Pat Moore: Web Interview

Pat Moore, or Phat Whore, or Parts More, or Patty Cakes is obviously the gentle, caring, artistic type. It’s hard to believe this young redhead would ever huck his frail body off huge jumps or at nasty rails. Pat believes in fun. He doesn’t care to out-shred the shred-stars in contests, but if it came down to it, he would tear Shaun White apart in a cage fight. This Youngblood may seem shy, quiet and reserved but give him some sugar, lust and magic, and he’ll start chattin’ like a cheerful child.

DS: How was your season?
PM: It went well. I didn’t do filming that much, but I shot a lot of photos and did some contests. So I changed it up a little bit.

You shot photos personally?
No, no, no. Last year, or the season before, we were really stressed on filming for the Forum video. Taking photos was kind of second in line. This year we had some time to take photos and do some different stuff.

Do you prefer to have photos taken of you rather than being filmed?
I like both in different situations. I think with taking photos you can get a lot more creative and do a lot more with less. With filming you need really good conditions and perfect features to do whatever needs to be done to make it in the videos. With photography you can find a little bump and take a cool photo.

What was Dubai like?
Dubai was insane. It was surreal. We were in the middle of the Middle-East and just messing around. It was kind of different because of where we were, but the group of people that I was with was the same people that I had been traveling with. So it didn’t seem like I was far away, but on a map, looking at it now, is just crazy. We went swimming in the Persian Gulf. We saw all the sites. We went out to the desert. It was definitely one of those trips that will be remembered forever for all of us.

Were there any moments when cultures clashed?
It wasn't too bad. Where we were was more westernized. We always had a guide and stuff like that. We did go to this one area in old Dubai. And Evan from Transworld had this headpiece on. We all bought them they’re the traditional headpieces for that area. But he was wearing it in shorts and normal clothing. This guy walked by, who was in the traditional gear and had the headpiece on also. He gave Evan the worst look I’ve ever seen. I was watching the guy do it and looking at Evan at the same time. It was just like, “ Oh shit! what’s going to happen? This is going to be bad.” It ended up being nothing. It was just one small instance, but it definitely stood out in my mind.

How was the Dubai snowdome?
It was pretty sick. I’ve been to a few, but this one was definitely pretty ridiculous. Our view from our hotel room was the snow-dome. It’s like all these buildings around and then there’s this giant thing that sticks out. Once you’re inside there’s a quad and all this stuff. They had a contest going on that night. The whole thing with Dubai is most of the people there are from other areas, like Eastern Europe and whatnot. The kids who there that night were actually pretty good and there was a good contest.

Was it different from other snow-domes that you’ve been to?
The other snow-domes that we went to were mostly a lot smaller. This one was really big. And also you could tell a lot of money had been put into it because there was so many little details going on. And the fact that we were in the Middle-East snowboarding made it that much better. It was like probably 110 or 115 degrees everyday. Outside it was so hot. Everywhere you went had crazy air-conditioning. In the snowdome it was at like 2 or 3 celcius. It was something ridiculous like 15 or 20 barrels of oil to make that thing cold for a day.

How has Forum been?
I’ve been on Forum for six years now. Right now is a kind of interesting time because we’ve lost a lot of people, but we still have a strong team. The number of us has gotten smaller, but the guys that we have are a good group.

Has being bought by Burton changed the company or the team?
It happened a while ago. Since then nothing’s really changed. Any differences that I’ve seen have been positive ones, as far as product development and stuff like that.

What do you do in your freetime?
I’ve just been hangin’ out and skating a bunch. I live in Salt Lake right now. I’ve been painting a lot. I’ve been doing a bunch of weird stuff, barbecuing and stuff like that.

Painting?
I’ve just been messing around painting stupid little pictures for my friends on canvasses. It’s fun. I get way into. The other night I stayed up till 4 in the morning just all stoked on painting. My paintings are so crappy but it doesn’t matter. It’s just fun dorking around.

