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Last winter, I was lucky enough to spend a snowy week in Finland. The aim of my trip was to head to Backyard Park for their Annual Rail Jam. However, to get to the almost mind bogglingly remote town in which the park is set up, I had to find a ride. One way or...
The Freeride World Tour is back for another year of scintillating, death defying freeride action. I was lucky enough to check out the finals in Verbier last season, and the experience of being at one of these things is incredible. If you’re in Europe and have a chance to get to one of our 4...
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Sometimes someone comes up with such a unique and beautiful idea that words aren't really necessary, you just need to sit back and enjoy. But we wanted to have Nicolas Vuignier and Jules Guarneri's short film 'Torched' and the very entertaining...
Banshee Bungee are synoymous with street skiing. The bungees are pretty much an essential for any crew out in the streets. ‘Natural speed’ spots are rare and winches are impractical for a vast majority of shoots (have you ever tried boosting a fence with one?). So it’s awesome to see them back...
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Welcome to the new X-Games Slopestyle and Big Air graphics, with realtime speed, spin, flip and amplitude counts. I know that I'm quick to hate on competitions and sure, I can see why this helps someone with no clue watch the...
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It's not exactly breaking news that Faction's webisodes are some of the best edits around, but it's been a while since one of them blew me away to this extent. And it's one hell of a surprise to me that it's a park edit (a breck early season edit no less) bringing...
It's not exactly breaking news that Faction's webisodes are some of the best edits around, but it's been a while since one of them blew me away to this extent. And it's one hell of a surprise to me that it's a park edit bringing that claim out of me, given my penchant for footage shot either in...
2015 is drawing to a close and it has been one hell of a year. There were more 'impossible' rotations ticked off the list than I can ever remember in any year and simultaneously spin counts continued to skyrocket. It was a virtually impossible task to cut such a crazy year down to a list of just...
There's a time and a place for lists. That time is Christmas. How else would your Mom know to get that Saga floral print hoodie you want? The place, other than her hands about 3 weeks ago, is here. Some of you might cry "foul, shitty journalism, confine your lists to buzzfeed". And unto you I...
Skiing's organizational dinosaur the FIS has today announced that it will ban the use of drones at all its events following a TV camera drone crash narrowly missing Olympic Medalist Marcel Hirscher yesterday. Men's event director Markus Waldner told reporters the ban would last "as long as I am...
News from ye'old racing leagues today, where Olympic Medalist Marcel Hirscher narrowly avoided death by drone during a race in Madonna Di Campiglio. You can see just how close it was in the clip below. And after a glut of drone footage in this year's movies, from big name productions to small...
Martin Franklin, founder of Jarden Corporation (K2's present owners) has decided to cash his chips to the effect of $500m in pocket money (and possibly a couple of planes), not a bad day's work. On Monday, Jarden Corporation announced it was set to merge with (i.e be bought by) Newell Rubbermaid...
I met Taylor back in September, at IF3. We got chatting about skateboarding she immediately challenged me, a somewhat intoxicated English stranger, to a game of skate. I think that says a lot about a person. By the time I sat down in the cinema the next day, I'd found out a bit more about her...
The last ski event to run at this year's Dew Tour was Men's Slopestyle. Dougbot was somehow still conscious and killing it... but can you hit the course in the preview next year Doug? Lots of the usual questions going in to this one thanks to some good conditions, not least: Would anyone do an...
The first thing to note when it comes to watching Dew Tour is that the real winner is Doug Bishop. If you follow NS on snapchat you know how seemingly impossible it is that he's awake and functioning well enough to present a pre-show TV broadcast at 8.30am. 6 women also had to somehow be up and...
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The third and final instalment of Armada's Snowcieties web series is something truly special. Both a fitting tribute to the legend JP Auclair and a fantastic piece of film in its own right, Corey Stanton has done himself proud. It's a difficult trick to pull off...
If you run a contest in Breckenridge in early december, there's a good chance that it might snow a bit. And so yet again a Dew Tour final took place in the middle of a snowstorm, though at least conditions had improved from those that hampered the snowboard event and cancelled women's slope...
First Run:
This is Newschoolers, so I missed the first 4 runs of slopestyle semis, but judging by the scores I didn't miss much, Robby Franco was on top for a while by virtue of not making any major mistakes. Basically the first interesting thing that happened was Antti Ollila's run, which...
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He's back to break the internet again, this time with Audi in tow. Not quite OOTD3 but certainly a healthy dose of Candide ridiculousness. Reminiscent of Sweetgrass Production's Forest segment (which was in fact 100% legit) but on steroids, it's hard to tell how...
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Episode 14 was filmed over the course of a week or so in the UK. I was lucky enough to spend some time with them during the shooting period, it's awesome to get a behind the scenes view of how they work. I also asked Juho a few questions about the making of the episode you just...