Letter to the Editor of SnowboardSecrets.com about Tara Dakides

Editor's Reply

From: Lauren Traub Teton
To: JAMIE TINE
Date: Monday, September 6, 2004
Subject: Re: lay off

Hi Jamie,
Thanks for the letter, and the positive spin you put on the situation is provocative.
Maybe I sounded angry and like I was picking on Tara.
I was annoyed, for sure, and I don't like to see people hurt themselves when it is avoidable. I'm sure you don't either.

Here are my facts:

I watched Tara do the trick on tv. She started from 15 feet or more high, rode down a ramp raised WAY above street level, and fell off, not like we do onto snow, but she fell down 6 feet or more onto street CONCRETE!!
David Letterman was watching from inside, and was so stunned and upset at her injury, that he cancelled the rest of the taping of his show! (He seems to like Tara - everybody does!)

This was not a situation where she got to practice the trick over and over. It was a totally manmade urban ride.
AND Tara is sponsored by a HELMET company, for goodness sake. She was just showing off, not being sensible, and not supporting her sponsor.
People learn by example, and I think she set an unsafe example.
Don't you?

Keep in touch, and please read the next email I'm sending you in 3 minutes about the new http://www.SnowboardRegistry.com
best,
Lauren