Mark McMorris

Canada's snowboarding world champion Mark McMorris is one of the most decorated and successful athletes in the sport's competitive history. It all started for Mark McMorris on the slopes of Calgary, where he and his brother, Craig, cut their teeth in skiing and snowboarding during family holidays. Mark joined the Saskatchewan Snowboard Team at the age of 11 and soon began competing in rail jams and slopestyle contests around Canada. In 2009, at the age of 15, Mark competed in his first FIS World Cup snowboard contest and his first Burton U.S. Open. Then he secured spots on the podium at nearly every contest he entered. At his first X Games appearance, in Aspen, Colorado, in 2011, Mark earned a silver medal in Slopestyle and fourth place in Big Air. But everything changed for Mark when he made history by landing snowboarding's first ever backside triple cork 1440 at Snowmass park in Colorado. After that, Mark was invited on a park shoot with the crew from Brain Farm Cinema's The Art