You’re probably saying to yourself right now, “Of course there is media coverage on women”.  You’re right.  But what do you have?  Pamela Anderson’s show?   Mother of “missing tot” Casey Anthony?  Or election coverage of Republican’t VP nominee Sarah Palin?  I know that there is good coverage out there, somewhere, but you can’t deny that the media focuses too much on this garbage. 

So here is a respectable segment on VBS’s Red Bull Rider’s Cup entitled “Rachel”.  At least here you can see how someone with reluctance to quit in a predominantly male sport can gain you high accolades.  Unlike some of the women above, you can look up to this girl Rachel, even if you’re a dude. 

When we first heard of this contest we were like, whatever—not interested. Surf contests are boring. Then we got a call from Brad Gerlach, big-wave surfer and one of my childhood heroes. That kinda changed things. We went out to visit Brad in California, and over a few beers he explained his longtime absence from surf contests, saying that he just wasn’t having fun anymore and he wanted to get back to “the essence of surfing.”

That meant crappy street bumps, 180 kickflips, mom and dad’s VHS camera, and threats on security guards. The best thing to look forward to in this episode has to be Keenan Milton and the second thing has to be Gino’s dancing which is a talent probably unknown to most.

Even though they look really cute in their hot neon  colors and free flowing Buster Poindexter like hair, “Western Front” was the first video to come out that was more of a freestyle form of snowboarding rather than what most videos looked like at the time, promo videos for their team.  And even though not many people had the opportunity to see the video in 1988, it set the standard of how snowboard videos were meant to be. 

“Here begins the triumphant return of the Epicly Later’d show. Sorry we went on that long break, I like to think of it as our wilderness years (months are like years in internet time). In our absence it seems the Berrics have beat us out as the place to go to watch skate stuff online, but don’t worry, I’m taking back the title. F those fools. So, what better way to start than with Gino. If you don’t know who Gino is you must have just started skating or been skating under a rock. He’s a legend. I saw him once in line at a grocery store and almost crapped my pants. I don’t have anything else to add, it’s all in the episode. And we will try very hard to not take anymore breaks for the rest of the year. Two parts a week, Thursday and Fridays.”

“In the late 80s, a bunch of skaters who were bored in the wintertime inadvertently made snowboarding what it is today. They filmed each other not with any sort of historic legacy in mind, but just because that’s what you do when you’re a bunch of dudes who ride around on a piece of fiberglass in the snow all day. Then people saw these videos and started to realize the potential for tricks and big air on a snowboard, and everything else took off from there.

For whatever reason, most snowboarders have never embraced their forerunners with the same enthusiasm as skaters and surfers. That’s why I decided to make this show—as a way of giving credit to the people who took snowboarding from a fringe hobby to something people get paid stupid amounts of money to do. Or at least that’ll be the first few episodes. We’ll see where it goes from there.”