Jamie lynn snowboarder biography for kids
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Although he holds a seat at the round table of snowboard legend, Jamie Lynn’s creative language continues to grow. From a childhood in a Vashon Island, WA artist’s kurs, to globetrotting with a guitar in hand, Jamie Lynn talks music, art, skateboarding, snowboarding and perpetuating vibrations of radness.
It’s a rare sunny November day in Seattle—clear, crisp, cold in the shade. Jamie Lynn’s at a skate park on the southeast side of the city center. He didn’t grow up skating, being a kid from the rural roads of nearby Vashon Island, but it’s a passion of his now, as much as any other form eller gestalt of creative expression. He’s got the torn clothes and bruised elbows of someone who skates daglig. To Jamie, skating, snowboarding, music and art are all pieces of the whole. They’re complementary forces in the flow of a life spent bouncing from fläck to prick, following intuitive momentum as much as any conscious path…
Subscribe to start your collection of The Snowboarder’s Journa • With snowboarding on the backburner, music became another creative challenge that Jamie undertook with his former band Kandi Koded. Though quiet and unassuming off stage, for six years he could be found ripping heavy chords as the rhythm guitarist on tour. “There’s an energy you’re giving in a live performance, and when the crowd is giving that energy back to you it’s something that I’ve never experienced before in anything else,” he enthuses. “When you have shows like that it’s magical. A live show could be the death of you or it could be the most uplifting positive experience you’ve ever had.” Kandi Koded was a band of solid musicians with serious ambitions in the music world, and Jamie’s face on stage was a picture of concentration. Ironically, he had found a reprieve from the ‘rock star’ lifestyle of the snowboard pro behind a guitar – but as the band progressed, he found himself dragged back towards an even more hectic version of that lifestyle • Jamie Lynn Gold Dust Interview: Ed Blomfield/Vernon Deck Portraits: Vernon Deck As I write this intro I’m conscious that many of today’s readers won’t know much, if anything, about Jamie Lynn. It’s a decade since he was one of the most high profile riders on the planet, and even in his heyday Jamie was almost as much a myth as he was a real rider. Having burst onto the scene in his late teens, he quickly slipped back beneath the radar; contest appearances were few and far between, video parts became shorter and more sporadic, and he didn’t worry much about interviews. Even photos of the man in magazines were a rare treat, as was proved by the difficulty I had in tracking down some classics for this article. “You’re looking for shots of Jamie?” was one typical response from a photographer, “They’re a bit like gold dust, and they’re all on film. I’m not sure I’ve got time to trawl th 20 Years of Jamie Lynn
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