Breakfast of Champion: Tanner Hall's Training Regimen

In 2007, Tanner Hall nabbed gold medals in superpipe at the illustrious Winter X Games and the US Freeskiing Open, and finished a respectable second place at the World Superpipe Championships.  Following his competition domination, Tanner spent the rest of season shredding powder lines and Alaskan decents for his latest film, “Believe.”

With such a successful season under his belt, what is Tanner Hall up to before most skiers are even thinking of getting back on the snow? Pipe training of course. The superpipe is a rare creature to find stirring in the first breaths of winter, but Copper Mountain in Colorado worked round the clock to get their’s up by late November.

Spending a good three weeks in the airspace above the Copper superpipe, Tanner worked on getting his pipe legs back and refining the arsenal of tricks he’ll need to defend his titles at the X Games and US Freeskiing Open in January. Tanner’s pipe skiing may look downright effortless, but natural talent will only take you so far and Tanner pays his dues accordingly to sit atop podiums. We’ll see in January if his training pays off.