2/12/18 Team USA's Playlist
Alex Deibold, 31, has some unfinished business at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 31-year-old snowboarder, who first hopped on skis when he was just 2 years old and started snowboarding at age 4, nearly made Team USA in 2010, only to just miss the cut. But, undeterred, he stormed back four years later at the 2014 games in Sochi, where he took home a bronze medal in the men's snowboardcross event.
Since then, he's been training as hard as he can to land on the medal stand again -- that is, when he's not mountain biking, backpacking, rock climbing, surfing or working at the Sports Garage bike shop in Boulder, Colorado, in the off-season.
Deibold sent Billboard his training playlist before jetting off to Pyeongchang, admitting that it is a little "all over the place." And he wasn't kidding -- from old-school metal by the likes of Motorhead and Motley Crue to new-school rock from White Buffalo and Deer Tick, Alex has the perfect combo on lock. Plus, he's clearly the kind of teammate you want, because he even included a song by his fellow Team USA boarder Hagen Kearney's band Kapix.
Speaking of which, Kearney has his own playlist he listens to. Hagen Kearney is kind of what you might picture when you think of a snowboarder: long, blond hair blowing in the breeze and Motorhead blasting in his earbuds as he shreds the hectic snowboardcross course, jockeying for space. The 26-year-old Telluride, Colorado, native is a three-time X Games veteran who first hit the slopes at age 9 in 2000 when his family moved from Florida to Colorado and the skateboarding pre-teen began his long climb up the ranks of world-class snowboarders.
It's no surprise that the Harley-riding 2018 Winter Olympics contender is a huge music fan, who also plays guitar in the grungy Salt Lake City garage rock band Kapix. "Snowboarding to me is just an extension of rock 'n' roll," he tells Billboard. "I feel the same adrenaline when I am going fast into something on my snowboard as I do when I hear my favorite chorus coming up. I grew up on classic hard rock/ classic metal, etc. and I never got into anything else really. There are very few 'new' bands that I am into." Before he headed to compete at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Kearney sent his pump-up playlist, which is proof positive that he rocks it old-school, courtesy of songs by Great White, Aerosmith, Gov't Mule, Chuck Berry, AC/DC and Black Sabbath, among others. That being said, I like Kearney even more now.
Since then, he's been training as hard as he can to land on the medal stand again -- that is, when he's not mountain biking, backpacking, rock climbing, surfing or working at the Sports Garage bike shop in Boulder, Colorado, in the off-season.
Deibold sent Billboard his training playlist before jetting off to Pyeongchang, admitting that it is a little "all over the place." And he wasn't kidding -- from old-school metal by the likes of Motorhead and Motley Crue to new-school rock from White Buffalo and Deer Tick, Alex has the perfect combo on lock. Plus, he's clearly the kind of teammate you want, because he even included a song by his fellow Team USA boarder Hagen Kearney's band Kapix.
Speaking of which, Kearney has his own playlist he listens to. Hagen Kearney is kind of what you might picture when you think of a snowboarder: long, blond hair blowing in the breeze and Motorhead blasting in his earbuds as he shreds the hectic snowboardcross course, jockeying for space. The 26-year-old Telluride, Colorado, native is a three-time X Games veteran who first hit the slopes at age 9 in 2000 when his family moved from Florida to Colorado and the skateboarding pre-teen began his long climb up the ranks of world-class snowboarders.
It's no surprise that the Harley-riding 2018 Winter Olympics contender is a huge music fan, who also plays guitar in the grungy Salt Lake City garage rock band Kapix. "Snowboarding to me is just an extension of rock 'n' roll," he tells Billboard. "I feel the same adrenaline when I am going fast into something on my snowboard as I do when I hear my favorite chorus coming up. I grew up on classic hard rock/ classic metal, etc. and I never got into anything else really. There are very few 'new' bands that I am into." Before he headed to compete at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Kearney sent his pump-up playlist, which is proof positive that he rocks it old-school, courtesy of songs by Great White, Aerosmith, Gov't Mule, Chuck Berry, AC/DC and Black Sabbath, among others. That being said, I like Kearney even more now.
GO USA
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