As promised, here is the full version of the Jed Anderson interview in the latest issue of METHOD Mag, available now at your local snowboard shop for FREE! Go pick up a copy for the full effect instead of pixels on a tiny, retro-illuminated monitor...

So how did you get the nickname "Jack Off Jed"? Didn't even know I had that name? I guess it's cuz I jack off a lot, endless hours of it.

Ha! Okay, I wanted to talk to you about snowboard stances, it seems it hasn't been until recently that people have been willing to even try different stances. Mine's pretty normal right now, I guess it was pretty narrow for a bit but it's like 21 inches now.

So when you went to a narrow stance, was it easier to do certain things? Yea, if it's narrower it's easier to do spins off of rails and stuff, your feet are closer together so it's easier to twist your body.

Does any of that stem from how you stand on your skateboard? Kind of. I don't really think they relate that much because I feel a lot of people who ride skinny stance don't even skate, or at least they don't skate enough to claim that's why they do it. I think it's a lot more fun to have a skinny stance but the reason I don't really have a super crazy one right now is because I think it looks weird if you aren't the right person for it. Still, it's definitely more fun than having a normal or wide stance. Grabs are cooler, tweaks.

Plenty of older footy in this one

So you're 19, is it weird to go to Mt. Hood and see a ton of kids who are dressed like you and clearly influenced by what you're doing? I don't get weirded out but I do think it's weird. I don't really pay attention to it though, I just think it's funny. It's not even weird, it's just funny.

Are you flattered when you meet kids who are super cool who are influenced by you? Hell yea, it's sick. Of course it feels great for kids to like what you're doing and get good feedback from them. If kids are dressing like you and stuff it's funny but also kinda crazy, it's hard to believe that I'm an influence to all these kids.

When you're in Calgary and you go to COP, are there a lot of kids who are psyched that someone from their town has gone pretty far in snowboarding? Yes and no, cuz I know all those kids, kind of, and... I mean, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but there are kids who dress like me and stuff but they play it off, "look it's Jed, pro snowboarder" like it's no big deal, but I can tell that they're kinda psyched at the same time. (Laughs)

They're influenced by you but they don't want to be dorks and fan out. Which is sick, because I'm comfortable with pretty much every kid in Calgary, they know I'm always around, it's nothing special to see me. Like when I was younger, I would go see Peter Line or Nate Bozung and get super psyched, cuz you didn't ever see those guys around. But I'm always around with the kids from Calgary, so it's just like whatever... I'm sure it's just the same for kids in California who see a pro who's always at their skatepark and to them it's no big deal, but if it was me I'd be psyched to meet them.

The Dirty Kids spent some time with Jed at Bear

Do you like riding powder? Hell yea! I just don't like sledding, I like resort powder. I don't really like going into the backcountry, cuz it's scary and I don't want to die snowboarding. I'm not really trained enough to go out there.

Is it something you'd like to experiment with, going further into the backcountry? Yes and no. I really like riding powder, I just want to be able to go to places where I can hike. I don't want to ride sketchy things, I don't want to get hurt and I don't want to worry about getting hurt. I just like being comfortable, and I'm not really comfortable back there, but resort powder is sweet.

I just watched all the footage that Justin (Meyer, director of VG) sent me of you and, not to be a dork, but it just looks like you are having so much fun. Do you think it's because your confidence level is so high or is it that you've done this so much at this point that your level of fear and anxiety is always low? There's only a few things I did this year that I was really scared to do, even though it's always scary the first time. But yea, growing up riding sketchy rails at the resort and then trying to figure out handrails, sketchy drop in ramps, you just get comfortable doing it year after year after year. I remember my first year doing handrails, I didn't know anything, I was hitting the rail from the outside of the stairs cuz we didn't know that wasn't cool. Plus, the jump was for sure further down than the top of the rail. It was the year after Love/Hate had come out and I remember doing the sketchiest noseslide pretzels, coming off early for sure, and thinking "I'm as good as Darrell Mathes". (Laughs) I'd watch his part, he had a noseslide pretzel and since I did it on a ten-stair with a jump halfway down the stairs, I just figured I was probably just as good as him. (Laughs) I was like, 14 or something...

Jed had a signature session at HCSC this summer, ballin'!

What do you think about the fact that it's pretty common for someone that rides a lot of rails to get called out on that? I mean, you never hear anybody say about Devun Walsh or Nicolas Muller, "yea, but they only ride powder"... Why do you think that is? Because a lot of dudes think that snowboarding on rails isn't snowboarding, or at least not real snowboarding. But if kids are having fun doing it then who cares man, who cares. Not everyone has access to a real mountain. I'm sure if those Minnesota kids lived in Mt. Baker they'd all be ridiculous at riding powder. They're just good at what they're interested in doing and they live in the flatlands, what else are they gonna do? Most of them can't afford to travel around to ride powder somewhere, but I'm sure they would if they could. It's so weird in snowboarding, how that is. I hate always comparing it to skateboarding but skaters don't go around saying "that guy only skates tranny, I don't like him" or "that guy only skates ledges".

Well, maybe only skating ledges is the one thing you actually can call out. Maybe... But there's always people who are sick at skating ledges. Skaters don't go around saying "Stevie Williams only skates ledges, I don't like him". Or someone like Brandon Biebel.

We've talked about kids who look up to you, who do you look up to? It's different for me, because there are people I look up to and then there are people I look up to to get psyched to go snowboarding or skating. The main people I look up to in my life are my family. I look up to my brother a lot and a few of my good friends. They're just real humans who stick to their guns and what they believe in, they follow their values. Not even the values that they were brought up with, just things they've figured out on their own. I look up to Louif a lot, he's a really smart guy who's snowboarding and also does other shit with his life but he's always super professional about getting his job done. I look up to people who are living in the now but who also have other interests and treat their lives like a gift and aren't just blowing it away. People who aren't influenced by everything going on around them, people who are their own humans. I look up to anyone who is an individual, anyone who's legitimately doing something without caring if it's cool or not. I think that's sick, even if it's something I'm not down for. It's really hard to do, especially if it's something that isn't accepted by society.


Jed's full ender part from last year's Transworld movie Get Real

How do you feel when you read super hateful comments about yourself on the internet? I don't really care. people are going to hate, I'm doing fine with my life and if I'm happy with how things are going then I don't really care what people have to say. What a bunch of nerds, taking their time to write on the internet about how much they hate me. People have way too much time on their hands, you're just jealous if you're taking the time to do that. Every time I even feel like writing something hateful on the internet, I think about it and realize that I'm probably just a little bit jealous. I mean, why do I feel the need to take the time, what's the point in doing that? If I really don't like them, then I shouldn't care. If it was one of my friends or someone who's close to me doing the hating, it'd be a different story, I'd be bummed. But if it's just someone random hating for no reason, screw 'em, I don't care.

What was it like having a signature session at High Cascade, where the who's who of snowboarding congregate in the summer? It was pretty sick. It sucked getting hurt, but it was great. I just appreciate the opportunity because they don't really ask that many people to do it. I hope that the kid's that came to the session were down for me, Scott (Stevens), Zac (Marben) and Jesse (Burtner). It was cool meeting the kids and just talking to them, cuz we don't really meet people from all over the place. When we travel maybe every once in a while we'll run into someone but it's cool to have a group of kids in one place who want to ask you questions.

What kind of things do they ask you? At camp they were pretty mellow but I've been getting some insane facebook messages lately. (Laughs) This one kid has been messaging me about my helmet, which is a pretty normal question, like "which helmet do you wear". But this kid has been going into hood sizing, how to make his hood bigger because it's uncomfortable for him. He wanted to know if I got someone to do my hoods for me. I also got another message saying "what's up, I was at camp but I was too shy to come up and say hi but... what's up" and he adds me on facebook. (laughs) It's like when you're too shy to talk to a girl in real person, so you do it on the internet.

Here is an awesome clip from our homies at Airblaster about Jed

I go to a lot of spots with a lot of different people, and you generally tend to land the most shit the quickest. Does snowboarding feel easy for you? I'm not trying to make you sound like a douche or anything, it's a real question that I want to know the answer to. (Pause) Snowboarding on hand rails... Depends, if it's a down rail with natural speed then yea, I think it's pretty easy, I guess. I find snowboarding on rails pretty mellow, it's just about wrapping your mind around it. People just think about getting injured too much, if you are 100% committed to a trick and you're focused, I don't think it's that hard. It's just a matter of riding it enough at the resort and then taking what you learned to the streets. Because if it's a rail with natural speed and there's a lot of snow, it's most likely safer than a park rail.

