY by our censors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  avia-align-center \">\n<div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><img class=\"avia_image \" title=\"tim and matt\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23824024_753522351513446_1463434068010991616_n-1-1030x1030.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><em>Tim and Matt go doubles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: Tell us about your movie project.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0So this summer me and a bunch of my friends didn\u2019t have a snowboard video that we were putting anything towards, but we had all this footage between all of us, and so Matt Williams was like, \u201c let\u2019s just put together a snowboard video.\u201dHe came up with the name \u201cUncaged.\u201d I was super busy, didn\u2019t really have time to think about it so I was like, \u201c oh yeah totally, perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Uncaged. I dig it. Who did the editing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Just me and Matt. We split up the movie in half \u2014 Matt made the intro, his part, Adam Hohmeyer\u2019s part, Sam Klein\u2019s part, and the credit reel. Then I made Chris Depaula\u2019s part, Nile Rominec\u2019s part. Me and Dylan (Thompson) share this crazy part, it\u2019s real sick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: Is Dylan Thompson autistic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Um\u2026 I don\u2019t think so. I think he\u2019s like kind of more an introverted type of person y\u2019know, he definitely doesn\u2019t say too much. He\u2019s a man of few words, but he carries a big motherfucking sword! I don\u2019t think he\u2019s autistic or any shit like that though. We are always on the same wavelength always just like he will see something and we will be thinking the same exact shit and he just doesn\u2019t feel the need to use lots of words to say shit, y\u2019know he just kind of keeps it to what\u2019s important. Maybe I\u2019m Autistic, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>I learned a lot from filming street with him this year. He operates really efficiently. It was actually insane watching him go,learning all of his street knowledge and everything about filming in the streets. He\u2019s just got it so dialed from doing it for so many years. He knew what type of spots to look for and he is extremely focused and motivated.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny though when he gets drunk. The the floodgates just open! It\u2019s hilarious because there\u2019s so much shit where unless something really pisses him off, or something he needs to take care of right then he\u2019s just like whatever. He doesn\u2019t say anything about it, but when he gets drunk, he\u2019ll start ranting about some shit. He just lets loose and you\u2019re all like, \u201c fuck yeah, Dylan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"avia_codeblock_section  avia_code_block_0\">\n<div class=\"avia_codeblock \"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: How do you feel about social media?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim: it\u2019s just annoying that everyone cares so much about it right now. Y\u2019know that it\u2019s THAT big of a deal that it almost runs our lives. Instagram fucking views translate into how my career is perceived. How it started was just like, \u201coh yeah share some photos of my friends, see what my friends are up to\u201d and now it\u2019s just this whole other thing. It\u2019s like something that was pleasure- just totally got business thrown into it now. It\u2019s similar to snowboarding for a living, y\u2019know. Snowboarding is this thing I love, but sometimes doing it for a living and having my whole livelihood is based off of it, sometimes things will get frustrating. I get burnt out. Sometime I\u2019ll have so much shit expected of me and I don\u2019t feel like I can deliver it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I\u2019ll post the stupidest shit and it gets so many more views than anything else. I\u2019ll work so hard to make the most baller video and it gets no love, then I\u2019ll post something I wasn\u2019t even going to post because I filmed it shitty or whatever and it gets 150,000 views!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now that Pornhub is getting involved with snowboarding I\u2019ll get a new sponsor. Working the social media, Pornhub plugs like, \u201cHey, I\u2019m alone and bored in this gondola @mammothmountain, I wonder what I can do with this 5 minutes @pornhub winky face emoji.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"avia-video avia-video-16-9   \">\n<div class=\"avia-iframe-wrap\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zABY8WNb-mY?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: What\u2019s your dream sponsor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Airline Sponsor?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Free flights anywhere? Damn. Hmmm what\u2019s a good airline?<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Delta, duh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Delta? Don\u2019t Expect Luggage To Arrive. I don\u2019t really like that, but hey if I\u2019m sponsored by them I won\u2019t have to pay their obnoxious each way $150 surfboard fees. That\u2019s another reason why I don\u2019t fly Delta. It\u2019s fucked up to spend $300 to get your boards there and back. You might as well buy boards when you\u2019re there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: How did you get into surfing in New Jersey? Is it really like the show Jersey Shore?