Born and raised in Sacramento, California, Mike loved woodwork from an early age rather than studying at his desk.However, in XNUMX, he faced a big challenge called "epilepsy," which is one of the neurological diseases. Snowboarding was a silver bullet given by my parents who kept telling Mike, "You can be different from other kids."I didn't have any guidelines or instructors, I just learned snowboarding in my own way, based on my imagination and sensibility.He says, "At that time, I had no choice but to teach myself. Maybe that's the basis of what I'm doing now, and it's connected to developing my own ideas." XNUMX, the year Mike first skated on Soda Springs.From there his snowboarding life began.No, it's rather a sudden start. In XNUMX, his home mountain, Donner Ski Ranch, accepted snowboarding, and Chris Roach and Dave Sione, who gathered as if they were attracted to magnets, became Mike's riding companions.That same year, Mike entered his first contest, and in XNUMX he was a junior champion and invited to the World Cup.Mike's life began to revolve around snowboarding, a world taught by snowboarding rather than studying at school.Curiously, snowboarding erases even his illness, and his mind is strapped into the snowboard and keeps slipping.
The speed will accelerate in the XNUMX's. The contract with the XNUMX world champion Hooger Booger, the XNUMX pro model that became a big hit in Japan, the first decent in Alaska, and the spotlight in both contests and free riding.
Meanwhile, his closing brand XNUMX was born.Mike, who was certified to graduate from high school while traveling the world on a snowboard, got a screen-printing machine in his backyard, and the origin of XNUMX began with printing T-shirts.I will touch on these three letters "XNUMX" in a future episode.
Edited by Kenji Kato
