Articles by Sklar
Time slows down when you’re falling – down a mountain on skis, or off a ladder like in an insurance commercial. It speeds up when we want to hang on the most. When we try to be present, the moment is already gone. Memories claw back at the timeline. Recounting stories suspends us, but still – we...
LJ Strenio, pro skier. Nix that, LJ Strenio, data scientist. One of Newschoolers’ own, and one of Newschoolers’ favorites is moving on from urban rails and trips in the TC van to crunching code and teaching machines to take over the world. Kidding on the last part… maybe - machine learning is...
Breaking news coming from the X Games this week as the event organizers finally realized that they are in fact, boomers, who don’t know anything about skiing. They will therefore be bequeathing X Games judging duties to the Newschoolers.com forums. On a phone call, the organizers told us that...
Skiing has always served as an escape from reality, everyday life, normalcy, the mundane, the “real world,” and any other way you want to describe the routine. This winter skiing will fill this role perhaps more than ever. With outdoor patios closed, and parks unripe for socially distanced...
The mountains in Quebec aren’t particularly small, but they aren’t imposing like those out west. Ski areas dot the foothills outside the province’s most populous cities nonetheless. It’s from these mountains and these cities that some of skiing’s greatest heroes have risen. More recent breakouts...
On February 1st of this year, Newschoolers.com was acquired by Men’s Journal publisher American Media Inc. While in the short term, this has meant little for the site, editorial direction and pressure from the company's higher-ups have finally pushed now former Newschoolers GM Doug Bishop to his...
Cover Photo: Jamie Walter
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/927968/-I-Feel-Like-a-Million-Yen---A-Japan-Ski-Vacation
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After hours of delays and an unplanned airport change in Tokyo, I made it to our hotel in Sapporo at 1AM. No cabs would drive me from...
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Travelling to go skiing is one of the greatest parts of the sport, with bucket list destinations around the globe. While skiing travel is an awesome privilege, it can be a pain to execute, schlepping awkward gear and bags around airports, train stations, and transit. With...
Welcome back to Roofbox Reviews for 2019: Our no bullshit, in-depth ski reviews, by ski bums for ski bums. No sponsored athletes, no 'we took 3 runs at a ski test'. Brands send us the sticks and we spend a solid chunk of our own seasons shredding them. Then when, we feel we've spent enough time...
Photos: Andrew Napier
The lights are on all day - the slopes this far north only see daylight for a few hours a day, and even then it’s mostly overcast. The surrounding villages are small and remote, and the lifts run from 9 to 7. This is Ruka, the home to some of the hottest skiing talents on...
Some skiers know from a very young age that they want to become professionals, while others almost stumble into the spotlight as their love for the sport overwhelms any quest of glory and recognition. It appears almost accidental when this drive aligns with the talent required to ski at the...
Photos: Jamie Walter
The town of Banff sits low in a valley, surrounded by the kind of peaks most people only see in screensavers and motivational posters. A far cry from the hustle and bustle of other famous Canadian skiing destinations like Whistler, the quaint mountain town was Canada’s...
It was like a lucid dream – every turn revealed a fresh layer of bliss, yet somewhere inside I felt it couldn't be real. The snow couldn’t be this good every run. And even if it was, could the landscape below me be real? Could it really be this late in the day? My mind could only reach one...
The Finland based Amer Sports group, which owns brands including Armada, Salomon, Atomic, and Arcteryx has confirmed with multiple news sources that they have been approached regarding a $5.3 billion all-cash takeover by a Chinese group including one of the country’s largest sportswear brands...
Skiers have witnessed monumental changes to the ski resort landscape over the past two years. Sure, the snow they slide on will remain the same, but the way skiers access the mountains is changing. News of resort acquisitions and new partnerships has been a near daily barrage. Locals may be...
What a beautiful jump. This is the kind of jump that usually only gets built for movie park shoots, not an open-entry big air contests. Alas, the Mount Bachelor Park crew spoiled photographers and skiers alike with the jump that measured about 75’ from lip to knuckle, it was hella big. With a...
Newschool skiing broke down the stale and competitively confined world of moguls and “conventional” freestyle. Skiers like The 3 Phils and JP Auclair were rebels fighting to ski their own way. Now, FIS has crept back into the picture, attempting to suck the life out of the movement these skiers...
It turns out that open registration events, and even perhaps more surprisingly those with a big prize pool, are not dead. 10 Barrel Brewing takes us back to the early days of skiing when FIS still sucked (but actually, FIS still sucks), and the Olympics weren’t an option for park skiers to dream...
There are now, more than ever before, a large group of a women skiers that are killing it with style in and out of the park. Looking back, this may serve as a breakout year for many. That said, the amount of content that we see coming from these skiers is still next to none. That is why we've...
It's a fairly easy to argue that Candide Thovex is the best and most well rounded skier today, and likely ever. Tanner Hall is the one skier would could perhaps also lay claim to that title. Looking at the resumes of these two legends made me think: Is a victory on the Freeride World Tour the...