Free Friday: Waiting for Winter
Americans and the French do not mix well. Us stupid, hamburger-eating, English-speaking, pickup-truck charging freedom lovers usually don’t take kindly to lots of wine, back to back vowells we can’t...
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Know Your Roots: Neil Sotirakopoulos Part I
If you were shredding park on the East Coast in the years after the turn to the millennium, you logged onto SASFilms.com every Monday to watch single clips of the best tricks that guys like Ben...
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Know Your Roots: Neil Sotirakopoulos Interview Part II
If you were shredding park on the East Coast in the years after the turn to the millennium, you logged onto SASFilms.com every Monday to watch single clips of the best tricks that guys like Ben...
View ArticleFlashback Friday…Thursday: Travis Heed
Before there was B-Dog and El Dorito, before there was Jon Brogan, before the iPod, there was Travis Heed and his part in Neil Sotirakopolous’ Wicked. Tweet
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: Wicked Full Movie
We’re busy today with some real-world shit, but nothing does the trick like some East Coast nostalgia to keep you guys sold for 24 hours. If you had a chance to read Neil Sotirakopolous’ two-part...
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: I Hate NY in Mammoth
Before Van Bear Pig, before there was the Traveling Circus, there was I Hate New York. Enjoy Garrett Russell’s noseblocks in a one-piece on 189 Maiden AK’s, as well as slightly vintage appearances by...
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: Level 1 x 3
Stefan Thomas’ opening Segment from Long Story Short. Despite a weak song, the 7 blunt Stefan stomps over the rocks is a thing of pure beauty, along with a couple other goodies. This guy has always...
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: IDEA (2007)
IDEA was one of Eric Iberg’s biggest contributions to ski filmmaking and a major break from the ski porn of the time, which was just fading out of its obsession with ska and fast action at the time....
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: Burger Time
Burger Time was a self-made movie from 2001 by Jon Mercon. His movie, along with others like the UP1 edits that would make it into the Poor Boyz DVD bonus features, showed freeskiing in a much more...
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: The Guatemalan Persuader
The only two things I would add to what Iberg writes about this movie is Glen Plake shooting water out of his butt and someone else popping a squat on the deck of a jump at Breck. Hopefully this gets...
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: Jon Brogan
Jon Brogan made us break all are own rules, namely endorsing a wannabe-gangster suburban white boy who wears baggie pants and tall tees. Despite that handicap, Brogan has gotten a heavier endorsement...
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: 1999 US Freeskiing Open
The US Freeskiing Open was FREEZE Magazine’s home-grown event and freeskiing’s first (poorly) organized park contest. At the first event in 1998, JP Auclair won on a pair of straight skis (everyone...
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: The First X Games Big Air
The year was 1999. The Salomon 1080 – the first twin tip – had only been around about a year, with JP Auclair having flashed the very first pair on the podium of the ’98 US Freeskiing Open while...
View ArticleDave Crichton Strike III Segment
This OG Dave Crichton segment from 2002 has everything I loved about early 2000′s park skiing: 18-foot pipes, Parkasauras, sketchy parking lot quarter pipes, DL Incognito, and Crichton’s gorgeous tail...
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Know Your (Sort of) Roots: I Feel Ghood
I’m going to date myself by saying this, but I Feel Ghood was one of the first edits that I watched religiously after becoming a “freeskier”. It doesn’t feel like that long ago at all, but in my...
View ArticleKnow Your Roots: 2010 Interview With Jason Levinthal
Ten minutes of J Lev talking with Matt Barber during a spring park day at Stowe several seasons ago. J Lev talks about the era of “snowboard parks,” the epiphany he had about center-mounting his skis...
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When the Good Guy Dies
The internet will be full of eulogies for JP Auclair. Many will be written by people who knew the man well and many more will be written by people more like you and I who idolized him as one of the...
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