MERTION: Hello?
RAGE: How are you?
MERTION: PRETTY GOOD, how are you?
RAGE: PRETTY GOOD. What are you doing?
MERTION: Sitting on my patio
RAGE: Why aren’t you working?
MERTION: It’s a stat holiday.
RAGE: What’s that?
MERTION: We get paid not to work.
RAGE: What did you do this summer?
MERTION: I bought a house
RAGE: How old are you?
MERTION: 20
RAGE: When did you turn 20?
MERTION: Sept 1
RAGE: How come I didn’t see it on my FB?
MERTION: I dunno, I put a party out there
RAGE: What did you do for your bday?
MERTION: I partied
RAGE: By yourself or w/ others?
MERTION: Others, we did nothing, but party
RAGE: Are you coming to the premiere?
MERTION: Ya, Saturday, right?
RAGE: Friday night at Devo’s for the sneak peak
MERTION: I’m gonna take Friday off and come
RAGE: Describe your love of fencing?
MERTION: I just love it so much that I wanna do it every summer
RAGE: Why not winter?
;)
MERTION: Well, it’s hard
RAGE: So, you ski in the winter?
MERTION: Ya, sometimes, usually
RAGE: How was your season last year?
MERTION: PRETTY GOOD
RAGE: That’s it, PRETTY GOOD?
MERTION: Dope. Till I hurt my back in Stevens.
RAGE: Was that our fault for building shitty jumps?
MERTION: Nah, for going too fast. It was one of the pimpest seasons
RAGE: What’s your best memory from last year?
MERTION: Schuster putting his sled in the trees after coming around the corner. Skiing memory, California when we murdered that one jump
RAGE: I think you murdered it.
MERTION: It was the pimpest memory
RAGE: Aren’t 2 day trips the most successful for you?
MERTION: Think so, seems that way, I don’t know why
RAGE: Because you get it done quick to get home to your girlfriends
MERTION: Ya, I get in and get out quick
RAGE: How’s your relationship life?
MERTION: Not that good
RAGE: You single?
MERTION: Ya
;)
RAGE: You announcing that?
MERTION: Ya, I’m staying single for sure. It’s hard to have a relationship when you have a house
RAGE: So being a homeowner, you can’t have a relationship?
MERTION: Ya, it’s too hard, too grown up. I’m too busy building fences
RAGE: So b/w building a fence and having a house, no time for relationships?
MERTION: I try
RAGE: What do you have planned for the upcoming season?
MERTION: Ski in a lot of places.
RAGE: You gonna travel this year?
MERTION: Try to
RAGE: Comps?
MERTION: Try, and film a lot.
RAGE: You have big plans?
MERTION: I have huge plans.
RAGE: You like competing or filming more?
MERTION: Filming cuz you’re w/ a bunch of buddies, killin it. But, competing is fun because you win money. It’s a 50/50 thing
RAGE: Halfpipe or slopestyle. What’s your forte’?
MERTION: Big air
;)
RAGE: Didn’t you do well at half pipe?
MERTION: I did ok, alright, not the best. One comp, Aspen Open, I got 10th, so it wasn’t that good, but it was good for me.
RAGE: Didn’t you qualify for 1st?
MERTION: Ya, but I choked
RAGE: You aren’t much of a trainer, did you ski at all this summer?
MERTION: No, I went to the water ramps. I did 5 doubles and quick jumped the rest of the day
RAGE: That’s your summer of training?
MERTION: You can look at my FB videos.
RAGE: That’s your training? Jumping in a lake? Would you like to train in the summer?
MERTION: Ya, but money wise, I need to work.
RAGE: Well, when you’re a 20 year old house owner, someone has to pay the mortgage, right?
MERTION: Ya, it’s a money thing.
RAGE: Who is supporting you?
MERTION: Rip Curl, Faction, Serius Gloves, Olympia Ski Shop in Vernon
RAGE: Describe Vernon in its ability to produce pro skiers? Aren’t there like 8 pro skiers out of Vernon?
MERTION: Freestyle program produces a lot of kids from Silverstar. Whistler is down the road, location. the Kokanee is in the water
RAGE: The Kokanee is in the water?
MERTION: Ya, our coaches are super pimp
RAGE: What do you think about Ian claiming he is from Vernon when he’s not?
MERTION: I don’t know how that happened, but it did. He’s living here now, so I guess, he’s here now, but he wasn’t born and raised.
RAGE: He’s trying to jump in the pool of Vernonites?
MERTION: It just came upon.
RAGE: How’s the porch?
Merion: It’s a little cold, raining, kinda
;)
RAGE: Winter’s coming!
MERTION: Is it?
RAGE: In a couple months
MERTION: I’m super excited. I started my sled up and I was like damn.
RAGE: Did you breathe in too much exhaust?
MERTION: Ya, it was in my shop. I hot boxed the shop w/ my 2 stroke. My bro and I stood in there. The smell of 2 stroke smoke in the morning is amazing.
RAGE: What should kids look for in Mike Mertion in a ski video?
MERTION: I’d say PRETTY GOOD time. Buy, PRETTY GOOD, you’ll enjoy it.
RAGE: Say hey to Mark
Devo: What’s up Dude?
RAGE: That’s it, Mertion, anything else?
MERTION: I’m gonna go to Kelowna and jump off a diving bored.
RAGE: Training?
MERTION: Ya
RAGE: I’ll see you Friday for the premiere?
Merion: Will ya?
RAGE: Ya?
MERTION: Ok, see you Friday
Post interview text from Mertion…I didn’t realize that was my interview till halfway through…ha ha.
