The Monday Mix - June 29, 2020

It's the last Monday in June somehow already and the Mix rolls on, with another collection of the best snowboard content to bless the feed in the past seven days. This week we check in with the best halfpipe rider on the planet down in Australia, head to Japan for some indoor shredding, jump off a cliff with Shaun White, and much, much more.

But first, we'd like to point you in the direction of last week's #ClassicsLive poll winner, as the star-heavy Spindleruv Mlyn slopestyle competition from the 2012/13 season was your top vote-getter and is streaming now on YouTube. With victories for Enni Rukijarvi (FIN) and Torstein Horgmo (NOR) and a whole pile of some of the decade's most incredible riders also making appearances in the final, this one is definitely worth a watch...

Now, if you watched any of Scotty James' incredible run of 11-straight victories from the 2018/19 season through most of 2019/20, you know that when he's on top of his game, he's essentially untouchable. So while winning the Park & Pipe overall crystal globe doesn't officially make him the "best halfpipe rider in the universe," you can pretty much assume that to be the case. Any way you slice it though, Scotty is the man, and he and his big trophy stopped in for a typically hilarious interview with Aussie TV last weekend...

Love to see it. Also, Scotty got a home haircut earlier today and his girlfriend Chloe doesn't like it, so he's currently running an Instagram poll to see if he should fix it or leave it. Head over to his profile to help make the decision.

Jumping from Scotty James on daytime TV to Swiss standout Pat Burgener sitting down for an extended interview/musical performance with the good folks at the Olympics, it's been a good week for some mainstream love for shredders. Pat looks back on his Olympic experience while looking forward to the Beijing 2022 Games, talks music, plays some of his latest tracks...good stuff.

One more interview to catch up on this week, as SBX Life had a digital sit-down with the great Lindsey Jacobellis. Click play and get to know a little more about arguably the greatest rider to ever get in the snowboard cross start gate...

Jumping back to the Aussies for a minute and kicking off a heavy on-board section of this week's Mix, we check in with Matty Cox for this throwback to a rare and exclusive double tame dog from sometime last season...

Once again, you love to see it.

There was a pretty epic collection of clips both fresh and throwback coming down the feed in the past week, so the feeling here at the Mix editorial desk is to 'let the good times roll' - a feeling that is pretty much perfectly summed up in the shredding of your reigning Olympic slopestyle gold medallist Red Gerard in the clip below from Mt. Hood. The thing about the way Red rides is it's so breezy and loose it makes you feel like you can do what he's doing out there.

You can't, but it sure is fun to feel that vibe for a minute...

Then yesterday he posted a throwback to Thredbo session from last year, so what the heck, let's double down on Red...

Speaking of loose and breezy, Red's compatriot Storm Rowe keeps the vibe rolling with this edit from one fruitful day in Carinthia last season...

We were talking about Scotty James and his 11-straight victories a minute ago, so it's only appropriate that the young man who stopped that streak should pop up this week with his first post in almost two months. As it turns out, 18-year-old Ruka Hirano isn't just a force in the halfpipe - if this triple 1440 was going down on snow and not on an airbag Ruka would have been riding away no problem...

More good stuff from the Japanese contingent, as Kaishu Hirano (no relation to Ruka, but is the younger brother to Ayumu) flashed back to some indoor pipe action from last year...

Speaking of Ayumu, Kaishu posted this clip of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic silver medallist getting some skate reps in. Ayumu's a hopeful for the Japanese skate team for Beijing 2022, which would be a pretty cool crossover...

From skateboarding to skate-inspired, Chase Josey laid down this slushy and steezy back tail with a little two-stroke tow-in assistance...

Italy's Loris Framarin hopped across the border to Austria, where he's been killing the rails in Kitzsteinhorn...

Enzo Velax is dunking on these fools at home in France's Les 2 Alpes...

Meanwhile, Enzo's French compatriot Sacha Moretti was celebrating his return to snow last week after eight months off due to injury, and we're betting that this big ol' arc felt pretty darn good...

A what the heck, here's another one from the French squad. We saw Matty Cox with the double earlier, but let's check in with Seb Konijnenberg, who showed the much more common (but still lovely to watch) single tame dog, also at Les 2 Alpes...

Man, they just keep coming this week...here's Ryan Wachendorfer making his return to snow for the first time since COVID-19 lockdown at Mt. Hood, with Maddie Mastro providing the surgically steady follow cam support...

Ok, let's let Lia-Mara Boesch slide us on out of that extended snow section and into the homestretch of this week's Mix with this extremely locked-in and extremely pretty frontboard...

Off the snow but still on the board, Michela Moioli has been playing around at this pretty epic-looking pumptrack set-up in the Italian beach town of Tirrenia...

Shout out to Katie Ormerod for the latest in what has been a long list of accolades earned this year...

Almost ready to wrap the mix up for this week, but first let's throw it over to Shaun White for a little cliff jumping madness. If you're too young to know what he's talking about when he comes back up to the surface, we suggest you check out this comedy classic...

Ok, we're taking it back to the snow for one last post here, as Olympic SBX silver medallist Jarryd Hughes  looks to finish off this pumptrack run with a a little flare and ends up with mud on his face and some laughs for his friends. The lesson here for your Monday is - if you're going to fail, at least make it funny and bring a little joy into the world!

Thanks for reading! We'll see you next week.