Tucker Perkins has been one of the young standouts in the pipe circuit the past few seasons, with a Candide-like flow that few have been able to match. I mean, the boy doesn’t move a muscle during a 12 and seems to land right where he needs to be for the next hit. Tuck keeps a pretty low-profile and often turns down requests from the media. But in this case, nepotism has greased the wheels of access to celebrity (Tucker is Dunfee’s cousin). In anticipation of this weekend’s Dew Tour, we give you an interview with one of the tour’s finest young talents, Tucker Perkins.
Let’s see if you can handle the real talk.
Okay, it’s Dew Tour time. Let’s get right to it. Congrats on getting a double in the pipe. What is it like to do two flips 18 feet above a concave ice skating rink?
It was real scary the first time, I didn’t sleep the night before because I knew I had to go out and do it. I had two attempts in New Zealand that didn’t work, I had the relearn it the night before at Woodward on the tramp, then go try it in the pipe. I had been doing doubles on tramps for a while so the feeling was similar. Once I got the first couple out of the way, it wasn’t that scary to do them anymore.
Which Dew Tour stop has the hottest chicks?
None of them.
Which Dew Tour stop has the worst fans?
Breckenridge.
Which Dew Tour stop has the best athlete food?
Tahoe. Mt. Snow sucks so I hope Snowbasin gets it together. I just want plain peanut butter sandwiches with no jelly.
What’s the hottest thing in skiing right now?
Walter Wood (in the background): Mouthgaurds. Tucker: I think matching mouth guards to helmets is lame. Regular-length poles.
You’ve had a chance to see the debate going on right now on BroBomb about team videos and the future of ski videos. Who’s going to win, DVDs or Web-based videos?
DVDs.
Did Louie Vito beat Shaun White in the Grand Prix, yes or no?
Yes.
Which sucked more: hurting your knee at X Games or having your hip blow up with 64 oz. of cottage-cheese-like body fluid?
Mentally, X games. All that hard work going out the door. But with the hip, it was like an 85- pound zit. It hurt a lot.
