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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Who Is Johnny Miller?

posted by on December 5 at 12:19 PM

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As far as I’m concerned Johnny Miller is the future of snowboarding. His style is singular. He’s laid back, yet on target every time he sets board to snow.

While you’ll see Shaun White clones (young kids with bandanas tucked up under their goggles) all over the slopes, you won’t see many like Johnny. The last few years he’s been the “hippie” on the slopes with tie-dye multicolored hair tucked under a rainbow-colored pompom hat. This year I’ve seen him sporting a feather in his cap. No, really. He’s been wearing a green cap with a white feather sticking out the side, like some sort of shredding Tyrolean madman.

He deserves to wear a feather in his cap, as you can see in the video below. Not only is this 20 year old an ace rider (check out the 40 yard long rail he rides and the circular wall he grinds), he’s a master of tricks performed while not buckled into a snowboard. Johnny is progressing the sport faster than anyone else.

From local production company Think Thank’s new vid, Thanks Brain!:

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Shaun White.

P.S. It’s cooling down in the mountains with snow likely by the end of the weekend. And Stevens opens tomorrow!

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There's nothing really that impressive about this kid. I don't see much for style (stiff arms and some A-frame legs on the rails, whirly spastic spins), and umm, anyone around at the beginning of the sport did all that binding-less shit on anything they could stand and slide on before they got their first real board.

whatevs. Best of luck to him.

Posted by tiedie | December 5, 2007 12:53 PM
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Bandanna's and X-games wannabes on the hill do suck, but Shawn has 4 900's... Advantage Mr. White.

Posted by random poster | December 5, 2007 12:55 PM
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Sweet!

Posted by Greg | December 5, 2007 1:30 PM
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"progressing the sport" makes me want to cry.

Posted by STJA | December 5, 2007 3:09 PM
5

so wearing rainbow clothes makes one a hippie now?

Posted by JACKSON POLLOCK | December 5, 2007 4:05 PM
6

Football is a sport. Baseball is a game. Snowboarding is an activity.

Posted by elenchos | December 5, 2007 4:34 PM
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These snowboarding postings will really give The Stranger some cred with the younger male crowd. It's a good idea to write about alt-sports. Skateboarding, snowboarding, these are what the "alternative" crowd is into today. Why doesn't The Stranger host a snowboarding event up at Crystal? That would be awesome. A bunch of guys from my software project group took snowboarding lessons last year and now we are carving all winter. It's a cool sport and something that this Manhattan Jew never thought he'd be doing!

Posted by Issur | December 5, 2007 8:31 PM

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