Articles by Twig
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I don't really know how it happened but Big Air has become possibly my favourite event to watch these days. The size of the jumps in most contests, and especially at city big airs, has seemingly limited rotations to some (albeit small) degree, meaning the way to...
It's an unfortunate reality of our skiing that we lose many of our greatest ambassadors. But skiing never forgets. We celebrate the lives of those who pushed the limits of the sport we love by going out and pushing ourselves, taking an extra lap for them with smiles on our faces. I'm sure almost...
Cover photo: Aiden Ulrich
SuperUnknown is back for a 14th season and the deadline is the 20th of February. So if you're stacking clips, you've got about a month left. And if you're on the fence about entering, do it. Honourable mentions and semi-finalist spots have been known to spark careers...
Mike Powell is has been in the industry longer than most. He spent 16 years at K2 Sports "working his ass off for the love of sliding snow". His new podcast series, The Powell Movement, features some of the all time legends of skiing, both athletes and industry folk. This week's guest, Jason...
Hot off the back of making pipe skiing look depressingly easy in Mammoth this week (in qualifying, finals got cancelled, Gus was second #points) it was announced today that Gus has a new goggle and helmet sponsor in the form of Smith. It's been a little while now since Nike decided snowsports...
The Weakend is back after a brief hiatus. I'm blaming the jetlag/hangover induced haze post SIA and X Games last weekend. Those two events have dominated the headlines over the past seven or so days and there's all the gear porn you could possibly want in the news section, alongside some some...
You might have noticed there's a Grand Prix going on at Mammoth this weekend, i's certainly clogging up my Instagram feed. What you might not know is that Andy Parry is taking his competition circuit, and the Tell A Friend Tour in general, to the midwest this weekend too. The first stop on that...
Keywords is a new series from Good Company, conceived in the mind of none other than Karl Fostvedt. When your crew consists of some of the most talented skiers and filmers in the game, looking through old shots is a blast and Karl is no stranger to doing just that. "I like to plug a bunch of...
Mike Powell is has been around the ski game for longer than most. He spent 16 years at K2 Sports, managing (ie attempting to stay in contact/deal with) some of the sport's biggest names, creating content and events such as the Back 9 and Kamp K2 and generally "worked his ass off for the love of...
Jossi Wells, one of skiing's most stylish gentlemen, has inked a contract with The North Face. It's been a some time since we've seen Jossi on a recognized outerwear brand but if you're talking quality gear x quality skier combo, then this is pretty much the definition. In the words of our...
Womens slope is becoming a really enjoyable event to watch. The runs are really varied and in the last couple of years, there's been a lot of serious new talent coming through in the womens side of things. Tess Ledeux is definitely one to watch.
Run 1:
Tess Ledeux put down the first landed...
Luca Schuler went down super hard on the first run and hopefully he's going to be ok. There was a big break in the contest as a result and it put a definite dampener on proceedings. [Update: Luca was taken to hospital and has a concussion but is otherwise ok.] When we finally got going again it...
We may have been guilty of missing the first few runs because of drinking but replays suggest a smattering of 9s and switch nines went down. Then everything went wild. Kelly Sildaru did a perfect switch 10 high mute to get the party started, Emma Dahlstrom did an insanely steezy forward cork 7...
After the generally disappointing pipe event yesterday, X Games needed a lift and Mens Slope 100% provided it. You might have noticed I'm not a massive comp fan but the level of skiing today was pretty insane to watch. The judges obvious decision to score rails highly actually meant we saw some...
Today was not a good day for pipe skiing. The word is there were some issues with the looker's left wall and everyone was clearly going hard for gold or broke. But for whatever reason, there was a grand total of 4 even vaguely landed runs in the mens final and arguable 0 clean runs. I bagged...
Womens Superpipe finals just finished up in Aspen and (opinion warning) frankly, it was pretty weak. I enjoy watching womens slope, I think Big Air is going to be dope, but this was not a great spectacle.
Run 1:
Devin Logan put down the first landed run of the contest, both ways fives and...
Slopestyle qualis just went down in Aspen and it was a fairly typical slopestyle contests in all its aspects. There were some definite highlights in the form of ABM and Woodsy doing some original tricks and changing up. But even Wallisch in the commentary booth was commenting on how few and far...
Cover Photo: Daniel Ronnback
Sammy is on top of the game right now with a recent '3peat' in X Games Real Snow, one of the craziest season edit/mini-movies skiing has ever seen and most importantly, seemingly effortless and undeniable talent on skis. It's kind of mad he doesn't have sponsors...
Last year we had to drop the sad news that IF3 Montreal would not, in fact, be taking place and that all IF3 events worldwide would be syndicated. But this year, the situation has reversed. The awards are back, the main event in Montreal is back, and we cannot wait for more of this...
SIA kicks off this Thursday and as a result most of the industry is busy building booths, booking plane tickets and in my case, filling in ESTA forms and hoping Trump doesn't think I live near too many Muslims to come in. For me, the story of the past week is comebacks. Hot off the back of...