Keep in mind, these aren't little kids I'm talking about this with, these are other snowboarders who also wonder, "is it easy for him"? These are your peers, who are in the same movie as you, and people see something like that Prague session and they just go "what the fuck"... I don't want to sound cocky.... (pause) If it's a 20-stair down rail, it's... (pause) not hard, really. It really depends on the trick. but if it's a trick I've done a hundred times in the park, then the only difference is stairs.

How much of it is mental? All of it, pretty much. I don't really know how to explain it, but a lot of it is mental. I feel like I know my boundaries really well, I'll know if I can't do something and I just won't even try it. But if I look at something and think, "this is scary but I know I can do it", then I can. It's just a matter of getting my head wrapped around it, you just have to go for it. Just try it and it usually works out, maybe you'll eat shit once. I think just from snowboarding for as long as I have been, I know my limits really well and I know whether to be "screw that, I'm not trying that" or "I know I can do it, just commit". It's kind of a hard question to answer...

What do you think about snowboard parks? They're so fun, they're the best. Depends if the chair is fast, if there are line-ups. If there are no line-ups and you can just keep lapping, it's so fun. That's what I grew up doing, just riding in the snowboard park every night, just lapping and lapping and lapping. I'd watch a video and try to go learn a trick.

Look how young he looks in this clip!

What's it like traveling the world at such a young age? Because it's already a far-out experience for anyone, let alone right in the middle of growing up... It's insane, cuz I like home. I really like being comfortable with my settings and what's going on around me and when you're home you obviously have so much control over that. It's so scary sometimes, just thinking "I'm going to Europe tomorrow for a month and I don't know where I'm staying, I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know anything really". I just know that there is a plan to go here for a certain number of days, then move there and so forth. So it's crazy, but I'd be an idiot if I didn't do it, because it's an amazing opportunity. I know so many kids whose plan is to go to school, save up and then travel to this one place. Meanwhile I get to go to all these places right now and I appreciate it so much. People work 9-to-5 jobs just to go on one vacation per year. Like, here I am in Oregon and I have friends back home who have saved up for a whole year for a trip to Portland and I decided 3 days before to get my ticket. Sometimes, when I've been on the road for a long time I think "shit, I don't want to go there", but it's such a blessing that you just have to do it. I don't really know how to express it in words, every time I think about it I realize how ridiculous it is, I can't believe people are giving me these opportunities to go somewhere like Japan, it's just insane to me. I mean, three years ago I traveled a lot but just to the States and stuff, and now they'll ask me all mellow-like, "we're doing a trip to Europe, do you want to come?". It's such a normal thing in snowboarding to just travel all over the world, I still haven't gotten used to that yet.

You got the last part in the new Videograss movie Bon Voyage. Do you think about that when you're filming, like do you consciously focus on getting last part or do you just do your thing? Basically what I want to know is, to get last part do you need to have a focused mindset all year round? I don't really think about it during the year, but I always try to film the best part I can. I make a list of tricks I want to do that year then when I go to a rail I try to remember everything I wrote down and do them. But I don't ever think, "I'm going for last part, I'm competing with that guy for last part", it just ends up happening that way. I know I might even regret saying this but if you're filming for a movie that a million other kids would totally chuck themselves to be in, you better do your best. Kids are always judging and I never want them to be bummed on my parts. I remember being bummed on some riders cuz of their parts. I mean, they hadn't even gotten injured or anything, you could just tell they weren't trying but they still got to film for that big company and their sponsors still supported them and suddenly you realized you just don't like that guy that much any more. There are so many people out there right now just waiting for an opportunity to get what we have, so I feel I should always try my hardest.

Homie totally rips on a skateboard too. I mean, seriously.

Is it hard to balance your professional responsibilities with your sponsors and being a normal 18-year old kid in Calgary with your friends, your girlfriend, all that? I'm lucky enough to be in a position where I try to not have my sponsors expect that much from me, other than filming a video part and getting photos. I don't really have people calling me telling that I need to go here or I need to be there, cuz I don't want it to be like that. Like you said, I'm just 19, I wanna be at home, hang out with my friends, go skateboarding. I don't want to miss out on this part of my life, at least not all of it.

Let's talk about the whole am situation. Personally I think they handle it super well in skateboarding, but in snowboarding people don't really get it. For example, this is your time right now so I'm not gonna say "you're not gonna get paid for a while, cuz you need to prove something" when I go to Mt. Hood and see 50 of your little clones running around. It just seems like in snowboarding there are certain hoops you need to jump through before you can get a paycheck and a pro model. I totally agree, people in snowboarding play the age factor so much. I think once you get past a certain age the whole am thing doesn't even make sense anymore. If someone's in their prime, they're in their prime and it's important to be able to recognize that. But yea, I also think it's definitely important for people to prove themselves and I think I've done that already.

