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Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story

I feel much better now than eight months ago

[laughter] [tearfully]
I feel much better now than eight months ago

Full Transcript

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[laughter]
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[tearfully] I feel much better now
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than eight months ago.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
01:07:00
Uploaded
May 19, 2025
Genres
documentary, sport
Production
Red Bull Media House,HBO Sports

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Movie Summary

An irreverent entrepreneur overcomes a series of adversities to create a new sport- and unexpectedly launches a global cultural phenomenon: snowboarding.
[cheers and applause] - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:50
[cheers and applause]
- I was back to snowboarding 100 days a year, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:21
- I was back to snowboarding 100 days a year,
And he's up and down and moving and bending - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:07
And he's up and down and moving and bending
Couple days later, he said, "Do I look okay?" - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:08
Couple days later, he said, "Do I look okay?"
It seems like something's double or blurry." - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:12
It seems like something's double or blurry."
"Should I call you and that guy standing right next to you - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:35
"Should I call you and that guy standing right next to ...
I just didn't see how I was gonna ever get better. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:24
I just didn't see how I was gonna ever get better.
- I just had this stack of white paper - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:14
- I just had this stack of white paper
It was a way for him to communicate - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:07
It was a way for him to communicate
- The low point was talking to my kids about suicide. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:14
- The low point was talking to my kids about suicide.
"We can't tell you how long he'll be paralyzed... - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:04
"We can't tell you how long he'll be paralyze...
But we can tell you he will come out of this." - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:22
But we can tell you he will come out of this."
And once you get to that point, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:05
And once you get to that point,
- When a friend would come visit him, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:14
- When a friend would come visit him,
- One day he wrote, "Okay, now I wanna live." - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:22
- One day he wrote, "Okay, now I wanna live."
Scribblin' on notes, and they were pretty hard to make out. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:09
Scribblin' on notes, and they were pretty hard to make ...
- He wrote, "Doesn't make want good." - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:12
- He wrote, "Doesn't make want good."
And I'm leaning over his bed and I have a Burton T-shirt on. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:05
And I'm leaning over his bed and I have a Burton T-shir...
And he had written, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:22
And he had written,
- I needed it. I needed the support. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:28
- I needed it. I needed the support.