Articles by Twig
Sammy Carlson is something of an enigma. For the past few seasons, we wouldn't hear or see anything much from him at all, and then out of nowhere, he'd go and drop one of the heaviest shorts (or even full length movies) of the year. This year is no exception with the launch of his 'World Of X...
Last winter, 686 introduced Parker White as the first ever skier to join their global pro team. A year on they welcome Laurent De Martin to join him. Hand-picked by Parker, Laurent brings power and timeless style to everything he skis from backcountry missions to street sessions. He even took on...
Cover Photo: Kenjiro Matsuo
When Matt Sterbenz finished at the U of M, he left the Midwest in search of bigger mountains that would help him achieve his goal of becoming a pro skier. When Matt turned his dream into a reality, he could finally peak behind the curtains of the ski industry. When...
Cover Photo: Peter Colombo
For more than 100 years, Wells Lamont have been producing the hardiest gloves for the people who really need them. So when we heard they were putting together their first line of ski gloves, we knew we had to find out more. Luckily, their new team manager is none...
All images Christopher Bartels/The North Face
Earlier today The North Face unveiled the US Freeski Team uniforms for the Olympics at Pyongchang. Apparently the lineup was two years in the making, which is impressive given that it appears to consist of the Saga Puffy/Poly combo from a couple of...
Cover Photo: Maxime Messier
After a year's hiatus, IF3 Montreal is back and this year, they brought snowboarding along for the party. On Saturday night, Hangar 16 in Montreal's Old Port hosted the ceremony for the coveted IF3 Awards and it was what could be described as a lively affair. Take a...
This summer, Newschoolers teamed up yet again with Snow Park Technologies to create a comprehensive ranking of the best terrain parks across North America. Our list is decided using a 50/50 split between SPT data and our Park Poll results. SPT sent a consulting team to analyse the number and...
Cover Photo: Cedric Corroy
The This Is Home Film Tour is an impressive entity, with more than 100 scheduled screenings spread across the globe in the coming months. They will of course vary in size, from tiny, locals only, brodowns to mammoth theatres in big cities. But the biggest of all went...
Level 1’s annual releases are the most established jib movies left in skiing, they represent the last of the major production companies still primarily focused on park and street. Habit continues in a similar vein to last year’s movie with a prominent role given to what I guess I’d call a theme...
Watch It Here
Today’s release of Big Picture’s Lite Years is certainly bittersweet. The crew of close friends have announced that after three seasons of the greatest backcountry jib footage ever dropped, they are moving on. This is apparently the last Big Picture project.
If this is to be...
4Frnt x J Lev
BunchGrams?
Alex Hall, again.
Windells.
Kimbo Sessions Part 2
Summertooth Sessions?
http://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/869876/Sam-Sessions-2
http://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/869999/Jennie-lee-Burmansson-Season-16-17...
If you’ve watched Good Company’s output so far, you’ll know their movies have had a pretty consistent style: incredible skiing and nothing much to distract from it. When I reviewed Vice Versa last fall, my one critique was that I found the whole thing difficult to relate to and then enjoy as a...
Cover photo: Nate M shot by Alex Hall
The winter season is slowly building steam and this weekend saw the first big contest in the northern hemisphere: Sosh Big Air at Hive Fives Festival in Annecy. The contest saw Tanner Hall ski a Big Air for the first time in a decade, Elias Syrja take the...
Big Air is probably my favourite event to watch in skiing at the moment and this was one of the best city events to watch in years. We're seemingly reaching the rotation limit (or at least slowing down) so we're seeing a lot more weird new axes so that riders can differentiate themselves. At...
Sosh Big Air in Annecy is going off this weekend and the 40m high, 55ft tabletop jump right by the lakeside is a sight for sore eyes. The finals day kicked off with a best trick contest duked out by 6 invited ladies and it was quite the show. It's insane how much young talent there is in the...
The Roofbox is back for 2017-18, 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 send us the sticks and we spend a solid chunk of our own seasons shredding them. Then when, and only when, we've spent...
Cover photo: Kareem Black/Red Bull Content Pool
Kaya Turski has been a fixture of the competition scene for a decade and most often, appeared at the top of the podium. She's one of the most decorated Winter X Games athletes of all time, and so when she hit us up earlier this week to tell us...
Mike Powell has been killing the podcast game over the past 12 or so months. In the latest episode he talks to John Spriggs. who discusses, among other things, the events of the last year. It's a hard hitting one for sure, Mike calls it his 'most intense' so far, and it's pretty much a must...
Cover photo: Finn Bilous sending one, shot by Mickey Ross
This week was punctuated by the release of the the GoPro 6 Black, the latest iteration of skiing's most widely used camera. I cherish my ignorance of all things electronic, but the footage you get from a GoPro these days is pretty damn...
Londoners, get yourself down to the Clapham Grand to party with skiers from across the capital. I'd advise booking the following day off work because it has a tendency to get messy.
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