Sebastien TOUTANT

Historical Results

Seb Toots

Golf, poker, motocross, wakeboarding.

Athlete

French, English

Team: Chris Witwicki (CAN).

2010 World Cup in London (Big Air - 12th)

January 2020: Broke several ribs during Aspen X Games 2020 slopestyle qualifications.

2017: Developed a compressed disc in his lower back the year before PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

February 2009: Broke ankle during Air & Style practice. Returned to competition in early 2010.

He's broken his ankles (three times), wrist, jaw and collar bone, separated his shoulder and had other rib injuries in the past. (cbc.ca, 29 Jan 2020)

2010

He began skiing at Val Saint-Come ski resort in Quebec, Canada, before taking up snowboarding at age nine. This was a result of him breaking his skis on a family holiday and having to borrow his brother's old snowboard. (Info 2018)

He was not impressed with the sport at first, but it did not take him long to catch the snowboarding bug. "I went snowboarding and I hated it. I came back and I was like 'I just want to ski'. The next morning I went back up and caught the feeling of how to do it. The next day I was already jumping and I had discovered my new passion." (Info 2018)

"People still ask me why I'm still competing, what I have to prove. I don't have anything to prove right now. I passed from being the kid who nobody knew and when I won contests they were all like 'Wow, who's that guy?', then I became Seb Toots the guy who was winning contests and I was putting pressure on myself. Now I wanna do well, still wanna compete and learn new tricks. When I won't want to compete any more I still have many years in front of me, I'll be filming projects and backcountry and in street. My goals will be different but I'll go on snowboarding." (Canada Snowboard YouTube, 25 Mar 2021)

Workout in the gym and trains during pre-season (October and November) on European glaciers (Saas Fee, Switzerland). "To be able to do the tricks we do nowadays you need to be in shape, your body needs to be in shape for sure, you need more pop, more power, more strength, more energy to practise those tricks. If you don't train, if you don't eat good food, you cannot be a good snowboarder. If you wanna stay in snowboarding for a long time, you are going to have to train, to stretch because it's hard to have a long career in snowboarding." (Canada Snowboard YouTube, 25 Mar 2021)

Winning Olympic gold at PyeongChang 2018. "From being a kid just outside Montreal who started snowboarding for passion and nobody knew, to become Seb Toots a snowboarder who has been competing for so many years, filming video parts, and become the Olympic gold medallist it felt like it was just the right time. It's sick and it's kind of like a drug when you think about it." (Canada Snowboard YouTube, 25 Mar 2021)

"The more you try, the more you will succeed." (Info 2018)