You can learn a lot about someone by reading their knee-jerk reactions to certain words. Try to put together a portrait of Seppe Smits by reading the following word associations.

Belgium
Beer & fries

United States
Everything is bigger

Fast Food
Anti-hangover food

Contests
Pressure and progression

Video
Show your best style in your tricks

Hammer
Time

Indoor Pistes
My home mountain

Belgium Waffles
Barely ever eat them, except in Leuven at the train station.

Bigfoot
Rides wide boards

Powder
Freedom

Slopestyle
Do all your best tricks in a row!

Halfpipe
Just go big, that’s the best feeling in halfpipe.

Beijing
Crazy traffic

Air & Style
Pushes me to do new tricks and achieve a higher level

Double Corks
I prefer flatspins

Triple Corks
Insane, scary and painful

Custom X
My buddy

Methods
The new & old school

Mikkel
The most original style in snowboarding

Sochi Olympics
A chance for FIS to show what they can do!

Mikkel Bang is used to being pretty high, because he is so tall, but he got even higher recently in the upper elevations of Breckenridge and Keystone with Alex Østreng. Check out that smooth style.

This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the Legendary Mt. Baker Banked Slalom. People come from all over the world to race in the natural halfpipe at Mt. Baker, check out all the pro cameos in this video for proof. Last year Danny Davis, Stephan Maurer, and Terje Haakonsen took to the course. Terje is no stranger to the Banked Slalom and has won a handful of times over the years, including one year he qualified switch. If you are within an 8 hour drive from Baker, it's worth the trip.  February 10-12. Check out the results of year's past and this year here.

Filmed by:
Corey Koniniec
Hayden Rensch

Edited by:
Corey Koniniec

Music by:
Artist: The Fresh and Onlys
Song: "Waterfall"
Album: Play it Strange

Get a better look at Shaun White's victory lap run at the Winter X-Games. With 1st place already in the bag, Shaun earned a perfect 100.0 on arguably the best run anyone had ever seen.

He might not be the next Slovenian Elvis, but Marko Grilc has something going on with this rendition.

Check out this non-bootlegged teaser from the Redbull Supernatural event over the weekend. Looks pretty insane! Then wait until March 31st to see the rest of it on NBC and redbull.tv.

Just because someone is from Wisconsin doesn’t necessarily make them the cheese-whiz. Maybe Ethan Deiss was too busy riding and entertaining everyone with cheesy jokes to study his curds and whey. And that’s alright with us. Learn some sharp facts about Ethan in this here interview.

1. Being from Wisconsin and all…what’s your favorite cheese?
I like cheese curds. I don’t know too much about cheese though.

2. You grew up riding in Trollhaugen, Wisconsin, what was that like?
It was really tight! Troll is two miles from my house and my friends and I would ride there every day after school! Now that we're all older we ride there after we sleep.

3. You had pretty good parts in Standing Sideways and Retrospect, what was it like filming for those videos?
It was so much fun! I loved filming with both crews. It was my first year filming for big projects and it went pretty smooth. I'm really excited for this season now that I'm getting the hang of all the traveling. I used to just hang out in Minnesota all season and film my parts.

4. You hit a bunch of stops on the Standing Sideways tour, what was that like?
It was so tight! I could write a book about that trip! It felt like we woke up in a different country every morning! It was a good time for sure!

5. Tell us about Tokyo Rail Days. Did you eat anything that was still moving?
Japan was so sick! It felt like I teleported into the future or something. The contest was awesome, too. I usually don’t do contests, so it felt good to place top three! All the homies were out there so the riding was tight. Besides the pouring rain!

6. Were you the tour guide a lot on Midwest rail missions last year?
Nah, I have no idea where the spots are in Minnesota! I call my friend Riley and he helps us out! I guess in Wisconsin I showed the guys some spots though.

7. With so many pros moving west to places like Mammoth, Tahoe, and Whistler, do you see yourself following or remaining in the Midwest?
I’m staying in Minnesota or Wisconsin. I like the feeling of traveling to those big mountain towns to board. It makes it feel more like vacation for me. Besides, I have too many homies here, I can't leave!

8. Any cool stories from the Norway trip? A lot of people are probably curious to the backstory of when you were bending that board backwards.
Moran has all the stories of that trip! I blacked out from being so excited! It was my first time to Europe! About the bending of that board...we weren't trying to bend it; we were trying to snap it. I can’t believe we couldn’t get it to break. Little did we know the board was trying to snap us.

9. What do you have planned for this season?
Snowboard as much as I can. I’m filming for the Burton video full-time this year and hopefully I can get some time in with Videograss, too.

10. Who are the most fun people to travel with?
Any of my friends.

11. What are some of your favorite urban features to find and hit?
I like wallrides now. I hit my first one last season and it was super fun. Now I’m trying to find a new bigger one.

12. What’s the weirdest thing that’s happened while you were at a spot? Like security, bums…crazy ladies?
I've literally dealt with all those types of people! Police, gangs, city workers, crack heads…you just never know. It’s our entertainment while we’re not boarding.

If you didn't get to know John Jackson in our Bur-Ton of Questions, or want to know more about the man, check out this interview he did with Transworld Snowboarding to hear about his Real Snow Backcountry part and possibly one of the longest road trips imaginable.

Mark Sollors makes snowboarding look easy, that's no question. Check out as Mark answers the question of how to do a 50-50 through a kinked rail. It's as hard and easy as it looks, with practice.

Two minutes at Brighton wouldn't do much good. Someone can hardly get their boots on in that amount of time. With the help of editing, Alex Andrews and the guys can do way more than put on boots in under 120 seconds.