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Snowboarder|November 2016

What’s even crazier than this photo is that Bode Merrill’s favorite band is Sole Asylum. 

 

Bode Merrill
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Wolleman, why did you start pow surfing?

Salomon made a Powder snowskate around 2000 and that was the first time I rode bindingless in powder. It was so fun to fool around and kind of rediscover the same mountains I’ve been riding since a kid. I started making my own concrete mold to press wider skate decks for it and that’s how the whole board building thing started.

How did you make your first board and did it work? 

My friend Steve joined the mission to build a board inspired by fish surfboards. Our first board was so wide and heavy; it was a piece of shit. I brought it to Baldface for a trip, paid a $100 in overweight fees and the board sucked. It was just too wide. Anyway, the next board was pretty perfect and that was the one I rode in Optimistic.

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