Nickname: DCP
Age: 28
Hometown: Squamish, BC, Canada
I was born in the province of Quebec in a little town called Chicoutimi which means “to where the water is deep.” Chicoutimi is located along the Saguenay river, a beautiful fjord. I grew up skiing for 5 years and started snowboarding in 1991 at a ski resort called Le Valinouët; a little 350m high resort with 100% natural snow, and no park whatsoever back then. We hand dug everything ourselves for years.
When I was 13 years old I started competing in half pipe competitions around Quebec and Vermont. Mostly so I could ride a Pipe. I won the Youth title and got sponsored by Burton. I kept competing in half pipe event around the North American East Coast, Whistler, and eventually I joined the ISF World Cup Tour through the Canadian Snowboard Federation and traveled everywhere in Europe . I competed at Nationals, Junior World Championships and WestBeach Classics.
In 1997 I started Filming for Adventuroscope production (FREEDOM) , and did a bunch more world cup and invitational big Air and slopestyle events world wide.
After high school, I went to college for half a year and then convinced my mom(college teacher) that I was going to move to Mt-St –Anne with some friends to follow my snowboarding dream. In the winter of 1997 and 1998 we rode a shit load of pipe and had the best time , then I moved to Whistler (first time there was summer 1996) . That’s where I fell in love with the place, the mountains, the snow, the freeriding and my passion for filming snowboarding grew from then on. And I stopped the world cup tour as soon as FIS took over. I got fined for dropping in after the practice were over.LAME! I was over that quick…I decided to just focus on filming and high profile contests. I had the best time after I decided to do that.
I was fortunate to land a spot on the Burton Global team in 2001 and was balls deep in Snowboard movie filming with Gathering Collective, Treetop Production, Kingpin Production, Mack Dawg production and Absinthe films.
With Burton, we started UNINC, which was a very fun project and very unique and creative touch into our snowboarding lifestyle.
Jeff Anderson, our friend, our partner, our team mate, passed away…this was a hard one , but everything happens for a reason so…it made us stronger! I am still thinking of him a lot , and often make pow turns in memory of him. (I also do pow turn for my other passed friends Josh Malay and legend Craig Kelly)
Then I got married and had a baby girl and I am the luckiest man on the planet. My girls are amazing!
Last summer my 14 years long sponsors decided it was time for them to break up with me. It was a hard one, but then again, everything happens for a reason and I was now free of the Big Machine. I was greatful for all those years, but Free after all.
That’s when we (Romain, Jim , JP, Henry and I) decided to start our own thing , YES NOW BOARD.
And the adventure has begun. We have insane technology and the boards are so good. We are our own boss, and we are running the show. All of us. It is very refreshing!
This year, I filmed with Absinthe Films, and it was a very fun winter.
I am looking forward to a successful time with YES, deep POW and tons of fun with my friends!
The future is wide open for YES! And wide open for DCP!
Ah yeah! I also love surfing a lot, I own a house in Costa Rica and I love to skateboard, I have skateboard ramp in my backyard in Squamish. I am a very happy guy and feel very fortunate to live the life that I live. I want to share my passion for board sports and inspire as many people as I can . Pura Vida!
David Carrier-Porcheron (DCP)
dcp@yesnowboard.com
