Tucked in northern Wyoming, where the old West still reigns, sits the small town of Cody, built in 1896. Past the museums, saloons and log cabins is Bighorn Basin, a labyrinth of steep mountains, cold rivers, and hidden slivers of frozen waterfalls.
To self-professed ice climbing “addict” Aaron Mulkey, the mountains surrounding Cody offer a lifetime of adventure. Like a treasure hunter, he’ll ride snowmobiles for hours, and thrash up steep hillsides with hopes to find hidden gems. To date, he has more than 100 first ascents outside of Cody, some hanging ice daggers, some frozen smears of white, others a mix of ice and rock. “My passion has always been first ascents,” he says of his 20 years with the sport.
Tools on the rock, feet in the air, another Mulkey first ascent.
Mulkey is one of the country’s top ice climbers, and his favorite place to climb is in the hills surrounding his home. That’s why this year he’s writing a guidebook to his local areas, complete with maps and approach/descent descriptions so others can enjoy it too. His as-of-yet-unnamed guide is due out fall 2020. He’s spending this season revisiting his old favorite routes to describe and photograph them for his new book. “It’s the remote wilderness aspect that keeps me here. There are few visitors. There’s still true adventure,” he says.
In addition to his work as a guidebook author, Mulkey works full-time in an office and is a husband and father. Yet he still makes it out to climb every weekend, regardless of conditions.
He’s out of the house at dawn and home each night past dark. In this time he’ll climb hundreds of feet of ice and cover a dozen snow-covered miles by trail. “Cody will never be the most popular place because it’s wild,” he says, “Out here, it’s grizzly and wolf country and you won’t see anyone else.”
Since there are so few local climbers to choose from, each weekend he recruits partners from out of town, many of whom drive four to five hours to meet him for exploratory missions in the mountains. Outings involve getting lost, hiking all day to find nothing to climb, and other times, after rounding one more corner, discovering routes of his dreams — multi-hundred-foot ribbons of white and frozen waterfalls of fat ice. His film Pursuit shows this journey.
These outings aren’t just for recreation. Mulkey needs to climb to balance out his high-stress job. Monday through Friday, he works as vice president of a $200 million pharmaceutical company, where he oversees a staff of 800. His intense weekends balance out this stress. By Monday morning, when he’s limping into work and his arms feel like jelly, his mind is swept clean and he’s ready to get back to the grind.
Ice climbing also comes with its dangers. Like the time 15 years ago when a pillar Mulkey was climbing on broke off, sending him flying through the air. When his rope stopped him, he found the ice pick on one of his ice axes lodged into his bicep. The blade had cut him to the bone. “It felt like I got shot in the arm,” he says. Despite his arm throbbing and tensing up, Mulkey continued climbing for the next two days. During that visit, he’d discovered an area so incredible that he needed to climb; it was like an addiction. He ticked off seven first ascents during that trip – “I felt like a kid in a candy store.”
A figure on a landscape.Aaron Mulkey collection
When temps began dropping this fall in the mountains above Cody, Mulkey has already logged five new routes for the year and had his eyes on several more. “My routes are for anyone that wants an adventure, he says. “But it’s not a paved path that will bring you there. These remote routes in an alpine setting provide an experience you won’t get anywhere else.”
As our lives have become more wired and interconnected, increasingly Uber-ed and Insta-ed and Amazon Primed over the last 10 years, the need to disconnect is only more amplified. Finding the time to get away, and the means to unplug and test oneself in nature: That’s one battle. Finding the reason why is another. Over the last decade, our partners at the Adventure Sports Network Group toiled to provide that guidance, documenting the worlds of outdoor action and adventure sports by capturing the colorful lives of folks who put their interests outside the box first. We asked the editors from the group’s hallowed collection of titles to pick the long-form features that inspired deep thought and direct action (and impassioned reaction) from their core audiences. And sure enough, it was well-crafted profiles of the most committed characters and the overlooked destinations, the ones thriving on the margins that rose to the surface and provided the most profound revelations about who we are and what we seek outside. Here are the top recommendations for the last decade’s most impactful reads picked by the editors who deliver SURFER, POWDER, BIKE, SNOWBOARDER, Canoe & Kayak, TransWorld SKATEboarding, Newschoolers and SUP.
Mark Occhilupo at the Coke Classic, Manly Beach, 1987, three years after setting the surf world on fire, though eventually run down in the world title chase by Tom Carroll. When Occ eventually returned to claim the title in 1999, there was a notable absentee on Tour. “Don’t tell anyone,” he whispers, “but the year I won the world title, Kelly wasn’t there.”Courtesy SURFER Magazine/Peter Simons
Being Mark Occhilupo
Looking back at the last decade, SURFER has showcased shifts in the sport’s culture and its defining events, stories that Editor Todd Prodanovich says “helped us make sense of Andy Irons legacy, laugh at ourselves for falling into surf-hipster cliches, contextualize the sweeping changes to competitive surfing and feel genuinely awestruck at the kinds of off-grid adventure some surfers are still able to find in this ever-shrinking world.” However, for Prodanovich, it’s the definitive profile of Australian icon Mark Occhilupo that he ranks as his all-time favorite feature in SURFER‘s storied run, entering its 60th year in 2020.
“It’s unequivocally the greatest comeback story in the history of surfing,” Prodanovich says. “Sean Doherty perfectly captures the strange charisma of Mark Occhilupo and paints a picture of a life truly unlike any other in surfing or otherwise.” Read the 2015 story by Sean Doherty.
As inviting as Lunada Bay can look during a solid swell with glassy conditions, the notorious localism of the area has kept all but the boldest visitors from paddling out.Courtesy SURFER Magazine / Woodworth
Battle for the Bay
Beyond overlooked corners of surf culture on “the other North Shore” of Lake Superior, to tracking the rise in wave pools, Prodanovich points readers closer to home with a deep look into localism and its discontents with the attention-grabbing lawsuits from 2017 that embroiled Southern California’s Lunada Bay. Prodanovich calls it a “strange story of the downfall of one of California’s most notorious groups of local surfers, and what it could mean for the practice of localism as a whole.” Read the 2017 story by Ashtyn Douglas.
Deadwood, S.D., would never be considered a ski town, unless you really considered the scene at nearby Torrey Peak.Courtesy Powder Magazine / Robin O’Neill
Heart of Gold
For POWDER Editor Sierra Shafer, a decade that has divided attention by over-serving stories is best remembered with pieces that cast the spotlight on timeless quality that too often goes under-appreciated. That recognition means odes to tangible symbols of ski culture like the humble wire ticket wicket, or a deeper look at a color-blind Swiss ski photographer who captures mesmerizing drone imagery. In the case of destination coverage, Shafer selected colorful portraiture of ski hills from a private in-holding deep inside the heart of B.C.’s Cathedral Provincial Park to a pair of unlikely U.S. resorts in the Black Hills and the Catskills. Read the 2019 story on a small South Dakota ski community that hitches its wagons to mining, by Clare Menzel.
