2) SCHRALPER AD / AND BARRETT ON THE BARRETT ROLL 

How does it feel to have coined a trick

Ha! I didn’t set out to do my own trick, I was trying to do switch rodeo’s at Mt Hood and I guess I wasn’t doing them right. A week later I went to the summer X Games in San Francisco, where they built a giant scaffolding jump for Snowboarding Big Air and it was on snow carpet with some wet snow blown onto it. It was kind of a sketchy jump with a steep run-in and a short landing. I did it there and the announcer didn’t know what it was so he called it the “Barrett Roll”. I guess it stuck!

How did the trick come about in your brain and then on the snow?

With a rodeo you want to throw it over your shoulder into more of a backflip 180. I kept throwing it under my shoulder so it was more like a front flip or barrel roll 180. I knew I could take off the jump going switch but I didn’t think I could land switch on a sketchy landing so I figured I’d do a switch rodeo thing and land forward… and I guess it came around so it worked out. I won that summer event and then had a little more time to dial it in before the next winter. Eventually I got a little more comfortable with that trick. I always tried to do my tricks in the powder too, off rocks and rollers. The parks weren’t as finely tuned everywhere then and I liked free riding more than park riding anyway. That was another bonus to doing this stuff in the 90s, being competitive at these events didn’t mean I had to stay in the parks and train to keep up with the full time competition schedule!