--- title: Watch This Live Reporter's Epic Snowboarding High-Five Fail description: It's "Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month," which for one brave reporter, means it was time to hit the slopes for the first time...on live TV. canonical: https://time.com/4169719/live-reporter-snowboarding-high-five-fail/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-06T19:23:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:23.832Z og:title: Watch This Live Reporter's Epic Snowboarding High-Five Fail og:description: Oh snow he didn't og:url: https://time.com/4169719/live-reporter-snowboarding-high-five-fail/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Live Reporter's Epic Snowboarding High-Five Fail twitter:description: Oh snow he didn't twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Live Reporter's Epic Snowboarding High-Five Fail  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 6, 2016 7:23 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 6, 2016 7:23 PM UTC It’s “Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month,” which for one brave reporter, means it was time to [hit the slopes](http://time.com/3824543/billy-morgan-snowboarding-1800-quadruple-cork/) for the first time—[on live TV](http://time.com/4146134/best-news-bloopers-2015/). This may not sound like the least embarrassing idea ever, but [Fox 13 in Utah’s Big Budah](http://fox13now.com/2016/01/05/blooper-high-five-sends-big-budah-to-ground-while-learning-to-snowboard/) actually does a good job staying upright as he boards down the bunny hill. That is, until it’s time for the celebration. As his trainer glides over to him, Big Budah goes in for the [high-five](http://time.com/37141/this-is-what-high-fives-look-like-to-your-hand/) and ends up flat on his back, making his co-anchors burst out in laughter. We guess it’s all downhill from there. **Read More:** [Watch the Best News Bloopers of 2015](http://time.com/4146134/best-news-bloopers-2015/) Watch the full blooper above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4169719/live-reporter-snowboarding-high-five-fail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4169719/live-reporter-snowboarding-high-five-fail/"},"headline":"Watch This Live Reporter's Epic Snowboarding High-Five Fail","datePublished":"2016-01-06T19:23:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:23.832Z","description":"Oh snow he didn't","url":"https://time.com/4169719/live-reporter-snowboarding-high-five-fail/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","snowboarding","TV","Reporter","Fail"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4169719/live-reporter-snowboarding-high-five-fail/","name":"Watch This Live Reporter's Epic Snowboarding High-Five Fail"}}]}] ```