Living that teenage dream. Yeah, at that time in life it was pretty sick. I look back now even and I’m still thinking, “Fuck yeah.” There aren’t many opportu-nities in your life where you’re going to get to be that carefree, so I’m glad I went for it. Now if I bought a thousand dollars’ worth of weed, I would be such an idiot. Did you ever make a sponsor tape? Tons of them. Lately I’ve been going through some of them. Just last night my mom was looking at some old footage that I hadn’t ever seen. I’ve got this clip where I must be 7 or 8 and say, “Hey, I’m Garrett Warnick. I want to be a pro snowboarder.” The newspaper here in Bend even did a little thing on me a long time ago, and I still have it. The title is “I Want to be a Pro Snow-boarder, Surfer Dude like Shaun White.” How did you go from filming sponsor tapes to filming an actual video part? I’d filmed a few things but always with an iPhone or GoPro and was putting some of that on YouTube. But it all really started after I’d won that Shakedown contest at Snoqualmie Pass [2011]. That’s the point where I met Jaeger because he lost his keys that night, like an idiot, so he stayed in my hotel room. It was Jaeger, Mitch Richmond and their buddy, Brother Jay [ Jordan Smith]. Jay was Jaeger’s brother from another mother and would help him with all his spots and film them. That night Jaeger showed me all his footage and it was the first time it had ever dawned on me that I could do this. I had watched board videos, but it always seemed like it was one step removed from me. But after watching Jaeger’s footage, it clicked. I remember thinking to myself, “All right, the first step is you go out and film.” We filmed with Ross Phillips. He was super cool, but I never got to film with him again. After that year I had a few shots in the Think Thank movie and I made my own part with my homie Derrek Weimer and Mitch. We put this part out on Snowboard-er and it’s still one of my favorite parts that I’ve filmed to this day. The next year was Snowboarder Magazine’s Foreward and the next year I got to film with you and Vlady [David Vladyka of Absinthe Films]. I didn’t realize at the time that you were still so green to the filming game. You filmed two parts with Absinthe, right? Yep. That first year was Eversince and I had that part to Riff Raff. It wasn’t the sickest. But the next year… 046 THE SNOWBOARDER’S JOURNAL
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