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For the third day in a row, the best jump skiers on the planet could be seen flying high in the skies above Beijing, though IOC policy (and the threat of potential disappearance) probably meant that some might not have been quite as high as they'd like to have been. The comp game is a brutal one...
Women's Big Air, on the dystopian jump in western Beijing, saw the first freeski medals of the Beijing 2022 Olympics awarded and the first-ever Olympic medals in Big Air. With judging already in the spotlight after snowboard slopestyle (and some eyebrow-raising scores in qualifying) it marked...
Cover Photo: Henrik Harlaut // Freeski Sweden
Ski big air made it's Olympic debut today with the women absolutely crushing it on a perfect Beijing booter. Shortly after it was the men's turn to come and throw down on the monumental jump, an adjustable tabletop being set at 22m lip to knuckle...
Cover Photo By: Elmar Bossard
The women's Olympic big air qualifications went down in Beijing today and it was, yet again, unreal to see freestyle skiing on a stage as big as the Olympics. We've had some huge tricks go down at the last few world cups and we're sure to see some insane...
Cover photo: Mark Kohlman/ESPN
Straight after knuckle huck, the men's pipe skiers took center stage for the last event of X Games '22. It was a pretty big change of vibe from but another insane display of skiing. The live performance from Ferg just prior to the drop definitely built the hype...
Cover photo: Mark Kohlman/Espn
Knuckle Huck is our favorite (live) event at X Games, and we presume the same is true of most of you. It's just nice to see something, anything different. This year was no exception and the addition of riders like Keegan Kilbride and Mango made for a far more...
Photo: Joshua Duplechian/ESPN
X Games has been a strange affair this year. The women were condemned to Big Air in a snowstorm. Last night saw what appeared to be a communication error fail to give the rider with the most points the gold medal on the men's side. Thankfully, there was nothing so...
X Games Big Air is always a spectacle and this years iteration was no different. A few riders opted out of the starting gates in favour of saving themselves for the Big One; Henrik Harlaut and Birk Ruud (also not competing in halfpipe tomorrow) for instance. The start list was still full of heat...
Women's slopestyle opened Saturday's proceedings at X Games and in stark contrast to Big Air yesterday, the weather was glorious. The course was running well and it showed, the ladies were absolutely killing it. Unfortunately, X Games stuck with the incomprehensible lack of scoring that...
X Games Halfpipe went down under the lights and the same persistent snowfall the slopestyle riders dealt with earlier in the day. The format was a 30-minute jam format judged on overall impression but was effectively a best run counts. Proceedings kicked off with a heartwarming tribute to Sarah...
It's weird to see an X Games Big Air go down in full daylight, but that was the scheduling for this year's women's event, and not for the first time. The ladies went absolutely HAM but it would be nice to see them get a chance under the lights next time (hint, hint), and at least that way they'd...
Cover photo: Shannon Sweeney/FIS
The ever challenging World Cup in Font Romeu went down this morning and the course was, as in previous years, not the easiest for the riders to deal with. Three jumps and three banks of rails seems like a pretty standard course on the face of it, but takeoffs...
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We’re stoked to announce the return of Newschoolers King/Queen of the Park for 2022. We have a couple of locals contests this season and the first is for those of you erm, killing it, at @WWKillington. The event returns to the Beast of the East for the...
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The glory days of the open contest seem, on the face of it, to be all but consigned to the past. With the vast majority of slopestyle and halfpipe contests now part of some national or international ski association, and freeride events generally falling...
The final World Cup event before the Olympics went down this weekend in Mammoth. With blizzard conditions hitting the resort for several of the scheduled days, things got pushed back a couple of times. With halfpipe going down yesterday and the weather turning it on for Sunday’s slopestyle...
Cover photo courtesy of FIS
The past week saw two big events for athlete's Olympic ambitions go down at COP in Calgary this past week. For the first event it was properly Canada cold, to the point where many Albertan resorts had to close, but the freezing condtions mellowed for the second...
Dew Tour Streetstyle Final took place in Red Gerards hike park at Copper Mountain. A free rail park designed to make skiing and snowboarding more accessible at Copper. It was fitting that a rail jam hike session capped off Dew Tour this weekend. Overall impression
The rider list for the ladies...
Superpipe finals never fail to be full of gnarly sends and this year's Dew Tour Final was no different. With the added heat of Olympic points to be had this was no different. The sun was out after a couple of delays and the pipe was running as perfect as can be, this was set to be a much more...
The third annual Newschoolers awards went down at Copper Mountain’s Grand Hall tonight and we were stoked to have a real life show again after last year’s entertaining but flawed live stream event. Of course, COVID protocols and travel regulations limited both attendance and capacity, but it was...
A light dusting of snow as the clouds rolled in at Copper this afternoon. There were a few issues on the course with speed as there had been through the weekend, and the wind was making things a little unpredictable for the ladies, who sent it regardless. There were a couple of heavy crashes and...