In just two years the event was named best big air event by Freeskier magazine.
In 2008, Jon made an addition to JOI with the Jon Olsson Super Sessions (JOSS).
This year would be a nations team event rather than teams made of individuals.
The competition would also be held in Trysil, Norway as well as Are.
(Colby West & John Symms)
The top 3 teams were
1.)
Team Norway
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/779184/JOSS-09-Team-Norway--HQ-
2.)
Team Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNrLp8eOZRY
3.)
This is an absolutely amazing representation of what American freestyle skiing was back then.
Biggie mashup, tall tee’s and afterbang.
The teamconsisted of LJ Strenio, Gus Kenworthy and Matt Walker.
Over 40 entries were sent in and 27,000 votes were cast to chose the team.
Team Canada, to even their own surprise, took way 1st place.
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/779278/JOSS-2010---TEAM-CANADA
Team Newschoolers took 2nd place with an absolutely outstanding video.
And Team Norway took 3rd place.
The rest of the 2010 JOSS edits can be found on Jon Olsson’s vimeo page.
The most complex event I ever did but at the same time the most fun one!"
JOSS was an absolutely beautiful thing to happen to skiing.
Everything about it was badass.
Jon was able to bring the best skiers in the world together and make amazing films for 3 years.
I’m happy I was able to go back and learn everything about the event.
This is a piece of ski history that every skier needs to know about.
Thank you Jon, for putting these events together over the past 10 years.
You changed the game.
Another thanks goes to Jeff Schmuck for going so in depth on the coverage of JOSS each year.
Without those articles there wouldn’t nearly as much information about the event.
Special thanks to Doug Bishop for lending a helping hand and getting me into contact with Jon.
See you next week.
