Articles by MattMasson
Cover photo by Mark Clinton
Finn Bilous is good vibes incarnate. From surfing to shredding sunny park laps and sending some of the biggest lines in some of the worst conditions on the FWT he always has a smile on his face. And style. With everything he does. We caught up with the Kiwi legend...
Photo by Ethan Stone
Last Saturday I managed to grab a word with Jesper Tjäder at the top of the Swatch Nines course. We talked about his style and why he'll never change it. He mentioned a Red Bull project he'd drop this week - by now you've probably seen the Open Loop video- and it's very...
Kiwi youngster Finley Melville Ives showing how huge the "perfect hip" is. Photo by Theo Acworth
The 16th Swatch Nines wrapped on Saturday and beneath the crazy features, world records and drinking beer out of many shoes, it might just be more important to freeskiing than you would think.
This...
All photos courtesy of Red Bull
When I got invited to cover Red Bull Infinite Lines, back in January, I had my fingers crossed that we'd have enough snow to do it! 2023 it was held in Avoriaz, but this year it moved to La Rosiere, which many locals were happy to tell me is 'the snowiest town in...
All photos courtesy of Legs of Steel
Descendance is pretty thought-provoking, as ski movies go and not in an arty/The Bunch kind of way. If you haven’t seen it it’s about North Face Austrian/Ghanaian skier Dennis Ranalter, exploring his heritage (descendance). We spoke to him when he got home...
All photos provided by Alex Hall
The first Magma was great, the second added a little polish, tightened things up and basically improved every aspect. Not to mention the shorts and Hunter’s two-year portrait: Soulstar. I was understandably hyped to hear what the boys had cooked up this time...
All photos by Jack Benzinger
Nick Goepper has had a pretty successful career as a slopestyle skier. Six X Games medals, three Olympic ones and a couple of World Championship bronzes. He announced his retirement at the start of 2023. If you’d been keeping up to date with his stories, maybe you...
I don’t know the stats, but I’d always imagined that the average age on NS was around 21. obviously a lot younger and as NS gets older, so do the OG members. Kelly Sildaru is 21. To me, she seems to have been around forever. Since she burst on the scene with a Slopestyle Gold at Dew Tour 2015...
Cover photo by Patrick Ring. All other photos (unless stated) by Will Wesson.
Daycare is, unofficially at least, the first Line Skis street movie. It features a stacked crew of riders, some of whom you rarely see in the streets. In our humble opinion, it's a spot-led street masterpiece and...
At about 10pm on Wednesday October 12th, I got a text from my friend:
“Please tell me it’s not true Matt.”
I had no idea what “it” was and had no idea whether “it” was true.
They said it was about Tof and a quick search on Facebook and a few posts from mutual friends, I saw that Tof had been...
Cover Photo: Jay Wilder
At this point, there is no denying it. Colby Stevenson is one of the defining freeskiers of the current generation. Supremely talented and resilient, the man has survived brushes with death and crippling injuries on his path to the top of slopestyle podiums across the...
Henrik Harlaut is a gift to freeskiing that keeps on giving. The man has done it all and won it all but he's still out in the streets grinding. His latest movie, Brushino, in which he crushes the streets from Buffalo, NY to Stockholm has just dropped on rapper Benny The Butcher's YouTube channel...
The best way to round off the winter, Kimbo Sessions, is officially back after a two year, Covid-enforced, hiatus.
With this year’s session starting on Sunday the 1st of May, until Friday the 6th I was able to drag Kim away from his preparations to grab a word with the mastermind.
In spring...
There are many cliches that get thrown around the ski world. There are so many “Legends” and for a while, everything was “epic”, but when it’s really needed, it’s a community without equals.
Shane McFalls was the filmer/driving force behind one of the best things ever in freeskiing: Travelling...
all photos by Chris O'Connell
JP Auclair is an icon. Whether you remember his backflip mutes on those Salomon 1080’s or for him cofounding probably the biggest freeski brand, Armada, his influence can be felt all the way through freeskiing.
The man himself
2022 will be the 8th edition of...
Images: Francis Boucher
There’s no doubt that Phil Casabon is an exceptional skier, but he has always trodden his own path. Always stylish and creative, be that his back-to-back Real Ski Golds or his edgeless pro model at Armada, B Dog has never been afraid to try new things. After more than 16...
All photos by @NateAbbott
Rail-legend, Tom Wallisch, is bringing back his, Steel City Showdown at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, PA, A rail jam for 2022. After a —COVID-enforced— one-year hiatus Tom’s event is back this year with a couple of vital tweaks:
“The format for the finals will be...
For some freeskiers, the Olympics have been an unwelcome addition to the contest calendar, every four years, since 2014. While resistance has generally fallen away, perhaps because competition skiing has drifted more and more into its own world, there is still a question over how much of a...
All photos by Oskar Hall and provided by Faction Skis
Matej Švancer is an insanely talented skier. The 17-year-old Austrian hasn't even finished school yet and he's already got a Youth Olympics Gold Medal, World Cup wins and many people think he should have an X Games one too (we'll come to...
The Gus Kenworthy Interview (Part 2): The Olympics, Being a Brit, Fry-ups and his Future after Comps
Cover photo by Josh Bishop
Last week, Gus Kenworthy opened up about his past, in both his skiing and personal lives, part 2 talks about his present and future, but not before he sets a few things straight about his Olympic past and why he made the switch to represent Great Britain at Beijing...