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Henrik Windstedt Wins Freeride World Tour Event At Squaw!

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:57:30 -0600

There's not a whole lot to say about Red Bull skier Henrik Windstedt's win at the Nissan Freeride World Tour event at Squaw Valley today except...HOLY $H!T. The video below pretty much speaks for itself, be we'll throw in these tidbits as well: The event was on the rocks (no pun intended) due to extreme avalanche danger and eventually moved off the intended Tram Face to Silverado at Squaw Valley. Nevertheless, Henrik threw down a significant run and head judge Eric Seymour had this to say about it:

"Henrik showed the most progressive run of the day, throwing a giant backflip off the start straight into a big 360. He skied very fast and smooth all the way to his final air a 45 footer, which he landed perfectly. He managed to mix both new school freestyle and big mountain skiing."

*Photo by D. Carlier

C.R. Johnson: 1983-2010

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:17:09 -0600

It's difficult to put into words what the world lost yesterday in the passing of C.R. Johnson, who at the age of 26 succumbed to injuries sustained in a fall at his home resort of Squaw Valley, CA. Beyond being a good friend to Redbullskiing.com and an amazing athlete, C.R. embodied what it meant to be a genuine person. I've never had the pleasure of knowing someone who was as friendly, approachable, humble, and positive as C.R. was. He was that rare kind of person who comes through your life and leaves you a better human being because of it.

Our thoughts go out to C.R.'s family, friends, and the ski community as whole. We miss you terribly, C.R. Thank you for the time you granted us and the things you taught us we will never forget.

Simon Dumon Wins Vermont Dew Superpipe!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:40:58 -0600

Simon Dumont capped off the 2010 Dew Tour with a win in Superpipe at Vermont's Mt. Snow resort on Saturday, wrapping up the Tour in second place overall.

Dumont's winning run included a right 900, a double flip, an alley-oop 720 and a switch 720 to finish almost three points clear of Tucker Perkins in second-place. The win put Simon just five points behind overall Tour winner Jossi Wells, making the chase for the year-end title a close one.

"It's been a long but fun season, and it was awesome to have everything fall into place to get first at the final stop of the season," said Dumont. "All of the freeskiers really came together to put on a good show today."

See video of Simon's winning run!

2010 Powder Video Awards "Best Male Perf.": Sean Pettit!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:18:17 -0600

2010 Powder Video Awards "Full Throttle": Sean Pettit!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:54:45 -0600

2010 Powder Video Awards "Best Line": Daron Rahlves!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:43:57 -0600

Simon Dumont Dropping Some Science...

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:29:50 -0600

Like a Lion: The Tanner Hall Documentary Trailer

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:20:43 -0600

LIKE A LION - TEASER from Inspired Media Concepts on Vimeo.

Kaya and Grete Grab WX14's First Medals!

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:57:55 -0600

Women's Slopestyle went down today under beautiful partly sunny skies at Butttermilk as Winter X Games 14 kicked off. Red Bull veteran Grete Eliassen, who is also a veteran of last year's slope podium, brought down three solid runs all of which included as nasty 900 on the big bottom jump and slide easily into the bronze medal spot just behind Keri Herman.

Way out in front of the field with three 90-plus point runs was Red Bull Ski Team newcomer Kaya Turski. Kaya brought the heat on her last run with a 270 disaster, 450-off the canon, switch 900, 540 and switch 720 off the big bottom booter to give her a score of 96.66 and an 11-point lead on the competition.

All in all, not a bad afternoon as the Red Bull Ski Team nabs two of the first three medals award at WX14.

Check out the full gallery action!

Red Bull Skiing Welcomes Kaya Turski to the Team!

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:41:02 -0600

Red Bull Skiing is excited and proud to welcome Kaya Turski to our ski team. With the paint on her helmet only one week fresh, Kaya is already killing the competition (see above).

The 21-year-old Canadian has only been on skis an astonishing 5-years, two of which were plagued with injury, but Kaya's penchant for rails and big air began earlier on the unforgiving battle-field of inline-skating. She stumbled upon skiing almost on accident, and boy are we glad she did.

Coincidentally, Kaya has a nice profile in the February issue of Powder Magazine on news stands now. Pick one up and check out page 96. In the article, Mike Douglas is quoted as saying, "Any comp she doesn't fall in, she'll win." Well said, Godfather.

Jon Olsson Releases Clip of New Double Flip

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:20:27 -0600

Jon is still on the fence on whether or not he will release this one to the masses at X Games Big Air on Friday (between 7-11pm EST on ESPN). From Jon:

The Tornado.

I actually thought of that name a year ago when I was first working on this trick in my head, at that point I thought I had it, so I set up a kicker in Trysil to try it out, but after a few days of visualization I realized that I wasn't ready, I couldn't feel it the way I needed to!

Then this summer as I started to give ski racing more and more of my focus I thought to myself that I guess my days with doing new tricks are over, that I would have to work on the ones I had. Then during the city Big Airs this fall I started to feel really good in the air and the thought of the trick came back into my head.

Powder Video Awards in One Week!!!

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:53:01 -0600

Once again this year, RedBullSkiing.com is a proud partner of the Powder Video Awards set to go down in Aspen on Saturday, January 30th. It's the monumental 10th anniversary for the only ski movie award show in the industry and it's sure to be poppin' off. If you won't be in Aspen like most of the world won't be, don't fret, you can get a front row seat to all the action with the live webcast. There's sure to be some good action from the Red Bull Skiing camp this year, especially with Sean Pettit's heavy-hitting segment in MSP's In Deep. Pettit had breakthrough performer last year, this year (yes, we're calling it now) Pettit will win Best Male Performance.

Make sure to tune in to powderawards.com, in the meantime check out some of the madness that went down last year.

Linecatcher 2010: Course Inspection with C.R. Johnson

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:46:50 -0600

C.R. Johnson gave us access to his helmet cam footage. Here's a nice little look into how a Linecatcher athlete picks through the course and figures out their line...

Super Gallery from Linecatchers is up!

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:31:55 -0600

Most of the skiers arrived to France in Marseille on the Mediterranean Sea. An inch of snow covered the palm trees outside the airport and our shuttle driver said it snows in Marseille once every 10 years. This was a good sign.

After an interesting drive to Vars in a front wheel drive van, we arrived with only one side of the tire chains functional. A meter of snow had turned the little French Alps town into a winter wonderland.

The Red Bull Linecatcher event couldn't have gone off more perfectly. One day to shred and fight off the jet lag, and two days of bluebird for the qualifications and the final event to go down. The eventual winner was Candide Thovex in his first comp since his injury. Red Bull's Sean Pettit took second and the "Sick Bird" award for a 360 off a 50-footer in an uncharted part of the course. C.R. Johnson also had a comeback of sorts in his first podium since his head injury in 2006.

Check out the Super Gallery for all the pics!

Red Bull Linecatcher 2010: Vars, France

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:45:09 -0600

Considering all the variables working against an event like Red Bull Linecatcher, it's really amazing how well it went off yesterday. The Vars valley in France was hit with a meter of cold powder the day the athletes arrived in town. After a successful qualifying event, two french skiers were pulled into the elite field including Red Bull's own Sean Pettit, Richard Permin, Sven Kueenle, and Bene Mayr.

France's own Candide Thovex topped the field to take the title, while Sean Pettit stood aside him in second and C.R. Johnson took third. Check out the video below: