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Catching up with Ahmet Dadali | What Happened To His Ski Career, The State Of Skiing And Where He's At Now

by MattMasson

Apr 23rd 2025 - 50 comments

It’s fair to say that Ahmet Dadali is a controversial figure in freeskiing. He had it all (in freeskiing): crowd favourite at Superunknown, classic segments for Level 1 and big European sponsors. His strong views around a certain virus forced him to change everything, but I’ll let him talk about that…

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Natural Selection In The Words Of The Winners | Trophy Interviews

by MattMasson

Apr 19th 2025 - 1 comments

One of the most anticipated contests in freeskiing went down in Alaska and NS got a word with the winners. Here's what Craig Murray and Manon Loschi had to say about winning the inaugural Natural Selection Ski.

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Catching Up With Luca Harrington: Taking X Games gold as an alternate and dominating the comp circuit.

by MattMasson

Feb 24th 2025 - 2 comments

After his absolute destruction on the comp scene this season, we thought it was high time to catch up with Luca.

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Catching Up With Kuura Koivisto | On Judging, Being A Fanboy & 'Fake Steeze'

by MattMasson

Feb 4th 2025 - 7 comments

Kuura Koivisto is one of the latest insanely talented skiers to come out of Finland. He's known for his style, he's on team Armada, oh and he was the first skier to land a 2160, but he has some pretty strong views about skiing. including an incident on NS...

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Catching Up With Markus Eder | Alaska, Natural Selection, the golden age of freeskiing, and who really is the GOAT.

by MattMasson

Jan 21st 2025 - 3 comments

Markus Eder is a busy man. Whether it's filming in Alaska, discussing Natural Selection Skiing or actually just skiing, Markus is always on the go. Luckily he took a few minutes to chat to NS about all that and more, from the "Golden Generation" to how freeskiing is still progressing. He even says who he think's is the GOAT [it's not hard to guess who he picked]

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Catching up with Finn Bilous | Park vs FWT, Filming and the adaptability of Kiwi skiers

by MattMasson

Apr 25th 2024 - 6 comments

Finn Bilous has taken to the backcountry like a duck to water! He lets us know why Kiwis are so adaptable, the differences between big mountain and park skiing plus the direction he wants to see competition skiing go...

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Catching Up With Jesper Tjäder | How to 'fix' knucklehuck, his street project and why he'll never change.

by MattMasson

Apr 18th 2024 - 8 comments

Last Saturday, I sat down with Jesper Tjäder at Swatch Nines. We talk about his unique style and crazy projects down the line.

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Swatch Nines 2024: The story behind all those shoeys and World Records

by MattMasson

Apr 15th 2024 - 2 comments

The 2024 Swatch Nines went down last week, in Schilthorn, Pix Gloria. Records fell and creativity abounded, here's the story of the week and of the Nines.

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Catching Up With Karl Fostvedt | A new pro ski, heading back to the streets & Red Bull Infinite Lines

by MattMasson

Apr 3rd 2024 - 2 comments

You've seen Karl Fostvedt! Whether he's winning Kings and Queens of Corbets or featuring in movies for 4Bi9, Poor Boyz, TGR or his in any of his Brap Ski Movies. We were recently at Red Bull Infinite Lines and while we waited for the weather window, that never came, we had plenty of time to chat.

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Catching Up With Dennis Ranalter | Growing up, inclusivity in skiing and his plans for the season

by MattMasson

Jan 17th 2024 - 8 comments

Descendance is pretty thought-provoking, as ski movies go and not in an arty/The Bunch kind of way. If you haven’t seen it it’s about North Face Austrian/Ghanaian skier Dennis Renalter, exploring his heritage (descendance). We spoke to him when he got home in Salzburg, where he moved to six-months-ago from his childhood home of Stubai. Obviously we touch on his differences and challenges, but he was more than happy to talk about skiing too!

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Alex Hall, Hunter Hess and Owen Dahlberg talk us through making Magma 3

by MattMasson

Nov 30th 2023 - 1 comments

Hunter Hess, Alex Hall and Owen Dahlberg are back with the third Magma. Three years after the first one dropped, the band’s back together for (potentially) one last show. The movie just dropped, so we caught up to chat about it!

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Catching Up With Nick Goepper: A Very Short Retirement & Social Media Clout

by MattMasson

Nov 20th 2023 - 13 comments

Nick Goepper had a pretty successful career as a slopestyle skier. Six X Games medals, three Olympic ones and a couple of World Championship bronzes. He announced his retirement at the start of 2023. If you’d been keeping up to date with his stories, maybe you won’t be too shocked by this announcement. Here’s a clue, I spoke to him at a halfpipe camp in Kaprun…

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The Kelly Sildaru Interview: Recovery & New Beginnings

by MattMasson

Nov 15th 2023 - 5 comments

Kelly Sildaru is 21. To me, she seems to have been around forever. Since she burst on the scene with a Slopestyle Gold at Dew Tour 2015 and bagged one at X Games the following year, she’s never been too far from podiums.

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Daycare | Will Wesson & PRing discuss their new movie

by MattMasson

Oct 30th 2023 - 3 comments

Will Wesson and Patrick Ring's latest video, Daycare, is a lot of fun to watch. Was it so fun to make?

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A tribute to Tof Henry

by MattMasson

Oct 18th 2023 - 4 comments

All too often in free skiing, we have to say goodbye to friends and legends. Last week Tof Henry and, Chilean mountain guide, Juan Seronet were killed in an accident on the Puntiagudo volcano in Chile. Tof was a friend and I wanted to share a little tribute, because always told me how much he loved NS.

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Colby Stevenson Interview: Filming an award winning segment while competing and pushing through injuries

by MattMasson

Oct 17th 2023 - 3 comments

Colby Stevenson won Male Skier of the Year at High Five 2023. He filmed a mind-blowing segment while also doing a full comp schedule. He explains the challenges, and opportunities, and discusses his future in skiing.

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Brushino - Behind the scenes with Henrik Harlaut

by MattMasson

Oct 10th 2023 - 2 comments

Henrik Harlaut and Noah Albaladejo's latest movie just dropped on Benny the Butcher's YouTube channel. Dollo took a minute to tell us why his latest edit is on a rapper's channel. He also explained why Brushino is a movie that HE wanted to make.

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Kimbo Sessions 2022: “The last two years sucked, but it was worth the wait.”

by MattMasson

Apr 29th 2022 - 15 comments

After a two-year break, Kimbo Sessions is back for 2022! Kim Boberg tells us all about every freeskiers favourite end of season session!

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Shane McFalls: Adventures on Otis Lane. A thank you to the ski community

by MattMasson

Apr 17th 2022 - 21 comments

The man behind Travelling Circus, has been away from skiing for a few years. He got back behind the camera to film Andy and Will as a thank you to you guys, for helping his family through a tough spot.

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The 8th edition of the JP Memorial, at Woodward Park City

by MattMasson

Mar 22nd 2022 - 1 comments

Remember one of the biggest icons in freeskiing, JP Auclair, at Woodward Park City on April 2nd.

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