While watching the 2008 ESPN Winter X Games “X Course” or whatever they are calling boardercross this year, we found ourselves wishing for a new winner. It’s just that Nate Holland seems to be everything that snowboarding never was: he’s brash, jocky, and completely devoid of style. There really seems to be nothing cool about the guy.
Obviously he’s a great boardercross racer, winning three X Games in a row is not easy to do, but shouldn’t he just be a pro ski racer or something? We were looking at the logos on his board and seriously asking ourselves if he really is sponsored by Burton and Electric or if he just puts the stickers on there hoping he’s going to eventually get paid. Electric cared enough to put him on their homepage so he must be legit there. We don’t get it.
Click the link below for a short profile in his local paper.
[Link: Tahoe World]
