By now, you've hopefully seen (pun intended...sorry) Tumble 4 Ya, the latest offering from SEEN Snowboarding. It's a collection of clips, crowdsourced from the queer snowboarding community. We reached out to a few of the cast members from the video to see how they feel about being in such a community-focused project, and how they feel about SEEN's presence in snowboarding as a whole.

What do you hope people can take away from this video, or even just from SEEN as a whole and the fact that it’s able to exist?

Emma Crosby: I remember the first time I saw a SEEN snowboarding post back in 2020, It was a post for a queer meet up at MT. Hood, and I remember being in awe that there was a community of people like me. I didn’t know Kennedi, Mikaela, Jake, Tanner, or Chad personally at the time, and it felt like my world opened. Even the thought of a day that was dedicated to people being together and sharing a space was something I wanted to take part of. I think watching this video will make people want to go snowboarding. I think representation is so incredibly important. I think the fact that it’s able to exist only makes our community bigger, and is an inspiration, like it was for me.

Casey Pflipsen: This video shows such a wide spectrum of snowboarding that we normally don’t see in one video. Pro snowboarders next to beginner and intermediate snowboarders. It’s pretty cool because, from an outsider point of view, you can’t even tell the difference. Everyone is legit just having fun. And that’s what boarding is about.

It also shows a broad spectrum of queer diversity. And that is still SO important. I hope the takeaway is that queer snowboarders are still here, we’ve always been here, and the alphabet mafia is taking over.

How does it feel to have clips in a community, crowdsourced video like this that celebrates the queer snowboard community?

Kaia Sauter: Despite working in snowboarding, I don’t really know many queer riders in real life. It’s so cool and meaningful to be included in the project and to see how many of us there are out there!

Kennedi Deck: It’s amazing. I think now that snowboarding is a career for me it’s hard to sometimes slow down and appreciate moments like these where it’s not about the biggest, craziest thing. It’s more about the joy of it all. And the awesome moments with friends and goofing around like kids again. Plus it’s also so epic that we all have a common queer thread that we can lean on together. 

What do you think SEEN means/brings to the community (both the snowboarding community as a whole and the queer community within it) by allowing anybody to be a part of it, regardless of their level of riding?

Maggie Leon: Inclusivity and community are what SEEN is built on. By creating a space for queer snowboarders to come together, it creates a place where people aren’t just included, they’re genuinely celebrated.

SEEN is helping build a culture where everyone has a place and people have each other’s backs. And for snowboarding as a whole, it shows that it’s cool to care about one another, support each other, and create spaces where everyone feels like they belong.

Jill Perkins: SEEN is a critical piece of the puzzle because of its purity. It honors a safe place for people to show up exactly how they are and celebrate fun. It’s important for queer visibility and waters the garden of innocence. It adds free expression to not only the queer space but to snowboarding in general. It is a breakout of the norm or uniform we sometimes see in snowboarding 

Describe the video in one word:

Maggie Leon: Energy

Kaia Sauter: Fun

Kennedi Deck: Notable

Jill Perkins: Cuteasfuck

Emma Crosby: Chills

Casey Pflipsen: Gay