The only thing better than a profile in a local newspaper, is a profile in a magazine that goes in most local newspapers in the world. . . like Shaun White’s profile in this weekend’s Parade Magazine. It features top secret insights into the extreme life for newspaper readers in the heartland.
White can hop on a snowboard, zoom down a steep hill, shoot off a ski jump, and simultaneously flip and spin while in midair—thus executing what is known in the swaggering parlance of his sport as a “backside rodeo 540.” That’s three 180s. Put him on a skateboard and he’s apt to perform similarly dizzying stunts in a vertigo-inducing half-pipe made of concrete or wood, showing reckless disregard for the integrity of his bone structure.
Dizzying, indeed.
[Link: Parade Magazine]
