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Faction global headquarters are in Verbier, just a short train ride away from my home in Saas-Fee. As such, I drop by HQ every now and again for a catch-up, some beers, and to blag new gear. My most recent visit was a couple of weeks ago and over the course of my wanderings around the office, I...
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Cover photo: Mateusz Kielpinski/FIS The first Big Air event of the season went down in Chur, Switzerland this evening, and love 'em or hate 'em comp season heralds the coming of winter. Skiing is back. There were a few notable absentees from the start list, Sarah Hoefflin (pulled out with a...
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Cover photo: Matt Dufresne in MTL by @Mayrandpodcast Here at NS, we are lucky enough to have an insane number of movies pop up on our platform. Over recent years, we've been working with producers to support more and more projects, aiming to highlight what we see as one of, if not the, most...
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High Five Festival is a surreal experience. You park the car and immediately run into the biggest name skiers on the planet... I got stuck in the lift with Markus Eder. Today saw the awards go down, and in terms of pro attendance, they have to be the world's most significant movie awards. The...
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Ski: Icelantic Nomad 105 2023 Reviewer height/weight: 5’9, 150lbs Ski weights: 1880 & 1891g per ski Length skied: 181 Actual length (with straight tape): 178.5 Quoted Dimensions: 140-105-130 Measured Dimensions: 145-111-135 Mounted: -3cm from true center Bindings: Tyrolia Attack...
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Laurent DeMartin is low-key one of the most stylish skiers out there. He's been putting out well rounded parts from the streets to the backcountry for the best part of a decade and I can't think of a single shot of him that's anything but stomped, clean, and going huge. And always on those...
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Ski: Season Pass 2023 Reviewer height/weight: 5’9, 150lbs Ski weights: 1819 & 1834g per ski Length skied: 185 Actual length (with straight tape): 183.5 Quoted Dimensions: ? Measured Dimensions: 147-116-144 Mounted: -2.5cm from true center Bindings: Tyrolia Attack 17 Locations: Saas-Fee...
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Ski: Icelantic Nomad 95 2023 Reviewer height/weight: 5’9, 150lbs Ski weights: 1578 & 1575g per ski Length skied: 176 Actual length (with straight tape): 173.4 Dimensions: 130-95-120 Radius: 17m Mount Point: -1.5cm from true center Bindings: Tyrolia Attack 17 Locations: Crans Montana...
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All photos: Chris Foote Last week saw Newschoolers return to Sunshine Village with a bang, this time backed by the mighty powers that be at @evo.com as our retail partner. For the second year on the bounce, we took a couple of vans full of skis to test and linked up with a killer crew to put...
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Photos: Hanne Lundin It's weird to me that you don't see more tours in snowsports. Back in my skateboarding days, there were tours pretty much constantly. The bigger name skaters rarely came off tour, they would just bounce from one sponsor's tour to the next. But during my increasingly...
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Cover Photo: Christian Stadler/FIS Bright and early this morning, the final FIS World Cup of the season went down in Silvaplana, Switzerland on what could be argued to be the most interesting course of the season (bar Beijing). With three huge jumps, permanent fixtures of the Corvatsch...
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Cover photo: Jake Dube Well, fuck. When it comes down to it, what else is there to say about Steel City Showdown? The level of rail game on show was beyond comprehension as a stacked crew of pros and up and comers threw down at Seven Springs, in what was arguably the heaviest rail jam to date...
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Ski: Season Kin 2022 Reviewer height/weight: 5’9, 150lbs Ski weights: 1815/1819g Length skied: 175 Actual length (with straight tape): 172.8 Dimensions: 139-97-135 Radius: 13m (average) Mounted: -1.5cm from true center (+1 of recommended) Bindings: Tyrolia Attack 17 Locations: Saas-Fee...
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As a ski journalist, sat in my comfy flat in the mountains, it is impossible to write about what is happening in Ukraine and feel anything but offensively privileged. You may already have listened to the Two Planker Podcast with Julia Sosnovska which was launched a few days ago, but if not...
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All photos: Lévy Loye Pulling off any kind of event is more difficult than you ever imagine it could be when you start out down that road. Pulling off a backcountry (freestyle) event during a pandemic AND a snow drought is pretty next level. But that's what Nendaz Freeride, Mont Gele Gear...
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All photos/video: Schneestern/FIS The slopestyle course for the Beijing Olympics is revealed today. Designed and constructed by Germany’s world-renowned Schneestern GmbH & Co, who also built the much-lauded PyeongChang 2018 Olympic slopestyle venue, the set-up for Beijing 2022 does look pretty...
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Ski: 1000 Skis Park Reviewer height/weight: 174cm / 68kg Ski weights: 1652/1673g Length skied: 171cm Actual length (with straight tape): 172.1cm Dimensions: 128 - 95 - 120 Radius: 17m Mounted: -1.25cm from true center Bindings: Tyrolia Attack 14 Locations: Saas-Fee Conditions skied...
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Cover photo: Timo Jarvinien Today sees the end of a partnership that came to play a definitive role in both a brand and an individual. Candide Thovex was a superstar of the ski world before he joined Faction skis, but over the past decade, he elevated himself to a new level of public stardom...
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