![]() ![]() Chris, whose paternal grandfather played college football, recalled that in some games he’d score every point for his team. “We used to joke that Chris kicks the ball, Chris throws the ball, Chris catches the ball, he runs the ball,” said Laura Corning, Chris’s mother. He was a dominant all-purpose player in youth football. While Corning was growing up in the Denver area, his athletic future seemed better suited to football than snowboarding. Ski and Snowboard, the sport’s national governing body. Since he was 19, Corning has been the appointed liaison for pro snowboarders to the upper management of U.S. I never cared for that.”Ĭorning insists the growth and prosperity of his sport will be tied to revamping its ethos, whether that is real or imagined. He added: “I’ve known how the sport is perceived since I was 7 years old and watched snowboarding videos where you’d see guys smoking weed and drinking and fighting. “People think the sport is basically pothead snowboarders, and if snowboarding wants to grow and become more of a professional sport it needs to change,” Corning said late last year as he sat in a coffee shop near his home in Avon, Colo. And I don’t like falling.”Ĭorning is also convinced snowboarding has an image problem and that he knows how to fix it. He keeps a busy training schedule for one reason: “Stronger means you fall less often. “I definitely never go out there and wing it,” said Corning, 22. ![]()
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