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Each mountain has received a hometown hero, somebody who can maintain their very own towards riders that pay their payments with massive traces and bottom 720s. Typically phrase will get out and the accolades comply with, and different instances these darkish knights simply do their factor in relative obscurity.

Laborious to say the place Whistler’s Brin Alexander will wind up on that spectrum. However within the meantime, he’s actually received the eye of his native snowboard group.

Brin’s deal with on the ‘gram is @betterthanthepolice , however as King Snow journal instructed in response to the put up beneath, Brin is perhaps #betterthaneveryone

Born and raised in Whistler, B.C., Brin grew up with one helluva yard. And because the son of two Whistler Blackcomb ski patrollers, he realized concerning the mountains like most children would decide up a second language. Not solely that, he was taught find out how to keep excessive ranges of security in insanely harmful conditions. Brin’s dad, Dave Alexander, was a stuntman for the movie business throughout an period when the foundations have been free and the gamers have been cowboys. Brin adopted in his dad’s footsteps, proper down that very same metaphorical set of stairs. 

“That’s mainly the principle earnings,” says Brin of his stunt work. “I’ve been doing lots of rigging and stunt rigging after which a little bit little bit of coordinating as effectively. So form of simply branching out into the stunt world as a result of these jobs are type of hand in hand.”

Moreover the apparent athletic crossover, Brin’s schedule within the movie business really permits for lots of boardin’.

“Truthfully, it’s helpful for snowboarding as a result of it’s a really well-paid job and I’ll be working two or three days right here and there the place I’m doubling one particular person after which I’m achieved,” he says. “It’s not a constant on a regular basis kind factor.”

However so far as his snowboarding goes, there’s a purpose why individuals preserve mentioning his identify in the identical sentence because the Natural Selection Tour – simply snowboarding’s most esteemed occasion collection proper now. Brin nonetheless crushes park laps on a semi-regular foundation. However he additionally gravitates to badass, aesthetic descents in radical terrain. Briefly, his driving would match the Pure Choice completely.

“It’s straightforward to look previous issues while you’re youthful and also you’re simply going as much as the resort daily,” explains Alexander. “However while you actually grasp the world you’re in and the locations you could possibly go and the shit individuals DO ski within the space. It’s loopy as a result of Whistler being Whistler, so many individuals are out ripping loopy stuff.”

Whistler’s a cosmic mash of supernaturally proficient shredders. The youngsters who develop up there stand on the shoulders of the greats who got here earlier than them. Brin grew up just a few years behind Kye Petersen, freeride phenom and son of legendary ski mountaineer, Trevor Petersen (RIP). 

Kye’s watched Brin develop into the shredder that he’s at the moment. And a pair winters in the past, Kye invited Brin to movie for Sacred Grounds, a challenge that took them to the legendary Mica Heli Snowboarding, north of Revelstoke – a zone that’s stacked with massive, bloodthirsty pillow traces.

“I wished to carry somebody who was additionally a born and raised Whistler native,” explains Kye. “Our dads had achieved lots of stuff collectively so I wished to do extra stuff with [Brin] after seeing what he’s been as much as on his snowboard.”

“He had been doing among the greatest shit I’d seen domestically within the valley, so I wished to provide him a possibility to shred among the raddest terrain that I knew of…He crushed it.”

Each snowboarder is a product of their very own surroundings. And with Brin Alexander, Whistler has created a shredder who can stomp pillow traces, throw Wildcats in the midst of backbone partitions and effectively rescue his crew – ought to the necessity come up – be it avalanche or crevasse. And as soon as all that’s taken care of, the man can increase just a few airs within the halfpipe and slide just a few rails on his method again right down to the valley.

So yeah. Brin wouldn’t be misplaced standing on a ridgeline subsequent to his heroes, drones flying overhead with a panel of judges on the backside. 

“Oh man. Effectively, clearly it’d be onerous to say no to one thing like that,” he says. “Driving with Travis or Huge Air Jare – or all these dudes are so sick, simply homies – I feel it’d be a sick alternative simply to hang around with them whatever the driving.”

In fact this call-up to the NST is usually hypothetical at this cut-off date. He’s not prequalified just like the riders who’ve been introduced within the final couple weeks, nor has he been chosen for a Duel. However Brin did submit a brief edit to somebody behind the scenes, so it’s greater than individuals simply tagging @betterthanthepolice on NST’s social media. 

“I’ve been shouted out a bunch, like on the Bombhole,” explains Brin. “However I do know 30 different riders which might be essentially the most insane and simply work regular jobs and don’t have any following, they usually simply shred.”

NST or in any other case, shredding is Brin’s high precedence. He’ll be out tagging traces together with his associates, guys like Will Kovacic: the ACMG rock and ice information who’s led the cost on a few of Brin and the gangs’ larger missions. And perhaps as a substitute of going toe-to-toe with Travis Rice, Brin will simply go boardin’ together with his homie Ryan Paterson, one other shredder who’s in it for the love.

“I get mad inspiration from Ryan,” says Brin. 

For the final two seasons, Brin’s had a pro model with Dope Industries, a small, snowboarder-driven Whistler model. And he’s received sufficient sponsors that he takes a second to recollect all of them. Between that and the stunt work, he’s received it fairly good. But when T. Rice rings him up with an invitation, Brin’s gonna reply that decision.