Salomon Freeski TV Season 4 Episode 09 – Euro Road Trip Part 1
Kaj Zackrisson, Mike Douglas and Chris Rubens are back in the Alps chasing powder. For the second year in a row, they find the deepest snow of the year.
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Nothing like a little slow mo' air time with Eric Pollard to get your day started on the right foot.
published: June 18, 2013
I wouldn't call Jossi Wells a slacker. But he's a year late on this edit from 2012. Can't say I blame him. There's plenty of other stuff I'd rather do than sit down at the computer to chop hours of footage into a fancy two-minute clip. I know how it is when you put something off for a day, which turns to a week, and then a month, and then it's snowing again, and you just throw it out the window. But for this one, late is better than never. —Julie Brown
published: June 13, 2013
Legs of Steel, the fist-pumping, metal-crushing Euros who are the rock band of skiing, just dropped the trailer for their latest film, "The LOSt." These are the guys who sent 13 skiers off three jumps at the same time for a shot that looked like orchestrated chaos and subsequently won the 2012 POWDER Award for Best Manmade Air. This time around, there's fire involved. For "The LOSt," Legs of Steel toured the streets of Ukraine, the Swiss backcountry in Davos, and the steep spines of British Columbia. They filmed with their original crew, including Bene Mayr, Thomas Hlawiscthka, Paddy Graham, Tobi Reindl, and Sven Kueenle, and brought in some special guests like Max Hill, Frej Jönsson, Antii Ollila, and Lolo Favre. They say this is the self-titled E.P. of their films, and it's dark with "fire, energy, and black-magic ski action." Rock on.— Julie Brown
published: June 11, 2013
This Is The Best Lego Skiing We’ve Ever Seen
This video is making the Internet rounds right now. Hand drags, backies, mute grabs—it's the best Lego skiing we've ever seen. Sign this guy, Red Bull!
published: June 7, 2013
Suzy Chaffee was a politician, activist, Olympian, freestyler, pioneer, icon, and model. But she is probably best known for breaking the hearts of men throughout the world (or at least mine), and becoming Suzy "Chapstick." Here, she goes mainstream in a montage of commercials, shreds some pow, slays ski ballet, and flirts with Catfish Hunter.
published: June 7, 2013
Watch Stept Productions’ Edit of Torin-Yater Wallace
Stept Productions followed pipe star Torin-Yater Wallace around Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain during the Winter X Games. Click on "Read More" to watch the 1:30 edit of mini-park footage and his X Games pipe run.
published: June 7, 2013
So They’re Skiing Powder In Chamonix…Still
Nate Wallace started sending me videos of him and his friends skiing powder in Chamonix in September. It's early June now, and they're still coming. From skiing's North Shore, it's the season that won't end.
published: June 6, 2013
Fresh tracks are enough of a reward for booting up a steep, narrow couloir. But flying? In this edit by Pryce Brown and ON3P Skis, this crew uses the beautiful, big lines of Alaska as launch pads to take to the sky.
published: June 3, 2013
Jumping Over Chairlifts at Mount Hood Skibowl
I grew up skiing at Mount Hood Skibowl. It has two chairlifts, one that accesses the Upper Bowl and one that access the mellower Lower Bowl. The top chair has a thick steel foundation with a wooden structure housing the wheels and gears and things that make it spin around in a circle. I've probably ridden that slow double thousands of times. Never once did the thought cross my mind that you could jump over the structure, or slide along the thick steel tubes hovering over the lift line. But that's what these guys did. I guess that's why I sit at a desk for a living, and these guys ski for money.
published: May 30, 2013
Video Edit: A Walk in the Park, Part II
The piledriver is an illegal move in professional wrestling. The move was made most famous when Jerry “The King” Lawler slammed Hollywood comedian Andy Kaufman into a Memphis mat, fictionally snapping Mr. Kaufman’s neck. In the move, the wrestler grabs his opponent, turns him upside-down, and drops into a sitting position, driving the opponent head-first into the mat, rendering the opponent stupidly dizzy (Source: Wikipedia!). A 1975 song, “Piledriver” by Dennis The Fox, set to a 2013 edit by Adam Delorme has similar effect. One needs only go to 2:56 in the video to see Delorme piledrive his skis sideways into the landing of a big jump in Mammoth’s UnBound Terrain Park to feel the abnormally smooth tail-butter landing to switch. We borrowed the term “switch” from boards sports. If skiing has any appreciation of innovation at all, we will now call the landing at 2:56 a Delorme. Or, due to the mind numbing affect it has, we can borrow from wrestling and call it a piledriver. Ed’s Note: For A Walk in the Park Part I, click here.
published: May 30, 2013
Great Moments in American Skiing
In honor of Memorial Day, enjoy these great American skiing triumphs.
published: May 27, 2013
Torin Yater-Wallace All Grows Up
This is 17-year-old Torin Yater-Wallace. The video is worth watching for the archive footage alone, and despite the overly-dramatic music (and all the Targets), this is a nice biography of POWDER's 2013 top Young Blood (from issue 41.6), the list of the best skiers 18 and under.
published: May 22, 2013
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