Jake VEDDER

Historical Results

Mountain biking, kite surfing, wakesurfing and skateboarding.

Athlete

Father, Rob. Mother, Michelle. Brother, Mitchel.

English

International Snowboard Training Center (ISTC)

Peter Foley (USA)

Grandfather used to race Nascar (American stock car racing competitions) and has a similar background in racing. "Him being an athlete, dealing with sponsors and having eyes on you to perform all the time." (flaunt.com, 16 Mar 2021)

2014 Nor-Am Cup in Mt. Hood (Snowboard Cross - 16th)
2016 World Cup in Baqueira Beret (Snowboard Cross - 41st)

2018

Started skiing at age two and switched over to snowboarding at age three despite growing up with little to no mountains around him. "My local hill I grew up on is 250 feet vertical, which, if you go to Colorado, you’re talking 30K feet. It’s totally different. It’s what inspired me to be a snowboarder. My dad would take me out of school early, that’s what I liked to do in the wintertime. I’d ride all night till 10pm or 11pm, and go to school the next day." (flaunt.com, 16 Mar 2021)

After witnessing his first ever snowboard cross races, he fell in love with the sport. (flaunt.com, 16 Mar 2021)

"I know my time’s coming, I have to grind. I know very soon, I'll be looking at top-three. I used to think top-10 was good, now I'm at top-three. Just upping the ante. Over the years, you build that confidence." (flaunt.com, 16 Mar 2021)

"In the off-season, a lot of fitness training. I'm learning as I'm getting older, in the summer time to train smarter. I used to try to kill myself in the gym and do all this crazy stuff. I train really hard but train smart, know what your body can recover. You work to a point but it’s really how much your body can recover for the next day so you can keep working." (flaunt.com, 16 Mar 2021)

Feels free when he snowboards. "We all race at the same time so we all load the start gate like racehorses. We get in there, my coaches are next to me. I shed my headphones out, I'm tuning everything out. When I'm either competing or free riding, I always have music on. I'm not thinking about anything. I’m vibing, it's literally what I do. Either having a bad day mentally or woke up on the wrong side of the bed, my thing to put a smile on my face is throw some headphones in and take a few laps around the hill. Go ride by myself. These mountains, mother nature is so beautiful. To be able to ride, to see these Alps, to see these crazy mountains is so wild to me. I grew up in Detroit, you didn't see anything like that." (flaunt.com, 16 Mar 2021)