Articles by Twig
Olympic Judge Steele Spence has a storied history in the ski industry. He was part of the second wave of new school skiers and one who had a knack for greasing the burliest of rails. His urban game was top notch before most people knew that urban skiing was a thing. When pro skiing wasn’t an...
The first major slopestyle event in a post-olympic world went down in Switzerland earlier today. There was always a going to be a hangover after an event that big and so it proved with a few big names taking a break to rest and heal. On the men's side, Oystein and much of the US/Canadian team...
Earlier today, Borja Ayed Capillas (34), a local mountain guide, was killed in an avalanche while preparing a face for the upcoming Freeride World Tour competition at Vallnord-Arcalis in Andorra. According to a short statement released by the Freeride World Tour, the injuries he sustained as a...
It’s fair, yet somehow still an understatement, to say that Candide is on top of the game right now. His latest edit with Audi has nearly 50 million views on facebook and today sees the limited edition launch of a 5th ski in his pro model series with Faction. The new ski is (somewhat...
For me at least, X Games Real Ski is the high point of the skiing contest calendar. When drop day rolls around, we get six of the craziest street edits imaginable, all at once. They are often so different that judging them makes comparing the relative merits of slopestyle runs (no easy task)...
That's all folks. Freeskiing's appearance at the PyeongChang 2018 ended with today's halfpipe contest and it was an insane contest to end the big show. Earlier in the week, the men had some difficulty with a touch of oververt on the looker's right wall of the pipe, but today things were looking...
David Wise is the most decorated halfpipe skier of all-time. Going into the Olympic Games, he is on fire and is everyone’s favorite to win back to back gold medals. He’s a likable 27 year old going on 40. He has a wife, 2 kids, and likes to spend a lot of time alone in the woods bowhunting...
Men's halfpipe is the final freeski discipline of PyeongChang 2018 and based on todays qualis, the finals in two days time are going to be a heavy way to end the show. Today the riders had to contend with a later time slot, meaning that the looker's righthand wall of the pipe was far softer than...
The third of four sets of Olympic freeski medals were decided today in the halfpipe of PyeongChang. The pipe looks incredible and on that basis, the men's event is going to be totally bonkers, with qualifiers in a couple of hours and finals in a couple of days. There really was only ever going...
The pipe in PyeongChang is looking good and the Olympic women's halfpipe qualifiers just went down under blue skies, in perfect conditions. On both sides of the gender divide there's a pretty big gulf between the top riders and the rest in halfpipe. As a result, we generally saw safe(ish) runs...
Arguably the biggest event in freeskiing, the men's slopestyle finals at the 2018 Olympics, just finished up in Pyeongchang. After an interesting qualifications in which the scoring seemed all over the place, we looked to the judges to clean things up finals. Did they? Not entirely. There were...
The results are in from the 2018 Olympics men's slopestyle qualifier. Result number one is that men's slopestyle skiing has hit a ridiculous level. The Olympic course and conditions were flawless and as predicted, even making the finals today took a stellar run. Sadly, the Olympic judges seemed...
Yesterday Jason and myself published our predictions for women's slopestyle and it's safe to say we didn't do great. Both of us went 0 for 3 on our actual podium calls but we did both have Sarah and Mathilde down as wildcards. Between us, we called the jump runs the'd need to medal spot on so...
There's a great atmosphere at the bottom of the slopestyle course in South Korea and the ladies were sending it today in the finals. The first freeski medals of the 2018 Olympic Games have now been decided. With Tess Ledeux missing out on finals and Kelly Sildaru/Giulia Tanno injured, the door...
The first freeski event of the 2018 Olympic Games is under way and the ladies were sending it from the off on the biggest course of the year. Things are looking good out in Korea: loads of spectators in the stands watching on, flawless looking course and freeskiing on its biggest stage. There...
In a bold and almost inevitably successful attempt to make ourselves look more foolish than normal, we're going to be publishing our predictions for the Olympic podium spots in each of the four freeski events. To make things interesting, multiple time X Games head judge and all around boss Jason...
The antics of the Swiss Freeski Team have been a highlight of the Olympic buildup. Unfortunately, two of the team have become the first athletes in PyeongChang to contract the norovirus strand that has been plaguing staff at the Olympic village. The unfortunate pair, Elias Ambuhl and social...
X Games Real Ski is back for 2018 and arguably crazier than ever. This year injury took its toll on a couple of competitors but they still put it down as far as their bodies allowed. When you think about it, it's actually insane that in the past two years, everyone has been able to get their...
"Torin Yater-Wallace had to overcome more challenges than anyone I’ve talked to. From growing up with a dad in prison, to moving countess times as a kid, to injuries, to a sickness that became so bad that he was medically paralyzed for 10 days. Through all of this, Torin had skiing and all his...
Mike Hornbeck is a midwest legend. In my mind he's the single skier who has most deeply influenced the current generation and current styles, whether those building on what he started know it or not. Last week he hit me up to promote an event he's running. It turns out that, true to his passion...