Mike and tina basich biography

She additionally kept on snowboarding, albeit generally in the boondocks with powder arrivals, for NBC. Boarding for Bosom Disease is a foundation association helped to establish by the snowboarder. It is a diary of her snowboarding vocation. The store sells various hand tailored gifts and other imaginative pleasures. Likewise, Sparkle Young lady Studio has opened next to their business.

Tina was likewise a Hitting the dance floor with Our Stars challenger in Tina is a hitched woman. Zach Haller, her life partner, is her significant other. In a meeting, Tina said that she met Zach in Nevada City. Inthe pair wedded. Addison Haller, their little girl, was born in But to look at the financial cost of this endeavour alone is to do Basich a great disservice.

Although he was incredibly resourceful and called in a lot of favours, it is his incredible determination that has been the real driving force behind making this dream a reality. There is an element of Grand Designs to the feature we shot with Basich because his cabin is so spectacular. I have never seen a hand made house before and it was impossible to grasp just how much work went into building this dwelling that sits at over metres above sea level, at the end of a dirt road that from November to April is covered in up to four metres of snow.

He had to move tons of rock by hand and he told us that "paid labourers, usually big college football kids would give up after four or five hours. The ornate window frames with mountain ranges ground into them, the 12 volt solar panel that powers all the LED lights and the under floor wood burner that heats the house and hot tub, it is a stunning triumph of vision and passion.

There were of course tribulations and set backs during the four year construction of the house that would have broken lesser men and I asked Basich if he ever got so frustrated to the point that he thought about jacking it all in or breaking down and crying. He just fixed me with a smile and said "sorry to disappoint you Ed, but I just never felt that way, if I had a problem I would just sit down and wait it out until a solution came to me.

He pointed out the stone steps as we made our way down from the house, everyone who had helped build the cabin had carved a message into a stone and then laid it into the path, all of the messages came from the heart except one beautifully wry one near the bottom that simply said 'That was easy'. After completing that four-year project you could have forgiven Basich for taking a break.

We were scouring the mountain and building jumps and shooting photos for magazines. The scene blew up.

Mike and tina basich biography

But when it came to snowboard kit, it was becoming a problem. Tina is still close to both women today. They called it Prom Clothing, and made it deliberately feminine, with pastel pink jackets and butterfly logos. Tina and Shannon also got their own signature pro model boards. Again, a first for women. The boards were made for narrower feet in a lighter weight with more flexibility.

We made our mark. In big air contests it was commonplace to build a small jump for women and a big jump for men — a debate that still rages today. But Tina and her friends would always hit the big one. Watch me! She wanted to close the gap between the genders. Some would tell me their boyfriend was a snowboarder and after seeing me in a movie they were inspired to do it too.

It was just like we were continuing our fun childhood together. But this also included other pro snowboarders who helped me learn tricks in the early days, like Andy Hetzel and Dave Dowd. And she benefited from film-makers and photographers backing her, as those relationships would help secure media coverage for her sponsors throughout her career.

Tina believes that as snowboarders were already seen as outsiders by the skiing community and beyond, it helped forge a tight-knit relationship across genders within the sport. We were the outcasts already, so we had to band together. United States: HarperCollins. ISBN The Independent. Dey Street Books. External links [ edit ]. Authority control databases.

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