Laszlo Vajtayand rips apart one of Plattekill’s signature bump lines. Plattekill, New York.Courtesy Powder Magazine / Dave Reddick
The other under-appreciated side of skiing that POWDER highlighted over the last 10 years were the undiscussed human ones. That goes for individuals with the launch of the title’s award-winning Human Factor series — exploring the psychological elements involved with decision-making when skiing in avalanche terrain — as well as the collective labor that powers the ski experience. That is, the thousands of J-1 visa workers employed at ski resorts around the U.S. each winter, bussing tables, bumping chairs, checking lift tickets. By shadowing the short-term foreign workers at Lake Tahoe’s Homewood resort, the magazine gave readers a deeper look at what, and who, make ski resorts go round. Read the 2018 story by Megan Michelson
For SNOWBOARDER Editorial Director Pat Bridges, the choice of a story subject to memorialize was obvious: Jake Burton Carpenter, the man who Bridges says, “impacted the riding life more than any other.” After Burton Carpenter’s recent passing in November, Bridges described his pioneering role not as the first to step on a snowboard or found a company, but as “the first to define himself as a snowboarder,” and a man who made snowboarding his life’s work. In Bridges’ sprawling 2016 interview with Burton on the eve of his company’s 40th anniversary, the two candidly discuss how Burton Carpenter started making boards, being outlawed into bumming snowcat rides at night, his early partnership with Craig Kelly (and its legal fallout with Sims), developing highback bindings, as well as sensitive subjects like his bouts with cancer and Miller Fisher Syndrome and its devastating results: paralysis, suicidal thoughts, and open-heart surgery. Burton Carpenter’s outlook on his recovery and the fire that has sustained his company is certainly worth the longer look. Read the Sept. 2016 interview.
Uncovering trails has long been a tenet of BIKE‘s destination coverage. With the decade’s shift from print- to digital-first marquee content releases, Editor Nicole Formosa highlights HUAYHUASH as the place where an epic ends-of-the-earth tale successfully met innovative digital-first storytelling formats. The interactive, four-chapter parallax scrolling feature incorporates words, photos, video clips of three Colorado-based friends who set out on a self-supported mountain bike circumnavigation of one of the world’s most wonderful and wicked mountain ranges — the Huayhuash of the Peruvian Andes. And the result is a lasting story (the accompanying film remains one of BIKE‘s most-viewed YouTube films of all time). See the 2014 story by Joey Schusler and Thomas Woodson.
Colin Meagher’s wife Nikki Hollatz on a dawn patrol ride in Washington’s Entiat Mountains, where Meagher made this picture that graced BIKE’s Dec. 2017 cover.Courtesy BIKE / Colin Meagher Colin MeagherCourtesy BIKE / Tyler Roemer
The View at Twilight
Explorations to distant lands aren’t the only BIKE stories that stuck out to Formosa. There’s plenty of inspiration to be plumbed from profiles of eccentric riders — whether it’s Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford and the 12-year-old neighbor who got him into riding mountain bikes; or Peter Donner, a quirky Utah canyon-dweller who does the same seven-hour, 50-mile ride every day of the riding season — and ordinary places, like the football-crazed deep South, where Kristin Butcher documented the lasting impact of high school mountain biking leagues. However, few stories strike as many nerves as the powerful feature on Colin Meagher, one of the sport’s most respected photographers, documenting his gripping battle through ALS that continues after being handed what amounted to a death sentence with the diagnosis. Read Mike Ferrentino’s June 2019 feature.
Courtesy BIKE / Bruno Long
The Tao of Casey Brown
No BIKE list would be complete without a nod to this feature on Casey Brown and how her wild upbringing (and suspect circumstances surrounding her brother’s death) have shaped her riding career. “She was just coming onto the scene,” Formosa says, “but is now one of the most recognizable women in the sport.” Read Formosa’s 2015 feature.
Illustration by Martin Simpson.Courtesy Canoe & Kayak / Martin Simpson
The Incident at Burro Creek
As a longtime C&K contributor, Tyler Williams is used to penning tales from the annals of whitewater, like his 2018 feature on the life and legacy of Doug Tompkins, or this August 2012 classic on the historic Canoandes expedition by a group of Polish students who slipped the Iron Curtain and changed river-running forever. Two years ago, however, Williams inserted himself, inadvertently, in one of the most gripping tales in Canoe & Kayak‘s 46-year run. He recounts a harrowing run-in with an armed landowner in Arizona that led to shots fired and a 22.5-year prison sentence. Read Williams 2018 account.
Kelty on the lower Marañon, July 2017.Courtesy Canoe & Kayak / Ariel Diaz
As far as superlative accomplishment goes, the mighty Amazon saw its share of firsts as well, from Darcy Gaechter becoming the first woman to kayak the entire Amazon in 2013, as well as West Hansen’s 2012 fastest source-to-sea descent from a new, most distant source discovered (and paddled) by exploratory kayaking legend Rocky Contos earlier that year. However, a pair of C&K analysis piece by former editor Jeff Moag: one on an Amazon paddler’s fraudulent world record claim with Guinness; another on the tragedy of Emma Kelty’s murder during a separate crack at “the Everest of source-to-sea descents,” has us asking harder questions about why paddlers undertake long solo endurance expeditions — and what they hope to gain in return. Read Moag’s 2017 story.
Beyond their statement film release of last year’s DAEWON, a documentary feature covering the career highlights and uncertain life moments throughout the 30-year-career of skateboarding legend Daewon Song, as well as an interview series tracking skateboarding’s inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics, TransWorld SKATEboarding continues documenting the sport’s next innovators and influencers. TW SKATE Editor Jaime Owens was quick to highlight an opportunity he had last year to capture a potent mix of talent that is the Volcom Skate team taking on New York City. See Owens’ June photo essay here.