Pat Bridges would like to know what is the best concert you’ve been to?
I’ve only been to a few. Definitely, Slayer in Santiago with Muzzey. That was psycho. There was like 30,000 people. The whole time I was fearing for my life. For sure, I was the only red head there. I thought there was going to be some sort of outbreak like someone was going to freak out and there was going to be some sort of chaos. There was a lot of people in a condensed area. Slayer just got on stage and ripped it. That was it. We met a bunch of cool people that night and had a good time.

Was that your first time in Chile?
I’ve been to Chile a bunch of times. That was my third or fourth time there. Every time I go it has been a different experience. I love going down there. Culturally, it’s pretty cool to see.

How was traveling with Peter Line?
Oh Pete. He’s a character for sure. Him and Eddie kind of kept to themselves the whole time. They cleared out their mini-bars every night. Every time I saw Pete he was drinking a beer, making fun of one of us, or smoking a ciggy. But that’s Pete and he’s awesome. That’s why we love him. He actually snowboarded in Norway with us. I haven’t seen Pete ride in a little while, since our trip to Baldface. He started shredding. It was sick to see Pete doing tricks. When you look at him now it’s like, “ya, thats Peter…” and you forget he’s one of the best snowboarders in the world. To see him just shred like that was pretty cool. Then he unbuckles and he’s like, (Pat’s Peter Line impression is just as good as his J.P. Walker impression) “myea, hey guys…” He goes back to being Pete. He’s not only one of the best snowboarders who has ever rode but he’s also one of the best personalities to ever come out of the sport. His stories and the way that he talks and all of his personal things….He’s Pete and there’s no one like him.

What happened to your Mohawk?
I had one for a little bit. That was for Grenade’s movie. What it was was the initiation into Grenade. I was all stoked because it was going to be me and (Jake) Blauvelt and Joe Eddy and a bunch of guys who were going to get these Mohawks. It ended up just being me, and everyone else making fun of me. That was short lived.

Do you have anything special planned for your session at High Cascade?
Not yet. I still have to talk with Lauri. Me and him are doing a camp together and I think it’s with Erin Comstock also. I did one with Danny (Kass) last year. It was so much fun. We had all these activities and hung out with the kids all the time. I’m just excited to go up there and relive being a camper.

What’s up with your tattoos?
The one across my chess ‘Live Free or Die’ pretty much speaks for itself.

Any new ones planned?
I can’t talk about that I think my mom would be mad. We’ll see, the future will tell.

You’re a pretty well rounded rider. How do you practice on everything?
I just really enjoy riding anything that’s put in front of me. I like to be able to go to half-pipe and do tricks and then go to jumps do tricks. I don’t think that it’ necessarily that people can’t ride everything. What I’ve found is it’s really hard to maintain being good at each of those aspects because you need to focus on one thing. Especially in halfpipe, if you want to be winning half-pipe competitions you have to be riding half-pipe all the time. I ride with guys who are secluded to just being rail riders or just being jumpers, but like everyone in snowboarding can pretty much ride everything. If you bring a rail guy to a half-pipe he may not be able to do a 1080, but he’ll find something creative to do, something fun that’s hard in itself. I think people narrow down what’s hard and what’s a cool trick to what’s being published or whatever. I think some of the hardest things to do in snowboarding are the weird dork-around tricks that you do while you’re out of your element.

Between jumps, rails and half-pipe, do you have a favorite?
I love just lapping through the park. I like riding a mountain where you can go up a chairlift and hit rails, jumps and the half-pipe all in one run. For me, just flowing through a park, hitting obstacles, doing a variety of tricks on different aspects throughout a run is so much fun. A perfect powder day is amazing. A perfect half-pipe is amazing. Hitting a rail is fun. But putting it all together and enjoying that with Bridges or someone like that at Mammoth is the best for sure. Just doing tail-blocks all day, I could be satisfied.

You said Superpark 11 was the best Superpark yet. Why?
Superpark has been a thing that has evolved through the years. It’s kind of hard to figure out what’s pushing the limits, but what is also safe. You don’t want to build a bunch of stuff that’s just going to kill people. Throughout the years we’ve figured out what a good meeting point for crazy stuff and safe stuff is. Having all these quarter-pipes, little hips, little jibs, and having big jumps and medium jumps makes it a lot more fun. It’s like riding through a park, instead of stopping and going straight at a 100ft. jump and hoping that you don’t knuckle or over shoot it. In the past Superparks have been like that and a lot of people have gotten hurt. I’ve gotten hurt at Superpark. I missed the season’s before and it was cool to come back this year to come back. It was so much more well put together. You can tell the guys in the cats are so on it. And the guys who are building all the features and maintaining everything are so on it. It’s amazing and so much fun. You’re not nervous riding through, it’s just like you’re lapping with all your friends. It’s just an excuse to go hang out with everyone. Plus the auction was fun. They auctioned us off for dates for the Boarding for Breast Cancer. But I got bailed on by my date.

Can you talk about your nicknames?
I have a bunch of them like Patty Cakes, Phat Whore is the newest edition, Parts More is a new one. That one is because when I had my snowmobile up in Whistler our film director Sean Kerns, was stealing parts out of my snowmobile to fix his sled. I just heard about it. So supposedly those guys up there were calling me Parts More. My friends and I were all going to meet up and they were bringing my friend Dirty to my house. He was like, “is that Pat Moore?” And they were like,”ya.” And Dirty was like, “More like Phat Whore.” He just came up with that out of the blue in a second’s notice and it stuck for awhile. And sadly it’s been printed in magazines and my mom’s asked me why my nickname is Phat Whore. I like that nickname, I think it’s funny.

Is there a story behind the call you got from Terje (Haakonsen)?
For Arctic Challenge you get an invitation from Terje. He called me up and I was like in Hood or somewhere. I didn’t get good reception. I got the message randomly one day and I freaked out and put it on speaker phone. Within a week I had shown everyone I know. He’s just one of those guys. To watch him snowboard is the most amazing thing, so to get a phone call from him is ridiculous.

How was riding with Travis Rice?
Ya, I rode a little bit with Travis. He’s putting together another movie, so I’m trying to get in with that. He’s always fun to go with. The guy who does the films with him is Kurt Morgan. Those two together role like crazy. I showed up to the shoot and they had two helicopters, a WestCam, we rented out this mansion and stayed in it. It was retarded. That’s what you get when you film with Travis. Hopefully, I get to film a little more with them. He’s probably the knarliest snowboarder, just always charging and doing the biggest stuff. He’s one of those guys who can do everything. In his older parts he has rail shots and half-pipe shots. I filmed with Community Project when I was younger. That was one of my first years filming. He helped me out a bunch and kind of showed me the way. It’s just been a good friendship ever since.

Will your video part have more pipe shots this year?
This year we’re doing a two year movie, so it won’t come up. But the whole thing with half-pipe footage in That was we tried to do a couple shoots and it just didn’t work out. That happens sometimes. I haven’t really messed around in the half-pipe too much. I learned a few tricks with Shaun White when he was in Park City. That was awesome. I never get to ride half-pipe and the only few days I got to ride was in a private half-pipe with him. So we were just learning tricks and dorking around. That got me all pumped. But then I had to go film. I haven’te really been able to devote a lot of time to riding half-pipe. I haven’t kept up with it. I love doing handplants and stuff like that. Actually, I did do a half-pipe contest, the West Coast Invitational. I don’t know if you would consider that a real contest where like 1080s win, but it was fun. Peter rode in it, Bridges rode in it. We were just messing around the whole time. Those are the contests that I like to do. There always fun. That’s all I care about these days. I don’t really care about doing the knarliest trick at a half-pipe contest anymore.

Pat Bridges wants to know more about your girlfriend.
Well, it’s true I am currently taken. I don’t how it happened, I lucked out. We’ve known each other for awhile. What can I say that you could actually write. I’ll keep you updated with that as it further developes.

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