VIDEO: Full Movie – CLAIM: The Greatest Ski Movie EVER! Featuring Shane McConkey and Sean Pettit MSP brings its award-winning approach to the table with CLAIM, The Greatest Ski Movieā¦ EVER! Related: GNAR: The Legacy of Shane McConkey This time poking fun at themselves and the industry as a whole. Claim features several longtime MSP all-stars as well as newcomers including Sean Pettit. Featured Video SnowBrains | June 5, 2020 0 Comments
GNAR: The Legacy of Shane McConkey Shane McConkey will forever be remembered as one of the greats of freestyle skiing, but today his legacy lives on not only in his skiing but also in the game of GNAR, his brainchild with Robb Gaffney, the author of Squallywood, the unofficial guide detailing exactly how to shred all the best lines in Squaw Valley Ski Resort, CA. GNAR, […] Laughs Lucy Ferneyhough | May 2, 2020 2 Comments
Shane McConkey’s Wife & Daughter Lives Saved By Carbon Monoxide Detector Free skiing visionary Shane McConkey’s (1969-2009) wife and daughter, Sherry and Ayla, were saved last night by their carbon monoxide detection system in their home. Sherry, who posted on Instagram today about what had happened, said her carbon monoxide detector went off in her home late last night. She said that that the detector was old, and may have been […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 20, 2019 0 Comments
Shane McConkey: Free to Ski “Whether it was steep, extreme descent or new freestyle, what we were doing was freeskiing, free to ski our own style on our own terms” –Ā Shane McConkey There are so many words said about Shane. Ā There is practically no ski or outdoor magazine, which hasn’t written about Shane, but when it comes to the legend it seems like it’s never […] Featured Article Claire Weiss | August 28, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: Shane McConkey Squeezes Through Tight Line on Squaw Valley’s Illegal “Tram Face” “One of the wildest things about this legendary line (now called Sluiceway) is that Shane never scouted it. We’d hiked up it in the summer and he obviously had a general idea how it played out, but when I went to scout it the afternoon prior to shooting, he couldn’t join me. He skinned up in the darkness of early […] SnowBrains | August 14, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: Matthias Giraud Performs Naked Ski-BASE Jump Dedicated to Shane McConkey Just last week we shared a video of Matthias Giraud skiing off Mont Blanc, in what was the highest ski-BASE jump ever.Ā Related: VIDEO: Matthias Giraud Skis Off Mont Blanc, France for Highest Ski-BASE Jump Ever No stranger to extreme adrenaline feats, this video of Matthias is from earlier in the year. A naked ski-BASE jump dedicated to Shane McConkey… Steven Agar | July 1, 2019 0 Comments
Why Shane McConkey & Scott Gaffney Were Great Together | Scott Gaffney Interview: Scott and Shane were best friends. They pushed each other, they coached each other, and they made each other laugh. Ā Their relationship was one of the best things to ever happen to the ski industry. Ā What they were able to create is something that weāll never lose. Ā Shane and Scottās work will always be here for us […] SnowBrains | July 30, 2018 5 Comments
VIDEO: We Never get Tired of Watching Shane McConkey Play James Bond in MSP’s ‘Seven Sunny Days’ You don’t need a reason to rewatch this clip over and over again. We just like to, because, well Shane McConkey. In one of the most iconic and outrageous spoof scenes ever reenacted for a ski movie, this clip of the late Shane McConkey as James Bond from Matchstick Productionsā 2007 feature-length film, Seven Sunny Days, never gets old. Explosions […] Featured Video Steven Agar | April 23, 2018 0 Comments