Shaun White Snowboarding, Skateboarding, Making Movies, Designing Clothes

Anyone who has seen Shaun White snowboardingabout Shaun White snowboarding, they began to use
knows that they are seeing pure skill and naturalthis young prodigy in their advertising.
talent at its finest. He makes it look so easy and yetBut, for Shaun White snowboarding was not enough,
difficult at the same time. Although for Shaun Whitesoon after he took up the sport he also took up
snowboarding may be what got him noticed in theskateboarding. These sports are actually quite similar
extreme sports world initially, he actually is also aand he was able to utilize his natural ability to become
world class skateboarder as well. Although he is notskilled at both. The same year that he won his first
even 21 yet, he also has managed to make a namegold medal in the X Games for snowboarding, he
for himself in the video game world, in movies andtook up skateboarding as a professional sport and he
documentaries, and also developing a line of Shaunnow tours with Tony Hawk.
White snowboarding clothing with Burton called theIn 2006, the "Flying Tomato," Shaun White won a
"White Collection."gold medal in the half pipe event in the Winter
What got Shaun White snowboarding? At the youngOlympics in Torino and made himself even more of a
age of six, White went with his family to a ski areahousehold name in the United States. He has medaled
and he wanted to take snowboarding lessons. He8 times in snowboarding in the X Games and 2 times
was told that he was too young, so his dad tookin skateboarding. He has made a video called "The
lessons and then taught him. Shaun WhiteWhite Album," is featured in a documentary called
snowboarding was so enthusiastic that his mom"First Descent" and will release an X Box game with
made him ride backwards to slow him down, whichhis name and likeness in 2007. What will this young
actually served to make him equally skilled in riding inman do next? What won't he do?
both positions. When the Burton Company heard