22.3 INTRO & PHOTO. STEPHAN JENDE INTERVIEW. THEO ACWORTH
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ey Nora, where are you right now? I’m in Bend, Oregon. It’s a nice place, Mt Bachelor is its own little world, and I love our little bubble that is this town. I’ve heard it’s nice. I need to come and visit sometime. So besides these photos and your sick ender part in ‚Seven’ from Too Hard, I don’t actually know too much about you. So, who are you, Nora? I’m Nora beck, I’m 24 years old, and I grew up on the East Coast just outside of Washington DC. I graduated high school moved out to Bend, and have just been trying to board. I’m kind of an idiot, and I’m just trying to have as much fun as I can. Would other people describe you as an idiot, or is that just you? No, that’s just the little selfdeprecating side of myself.
„ANYONE THAT HAS FILMED IN MINNESOTA LATE SEASON WILL TELL YOU THE WEATHER CAN GO FROM SINGLE DIGITS AND SNOWING TO 45F AND SUNNY IN JUST A SINGLE WEEK. NORA CAUGHT THAT EXTREME SHIFT IN WEATHER WHILE SHE WAS IN MINNESOTA. NORA BEING NORA, DIDN’T LET THAT PHASE HER. SHE STACKED MORE HEAVY CLIPS IN A 2-3 WEEK SPAN THAN SOME DO IN AN ENTIRE WINTER HERE, ALL WHILE KEEPING THINGS ENTERTAINING AT THE SPOT” - STEPHAN JENDE
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Well, lots of people have told me they like you, so I’d say you’re doing something right. So outside of Washington DC means you grew up in Virginia, right? Yeah, so Virginia kind of comes up into this point right next to DC. I have an image in my mind of quiet backroads and woodlands, but I don’t know if that’s in any way accurate or if that’s just what movies have taught me. No, that’s very accurate. There are lots of roads that are deemed too historic to pave because of Civil War stuff. So they have all these gravel roads everywhere that they can’t maintain because it will ruin its history or something. How did you get into snowboarding there, is there much of a scene? Not much of a scene, but there are a few hills close by. It would take about an hour to get out to them. Just little trash hills, maybe 600 vertical feet or so. I don’t know what that is in meters,
200 something maybe? Something like that. But I guess it was enough to interest you in snowboarding if you’re doing it now and you’ve moved to a place where you can do it all the time? Yeah, I think about that sometimes. Something must have just clicked. When I was a kid, my Great Uncle lived up in the mountains, and I remember when I was eight or so, I tried snowboarding up there in a resort near New York, and I was hooked from then on. Yeah, I think everyone has the same story. You do it once, and then it’s got you. So I did the once a year, or every other year kinda trip with my family. My dad wasn’t all that into it, and my mum had actually blown her knee out when she was skiing while in the Navy back in the day. She fucked her knee up and got discharged from the Navy, so she was never a big fan of skiing after that. I had some friends in high school, and one of their moms worked up at the ski resort, and I got a job there at fourteen. I was an assistant instructor, even though I didn’t know anything about snowboarding or instructing. That got me on the hill and got me a free pass from fourteen to eighteen. That’s rad. Even the instructors there didn’t really know what they were doing. It was a pretty loose show, to be honest. All the best shows are. So how did you go from being a non-qualified instructor to filming street with Too Hard? I’m not sure, really. I didn’t really have any plans or intentions of getting into the snowboard industry at that point. I was just not really making good life choices and running myself into the ground. So I just needed to get out of Virginia and go snowboard as much as possible. And then when I METHOD 21 -----------
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