POWDER’s Ian Greenwood, the common contributor to this weekly column, continues to be off on trip.
Ella Boyd crammed in final week, however I will be taking the reins for the 14th version of Hold Your Clips Up, the one digital column dedicated to conserving you entertained with the very best snowboarding clips and movies from throughout the web.
Alex Ferreira Throws Down (For The Youngsters)
Did any aggressive freeskier have a greater season than Alex Ferreira final yr? No. The reply isn’t any.
Ferreira received all 5 World Cup halfpipe occasions, nabbed a Gold Medal at Winter X Video games 2024, and took first at Dew Tour to safe the ‘Good Season’.Ferreira took first place at seven of seven occasions he competed in final season, for anyone conserving rating at residence.
He is conserving the great vibes going this summer season by making a cameo at Woodward Copper’s summer season snow camp. Faucet beneath to play.
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Snowbasin Seems to be Again Earlier than Wanting Forward
The Worldwide Olympic Committee introduced that the Winter Olympics will return to Salt Lake Metropolis in 2034, and that Snowbasin Resort will as soon as once more host the lads’s and girls’s downhill occasions.
On July twenty sixth, 2024, the oldsters at Snowbasin cracked open the vault and printed a NBC Sports activities clip that proceeded the 2002 Winter Olympics. Bob Costas previews Snowbasin’s ‘Grizzly Downhill’ aided by a flurry of late-90s/early aughts sound results and graphics. The clip was a success of nostalgia I did not know I wanted. Faucet to play.
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What In Tarnation?
Avenue snowboarding is enjoyable, till you understand cities are flat. Most skiers flip to bungees, tow ropes, automobiles, or different sensible methods to construct up pace earlier than a function, however what a few horse?
Watch as Bailey Lahure does his finest horse-assisted trick in entrance of Toronto’s Scotiabank Area. Yee. Haw. (Faucet to play)
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Summer time Is Higher Under The Equator
The months of June-September are alright, however would not you slightly be snowboarding couloirs on near-record-setting snowpack in South America as a substitute?
One of many advantages of being an expert skier, like Adrià Millan Pla, is that you would be able to (hypothetically) ski all season lengthy. Watch beneath because the GoPro Line of the 12 months winner laces a fast-past descent on a steep and difficult line someplace within the Andes.
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Sam Kuch Lays Down A Descent to Bear in mind
Matchstick Productions launched a video about Sam Kuch a number of of seasons in the past titled, ‘Is This The Finest Skier In The World?’. As supposed, the video stirred controversy amongst core skiers who every felt that their opinion mattered greater than the following.
I am not saying Sam Kuch is the very best skier on the planet, however I can not confidently say that he is not the very best skier on the planet. Does that make sense? Faucet to look at the clip beneath. You may see what I imply.
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Nicely of us, that is my visitor contribution to Hold Your Clips up. I hope Ian is having fun with his break day, however I can not wait to have his voice again right here on POWDER subsequent week.
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