Articles by Twig
Ski(s): Armada Whitewalker, Armada ARV 116 UL
Lengths skied: 185
Actual lengths (Tip-tail w/ straight tape): 183.4
Shape: WW: 139/116/139, JJ UL: 139/116/135
Measured weight (average): WW: 1890g, JJ UL: 1784g
Mount: -2.5cm WW, -3cm JJUL
Binding: WW: Armada Shift, JJ: Armada Shift (me)/Look...
The Newschoolers Awards are back for 2022... albeit they taking place late in 2021. We'll be recognizing the best skiing of the 2021 calendar year with a blowout party at Copper Mountain's Grand Hall. There'll be free drinks, food and the best skiers in the world will be there too, so if you cam...
Snow, it turns out, is not actually a prerequisite for running a Big Air event. The technical term for the cumulative snowfall so far at today's big air venue in Steamboat Springs is fuck all. All through the event, it looked like post-season conditions but the jump itself looked great and the...
Back in June, we announced that as a result of the crazy year-and-a-half the world has been going through, Newschoolers had some budget leftover and we wanted to put that money straight back into the ski community. Perhaps unwisely, I posted up my email address and asked the ski community to...
Brands come and go in the ski industry, but for me, Full Tilt is up there with the most important on a personal level. I've (almost) exclusively ridden their boots since I picked up the sport, because they happen to fit my feet perfectly (the OG shells). So it's with a heavy heart that I can...
A perennial Newschoolers favorite, Dima Makrushin passed away this morning, August 11th, aged 29. One of the leading proponents of Newschool skiing in Russia, Dima, blessed us with many a mind-blowingly stylish ski and aggressive inline edit and movie part in his short life. I didn't know him...
From warehouse robberies to fulfillment issues, Saga Outerwear has had a rough ride over the past few years. But the licensing of the brand by GBG and in-house partnership with Spyder seemed like the turning point. Orders started flowing, the brand began to re-establish itself and the future...
Hunter Hess stands out when you look at today's pipe skiers, largely because you mostly still see him skiing for fun and continuing to exist as part of the 'everyday' ski scene. He's not the only one, but I can't think of anyone else still competing who has come out with something as significant...
The ski industry, and particularly the ‘freeski’ industry, is not an easy place to find dollars. I’ve been working in the game for some years now and support for the parts of skiing that, to me at least, are the most important seems to be waning. I recognize that we’re a niche of a niche (of an...
It's been a long time in coming, but a spin greater than the year has finally been landed. The term future spin has long been used to describe big spins... and has always been something of an NS joke. Line even used it as the name of a ski back when 14s weren't just a style trick. But for the...
I think it's fair to say this was not a 'classic' Real Ski year. That's not to take anything from the riders, who threw down and produced videos that will hopefully be watched for years to come. But with the lines blurred between Real Ski Street and REAL X GAMES thanks to an anything-goes...
As always, the videos, which I'll get to in a second, are heavy. But things are a little different this year on the Real Ski front. For one thing, this year there was no requirement for contestants to stack all their clips in the street. The vast majority is still street shots, which is a damn...
Surgery Day
Part two of my ACL diary begins with the surgery itself. I had a very talented and uncharacteristically caring surgeon in Dr Jonathan Bell at Wimbledon Clinics. No offense to their talent, but many surgeons do not come across as interested in anything but cutting you open and sewing...
Surgery Day
Part two of my ACL diaries begins with the surgery itself. I had a very talented and surprisingly caring surgeon in Dr Jonathan Bell at Wimbledon Clinics. He’s a skier himself and has repaired ACLs for many high-level skiers in the past, which gave me a lot of confidence. We had...
Oh shi-. Twist. Pop. I didn’t have much time to register what was happening before it happened. A routine powder run. A small cliff drop. Stomped. And then turn, epic face shot, huge grin and repeat. I’d basically made it to the bottom of my run when something went wrong. Even as I write this, I...
You may have already seen the news in the forums or on the 'gram but as of a couple of days ago LSM has made the switch from ON3P to Line Skis. He'll be joining fellow Bunch member and compatriot Peyben, along with a stacked team including friend Dylan Siggers.
We reached out to find out more...
@ski.loon What was your favorite Level 1 movie to film, and do you really hate frontflips?
Naww frontflips are sick. I think Zig Zag is the segment that I am most proud of that I filmed with Level 1 but filming for After Dark and Sunny was a really great time in my life, I have a lot of really...
Henrik Harlaut needs no introduction. There aren't enough superlatives in the world. Safe to say we were more than stoked to have the man himself, who has been an NS member since 2005, return to the forums this spring to answer questions from our community. Questions ranged from his favourite...