The Fourth Phase Page #3

it's just...

I have yet to find the discipline

to live my life on land

like I do out to sea.

[MUSIC]

TRAVIS:
Going on trips like this,

you want a partner who will support you

and back you up and raise you up.

LANDO:
We are going to head to platform 37

and we're going to want to

get on the 13 train to Sendai.

TRAVIS:
Lando is my brother in this.

We're going to roll

this whole thing together.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

There are only a few people in snowboarding

whose style blows me away.

Mikkel is one of them.

There's something about Japan that I felt

that's where he could really

showcase his riding.

[MUSIC]

LANDO:
Oh! My God!

Powders good.

TRAVIS:
The infrastructure they put

in place here to handle the water

just shows you how much of it they get.

Japan is the snowiest place on Earth.

[MUSIC]

SHIN BIYAJIMA:
Some people say

you can't ride forest because

there are gods living.

But, for my understanding,

if you have respect

good thinking about nature,

nature god will protect you.

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[YELLING]

[LAUGHING]

[MUSIC]

Magical out here!

Perfect trees, no branches,

just these beautiful, flower-like canopy.

It's really special to be able

to find a place that lets me

be in that most creative state.

It's been a way for me to key in

to my favorite parts of snowboarding.

[MUSIC]

Every year, you know,

you kinda get new ideas on what to do.

I kinda had a vision

of playing around in the trees.

When you've come up to the backcountry

you never know what you're going to find.

Pretty much just kids playing

in the sandbox.

This is just one of the things you got

to do to stay in shape out here.

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[MUSIC]

[WATER BABBLING]

MAN:
I, of course,

had this vision of just riding powder.

Travis, on the other hand, has to go

to this crazy mountaintop, every time,

and that's how Travis's mindset works.

It's like, once it's locked in, it's locked in.

It's pretty epic to be here

beginning of January

and be looking at AK style lines that you

wouldn't be riding till, like, late winter.

I definitely had no idea there were

mountains like this in Japan.

It seems like it's completely endless too.

Yeah.

This is, like, definitely

a steeper pitch with...

You know, who really knows

what's in there.

The more you look at it,

the friendlier it feels to me.

This is where some of those big faces are.

This looks a little gnarly.

MAN:
It's pretty obvious that Travis is

pushing to the alpine every chance we get.

[MUSIC]

TRAVIS:
The Japanese Alps, they have

everything for any snowboarder's dream.

They're such a unique piece of topography.

It's like nowhere else on Earth.

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