Notice he skates regs and shreds goofy. Ambidextrous much?

Do you have public beef with any other snowboarders? Like for example, Jeremy Jones and Nick Dirks seem to have this back and forth little bullshit thing going... I don't want to call out anyone but the Nick Dirks and Jeremy thing is pretty funny, I'm definitely more down for Nick. But no humans are really making me mad or affecting me right now, so no real beef. There are definitely a lot of people I'm not down for but I don't hate anyone I don't actually know. In general I'm pretty psyched on pretty much anyone who snowboards. I mean, there's joke beef between like the Cheese Mafia and mofuckin' 1817, but that shit is just for fun.

What about the Brent Meyer tribute at the beginning of your part, was that actually a tribute or a call-out? It was a tribute. The darkslide was sick, who else would even try that, Brent Meyer is a pimp. Smooth criminal, darksliding upside-down, back flip on, front flip off... (laughs)

What's it like having your own pro model that you can design the graphic for? It sucks! Nah, it's sick, you can put whatever you want on a board and they'll sell it, it's the best. Who wouldn't like to be in that position, right? But for me especially it's great cuz I love to draw, I'm always thinking about graphics.

You know, it's funny, people who talk the most about creativity in snowboarding tend to be the least creative ones out there. How do you feel about all that? I think snowboard videos are kind of boring in general, that's just my opinion though. What gets me hyped are things that are not kooky and which I haven't seen done before, stuff that makes me think "why didn't I think of that". That's what gets me psyched.

Can you think of anything like that which you saw recently? Yea, pretty much everything that Gus (Engle) does I'm always really hyped on, it just looks good. Jonas (Michilot) also had a wallie thing in his part, I was trying to find something like that all year. It doesn't necessarily have to be a hammer, it just has to look really cool. If the spot is cool, that makes it a hammer, like Louif's handplant over that fence, it wasn't a big obstacle or anything but it was just really, really sick cuz I had never seen that done before.

Rattle off a few names of people you think have sick style and why. Okay, Lou, just because you can just tell how controlled he is, he knows exactly what he's doing. There's never a moment when he doesn't look in full control, even when he falls, it's like he knew he was gonna fall. (laughs) I think Jonas has really cool style, just because it's really original, Gus for the same reason. I like anyone who has original style, Travis Parker, Peter Line. Nate Bozung just because he always did proper shit. I like Justin Hebbel's style, a lot of people hate on that. I like J2's style and a lot of people think he had the worst style ever in snowboarding. But I think it was sick, he was loose as hell and just went for it. It's like Cardiel, he was pretty sketchy sometimes but that's what made his style sick. Nicolas Muller, Keegan (Valaika), (Chris) Bradshaw. There's obviously a lot more but that's who I can think of for now.

C-c-c-cruisin'

David Benedek is writing a book about the current state of snowboarding in which he interviews some of the most influential names in our industry like Terje Haakonsen, Nico Muller, the true bosses of snowboarding. How does it feel to be one of the subjects of his book, where you basically represent the current generation of professional snowboarders? I feel honored and grateful that someone like David, who I've always looked up to, thinks that it would be interesting to interview me. Like you said, all the other people in the book are a huge part of snowboarding, so it's pretty crazy to be included in that group. I just really appreciate it, I guess honored is the best word to describe it.

Last question, is there anything at all you'd like to get off your chest? Yea, it doesn't really have to do with snowboarding but I don't like humans who think they're cooler than other humans. I'm not going to name any names but a lot of people vibe you because they think their status is higher than yours, so fuck you for that. (laughs) It definitely happens a lot in snowboarding but everywhere else too. The other day I went to a show and so many people just look you up and down and give you a dirty look, I mean, why do you think you're so special? It just really pisses me off, I was thinking about it and this is something I really want to get off my chest, I just want those people to know that they are the wackest humans ever.

Right on, so is there anyone you would shout out for helping you along the way? First and foremost, my family for driving me to the mountain and paying for my first snowboard and all the support. My brother, for starting snowboarding before me and making me want to snowboard. All my friends that have supported me. My sponsors in my past and present. Joe Carlino and Justin Meyer. I know I'm forgetting a lot of people. Just thank you to anyone who has helped me get to where I'm at today.

Interview by Joaquin Francisco