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Snowboard pioneer keeps himself busy - Worcester Telegram.
Roots: Todd Richards
Twenty years after he first turned professional, the board sports industry is still treating snowboarding legend Todd Richards very well.
Todd richards snowboard biography of mahatma
“You caught me at a good time”, he says via his ‘overhyped’ iPhone from his SoCal home. “I’m off to Fiji tomorrow with Quiksilver, can’t wait. It’s like a Quik family trip on a private island, and there are three amazing breaks to surf.
Basically, I love the entire year for the few days!”
Photo: Nate Christenson
Small wonder the effervescent Richards is so chipper. It is a long, long way from his roots as an East Coast pipe rat, riding contests for fun and stoked on the ‘camaraderie’ of snowboarding in those early days.
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“I’d say that is definitely my main memory of those early years,” he says when asked to pinpoint some defining early snowboarding memories. “If you even saw another good rider, it was so rare, especially at a resort that wasn’t your home.
Things were so different back then. We were getting so bagged on by