Reside It Up Podcast: Sandy Ward
For the fiftieth episode of Reside it Up with Mountain Life, host Ft Banks connects with Sandy Ward (Kelkeláokik)—snowboarder, mountain biker, filmmaker, data to be, and a trailblazer at serving to Indigenous youth reconnect to the land and their customized by the use of sport.
With an unlimited film about to premiere at Crankworx Whistler’s Filth Diaries contest, Sandy discusses the hectic tempo of being a quadruple-threat expertise, her award-winning movie Slides on the Mountainher work with the following interval, and the way in which wherein she’s nonetheless discovering out to normally rein factors in after a two-decade occupation contained in the mountains.
Quite a few excerpts from Sandy’s dialog with Ft Banks:
On Competitions
It’s not regarding the outcomes. It’s regarding the neighborhood that’s there and gaining new friendships. It appears as if thought-about one in all many good factors because of the variety of women and women-driven occasions has risen in these sports activities actions actions—it helps take slightly little bit of little little little bit of the ego out of the sports activities actions actions. It’s little little little bit of a dick-slinging contest and, you discover, which can finish in not regularly good factors. I actually really feel a terribly good event is the Sturdy Soiled—I used to be telling my boyfriend about my expertise down there final night time, the place all these individuals are sporting pickle onesies.
Associated content material materials supplies from ML:
And we furthermore made these bracelets on the completely completely different station and he’s like, “Are you there to race your bike or simply to go and do crafts and have pleasing?” I’m like, “Form of each.” And that’s the large distinction between women’s Enduro contests and an regularly Enduro contest.
ML: Has it regularly been simple in order to bear in mind why you began doing this stuff inside the primary place?
SW: I actually really feel it’s regularly been simple for me to recollect why I like snowboarding, why I like biking. I see heaps of those who go for his or her teacher certifications and get jobs after which merely cease doing it for private pleasing. They solely do it as work nonetheless that’s by no means been a difficulty for me.
Managing Trolls
ML: Quite a few women athletes have challenges due to the online’s stuffed with nameless pricks. Do you get gross messages or shitty ideas?
SW: I attempt to not sexualize the game in any technique so I truly actually really feel like that protects me from these ideas. I don’t go into the ideas half if I do know I’ve achieved a podcast or one issue that’s perhaps slightly little bit of bit… not confrontational, nonetheless that any explicit particular person might take the mistaken technique. I did go into the remark half as rapidly as and it was a terribly darkish place. However I did see a variety of people commenting as soon as extra in assist of what I used to be saying. In order that was my cue to be like, “All appropriate, remark half, not for me. Under no circumstances research the ideas.” … Merely this morning, I went into the remark part of one issue that was slightly little bit of controversial and it was gnarly, the racism and the hate in there. I used to be identical to, “All appropriate, that’s not how I wanna spend my morning.”
Being a Expert
After I was arising as a halfpipe snowboarder, it was regularly like, “Who was sending it the most important and who was the gnarliest within the market?”
And now it’s sort of shifted to, “Who’s doing good for neighborhood?” And it doesn’t primarily recommend that it’s important to be more than likely in all probability essentially the most sendy explicit particular person. It’s what else you’re doing. And I actually really feel producers are beginning to deal with athletes who’re well-rounded and on no account merely giant senders. And I suppose that’s thought-about one in all many advantages of social media—that makes a bigger story.
Try your entire dialog correct proper right here.
Test the ML Podcast!
