Clayton Vila's guest appearances

Clayton Vila

Unleashed Podcast with The Dingo and Danny Fueled by Monster Energy 

Sammy Carlson

Jason Anderson

Chloe Kim

Kurt Busch

Julian Carr

Mike Douglas

Lexi Dupont

Pat Casey

Caroline Gleich

Adam Cianciarulo

Jeremy McGrath

Ryan Villopoto

Chris Benchetler

Cody Townsend

Hadley Hammer

OwlTail

Professional freestyle skier and multi-hyphenate talent: Monster Energy’s Clayton Vila has won awards as an athlete and filmmaker. Now the 30-year-old L.A. transplant shares his unique origin story on UNLEASHED with our hosts, The Dingo and Danny.Against the odds, Clayton Vila grew up on an island off the coast of Rhode Island and still became a groundbreaking freeski athlete. His unique niche: Self-published online videos that generated millions of views, including 2008’s “Clayton Vila Shreds Block Island”. Vila also boasts an X Games bronze medal from the 2016 Real Ski video competition. His debut as a filmmaker, the documentary “For Lack of Better”, was named Film of the Year at the Powder Awards in 2015 and he produces commercials and films with the world’s best athletes.Basically, Clayton Vila is living proof that groundbreaking talent can emerge anywhere in the world – and that creativity and determination are the keys to success. Hear the inspiring story in Episode 16 of the UNLEASHED with The Dingo and Danny Podcast.Make sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more UNLEASHED episodes. Regular editions of the show are recorded live inside Studio M at Monster Energy headquarters in Corona, California and published bi-weekly. Also follow @monsterenergy for updates.

Professional freestyle skier and multi-hyphenate talent: Monster Energy’s Clayton Vila has won awards as an athlete and filmmaker. Now the 30-year-old L.A. transplant shares his unique origin story on UNLEASHED with our hosts, The Dingo and Danny. Against the odds, Clayton Vila grew up on an island off the coast of Rhode Island and still became a groundbreaking freeski athlete. His unique niche: Self-published online videos that generated millions of views, including 2008’s “Clayton Vila Shreds Block Island”. Vila also boasts an X Games bronze medal from the 2016 Real Ski video competition. His debut as a filmmaker, the documentary “For Lack of Better”, was named Film of the Year at the Powder Awards in 2015 and he produces commercials and films with the world’s best athletes. Basically, Clayton Vila is living proof that groundbreaking talent can emerge anywhere in the world – and that creativity and determination are the keys to success. Hear the inspiring story in Episode 16 of the UNLEASHED with The Dingo and Danny Podcast. Make sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more UNLEASHED episodes. Regular editions of the show are recorded live inside Studio M at Monster Energy headquarters in Corona, California and published bi-weekly. Also follow @monsterenergy for updates.

Clayton Vila, X Games Medal-Winning Freeskier and Filmmaker – UNLEASHED Podcast E116

Clayton Vila is one of the hardest working and most accomplished street skiers in the world. On this episode of the "Sponsored" podcast, Vila and host Mike Powell discuss how he got into street skiing as a kid from Rhode Island, and the consequences of pursuing creativity over competition.  "The K2 team had a bunch of dudes and none of them competed," says Vila. "These people are backing people who are just doing what I want to do and skiing with the utmost integrity and pushing skiing in other ways beyond competition, which was why it was like, 'wow, if I get in with these dudes I might be able to make it."  In addition to being one of the most influential contemporary skiers in the world, Vila is also a filmmaker (at the 2015 Powder Awards, Vila took home Movie of the Year for his role starring and producing For Lack of Better. He now lives in LA and works on the show "Scandal," but he has no intention of not skiing urban.  "It may be one of the more wearing sports mentally, in terms of the work ethic, and just being in crappy cities, being in hotels, it being negative 20 in Minnesota filming your friends and your fingers are falling off and you have nothing to show for it at the end of the day," says Vila. "That whole thing wears on you, but I don't see myself stopping anytime soon." Show Notes 2:00: Last Season 4:00: Block Island5:00: How did Clayton get into skiing on an island?6:00: Waterville Valley11:05: Meeting the Stept Crew13:00: Getting on K215:55: It’s not about skiing19:20: Injuries22:30: Filmmaking 24:29: Finances26:30:  Powder Awards Movie of the Year

Clayton Vila is one of the hardest working and most accomplished street skiers in the world. On this episode of the "Sponsored" podcast, Vila and host Mike Powell discuss how he got into street skiing as a kid from Rhode Island, and the consequences of pursuing creativity over competition. "The K2 team had a bunch of dudes and none of them competed," says Vila. "These people are backing people who are just doing what I want to do and skiing with the utmost integrity and pushing skiing in other ways beyond competition, which was why it was like, 'wow, if I get in with these dudes I might be able to make it." In addition to being one of the most influential contemporary skiers in the world, Vila is also a filmmaker (at the 2015 Powder Awards, Vila took home Movie of the Year for his role starring and producing For Lack of Better. He now lives in LA and works on the show "Scandal," but he has no intention of not skiing urban. "It may be one of the more wearing sports mentally, in terms of the work ethic, and just being in crappy cities, being in hotels, it being negative 20 in Minnesota filming your friends and your fingers are falling off and you have nothing to show for it at the end of the day," says Vila. "That whole thing wears on you, but I don't see myself stopping anytime soon." Show Notes 2:00: Last Season 4:00: Block Island 5:00: How did Clayton get into skiing on an island? 6:00: Waterville Valley 11:05: Meeting the Stept Crew 13:00: Getting on K2 15:55: It’s not about skiing 19:20: Injuries 22:30: Filmmaking 24:29: Finances 26:30: Powder Awards Movie of the Year