Summer plans: To tour skateboarding all over
the world.
Snowboarding inspiration: Jamie Lynn
Skateboarding inspiration: Mike Frazier
Future plans: Snowboard as long as I can. Then
wark in the industry.
Favorite trip: Chile last summer.
Worst trip: Europe in the summer of 1992.
Dream trip: New Zealand, they have lots to
skate and good snow.
Favorite music: Everything.
Favorite trick: 540
Something nobody knows: I like dinosaurs.
Advice for up and coming young boarders:
Get used to being broke
Let us digress into a more in-depth view of Todd.
What's your deal?
I grew up on the East Coast. We all had to
endure the freezing cold winter months skating
vert with three hundred layers of clothes on. It
wasn't the most comfortable thing. So I tried
snowboarding. I bought a Burton Woodie and
went to my local hill to try it. I was wearing shit-
ty boots, shitty pants and a shitty jacket.
What happened?
hated it. Couldn't do shit. It was probably all
the crappy equipment I had, but I was convinced
snowboarding sucked.
ALLA
92
How'd you get into snowboarding?
I went to school about two years
later, it was close to a mountain and it
was real boring. So I found a new snow-
board and somehow I ended up missing
most of my classes.
What's the worst thing that ever hap-
pened to you snowboarding?
It was at a contest in Colorado. This
was maybe the second time I had ever
left the East Coast. It was at a place
called A Basin. I wasn't used to the alti
tude or the power of the sun at 10,000
feet, so I didn't wear any sunscreen and
ended up with huge blisters all over
my face and neck. I got sun poisoning
really bad. The next day I had the runs,
bad. By the time that the contest start-
ed I thought I was fine. As I was just
getting ready to drop in for my final
run, I shit my pants. I just thought I was
going to fart and dooked myself. But I
still had to take my run. Then after I was
done riding I went straight to the lodge,
wiped my butt with my underwear, and
went back to the pipe.
Did anyone find out?
Yeah. I told a couple of people, it was
pretty funny.
Do you still have East Coast pride?
Fully. If I didn't grow up in the plece
where I did, with who I did, I wouldn't
be doing this now
Who do you owe thanks to?
All the old East Coast vert dogs. If it
wasn't for them razzing me into drop-
ping in, I would have quit skating.
Then you wouldn't have started
snowdorking?
No, I wouldn't have started. I
After all is said and done, Todd can tailgrab
anywhere. Alley-oop over snow, or to tail
over ramp, this is one cat who loves to sail.
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