Name: Matty Richard
Home Mountain: Whistler/Blackcomb
Age: 30
Skis: Rossignol Super 7, Squad 7
Bindings: Rossignol FKS 180
How has your skiing changed with the ALLTIME?
Now I can have my favorite bindings when I want to shred hard in the mountains. Sometimes you need to trust your gear 100% and MFD ALLTIME gives you that confidence when you need to giver. It’s good for your confidince to have your Rossi FKS on top of a big peak.
Best Run on Your MFD ALL TIMES:
Early season mission down Husume with the Whistler crew. Skiing up on the Duffey anyday is an epic day with my MFD Alltime.
Best known for (on-hill):
Having fun and skiing hard.
Best known for (off-hill):
My dog Sula as a powder hound.
Favorite Backcountry Run:
All around my backyard, the Coast Mountains, B.C. It’s hard to choose one but it’s probably in the Spearhead Range.
Your 2011 Movie Segment(s) to Check out:
All. I. Can. by the Sherpas
That’s Fine by Voleurz
Do you compete? If so, best finishes:
Kirkwood 2006 FWT, 1st place
2006 Subaru N.A. Freeskiing Championships, Kirkwood, California, 1st place
2006 Freeskiing World Tour, 2nd overall
Best trick in the bag:
Big old fatty shifty and the praying mantis leap.
Goals for 2012 Ski Season:
Ski as much as I can and keep filming with the Sherpas. There’s a ton of mountains on our radar so it should be fun. Finish the year with a little Haines, Alaska, trip would be nice and maybe Europe…if it snows. Hopefully compete in a few events…?
Favorite Shred Friends:
Kye, McIntosh, Dana, Hoji, Dommer, Slicer, all the Blackcomb crew.
Favorite Film Released in 2011:
All. I. Can.
Top 5 Songs to Skin Up a Mountain:
Concrete Jungle, most Marley and some tribal drums to keep me moving up the mountains. My I pod on shuffle.
Top 5 Songs to Shred Down a Mountain:
Silence… the sound of Ravens flying over us and pow smashing my face.
If you weren’t a skier, what would you be?
A lobster fisherman.
Anything else we should know about you?
I’m Acadien:
The Acadians (French: Acadiens, IPA: [akadjɛ̃]) are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia (located in the Canadian Maritime provinces – Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, .Acadia was a colony of New France. Although today most of the Acadians and Québécois are French speaking (francophone) Canadians, Acadia was a distinct colony of New France, and was geographically and administratively separate from the French colony of Canada (modern day Quebec), which led to Acadians and Québécois developing two rather distinct histories and cultures.[
Acadians speak a dialect of French called Acadian French. Many of those in the Moncton, New Brunswick area speak Chiac and English.