Thank U Snowboarding - S1 - Ep17 - Mark Munson

For those of you who don't know Mark Munson, and there are probably a lot of you, Mark is one of our cultures true individuals, almost aggresively so. Its fair to say that Mark didn't really want to be part of snowboarding originally. He wanted to acheive, because one of the things you'll learn, is that when Mark does something, he goes all in 100%.

Regardless of whether that is skating, snowboarding, his business or growing rhubarb (he grows some fucking banging rhubarb btw) Mark is all in. That attitude to life is something I gravitated too, after hanging out at one fo the board tests many years ago, we lived together in the legendary 35 Rue Desserteaux in Bourg Saint Maurice and have been on many more board tests and snowbaord related endeavours togther.

An aggressive pursuit of life led Mark not only to many places on a snowboard, such as being in charge of Duotone snowboards in the Uk, but also skate team manager for Airwalk and later, Duffs, starting a game changing Angling brand, making a book about skate stickers, really, Mark has kicked open doors of opportunity and made them his.

We start the podcast with me talking about a time I told Mark that I hate it when people leave kitchen cupboard doors open. Of course, Mark then made it a point to open cupboard doors as much as possible for the rest of the season. Knowing Mark, if he didn't count me as someone he liked and respected, he wouldn't have bothered, but, I took it as his way of showing his friendship that he would make the effort to do this, thats how I saw it anyway.

I hope you enjoy this episode, the time flew by as we were talking, which is always a good thing...

This episode is supported by The Snowboard Asylum and they have a sale on whcih you can check out here: https://www.snowboard-asylum.com/

Peace x

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