Articles by Twig
It's here! Last year's Adventures In Transition, Home On The Range, might have been my favorite edit of the season. It was certainly top five. So you can imagine my excitement when the new edition 'Stick To Your Guns' dropped in to my inbox a couple of days ago. It's out NOW so click the link...
http://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/842668/Be-Water---Bobby-Brown
What's up Bobby, cheers for agreeing to answer a few questions on this. After such success competing over so many years, what made you decide to flip your focus and go all out on filming backcountry?
Thanks Adam...
Cover Photo: Jamie Walter
Lupe Hagearty is widely known as one of the hardest working, nicest guys in the ski game. Eric Iberg once said of him "work ethic and being a good person can get you a long way in life" and in Lupe's case they certainly seem to be paying off. He just released a...
Cover Photo: Shayne Lynn
The Newschoolers forums have a special place in skiing. A unique location, where you can see the totally clueless discuss skiing's news and trends with the biggest names in the ski industry. With astonishing regularity they throw up absolute gems of posts which we want...
Cover photo: McRae Williams with a crazy line in Switzerland. Photo: Voisin
Level 1’s ‘Pleasure’ is out now on iTunes and Vimeo. I was lucky enough to get an early look. I’m sure enough of you will have seen this at premieres now to add your opinions. But my take is pretty simple: Damn, it’s a...
To the majority of you Woodsy is probably known as one of the more stylish comp skiers and the best SLVSh ref out, but that could well be it. Perhaps you know him personally, in which case you’ll know he’s one of the nicest people on the planet. But again, there the line is drawn. But to many in...
In the last few days, Armada have quietly released a collection of three skis and and some very special apparel called Zero. The products represent the highest end of Armada product. "It's only sold in our most valued shops (40 Nation Wide)" Armada's marketing dude Dan Villaire told me. "It's a...
Zermatt has become something of a home from home for The Bunch. BMack is now a permanent, sometimes forest dwelling, resident. He works on the park crew, creating unique features and melting minds year round. Much of the rest of the crew dropped in to visit over the course of the summer. When I...
Photos: David Malacrida
The first ever Sosh Big Air event went off in Annecy this afternoon. The format? A brand new one requiring the riders to leave their double cork comfort zones and choose tricks off a set trick list. The tricks were throwbacks to legendary skiing moments past like...
Photos: David Malacrida
Thirty guys dropped in to the massive Sosh Big Air jump this evening and only three could make it to tomorrow's semi finals. The crowd was treated to a multitude of dub 7s, 10s and 12s, as well as a stunning but slightly sketched cork 12 stale from Lauri Kivari and a...
Photos: Ville-Petteri Määttä
When day to day life in the ski industry includes repetitive park edits, FIS, AFP and a whole lot of conformity in general, it's nice when something eye opening comes along. Especially when it's an absolute stormer of a 'contest'. There have been wild events in...
Photos: Camilla Rutherford
Faction Skis have just announced the addition of Kelly Sildaru and Henry Sildaru to an already stacked teamt Kelly, the now 14-year-old child prodigy, has already hit the big time with X Games gold. She seems pretty unstoppable on the competition scene and judging by...
[Editor’s Note: Our review was conducted on the 16/17 K2 Marksman, which is unchanged for 2019-20, except for the graphics].
The Roofbox is back 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...
Rob Heule is one of the nicest guys in skiing. It's incredibly rare to find anyone with a bad word to say about him. I met him for the first time in Zermatt, where it was clear he'd been adopted as a local, I imagine that's the case everywhere he goes. He sometimes flies under the radar, perhaps...
[Editor’s Note: Our review was conducted on the 16/17 Magnum Opus, which is unchanged for 2017-18].
The Roofbox is back for 2016-17, 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...
[Editor’s Note: Our review was conducted on the 16/17 Line Honey Badger. In 2018-19 the core material was switched from Bamboo to Aspen and that continues for '19-20 and '20-21. The ski still feels very similar, to the point where we didn't feel a new review was required, but it does feel a...
Cover photo: Grandfather and grandson shredding Hood 60 years apart
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For some of you, Jeff will certainly need no introduction. For the rest: Jeff Kohnstamm is one of the most stylish filmers in the game, with a CV including Glacier Days and Brighton PDF Files. He also produces his own...
[Editor’s Note: Our review was conducted on the 16/17 K2 Poacher, which remains unchanged for '20-21, except for the graphics].
The Roofbox is back 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...
[UPDATE: You can now watch the full movie here on Newschoolers!]
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be sent an exclusive preview version of the BE Inspired movie by Eric Iberg, which, to my knowledge, only 2 other people outside of the editing team have seen. After an initial watch through I...