X Games Aspen 2020 Knuckle Huck gold medalist Zeb Powell views his approach to snowboarding as an improvisational creative process. He says he’s inspired by the ways other artists he loves — Freddie Gibbs, Cleo Soul, Tyler the Creator — play around with manipulating sounds, beats or words.
His own artistic medium? “It’s really just about feeling out different ways to manipulate gravity,” Zeb says.
And he sure did that enroute to his silver medal at X Games Aspen 2024. But while Knuckle Huck’s terminology may sound like a foreign language to the uninitiated, Zeb believes the pictures resonate with people. Viewership numbers and social engagement back him up.
“People love Knuckle Huck because, on the one hand, it feels attainable — anyone can ride a knuckle! — and at the same time it’s completely unattainable,” Zeb says of X Games’ most undisciplined discipline’s appeal. “These tricks are like unicorns, even for me. They don’t even seem real.”
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Colin Bane 