The 2010 Jon Olsson Super Sessions in Are, Sweden has begun. There are going to be many places for you to get daily updates about the event like Newschoolers and the JOSS website, we are going to try to periodically update with news about Team Canada. The 2010 Team Canada line up is: TJ Schiller Ian Cosco Justin Dorey Darren [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/67/28/6728.jpeg[/IMG]
After winning the overall title of the Freeride World Tour, Candide Thovex drops the highly anticipated sequel of last years short video Candide Kamera. If you ever thought Candide didn’t have it anymore, this definitely proves otherwise. Candide Kamera 2
Win a FREE all-inclusive summer session at Momentum Ski Camps with TJ (Session 4, July 10 – 18). Hard valued at over $2,500, actual value …. pricelist. TJ along with his filmer will pick up the winner at the Vancouver Airport and hook them up with some exclusive gear, as well as document part of [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/54/46/5446.jpeg[/IMG]
Well there was an unbelievable number of entries for the raffle to win TJ’s X-Games bib. I am happy to announce that the winner is…. 14 year old Zachary Matters from Maplewood, New Jersey! Congrats Zachary!! To those of you who entered and didn’t win, we will have more contests coming your way soon! [...]
Winter X-Games 14 may have been the craziest and most ground breaking X-Games so far. Every discipline showed an unbelievable increase in tech tricks and the level of competition itself, including Kevin Rolland’s perfect double 1260 in men’s halfpipe, Peter Olenick’s Guiness World Record height of 24′-11″ on a perfect flat 540, Bobby Brown’s [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/36/27/3627.jpeg[/IMG]
The Big Air event at X-Games saw athletes pulling tricks never seen before, and as one ESPN commentator put it after TJ stomped a massive double cork 1620, “what in the wide world of sports was that!?” .. It’s the first time a double cork 1620 has been executed in competition. Video of this jump: TJ landed [...]
Today was the first day of actual competition at X-Games 14. The day started off with men’s slopestyle qualifiers at 10am. All predictions came true and even the qualifiers were extremely competitive. Bobby Brown was the first athlete to drop and stomped an absolutely flawless run right away. Everyone in the contest was killing it, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/33/75/3375.jpeg[/IMG]
?WE HAD TO DO IT?, DRAGON SAYS THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO RUN A 2nd EDITION OF THE GAME SUCCESS OF LAST YEARS GAME WAS SO OVERWHELMING COMPANY DIRECTORS FELT COMPELLED TO HOST THE COMPETITION AGAIN Six winners from around the world compete to shred with snowboarding legend GIGI Ruf and free-skier TJ [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/32/80/3280.jpeg[/IMG]
Today at 1:30 MST TJ will be answering your questions on Twitter. Tweet your questions to @espnxgames for a live chat with TJ. The top five questions will win prizes!!
Today was the first day of training in the slopestyle course for both men and women, and the second training session in the halfpipe. Most of the pipe athletes are still trying to figure it out as there is a little more vert and less transition than a typical 22 foot pipe. Slopestyle training was [...]
Today marked the commencement of X-Games with athlete registration and Halfpipe training. The crew from Snow Park Technologies were finishing up the slopestyle course and allowed TJ, Sammy, and Simon to do a couple laps through to check out the features and suggest some changes to be made before training begins tomorrow. The course [...]
Dragon gave me the opportunity last spring to design my first Signature Rouge goggle. I based mine off the early 90’s era and my favorite prime-time TV show ” Fresh Prince of Bel-air”. Cant be more stoked on how it turned out. Hope ya’ll like it ![IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/30/93/3093.jpeg[/IMG]
Dew Tour day three can only be summed up as a banger! The day started off with women’s halfpipe, where all the girls were pushing it hard. Sarah Burke skied super well and landed in 1st place followed by Jen Hudak and Roz G. Right after the women’s halfpipe was complete, there was a short warm [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/29/45/2945.jpeg[/IMG]
Today was the last day of the Winter Dew Tour stop in Snow Basin, Utah. Today began at 8am with a short 1-hour practice before finals started. Everyone in finals was bringing their A game with very tech, stomped runs. Almost every athlete scoring in the 80’s or higher. TJ was looking really good in the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/29/55/2955.jpeg[/IMG]
For those of you who missed TJ’s crash in the first run of finals at the Dew Tour in Snow Basin this past weekend, here is the video:
Last May the Monster freeski team headed to Squaw Valley to shoot with Freeskier Magazine. Check it out!
Today marked was the second day of the Winter Dew Tour in Snow Basin, Utah. Although the weather didn’t turn out as well as it did on day 1, all the athletes managed to throw down. The day began with halfpipe practice and then qualifiers for both men and women. Qualifiers were a sight not [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/29/36/2936.jpeg[/IMG]
