There are many cliches that get thrown around the ski world.
To really get the whole story, I’d recommend watching “The Bravest people I know” first.
He only has to go to the clinic once a month.
The rest is daily chemo that you’ve got the option to just take at home.
Then you cycle through different medicines/drugs like right now he takes these steroids for a week every month.
They make him insane!
Hell be the most extremely silly/happy and then two seconds later its the opposite.
Its exhausting to keep up with.
Those weeks are a little trying, but in the big picture, its very manageable.
His hair grew back and he was finally out skiing this year.
His legs were so f*cked, from the chemo, up the first year.
That caused nerve damage so he couldnt walk for a few months.
He needed physio to walk straight.
He wanted to but he just couldnt do it.
He tried skiing that winter, just in the front yard, but his legs werent strong enough.
Had he skied at all before the diagnosis?
Neither of my kids had skied until this year.
Youll figure it out.
Theres a little T-Bar, which is in the video, in my town.
Its 5 bucks, its super cool.
Those were the most fun days, for sure.
I saw Soren on the rail in the video.
Yeah, hes psyched!
We have a sh*t-ton ofPlaymobiland hes constantly building rails.
Hes fully into it, which is hilarious.
The only videos Id show him were skiing or skateboarding videos.
They would ask to watch them because they didnt know that there were other kids shows and stuff.
I wish I could have kept that up.
Have they veered off to other stuff now?
They have a very strange knowledge of skate/ski stuff, which is funny.
They know all about rails and flips.
He actually snowboards too.
He has a snowboard, that he got super into at the end of the year.
Ski and snowboard at four, thats impressive.
Yeah, hes fully down.
I dont know this dude at all.
Its got custom griptape with dinosaur bones graphics.
A full skateboard for Soren, with really nice wheels, bearings, and everything.
Its nicer than anything Ive ever ridden!
The man himself proudly showing off his skateboard!
That just showed up out of the blue with a little note to Soren.
I figured out who it was and DMed them onInstagram.
I spoke to them a little bit and they had a brother who passed away from Leukemia.
He was just aTravelling Circusfan.
This was way after the initial wave of support, So that was pretty cool.
Hes been pushing around that in the house.
You said thats why you made this video.
Almost as a thank you to the ski community.
Do you have any other examples?
I was really hesitant to ask for help.
My mom said that Ally just quit her job and that we should do this and we needed help.
It was so overwhelming, to see all of the ski community.
As cheesy as that sounds.
It was also motivating.
Will and Andy are on such a crazy schedule.
Id leave the keys on the porch and Id see the van arrive and leave.
One morning they had a few hours so I set up my rail for them.
Will hit a few times and Andy was in the van like we gotta go!
I dont want to film at a random park anymore.
It was just a cool part of me paying it forward and keep contributing to this community.
I just wanted to giveNewschoolersa heads up, because theyve been a huge part of everything.
Ive been on there for like 20 years.
Maybe not actively posting, as an adult, but Im still on there for sure.
Ive pretty much been making this kind of video, park skiing since I was 15.
It just felt like something I wanted to do and stilldo.
When everything calms down, do you think youll want to get back into this?
I dont think Ill ever do this as a job.
Doing this kind of stuff, as a job, wasnt a good balance, for me.
I dont know, something about it got weird.
That was maybe five or six years ago so I thought Id not do this as a job.
I have a day job where I make very boring videos.
Straight up commercial stuff.
Its really easy and it pays our mortgage.
Its just like bank, marketing, everything stuff.
Im just a video guy to them.
I kind of like it because its easy and I dont have to think about it.
Skiing becomes the fun escape part.
That wasnt the case at the end ofTC.
It was a job and it felt too much like a job.
I never wanted it to wreck my relationship with skiing.
But youll stay involved with skiing?
I hope so yeah.
I always like having a fun side personal project.
Whether thats a fun video or I did aJSkisgraphic this winter, which Im pretty excited about.
Just doing things on the side for fun.
I have ideas for other fun little videos.
I want to stay involved until Im truly too old and its like; Dude, this is weird.
Youre like a weird old guy!
Those dudes are tapped into some sort of fountain of youth.
Will just doesnt seem to get hurt.
Most of this video was filmed in Sugarbush.
Id get there way earlier than everybody else.
Those dudes dont show up until f*cking noon.
Haha, theyd text me at like 10; What time are you thinking of getting there?
Id already been there for like an hour, just skiing by myself.
Its a little different these days, but I dont feel like an adult.
When I was younger I was a supersh*t-talker on NS.
With aliases and everything.
Just being a dickhead on the internet, when I was 18.
There are so many things about skiing that I just dont get or are not for me.
Which is crazy now, youd never do that.
Youd never be like; Yo!
You have twintips too!
Sweet, we should ski together!
Thats fully why I had any sort of career in skiing.
Thats essentially how I met Will and Andy.
I think that mentality of how this is a super-unique community is something to hold on to.
Heres the video and, on Shanes behalf, thanks to the community:
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1040125/Private-video-on-Vimeo
