Olympic Snowboarder Scotty James Joins X Games as Investor and Advisor X Games announced today Scotty James will step into the business side of the competition to bridge the X Games legacy for the future and will continue to compete in X Games Aspen Men’s Superpipe competition in 2024 and beyond. James will liaise with X Games on how to continue to strengthen the competition moving forward and serve as a […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 14, 2023 1 Comment
Eileen Gu Out With Knee Injury Eileen Gu, the young superstar skier who won a gold medal in Big Air and Halfpipe at the 2022 Olympics Games in Beijing, was forced to withdraw from X Games 2023 with a significant knee injury. The 19-year-old phenom suffered the injury during a practice run before the competition and will miss an extended period while going through rehab. Related: Eileen […] Industry News Matt Scribner | January 31, 2023 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Top 5 Snowboarders Who Defy the Laws of Physics [arve url="https://youtu.be/cxfayOquwbQ"] SnowBrains | December 22, 2022 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Alex Hall Goes to the Future | Lands Double Cork 2160 to Take X Games Gold [arve url="https://youtu.be/NRFYLH11LCA"] SnowBrains | January 27, 2022 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Trevor Kennison is First Adaptive Skier to Hit X Games Big Air Jump [arve url="https://youtu.be/59qwycxuMmc"] SnowBrains | January 25, 2022 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Professional Freeskier Bobby Brown Breaks Spine Training in Saas Fee, Switzerland Terrain Park View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bobby (@bobbybrown) Bobby Brown—professional freeskier, back-to-back X Games champion, and the first person ever to have landed a Switch Double Misty 1440—has had a rough past couple of weeks. The Colorado native was training in a terrain park at Saas Fee ski resort in Switzerland when he over-rotated a […] Crash SnowBrains | October 20, 2021 0 Comments
Skier Profile: The Legendary Sammy Carlson Sammy Carlson is a 32-year-old professional skier from Portland, Oregon with some of the best style the sport has ever witnessed. Growing up near Mt. Hood, Sammy began his skiing career at a young age with his family and local riders. Not only was Sammy the first skier to land a switch triple rodeo 1260, but he also landed the […] Brains Jesse | July 9, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Henrik Harlaut’s Signature “Griselda Flip” [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTv5ApLAoIs"] SnowBrains | July 7, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
How a Professional Skateboarder Got His Community Behind Building a New Skatepark in a Colorado Ski Town Salida, Colorado is a homely ski town of about 7,000 with a wide-open, western, rancher feel. It’s got big mountains right next to it and is home to ski area Monarch Mountain and nearby backcountry haven Monarch Pass. But little do most people know that it’s also a skate town. “I don’t think everybody knows that,” Derek Scott said over […] Martin Kuprianowicz | April 30, 2021 0 Comments
Shaun White on His Long Professional Career: “The Early Years Were Tough” [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpNDJ0knV2Y&t=80s"] Dominic Gawel | April 8, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
VIDEO: Turning the Port City of Duluth, MN Into A Snowmobile Thrill Ride w/ Red Bull Rider Levi LaVallee [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vzbji6cNyM"] SnowBrains | April 7, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
X Games Real Ski 2021 Videos Are Live The X Games Real Ski videos went off this year, as they always do. There are several firsts in this contest. The first woman to compete in a Real Ski event, Taylor Lundquist, absolutely slayed and set the bar high. This was also the first year without requiring that every shot had to be filmed in the streets, so there […] Industry News Dominic Gawel | February 24, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Jesper Tjäder’s First of its Kind Knuckle-Huck Trick Leaves Commentators Speechless [arve url="https://youtu.be/K-Ei_nAptYA?t=180"] SnowBrains | February 1, 2021 Likes Tweets 1 Comment
Olympic and X-Games Gold Medal Skier David Wise Also a Professional Hunter? [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaDqxd1rAsk"] Dominic Gawel | January 29, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Video: Being Colby Stevenson in the World of X-Games [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLf3x7xF4qY"] Dominic Gawel | January 19, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Aspen, CO Moves to Higher Red-Level Restrictions Aspen, CO – On Monday, January 11, the Pitkin County Board of Health voted to move the county into tighter COVID restrictions. The county’s positivity rate was a whopping 12.7%, according to local data on Monday. After a severe spike in incident rates, which were at 2,934 on Monday, the county has no choice but to tighten restrictions. The county […] Industry News Dominic Gawel | January 15, 2021 0 Comments
2021 X-Games Schedule Announced (January 29th – 31st) This year’s 2021 X-Games, hosted at Buttermilk Ski Area from January 29th-31st, has released its events schedule. The schedule is as follows: Friday, January 29th 2:00 – 3:00PM ET: Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle 4:00 – 4:45PM ET: Women’s Ski Big Air 8:00 – 8:30PM ET: Snowboard Knuckle Huck 9:00 – 10:00PM ET: Women’s Ski SuperPipe 10:30 – 12:30AM ET: Men’s Ski […] Industry News Liam Abbott | January 8, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: “DEVIATE” with Torin Yater-Wallce and Jossi Wells X-Games legends Jossi Wells and Torin Yater-Wallace produced their first backcountry film with Teton Gravity Research during the 2019-2020 ski season. After both athletes sustained severe injuries, they set eyes on the backcountry and came out with this jaw-dropping film. From backcountry booters in Montana to spines in New Zealand, this edit has it all. Featured Video Dominic Gawel | December 23, 2020 0 Comments
Top Five Cities in the World for Urban Skiing Number Five: Denver, Colorado Some of the most legendary ski segments have been filmed in Denver, Colorado. These include segments from Tanner Hall’s new short film “Eternal” and Ahmet Dadali’s opening segment in Level 1‘s 2010 flick “Eye Trip.” Ahmet closes with a famous S-rail transfer in Denver that helped him win IF3’s (International Freeski Film Fest) Best Male Performance. […] Industry News Dominic Gawel | December 22, 2020 0 Comments
X-Games Aspen 2021: Pending Permit Approval, Athletes Only, No Spectators ESPN submitted a special request permit to Pitkin County, CO to allow X Games Aspen to get the green light. The permit request details having a fenced-in area and no more than 500 people at the event. The 500 people will include athletes and event support. Buttermilk Mountain will only have skiing and snowboarding X-Games events and no motorsports. Related: […] Industry News Dominic Gawel | December 10, 2020 0 Comments