{"id":81125,"date":"2016-03-09T06:15:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/?p=81125"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:49:44","slug":"colin-wilson-fries-up-hump-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=81125","title":{"rendered":"Colin Wilson Fries Up Hump Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-81126\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0724.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0724\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Midwest-Bred Colin Wilson is a tall drink of water with a mellow demeanor,\u00a0and a ton of board control. Though plagued with injuries, his positive attitude\u00a0and\u00a0Trollhaugen upbringing have enabled him to make his way through the snowboard world as a Burton Knowbuddy and now a Lobster global am. With a slot in the VG am movie due to drop this fall, Colin will continue to turn heads with his controlled tall-guy style and hefty bag of tricks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How tall are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think I\u2019m about 6\u20192\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you ever wish you were shorter? I feel like snowboarding is one of the few things where being short is an advantage. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, I think it\u2019s kind of cool being a little bit different. I don\u2019t think people realize how much harder it is to snowboard when you\u2019re tall. It\u2019s a lot more to control, but I think that\u2019s what\u2019s kind of fun about it is the challenge for sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re filming for the VG am movie this year. What can you tell me about that project?<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was pretty spontaneous this year. I really had no plans and I got asked to do it which was really cool. I definitely didn\u2019t expect it, but it was definitely a huge opportunity that I was really stoked to get. Just trying to make the best of it. I broke my back earlier this season at the second spot. After six weeks I was back filming with those guys and that was probably the best feeling I could have had. Back on my board, back with the boys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who else is filming for the VG movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The am movie is Riley Nickerson, Jesse Gouviea, Brady Lem, Jordan Morse, Jordan Small, and I feel like I\u2019m forgetting one but I think that\u2019s about it. It\u2019s a pretty small crew.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are they doing a pro movie too?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re doing a pro movie and they\u2019re also doing an Adidas movie, so the Adidas guys are doing that one, Derrek Lever, Mark Wilson, Tommy Gesme and Wiz and all those other dudes that are really good. They\u2019re doing their own thing with Colton Feldman. What\u2019s cool about the am movie is it\u2019s not really it\u2019s own thing. All of us riders, whether you\u2019re in the pro movie or the Adidas movie, whatever you wanna call it, we all get to film together. I\u2019ll go out and film with Jake or Joe and the Minnesota boys and it\u2019s all going into different projects but we\u2019re all hitting the same spots. It\u2019s really cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sounds like we\u2019re in for a good Fall of movie drops.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah. Riley Nickerson. That\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna say, but he\u2019s got some stuff for people to see.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81127\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0670.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0670\" width=\"749\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>This\u00a0was at Elm Creek. That day we went out and hit a few spots and it was really nice out so wanted to keep snowboarding. We had this idea to go to elm creek and went snowboarding. It was really cool, there was a bunch of kids watching. We all started snowboarding and I feel like it created this energy like it was a band performing. We were just doing trains on everything and people were getting really stoked on it, it was fun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you break your back?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I broke my back on a street rail. I over-pressed a little bit and gutted a kink rail really hard. Pretty much broke my back from the contortion. I had a spinal fracture, I fractured 3 vertebrae in my lower back, broke a few ribs and bruised everything on my inside on the left side. What took the longest to heal was mostly just my organs and my muscles on my side. My back actually felt pretty good after about three weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was that your worst injury?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2012, at Superpark 17 at Mt Bachelor, it was day 2, second run. I was bombing down to a step down and there was a photographer standing on top of it. I was bombing, no stopping and he jumps in front of me to stop me. I tried to stop, and I almost came to a stop but didn\u2019t and slid off the edge of the step down. I don\u2019t know how far I dropped, but way too far to walk away from and completely destroyed my knee. It was like a list of everything in your knee, like a bomb went off. I was out for a whole season and half of the next one. In the meantime, the Knowbuddy program was starting, and Zack Nigro had hit me up right after I had surgery and I told him, I just had surgery, I\u2019m not going to be able to snowboard this whole season. And he\u2019s like, nah dude, we know, we got your back. They sent me a snowboard and gear, clothes and everything. He was like take your time, don\u2019t worry about it. I spent the following two season trying to mend my knee back into shape and learn how to snowboard again. Ended up having a second surgery to clean up my knee. It took me a little while to get back. It was a big mental thing for sure. It taught me a lot. I got into carpentry at lot more during the off time. When I got back into snowboarding I took it more seriously in the way to taking care of my body and being healthy, but i didn\u2019t take it more seriously like it had to be a job or anything like that. I still have a very mellow mentality about snowboarding. The best way to do it is to not take it seriously, that\u2019s when you do your best. That was a pretty gnarly injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re from Wisconsin, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah I actually grew up in Wisconsin, right by Trollhaugen. I went to the same school as Ethan Deiss, him and I have known each other since we were about 3. We used to wrestle together. We grew up snowboarding together and going to summer school and stuff like that together. Getting in a lot of trouble when we were little. I grew up there until I right after I graduated from High School. Eventually made my way to the Twin Cities and went to school part time and filmed with my friends, the Impaler guys. It was actually Working for the City at the time with Stark and Brett Spurr, Chris Duncan and Sam Duncan, that was pretty cool. I live here now and I love it. I&#8217;m close to all the hills for the most part. I\u2019m further away from Trollhaugen then I would like but I still make it there plenty of times a week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5EnxuJdJ91M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the difference between Minnesota and Wisconsin?