Articles by Kretzschmar
X Games Norway kicked off today with Women's Big Air. Scoreless judging was back and just about as confusing as ever. Consistency was heavily rewarded in Aspen, but that appeared to be less the case today in Norway. Speed also seemed to be a little of an issue, with most of the ladies coming up...
Photo: Buchholz/FIS Freeski
On a crystal clear night in the Great White North, the ladies and gentlemen of the icy halfpipe went to war.
Women's Podium:
3rd Place - Valeriya Demidova
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/954898/demidova-2-mp4
2nd Place - Rachel Karker...
For the final event of this year's Dew Tour the snow was back with a vengance. As a result the decision was made to run women's slopestyle on the rail features only. Both Kelly Sildaru and Sarah Hoefflin opted out of the event entirely as the result of knocks taken in training, leaving the field...
As the only event of the year to mix up the format of pipe skiing, modified superpipe is perhaps the most intriguing event of Dew Tour. Despite heavy snowfall, the course was in great shape and we were treated to a truly intriguing contest as the guys tried to figure out how to put together high...
The streetstyle course wasn't the biggest or craziest of rail setups but some of the riding certainly was. Colby Stevenson dropped in with a backslide backswap to frontslide front two first trick of the day out to set the tone for the night. Everyone was else dropping hammers all night long too...
Snow has been something of an issue at this year’s Dew Tour and while today’s event went down under blue skies, the 3ft of snow Copper Mountain has seen in the last couple of days meant a soft course. That combined with the wind to mean there were definite speed problems for quite a few of the...
The 20+ inch storm finally broke and gave way to sunny Colorado skies for the ladies to do battle in the Dew Tour modified pipe. Kelly Sildaru pulled out of the competition last minute due to a "bruised knee" and gave way to Janee Crane-Mauzy to join the field. Cassie Sharpe had a brutal fall...
Event 1 of 3: Slopestyle (Rails)
Dew Tour 2020 finally kicked off with an adapted version of the Team Event Slopestyle. The weather was less than ideal with some fresh snow falling on the course, meaning the slopestyle section of the team comp was cut to just the rails. But luckily, this...
Photo: Buchholz/FIS Freeski
Mammoth delivered incredible weather for the men's & women's slopestyle event that featured plenty of heavy hitters like Maggie Voisin, Sarah Hoefflin, and Isabel Atkin on the women's side things. The men saw X Games knuckle huck & slopestyle winner Colby Stevenson...
The last ski event of the 2020 Aspen X Games saw Alex Ferreira attempting to defend his gold medal from heavy hitters like David Wise, Aaron Blunck, Birk Irving, and young gun Brendan MacKay who took his tricks to the moon for a chance at unsettling the podium. Plenty of thrills, spills, lead...
Featuring a stacked field as always, it was quite the barn burner as the ladies threw down in the new, yet controversial, jam style format. Once again, no scores are shown so we're all in the dark on what run was the best. Thankfully it didn't sway the ladies from showing out and putting on a...
As if I couldn't say it anymore this weekend, men's slopestyle followed the jam style format, with overall impression throughout the session, being the driving force for placing in the podium spots. Pre-qualifiers ABM, Ferdinand Dahl, & Alex Hall were joined by the 5 lads who qualified on Friday...
Boom...boom...BOOOOOM! What a shootout for the podium tonight as the guys went BANANAS. Triples, pre grabs, plenty of future spinning and lead changes galore were the name of the game in the big air jam. Ragettli landed a NBD (switch triple misty 16) and Dollo surpassed Tanner as the winningest...
The men took over the halfpipe for another 40 minute jam session to see who would be joining David Wise, Nico Porteous, & Alex Ferreira.
Top 5 Athletes heading to finals:
5th - Lyman Currier
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/952348/currier-2-mp4
4th -Brendan MacKay...
The 8 ladies got the party started on Friday night in the classic big air jam format with the new overall impression twist to it. It was one hell of a show with plenty of dubs, loads of style, and some NBDs for a few of the competitors.
How it's judged, as explained by X Games:
1 heat of 16...
Like the rest of the events, slopestyle has adopted the jam style format where every run gives you a chance to get some bonus points in the eyes of the judges. Best put by Tom, "there aren't going to be any throw-away runs this year."
How it's judged, as explained by X Games:
1 heat of 16...
Skiing has finally been included in the Knuckle Huck competition for 2020. Unlike most events at X Games, Knuckle Huck is 100% a jam session of great homies sending off of a knuckle and trying to do the wildest shit they can.
To explain how it was judged:
1 heat of 8 athletes in a 20-minute...
X Games has finally announced the riders for the 2020 Real Ski contest. Back again is the 2019 fan favorite, Jake "Mista Mango" Mageau who blew our collective minds with his nollie backflip and caused quite the controversy in the forums when he was left out of the top 3. The rest of the field...
"Hosting a major rail event is something I’ve always dreamed of since I first became a professional skier. I’m so proud to have the support of Seven Springs and all of our sponsors to finally make this dream come to life." Well Tom, you really did it. The 20 riders consisted of Olympic gold...