Tony Hawk responds to allegations made in All This Mayhem
Chad Zurinskas in 1999.Courtesy Newschoolers / Brent Benson
The Story of Chad’s Gap
While a few notable interviews emerge atop Newschoolers’ best freestyle ski stories of the last decade — from the first with the ever-creative Eric Pollard in 2015 and its recent followup, to a 2014 conversation with the endlessly stylish Phil Casabon — Editor Twig Spensley highlights one that cuts a little deeper in ‘Unbuckling the Suicide Belt,’ as well as the curious consideration of the legendary Chad’s Gap, brought to life by Salt Lake City photographer Brent Benson, who witnessed nearly every session at the Utah backcountry ski jump of jumps, “from the very first kicker built by Chad Zurinskas to Tanner Hall’s redemption run in 2017.” Read the full story by Emma Renly.
The last decade saw the explosive rise and then gradual contraction of a new segment of water sports as standup paddling spread quickly across the globe. SUP Magazine provided a voice for the burgeoning sport as a wave of brands, athletes, innovators, instructors, event organizers and acolytes alike embraced different disciplines of the sport, from open ocean and surf zones to lakes and rivers. At ever stop, the story remained the same: an exciting act of pioneering something new, or at least a new way to experience and understand bodies of water. Whether it was urban explorations and wild expeditions or first standup river descents and race divisions, the frontier feel permeated the coverage. Former Editor Will Taylor’s first-person take on one of the sport’s most sacred tests, the legendary Molokai 2 Oahu race, marked a high point, as did former Associate Editor Jack Haworth’s 2018 take on how Puerto Rican paddlers recovered in the wake of Hurricane Maria. For a single event marking a notable first however, few rival the excitement of Chris Bertish’s solo and unsupported 93-day crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Read Haworth’s 2017 coverage of the landing in Antigua.
One major concern this time of year is how to undo the excess of the holidays. Helping the gut microbiome is a start. Health-Ade Kombucha is a fermented tea that contains probiotics—the same stuff you get from miso, sauerkraut, and yogurt—which can help add to the healthy bacteria in your gut. Have a serving in the morning to aid in digestion throughout the day.
Kombucha, whose roots extend back a couple of centuries to China, starts as black tea. It’s combined with bacteria—a big slimy mushroom-looking disc called a SCOBY—and for a few days to a week, the bacteria pull the sugar from the tea and turns it into a fermented, fizzy, sour drink. And while there’s not enough alcohol to get you drunk, there’s a slight bit of it in there as a byproduct of fermentation. (Health-Ade takes four weeks per kombucha brew.)
Of course, the probiotics are the star of the show. In addition to regulating gut health, probiotics are thought to reduce the duration of fatigue after intense exercise, as well as combat depression. Health-Ade boasts a series of healthy brews with none of the additive sugars that more inauthentic brands introduce to their drinks. Visithealth-ade.com.
Here’s some added motivation to hit the gym: People who lift weights weekly have a 25 percent lower risk of developing colon cancer than those who don’t, according to a study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., so scientists at the National Cancer Institute are eager to get a handle on prevention, so they launched a longitudinal study including 215,122 participants. While the link between regular aerobic activity and cancer reduction is relatively well-known, the NCI wanted to investigate weight lifting, specifically, and how effective it is at fighting colon cancer.
Researchers found strength training about two hours per week reduced the risk of colon cancer even further. The reason: Developing more muscle helps maintain healthy blood sugar levels, which research shows is important in lowering the risk of common cancers.
While weight lifters saw a significantly lower risk of colon cancer, they also experienced a drop in a lower risk of kidney cancer when compared to subjects who didn’t lift. Combined with recent research about prebiotic foods and their relationship to cancer risk reduction, it’s clear that leading a fit and healthy lifestyle—with a bit of pumping iron thrown in for good measure—is the key to curbing your risk of cancer.
From the tragic death of Andy Irons, the birth of the WSL, the Brazilian storm, the wavepool revolution, and so much more, the past 10 years were packed with unforgettable moments and historical significance. But, at this point, it still feels too early to define it. Was there any clear theme or direction? Or did the surf world move in a hundred directions all at once? That’s hard to say today. Maybe later.
That said, there were many individual standout moments that we won’t soon forget. So, in the interest of defining them, we asked four experts for their opinion on what the most important moments of the decade were, in four different areas: big-wave surfing, aerial surfing, women’s surfing and longboarding.
First up is three-time Big Wave World Champ, and 7-time XXL winner, Grant “Twiggy” Baker, who gave us his insights on which waves–and which days—helped define the decade.
THE 2010 MAVERICKS SURF CONTEST: THE FIRST BIG-WAVE CONTEST IN WAVES PUSHING 60-FEET
The 10’s started with a big-wave bang, in the form of the Mavericks Surf Contest, which ran in mid-February of 2010. Eventually won by Chris Bertish, the event was a big leap forward in the paddle revolution. “The Mavs event in 2010 was the first big-wave event in waves pushing the 60-foot mark, and it left the surfing world reeling at what was possible for the future,” Twiggy tells us. “It gave us a glimpse of what could happen when a big-wave event and giant waves came together, and it forced surfers to push their limits.”
That day Twiggy, along with Greg Long, Carlos Burle, Shane Dorian, Shawn Dollar and event winner Bertish would re-write the book of big-wave paddle surfing. (It’s also the day Shane Dorian copped a two-wave hold down and nearly drowned, inspiring the invention of the inflatable vests worn by every big-wave surfer today.) Twig continues: “Looking back, that really was a monumental event, and it set the tone for the rest of the decade.”
THE BIG-WAVE CONTINGENT PADDLES MASSIVE PE’AHI IN 2012
“I remember January 4, 2012 well,” says Twiggy. “It was the swell everyone had been waiting for to paddle out at Jaws. Led by Shane Dorian, [Dave] Wassel, Ian Walsh, Kohl Christensen, Marcio Freire, Danilo Couto, Yuri Soledade, Carlos Burle and Nate Fletcher, the crew redefined what was possible as far as paddling into the world’s most perfect big wave.”
In years prior, a swell like the one in January of 2012 would have been buzzing with skis at Jaws. Not this time. It was the day and swell the big-wave paddle contingent had been waiting years for. “That one day sent the sport catapulting forward in one giant stride,” Twiggy continues. “It opened the door for every big swell since.”
GARRETT MCNAMARA RIDES 78-FOOT WAVE AT NAZARE IN 2011
Love him or hate him, Garrett McNamara put Portugal’s Naźare on the mainstream map. McNamara’s tow bomb at Naźare in November of 2011 captured the world’s attention and was featured on every news outlet from CNN to Good Morning America. But, according to Twiggy, two of the last decade’s most impactful moments in big wave surfing actually happened off Portugal’s coast.