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin, at least where Trollhaugen is, is a a little more redneck I feel like. It\u2019s a little more rough around the edges than kids who came from the city. You get a different mix of cultures and kids who were raised different. It has its good and bad but it all kinda works out. Everybody\u2019s homies with everybody. There\u2019s not a bunch of crews and everyone\u2019s not real cliqued up trying to be cooler than everybody else. We all kind feed off of each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was it like growing up riding Trollhaugen. Is that why you\u2019re so good?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(laughs) I don\u2019t think I\u2019m good. Trollhaugen is my home. I don\u2019t live in Wisconsin any more, my family doesn\u2019t live there anymore, so when I go to Trollhaugen that\u2019s the closest thing I feel to home for sure. I have a lot of history there. I started snowboarding when I was 8, I skied there when I was little. When I got into snowboarding it all changed and I quit playing winter sports and all that. My parents would drop me off every day after school and I would snowboard till it closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was Ethan like as a little kid? Has Burton changed him?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, Ethan definitely my best friend. He\u2019s like a brother to me. I think Burton changed his approach to snowboarding. They\u2019re more of a simulated type brand as far as they way they market their riders and their expectations and things like that. I think maybe that has taken a little bit of a toll on Ethan, but he has insane amounts of talent. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve seen Ethan\u2019s best video part yet. I\u2019m pretty excited for what he has to come, he\u2019s filming with Absinthe and he\u2019s always got something up his sleeve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While we\u2019re on Burton\u2026 you were a Knowbuddy, are you excited to be somebody now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were so many people that were so bummed on the Knowboddy thing, but I tried to be as optimistic as I could with Burton and the whole Knowbuddy thing. With Ethan being on Burton, I kinda had an idea and a taste of how Burton works with things. I didn\u2019t necessarily have this goal to be on Burton for the rest of my life and I didn\u2019t have that expectation. I knew it was kind of a stepping stone. It definitely built a foundation for me in snowboarding and helped me with meeting people. I met Bridges and spent a week with the Snowboarder guys when we did an editorial and it was definitely one of the best trips of my life. I got nothing but good things from the whole opportunity. It led me to getting on Lobster and led me to where I am now, which I\u2019m stoked on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you end up getting on Lobster?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A couple people that I didn\u2019t know had hit me up. I didn\u2019t really know if they were serious or not because the guy that hit me up was French and I couldn\u2019t really understand and of his words. I kinda thought it was joke at first and the Haldor hit me up. He spoke really briefly and said he was down to put me on Lobster if I was down. I talked to Diggles and everything kinda came together from there. It was pretty mellow. They don\u2019t really have any expectations of me other than to have fun and film a video part.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So Eiki and Haldor don\u2019t make you do crazy shit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, they don\u2019t at all. I actually got the chance to hang with Haldor while he was here in Minnesota. We didn\u2019t really get to film together, which I wish we could have, but we were both doing our own projects so we were pretty busy. He came over one night though and we went out in Minneapolis. He was just the raddest dude. That\u2019s when it really clicked with my with Lobster, I got this immediate satisfaction. I was just so stoked to be a part of it. All Haldor wants to do is have fun, so I\u2019m excited for what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81128\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0792-764x509.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0792\" width=\"710\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>&#8220;I had just landed on my face off of a wall ride. I imagined what it looked like if someone was on the rope and they saw it happen and I just started laughing, so that\u2019s why I\u2019m laughing in the picture.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>You work construction as well. What sort of stuff do you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m an independent contractor, so I work with other contractors and do my own jobs as well. I do new construction and I also do finish carpentry, finishing houses and remodeling old houses. Kinda do a little bit of everything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you do that in the summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah and I do it on and off during the snowboard season. When I get time gaps or if the snow is really bad or it\u2019s really cold and there\u2019s just not a lot of snow. I\u2019ll just work that week or in-between trips. For the most part I try to limit it to working spring through fall and taking the winter off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you ever think about moving West?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes and no. I always have this itch to wanna move west every time I travel there, but I always get sucked into staying here in Minnesota. I think it\u2019s the fact that it\u2019s a really good place to be stationed as far as work and the community here and the connections and the resources here. As long as I have the ability to travel to those places more often than not I think that replaces the idea of having to live there. I definitely want to move somewhere else in my lifetime to try other things. As I get older I feel like I\u2019m going to get out of street snowboarding a little more, as my body won\u2019t be able to handle as much, and there\u2019s definitely other parts of snowboarding that I want to explore as far as backcountry and stuff like that I really want to get into.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there anything specific that you want to do in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always really liked snowboard parts that have everything in them. Like Keagan and Kazu, they always have street stuff and backcountry stuff and they always have really well rounded parts like they can do anything. That\u2019s always what I\u2019ve followed as far people that try to blaze a new trial and try new things and not just do the same tricks that everyone else does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about Mike Cassanova?