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Great conditions continued for the ladies event at Breckenridge following on from a great showing by the boys. With 5 out of 8 riders out of the US, this was all about Olympic qualification again.
Run 1:
Devin Logan was the first to put up a decent score with solid grabs on most of her airs to...
Dew Tour marks the halfway point in the US Olympic Team Qualification Schedule. Before the event, the standings looked like this:
Today, the weather finally played ball with blue skies and accordingly, the boys threw down. The word from the hill is the pipe was riding great and as a result we...
Cover photo: Jamie Walter - Nick Goepper on his way to qualifying first
Slopestyle qualifiers at Dew finished up a couple of hours ago in some predictably Dew Tour weather conditions. Riders were skipping features at the beginning to maintain speed, and there was a big delay when Ryan Mcelmon...
The US Freeskiing Grand Prix kicks off the myriad storylines leading up to the 2018 Olympics. This is the first of 5 qualifying events. For once, the weather in Colorado for an early season comp was nice, with a mild wind blowing across the pipe. Five American women qualified to today’s finals...
City Big Airs are the most public events our sport offers up. With improvements in jump design and build over the last couple of years, they've become a good representation of the jump progression in freeskiing. The event format, which requires two different rotations from three runs with the...
The first World Cup Slopestyle of the Northern Hemisphere winter went down in Stubai over the weekend, with both Men's and Women's finals taking place this morning. Questionable weather and fresh snow from the night before somewhat defined proceedings. But the course build itself also seemed...
Well it's that time of year again. You're so full of turkey you aren't sure you can move until at least Sunday but everything is so cheap it'd be rude not to spend your money on an extra TV or some other junk you definitely don't need. So, roundly ignoring the fact that you need that cash for...
Mountain Dew® and TEN are happy to announce that the nationally acclaimed EDM duo The Floozies will headline the Dew Tour concert on Saturday, December 16 at the Riverwalk Center in downtown Breckenridge, Colorado. The annual winter ski and snowboard festival is taking place at Breckenridge...
This summer, Newschoolers teamed up yet again with Snow Park Technologies to create a comprehensive ranking of the best terrain parks across North America. Our list is decided using a 50/50 split between SPT data and our Park Poll results. SPT sent a consulting team to analyse the number and...
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In an era of non-stop news and never ending political banter, it seems that satire is becoming more popular than ever before. Fictional news websites like the Onion have built massive followings, and with no shortage of material to mock, their humorous take on current events...
This summer, Newschoolers teamed up yet again with Snow Park Technologies to create a comprehensive ranking of the best terrain parks across North America. Our list is decided using a 50/50 split between SPT data and our Park Poll results. SPT sent a consulting team to analyse the number and...
This summer, Newschoolers teamed up yet again with Snow Park Technologies to create a comprehensive ranking of the best terrain parks across North America. Our list is decided using a 50/50 split between SPT data and our Park Poll results. SPT sent a consulting team to analyse the number and...
Newschoolers, the home of freeskiing, was founded back in 1999 with one simple goal in mind: to bring skiers from around the globe together. Since then we’ve been giving skiers the world over an online home and helped to shape what skiing has become...
Just like everyone else training for the Olympics next February, Kelly Sildaru has been down in New Zealand all summer dialing in her tricks & competing in various events. The other day she took a fall, twisted her knee. She is "taking all precautions and will be flying home to be evaluated and...
View the full gear guide: The Newschoolers 2017 - 2018 Gear Guide
Majesty is one of the leading independent freeski brands in Europe, with a product lineup encompassing a wide spectrum of skiing styles from all-mountain freestyle, park, urban jib&rails, powder to freeride, and advanced...
Cover Photo: FIS/Winter Games NZ
The first World Cup of the season went down in the early hours of this morning in Cadrona. At the first comp of each year it's always interesting to see where people are at and what new tricks have been learned, but the combination of course and conditions...
Jason Levinthal, based in Burlington, Vermont has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of 4FRNT skis Inc., a designer and manufacturer of alpine skis, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The transaction is expected to close in early July.
Levinthal’s acquisition of 4FRNT is...
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(Carlsbad, Calif.) June 21, 2017 -- Mountain Dew® and TEN: The Enthusiast Network announced today that the annual winter Dew Tour ski and snowboard competition and festival will return to Breckenridge, Colo. December...
In an open letter, owner & founder Ken Achenbach announces the end of Camp of Champions after 28 years.
"The Camp of Champions 1989-2017
One day seven years ago, when my daughter Kaia was 5 and her sister Caprii was 3, Kaia looked up at me and asked, “Are you the boss of camp?”
“Yes” I...
A New Adventure
Today we are embarking on a new adventure and are pleased to announce that Emerald Expositions, producer of Outdoor Retailer, has acquired the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show. Outdoor Retailer will merge the Snow Show into its January event, formerly Winter Market...