| 7 Very Personal Questions: Khai Krepela |
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Khai Krepela hails from Park City, Utah. Raised with a healthy dose of inline skating, he's just now starting to make some serious moves in skiing. He recently filmed a banger section for Toy Soilder Productions latest full length feature, Act Natural.
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Here at Surface, we simply call you Khai. But the name runs much deeper than that. What is your full name?
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| My full name is River Khai Charles Downing-Krepela |
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| Let's jump right into summer. You spent some time living in the Ark and coaching at Hood. How was that? |
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| This summer was great, I had cool campers all summer and got to ski with friends everyday so it's was hard to have a bad time. The Ark was a little sketch but I would go through worst to ski during the summer. |
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| Would you subject yourself to the Ark Life again? |
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| Ha Ark life really takes it out of you. But I would for sure do it again. It is it's own little community build of skiers, snowboarders, and skaters and I don't think you can really find that anywhere else. |
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| What about Toy Soldier's program? Those guys seem like hard working dudes. You pretty stoked on your segment this fall? |
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| TSP worked crazy hard this year to create their newest film "Act Natural". Every time I would talk to anybody in the crew they seemed to be coming from one palace and heading to another. And with a pretty much none existent filmer, these guys defiantly know what they're doing. And yes I'm very stoked on the segment this year, I would have liked to put more time but because of some injuries this year I only got about 2 1/2 months of skiing in. But I am pretty sure people are still going to be stoked on it. |
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| Other than being an overpaid pro skier, how do you pay the bills? |
| Well I work at two different places. Atmosphere studios where I am a runner and learning how to be a carpenter, and CNC routing where I run a computerized router which cuts wood, metal, etc. |
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| With winter approaching, do you have any special plans this season? |
| Well the plan right now is to move to Truckee with Jason Arens and some other local Tahoe kids. I also am going to be filming a lot with Toy Soldier Productions to produce another segment. And I think I want to start competing more this year because it's kinda out of my element and I always like to do something different. |
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| Would you care to say hello to 5 people |
| Hello Hayden Panettiere, God, my parents, Emma Watson, and all the single ladies. |
