When Kai was 11 years old his segment for TGR went viral and racked up 6 million views. That year he also won the North American Junior Freeride Series. He was nominated for Rider of the Year at IF3 Film Festival at 14 years old, and again a year later. Now at age 17, Kai has been a mainstay in TGR’s last five films, and earned the right to be called a legitimate “prodigy”.
Kai is leading th...
LÉ BENT was proud to be a supporting partner of pro team rider Elyse Saugstad's recent project — Here, Hold My Kid!
Elyse teamed up with pro skier and fellow super mum Jackie Paaso to make what they describe as, "an homage to all the parents who have dragged their kids to the mountains."
“Any parent knows that traveling with a one-year-old can be a nightmare." Said Jackie.
"Seeing ...
WORDS BY MATT WISEMAN
PHOTOS BY CAM BATTEN
Flow is a state of being.
For psychologists like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow States founding father — it is the point of “optimal experience”. To the American Psychological Association, it’s reached when one’s skills are “fully utilized yet equal to the demands of the task.”
For skiers and snowboarders, it’s the apex of a turn, a perfect pole p...
LÉ BENT is 10 years old this year.
At least, it is on paper. In truth, it was born a long time before that. Our story as co-founders goes back to the early 80’s. Two toddlers stoked and throwing sand at each other in a sand pit behind a semi detached house in Sydney’s beachside suburbia.
We grew up together by the beach and in the mountains and our paths crossed as we travelled the world and...
Michele Graglia competes in the gnarliest running races on the planet. When he’s not competing against others, he’s setting records and racing himself. To that end, he’s set Guinness World Records for running across the Atacama Desert in Chile (600 miles in 8 days) and after that, the Gobi Desert in Mongolia (1100 miles in 23 days).
Mickey won the Yukon Arctic Ultra in temperatures below -40...
Lucy Bartholomew ran the Larapinta Trail and has the crazy stats and a new film to prove it.
Those stats include, 231km of Larapinta trail. 20km of wrong turns and dead ends. 54 hours of running. 5 minutes of sleeping. 2 pairs of shoes. And of 5 pairs of Le Bent socks on rotation.
In total Lucy ran 250km. It’s safe to say she learnt a few things about socks, shoes and about herself in the pr...
The acronym G.O.A.T gets thrown around a lot in professional sports. So, perhaps adding the word ‘Mountain’ as a prefix more accurately represents what Xavier De Le Rue is to modern professional snowboarding.
A 3 x Freeride World Tour champion and 4 x World Boardercross Champion, Xavier has seen, and probably ridden, it all.
Xavier joins Pro Team riders Cody Townsend, Sammy Carlson and Elyse ...
Cody Townsend is a skier of international renown.
At one time most known perhaps for his “line of the year” in 2014, he’s now turned his attention to a self-produced film series “The Fifty Project”, inspired by the book, ‘The 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America.’ He’s less known, but equally defined in his mind by an, “undying love of fart jokes, abhorrence of math and curious infatuatio...
No matter the season, team rider Parkin Costain is a hard man to catch up with.
We don’t mean to say he’s too busy for us, we just mean it’s physically, very, very difficult to catch up with the bloke because he’s so damn fast. Whether he’s on skis or a bike, if you don’t have a sizeable head start, you’re not keeping up.
So, when we finally did catch up with him, we picked his brains to see...
