Articles by iang
All image credits to Spencer Milbocker
When you’ve been a freeskiing nerd for as long as I have (18 years, give or take), you get used to bidding farewell to the pros you looked up to. Charley Ager’s come and gone. Simon Dumont appears once every few years to lace a huge cork three before...
Cover photo: The kit equivalent of a wacky ski.
The year is 2040. I meet up with my old friends, who are now more curmudgeons than freestylers, pile into the car, and head for the hills to ski some manky January snow. Climate change has done its worst to my local. Once bountiful sheets of...
Title image: One day's worth of snow.
At the time of writing this, I’ve got Covid, with the kind of headache where my brain feels three sizes too big for my skull. I'm sluggish, achy, and trapped -- posted in my childhood bedroom, hoping my symptoms will diminish after the next round of fitful...
At the time of writing this, I’ve got Covid, with the kind of headache where my brain feels three sizes too big for my skull. I'm sluggish, achy, and trapped -- posted in my childhood bedroom, hoping my symptoms will diminish after the next round of fitful sleep. It’s clear Santa had me on the...
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We got there before dark and spun a few laps on the two-seater up top. The terrain, which I hadn’t seen yet because it was my first time at Skibowl, was exciting. Fall line from the top chair was a series of cliffs, narrow rock slots, and sparse trees. You head skier’s right, and a wide-open...
Image credits: Bjo?rn Eklund, Alex Hackel, Alric Ljunghager, and Magnus Graner
This season, The Bunch adds to their consistent film lineup with “Many Fantasies Later.” The film features a stacked roster of skiers, including Magnus Graner, Alex Hackel, Hugo Burvall, Øystein Bråten, Evelina...
This season, The Bunch adds to their consistent film lineup with “Many Fantasies Later.” The film features a stacked roster of skiers, including Magnus Graner, Alex Hackel, Hugo Burvall, Øystein Bråten, Evelina Nilsson, Emil Granbom, and Jake Mageau. Graner and Hackel took charge on the...
We’ve all been there. You stick the trick. Maybe it was your first 360 or your first double 1260 -- it doesn’t really matter as the payoff feels similar. You cruise to the bottom of the jump, turn to your friend, and ask, “you get the clip?” They nod and pass you the camera. You watch the clip...
Header image credit: Xavier Mayrand
What does a Québécois skier look like? I’ll forward a semi-educated guess: an obsession with downrails, a willingness to schlep out street parts during frigid winter conditions, and a propensity towards loudly exclaiming “tabarnak!” when shit hits the fan and...
What does a Québécois skier look like? I’ll forward a semi-educated guess: an obsession with downrails, a willingness to schlep out street parts during frigid winter conditions, and a propensity towards loudly exclaiming “tabarnak!” when shit hits the fan and face meets concrete. If any of this...
Here on NS and in other corners of the skiing world, we talk a lot about the “golden years.” This halcyon era has a few notable traits: affordable housing for ski bums, a small cadre of pros with celebrity status, no Ikon or Epic lift lines, more pow days, and a selection of killer ski movies...
Image: Fellers back in the day sporting some 2016 looks. (Image courtesy of Luca Hagmayer)
Newschoolers, I think it’s time we had a conversation about the word “core.” Before you grab the pitchforks, I know saying “core” isn’t cool anymore. The forums have thoroughly beaten the poor word to...
What the hell is skiing? If you direct that question towards ski bums you’ll get plenty of answers, mostly in platitude form. Skiing is freedom. Or, maybe, skiing is community. They could also just respond with something like, it’s the fucking best outdoor non-team sport, too, although that’s...
Gavin Rudy first picked up his dad’s camera when he was around 10 years old. With that camera, he and his friends put together stop motion clips, and made action movies. They used AfterEffects for the muzzle flashes, and airsoft guns as props. Not a whole lot got finished. “I just didn’t have a...
Header image: Screen from August Light, credit Gavin Rudy and Strictly
That fall, usually after a few beers, the inevitable conversation would come up. It’s a conversation that nearly everyone who's spent a lot of time skiing will recognize. The conversation always starts like this, “dude, we...
Gavin Rudy first picked up a camera when he was around 10 years old. He and his friends used his dad’s camera to make stop motion videos and action movies with airsoft guns as props. Throughout his teens Gavin had another chance to create more video projects and build experience through a class...
Header image: Screen grab from August Light. Image credit: Gavin Rudy, Ethan Swadburg, and Strictly
The world of ski filming can be incredibly intimidating. Cameras are complicated pieces of gear, and the production of quality shots takes a lot more than pressing the record button. Filmers have...
The conversation around mental illness in the freeskiing community has been percolating for years. Alex Schlopy’s struggle with mental illness played out in a series of posts (some by Schlopy himself) on Newschoolers starting in 2016, and were chronicled officially by Powder in 2019 in an...
The necessary conversation around mental illness in the freeskiing community has been percolating for years. Alex Schlopy’s struggle with mental illness played out in a series of posts (some by Schlopy himself) on Newschoolers starting in 2016, and were chronicled officially by Powder in 2019 in...