And that's exactly the way he likes it.
| Julian Carr Julian Carr is best known for skiing off of really big cliffs. Cliffs as big as 210' to be exact. And while Julian's no stranger to stretching the boundaries of his comfort zone on skis, skiing is far from where his pursuit of progress ends. We had the chance to check in with Julian about the postponement of the 2020 Cirque Series, the mountain running race series he conceived, as well as his impromptu trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma at a major cultural intersection in America's history and we learned a lot. The bottom line? Stagnancy likely doesn't exist in Carr's regular vocabulary, because he's constantly pushing the boundaries of his own comfort across every facet of his life to grow as a skier, trail runner, and a humanitarian. So, while not all of us can drop cliffs the size of sky scrapers, we can strive to be equally tenacious in our quests to be better versions of ourselves as skiers and as people. | | | Spyder: Do you find that, while skiing, you find yourself scouting potential Cirque Series locations?
Julian Carr: Most of the courses I've made initiated from me skiing there, knowing how the ridge lines connect, and knowing that [the area] would be a sweet course. And I think that's why some of the races have been so successful is because of that fluency of knowing what is strenuous and hard, still reasonable for all runners, and also kicking your butt so that after, you'll want to kick back at the bottom with a beer and your fellow competitors. So, yeah, a lot of that planning has come from cruising around skiing and having a sense for exactly what that course is going to look like. | | |
S: You took to Instagram to share a trip you took this summer to Tulsa following George Floyd's death, and right around a scheduled Trump rally. Tell us a little bit about that experience and what drove your interest in going down there at that time.
JC: There was such an interesting intersection of the height of the Black Lives Matter movement and Trump's choice to hold his first rally in Tulsa; originally planned on the 100th anniversary of the "Black Wall Street" Massacre that happened in the Greenwood District [of Tulsa]. I thought it was just a strange choice to pick that location on that date, combined with BLM, combined with the pandemic. And I had my own preconceived notions of what I thought BLM protestors would be like or what I thought Trump supporters would be like, and I decided rather than rely on these notions, I wanted to go experience them in-person with an open mind. So, my whole goal was to go without taking any particular side, and just purely go and see, tangibly, what these groups were like for myself in such a charged civic climate that affects everyone regardless of whether you like to get involved in the situation or not. For me, I like to get involved in the conversation and contribute when I can, but I felt like in order to do that I needed to go see and interact for myself.
Read more about Julian's experience in Tulsa in an article he wrote here. *The Spyder brand doesn't take a political stance. However we do encourage everyone to step outside of their comfort zones in a safe way in order to be well informed and continue to grow both in skiing and in life. | | | | | | | | | Please Unsubscribe if you do not want us to contact you any more with information about our goods and services. Please note that we may still have to contact you with service-related updates (for example, product safety alerts or recalls)
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