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Double flips are dominating the city-jump season, so it's no big surprise to see innovator Jon Olsson up on the podium at the Stockholm King of Style event. Jon took second place and proceeded to reenact the gasoline fight scene from Zoolander with Red Bull teammate Simon Dumont. Check out the Jon Olsson Videoblog!



Untitled from Jon Olsson on Vimeo.

Friday morning in London was much better than the previous evening. Pissing rain was replaced by pleasant fall sunshine--not altogether very common in the UK I gather--and the London Freeze was set for some competition. As we mentioned before, Tanner Hall and Jon Olsson decided to stay off the jump, but Simon Dumont planned to be in full effect, and that he was.

Getting up on the jump early, it was obvious Simon brought his A game overseas. Poling into the frightening inrun, Dumont was solidly dropping some corked out 9s way down the landing. Tanner and Jon watched from the judging platform and cheered Simon the rest of the field on. One of Tanner's favorite new riders is XXXL super tall T Henrick Harlaut, who was throwing down some nasty spins in practice.

Ok, so there's good news and bad news. The good news first: Simon Dumont made the trip over to Jolly Ol' and has been practicing to compete in today's big air event at the London Freeze. The bad news: Tanner Hall and Jon Olsson are here, but not competing in the event. The will act as judges for the field. Tanner made the decision about a week ago to leave his skis back in the states, "I haven't been on snow in a month and a half. I was skiing really well in New Zealand, but to be gone that long and then throw down your sickest move on a rickety scaffolding jump...it just isn't worth it when I think what I want to do the entire rest of the season," he said.

Didn't you know London has sick terrain and epic early season snow? Well it does if you consider a giant big air jump made of scaffolding and snow from shaved ice blocks to be sick terrain with epic snow. Nonetheless, a big air comp on the River Thames will surely be a sight to behold, and you all will have a front row seat as RedBullSkiing.Com will be there to cover the event. Red Bull Team riders Tanner Hall and Jon Olsson are both confirmed at the LG London Freeze, with finals going down Friday.

Lots of stuff always going on over at the Team page at RedBullSkiing.com. This is the place where little things about your favorite Red Bull skiers live. Just today we got some news from the world of Simon Dumont and Tanner Hall: A raging party at Freeskier HQ and some water ramp and tramp footy you have to see to believe.

 Go check it out!

Up next we have Poor Boyz Productions latest joint, "Reasons." The heavy hitting crew featured in "Reasons" is made up partially by  some of Red Bull Skiing's heavy hitters: Tanner Hall, Simon Dumont, and Jon Olsson. Johnny Decesare, and the rest of PBP's talented film and production crew, is no stranger to putting out critically acclaimed flicks, so make sure to keep an eye out for this one come fall.

We're in the thick of it. Summer. While you're chillin' at the river or shredding trail on your mountain bike, the movie makers, who's jobs you're violently jealous of, are tucked away in their dark, dank dens of edit. Many won't see sunlight until the September premieres, and will only emerge at night to seek out "my precious," aka cans of Red Bull.

First up, we have Matchstick Productions "Claim." They say it's the greatest ski movie ever. We don't know, we haven't seen it, but when a movie features Red Bull skiers Simon Dumont, Jon Olsson, Sean Pettit, and Shane McConkey, well, let's just say it's a damn good start.