Articles by Twig
The Newschoolers community is incredible, there are so many members posting amazing content week in, week out. Content that doesn't get the attention it deserves. We've known for a while we need to highlight it better, and thus 'The Weakend' was born. But there's so much ridiculous skiing out...
Cover photo: X Games/Espn
Another week ends, another 'The Weakend' and skiing never ceases to cough up some A-grade material. Though for me the week's highlight was pretty clear cut for once: Steve Stepp trolling the TGR brigade. It's equal parts amazing how successful the troll was and...
After a storming qualifying yesterday and a stellar women's big air event earlier, the expectations for the men's finals were high. A massive crowd watched on from the bottom of the jump in Hafjell and they weren't disappointed.
Bobby Brown opened proceedings with a perfectly stomped triple 14...
The talk all through the week surrounding this big air jump was about the speed issues. The women, who had obvious struggles with speed in the slopestyle event, were having some major issues during big air practice too but for the event it was all good thanks to the extended drop in. Well except...
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Much like the slopestyle course, the big air jump has been causing mutterings of displeasure in the athlete corral this week. Speed issues were again the culprit, especially among the lighter riders. The story I had heard was that the flat before the jump was killing speed...
The men took to the slopestyle field in the aftermath of a speed-shortage hit women's final and managed to put on a decent show given the options they had. Their added weight and faster snow later at night meant they could clear the jumps with relative ease but you could still see the course was...
It's safe to say that X Games in Norway is not going off smoothly. Jossi was injured earlier today and the speed issues on the course were bad enough of a struggle that Kelly Sildaru made the call to pull out of the event entirely. That really opened the door to everyone else to take a win but...
The breaking (shitty) news from our friends on the ground at X Games Norway is that Jossi has blown his knee during slopestyle practice in Hafjell. It's unclear right now if the course, which has been causing issues for all the riders during practice and qualifying, was at fault. But what is...
The word on the ski grapevine going into X Games Slopestyle in Norway was that the course was causing issues for lots of the riders, who weren't particularly happy about it. There were a bunch of options in the jib section which was cool but the jumps were pretty small, the landings looked a...
Cover Photo: Glen Cloarec/Vice
Reports coming in from all media now suggest, as the resort itself stated a few hours into news updates, that while several people were hit by the slide, nobody was buried.
Initial reports stated unknown numbers (some suggested 30-40) had been buried in an...
Cover Photo: Carlo L. Mion (Full Image)
What's up everyone? I've spent most of this weekend watching SuperUnknown entries and concluded there are far too many good skiers out there. Dan might be onto something when it comes to #stopskiing. I'm going to write a bit more about judging that at a...
Cover Photo: Roman Lachner/Prime Skiing
Top 2 Runs, Men's and Women's
After a gruelling qualifying day yesterday featuring more than 80 riders on the Mens side, the finals of the Silvaplana World Cup, the last of the season, went off this morning in Switzerland. The course had a dope layout...
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in China for the first ever major slopestyle comp to be held there. You may think this was a result of weeks of planning and preparation but no... I'd picked up my visa just hours before takeoff and figured out precisely nothing about the trip. One plane ride...
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in China for the first ever major slopestyle comp in the country. You may think this was a result of weeks of planning and preparation but no... I'd picked up my visa just hours before takeoff and figured out precisely nothing about the trip. One plane ride...
You might have noticed in the last couple of days that the results of something called X Games Real Ski were revealed. A Swedish man in a tracksuit won and this made some people extraordinarily angry. I'm not going into it further than that but it's nice to see pure rage about something...
X Games Real Ski is like christmas come early(/late/again) for skiers everywhere. Six of the craziest street edits of all time drop at once for our viewing pleasure. This year it took multiple watches to even begin to comprehend what these guys had managed to put together in the very short...
It's been a two seasons since the last Red Bull Playstreets, there was a Bad Gastein shaped hole in the contest circuit last year. Playstreets has always been one of, if not the, best contests of the year and this year was memorable as ever. With even crazier rail features dotting the insane...
The ideas put in motion at Dew Tour seem to be catching on. SFR in La Clusaz split jumps and rails for a combined slopestyle score in the same manner as we saw in Breck. The difference being I liked it at Dew, with the more interesting jump tricks coming to the fore and a unique, many hit jib...
For me the news highlight of the week was John Spriggs signing for cannabis company Oregrown. Aside from a great guy getting a sweet deal, it seems an interesting window into the future. As the weed industry profits grow, I expect we'll be seeing similar deals for more than a few riders...
Cover Photo From Swiss Freeski
While Big Air has gone up in my estimation, Slopestyle (outside of the hallmark events) seems to be stagnating. I've definitely bitched about this enough before, so suffice to say maybe it was the judging criteria and maybe it was the course (it was a pretty...