{"id":1326,"date":"2013-06-12T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2014-05-22T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:42:14","slug":"simon-dumont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/simon-dumont\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 65: Professional American Freeskiier Simon Dumont"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a065
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0June\u00a08
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Simon Dumont<\/b>
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Born in Bethel, Maine, Simon Dumont<\/a> learned to ski at the ripe young age of 3.\u00a0 He comes from a family of skiers, his father used to ski moguls competitively.<\/p>\n

Dumont now has a reputation for pushing the limits.\u00a0 As a child he would do 720\u2019s and backflips on his rollerblades or on snowblades. Dumont also practiced gymnastics for many years, which may have something to do with aerial agility and skill on the slopes.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of Red Bull<\/p><\/div>\n

The Dumont Cup, began in 2009, and hosted its 5th<\/sup> annual event this year at Sunday River.\u00a0 The Dumont Cup is the East Coast\u2019s largest and only major freeskiing event, started to help amateurs outside of Colorado or Utah gain more experience and exposure.<\/p>\n

Dumont has participated in numerous freestyle events, mostly involving the half-pipe and big-air jumps.\u00a0 Dumont has earned 9 Winter X Games medals, more than anyone on the US Half Pipe Team, 2 being gold.\u00a0 Dumont holds the current Guinness Book of World Records for quarter-pipe height.\u00a0 He aired 35 feet (roughly 7 stories) out of a 38-foot quarter-pipe, while performing a cork 900 tail grab.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Dumont joined forces with Jon Olsson (professional freeskier) to form a new freeskiing event, the North American Open at Breckenridge, Colorado.\u00a0 Dumont also participates in Olsson\u2019s \u201cSuper Sessions\u201d, where competitors from all over the world compete to make the best ski video.<\/p>\n

Dumont will be competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics, which is being held in Sochi, Russia.\u00a0 With his help, he petitioned the International Olympic Committee to include the sport.\u00a0 Dumont has his sights set on the gold.<\/p>\n

When not on the slopes, Dumont is back and forth between Maine and Colorado or enjoys kicking back in Florida, where he just opened a restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Woods, host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, held a phone interview with World-Record holding, American freeskiier and proud Mainer Simon Dumont. The two discussed Dumont’s X Game winnings, the progression of the sport of freeskiing and how, with Dumont’s help the sport will be in the 2014 Winter Olympics for the first time. Dumont also reflected how much he enjoyed learning how to ski at Sunday River and how important it is to him to be able to hold his annual Dumont Cup. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}