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The World Ski & Snowboard Festival is a legacy event in skiing & snowboarding. The event has been a hub of freeski culture throughout its 25+ year heritage and has long been a cornerstone of the Newschoolers’ calendar. Our staff has been making the pilgrimage to Whistler since the beginning of...
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The final freeski at the World Champs went down this morning and it was a sketchy looking scene as we joined the comp. Conditions were bad enough that Andri pulled out of qualis and Mathilde Gremaud may have decided finals weren't worth the risk either. She didn't start...
The final ski event of Dew Tour this year was Women's Super Streetstyle and super it certainly was. Right from the off, the ladies were crushing despite the falling snow and bad vis. Lisa Zimmerman set the early bar and she really is fucking good... The ski industry really did her a disservice...
The Newschoolers Awards are a wrap for another year, celebrating the best of what went down in 2022, from individual stunts to banger ski movies. It was a tricky year to be a judge, with a huge number of projects popping up, and whittling them all down into a shortlist proved perhaps a bigger...
Dew Tour continued with Streetstyle, Gus Kenworthy and Hunter Hess provided the laughs and wisdom. The course had four sets of features and the competition would run as a qualifying heats with head-to-head finals where the riders would have to put down two different runs with both counting...
It was a tough sell for Dew Tour this year with World Championships happening simultaneously in Georgia. That meant lots of the athletes were already out in Bakuriani, but with Brendan Mackay, David Wise, Aaron Blunck and Alex Ferreira dropping, it's not like too many of the podium threats were...
Völkl is 100 years old this year, and as milestones go, it's a pretty big one. That's a long time for a company to be around, especially in a sport that's not much more than 150 years old (as a recreational activity) itself. Founded in 1923, Völkl has been a cornerstone of the ski industry for...
There aren't many contests that capture the imagination these days, but Red Bull Playstreets is one of the ones that still does. A thread the needle through the center of the mountain town slopestyle extravaganza featuring a huge wallride, a jump, and some incredibly sketchy narrow channels...
The Newschoolers awards return in a little over three weeks, and while they are the 2023 Awards, they reward the very best of skiing from 2022. The awards include, of course, our annual member-voted Trick Of The Year award, presented by 686. We asked you for nominees, and we also spoke with our...
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of world halfpipe championship winner turned backcountry boss and standout human, Kyle Smaine. Kyle was on a trip in Japan with Mountain Gazette, as part of a crew of three including Grant Gunderson and Adam Ü. Full details of the incident can...
In a fast halfpipe under lights, a banger X Games Superpipe went down at Aspen. Some riders struggled with the under-vert nature of some walls of the pipe causing Alex Ferreria and Noah Bowman the most issues.
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The opening bouts of Superpipe saw Birk Irving put down the only full and clean...
Big Air contests are dizzying affairs these days and X Games more so. Aspen was host to a back-and-forth, shootout for gold in the men's contest after the ladies lit up the stage with an epic display. Here's what went down under the lights. It was good see some familiar big air threats such as...
The weather in Aspen continued to provide less-than-ideal conditions for Saturday's events. Women's superpipe was set to go down under the lights in the snow and fog. One major omission was Eileen Gu, who sustained an injury in slopestyle training, with the favourite missing it out it would be...
The knuckle Huck is one of those wild events in skiing that has blown up and fast become everyone's favorite for the insanity, creativity and fast-paced nature of this jam style winner takes all throwdown.
Riders drop fast and the tricks we see are wild, fast and almost always buttery.
Joona...
Well, that was wild! One of the best displays of Women's Big Air skiing we've ever seen with several 16s and a world first, this was truly an X Games standard Big Air throwdown. And despite having to watch half an hour of SteepSteep streaming while hearing tricks go down via a live Tik Tok...
Two weeks of madness at Woodward Killington are done, and Sunday night saw a flurry of banger entries from those riders maximizing their shooting time. Judging this one was tough work, with a bunch of entries receiving similar judging scores, and the panel split over which of the entries was our...
X Games weekend is upon us once again and for all its flaws, it remains the biggest and best comp weekend of the year. We kick things off with Women's Big Air and the weekend is rounded out by the traditional SuperPipe spectacular on Sunday night. With a stacked field, and at the risk of looking...
Thursday night's World Cup Halfpipe saw the return of Eileen Gu's dominance as well as the first Finnish halfpipe victory in nearly a decade with Jon Sallinen taking the dub after a clutch final run. The shorter-than-most ditch in Calgary caused a few issues on Thursday but the wind was...
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The Snow Rodeo is back as Calgary hosts two World Cup halfpipe events this week at the famous Canada Olympic Park. Brendan Mackay qualified first in the men's and Eileen Gu took that spot in the women's qualifiers on her return to the competition circuit. The conditions...
VERSION FRANÇAISE CI-BAS
The Newschoolers Open, the biggest online freeski contest of the year, returns for 2023, presented once again by Auclair Gloves. The contest gives two talented winners the chance to take home $2000 each, as well as the option of a spot on Team Auclair Gloves for 2023...