“The first was McNamara’s 78-foot wave in 2011, which introduced the world to the fact that the biggest rideable waves in the world are in Europe,” says Twiggy. “And the second was in November of 2017, when Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa broke the previous big-wave record, surfing an 80-foot wave at Naźare. But, more important than those two waves individually, a core group of remarkable surfers have dedicated their lives this last decade to riding the biggest, most dangerous wave in the world off Portugal’s coast.”
CLOUDBREAK GOES XXL IN 2012; ‘CT EVENT CALLED OFF
In 2012, during the waiting period for the Volcom Fiji Pro, Cloudbreak delivered one of surfing’s most historic days. And while surf fans hoped to see the world’s best ‘CT surfers compete in truly massive surf, it wasn’t to be, and after a few heats in dangerous, increasing surf (and a serious injury to Raioni Monteiro’s knee), the WSL called the comp off.
Fortunately, they kept the cameras rolling, live streaming (arguably) the best session of the past 10 years. “Just like that, Cloudbreak, a wave that had been off-limits to the surfing public since its discovery in the early ’80s, revealed herself as an incredibly frightening, beautiful spectacle,” Twiggy says about that day. “That one session showed what was possible as far as getting barreled in 20-foot surf.”
THE 2018 JAWS INVITATIONAL RUNS IN SOME OF THE LARGEST SURF EVER CONTESTED
“In November 2018, Mark Healey, Billy Kemper, Russell Bierke, Alex Botelho, Ryan Hipwood and I were sent out to compete against each other [at Jaws] in waves like I’d never tried to catch before, or since, for that matter,” laughs Twiggy. “Ten wave 60-foot sets were pouring through the lineup, with 20-knot offshore winds making them almost impossible to catch. But, just as it did at Mavs back in 2010, competition in waves like that forced our hands, and the rest is history.”
Of course, the event itself was controversial. After that first heat, with waves getting larger by the set, Tour Commissioner Mike Parsons deemed the day unsafe, and called competition off. “Even though Billy Kemper was actually knocked unconscious, and I was sent to the medical boat with burst lung capillaries, Billy was bummed,” continues Twiggy. “After the decision, he said something like: ‘It is gnarly, it is dangerous, but this is what we live and train for. You want the biggest, nutsest wave in the world? This is it.’”
According to Twiggy, that day was just a fleeting look at what’s to come. Next time, the best big-wave surfers in the world will all be ready. “The future is waiting,” Twiggy continues. “That heat was just a taste. Nothing is too big or too dangerous anymore. I’m confident the next generation will take things to the next level, and I’m just stoked to be along for the ride.”
This article originally appeared on Surfer.com and was republished with permission.
This is Part 3 of my ongoing conversations about the upcoming Olympics (Read Part 1 with Josh Friedberg here and Part 2 with Tony Hawk here). Skateboarding being in the Olympics is a funny thing. Everybody has an opinion on something that has never happened. I would chalk that up to how much each and every one of us loves skateboarding as it is—pre-Olympics—and our fears, real or imagined that being a part of the biggest sports event on the planet might change that.
For this installment, I checked in with Danny Way—on the eve of him celebrating 30 years of professional skateboarding—to get his two cents on how he thinks Tokyo 2020 will affect the broader culture and specifically the counterculture of skateboarding. I also asked him—as arguably the founder of the Mega Ramp—what his response was to the absence of one at Tokyo next year. And finally, as a company owner (of Plan B and with deep ties to DC Shoes) I wanted to know how Way felt about Nike’s outsized role next year dressing the skaters from Team USA and beyond. Here were his responses.
What are your thoughts on skateboarding joining the Olympics in general?
You know, it’s cool that skateboarding has gotten that validation—that it has matured to that level. It’s cool to see—it’s been around for a long time and it’s paid a lot of dues to sort of get to this point of mainstream recognition and finally being accepted. On the other hand, the part of skateboarding that we were all attracted to was the fact that it was non-conventional, it was this subculture of society. The rebelliousness of skateboarding was a big part of what a lot of us were initially attracted to. I feel like the motivation at that level (the Olympics) and the mentality that it’s creating among the skateboarders is kind of moving away from that rebellious side and moving more toward things like athletics and a structured, machine-like mentality. Also, the big corporations that are coming in and posting up in the industry—what was so special about skateboarding was that we owned our own industry. At different times that has changed but for the most part it had been skateboarder owned.
So it’s a little bittersweet?
Yeah. It’s something to celebrate. But at the same time there are some things that are happening with the Olympics that skateboarding culture would typically rebel against in the past. I’m a little bit like “How important are the Olympics?” They’ve gotten everyone to kind of give up their morals about skateboarding culture to be a part of it. That part to me is a little like, “Okay, how far does this go?” Over time, is that aspect of skateboard culture going to be lost because of this? I don’t know, but I hope not. A lot of the younger kids that weren’t a part of the generations that were affected by that endemic culture and community and industry don’t really know what they’re missing out on or what that’s about so they don’t really have the same protective mentality to preserve that. I don’t know. We need the Phelps’s (RIP) and guys like that around to kind of blow the whistle here and there.
Tweaked Indy air, Feb, 1989.Photo: Courtesy of Grant Brittain/TransWorld SKATEboarding
Having lived through the ‘80s NSA contest model that then gave way to the video part model that emerged around ‘88/’89 and took over with Shackle Me Not, Hokus Pokus, Questionable, Virtual Reality, and onward—where do you think we’re at right now? Is the video part format still relevant? Are we in the social media format now? Or are we just in a no-man’s land with the Olympics coming?
There are still guys that are succeeding on that path. There are still some really big guys that don’t conform, like a Wes Kremer or somebody like that. He’s never going to go out and try to qualify for the Olympics. He’s not on social media. He’s so f*cking good and badass. But it takes guys like that to keep that culture, that aspect of skateboarding alive and there are a lot of people that are still dedicated to that. But with all these public skateparks and all these young kids that never really got a taste of that rebellious side coming into it. There’s going to be—and it kind of already exists a little bit—a little bit more of a line between it in the past but over the years it has gotten more grey. All of the guys that you wouldn’t have expected to compete are competing now.
Is it possible that it just makes the counterculture—the rebellious side push back harder though? Will it galvanize the “core” for lack of a better term?
It could strengthen that aspect, that’s true. There will be more separation to the point where there will be two separate lanes. As long as there is the Olympics and platforms like that, obviously there will be corporate money and some people will go that path and some guys will still go for the endemic deals. But as someone who lived through that earlier era of skateboarding like I did, that rebellious aspect has been pretty special to me and I’m definitely protective of that part of it.
Danny Way, 360 flip. August, 2008.Photo: Courtesy of Jody Morris/TransWorld SKATEboarding
As far as the terrain they’re going to have Park and Street. And some of the reasoning was that they needed enough women/girls for each event and that there weren’t enough for Mega and Vert. Do you have any reaction to Mega not being in there, since in my mind that was a terrain that you sort of founded?
Here’s my opinion, and this is just mine so I’m not saying anything is right or wrong—this is just my perspective. When I think of the Olympics, I think of—there are so many judged contests already, so many traditionally formatted contests from Street League to X Games to everything else—while the Olympics has such a nostalgic criteria of metering height and distance and speed and things like that which would bring in some classic minded Olympic events. So instead of having these two traditional judged events that we are used to doing and that there are so many contests like already—make something unique. Do high air—like Mega Ramp quarter pipe “biggest air.” They could have highest Ollie and things like that. And maybe even have a judged event too, but it would’ve been cool if they brought some of that aspect to it. Just to be different from everything already in our world and to follow the traditional Olympic theme.
That’s actually a good point.
It would make it that much cooler and it would be its own thing. It wouldn’t overlap or contrast so much with our world or be such a sellout thing if they had their own criteria and their own signature style events that were Olympic themed. On top of that they bent the rules. It used to be that you couldn’t be a professional athlete to compete in the Olympics. They seem to overlook that rule so I don’t know why they’re so hung up on the male/female thing. The only way those events (Vert and Mega) are going to progress potentially on the Olympic platform is if they get that exposure so that girls start doing it.
People also talked about the “wow” factor of the Mega and how it seems like the easiest event for mainstream audiences to understand. Do you think that’s a lost opportunity?
From a marketing standpoint for the Olympics, having a Mega Ramp would be a massive draw. I do think it’s the easiest event for people who know nothing about skateboarding to watch and understand. I think with technical street skating it’s almost like expecting a bunch of people to speak a different language without ever having heard it. Don’t get me wrong, I love watching street skating and for the most part it’s impressive to anyone who watches it.
What about traditional Vert?
Vert has a very historical place in skateboarding. Vert was what pulled skateboarding along through multiple decades. It paved the way for a long time. The excitement of Vert skating to the general public was something that helped the mainstream understand it. I understand the reasons for picking what they did but at the same time it seems to me they are the Olympics and could make their own rules if they wanted. It doesn’t seem like anybody made a big deal about the money factor—people getting paid, even though they’re supposed to be amateurs at the Olympics.
Helicopter drop, December, 1997.Photo: Courtesy of Dave Swift/TransWorld SKATEboarding
What do you tell your riders and teammates who might be going next year? What kind of advice would you give them?
Well, if you’re going to go jump on that stage and be a part of that, you may as well capitalize on it in the highest way possible. There’s no point in jumping on that stage unless you’re ready to take advantage of it. Why conform to allowing the Olympics let Nike monetize branding on the skate events otherwise? That’s something that skate culture would never have approved of or allowed in any other event.
Let me just ask you as someone who has deep ties to DC and as an owner of Plan B—as a company owner—how do you feel about every rider wearing Nike apparel for this? From what I understand all the uniforms and clothing worn will be made by Nike. Whether that person rides for Nike or not. Skaters can still wear any shoes though.
To each their own. Obviously, Nike is getting theirs and they’ll do whatever they can to take as much presence and market share as they can. But again, if this were X Games and something like this happened, I think everyone would boycott it. Nobody would compete if that were the deal.
I’m not sure how overt the logos will be, but the jumpsuits we’ve seen for Team USA definitely have a small Nike logo on them.
It’s just my opinion but if you’re going to get the blessing of skate culture at that level it might be worth working with the culture a little bit more to do things right. I think they [the Olympics] could have been slightly more courteous to the culture and also to the other brands that helped pave the way to get skateboarding to the platform that they are trying to capitalize on.
How are you doing these days with your own skating? When can we expect to see something new from you? Are you still motivated to film a part or even just new tricks? Are you healthy?
I’m good. I mean I’m never healthy [laughs]. I’m skating here and there, but I have a couple of things that I need some maintenance surgery on that I’m trying to figure out right now. I’ve been skating though. I’ve accumulated enough stuff—I have a little part that I filmed on my ramp in Hawaii that I’ve been sitting on. I’ve just been trying to figure out when to release it. It’s done though. I’m trying to make a plan with DC to release that in 2020. But hopefully I can get some surgery and get some more footage.
Is it just a physical battle at this point? Just bumping up against the limitations of the body?
Yeah, it’s not for a lack of motivation. I’m fired up to go skating and I’ve actually been skating a lot on my own. I’ve been street skating at the park. Skating the ledges and stuff like that and it’s a battle. To be honest, skating the Mega Ramp is in ways easier than street skating for me now. I know how to fall and avoid those areas of my body that are so fed up with me smashing them.
It would actually be rad to see footage of you just cruising around a skatepark and skating a ledge.
I’ve been posting some stories here and there but nothing too spectacular. Otherwise, I’m stoked on what I have for that Hawaii part. I’ve been sitting on that footage for a minute, trying to find a vehicle to put it out.
This is that big Euro Gap thing you guys had built in the documentary (Waiting For Lightning[‘12])?
Yeah, exactly I had filmed a part on that ramp. So hopefully that will be out in 2020.
Photo: Courtesy of TransWorld SKATEboarding
That was pretty much all my questions. I guess from the broad strokes perspective—are the Olympics going to make skate culture stronger or weaker?
I hope that skateboarding culture—actually I know that skateboarding culture—will be strong enough to survive regardless. It would have been nice if they were a little bit more conscious of trying to harmonize with skate culture though.
One thing Tony [Hawk] mentioned was that maybe the first pass won’t be perfect but maybe the next Olympics, maybe the second time we’ll be able to get it closer to what we want.
Like I said, any other event platform that would have come in with that mentality—if it was X Games or something—people wouldn’t tolerate some of these things people have agreed to with the Olympics.
The whole thing sounds extremely complex. Even to get it to where it is now, we’re being told they moved mountains. That it could’ve been ten times worse if they hadn’t collaborated with them or whatever.
Yeah, I’m sure it could have been ten times worse. But hopefully if it was then nobody would have shown up.
It might have been better just to have barrel jumping or something like you said. Have Wes Kremer jump some barrels?
[Laughs] But again, if they actually would have gone that route I think it would have made more sense and been it’s own thing. Like longest manual, highest air, SF style hill-bombing contests or whatever. It is what it is. I’m sure Tony [Hawk] feels the same way. It’s not really our time anymore. At the end of the day, I don’t really care because I won’t be competing in the Olympics. But at the same time, if this happened a decade ago I might have been a lot more concerned about it.
