The Powell Movement Action Sports Podcast

By the time Jim Rippey made it to high school, his goals were clear, he was going to punt in the NFL. When football didn’t work for Jim, he found snowboarding. Within a couple years on a board, Jim was a sponsored rider with Burton, eventually had 7 pro models, and was the first to back flip a snowmobile. The interesting wrinkle is, one day in Alaska, Jim found god and everything changed for him. Fast forward 15 years and Jim is a man of god, a correctional officer living a completely different life. Jim Rippey Show Notes:   2:00:  April Fool’s and growing up with in Quincey, CA with his dad 8:00:  Football, then moving to Tahoe to be a liftie 12:00:  The sponsorship process 19:45: Stanley:  Get 20% off site wide with the code Stanley20 Evo:  The best online experience in action sports with retail to back it up RESQWATER (enter the code resqwatertpm for a 20% discount on a 12 pack) 21:45: His pro models, the details he thought of and royalties/money 29:00: Being the stereotypical looking snowboarder, being ad