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Shaun White...he's a 16-year-old pro snowboarder (yep, that's him in the background), need I say more? Probably not, but of course I will! Placing in the top 3 (usually 1st or 2nd) in almost every competition, including a 1st place in the Vans Triple Crown and two 2nds at the Winter X Games, Shaun is no longer seen as an amateur by his adult peers. Of course, I would love to tell you, "oh, he lives a perfectly normal life of a 16 year old South Cali boy," but I can't. What I can tell you, though, is that he lives the perfect, most sought-after but rarely achieved life of a South Cali 16-year old boy. He doesn't have to go to school (he chose to quit becuase he had no time), he's got tons of money, gets to fly around in a private jet with good friend Tony Hawk, snowboards all over the planet, is a character in a video game, owns his own house and won a truck at the Vans Triple Crown before he was even old enough to drive it. Makes you a little jealous, huh?

Even though he makes us incredbly jealous, he's still a pretty sick dude, isn't he? In his freetime, you would NEVER guess what he spends his time doing...Skateboarding, what else!! Once, I was reading about him in a mag and he said he isn't planning on going pro in skateboarding because he doesn't want to be seen as an amateur again, but you wouldn't believe what I saw the other day while watching a skateboarding competition (I don't remember what I was watching, sorry!) I saw........you guessed it, SHAUN WHITE!! He was competing...but who knows, he could have just been having fun!

Every time I see Shauny on his board, it gets me totally stoked to try new stuff! I mean, I wouldn't kill myself trying to land a wicked cab cork 900 like Shaun, but I mean..I do my best. So even though we envy him, we can't help but love him, right? And all you snowboarders out there, he really is a great inspiration, so watch him on tv and cheer him on! We all want him to win!

~*~Allie~*~

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