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Travis Rice (born October 9, 1982) is an American professional snowboarder. He is #13 on Snowboarder magazine’s list of the 20 most influential snowboarders of the last 20 years. The 36-year-old has featured in more than twenty snowboarding films.
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Rice’s biggest claim to fame was when he arrived at Snowboarder magazine’s Superpark contest at Mammoth Mountain and launched a ‘mammoth’ of a backside rodeo across a 117-foot gap jump.
He has been considered “the Paul Revere” of the big mountain freestyle movement. In 2013, Rice was named the best contemporary snowboarder in the world by Red Bull; Rice was also hailed as one of the greatest snowboarders of all time by numerous writers and publications.
Travis Rice Age
Travis Rice is an American professional snowboarder. He is #13 on Snowboarder magazine’s list of the 20 most influential snowboarders of the last 20 years. He was born on October 9, 1982, in Jackson Hole, WY, he is 40 years old.
Travis Rice Family
Rice was born in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He was raised near Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, where he continues to reside. Raised as a skier by his father, a member of Jackson Hole Ski Patrol, Rice initially did not understand the rave of the new sport springing up on his mountain. However, he soon caught on and joined the local team.
Travis Rice Wife
Snowboarder Travis Rice Asks Longtime Girlfriend Evan Mack to Marry Him
Having logged some of the most successful snowboarding films in the history of the sport, Travis Rice has long been in top form in the freeride game. But the icon recently took the next step at home, too, when he asked his longtime girlfriend to marry him while on a recent trip to Italy.
“Evan (Mack) and I have been together for 9 years,” he said on his Facebook page. “Nine is the number of completion. Last week I asked her to marry me while staying with some friends in Italy. I love you @evan1mack and am so excited for the next dimension in our relationship.”
Mack of course responded as you’d expect: “There was only one thing to say. What a moment. Every cell was on fire with intense love and gratitude for this life. Pour Toujours mon amour.”
Congrats TRice! One of the all-time greats is now “officially” off the market.
Travis Rice Children
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Travis Rice Height And Weight
Travis Rice is an American professional snowboarder. He is #13 on Snowboarder magazine’s list of the 20 most influential snowboarders of the last 20 years. The 36-year-old has featured in more than twenty snowboarding films. He has a height of 5′ 10″ and a weight of 180 lbs
Travis Rice Salary
His salary is estimated to be between $10k to $50k.
Travis Rice Net Worth
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Considered to be one of the most influential boarders of the past 20 years, Travis Rice has earned both respects from competitors and sponsors, as companies like Red Bull and Quicksilver have called him to help them sell products.
Travis has also been featured onboarding movies like The Community Project and That’s It, That’s All, just adding to his estimated net worth of $2 million.
Travis Rice Competition
In 2001, without a sponsor and only 18 years old, Rice drove to Mammoth Mountain in California to ride at Snowboarder magazine’s “Superpark”.
Recognition from the snowboarding world would come at this event when Rice launched a backside rodeo off a 110-foot gap jump. Absinthe Films’ producer Justin Hostynek immediately approached Rice to begin filming for their upcoming movie, Transcendence.
Travis Rice Films and Other Media
Rice has filmed outstanding video parts year after year, producing jaw-dropping shots like his switch 540 over Chad’s Gap in Utah, a 120-foot backcountry gap jump. On top of that, he has won several US Opens, an X-Games gold, and an Icer Air gold, where he landed the first double rodeo 1080 in competition.
In 2008, Rice co-produced (with filmmaker Curt Morgan) and starred in the snowboarding film, That’s It That’s All. This film featured Troy Blackburn, Jeremy Jones, Mark Landvik, Terje Haakonsen, Nicolas Müller, Scotty Lago, Pat Moore, John Jackson, Jake Blauvelt, Danny Kass, and fellow Jackson Hole residents Bryan Iguchi and Kyle Clancy.
Rice’s part in That’s It That’s All, which included the first ever double cork 1260, heavily influenced his sweep at the Transworld Magazine Rider’s Poll. He won Rider of the Year, Video Part of the Year, Standout of the Year, and Readers’ Choice award.
On September 7, 2011, Rice released The Art of Flight, a film made in collaboration with the same team behind ‘That’s It, That’s All, including John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Nicolas Müller and Jeremy Jones, Scotty Lago, Mark McMorris. The success of the Art of Flight enabled Rice to once again win the TransWorld and Snowboarder Magazine Rider of the Year awards for 2012.
In 2012, Rice coordinated with Red Bull to create Supernatural, a backcountry freestyle competition held at Baldface Lodge in British Columbia, Canada.
The competition was attended by the world’s top snowboarders, including Nicolas Muller, Gigi Ruf, and Mark McMorris, with riders competing in naturally created backcountry terrain. The inaugural winner of the event was the competition creator, Travis Rice.
In 2016 Rice released his new film, The Fourth Phase.
His sponsors are Quiksilver, Lib Tech, DC, Red Bull, Union bindings, Bluebird Wax, Contour, Jack’s Garage & Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
He is also a downloadable, playable character in SSX. He is the first “real-life” snowboarder to ever be featured in the franchise.
Travis Rice The Art of Flight
The Art of Flight is a Red Bull sponsored documentary film about snowboarding and a successor to That’s It, That’s All. It premiered in NYC on September 8, 2011, at the Beacon Theatre.
Travis Rice Synopsis
A new breed of action sports film comes to life as Red Bull Media House, in association with Brain Farm Digital Cinema, present “The Art of FLIGHT”, a Curt Morgan Film. Two years in the making, “The Art of FLIGHT” gives iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends the opportunity to redefine what is possible in the mountains.
Experience the highs, as new tricks are landed and new zones opened, alongside the lows, where avalanches, accidents, and wrong-turns strike.
Immerse yourself in a cinematic experience as Brain Farm and their arsenal of filmmaking technology capture the culture, wildlife and scenic landscapes the riders take in along the way.
Join in the ride as the creators of “That’s It, That’s All” completely rewrite the formula for action sports cinema with “The Art of FLIGHT.”
Travis Rice Shooting and production
The Art of Flight was shot over the course of two years from 2009 to 2011.
It was filmed using the RED camera system, the GoPro Hero, Vision Research’s Phantom camera and Panasonic camera systems.
3D
“The Art of FLIGHT 3D” celebrated its World Premiere at the prestigious San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, September 28, 2012.
Reception
The Art of Flight received an 88% audience approval rating from the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.
Soundtrack
The Art of Flight soundtrack features songs by The Naked and Famous, M83, Deadmau5, Sigur Rós, and others.
Travis Rice Movies
Depth Perception
2017
The Fourth Phase
2016
The Art of Flight
2011
That’s It, That’s All
2008