Articles by Twig
There was a time when Axl Rose left his small town in Indiana as there was nothing left for him there. To make it, he needed to move west where he would surround himself with other, likeminded people. While Nick Goepper is no Axl Rose, his story is the same. He started honing his craft in the...
Cover Photo: Jeff Schmuck
Alex Schlopy set a goal for himself going into the 2014 Olympic Games: In his words it was “make the Olympics or I’d rather be dead.” Unfortunately, Alex missed making the US Olympic Team by the slimmest of margins and decided to seek out crack and heroin to dull his...
Photos: John Everett
Newschoolers Tell A Friend Tour competitions are back for their sophomore season but there's no slump in sight. The first two days of TAFT went off at Killington this weekend, right in the middle of the 'cyclone bomb'. It was duly cold as fuck, meaning the younger skiers...
Cover Photo: Mount Snow/Mike Dawson
It's been a bad start to the season for much of the West Coast and Mount Snow are jumping at the opportunity to twist the knife on behalf of the East. Their communications manager, Jamie Storrs, reached out to us with a simple statement:
I hit him up for...
Joss Christensen was on the bubble to make the US Olympic Team in 2014 when he lost his dad. When he was selected to the US Team with the discretionary spot, skiers all over the internet were outraged and Joss was put down, harassed, bullied, and even asked to give up his Olympic spot for...
Cover Photo: Dan Brown
The Newschoolers Tell A Friend Tour starts at Killington Resort on Saturday (01/06) and there are stops all through Jan-March. To start things off with a bang, the weekend also features a TAFT competition with $3k up for grabs on the Sunday. The competitions are the...
Yoke
Yoke are pretty much the quintessential skier owned and oriented clothing brand. Owned and run by Eric Olson, who is about as OG as it gets in freeskiing (first sw10 in the pipe anyone?), Yoke has been doing it right for long enough now that 'the kids' might not even see them as...
Welcome back to Newschoolers Editors' Picks for 2017-18. We're almost certainly last to the annual gear selections party, but I'd like to think that's because we actually spend at least a week on every ski we try rather than just a couple of runs at a gear test. Last week we announced our park...
SuperUnknown is one of the few yearly fixtures of freeskiing. Started back in 2004 as a route to a career beyond the competition circuit, it still provides one of the few fast tracks to exposure available today. I was a judge for the video entries last year and it's insane how many good skiers...
6 years deep and the basic format for the Newschoolers Tell A Friend Tour remains the same as on day one: visit hills, get kids stoked, give out prizes and then eat pizza. In other words, it's the realest thing that anyone is putting on in the ski industry right now because, in the words of...
UPDATE 2/14/2018: The 2018 Real Ski videos just launched, read our review here! The line-up for X Games Real Ski dropped last night and frankly, I don't think they could have picked better. This actually might be a list of my favorite 6 people to watch ski street at the moment, each bringing...
The best bit of Dew Tour, the Team Challenge, is back for 2017 with a stacked lineup yet again. There's no hiding the fact that last year's event was hampered by the weather conditions but things are looking better for this year at the moment, especially for the team event on Sunday. There are...
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Welcome to Newschoolers Editors' Picks for 2017-18. Once again, we're almost certainly last to the annual gear selections party, but I'd like to think that's because we actually spend at least a week on every ski we test rather than just a couple of...
Words and photos from Killington by Ben Johnson
The most anticipated rail jam of the season is in the books, shoutout Killington for continuing to host this gem. Rails 2 Riches is over for another year but the hammers thrown down will not soon be forgotten. The KParks team put together an A-1...
Bobby Brown didn’t start skiing until he was 11 years old and just 7 years later found himself standing on top of the X-Games podium, which, by the way, he considers more important than the Olympics. Bobby and I talk about coming up, his career, his final shot at Olympic Gold and everything in...
Cover photo: Klaus Listl - Tom Ritsch styling it out in the Kitzsteinhorn park.
Sometimes you go on a trip and the most interesting story to come out of it isn’t the one you thought it was going to be. My recent trip to check out the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier is a prime example. I set out...
Cover photo: Tristan Shu
This Is Home finally drops tomorrow at midday EST. With more than 250 premieres around the world, I’m sure many of you will have already checked it out but to help the wheels keep turning on the hype machine, I wanted to drop something of a hybrid review/preview. I...
SuperUnknown, particularly the judging thereof, is one of the most hotly debated topics on Newschoolers. I was on the judging panel for the first time this year, and it involves making some very difficult calls, because you're faced with 70+ edits and they are almost all worthy finalists in...
[Editor’s Note: Our review was conducted on the 17/18 Line Blend, which is unchanged for 2018-19 and 2019-20, except for the graphics].
The Roofbox is back with one aim: 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...
While Sage Cattabriga Alosa had set his goal on being a professional skier, his ski career was made in one shoot and he never looked back. From racing in Wyoming to chasing the Collins Brothers around in Utah, Sage honed his craft and became one of the best skiers of his time. His exploits are...