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Saturday saw the release of the X Games Real Ski results. Results which, rightly or wrongly, were met with a heated response, especially here on NS. The polls were still open for the fan favorite award though, the winner of which takes home not only a hefty cheque but also a coveted spot in next...
Ultimately, skiing is a subjective sport. If you ignore racing for a second, then if you want to have contests, you have to have judges. In the case of X Games Real Ski, the judges had the unenviable task of picking a top three from six insane street edits. Edits put together by masters of the...
Ever since I joined NS I’ve been pushing our focus towards in-depth (Roofbox) reviews, largely because of my disdain for ‘one-lap at a test’ style reviews that you see from the magazine ski tests. I’ve been to a fair few ski tests myself and, while you do get an impression of skis pretty...
All photos: Jamie Walter
As a European who has seldom ventured across the pond, I have pretty limited experience of North American skiing. Rolling into this trip to SkiBig3, my preconceptions were based on a previous trip to Colorado and shots of Whistler, Mammoth, and other freeskiing...
Conditions were less than ideal for pipe finals today, with some fog hanging in the air and some winds, but both the men and women threw down nonetheless. It helps that the PC pipe looked perfectly shaped, unlike the last couple of years at X Games. In fact, this was probably the most impressive...
The Slopestyle World Championships went down in Park City, Utah today, despite what is technically known as a shitload of snow having fallen the previous night and plenty of wind/snow on course. Somehow the shape team managed to get the course into fairly decent shape, but Fabian Boesch didn't...
Wind and snow flurries were both factors during tonight's World Championship Big Air Finals with the ladies seemingly particularly affected by some unpredictable speed. Some riders managed to send the jump all the way to the bottom, while others barely made the knuckle. But the majority threw...
Today saw the most popular ski event at X finally go down. Men's slope is insanely competitive and unfortunately, despite having qualified Evan McEachran missed finals through injury from last night's big air, gifting a spot to young Phil Langevin, the 8th place qualifier. Today saw the guys...
Big Air has now reached levels of rotation that almost nobody can even conceive of trying. It is, however, one hell of a show. Fabian Boesch missed finals by one spot, so the quad 1920 didn't make an appearance, but there were a smattering of 18s and triple 14s were the minimum standard...
Following the men's elimination spin-fest earlier today, tonight saw the ladies take on the Big Air jump in Aspen, and put on a great show. The both ways spin requirement really swung things in favor of a few of the athletes but it was still a great event. Sarah Hoefllin took some heavy slams...
8 skiers took on the Big Air jump today in a 25 minute jam session with the top 5 joining the pre-qualified medalists from last year in the finals. The controversial both ways requirement was still in place but nonetheless, it was an insane stuntshow. Everyone got 5 runs and somehow there were...
Women's slope went down under sunny skies on Buttermilk Mountain this afternoon and the technical level was higher than I ever remember seeing, especially on the rails with a bunch of six outs being thrown (despite them all being called 4s by the commentary booth) and a dope front 4 tail from...
In the second ski pipe event of the evening, the men were boosting above the 22ft monster at the base of Buttermilk Mountain. Much of the field had trouble putting down complete runs though and the word is the pipe was tricky to ride as a result of the recent snow.
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Thursday night is ski superpipe night at X Games with the women's and men's events running back to back. The pipe was looking good. There were really only two riders in contention in the women's event tonight and it was a true back and forth battle between Kelly and Cassie.
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X Games 2019 kicked off today with men's slopestyle eliminations, which tend to be pretty much the hardest events to make it through on the comp circuit. Despite a smaller field, X is no exception with only 7 athletes joining the 3 pre-qualified medalists from the previous year (Henrik, Oystein...
Today saw an interesting opening to the Freeride World Tour today in Hakuba, Japan. In the past, there has been criticism for a lack of reward for the riders who throw tricks in their runs, with judges favoring skiers going fast and straight. Today, however, it was the skiers throwing down in...
Cover Photo: Pierre Mérimée/FIS
A wind hit week at Font Romeu saw both men's qualifiers and finals go down on Saturday, as well as all 20 ladies moved directly to compete in finals... making for a very long day indeed. It was Alex Hall who made it count in finals, topping the podium with his...
Cover Photo: Emil Larsson
This wasn't exactly a hard one to predict, but as of today, Alex Hackel is officially riding for ON3P Skis. Sure, he's been on the skis solidly since his trip to Zermatt last summer but sometimes these things take a bit of time to work out. We reached out to Alex to...
The modified pipe at Dew Tour is hard to ride. It looks spectacular and it makes a great change from a regular pipe event, but we saw some of the top pipe skiers in the world struggle yesterday in the Team Event. The same thing happened today on the women's side of things with a number of hefty...
X Games Real Ski release day is the second Christmas for those who love street skiing. While in other sports you could argue Real Ski doesn't really represent the pinnacle, in skiing it truly does. Phil Casabon's Real Ski part from last year was unquestionably 90 seconds of the best street...