Freeride World Tour: An Insider’s Perspective with Athlete Interviews [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/-m6LoUNYZhQ?ecver=2″] The Freeride World Tour (FWT) is the world’s biggest freeride event, open to both skiers and snowboarders alike. To earn a ticket to the big show, athletes first compete in qualifying competitions (FWQ), staged around the globe. The Tour spans some of the steepest faces in the world, under varying conditions, with no benefit of a practice […] Robin Azer | March 10, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: Winning Run from the Alaska Freeride World Tour Stop 21-year-old American George Rodney won the Alaska Freeride World Tour stop today in Haines, AK. He ski a great line, went big, and nearly took a nasty fall. He ends up on one leg after his first air and somehow pulls it back together just in time to send his next huge cliff and stomp it. George Rodney is a rookie on the tour. He won that last stop in Andorra as well as this one and is currently in first place on the tour going into the final event in Verbier Switzerland. He ski a great line, went big, and nearly took a nasty fall. He ends up on one leg after his first air and somehow pulls it back together just in time to send his […] SnowBrains | March 23, 2015 0 Comments
VIDEO: USA’s George Rodney WINS 3rd Freeride World Tour Stop George Rodney form the USA just won the 3rd stop of the Freeride World Tour in Andorra. This win plus being 4th in the last stop (also in Andorra) puts him in 1st place overall on the tour right now. Nice work, George. Scary stuff, though. Like Sam Smoothy’s run last week, there were some critical no-fall zones… “After seeing Sam’s run last week I was inspired to go into some no-fall zones.” – George Rodney […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 20, 2015 0 Comments