- Name: Kyle Ryan
- Sponsors: Launch Snowboards
- Stance : Regular, 23in Wide 12,-12
- Board : 153 Launch Session
- Nickname : K Rock, Kale, K Rail
- Years riding: 7 yrs
- Best day riding: Probably my first day in the Tahoe backcountry, I had to double up on Kade Madsen’s sled to get up there and we started dropping cliffs and built a jump and most of the time I would rag-doll down the entire hill. It was an awesome learning experience.
- Worst day of riding: Besides injuries, there is no ‘worst day’ snowboarding. No matter the weather - rain, snow, or hail if you’re with people who love to snowboard you can always find ways to make it fun.
- Why Launch snowboards? Their a solid, creative, influential company that take in consideration and welcome your input to improve the brand. Also their product is dope.
- Favorite trick: Front Boards
- Things you can’t live without: Cereal, Friends, Music, Good times and my snowboard
- What keeps you snowboarding and motivated? Well...Obviously getting the babes haha, but besides that it’s the satisfaction and pleasure I get from learning/landing a trick or cruising down the mountain with my friends.
- When you are not snowboarding: Cliff jumping, Jet skiing, Wakeboarding, Camping, Golfing, any thing outside
- What are your plans for this season? Stay on the East Coast do some filming around here, and then head back out West for the remainder of the year.
- What does the future hold for you? Anything I make of it.
- Goals you want to reach as a rider: Maybe inspire some youngins to pick up a snowboard and experience the feeling you get from making your first S turns.
- Other Goals: Take my motorcycle across country, eat 6 saltine crackers under a minute, Travel to Africa’s safaris,
- Any advice for up and coming shreds? Be yourself, don’t hate, and make every situation as fun as possible.
- Last words of advice : Turn that frown upside down and live/love your life
