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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rusty Ockenden\\u00a0&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Birth Date:&lt;\\/strong&gt;April, 8, 1984&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hometown:&lt;\\/strong&gt;Summerland, BC, Canada&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sponsors: &lt;\\/strong&gt;Oakley, Endeavor Snowboards, Whistler\\/Blackcomb, Airhole, Circa, Beaver Wax&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Video: &lt;\\/strong&gt;People\\u2019s &lt;em&gt;Pretty Wise, &lt;\\/em&gt;Snowboard Canada\\u2019s &lt;em&gt;Relax&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;Interviewed by Gerhard Gross&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;Rusty has an orchid named Gary, he recently achieved his goal of catching a fish bigger than he is, and likes riding the coast from BC to SoCal on his Yamaha V-Star 650. He claimed the ender in People\\u2019s &lt;em&gt;Pretty Wise &lt;\\/em&gt;this year, thanks to a deep bag of spins, a lanky but smooth style, and impeccably stomped landings. Be that as it may, Rusty doesn\\u2019t think snowboarding is something that needs to be taken too seriously. Just see his backflips in pink boxers for proof. &lt;strong&gt;\\u2014G.G.&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_1000204536\\\" style=\\\"width: 600px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignnone\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/1000204468\\/photos\\/riders-to-watch-2\\/attachment\\/rusty_ockenden\\/\\\" rel=\\\"attachment wp-att-1000204536\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"size-medium wp-image-1000204536\\\" title=\\\"riders to watch\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2013\\/06\\/rusty_ockenden-600x264.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"600\\\" height=\\\"264\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;The difference between an ironic spin and a regular spin are almost impossible to notice. The question you have to ask is: Is Rusty taking this trick seriously? Only he knows for sure. Whistler backcountry, BC, Canada. PHOTOS: Ashley Barker&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On &lt;em&gt;not &lt;\\/em&gt;stressing about filming a part.\\u00a0&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;This season was the first time I\\u2019ve actually had companies put money into a video for me. At first I was super stressed and I was like, \\u201cI better show these guys that I know what I\\u2019m doing.\\u201d Then instead of stressing I realized, \\u201cI\\u2019m in the mountains, in some real cool parts of the world that a lot of people don\\u2019t ever get to see in their whole life.\\u201d I mean there\\u2019s no point in stressing. I used to dream about doing this as a kid and when I\\u2019m old and look back on it I don\\u2019t want to be like \\u201cThat was stressful.\\u201d I want to remember how amazing and lucky we all were to be out there in the first place. That really helped me appreciate the season. I just had to go up here, have fun, and film. It was sweet.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On learning to sled at age 17.&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;When I was 17 I moved to Whistler and got the shittiest truck and sled. I worked all summer, laying bricks and at Sachi Sushi as a busboy to pay for them. Every time I went out, I was scared something was going to break. But at least I was going. I never went out with a Devun Walsh or someone who was like, \\u201cHey, we\\u2019re going to go do this.\\u201d It was just kids, like lost kids trying to figure it out. I learned a lot with Mikee Pederson. We were a pretty sweet team for about five years.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On keeping snowboarding fun.&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;To me no other video has touched what the Robot Food movies have done, still. I want to get bangers, don\\u2019t get me wrong, but when I watch a video, especially when I watch my own part and it\\u2019s just like, here\\u2019s my tricks and that\\u2019s it, I always feel let down. There\\u2019s so much more to what we\\u2019re doing than, \\u201cHey, look at my big jumps and tricks and shit.\\u201d When you watch a video and it has those random candid moments, it reminds me how much I love snowboarding. Instead of watching the video and being like, \\u201cThis guy\\u2019s sick, that guy\\u2019s not,\\u201d you watch a video and you\\u2019re like, \\u201cI wanna go snowboarding! This is fun.\\u201d I hope other people feel the same way when they watch a video of me.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On Gary the orchid.&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;It seems like guys never have plants. One time this girl was at my place and she was like, \\u201cYou don\\u2019t have any plants!\\u201d And then I was like, \\u201cYou know, you\\u2019re right. I\\u2019m gonna get a plant.\\u201d She even gave me an empty pot. So I went to the store and I was looking at plants and the lady said, \\u201cThese are orchids. They\\u2019re hard to keep alive.\\u201d And I was like, \\u201cI got this!\\u201d So I got the orchid, and I built him a nametag. His name\\u2019s Gary. He\\u2019s still doing well. But one day I put him on the deck because when I water him, the water leaks out of the bottom, and I forgot him out there all day. Gary got super sunburned and lost three leaves. Now he\\u2019s only got one leaf left, but he\\u2019s still alive, still killin\\u2019 it.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On sturgeon fishing.&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Last year I went sturgeon fishing and didn\\u2019t catch anything. This year I was like, \\u201cI\\u2019m going to catch a fish that\\u2019s bigger than me.\\u201d We go fishing at Lillooet in Fraser River. It\\u2019s maybe an hour and a half drive from Whistler. I pull railroad spikes out of the train tracks and use them as a weight\\u2014they sink the bait to the bottom of the river. It\\u2019s super ghetto. Then you clip a bell to the rod, put it in a holder, and drink beers and play guitar. It\\u2019s fun because you\\u2019re basically just hanging out, and all of a sudden you hook into a dinosaur. The first fish I caught was so big it broke the line. The next day we linked up with a friend who has a boat and we went out with him and caught about 12 fish. The biggest one we got was six feet, eight inches. They\\u2019re like prehistoric. It\\u2019s insane.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On what\\u2019s next.\\u00a0&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;There\\u2019s just so much to do. You could snowboard your whole life and always be finding new things. I would love to get off of a helicopter in a mountain in Alaska and just shit my pants. Hopefully I will get a chance to do that. I want to splitboard. I see these old dudes going up Peak Chair and splitboarding away into the wilderness, and I\\u2019m like, \\u201cThat is badass!\\u201d One day, man, that will be me. I\\u2019m not there yet; I\\u2019m having fun sledding and hitting jumps and stuff, but yeah, one day. I want to do it all.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\\u00a0Continue to next page to read the interview with Stale Sandbech&amp;#8230;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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