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0My family and I would go down to the beach for a week or two every summer. Straight up. We would go to Seaside Park and Heights where all that shit was filmed. It\u2019s insane- like that show is an understatement of the reality there. It\u2019s gnarly- I feel like they did a bunch of shit and they couldn\u2019t even show it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: Did you ever compete in Spring Loaded at Killington?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I literally should of won that shit like 3 fucking times but see that\u2019s the thing- the odds were always loaded against you if you were not from Killington. Literally, you couldn\u2019t place or anything if you were not from Killington. So, I would go there and put down winning runs and not even make finals.<\/p>\n<p>My very first memory of the first Killington Spring Loaded was sick though. The very first person I met when I was like 12 or 11 or something like that, was Lucas Magoon. Just imagine us as little 12 year olds! Within 15 minutes of meeting we were both getting tackled by ski patrol and getting our passes pulled. We were hucking snowballs up at the gondola and shit. Ski patrol ripped our tickets off and were being total dicks to us. Magoon\u2019s mom worked up at the resort and she like found out about it and flipped her shit. They had to come back give us our tickets and apologize. Little Magoon. Even at 12 years old he didn\u2019t give a fuck! He was awesome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  avia-align-center \">\n<div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><img class=\"avia_image \" title=\"tiny tim big planet\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/24327408_565303140479422_1338790273085341696_n-1030x1030.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><em>What the actual fuck is going on here?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  column-top-margin\">\n<div class=\"avia-builder-widget-area clearfix  avia-builder-el-14  avia-builder-el-no-sibling \">\n<section id=\"search-8\" class=\"widget clearfix widget_search\">\n<form id=\"searchform\" class=\"\" action=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/\" method=\"get\">\n<div><input id=\"searchsubmit\" class=\"button avia-font-entypo-fontello\" type=\"submit\" value=\"\ue803\" \/><input id=\"s\" name=\"s\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"Search\" \/><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8291993506529710\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_expand\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_anchor\"><iframe id=\"aswift_2\" name=\"aswift_2\" width=\"382\" height=\"318\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<section id=\"custom_html-2\" class=\"widget_text widget clearfix widget_custom_html\">\n<div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8291993506529710\" data-ad-slot=\"5308931923\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\"><ins id=\"aswift_1_expand\"><ins id=\"aswift_1_anchor\"><iframe id=\"aswift_1\" name=\"aswift_1\" width=\"382\" height=\"1314\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\">\n<section class=\"avia_codeblock_section  avia_code_block_1\">\n<div class=\"avia_codeblock \"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: It\u2019s 2018 and weed is now legal! How do you feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s insane how prohibition has been over the last few years. For what it is and how harsh the penalties have been on it amazing to see in my lifetime. It\u2019s like prohibition on alcohol being lifted. But weed is almost less bad than alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Almost? Or completely?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Completely. Stoners don\u2019t really fight each other, and shit like that. It\u2019s funny how harsh it\u2019s been. I actually did some research on why it\u2019s been illegal and it doesn\u2019t even have to do with weed\u2019s psychoactive effects. You used to be able to pay your taxes in hemp, and money was printed on hemp and it\u2019s actually a way better textile for everything like rope and clothing. Actually, a lot of old school knots don\u2019t even work on nylon rope because the hemp fibers stick together way better.<\/p>\n<p>But what ended up happening was people came out with petroleum-based polymers and they had all these patents. So they launched smear campaigners like \u201cReefer Madness\u201d to get rid of industrial hemp, and they did it by making weed just a drug. Now people are starting to pull their heads out of their asses and figuring out a way to kind of bring it back, starting with CBD and medicinal marijuana. It\u2019s like, \u2018hey give up the stupid reefer madness bullshit, like you guys all got brainwashed.\u2019 The new generation didn\u2019t have Reefer Madness so we are all like, \u201c what the fuck is everybody so harsh on it?\u201d It\u2019s comical- like what people believed this stuff? Yeah, and everyone has that old school mentality because of all these smear campaigns, but it all really boils down to industrial hemp patients and big companies and money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: So you\u2019re saying is a government conspiracy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim: I don\u2019t know about a government conspiracy. It\u2019s more just like companies leveraging things to\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Corporations are government almost\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim: Man, that\u2019s so deep. But yeah, I think it\u2019s awesome that weed is being legalized everywhere now because I think is a positive thing in a lot of people\u2019s lives. Especially that the CBD stuff is available to people because that has really good medical benefits for like a wide variety of people. And people are not getting arrested for having a gram of weed on them. which is the stupidest shit ever y\u2019know. So I think everyone\u2019s lives got a lot less stressful since weed has become legalized in these states<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_video  column-top-margin\">\n<section class=\"avia_codeblock_section  avia_code_block_2\">\n<div class=\"avia_codeblock \"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"avia-video avia-video-16-9   \">\n<div class=\"avia-iframe-wrap\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-yfoofkevg?