{"id":135270,"date":"2017-09-04T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135270"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:39:09","slug":"snowboard-video-rv-tour-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135270","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Video &#8211; RV Tour of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish snowboarders Kevin Backstrom and Tor Lundstrom after being kicked off their native country\u2019s national team for their prioritization of snowboarding\u2019s fun versus serious facets. Their ratio, which skewed further toward the former than the latter, wasn\u2019t in line with the team\u2019s regimented program. With that decision, the duo\u2019s chances of going to the Sochi Winter Olympics were eliminated\u2014hence the name, pronounced phonetically as \u201cbeyond medals.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Kevin and Tor have a bond that, described as brotherly, might be understated, as that term is thrown around loosely. The duo are as close as any two riders in snowboarding, and BYND x MDLS is a personal brand representative of Kevin and Tor\u2019s outlook, which disregards restrictions on-hill and off. Known associates include Halld\u00f3r Helgason and Torgeir Bergrem, both of whom make appearances in the episode, along with Victor Daviet and Len J\u00f8rgensen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J4zcEu03Z0M?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish snowboarders Kevin Backstrom and Tor Lundstrom after being kicked off their native country\u2019s national team for their prioritization of snowboarding\u2019s fun versus serious facets. Their ratio, which skewed further toward the former than the latter, wasn\u2019t in line with the team\u2019s regimented program. With that decision, the duo\u2019s chances of going to the Sochi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135271,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135270\/revisions\/135271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}