Alaska | Life of Kai - Season 3 Episode 4

With big wave season ending in Hawaii, Kai Lenny chases a new challenge in Alaska where he meets up with snowboarding icon Travis Rice to learn how to take his surfing to the next level (on snow).
Ride shotgun with Kai Lenny as he redefines what's possible on the world's biggest waves, chasing his dreams to become the ultimate waterman. This is Life of Kai.
Produced by Red Bull Media House.
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[@kevinf4994]

Travis is a national treasure.

[@Optable]

I'll take a two wave overhead hold down in moderately shallow water over a wet Avy in a coastal range, any day of the week. And I've been surfing for 15 years, and snowboarding for 26 years in BC & the PNW. Our bodies are designed to rise to the top in water. Unexperienced in either, there's no difference in the risks and fatal outcomes that can happen both randomly and as predicted. But we're talking about high level shredding in both arenas. When we're talking high consequence conditions in places like Mavs, Chopes, Shippies, Naz, & Jaws, the skis are circling these guys like vultures, and have spent years doing so as professionals in their own right. The biggest difference here, is that surfers attempting drops in these places are well versed in hold downs, breath holding, wave knowledge, etc. with countless loads of past experiences. Creating masters of both riding the waves, and surviving them. Just look at Nathan Florence's Jaws video from yesterday. Every single man in that lineup survived, and there's about 50 clips showcasing the absolute worst scenarios for all of them imaginable. I'm Avy 3 certified. Those 50 clips in heavy slides would all be dead men. Maybe 4 of them rescued unconscious without hope in 25 minutes. The heli cannot just land wherever. There is also only one. The sleds also cannot climb high degree angles. Beacons can malfunction, transmissions can get disrupted, electronics can fail and interfere. Look at avalanche death numbers alone. I'll love both arenas the same until the day I can't move my legs anymore, but the consequences of the unknown depths, weight, size, speed, and type of a heavy avy, far outweigh the standard risk of death in high danger surf conditions everywhere. That's not downplaying the cojones of paddling into code red dry reef at chopes, or the death toll of surfers around the world from drowning. An avy is instant suffocation, buried with the weight of a building on top of you, with minimal chances of even being found in the first place in deep snow, and that's with a beacon. They're just so different. The biggest thing though, is that even guys like Travis Rice or Jeremy Jones, who have been in hundreds of the heaviest slides in the world, have only been buried enough times, to say it's impossible to learn 'mastery of burial.' They have mastered sluff managment, escaping slides, digging people out, avoiding them, assessing conditions, etc. as masters. But one cannot learn how to get out of one they're in, even conscious. Masters of big waves are veteran elites at knowing depth, using their leash, timing, diving, duck diving, staying down, taking them on the head, getting out from below, inflating, staying calm, etc. with thousands of wipeouts under their belts. You take 1,000 heavy slides you're actually buried in, and over 850+ have killed you without question, even with an avy airbag that half the time will not even keep you at surface if conditions are heavy.

[@korocam9137]

We honour and treasure our mountains.. like we honour and treasure the ocean. Big difference a Mountain of water chasing you down trying to drown you through.

[@Optable]

I'll take a two wave overhead hold down in moderately shallow water over a wet Avy in a coastal range, any day of the week. And I've been surfing for 15 years, and snowboarding for 26 years in BC & the PNW. Our bodies are designed to rise to the top in water. Unexperienced in either, there's no difference in the risks and fatal outcomes that can happen both randomly and as predicted. But we're talking about high level shredding in both arenas. When we're talking high consequence conditions in places like Mavs, Chopes, Shippies, Naz, & Jaws, the skis are circling these guys like vultures, and have spent years doing so as professionals in their own right. The biggest difference here, is that surfers attempting drops in these places are well versed in hold downs, breath holding, wave knowledge, etc. with countless loads of past experiences. Creating masters of both riding the waves, and surviving them. Just look at Nathan Florence's Jaws video from yesterday. Every single man in that lineup survived, and there's about 50 clips showcasing the absolute worst scenarios for all of them imaginable. I'm Avy 3 certified. Those 50 clips in heavy slides would all be dead men. Maybe 4 of them rescued unconscious without hope in 25 minutes. The heli cannot just land wherever. There is also only one. The sleds also cannot climb high degree angles. Beacons can malfunction, transmissions can get disrupted, electronics can fail and interfere. Look at avalanche death numbers alone. I'll love both arenas the same until the day I can't move my legs anymore, but the consequences of the unknown depths, weight, size, speed, and type of a heavy avy, far outweigh the standard risk of death in high danger surf conditions everywhere. That's not downplaying the cojones of paddling into code red dry reef at chopes, or the death toll of surfers around the world from drowning. An avy is instant suffocation, buried with the weight of a building on top of you, with minimal chances of even being found in the first place in deep snow, and that's with a beacon. They're just so different. The biggest thing though, is that even guys like Travis Rice or Jeremy Jones, who have been in hundreds of the heaviest slides in the world, have only been buried enough times, to say it's impossible to learn 'mastery of burial.' They have mastered sluff managment, escaping slides, digging people out, avoiding them, assessing conditions, etc. as masters. But one cannot learn how to get out of one they're in, even conscious. Masters of big waves are veteran elites at knowing depth, using their leash, timing, diving, duck diving, staying down, taking them on the head, getting out from below, inflating, staying calm, etc. with thousands of wipeouts under their belts. You take 1,000 heavy slides you're actually buried in, and over 850+ have killed you without question, even with an avy airbag that half the time will not even keep you at surface if conditions are heavy.

[@OceanVibartions]

Epic! Those mountains look so beautiful!

[@fredwarner822]

Who cares how old it is. It's sick.... Be nice to see Kai take Travis surfing...

[@esticards]

Epic!!!

[@헬스하는너구리]

레전드

[@rachelhexterfried3909]

Wondering. Can Travis surf?

[@GuluMammadli]

I'm pretty damn sure he can

[@therrin]

Kai kinda looks like Joe Rogan

[@rachelhexterfried3909]

Well, if he can’t surf who cares. He can certainly snowboard.

[@mikeuptegrove]

This is old. Stop selling us old content.

[@sailcatthecat972]

The babies just turned one, can't be that old!