Birthdate: 9-27-89
Years riding: dunno
Sponsors: Gnarly, Electric, Active Skateshop, Burton, LRG
Hometown: LBC
Current residence: Salt Lake City
Nate: Where have you been this season?
Keegan: Pretty much just been chillin in Utah. Hurt my knee right before I was gonna go on my first trip out to Minnesota. So I’ve just been chillin tryin to get that shit better.
Nate: Whats hot in snowboarding right now?
Keegan: stupid ass teletubby neon suits. haha. thats one end of the spectrum. the other end its really tight girl pants with old school baseball jackets and flipped up baseball hats. People should just wear what they feel comfortable in. If that’s one of the “hot” things in snowboarding then so be it.
Nate: What sucks about snowboarding right now?
Keegan: Neon Suits. 90 percent of Magazines. Jocks. Posed Style. and most contests. haha
Nate: You bunged up your knee how did that happen?
Keegan: Fell off this flatbar from like 12 feet up and just landed awkward.
Nate: How long you out for?
Keegan: Don’t know yet. Its been about a month so far and Im still not better. Hopefully not that much longer.
Nate: What are you doing to get back on a snowboard?
Keegan: Riding bikes and doing physical therapy.
Nate: What have you been doing to fill the snowboardless void?
Keegan: playing skate on xbox haha. Other than that just going out and filming all my homies.
Nate: What do you think about Nike Snowboarding?
Keegan: Nothin but love. People wanna talk shit on Nike because there roots are in basket ball and sports like that but who cares. those kids talkin shit are the sam
e kids riding snowboards make by rollerblade companies…. thats wack.
Nate: Skate 2 comes out soon. Stoked for that?
Keegan: Hell yeah haha. we drove around all day yesterday tryin to come up on that. I guess it doesn’t come out til tomorrow though.
Nate: When your back, who are you gonna be filmin’ with?
Keegan: Im gonna be filmin with Burton for their movie and also with Videograss. Im way hyped on videograss because its finally gonna be a movie I can watch and not have to skip half the parts. Burton is gonna be sick because they got the dough to make some crazy shit happen. fully flared type shit…
Nate: Lots of controversy with the Burton Love with soccer mom snowboard parents. What do you think of that?
Keegan: who cares… its life. your kids see worse stuff on tv.
Nate: Are you designing the Burton Love with Mikkel again for next year?
Keegan: Yeah. We made another series for next year. unfortunately they made the two other ones without our opinion… but mikkel and my boards are dope because we got to design them the way we wanted them.
Nate: What is clandemush.blogspot.com?
Keegan: Mushroom Clan is just all the homies. I guess you could say its our gang haha. We just post shit on there that we think is cool, along with stuff we film.
Nate: Who are you living with in Salt Lake?
Keegan: Cale Zima, and my friend Bryce from Laguna. their dope… Bryce is a good ass cook.
Nate: Obama! Are you stoked on that?
Keegan: Hell yeah. I got to vote for the first time this year and look what happened. haha. so hyped.
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