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Last winter the Nike 6.0 crew rolled through the Austrian Alps in a pimped out luxury motorcoach. It's one thing to do skiing in Europe, it's a whole other thing to do it Nike 6.0 style. Red Bull Skiing's Simon Dumont did the Tour de Arlberg with fellow 6.0 athletes Sammy Carlson and Jossi Wells. Video by Riley Poor and courtesy of Riley and Nike 6.0

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.

Simon Dumont has been hitting events like the London Freeze this fall, but he also has invested his time in some friendly games of PIG with his fellow Coloradans. Jon Symms summerized all the heart-pounding action in his EXPN.com blog. Check it out.

*Photo of Simon killing the already epic Keystone Park just days ago, courtesy of Chip Kalback.

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.

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!

A couple days ago we posted up part one of Simon's trip to NZ this summer. Well, now we bring part two. The Dumont again checks in and gives us a nice glimpse into some laid back summer shredding in the Southern hemisphere. We all know Simon is a halfpipe machine, but it's awesome to be reminded that he is, and always has been, a regular dude who just loves to get up on the snow have fun on his skis. Check out part two!

*Video courtesy of our friend Riley Poor at Empire Productions.

Simon Dumont checks in with the story of his time down in New Zealand a few weeks ago. This video is good look into the beginning of the road to the X Games. Simon's friend, and superpipe rival Tanner Hall, shows up throwing down some doubles in the pipe and Simon throws down as well. Crashes all around show that these guys are mortal, but nonetheless they still cart around a pair bigger than the average skier. Enjoy the video.

*Video courtesey of our friend Riley Poor at Empire Productiions.

I was in the fortified top-secret Oakley headquarters last week when the new October issue of Freeskier came in. It's a wrap-around cover, so you have to hold the front of it and let it drop to see the rest of the pic on the back cover. Before we discovered this, everyone was like "What the...why would they use this photo...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Anyway, it's a sick Christian Pondella shot of Dumont nailing the quarterpipe world record last spring. Inside on page 53, Simon breaks down what it takes to break a world record. I like step 10: "One more time, remember: If you're going to attempt to break a record, make sure you want it. There are usually a lot of consequences...unless it's eating powdered donuts or something." True words, Simon.

Go get your copy on newsstands now.

The Massive has been on a whirlwind tour of showings, with Tanner Hall attending every one and RedBullSkiing.com getting you all the shots you want to see. Thursday night The Massive was in full effect at Red Bull's North American Headquarters in Santa Monica, CA. Red Bull HQ is already one of the coolest facilities you'll ever see, but in typical Red Bull fashion it was all Massived out to welcome the guest who were mostly ski industry peeps. Most of the Powder Magazine staff made the trecherous journey up the 405 in a stretch Hummer, Johnny D from Poor Boyz was out, Greg Strokes and Tess Weaver from Oakley, Simon Dumont, Daron Rahlves, Tyson Hall and Jeff Russel from Armada...the list goes on and on. Everyone got down to some reggae sound from the DJ and enjoyed some BBQ and Red Bull and Red Bull Cola.

Check in here for all the photos from the night!