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Snowbasin, UT – It was a great night for the Canadian Halfpipe Ski Team as all of our athletes in attendance qualified for tomorrows finals! Justin Dorey led the charge qualifying in 2nd position, with Mike Riddle close on his heels in 3rd. Roz G qualified 4th in women, and Matt Margetts also made it [...]
Snowbasin, UT – Despite a successful day in qualifiers, things didn’t pan out as hoped for the team at the Dew Tour finals. The day began on a rough note, when Roz G fell on the second hit of her first run, breaking her collarbone. Despite the injury, Roz is in great spirits and will [...]
Park City, UT – Occurring just once every two years, the FIS World Freestyle Ski Championships is a chance for competitors from around the world to represent their respective countries in the Freestyle skiing disciplines of moguls, aerials, halfpipe, and skicross. Today was the qualifying round for the halfpipe event, in which we had 7 Canadians [...]
Park City UT – It’s official, Canadian Halfpipe Team skiers have won both the women’s and men’s Ski Halfpipe World Championships! A serious storm blew in this morning, with gale force winds that temporarily threatened to shut down the event. Despite the typhoon-like conditions, our athletes stepped up to the wintery conditions like proud citizens [...]
Aspen CO. – It was a bit of tough night for the team last night in the men’s superpipe final. Coming off of the previous evening’s Gold and Bronze medal performances by the girls, we were all hoping for a similar result from Justin Dorey, as the way he was skiing in training left [...]
Aspen, CO – It can sometimes be hard to tell if the town of Aspen is more well known for it’s ski terrain, its lavish opulence, or perhaps for being the set of the greatest movie ever made (Dumb and Dumber, duh). Regardless, when the Winter X Games rolls into town every January, Aspen [...]
Killington Vt. – Today was the qualifying round for the second stop of the Dew Tour. The team members in attendance for this event are Matt Margetts, Mike Riddle, and Justin Dorey. Justin, by virtue of his second place ranking on the Dew Cup standing, did not have to ski in the qualifying round, as [...]
Breckenridge CO. – For the second time in as many weeks, an International halfpipe competition was hammered by heavy snowfall. Showing the world that athletes from the Great White North are more than up to performing in wintery conditions, Canadian skiers once again stood on the podium at the Breckenridge Winter Dew Tour! To set [...]
Copper Mt, CO In an complete turnaround from the perfect weather and bluebird skies that blessed the qualifying heats two days earlier, Fridays US Halfpipe Grand Prix Final was hit by clouds, wind, and steady snowfall. Despite these challenging conditions, the event was a great success, particularly for Canadian Team members Roz G, Justin Dorey, and [...]
Copper Mt, Colorado, Dec 8 The competition season began in earnest yesterday as the team rolled up to the perfectly groomed halfpipe in Copper Mt, for the US Halfpipe Grand Prix event. As one of the premiere and long standing events on the global snowboarding halfpipe circuit, yesterday marked a new era for the [...]
Last month, there was a monumental decision that will change the landscape of halfpipe skiing as we know it. In a long awaited move, the FIS Congress voted unanimously to present Halfpipe Skiing to the International Olympic Committee, for inclusion in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The next step of the process will [...]
Saturday, April 17th was a great day for the team as they chalked up 2 victories halfway around the world from each other. In Are, Sweden, our own Justin Dorey was teamed up with legendary shredders TJ Schiller and Ian Cosco, along with filmers Darren Rayner and Michael Clarke, at the annual JOSS (Jon Olsson Super [...]
Tignes FRA – The final skiing event of the 2010 European Winter X Games, was the womens’ ski halfpipe final. Large crowds and a perfect pipe made for some exciting and progressive runs, as the field of 8 finalists threw down hard in front of the judges and fans. Our team was represented by Sarah Burke, [...]
Tignes, FRA – If one thing is certain, it’s that 17.500 fans can make a lot of noise! One of the largest, and most definitely the rowdiest, crowds to ever witness a ski halfpipe competition, crammed themselves into the base of Tignes Val Claret last night, and pretty much blew the roof off of this [...]
Tignes, FRA – How quickly the weather can change in the European Alps! In what was a far cry from the pristine conditions of yesterday, competitors braved freezing temps, blowing snow, and the odd tornado blowing up the middle of the pipe, in the mens halfpipe qualifying round at the European Winter XGames. Our team was [...]
Tignes, France – The first ever European Winter XGames is underway, here in beautiful Tignes France. Our friends at Freeskier.com put together a little preview of the event with some video and photos from the first day of pipe training. Stay tuned for more reports as the event unfolds. Trennon Paynter, Coach, Canadian Halfpipe Ski Team
Laax, SUI – Unfortunately there is not a lot to report with regards to the European Open Slopestyle and Halfpipe finals. Serious storms on the mountain did not let up for the two event finals days, ultimately forcing the organizers to cancel both events. Such is the way of sports that take place in the mountains, [...]
Laax, SUI – Day 2 of the European Freeskiing Open was executed under variable weather conditions on the mountain today. While most of the team is pre-qualified into the semi-finals, Dania Assaly and Justin Dorey went through the open qualifying rounds today. Dania, fresh off a big night of birthday celebrations (Happy Birthday Dania!), skied consistently [...]
Laax, SUI – Set amidst the snow covered Swiss Alps, the resort of Laax is one of the focal points of European halfpipe and slopestyle riding. The 22 foot superpipe and extensive terrain parks make it a fitting venue for the European Freeskiing Open. The event kicked into gear today with the Slopestyle open qualifying round. [...]
Mt Snow VT. – The 2009-2010 Winter Dew Tour has come to a close, the final halfpipe event wrapping up Saturday afternoon in front of an enormous crowd. All 3 of our attending athletes were in the finals, after dominating the qualifying round on Wednesday. The sun was out, and the fans were rowdy, setting the [...]
Aspen CO – It was one year ago, in the Winter X-Games women’s slopestyle final, when Sarah Burke went for the biggest trick of the competition on the final jump in the slopestyle course, came up short on distance, and broke her back. Yesterday, in her first slopestyle competition since that day, Sarah returned to the [...]
Aspen CO. – Record Friday night crowds of 20,500 people flooded to the base of Buttermilk mountain tonight to behold the spectacle that is the Winter X Games. The crowds were treated to an epic display of womens’ freeskiing, in the Superpipe final. Our athletes Sarah Burke and Rosalind Groenewoud both entered tonights’ event with their [...]
Aspen CO. – The stage was set for an epic Winter X superpipe qualifier event. The energy at the venue was electric, as 34,500 people swarmed at the base of Buttermilk mountain, breaking the record for single day Winter X Games attendance. The performance at the bottom of the halfpipe by rap legend 50 Cent, [...]
Aspen CO. – Sunday evening saw Winter XGames 14 come to a close. This years event broke all previous attendance records, with the 4 day crowds totalling 84,100 people! Closing up the games this year was the skier superpipe, and skier high air events. Unfortunately our athletes did not qualify into the mens superpipe final, and [...]
Mt Snow, Vermont - Rising from the ashes of last weeks’ disappointment, a stronger and more focused mens team took the stage tonight during the qualifying round at the Dew Tour Halfpipe Final, determined to get back on top of the game. Showing the world that nothing can keep these guys down, Justin Dorey, Matt Margetts, [...]
