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<\/a><\/p>\nPhoto: Ben McCabe<\/em><\/p>\n Trollhaugen is a breeding ground for\u00a0snowboard talent. Good vibes, good parks, good locals and of course, an ever-spinning rope tow make excelling at park riding not just possible, but inevitable. But while every kid riding at Trollhaugen is good,\u00a0Kyle Kennedy’s board control and trick library is next level. This summer, Kyle is digging at Windells, and after\u00a0he our blew minds with his opening back one on back one off in the latest\u00a0Diggers XV\u00a0edit<\/a>, we\u00a0figured it we’d better get up to Welches\u00a0to learn more about this Wisconsin prodigy.<\/p>\n Brooke: Gimme the basics, how old are you, and where do you live?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: I just turned 21. I live in Dresser, Wisconsin, right next to Trollhaugen, because gas is expensive.<\/p>\n Brooke: What\u00a0do you do at Trollhaugen?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: I snowboard and I work there, make the parks and maintain the parks and just ride there, everyday. A lot.<\/p>\n Brooke: What do you do when you’re not snowboarding?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: Nothing.<\/p>\n Brooke: Really? Literally nothing?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: I mean, I work at a fuckin’ boat business, like a pontoon business.<\/p>\n Brooke: So you don\u2019t like anything other than snowboarding?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: I do, but snowboarding is all I\u2019ve done for the past couple years during the summer and the winter, and then I work when I\u2019m not snowboarding in the fall and the spring.<\/p>\n Brooke: What is it about snowboarding?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s fun. There are no rules. You just go and snowboard. It\u2019s all so clich\u00e9!<\/p>\n No place like home. Photo: Eric Ralles<\/em><\/p>\n Brooke: Fair enough. The Trollhaugen scene \u2013 I\u2019ve never been there \u2013 but it looks like it’s the best. Can you explain to someone who\u2019s never been to Trollhaugen what it\u2019s like?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: Oh it\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s a tiny hill filled with a bunch of little kids who are way better than you, that\u2019ll show you up every single day and make you know it. It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s just rails, all rails compacted in 180 feet of vertical drop. It’s a very mellow hill and it\u2019s got like 10-15 rails on it constantly. The vibes are good. Everyone is always hyped no matter who\u2019s there, and we\u2019re always riding with everyone.<\/p>\n Brooke: Have you ever ridden powder?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: No. \u00a0I actually went on a trip to go to Boston for street, and we ended up not going to Boston and took a day at Sugarbush.\u00a0They’d gotten like 3 fresh feet in the past week and that was the most powder I\u2019ve ever ridden.\u00a0That\u2019s like nothing, so\u2026<\/p>\n Brooke: I mean 3 feet of fresh at Sugarbush is a pretty legit powder day.<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: Yeah, it was fun, butI don\u2019t know if you consider that powder.<\/p>\n Brooke: I do. Absolutely.<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: Then yes.<\/p>\n Brooke: And how\u2019d it go?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: It was amazing, I could not get the motivation to get out of the woods. Paul Osborne and all those Surgarbush dudes were trying to get me to go film park and I\u2019m like I can\u2019t, I wanna ride the powder. It was so much fun.<\/p>\n Kyle takes advantage of low snow levels. Photo: Chip Proulx<\/em><\/p>\n Brooke: Do you think you\u2019ll ever move somewhere to ride better snow?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: Better snow? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n Brooke: I mean ride more powder or ride different terrain.\u00a0Trollhaugen is a tiny hill, you said it, and it\u2019s a big world out here.<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: I mean yeah, I like going on trips, but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll move somewhere anytime soon. I like the Midwest. The Midwest vibes are the best I think, so it\u2019s good there.<\/p>\n Brooke: Seems it,\u00a0I love everybody from the Midwest. Too bad it\u2019s so cold there.<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: Yeah it is cold. Last year wasn\u2019t bad, 2 years ago it was terrible. But I don\u2019t know, you deal with it. Tow ropes, you just gotta stay on the tow rope.\u00a0It keeps you warm always.<\/p>\n Brooke: It\u2019s also awesome that you can get noticed and get people watching your snowboarding in the Midwest now. Why do you film? Do you just like doing it?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s fun with your friends.\u00a0Like I said there\u2019s no rules, you can do whatever you want.\u00a0It\u2019s whatever gets you hyped and gets the filmer hyped and I don\u2019t know, just everyone coming in on one project is awesome. Seeing\u00a0what you can come up with.<\/p>\n Brooke: What other stuff are you psyched on right now in snowboarding?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: Well, the brand I ride for, Interior Plan Project, is pretty sick. They’re on the come-up, Pete Harvey is amazing! Other groups – the Impaler dudes obviously, they’re\u00a0always killing it\u00a0and their\u00a0style putting all their stuff together is insane. It\u2019s so raw. And obviously Videograss, 1817, all their stuff.\u00a0And then these SRD kids, Canadian kids.<\/p>\n Brooke: Finn and JJ?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: Yeah. They kill it. I don\u2019t even know how many people know of them. Not a lot. They came to Trollhaugen and just showed everyone up, within like 10 minutes.<\/p>\n Brooke: Is it crazy to have like pro crews descend on your home mountain all the time? Or has it always been like that?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle: No, not always. I mean the 1817 crew has always kind of been there, but it was kind of weird a couple years ago when the first \u00a0real pro snowboarders that we weren\u2019t really used to came. But now\u00a0every year there\u2019s someone new and it\u2019s like oh this kid\u2019s coming, tight. So, it\u2019s not like a huge deal anymore. It\u2019s fun, it\u2019s cool obviously\u00a0to\u00a0see someone\u00a0you usually just watch in\u00a0videos, ride at your home \u00a0hill.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n