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s insane\u2026 at snowboarding. He\u2019s both, but he\u2019s just one of the raddest dudes. I\u2019ve known him since I was a young dude and I\u2019ve always idolized him as far as his style and his approach to snowboarding and as far as just being humbled and always having fun. Like don\u2019t worry about sponsors and what people tell you to do all the time, just go out and have fun. Put some good music in your ears. It\u2019s not always about doing the biggest and gnarliest tricks, it\u2019s about being able to do them controlled and with good style and I\u2019ve always liked the fact that he\u2019s a really proper snowboarder, so I\u2019ve always idolized him in that way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you most hyped on in snowboarding right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I don\u2019t follow snowboarding very closely as far as watching tons of videos and keeping up with that stuff. I\u2019m stoked on what I\u2019m doing right now and the projects that I\u2019ve been working with. All I wanna do is see my friends\u2019 video parts, that\u2019s all I really care about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81130\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0799-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0799\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>&#8220;That just his last weekend that was the first day I experienced this season of full on spring boarding. That was a really good day at Trollhaugen. We grilled out, it was a textbook bluebird day, grilling in the parking lot, drinking beers with everyone, we didn\u2019t film much because we were having too much fun snowboarding, but we managed to get a couple photos.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the secret to a good fish fry?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shore lunch, eggs and panko. You need some wall eye, you batter it all with the shore lunch and then just drop it in the deep fryer or pan fry it. It\u2019s the best. But first you gotta get good fish. I like to fry fish that I catch. get a bunch of Walleye or crappie from Northern Minnesota or our cabin and just fry em up. It\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How often do you fish?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the summer I fish every weekend. Not a lot of people know, I feel like when they come to Minnesota. Some people, not gonna say any names, but some people come and are like this place seems so boring. In the winter when they\u2019re filming and it\u2019s cold, but they don\u2019t understand what its like here in the summer. There\u2019s lakes everywhere, there\u2019s amazing views and trails and rivers. I have a cabins that I go to, so it\u2019s definitely a great place to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everywhere is better in the summer. As a snowboarder I feel bad saying that but summer rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s hard for me to leave. I like being here in the winter. It\u2019s close to an airport, there\u2019s spots everywhere, there\u2019s resorts everywhere, there\u2019s friends everywhere and people who wanna film. It\u2019s a lot easier to get things done and make things happen, but as soon as you run out of snow as far as filming it\u2019s not the most productive place to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did it snow in Minnesota this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It did, just a week ago we lost all our snow. We were filming in Duluth last weekend, and they\u2019re losing all their snow now it\u2019s starting to get warm up there. Minnesota is always tricky. We might end up getting a foot of snow in the next two weeks, but with the weather being the way it is now probably not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next for you? Got any trips planned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right now I\u2019m trying to plan a trip to Bear with Jake OE and some guys to possibly do some stuff with Snowboarder mag, but I really just wanna go where there\u2019s snow and keep riding my snowboard. I wanna head to Tahoe to keep filming there, they just got a bunch of snow, and then spend some time in Bear, then make my way to Mammoth for Holy Bowly and Superpark. That\u2019ll be my next month and we\u2019ll see where I end up from there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there anything else you\u2019d like to say to the snowboarding public?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t really wanna tell anybody what to do or anything, but I just feel like snowboarding is getting a little carried away with trending and being the coolest thing and being these isolated, solo artists. I feel like it should be more of a team effort. People need to try and help each other out and work together to climb the ladder instead of everyone trying to one up each other and be the coolest person and be part of the coolest crew. Be a little more humble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snowboarding as a team sport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is 100%. If you think about it you can\u2019t go to a spot and film a trick and get it edited into a movie by yourself. You have to have a filmer, you to have people to help you shovel, you have to have people to run a winch or pull a bungee. Not to mention the support that you have from your friends when you\u2019re at a spot or when you\u2019re snowboarding in general. Going snowboarding by yourself can be fun sometimes, but that\u2019s what I love the most about Minnesota. The Minnesota and Wisconsin snowboard communities, you can go snowboarding and you don\u2019t have to call anyone. You know there\u2019s gonna be somebody there that you know or you\u2019re down to shred with. It\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors, shout outs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Definitely big thanks to Haldor and Eiki and Diggles and all the dudes at Lobster and Switchback. David and all the snowboarders at Trollhaugen. The whole midwest crew and all my friends from around the US and across the globe, I want to thank all of them for all the support they\u2019ve given me and making snowboarding what it is. Shout outs to my family and all of my friends, Trollhaugen, Lobster, Switchback, Videograss, the Impaler, Zach Nigro, Alex Andrews and all the dudes at Burton.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/39609209?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"Working For The City2\/\/Brighton\/\/Colin Wilson &amp;amp; Friends\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good ol&#8217; boy from Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2251,2252,2900,2194],"tags":[2757,2758,2759,2672,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81125"}],"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=81125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91464,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81125\/revisions\/91464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}