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-21  el_after_av_video  el_before_av_one_third  \">\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: Speaking of weed, tell us about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrzr.life\/\">VRZR<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so I started this lifestyle accessory brand over the summer, it\u2019s called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrzr.life\/\">VRZR<\/a>, which is Italian slang for greenery. I\u2019m just starting to make a bunch of these accessory pieces that are good for our more active stoners that want to bring their gear and accessories out to cutty places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0The first product that I made is called the Rolling Case. It\u2019s like two rolling trays that clamshell together. It\u2019s like everything that\u2019s built to sit on your coffee table. Zip it up, throw it in your backpack and take it with you. the VRZR kit on sale right on on my website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrzr.life\/\">www.VRZR.life<\/a>, yeah I\u2019m not a \u201c dot com\u2019er\u201d I\u2019m a \u201cdot lifer.\u201d Yeah and I like the .life handle. the instagram to @<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vrzr.life\/\">VRZR.life<\/a>The other product is \u201cthe pokey thing\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: The Pokey Thing, that\u2019s literally it\u2019s name?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim: Yeah, it\u2019s that thing you always need but nobody ever knows what it\u2019s called but everyone knows what a \u201cPokey Thing\u201d is. I got a bunch of gemstone beads and titanium bars. I actually don\u2019t make the beads myself I order the beads and bars, then cut them down to size and glue them on. They\u2019re all like these dyed gemstone beads. I make these all by hand and it\u2019s cool every bead is a little different. It\u2019s a lil arts and crafty, because everyone\u2019s a little different, so you know different sizes and lengths different colors.<\/p>\n<p>You can use the pokey thing to clean your grinder out or pick your bowl out or you could dab with it. And with the bead side you can pack it.<\/p>\n<p>All the rolling trays you see in the head shops are just built to sit on the table, but like the second you drop them or anything they are going to just explode a part and your shit goes flying everywhere. This keeps everything together. Y\u2019know, we take our weed out snowboarding, snowmobiling, camping we are always on the go outdoors. Tinder dates, you never know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-23  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  avia-align-center \">\n<div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><img class=\"avia_image \" title=\"Humpy- Big Boulder\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-03-at-11.21.26-AM-1030x687.png\" alt=\"Humpy Big Boulder\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><em>Tim braves the polar vortex for a little park action at Big Boulder. Photo: @Shaun Kalatuka\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marshmallowslurpee\/\">marshmellowslurpee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: What\u2019s your best Tinder story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0I only met up with one chick on Tinder. I don\u2019t know, I hung out with her for a while, we are still cool, still friends and still hang out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: That\u2019s a boring story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, Tinder in Truckee fucking sucks. Unless you set your radius to max and age range 18-55, you have 20 swipes before you run out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: And you know all the swipes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Ughh yeah. Did you hear when Beckmann was cat fishing people on Tinder? Oh my god. This was the funniest shit ever. I wish we could of documented all of this, it was insane.<br \/>\nSo I was living with Kyle Beckmann in Truckee and he had this chick that he was with back in Florida or whatever. He hit her up and was like, \u201c I want to catfish all of my friends, can you just send me some photos and shit to make a fake profile.\u201d She was all like super down with it and thought it was hilarious. So he made a fake Facebook account and a fake tinder account and he would just go through swipe on people that we knew. He would do it everywhere. We went to Superpark and on film trips and he got so many people. He got Aspen [Weaver], and Jaegar [Bailey]. He got a shitload of people, oh yeah, Benny Milam.