{"id":722,"date":"2011-12-13T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2011-12-13T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:48:30","slug":"kyle-ebbett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/kyle-ebbett\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Ebbett Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASO:\u00a0 Welcome to the\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/home.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Action Sport Optics<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em>\u00a0team Kyle, we are stoked to have you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 Thanks, I&#8217;m stoked your stoked! And I&#8217;m\u00a0happy to be working with a Vermont based company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 Tell us a little bit about yourself, where you&#8217;ve been, where you are\u00a0now, and where your going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 I&#8217;m a professional mountain biker, I started out racing,\u00a0and got to be in over 10 MTB movies and videos, free ride always my passion became my way to make a living on a bike.\u00a0 I ride everything from big mountain DH, cross country, slope style, street, park, dirt jump, to my little pump track in my back yard.\u00a0 I have competed and won in almost every discipline of XC, SD, DH, DS, trials, bunny hop, dirt jump, snow racing, 4X, street, park, and slope style.\u00a0 This summer at Burke Mountain bike and brew fest I won\u00a0the Huffy bike toss! I couldn&#8217;t believe it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not that strong, but I think my golf skills helped me out by building bike toss speed and getting a good release!\u00a0Gave my first place prize Dakine sweatshirt to my brother in law, he was pumped.\u00a0 I live in Essex Junction, Vermont, I love Vermont, and I am <\/strong><strong>going to kill it in 2012!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kyles\u00a0back yard video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33548902?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 Who are your sponsors?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 Scott Bikes, SRAM, Rock Shox, Avid, Truvative, SDG, Mavic, Native Eyewear, TLD, Teva, and now ASO!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 What is your favorite kind of riding, and how would you describe your style?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 That&#8217;s not an easy one, I will say when I&#8217;m on any of my bikes, and just pumping and flowing! I hear people say my style is flow and smooth, so I will say flow and smooth!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0\u00a0Is there an area in your game your looking to step up\u00a0or expand upon?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 I&#8217;m working on a few things, I built this pump track in\u00a0 my back yard so I can go win the pump track event at the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey California.\u00a0 This spring I&#8217;m going to build a dual stunt course to practice on for the Teva games in Vail.\u00a0 I will also build some stupid big jumps this spring!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-739\" title=\"kyle ebbett \" src=\"http:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kyle-ebbett-action-shot3-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Ebbett\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 The Crankworx Colorado set up which you designed and built was looking insane! Tell us a little bit about the design, and where your inspiration came from for the set up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 I have been on the slope style tour since it started for MTB and was a top contender, I got hurt a couple winters ago training at Woodward East, I couldn&#8217;t compete so I started building the courses.\u00a0 As a rider I always liked flow, so I put a lot of flow in the course. I also like big jumps that have perfect speed into them so you can float! It started small and ended big and you could trick top to bottom, perfect!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 How big was your crew, and how long did it take from start to completion?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 I had a sick build crew, we lived in a house with a hot tub down the street, ate like\u00a0family at the table every night, and it took one month.\u00a0 Andy Holloway was my lead shaper, Ryan Mcevoy shaper\/runner and grab stuff guy, James Hall the bull dog could move mountains for you, and Peter Mills was my go to guy who could get anything we needed from the mountain. Tools, trucks, logs, water truck, fire truck, grill, you name it and he would come back with it! We killed it, and everyone on the build team is a shredder! I almost forgot the famous Hooter, he has worked on the mountain forever and they put him on our team, he killed it and told us some great stories, so we named a jump after him, &#8220;The Hooter Booter&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 Your back yard ( in the above video )\u00a0is looking pretty sick, tell us about this set up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 I&#8217;m super pumped on my back yard for the first time in a long time. I always spent my time digging in the woods or building event courses, but this year was a great fall and I have been digging like crazy in my back yard.\u00a0 My good friend and super shredder Clay Demelo has been coming over and helping a ton.\u00a0 Ryan Mcevoy 17 year old shredder helps me push it on the bigger jumps flipping and 3ing all the time.\u00a0 I have a decent size jump line with a wall ride and a little on off box.\u00a0 And new this fall an insane pump track!\u00a0 The best one I have ever seen, and it&#8217;s in my back yard!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-729\" title=\"Kyle ebbett  \" src=\"http:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kyle-ebbett-action-shot-2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Ebbett\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 Action Sport Optics is an authorized online dealer of <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/Native-eyewear-sunglasses-polarized.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Native Eyewear<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, one of your sponsors, what do you like most about Native products?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 Native has great people working for them, they have been a great sponsor that really supports MTB free ride, and there glasses are a high quality\u00a0bomb proof product.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 What are you up to this winter?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 This winter is filled with course designing, and training for my comeback to competition this year.\u00a0 I have a PT coach and she is getting me healthy and fit!\u00a0 I will also be skinning up, and skiing down all the sick spots that we have around here in northern Vermont.\u00a0 I will also hit the foam pit a bunch this winter and work on flip and 360 variations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASO:\u00a0 Cool, any closing comments or shout outs?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle:\u00a0 Thank you ASO for bringing me on board, watch out I&#8217;m going all out in 2012!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/home.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Action Sport Optics<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0 ASO is your online source for action sport and lifestyle related optics, eyewear is our vision.\u00a0 We pride ourselves in quality product, superior service, and fast shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASO:\u00a0 Welcome to the\u00a0Action Sport Optics\u00a0team Kyle, we are stoked to have you. Kyle:\u00a0 Thanks, I&#8217;m stoked your stoked! And I&#8217;m\u00a0happy to be working with a Vermont based company. ASO:\u00a0 Tell us a little bit about yourself, where you&#8217;ve been, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/kyle-ebbett\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,32],"tags":[74,92,59,116],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-blog","category-cycling-mountain-bking-bmx","tag-action-sport-optics","tag-aso","tag-kyle-ebbett","tag-native-eyewear"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsportoptics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}