Yeah, these interviews were more just checking in with people who have had a long-term love affair with skateboarding and how they view this new thing coming in. We have the luxury of not being the people competing but I still also think it’s important to hear those opinions.
That said, there will be a lot of people who have a first perception of skateboarding based on viewing this.
Exactly, we all remember that first glimpse. Even if it was in Police Academy 4 or Back to the Future. You never forget it. These Olympics will be that Back to the Future moment for billions of people.
And the skateboarding talent itself I’m sure will be next level. They will be absolutely ripping. I think that it will look rad to the kids who have never seen it and it will still be a good representation of skateboarding. I just feel like it could be a lot more powerful if they would have used the easier to understand aspects of skateboarding for the people who don’t really understand the language. It’s going to be confusing for a lot of the people watching.
Marty McFly introducing skateboarding & skitching to a whole new generation in 1985’s Back To the Future.Photo: Courtesy of TransWorld SKATEboarding
Tune into the Olympics on Friday, July 24, 2020 on NBC along with 5 billion other humans. Or don’t—and go skate a Mega Ramp a la Heath that day instead.
We all know that excess salt is bad for the heart. Now researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City suggest that too much salt in the long run can hinder a person’s ability to think. The resulting study, published in the journal Nature, linked high-salt diets to cognitive impairment in mice.
Their work showed that in mice, the salt lowers nitric oxide levels in the brain’s blood vessels. This decrease produces a rise in certain enzymes that alter important proteins in neurons, which then hinders neuronal pathways involved in cognition. In lab animals, a brain change happened in two months. The change also shows an accumulation of tau deposits, or fully saturated proteins, that presage Alzheimer’s disease.
Neuroscientist Costantino Iadecola says humans would notice poorer cognition after several years on a high-salt diet. But there is good news for those who have overdone the salt: “Going back to a regular diet completely reverses the cognitive deficits,” Iadecola says.
In a press release from Weill Cornell Medicine, he also made clear where the most dangerous salt comes from. “The stuff that is bad for us doesn’t come from a saltshaker, it comes from processed food and restaurant food… We’ve got to keep salt in check. It can alter the blood vessels of the brain and do so in [a] vicious way.”
While the series has some major Game of Thrones-vibes, it has its own style—and some incredible fight scenes. As he’s shown in the past while playing Superman in Batman v Superman and in other movies like Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Immortals, Cavill sure knows his way around a brawl.
Now that the series is fully streaming, Cavill was asked about his favorite fight scenes and monster moments in the series so far while playing the main character of Geralt of Rivia. In an interview with The Wrap, Cavill said that among the monsters on the show, it wasn’t a battle with a striga, golden dragon, or a kikimora that was his favorite.
“I’m going to give a bit of a truly backwards answer here,” Cavill said in the interview. “My favorite monster fights were probably the human monsters I got to fight in Episode 1….OK, OK. I would say the striga fight would probably be my favorite monster fight out of the show.”
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That striga fight comes in Episode 3 and it’s among the grosser-looking monsters of the show. Cavill also spoke about filming that fight scene, which is one of the best battles of the first season:
“Well, the funny thing is with anything you shoot is what ends up on screen may be very different from what you see on screen,” he said. “There’s always the editing process, which is where storytellers get to express their vision for the story and that means the whole thing you shoot may end up looking very, very different. But as far as that actual fight went, I was fortunate enough to be working with a stunt performer in a suit for parts of it. So I had a fairly good idea of what it would look like. And we were doing practical stunts for both me and the performer. I know they added the effects after the fact, but everything that was happening there on the day was a version of what you see on screen.”
There will be more fights to come on The Witcher: Netflix has already picked up the show for a second season with Cavill back as Geralt.
The Witcher Season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.
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Happy New Year! For the end of the year round ups, we thought we would give our senior photographers a chance to share some of their favorites! Enjoy long-time staffer Ethan Fortier AKA E-Stone’s favorite photos from the year!
This year is coming to an end and we are all setting our sights on 2020. Hoping to correct our errors from the past year and hopefully do better in the new year. Maybe your hoping to ride more in 2020 or quit smoking or maybe save more money what ever it might be this is your chance at a clean slate. As we all ponder how to be better in the new year, I always take the opportunity to take a look back. Take a look through all my photos of the 2019 season and remember some of my favorite moments.
And 2019 was a pretty amazing season if you lived in Utah like I do. It was one of the snowiest seasons I can remember with good snow in the streets off and on from Dec. 1 until March. The mountains just got a continuous hammering and stacked up one of the deepest bases we have had in some time, giving the locals an amazing amount of powder days. It was really the perfect season… and I only hope we can be so lucky to have another one just like it this coming year. A nice snow year in Utah means more shooting at home and that is always a great thing. It’s good to be reminded why I came here in the first place!
Check out this gallery of some of my favorite photos of 2019. It’s really hard to narrow it down as I feel connected to so many photos for so many reasons. Maybe it’s what went into getting the photo or because the rider worked so hard to get it with you. Either way, you end up emotionally connected to certain photos and those become your favorites. With the amount of photos I shoot in a year narrowing it down to 10 photos was quite the challenge for me. I made my picks and here in no special order are my 10 favorite photos of 2019!
This article originally appeared on Snowboarder.com and was republished with permission.
A new decade is here—and that means a bunch of new movies and TV shows hitting streaming sites in January 2020. Following the debut of two major projects on Netflix in December—Ryan Reynolds’ action movie 6 Underground and the Game of Thrones-like fantasy show The Witcher with Henry Cavill—there’s a bunch of new stuff to add to your queue.
Here are some quick highlights from each of the top January 2020 streamers to keep an eye on:
Netflix: This month, Netflix originals coming to the streaming platform include BoJack Horseman: Season 6 (Part B); Grace and Frankie: Season 6; the documentary Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez; and the action spoof Medical Police (a spinoff to Childrens Hospital), which was created by Rob Corddry. It stars Rob Heubel and Erinn Hayes as “two American doctors who discover a deadly virus in Brazil are recruited as government agents in a race to find a cure and uncover a dark conspiracy.” You can also anticipate two classic Lord of the Rings movies, The Two Towers and the Best Picture-winning The Return of the King, as well as both Kill Bill films and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Catch Me If You Can.
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HBO: Over a year after the previous season, Curb Your Enthusiasm is coming back for Season 10 on January 19. Men’s Journal caught up with actor J.B. Smoove, who plays the scene-stealing Leon, who called the new season “hilarious” and that “working with someone like Larry is an experience I’ll never forget. I love playing Leon, and seeing the response to him has been great and exciting for me and the show.” Along with Curb, a couple of summer blockbusters are hitting HBO with Keanu Reeves’ John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and Godzilla: King of All Monsters, while Leonardo DiCaprio’s Shutter Island also starts streaming. Here’s a look at how Reeves trained for the film.
