Articles by Twig
High Five Festival remains the biggest, broadest gathering of the action sports community of the year. It feels like everyone is here in Annecy, from every corner of the globe. And from New Zealand to Baffin Island, the whole world is represented in the films on show too, making for a unique...
As the summer sun casts its (scarily) warm glow on the Swiss Alps, riders from across Europe are once again flocking to Snowpark Zermatt. After a prolonged closure last summer, the park has made a triumphant return, and I saw no choice but to make my regular summer pilgrimage to check it out...
The Scandinavian Team Battle at CopenHill took place once again in Copenhagen, Denmark, and it was an absolute blast of an event. The third installment of this crazy dry-slope ski competition, which happened in mid-June, was even bigger and better than the previous two. With a talented and...
I love skiing. Ultimately, that is why I do what I do. However, it is easy to become jaded and to forget. I watch skiing pretty much constantly, year-round. Skiing has become work and I've had a bunch of injury issues. When I'm sitting at home with free time, I'll watch snowboarding...
A quick reminder to all the female rippers out there, Bucket Clips 2.0 is coming this fall, featuring some of the most talented female skiers out there. Bucket Clips is a product of the wonderful minds of Rosina Friedel & Ludwig Hagelstein, with a little help from Newschoolers along the way -...
Photos courtesy of RedBull
Europe has seen an absolute glut of insane events this spring. Swatch Nines had the most insane snow features you could dream up, Buldoz Invitational, Jib League and more have all the vibes, but you could certainly argue nothing is quite as out there as the...
Ski: Black Crows Mirus Cor
Reviewer height/weight: 5’9, 145lbs
Ski weights (per ski): 1882 & 1895g
Length skied: 178
Actual length (with straight tape): 176.3
Dimensions: 134-87-123
Mounted: -2.75 cm from true center
Bindings: Tyrolia Attack 17
Locations: Saas-Fee
Conditions skied...
In the wake of the cancelation of the Freeride World Tour finals due to poor conditions, a collective of European ski resorts has announced an ambitious deal to airlift as much as 100 inches of snow from rocky mountain resorts as early as next winter.
Verbier, the host of the finals since the...
Cover photo: Buchholz/FIS
After a snowy, then avalanche-y practice and a nice break from comps for most of the athletes, the penultimate World Cup went down in Tignes, France this morning with a solid cast of riders in attendance. The Tignes slopestyle course was one of the more interesting of...
The ski industry is not known for its ability to hide secrets and the fact that a new boot brand was coming to the freeski/freeride space would have been a pretty big thing to try and hide. Thus, it has been some time since we confirmed the news that something bootlike was cooking over at Full...
Photos: Bucholz/FIS
Georgia (the Eurasian one, not the swing state) welcomes the FIS Freestyle world for the coming weeks and after a chronically wind-delayed series of qualification events, the finals got started bright and early this morning. Hurricane Bakuriani had subsided somewhat...
It was a tough sell for Dew Tour this year with World Championships happening simultaneously in Georgia. That meant lots of the athletes were already out in Bakurani, or on their way, but with Brendan Mackay, David Wise, Aaron Blunck and Alex Ferreira dropping it's not like too many of the...
The chances are you're reading this on a phone. Maybe you're taking a quick break from Instagram, maybe you even clicked through directly from there. Maybe you're more of a Tik Tok guy. Regardless... fuck you.
I've spent a lot of my recent years feeling like the proverbial old man yelling at a...
Ski: Simply Recreation
Reviewer height/weight: 5’9, 145lbs
Ski weights (per ski): 1773/1765g per ski
Length skied: 180
Actual length (with straight tape): 178.9
Measured dimensions: 135-100-126
Mounted: -4.5 cm from true center
Bindings: Tyrolia Attack 17
Locations: Saas-Fee, Les...
After yesterday's wind-blasted halfpipe event in Mammoth, I'm sure the slopestyle riders went to bed praying for a favor from the weather gods. If they did, it worked briefly, with conditions improved for the first run of slopestyle, and they all threw down as thanks. It was sick to see a course...