{"id":63743,"date":"2014-04-12T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/?p=63743"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:35:07","slug":"ben-hucke-goes-snowboarding-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=63743","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hucke Goes Snowboarding (For the First Time Ever)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p>While we&#8217;ve all just been sitting around talking about whether snowboarding is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/snow-sports\/skiing-and-snowboarding\/snowboarding\/Snowboarding-Is-Screwed.html\" target=\"_blank\">dying<\/a> or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/snow-sports\/skiing-and-snowboarding\/Snowboarding-Lives-Long-Live-Snowboarding.html\" target=\"_blank\"> not<\/a>, a committee of industry types was actually assembled to ensure it&#8217;s success. Now this think tank of brand owners, snowboarding pioneers, ex pros and other &#8220;been there, done that&#8221; types put their heads together and came up with a brilliant plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s tell everyone to bring a friend snowboarding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringafriend.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">No seriously.<\/a>\u00a0 While this plan may not actually change a damn thing, we felt inspired. And it turns out our friend and life-long Portlander, Ben Hucke had never been snowboarding, despite living an hour from Mt. Hood. Now on his bike, Ben does stuff like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dig1005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63744\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dig1005.jpg\" alt=\"dig1005\" width=\"397\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I figured with snowboarding being totally easy, Ben would be a natural. What I forgot is what learning to snowboarding is actually like. Let&#8217;s just say it was probably more entertaining for me, than him. Ben was a good sport though and for his first day, I&#8217;d say he did pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>As far as saving the snowboard industry, Ben wants to go again and may just buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthesnow.com\/news\/a\/106424\/timberline--hood-ski-bowl-offer-spring-passes\" target=\"_blank\">Spring pass<\/a>. So that&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro BMXer turned boarder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2251,1101,2194],"tags":[2354,2355,2356,74,2357,2358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63743"}],"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=63743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91573,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63743\/revisions\/91573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}