Hulu: Tom Holland returns in the post-Avengers: Endgame MCU in Spider-Man: Far from Home, also starring comedian J.B. Smoove: “We shot all over—Venice, London, Prague—and we had an absolutely great time,” Smoove told MJ. “I’ve been to London before, but I’d never been in Prague or Venice. For those who’ve never been to Venice, it’s absolutely gorgeous. Go there before it’s gone. Men’s Journal also snagged Holland’s muscle-building workout from the film. Dwayne Johnson’s Fighting with My Family, the story of WWE wrestler Paige, also starts streaming, along with the classic comedy film Dazed and Confused and the Western-inspired TV series Justified.
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Amazon Prime: One of the most shocking movies of the year: Midsommar starts streaming on Amazon Prime this month. The less we say about this one the better, but just be warned—it’s super creepy and weird in all the best ways. The 80s classic The Goonies hits the streamer, as does the entire set of classic Star Trek films (not the Chris Pine-led ones, the William Shatner/Patrick Stewart ones ).
Here’s a look at everything new to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and HBO in January 2020:
Netflix
Jan. 1 Ghost Stories Messiah Nisman: Death of a Prosecutor Spinning Out The Circle 21 A Cinderella Story American Beauty Catch Me If You Can Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chasing Amy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chloe City of God Dinner for Schmucks Dragonheart Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer Dragonheart: A New Beginning Drugs, Inc.: Season 6 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Free Willy Ghost Rider Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle Hitch Inception Instructions Not Included Julie & Julia Kate & Leopold Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Kingpin Kiss the Girls Monster-in-Law New York Minute Pan’s Labyrinth Patriot Games Saint Seiya: Season 4-5 Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden Shrek Forever After Strictly Ballroom Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! The Original Kings of Comedy The Ring The Talented Mr. Ripley Tremors True Grit Up in the Air What Lies Beneath Wild Wild West Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Wyatt Earp Yes Man
Jan. 2 Sex, Explained: Limited Series Thieves of the Wood
Jan. 3 Anne With an E All the Freckles in the World
Jan. 4 Go! Go! Cory Carson
Jan. 8 Cheer
Jan. 10 AJ and the Queen Giri/Haji Harvey Girls Forever!: Season 4 The Inbestigators: Season 2 Medical Police Scissor Seven Until Dawn Zumbo’s Just Desserts: Season 2 The Evil Dead
Jan. 12 Betty White: First Lady of Television
Jan. 13 The Healing Powers of Dude
Jan. 14 Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts The Master
Jan. 15 Quien a hierro mata Grace and Frankie: Season 6 Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez Big Fat Liar
Jan. 16 NiNoKuni Steve Jobs
Jan. 17 Ares Hip-Hop Evolution: Season 4 Sex Education: Season 2 Tyler Perry’s A Fall from Grace Vivir dos veces Wer kann, der kann! Tiny House Nation: Volume 2
Jan. 18 The Bling Ring
Jan. 20 Family Reunion: Part 2
Jan. 21 Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty Word Party: Season 4
Jan. 22 Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak Playing with Fire: Season 1
Jan. 23 The Ghost Bride October Faction Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac: Season 1/Part 2 The Queen
Jan. 24 A Sun Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Part 3 The Ranch: The Final Season Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Jan. 26 Vir Das: For India
Jan. 27 Country Strong We Are Your Friends
Jan. 28 Alex Fernández: El mejor comediante del mundo
Jan. 29 Frères Ennemis Next In Fashion Night on Earth Omniscient
Jan. 30 Ainori Love Wagon: African Journey The Stranger Nighthawks Raising Cain
Jan. 31 37 Seconds BoJack Horseman: Season 6 (Part B) Diablero: Season 2 I Am a Killer: Season 2 Luna Nera Ragnarok American Assassin
HBO
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Theatrical Premieres: American Animals, 2018 (1/1) Breakthrough, 2019 (1/2) The Aftermath, 2019 (1/4) Tolkien, 2019 (1/5) The Little Stranger, 2018 (1/7) John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, 2019 (1/11) Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2019 (1/18) The Curse of La Llorona, 2019 (1/25)
Series Premiere: Mamon, Series Premiere (1/6) The New Pope, Series Premiere (1/13) The Outsider, Series Premiere (1/12) Real Time With Bill Maher, Season 18 Premiere (1/18) Avenue 5, Series Premiere (1/19) Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 10 Premiere (1/19)
Starting January 1: Another Stakeout, 1993 Arthur, 1981 Arthur 2: On the Rocks, 1988 Cat People, 1982 College, 2008 Fast Five (Extended Version), 2011 Filly Brown, 2013 Galaxy of Terror, 1981 Head Office, 1986 The Hitcher, 1986 Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, 2011 Les Miserables, 2012 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, 2012 Mr. Holland’s Opus, 1996 Odd Jobs, 1986 The Odd Couple II, 1998 Rock the Kasbah, 1991 The Russia House, 1990 Scary Movie 3, 2003 Seventh Son, 3015 The Shooting, 1967 Shutter Island, 2010 Spanglish, 2004 Stakeout, 1987 Sweet Dreams, 1985 Switch, 1991 Teeth, 2008 The Thing About My Folks, 2005 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, 1974
Ending January 17: Getaway, 2013
Ending January 22: Elektra (Director’s Cut), 2005
Ending January 31: Amelie, 2001 Arachnophobia, 1990 Big Business, 1988 Bringing Down the House, 2003 Calendar Girls, 2003 Conan the Barbarian, 1982 Conan the Destroyer, 1984 Conviction, 2010 Deliver Us From Eva, 2003 The Dilemma, 2011 Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story, 2005 Ever After: A Cinderella Story, 1998 Going the Distance, 2010 The Hate U Give, 2018 Honey, 2003 In Her Shoes, 2005 The Jackal, 1997 Just Like Heaven, 2005 Kung Fu Panda 2, 2011 Life As We Know It, 2010 Me, Myself & Irene, 2000 The Old Man & The Gun, 2018 Out Cold, 2002 Paddington 2, 2018 Red Sparrow, 2018 Rescue Dawn, 2007 Robin Hood, 2018 Search Party, 2016 Signs, 2002 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, 2004 Stay Alive, 2006 Thoroughbreds, 2018 Wild Hogs, 2007
Hulu