<\/p>\n<p>It was the funniest shit and it went on for such a long time because everyone who got Catfished was so embarrassed about it that no one told anyone about it. He got so many people before anyone found out. We would use our roommate Kim\u2019s phone to FaceTime them and everything. He would do all this stuff to lead them up and everything and then he would get them on FaceTime and be like \u201chey\u201d and we would screen shot it the second it loaded up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-26  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_one_full  \">\n<section class=\"avia_codeblock_section  avia_code_block_3\">\n<div class=\"avia_codeblock \"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-28  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_textblock  column-top-margin\">\n<div class=\"avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-29  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center \">\n<div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><img class=\"avia_image \" title=\"in the Vortex\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23733913_189416254940538_7055003710946017280_n-1030x1030.jpg\" alt=\"in the Vortex\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><em>Inside the GoPro matrix.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: Why is everyone so sensitive in America?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s because of the whole lawsuit lawyer sue you system. Because people can literally just do something stupid and get hurt, even though they knew fully well what they were doing was wrong. They can still find a way to legally blame the other person and get money from them.<\/p>\n<p>They try things in the US are made idiot proof. It\u2019s a pain in the ass snowboarding, trying to hit street spots and someone goes, \u201c get the fuck off my property, you will fucking sue me.\u201d Everyone\u2019s like \u201cit\u2019s a liability issue, we would love to watch you snowboard but we can\u2019t because of insurance and stupid shit.\u201d It makes it such a struggle to do street stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up riding with my family, and when I was 7 or 8 years old I was riding by myself. Being 8 years old on a snowboard, there\u2019s like a lot dangerous situations, where what I did as my 8-year-old self was at my own discretion. I\u2019m really glad I had snowboarding to present me with those challenges at such a young age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: Your dad snowboards?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, my dad Bruce, he\u2019s a total shredder. He\u2019s like 67 now. Actually he and my brother started snowboarding about a year before I did. They just went out a couple of times and we\u2019re like, \u201c yo, you gotta check this out.\u201d They bought this snowboard video, \u201cThe Meltdown Project,\u201d by Mack Dawg and they brought it home and I watched that shit like, a thousand times\u2026It got me stoked and the next year we would go out every weekend. Me, my dad, my mom, my brother and sister. We would just go snowboarding every weekend, and that\u2019s what really got me hyped up on and and they were really hyped because we got to go as a family and go snowboard every weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: That\u2019s pretty awesome, not many people get to do that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah it\u2019s so weird, my dad got me into snowboarding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-32  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  avia-align-center \">\n<div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><img class=\"avia_image \" title=\"Humpy AK\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23668166_283331715521640_308538501945622528_n-824x1030.jpg\" alt=\"Up in AK. Photo: Dodds\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p>Going with the Flow in AK. Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/prof_daggs\/\">Aaron Dodds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: Let\u2019s talk about traveling. What\u2019s the weirdest shit you\u2019ve ever eaten on the road?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The weirdest shit I\u2019ve seen was in South Korea. It was one of the first places I went outside of the United States. I went to a junior world contest and I do not know what the fuck I ate half the time. I remember this soup that they had; they were stirring it up and there were tentacles and I swear I saw an eyeball pop out of it. They just had this weird ass seafood shit going on. I remember Hhalf the stuff I had I was like \u201c aww this is not to bad\u201d then I had some other stuff and was (makes puke sound) like, \u201cwhat the fuck.\u201d Everyone else is just munching and I\u2019m like ,\u201coh my god, I\u2019m going to starve tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Isn\u2019t that where the Olympics is this year?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah I think so. Do they have big mountains? What about the downhill?<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: You would need one steep hill?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah, but you would need like 2,000 ft of vert at least to have a downhill. This is the olympics, they are not going to have a bitch-made downhill. Like you need to be able to go 80mph for two minutes straight to have a downhill.. Have you ever watched the downhill? Yo it\u2019s gnar. I wouldn\u2019t do any of that shit. Even though it\u2019s ski racing and ski racing is like \u201cblah,\u201d, the shit they do is so crazy. Downhill is the gnarliest thing. If you fuck up, either you will get really worked or die.They have razor sharp edges and they pour water on that shit to turn it to ice to make it faster. It\u2019 sucks. That\u2019s why I never turned into a ski racer- it did not look enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Oh that\u2019s why?\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nTim:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, and because fuck ski boots. That\u2019s most of the reason I don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: What is the reason you would do it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s way more convenient for touring in the backcountry and stuff like that. Four edges, four times the control. You can go way bigger. I spent a lot of time shredding with Sammy Carlson seeing what the skis can do for him versus what a snowboard does for me. I really notice where the trade offs are. On skis it\u2019s easier to hold a perfect line, especially blasting really big on hips.