Travis Parker

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Travis Parker is a professional snowboarder. Originally from Jonestown, Texas, he formally rode for Capita Super, K2 Snowboards, DC Boots, Airblaster, Union Bindings, Level, Lifetime, and Bluebird. Travis is known for his original riding style. The latest snowboard movie that Travis stars in is BikeCar. He also starred in several Robot Food movies: Afterbang, Lame, and Afterlame. Other film projects include December (Airblaster), The Gap Session (BlankPaper) and DC Mountain Lab.

In 2004 Travis founded Snowdays Foundation with educator Patrick Edwards. Snowdays Foundation is an all volunteer organization dedicated to youth empowerment through snowboarding.

Travis has recently quit from most of his sponsors to become a sushi chef. He is still listed as an Airblaster Pro Team member on the company's website. Travis co-founded Airblaster with several other pro-snowboarders while partying in his basement. As they stated on the first page of the 07/08 catalog, their original intention was to create three t-shirts and a beercuzzi. The beercuzzi should be in the catalog for 08/09.

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[edit] External links

Airblaster Website
Transworld Interview with Travis Parker