Posted on 12/12/2021 11:23:44 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
When two-time Olympic gold medal-winning skier David Wise started talking publicly about a passion he pursued in his free time, his agent warned him against it. His sponsors balked. Then, a few dropped him.
Instead of responding by hiding his hobby in the woods, however, Wise amplified it. He went on hunting podcasts, and started an Instagram page highlighting the “off the grid” activities he pursues with his wife and two children, including growing vegetables, raising chickens and hunting.
“If something has to die to feed my family I choose to take on the responsibility of killing it myself,” Wise wrote on Instagram in August 2018. “I know that I can do it swiftly and efficiently and leave nothing to waste.”
“So I just decided, You know what? If I’m happy and poor, I will feel a lot better than if I’m rich and miserable.”
Wise started tagging along with his Dad and twin sisters, who were four years ahead of him in school, on hunts when he was eight years old. He shot his first deer at 12, and he was hooked
“I don’t believe in going out there and killing a bunch of things and not consuming the meat, and disrespecting the animals and posting it all over social media,”
Wise competes in a camouflage-infused jacket from First Lite, making him one of the few, if not only, freestyle skiers sponsored by a hunting brand. He says the jury is out on whether he came out ahead, sponsorwise, after he started talking more about hunting.
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