<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Like you can point it way faster for way longer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah and just have a straighter takeoff. On a snowboard you need to be on your edge to do a setup turn, but with the skis you can square up on both skis and hold that line and not drift. Unlike on a snowboard where you kinda have a little bit of a drift because you have to use your edges a little bit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-35  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  avia-align-center \">\n<div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><img class=\"avia_image \" title=\"a self portrit\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/25005481_196327340933030_5686581913024724992_n-825x1030.jpg\" alt=\"a self portrait\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><em>The nice thing about shooting your own photos? No one else can make you look stupid.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><em>Madison: Does that make snowboarding cooler? Because it IS harder?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim: um I don\u2019t know, what is cool?<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Holding a GoPro stick all the time?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim: I know that used to not be cool that\u2019s for sure! When I first started doing it people would talk so much shit about it. I think it fucks up my regular snowboard style sometimes. It\u2019s hard. You have to figure out where to put it. To put it in the right place you really have to extend that arm straight out. Iron fist. You can\u2019t bend your elbow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: Oh man, let\u2019s get some official Tim Humphreys GoPro Filming tips!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim: I got lots of tips. So erect arm, solid grip for sure. You really gotta think about what you\u2019re doing. Every time I go I kinda have a plan. When you hold your arm straight out, that\u2019s not how you do tricks normally, so you have to compensate for it. A lot of times doing spins and stuff, and jump tricks, the bigger the jump, the easier. If I\u2019m spinning cab my front arm is straight out and all the throw comes from my back arm.<\/p>\n<p>You want the camera out in front of you a little bit. Either front arm or back, but keep it in front of you. You never want to go back behind you because then your body blocks most of what\u2019s in the frame. If you\u2019ve got it up over top of your head toot much you only see your head and shoulders. You lose the board and everything below you. What I do is try a lot of stuff and then I\u2019ll look at it and figure out what I did wrong or what I want to do to adjust, then I\u2019ll go out again. It takes a little bit trial and error.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: How about filming a 180 on a side hit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So going into a side hit you just hold it out and up and in front of you a little bit. You really want to try and not pull it into you, or like, waver your arm. You want to just stay squared up on your board. Just get a nice even pop \u2013 don\u2019t use your arms to help you pop \u2013 you want to just have everything come from your legs. Just hold it still out there and try to keep it kinda in the same spot and you know, even look at it and smile. In our GoPro training seminars they teach you facial expressions\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Wait, you have GoPro training seminars?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim: Yeah, the GoPro program. I\u2019ve been one of their athletes for the past five years, and we have a lot of private events. They just teach us stuff like what they\u2019ve found resonates well in social media. Basic stuff like, wear a single, brightly colored jacket. That pops real well in the video and helps you in photos to separate you from the background. If I really want to get a proper GoPro shot, I\u2019ll wear something bright and poppy that will really contrast what I\u2019m snowboarding against.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-38  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_video   \">\n<h3 class=\"av-special-heading-tag \">UNCAGED: THE MOVIE<\/h3>\n<div class=\"special-heading-border\">\n<div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"avia-video avia-video-16-9   \">\n<div class=\"avia-iframe-wrap\"><iframe title=\"Uncaged: A Snowboard Movie\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/242708338\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<p><strong>Brooke: That\u2019s crazy. Speaking of crazy shit, what\u2019s up with Flow Snowboards?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, crazy shit going down at Flow. They just got bought by Nidecker I just signed a 2-year deal, so they are keeping me around.