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Cover Photo: Trevor Woods/ON3P
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...
You know the drill with the Weakend by now so I'm going to forgo the welcome and get straight to the point: it was a pretty weak, err, week in terms of ski news. The biggest industry announcement was that Nine Knights/Queens will become a joint Nine Royals event for 2017, and as per usual, you...
As a result of New Year's Day with its associated struggles, welcome to the first Weakend of 2017. After an industry wide period of festive hibernation, this week has been a pretty busy one in terms of ski news. LSM signed with ON3P to form an untouchable BunchXON3P trio with Magnus Graner and...
Whether you love them or loathe them, competitions in skiing are struggling. There are signs the whole concept of progressing a career through competition is falling apart from the bottom up. The majority of remaining events are monopolised by AFP and FIS, with smaller slopestyle events and true...
We're stoked to reveal that LSM has just signed a two-year deal with ON3P. It's been amazing to see a brand with such a grassroots history grow to the level where it can sign one of the biggest names in the game right now.
In 2012 Lucas was crowned the winner of Superunknown IX, despite not...
It’s official, X Games Real Street is back. Last year saw six of the wildest street skiing edits grace our screens (yes it was a pity about the music). This year, it’s a stacked line up again. We have two returning heroes:
Last year's winner - Will Wesson
Tom Wallisch (people's choice last...
The Newschoolers Tell A Friend Tour, presented by Ski Monster, kicks off tomorrow (or today, or yesterday depending on when you're reading this). The basic format remains the same: visit hills, get kids stoked, give out prizes and then eat pizza. In other words, it's the realest thing that...
Keywords is a new series from Good Company, conceived in the mind of none other than Karl Fostvedt, who I asked a few questions about the whole shebang.
"Good Company is good company. We're trying to enjoy our time in the mountains and in the streets while surrounding ourselves with good...
Cover: Josh Fawcett flexing on a natural QP. All photos by David Wren.
Last winter, myself and three other skiers had a chance to try what on paper was the most average of ski trips: The Chalet Holiday. For those of you on the American side of the pond, I’m not sure how familiar a concept that...
Welcome back to the Weakend. First off, Happy Christmas to all of you! Hopefully you've perfectly dialled in the combo of good food, a non-crippling hangover and shred laps on this most consumerist of days. Maybe someone went out of their way to upgrade your steeze or plug your gaper gap. Maybe...
The Keeshlife movie is insane. If you haven't seen it, go watch it now. If you have, watch it again! The feedback has been crazy and we're so stoked for the Keesh boys!
In addition to the effusive response, I've seen comments on all platform asking for song names and so, for all those...
Welcome back to The Roofbox Editors' Picks for 2016-17. 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 the skis we test rather than a couple of runs at a gear test.
All Mountain has been used to mean a...
It's out!
http://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/850912/Keeshlife-Movie
Keeshlife. Even seeing that name pop up in the video section is enough to get me stoked. In the words of Antti Ollila, they aren't "a team, production company or a project, just a group of homies who like to ski, film it...
Welcome (back) to the Weakend, a weekly editorial selection of big news, what the fuck moments, and of course the finest visual offerings in skiing from the past seven days. It didn't happen last week thanks to the Dued Tour, but now we're back with a two week bumper edition. The theory sure...
Rails 2 Riches in Killington, one of the highlights of the winter calendar just finished up for another year. R2R doesn't always luck out on the conditions but this year the snow, the weather and the setup were all perfect. Unsurprisingly, the riders threw the fuck down accordingly. There were...
In early 2015, Karl Fostvedt spent 5 weeks in Japan filming for Tamashii, a ski movie which highlighted the overwhelming distraction of social media in our daily lives and interactions. As such, a significant focus was put on the culture and landscape as well as the skiing, making for a...
Although he filmed with Stept for some years, 14-15 was something of a breakout season for Noah Albaladejo. He stacked shots with Level 1, won the B&E Invitational and became a household name in the process. In Fall of the same year he blew minds with Dollo in 'Most Villain' and cemented his...
Welcome to The Roofbox Editors' Picks for 2016-17. 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 a couple of runs at a gear test. First up are our park selections and to keep...
The 2016 Dew Tour is officially done for this year and it's fair to say there were some amazing highlights and some less than ideal conditions over the course of the weekend. The reimagining of the event overall was also more successful in some aspects than others, I'm sure that the post-mortem...
The Team Event has been the element of Dew Tour we've been most stoked on since we got involved at the planning stage of the event. It gives teams the athlete selection role meaning a chance to see skiers you might not normally see gracing the competition circuit. In the jib section Quinn...