Jim Rippey

Jim Rippey ( born November 5, 1970 in Quincy, California) is an American professional snowboarders. He is now actively and successfully in other genres such as base jumping, motocross and skydiving.

Life

Even as a child drove Rippey 's parents with him for skiing in Northern California, where he often practiced the sport. At the age of 19, he finally moved to snowboard and started in the ski centers to work on. While he earned his money on the day with relief work at the lifts, he practiced at night in snowboarding. He soon rose to world's best riders, invented his own trick ( Rippey Flip), designed one of the most successful of all time Snowboards ( Burton Rippey ), has its own character set and won the biggest competitions of the sport.

Let Rippey 2001 sit up again, when he completed the first backflip on a snowmobile and was able to land. For 2002 he received the ESPN Feat of the Year Award, a kind of ceremony, which honored particularly daring maneuvers in sports.

Today Jim Rippey is married and lives with his wife Jennifer in Truckee, California.

Achievements

• Winner, Burton U.S. Open 1997, Straight Jump
• Winner, Air & Style Contest in 1997, Innsbruck
• Winner, Vans World Championships in 1998, Straight Jump
• 3rd place, X-Games 1998
• Winner, Gothenburg Megastar Contest 1998, Straight Jump
• Winner, Vans Triple Crown, Snow Summit 2001
• Big Air ( straight jump ) World Champion 1998