<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: You have always been with them, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah for 10 years. Holy crap, it\u2019s been so long. I\u2019m really stoked on all the product and everything they are making. I think it\u2019s cool that Nidecker took them over because I think all the gear is going to be made in Austria again. Over the last few years a lot of the gear started going to China. Flow used to make all its stuff in Austria, and that was when all that shit was really tight.Then the whole industry, basically all at the same time, started making its low end stuff in China. The high end stuff was still made in Austria. That\u2019s what Flow was doing for a while, and I think now that Nidecker is picking them up everything will transition back to Europe, which should be pretty nice. It\u2019s kinda weird to see it all change, but it\u2019s kinda what skate brands have been doing for years. They all have been under certain umbrellas, being made by the same people even though they are different brands. Nidecker still make boards, and now they are going to have boots and bindings. They also own Jones, YES and Now. And Flow is going to be flowing. It\u2019s cool how they have all of these resources now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brooke: Tell me a good story about former Flow Team Manager Andrew Mutty?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh my god, I would do anything to have Mutty be my team manager again. I learned everything from him. He is just the man, first of all. When I first started riding for Flow, I\u2019d just gotten out of high school didn\u2019t know shit. Mutty took me everywhere with Lago. I would just see what he did and learned everything. One time at the Rat in Govy \u2013 he knocked two dudes out at once.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: Ahh the good old days. How old are you now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim: I\u2019m not going to say. I don\u2019t want my sponsors to find out (laughs.) I remember growing up there was a stigma about the age 26. I feel like snowboarders at age 26 fall off the face of the earth. I don\u2019t know, maybe life kicks in, or they realize snowboarding isn\u2019 truly paying the bills, and now I\u2019m off my parents health insurance and have to pay for my own. Like, fuck.<\/p>\n<p>It sucks that no snowboard sponsors pay for any sort of health insurance of any kind or anything. It\u2019s insane there are so many snowboarders at Superpark that don\u2019t have health insurance. Real talk. It\u2019s crazy it can even exist like that. When you\u2019re a pro snowboarder you are 110% on your own. If you get seriously injured and you don\u2019t have health insurance, because your sponsors don\u2019t pay you enough to even fucking afford it, then they stop paying you because you can\u2019t snowboard for a certain span of time because you got hurt. You\u2019re fucked. It\u2019s crazy that the action sports industry is that way. Companies just hire snowboarders as independent contracts, so they are not employees and they don\u2019t have to give them insurance benefits or any of this other stuff. It\u2019s crazy, either you need to be winning contests and making money or have some other stuff on the side that you are doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: On that note, what\u2019s on your agenda for this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are doing these Sam Adams Big Air tours. They\u2019re fucking sick. We did 3 of them last year and we\u2019re doing 10 stops this year. Mostly at East Coast and some Midwest mountains. It\u2019s an exhibition and they have these 3D projectors and they project all this trippy 3d shit on the landings. We have it all timed out, not like a set routine, but we go in these formations skiers and snowboarders and do whatever tricks or we kinda figure out what we want to do before.<\/p>\n<p><em>Madison: Like figure skating?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke: Lol or like Boom Boom Huck Jam meets Nitro Circus with some Sam Adams thrown in!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim: Yeah, they just promote the shit out of Sam Adams. Give out free samples, get people drunk and have a good time. And the mountains are stoked. We hit a lot of not-so-big resorts.Last year we did Camelback in Pennsylvania, Cranmore in New Hampshire and we did Big Sky in Montana. It\u2019s pretty cool we are hitting all of these less trafficked resorts and the crowds get way more stoked. You know, you do a 720 off a jump in Breckenridge no one\u2019s going to give a fuck. Every second a skier says the words, \u201cdo a dub 12. \u201d So even a triple cork won\u2019t fucking impress anyone in Colorado. We are hitting all these other resorts, just doing backflips and 720\u2019s or 900\u2019s. If someone\u2019s feeling frisky and chucks a double, the crowd goes nuts. They are so stoked. They never get to see snowboarding like that in person. Plus getting to meet all the riders, everyone\u2019s having a great time getting drunk. We do an autograph signing, hang out with them and everything. It\u2019s really cool that we get to go to all these places where people wouldn\u2019t get to hang out with a bunch of pro snowboarders for the day and just talk with people and slap hi-fives. Like, \u201chey we are real people too, we are not just these things you swipe on instagram and double tap.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives Originally Published on Yobeat | January 3, 2018 Filming: Keith Rutherford Edit: Daniel Evans Additional Footage courtesy of Tim Humpreys Terribly transcribed by Alexander \u201cLEG\u201d Johnson hemingsworth III In a world where the lines between pro, am, and nobody are barely discernable, Tim Humphreys is still a professional snowboarder. What does that mean? Well, he\u2019s a brand ambassador, a stunt man, a filmer and editor, and now a small business owner too. He\u2019s gracefully spun past the \u201cnormal\u201d age when Americans disappear from professional snowboarding and is now one of the rare breed of adult who\u2019s managing to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2900,2194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55143,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142\/revisions\/55143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}