Unbroken: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris
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- 2018
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(dramatic music)
(distant cheering)
[Announcer] From Saskatchewan,
ladies and gentlemen,
Mark "McMo" McMorris!
(loud cheering and applauding)
All right, are we ready
to set this place on fire?
Here we go, superhero.
[Commentator] Well,
calling him dominant
might be an understatement.
Our defending gold
medalist, Marc McMorris.
[Nasally Man]
Absolutely perfect.
[Commentator] 92.66, Mark
McMorris in the top spot.
[Broadcaster] Ladies
and Gentlemen, he on one!
[Announcer] Mark McMorris'
slopestyle domination continues.
(announcers groan)
[Announcer] Mark McMorris
hits the rail hard.
He broke his rib
in that competition.
When you break your rib,
and you have to do
those sorts of jumps,
everybody just assumed the
Olympic dream was over.
some unfinished business.
should be able to win a gold.
He's got a bronze,
he's so hungry.
There's only one thing that
matters, and that's winning.
[Announcer] This
kid right here
is the most decorated
competitive athlete
in big air and
slopestyle history.
We're the spectacle
culture, we want big.
But at some point, you're like
the human body can't
take that landing.
That's why we have
hospitals, I guess.
(laughter)
(orchestral music)
[Announcer] Front
side triple cork.
(announcers groan)
Mark with one of the
heaviest toe-edge catches
coming down that landing
I have ever seen.
[Announcer] Mark
McMorris broke his femur.
(orchestral music)
I feel so much pain everywhere,
you know my hip, my knee,
everything, the screws, it
all hurts so bad all the time.
If you get hurt, you just want
to get back to it even more.
It's a weird addiction.
(ethereal music)
The 2016/2017 season, he was
coming off the worst injury
of his career, and this is the
year that he has to qualify
for the Canadian Olympic team.
So we traveled
over to South Korea
for the big air test event
for the 2018 Olympics.
Standing at the
top of that run
before I was going to
try my very first one,
I was like oh my god, I'm back.
front side triple cork
I was just gonna
break my femur again.
[Announcer] Best
of Mark McMorris.
It was really
sugary, sketchy snow.
And I just kept telling myself,
you don't need to stress.
[Announcer] Here he goes,
front side triple 14, oh!
I was really happy
that I ate sh*t
on a front side triple.
You know, like and was fine.
I was like oh, I'm good.
I made it to finals and
then I wasn't scared at all,
I tried the next one, I
He knew he was gonna have to
do another front
side triple cork
if he wanted to win the event.
(announcing in foreign language)
[Announcer] Is he
gonna go for it again?
The front side
triple cork 14, yes!
I slammed into the fence.
I didn't even like
stop, I was so happy.
[Announcer] In first
place, and World Cup winner,
from Canada, Mark McMorris.
Winning a contest again
was definitely the
hump in my rehab.
I was off to the races on
getting qualified for the team,
get a jump-start on it.
They take your
best three results,
so throughout the
2016/2017 season,
all of the athletes on
the team are jockeying
for the best results
at each of the events.
[Announcer] Your winner,
Marc 'McMo' McMorris.
This kid is insane, man.
When he lands a run, it's
not just for himself.
It's for all the people
that are surrounded by him.
What a great guy.
It's like thank you, Mark,
for landing that run.
(blows a kiss)
It means a lot to
be back at the US Open
after missing a year,
it's a Olympic qualifier.
Definitely wanna show
up to play there.
Mark put down one of the
heaviest slopestyle runs
of the year which put him
on the top of the podium
and solidified his spot for
the Olympic team in 2018.
That's like the best
feeling on earth, ecstatic.
It was sweet.
He's going to the Olympics.
It's the one snowboard
event, slopestyle or big air
that's eluded him a gold medal,
and he's a very
competitive person.
He's got a bronze,
rose gold if you will.
But he wants that real gold.
(audience cheering)
I was so happy to just
end my season like that.
Leaving as one of the
guys to beat all the time.
It's like okay, I'm
for sure back now.
Winning is a good feeling,
being the best feels good,
And winning X-games and
things like that, it's great,
but it's...
I ask myself this
question all the time,
why do guys like Mark, how
do they craft this career
and sort of wants to
do tricks like them,
or wants to be like
them on and off snow?
One part of it is really
being an all-around rider,
not just focusing
on being the best
slopestyle rider in the world.
I mean Mark is a
good rail rider.
He's a great jumper,
he can ride transition,
he rides backcountry.
He gets himself
immersed in the powder
and he's a true snowboarder.
There's huge contests, and
there's endorsement deals,
and everything that
goes along with that,
but that's just one
part of snowboarding.
Snowboarding is kind of
ridiculous in that sense,
where you, as a professional,
you strap into a piece of wood
on snow and slide down the
mountain and do tricks,
and you get paid to do that.
(laughs)
You can't forget that, you
know, it's all about the fun.
You're going out there to have
a kick ass time, you know?
With Mark too, I think his
passion for snowboarding,
he loves it, like
and it's really inspiring.
He loves snowboarding, he
loves everything about it,
and right now he's still
in that competitive world
he's enjoying it and he should.
But he knows there's so
many mountains out there
just waiting for
him to ride down.
It's really refreshing for me,
spending time in the backcountry
and doing that kind
of snowboarding
after all the years and
all the time I spend
chasing contests and park jumps.
Backcountry riding
is a lot different
than competition riding.
There's not some
prize to be won,
it's just trying to
create magic on your own
and it's literally the
most fun thing ever.
(peaceful music)
(loud carving)
(music builds)
when you get into
the backcountry.
It's really just a different
mindset out there too.
You need to know a lot
about snow conditions
and all that stuff.
Avalanches, trees,
rocks in the landing.
There's so many factors
that are pretty life-threatening
in the backcountry.
It's pretty gnarly.
There's just so
many challenges
and that's like understanding
the slope, the terrain,
snow conditions, but that's
just one aspect of it.
Getting hurt back there,
getting somebody out
from back there.
It's not something you
can just download an app
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