Chuck Allen
Snowboard Pro Forum

Name: Chuck Allen

Date of birth: 1999-09-13

Started riding in what year? 1983

Sponsor/s? USASA

What snowboard related business activites are you involved in? Snowboard Director - Mountain High Resort in Wrightwood, California.
Founder of USASA

Where did you grow up? Oklahoma

Live now? Wrightwood, California

Fave places to ride? Copper Mountain, Colorado and Mountain High Resort

Do you warm up each day before you ride? If so, what do you do to warm up? Yep.
Drink coffee and eat doughnuts.

How keep in shape in season? How keep in shape for snowboarding out of season? Drink coffee and eat doughnuts.
Skateboard.

Fave riding buddies? Mark Sibayan.
Ken Martin.
Judge Bob Drake.

Who do you admire in snowboarding or outside and why? Jeff Grell. He invented the high-back binding.

Do you ever get bummed out about your riding, and why? Everyday - getting bummed out because of a bad knee.
How do you fix it? Drink coffee and eat doughnuts.

Do you use visualization, and if so, how? Yep - I use visualization to see where I am going. (heh-heh)

What safety equipt. do you wear, use for snowboarding? Helmet.

If you're pro, when did you decide to “go pro” — and what happened to get you there? When Burton gave me my first board.

What have you read, listened to seen that you liked lately? 2005 World Series.

Where have you traveled to lately that you like? Huntington Beach for the World Amateur Surfing Championships.

Any guilty pleasures? I like old VW's. I have a 1974.

Anything that not many people know about you that you would like to share? No.

Encouraging words for beginners? Don't give up!

Advice you want to share? Don't smoke!