VIDEO: Never Before Seen Shane McConkey Ski Footage In His College Years The Thrillogy consists of three awesome VHS ski movies in one. It contains pretty much every ski shot from the beginning of Shane McConkey and Kent Kreitler’s college years. Where ‘The Thrillogy’ lacks in production it more than makes up for in the soundtrack and raw abilities alone. Some of the footage in this movie has never been seen before. Backcountry Chris Wallner | May 5, 2017 0 Comments
Happy Birthday Shane McConkey | Never Seen Before Footage of Shane Explaining the “Now” The above video is never seen before interview footage of Shane McConkey explaining why to live for the now. Happy birthday, Shane. We miss and love you. Thanks for all you gave to us. You changed the game for the better. Shane would have have turned 46-years-old today. SnowBrains | December 30, 2015 1 Comment
Happy Birthday Shane McConkey! Shane McConkey was born on December 30th, 1969. After that, he simply changed the ski industry forever bringing us rockered skis, intelligent humor, naked skiing, ski BASE jumping, next level skiing, and Saucer Boy. Shane dominated the skiing world achieving high level success in moguls, race courses, big mountain, park, skier cross, big air, all of it. Shane called Squaw Valley, USA home and he exported the infamous “Squaw Attitude” to the masses while thoroughly making fun […] SnowBrains | December 30, 2013 1 Comment
Scot Schmidt Interview on Shane McConkey Powder Magazine brings us their 2nd installation of ICONS featuring Scot Schmidt talking about Shane McConkey. “In episode four of ICONS – an exclusive series featuring renowned athletes from a variety of sports talking about the influence of Shane McConkey – we feature the extreme skiing master himself, Scot Schmidt. Produced by Red Bull Media House, ICONS features outtakes from the feature biopic “McConkey,” which premiered […] SnowBrains | October 10, 2013 1 Comment
Shane McConkey Answers the Question: “What Would You Do If You Had 30 Days to Live?” This is an interesting glimse into Shane’s life. Shane wrote this note when he was in 8th grade. He ended up doing exactly what he said he’s do with his life if he had only 30 days to live. I think we all wish we could make this list and have it be our lives from now on. “We shot this clip on the […] SnowBrains | October 1, 2013 1 Comment
Travis Rice on Shane McConkey | Powder Magazine Video Powder Magazine brings us this exclusive video interview with Travis Rice speaking on Shane McConkey. This will be a new weekly series that will feature iconic athletes talking about Shane McConkey’s influence. Travis Rice leads off Icons, an exclusive series featuring renowned athletes from a variety of sports talking about the influence of Shane McConkey. Produced by Red Bull Media House, Icons features […] SnowBrains | September 19, 2013 1 Comment
30-Seconds of Shane McConkey Dominating Moguls, Racing, Big Mountain, Skier Cross, & Park Red Bull’s latest McConkey Movie installment reminds us just how many different disciplines in skiing Shane McConkey completely dominated. “He had a solid racing background, almost made the US ski team. Went onto the pro mogul tour and ended up winning that. Dominated the big mountain circuit for a while. Won skier cross events against former world cup racers. And he was actually inventing terrain park tricks.” – Scott Gaffney That quote, says it all. Shane dominated on snow. Watch […] SnowBrains | September 16, 2013 1 Comment
The History of Saucerboy, Shane McConkey’s “Drunk, Awesome Twin” In Alaska in 1997, Shane blew his ACL while filming. He didn’t have much to do for the rest of the trip, so he invented Saucerboy. It wasn’t a bad plan because Shane might not have been in the movie skiing much, but he was in the movie being Saucerboy. Saucerboy was essentially Shane’s way of taking the piss out of skiers and riders in the industry who take themselves too seriously. “He was a metaphor for every pro skier and snowboarder in the industry.” – Murray Wais Saucerboy was Shane’s “Drunk, Awesome Twin.” […] SnowBrains | August 23, 2013 3 Comments