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Rain and a low tide winter in Europe made for a pretty scary looking jump but it worked. Christian Nummedal twice landed with just a few feet of transition left and somehow rode out. Elias Syrja added a nosebutter to the dub1 6 show and capped blunt for a massive 95.75. Ulrik Samnoey went switch triple 14 and stomped but grabbing safety ‘limited’ his score to 93. It was starting to look like the judges hadn’t left themselves enough space between scores with this one....

All imagery courtesy of Eric Sales Photography Written By: Giray Dadali We needed to see it for ourselves. Was the snow more divine than our Alta Magic? With me, the youngbucks Max Meza and Alex Lundstrom joined. Max, Alex, and I on the far right in 2015 when they were just Groms. Team coaching then evolved to a multiyear mentorship of skiing local terrain and heading to competitions with them....

Josh Berman has heavily influenced skiing as we know it today. After spending a couple months working with and watching people in that industry his mind was made up. He changed his courses and his path was set.

I spend a lot of time staring at my skis. On the skin track Ive spent countless hours lost in my topsheets, only looking up for kick turns. A little steel, maybe some carbon, and a bunch of epoxy. But they all carry a history, and its hard to separate the baggage from the physical manifestation. Good skis are an expression of art. But topsheet art is just the obvious tip of the much larger iceberg....

Colorado is one of only four states throughout the country to offer a skiing themed license plate. Amongst Front Rangers, the two most commonly cited are cost and travel. As we all know, skiing is not cheap. Enter the Ruby Hill Rail Yard, Denvers own urban terrain park. The park is open daily, and lights allow you to shred until 9pm. The build quality is extremely high, and is reminiscent of a Midwest terrain park....

The Audi Nines team can turn doodles into your riding playground for a week. Its amazing to see our ideas come to life. Theres much production going into it, saysJames Woods (GBR)of the design process. Its just in another league. But the basis of it is exactly why we all got into skiing and snowboarding. There is so much opportunity to get banging content for the rest of the season....

When I joined Newschoolers, I didnt really tell any of my friends or family. I wasnt super comfortable with the idea of forums, of typing words into an abyss of faceless strangers. Be careful, potential employers can see anything you post on the internet! And somehow, after a few years, I realized Id accidentally made real friends on this skiing website. People from the internet, skiing together. And then there was Instagram....

The penultimate slopestyle world cup of the season followed last night’s halfpipe contest under mostly grey Calgary skies. But the course looked pretty fun, if not the biggest. Reports are that speed was hugely faster than in qualis and even practice which caused some issues. You never quite know what is coming, which is a rarity these days. He wasn’t clean through the rails but it was a relief to see someone use it....

Photo: Buchholz/FIS Freeski On a crystal clear night in the Great White North, the ladies and gentlemen of the icy halfpipe went to war. Women’s Podium: 3rd Place - Valeriya Demidova https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/954898/demidova-2-mp4 2nd Place - Rachel Karker https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/954899/karker-1-mp4 1st Place - Eileen Gu https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/954902/gu-3-mp4 Men’s Podium: 3rd Place - Birk Irving https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/954904/birk-3-mp4 2nd Place - Brendan Mackay https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/954905/mackay-3-mp4 1st Place - Gus Kenworthy https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/954906/gus-1-mp4

Not a bad week’s work. The crazy thing is quite a lot of his weeks have been going like that lately. Today, he joins the growing Spyder Freeski team, alongside close friends Quinn and Ferdi, among others. Spyder also seems really hyped on film projects. Ferdi and Quinn have put out a couple of edits with them, and so has Bobby." He has also become known for rocking the same gear consistently....

I would pin it at a 8/10- compare to say the armada arv series which is a 6.9/10. The Alparkas are a perfectly symmetric ski with 80% camber with relatively little rocker & taper. The skis also have full length carbon bands to give the ski that nice poppy snappy feel. On-Snow Performance: On groomers, these exceeded my expectations for an 86mm waist ski. As a skier who enjoys reaching Candide speeds, these held up quite well on really nice groomers....

Its a small, simple word that gets thrown around a lot in skiing. Its all about progressing the sport, progressing ourselves as skiers, driving the progression of better ski gear. Its about being better at skiing tomorrow than you were yesterday. But at the personal level, its a lot harder to quantify. When I was learning how to ski it was simple, the goals were impossible to miss. I was making my impossibles possible....

For the final event of this year’s Dew Tour the snow was back with a vengance. As a result the decision was made to run women’s slopestyle on the rail features only. Run two went much the same as the first but. Mathilde Gremaud cleaned up her first run too though and immediately retook the lead. Her score of 94.66 looked unbeatable on the day and so it proved. Giulia Tanno improved again, but not enough to knock Maggie out third....