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VBS catches up with Mike Ranquet in Chicago after post-hip replacement surgery at Northwestern. Mike’s hip (only age 39) had deteriorated so badly that the doctors were shocked he could walk through the door. Ranquet gets to talking about why snowboard halfpipes sucked so much back in the day: apparently the midgets were to blame. We also find out that Mike, in the early 90’s, had the most significant vert ramp in the Seattle area, coined “The Nature Ramp” due to it’s proximity to the woods and commune-like atmosphere. There, Mike leads a one-man crusade of skateboard snobbery against all whack, non-skate related moves in snowboarding. Ranquet’s old Seattle buddies chime in, saying that teenaged Mike was basically like Bobby Budnick from “Salute Your Shorts”—a relentless troublemaker.
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Video Length: 529
Date Found: January 07, 2011
Date Produced: January 05, 2011
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April 01, 2011
We were so intimidated by Bryan Iguchi’s mountaineering man-skills in Part One that we made him do the sit-down interview in a fluffy white chair so we wouldn’t feel like such sissies in Part Two. He takes us back to his Southern California roots as an up-and-coming skateboarder introduced to ...
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March 25, 2011
The Season Three finale of Powder & Rails catches up with pro snowboarding legend Bryan Iguchi in the backcountry of Jackson Hole, Wyoming (i.e. the middle of nowhere). We found him with his head stuck in a snow pit boning up on his knowledge of snow pack densities. You see, The Guch has ...
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March 03, 2011
In this part Josh gets on Toy Machine, gets his carton of smokes, and then quits.  Well, it’s not that simple but you’ll see. One thing worth pointing out is that Josh filmed some of the Jamie Thomas archival footage. It’s pretty cool to think about there being a time when you ...
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February 24, 2011
In this part Josh gets on Toy Machine, gets his carton of smokes, and then quits.  Well, it’s not that simple but you’ll see. One thing worth pointing out is that Josh filmed some of the Jamie Thomas archival footage. It’s pretty cool to think about there being a time when you ...
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February 24, 2011
Jamie walks us through his internal debates on some heavy stuff like marriage, life as a career snowboarder, and the temptations that a strapping young snowboard king grapples with. But Father Time is the ultimate party crasher and Jamie must submit to his inevitable induction into the history ...
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