- Oh, here we go.
So funny being like a professional snowboarder
and I'm like,
I love my baths and my candles. Like, I really do.
I just like put the easy listening on
and then like kinda slip into the water.
[guitar music]
What's up GQ sports?
I'm Sean White professional snowboarder, skateboarder,
and three time Olympic gold medalist.
These are My Essentials.
[upbeat jazzy music]
Here we go. My first essential, what is it you ask?
It's a pillow.
I travel a ton, getting sleep on the airplanes,
especially nowadays,
they don't even really give you pillows or blankets,
but I have this pillow and it folds up.
I like this one a lot
because it's got this like protective sleeve.
So I don't have to like run it through the x-ray machine
and get it all dirty and then put my face on it
and look at it.
It's silk, no wrinkles on my face.
Good night's rest.
I can like bring my pillow on the road,
but it doesn't look like I'm carrying like a pillow from,
pretty much the one I stole from the hotel,
or like, the one from home.
Boom.
Right?
For my next item, it is this guitar.
I absolutely love this guitar,
'cause I play it like an electric.
So you can, you can bend the notes.
[guitar riff]
Most of them,
I have such trouble like,
that's the face I make.
[guitar music]
Next item for me?
The money clip.
I absolutely love this money clip.
I've used a lot of money clips before
and they always just stretch.
And then you can never really get the same grip
and then you're losing money and things all the time.
But this one is amazing. I've actually had it for years.
If you look at it, it slides open on top.
It does this.
And then you use it like a clamp.
It's incredible.
The little symbol on here is actually a tattoo that I have.
It's a symbol for a storm.
It's got the clouds, sunshine, you know,
rain ,lightning, snow.
The symbolism for the storm is obviously
supposed to like, bring about good things.
You know, the storm comes and that means rain,
meaning that, you know, plants will grow
and animals eat plants, you know what I mean?
It's kinda like a circle of life sort of thing.
All right. My next item is actually this watch.
It's a Omega Speedmaster actually racing,
after this last Olympics, you know,
Omega was a sponsor
and they wanted to congratulate me after my win.
They were like, why don't you come by our little area?
And you know, we want to give you something special.
And they gave me one of these watches
and I absolutely fell in love with it.
And I always keep my watches, you know,
set on west coast time,
so I know what my family is up to, my friends,
everybody back home, I can call at any time,
hopefully when they're awake, so I know.
I'm like huge in the movies.
And so I remember watching James Bond and be like, oh,
I'm like, what suit is he wearing?
What watch does he have? You know.
This is the watch that James Bond wears.
So yeah, it deflects bullets,
there's lasers in there I think somewhere.
All right for my next item,
I have this guy here, hold on.
It's called the Game Ready.
You use it to like ice parts of your body.
This the main machine. You open up the back,
put ice and water in this,
and then you have like a series of like tubes
and then you have various sleeves.
So this thing will basically plug in.
And it's amazing, 'cause you just kind of like,
set the timer, how much pressure you want,
'cause it not only ices, but it also constricts.
So it will actually like pump the blood out of the area.
And then you just kind of like scroll how cold you want it
and hit play and start watching TV.
Got a wrist attachment, got the ankle, a little lower back.
There's a battery pack.
I can do this on the plane, wherever I'm at.
It's so dangerous. You will see me in the car.
Like icing the knee, in auto,
[laughing] just like, "Hey"
Only on the straightaways.
All right, from my next item,
it's actually this ring.
This ring is really, really special to me.
I received it after winning my first Olympics in 2006.
And I think it's so awesome because you know,
people don't realize that you get rings at the Olympics.
You know, you can win a medal, these things,
but you get rings as well.
It says on the side, it says 2006, Sean White, Team USA.
And then on the other side says Torino,
which was where the Olympics was in Italy, snowboarding,
and then on the front it says gold medalist.
I've been to the Olympics four times now.
I'm actually heading, hopefully, for my fifth
and this one's so special to me because it's my first one.
I had no idea how much my life was going to change after,
and, kind of, the magnitude of what I just accomplished.
I remember like seeing my mom at the finish line,
or the corral area where the half pipe ends
and everybody was crying and I, you know,
slid up to the gate where everybody was
and she just kind of looked at me
and she's like, you don't understand what you just did.
You know, she's like, forever you will be known
as Shaun White, the Olympic gold medalist.
That title will carry with you the rest of your life.
For my next item,
it is this dip teak candle.
You're traveling, you're always in like a hotel room
or you're in, you know, some green room or waiting area.
And it's so nice to have something that,
kind of, reminds you of home.
Oh, here we go.
Let's all take a minute here.
And I take baths a lot,
just because like my back will hurt or, you know, something.
It's so funny being like a professional snowboarder
and I'm like,
I love my baths and my candles.
[laughs] I really do.
I just like put the easy listening on
and then like kinda slip into the water.
For my next item,
I have this matcha drink maker.
I absolutely love it.
Every single day, I make a matcha.
It's so simple.
You put water to here, that's it,
put it right back here.
You hit how strong you want it and play, and it's done.
And it just kind of spins.
It's very like, it's very, it's very calming.
And you put the matcha up here in the top.
So you get a little of this, a little of that.
And then a little of this, and then done.
- [Interviewer] There is a rumor that Diplo
has garage full of just matcha.
- Diplo has a garage full of matcha?
If there's a matcha company out there that wants to call,
I'm your guy.
My next item, it's a back roller.
It's my favorite thing ever.
I basically lay down on top of it
and your spine supposed to go in the middle grooves here
and you roll up and down on it.
I love this thing so much.
I do it for my neck, my back,
I'll put it on my hip, for my legs.
It's really like firm, so I can like get in there
and work out the kinks before I have to go compete.
This is like a whenever sort of thing.
It's great, like I'll do it when I'm watching TV,
I'll do it on that airplane.
I'll put it in the car, put an auto,
throw it behind my seat there.
Shhh, its like.
For my last essential item, you guessed it,
it's my snowboard.
This snowboard is very, very special to me.
There's maybe only three or four of these currently.
I actually started my own snowboard company
and this is the board I've been working on and developing.
And I'm so excited to launch this brand.
It's something I've always wanted to do,
since I was a little kid and now it's finally happening.
I was like, fearful of even bringing this in,
'cause it's like, it's like playing your demo for somebody.
You're like, ehhh well, that's going to change,
and this'll be different.
But this is the first time I've ever shown this to anyone.
But yeah, there's all these features about the board
that I'm so excited about.
When they asked me like,
well, what do you want to put on your board?
I was like, I don't know, I think like,
I would just love the idea of spinning through the air
and having just like this white stripe
on the base of my board and then, you know,
the camera men and people that I'm with taking pictures,
they would always know it was me.
They would spot me right away,
'cause I would have the white stripe on my base.
That basically became, kind of like,
the symbol for our company.
And I love the name because white space,
the meaning of white spaces is, you know, a blank canvas.
It's opportunity, it's it's the void, it's something new.
My hope is at some point, like I look over
and I see a bunch of little kids
and they all have the stripes on their base
and then I'll know that we're doing well.
This is my everything right now.
And, and so yeah,
I'm going to make sure these are the best things out there
and I hope you pick one up and enjoy it
and I will see you on the mountain.
All right, I'm Sean White.
Thank you GQ sports for having me
and thank you everybody for watching this video.
'Til next time.