Articles by Twig
The oldest Freeride World Tour Qualifying (FWQ) event in North America kicks off this week in Taos, New Mexico and it's dumping. Here's what you need to know about this venerable big-mountain competition at one of America's funkiest – and steepest – ski areas.
1 - Place to watch the live feed...
The deadline to get your entry for Superunknown XII submitted to Level 1 is TOMORROW (20th Feb)! We're looking back at some of the greats of Superunknown and 2012/2013 was a mini takeover of Superunknown by The Bunch, with back to back wins from LSM and Magnus Graner.
LSM was perhaps the...
The deadline to get your entry for Superunknown XII submitted to Level 1 is the 20th February. To count down to the deadline, we're looking back at some of the greats of Superunknown. And Superunknown VII was something of a controversial one. For the first time, the winner couldn't simply...
The whole FWT staff has been working extremely hard for the last few days to find the optimal competition face to resume the Fieberbrunn Kitzbüheler-Alpen competition that had to be stopped already twice in the last 2 weeks.
The challenge has been to solve the puzzle of fitting the contest into...
The competition in Vallnord-Arcalis was held under blue skies but in tricky snow conditions. The chosen venue in Andorra was characterized by an unprecedented density of features on the face and a great variety of lines. With this contest the women skiers have completed their qualification for...
The deadline to get your entry for Superunknown XII submitted to Level 1 is the 20th February. To count down, we're looking back at some of the greats of Superunknown. And Superunknown V had one of the craziest fields of all. Finalists included Sean Jordan, Jack Borland, Ian Compton, Paul...
The deadline to get your entry for Superunknown XII submitted to Level 1 is the 20th February. As part of the countdown, we're looking back at some of the greats of Superunknowns past. Next up is unquestionably the biggest Superunknown success story to date. The king of afterbang, the man with a...
The deadline to get your entry for Superunknown XII submitted to Level 1 is the 20th February. To count down to the deadline, we're looking back at some of the greats of Superunknowns past and at where they are now. And Superunknown isn't just about the winners. Countless runners up have used...
The deadline to get your entry for Superunknown XII submitted to Level 1 is the 20th February. To count down to the deadline, we'll be looking back at some of the greats of Superunknowns past and have a look at where the riders are at now. And what better place to start than with the first ever...
Thanks to Line MC Paul Mikkonen, who spent 24 hours driving me around, I had the chance to spend last Saturday at the world famous, yet mind bogglingly remote, Backyard Park in Savitaipale. The park is the subject of more NS threads and the location of more top rated pictures/videos than most...
SWATCH FREERIDE WORLD TOUR 2015 BY THE NORTH FACE® - VALLNORD-ARCALIS
Vallnord, Andorra, February 11th, 2015 – The Swatch Freeride World Tour by the North Face® stop in Vallnord-Arcalis (AND) is confirmed for Friday 13th 2015 with first start at 10am (CET).
You will be able to watch it LIVE on...
In a recent interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the legendary racer Hermann Maier gave an interesting quote about current rise of freeskiing at the expense of ski racing.
"Wenn ich mir nur mal die Freeskier, den Slopestyle anschaue: da wirbeln sie durch die Luft. Das ist spektakulär...
JP Auclair was a true pioneer of our sport and will be forever remembered. Today Sherpas Cinema and Poorboyz Productions join forces to release the JP Auclair Tribute Edit to mark the start of an Alpine Initiatives Auction, the proceeds of which all go to JP's son Leo and wife Ingrid. So if you...
When it was initially announced, I wasn't totally sold on this contest but I've been thinking about it could be a breath of fresh air in the pretty staid world of competition. For a start, anyone with a decent jump and a few rails in their park has a shot, because runs don't have to be...
After looking at all the entries to the qualification round, the 10 best have been picked as finalists. Generous packages including a Sony Action Cam and tons of accessories are already on the way to the 10 finalists, who are:
• Cam MacArthur
• Franz Mueller
• Matt Branum
• William Gignac
•...
After 29 entries from Europe, 35 entries from North America/Rest of the World and over 15.000 votes from all over the world, Phil and Henrik have had their say and the results of the wildcards are in. The two winners selected are:
Antti OLLILA (FIN) for Europe
Christian ALLEN (USA) for the...
A few weeks after Gus posted this...
... on twitter in a not so subtle dig at Nick's recent run in with the law, he's at it again...
Some seriously sour grapes from Gus who failed to put down a clean run in X-Games finals. I'm aware this is barely news but come on guys this is some...
The biggest competition of the year just finished and the very first run we saw was a flawless one, including a triple 14 from Goepper for 93.66. Biggest first run score ever? And he only made it in to the final when ABM who went down hard in eliminations, decided not to ride. Gus is up next so...
News has just come to us that Henrik Harlaut just went down very hard in X-Games slopestyle at aspen.
He sent a nosebutter triple 16 as fast as possible off the second jump, the only guy to this point to try tripling that jump, but came up short, caught his leading edge and took a heavy slam to...
Just as David Wise said in his blog earlier this week, the majority of the best pipe riders in the world were in Aspen tonight dropping in to the X-Games pipe. Sadly the event started with the news that Torin had sustained a concussion in practice and would not be competing. Joff Pollet-Villard...