Jan. 1 Bring It!: Season 4 Brockmire: Season 3 Damages Deputy: Series Premiere Divided States Fox’s New Year’s Eve Special with Steve Harvey Glam Masters: Season 1 Hoarders: Season 10 Hunting JonBenet’s Killer: The Untold Story: Season 1 Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid: Season 1 Married at First Sight: Season 8 Party of Five: Series Premiere Project Runway All Stars: Season 7 Rescue Me Secret Life of a Gang Girl: The Untold Story: Season 1 Swamp People: Season 10 The Curse of Oak Island: Seasons 2-3 and Season 6 American Buffalo Arbitrage Bachelor Party The Bellboy Blood Diamond Captivity Cinderfella The Conspirator The Cookout Crazy About Tiffany’s Crisscross Cube Cube 2: Hypercube Cube Zero Dangerous Curves Dennis the Menace Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! Dracula 3000 Drop Dead Sexy Eyes Wide Shut Fierce People The Final Cut The French Connection Girls! Girls! Girls! Golden Gate The Good Guy Gone Grace Unplugged Gridiron Gang How to Eat Fried Worms Kansas Knowing Last Rites The Last Boy Scout The Little Richard Story MASH Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Music from Another Room My Best Friend’s Wedding Mystery Team P2 Pacific Heights Pi The Patsy The Polar Express The Pom Pom Girls The Possession Shy People Star Trek: The Motion Picture Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Star Trek: Insurrection Swimming with Sharks The Tenant Two Family House Unforgettable Uptown Girls Basketball Beauty Shop Born on the Fourth of July Fire with Fire Footloose Forrest Gump Hot Shots! House of the Dead Jackie Brown King Kong Lethal Weapon Lethal Weapon 2 Lethal Weapon 3 Lethal Weapon 4 Little Miss Sunshine Night at the Museum No Country for Old Men Pulp Fiction Rocky Balboa Schindler’s List Spaceballs Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams Vampire in Brooklyn Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins XXX
Jan. 2 Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins
Jan. 3 The Wedding Guest
Jan. 4 The Upside
Jan. 5 Last Man Standing: Season 8 Black Clover: Season 1 Sex Guaranteed Power: Season 6
Jan. 6 The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards Conan the Barbarian The Art of Self Defense
Jan. 7 America’s Got Talent: The Champions: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere The Bachelor: Season 24 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time Manifest: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere Harpoon
Jan. 8 Ellen’s Game of Game’s: Season 3 Mid-Season Premiere Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back: Season 3 Premiere Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist: Season 1 Mid-Season Premiere
Jan. 9 Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Jan. 10 Homeland: Seasons 6-7 Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th An American Tail An American Tail: Fievel Goes West An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Jan. 11 Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector: Season 1 Mid-Season Premiere Green Book
Jan. 12 Little Men The Outsider: Series Premiere
Jan. 13 Lodge 49: Season 2 The New Pope: Series Premiere
Jan. 15 Peppermint
Jan. 16 Good Trouble: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere MacGruber
Jan. 17 Endlings: Season 1 Everythings’s Gonna be Okay: Season 1 Mid-Season Premiere Grown-ish: Season 3 Mid-Season Premiere The Skeleton Twins Real Time with Bill Maher: Season 18 Premiere 13 Going on 30 Bruno Dazed and Confused End of Days Get a Job Hamlet 2 Meet the Blacks Nanny McPhee Peter Pan The Aviator
Jan. 19 Justified Life, Animated Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 10 Premiere Avenue 5: Series Premiere
Jan. 20 9-1-1: Lone Star: Series Premiere The Detour: Season 4 Honeyland Emanuel
Jan. 22 Bakers vs. Fakers: Season 1 Beat Bobby Flay: Seasons 6-7 Chopped: Seasons 32-35 Cold Hearted: Season 1 Cooks vs. Cons: Seasons 1-3 Cutthroat Kitchen: Season 11 Dessert Games: Season 1 Dr. Pimple Popper: Season 2 Flea Market Flip: Seasons 10-12 Good Eats: Reloaded: Season 1 Guy’s Grocery Games: Season 14 House Hunters: Seasons 111-117 House Hunters International: Seasons 113-115 Murder in the Heartland: Season 2 Puppy Bowl: Seasons 14-15 Spring Baking Championship: Seasons 1-4 Unexpected: Season 1, Season 2 Worst Cooks in America: Seasons 11-13
Jan. 23 The Prodigy Love and a Bullet The Vow Underworld: Awakening
Jan. 24 Shrill: Season 2 Outmatched: Series Premiere The Bold Type: Season 4 Mid-Season Premiere Tokyo Ghoul: Season 3
Jan. 25 Second Act
Jan. 27 Brian Banks Luce Five Feet Apart
Jan. 30 Fighting with My Family
Jan. 31 Grandma Spider Man: Far from Home
Amazon Prime
January 1 Amores Perros (2000) Arbitrage (2012) Captivity (2007) Cinderfella (1960) The Conspirator (2011) Crisscross (1992) Cube (1998) Cube 2: Hypercube (2003) Cube Zero (2005) Dangerous Curves (1988) Danny Collins (2015) Dracula 3000 (2004) Drop Dead Sexy (2005) Edge Of Darkness (2010) Golden Gate (1993) Gone (2012) Kansas (1988) Knowing (2009) Last Rites (1988) Mystery Team (2009) P2 (2007) Pi (1998) Sherlock Holmes (2009) Shy People (1987) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Swimming with Sharks (1995) The Bellboy (1960) The Final Cut (2004) The Good Guy (2010) The Goonies (1985) The Patsy (1964) The Pom Pom Girls (1976) The Possession (2012) The Tenant (1976) Unforgettable (1996)
January 3 Midsommar (2019) Bug Diaries: Season 1B – Amazon Original series James May: Our Man In Japan: Season 1 – Amazon Original series Jayde Adams: Serious Black Jumper – Amazon Original special Ilana Glazer: The Planet Is Burning – Amazon Original special
January 5 10 Minutes Gone (2019)
January 6 Conan the Barbarian (2011)
January 8 American Dreamer (2019) Midnight Sun (2018)
January 9 Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
January 10 The Wedding Year (2019)
January 17 The Skeleton Twins (2014) Troop Zero (2019) – Amazon Original movie Just Add Magic: Mystery City: Season 1 – Amazon Original series Russell Peters: Deported – Amazon Original special Rob Delaney: Jackie – Amazon Original special
January 19 Miss Sloane (2016)
January 23 The Prodigy (2019)
January 30 Fighting with My Family (2019)
January 31 All Or Nothing: CBF: Season 1 – Amazon Original series Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer: Season 1 – Amazon Original series
