Host Mark Warner is joined by Mountain Guide, Steph Skrobar to discuss the tour's snow safety initiaives that the athletes practice at the beginning of season. We also bring you up to date with the current news with Challenger Series. - https://www.freerideworldtour.com/ Visit FWT - https://www.freerideworldtour.com/
JF Houle is a legend of Freestlye Skiing. From the streets of Quebec to the podiums at XGames, JF was a leader in Urban and park skiing. We talk about his skiing career and his current transition into full-time filming and the new doors that are opening up for him with it. We also discuss the current state of freestlye competition and its accessibility as well as his injuries over the years and his new, arm's length experience with the Freeride World Tour and much more. Watch on YouTube: https:/...
Abe Kislevitz has been working with GoPro from the first edition of the Hero and has been an instrumental piece in the growth of the company. He we will downplay the praise but as GoPro's, "Creative Fellow", with the content he has curated to market the personal cameras, he has had a huge influence on how the world views action sports, which in turn has pushed the awareness and progression of those sports. Abe talks about how his path has been directed by his love of skiing. Creating a carpool a...
This the Full RECAP of the third stop of the FWT23 Season at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in Golden, Canada with Mark and co-host Derek Foose. 13:20 - Snowboard Men 19:33 - Ski Men 22:39 - Max Hitzig 43:03 - Ski Women 52:00 - Snowboard Women Join our FunBet FWT Fantasy League - https://peakperformance.pronosticgames.fr/ RedMark Media - https://linktr.ee/LowPressurePodcast...
Carl Regnér is a Freeride World Tour Athlete who has been competing for 5 years. It would have been 6 if he hadn't broken his hands while skiing just days before his very first event! Carl has a slightly different, and refreshing perspective on the risk and hazards that come with competing in an extreme sport. He isn't a big fan of high levels of risk and although he is capable of doing things on skis that most of us can only dream about, he's most comfortable when that risk is measured. In this...
Molly Armanino has been making her name known across the freeride competition scene over the last couple seasons. After scoring two podium runs in her first two FWT events this year and new contract with Scott Freeski to back up her uniquely agressive skiing, Molly is impressing her stamp on the freeski community and its fun to watch. We met up in Spain before the FWT event in Baquiera to talk about competition nerves and learning to trust intuition, losing most of her big toe to frostbite, uniq...
This the Full RECAP of the second stop of the FWT23 Season at Ordino Arcalis, Andorra with Mark and co-host Derek Foose. 4:05 - Snowboard Women 7:00 - Katie Anderson 12:45 - Snowboard Men 22:25 - Ski Women 36:30 - Ski Men 56:23 - Valentin Rainer Join our FunBet FWT Fantasy League - https://peakperformance.pronosticgames.fr/
Birk Irving is a Redbull athlete currently competing on the World Cup Half Pipe circuit. We connected in Calgary, hours before an event, which was preceded by a few days of skiing in the interior of BC. He's earned Silver medals in his last two events including the X-Games and we talk about the dynamics of competition and the intricacies in the various halfpipes on tour. He also shares a couple funny stories about being mistaken as Mexican athlete as and golfing for tattoos. Enjoy! Watch on YouT...
This the Full RECAP of the first stop of the FWT23 Season at Baqueira Beret with Mark and co-host Derek Foose. We had an emotional storybook ending to Aymar Navarro's FWT career, an unexpected event on the face and amazing action from the entire roster of riders. 0:00 - Baqueira's Warm Welcome 3:09 - The Aymar Affect 10:43 - Forerunner / Avalanche on the Face 13:53 - Snowboard Women 21:10 - Snowboard 26:16 - Holden Samuels Interview 31:30 - Ski Women 40:16 - Addison Rafford Interview 47:10 - Ski...
This episode is in memory of Kyle Smaine. We went skiing then had some beers and a great talk. I'm grateful that this exists. Originally released in 2020
Justine Dufour-Lapointe is a Canadian Gold and Silver Olympic medalist in Moguls. After attending 3 separate games, she's ready for a new challenge and is joining the Freeride World Tour. She talks about embracing freeride culture and how refreshing and exciting it is to be exposed to a completely new style of skiing. Justine also explains how welcoming and supportive the freeride community has been as she becomes fully immersed in her new reality. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zh6gkl276p4 ...
Host Mark Warner is joined by the head of the FWT's sustainability program, Alicia Cenci as well as Vibram athlete, Michael Mawn, to discuss the tour's sustainability initiaives for the 2023 season and onward. We're also joined by Derek Foose to get you set up with the Peak Performance Fun Bet. 0:30 - Injury Updates and New Wildcards 4:54 - Welcome Alicia Cenci 19:38 - Welcome Michael Mawn 28:28 - Welcome Derek Foose / Peak Performance Fun Bet Visit FWT - https://www.freerideworldtour.com/...
Chris Rubens, for the first time in his career, has switched sponsors. He tells us that after 19 years with Salomon, the switch to Atomic Skis and Picture Organic was a breath of fresh air. Like most things do, the relationship ran it's course and Chris is very excited to now put more energy into helping develop and refine the products of his new partners. Chris has also recently become a farmer. He explains the process of finding and buying the land for "First Light Farms" in his home of Revels...
Here's all the the info you need to know about all the new riders for the 2023 Season right here. We're covering the Rookies and Wildcards as well as notable returnees to the tour. Get yourself informed ahead of the first event in Baqueira Beret, Spain! Visit FWT - https://www.freerideworldtour.com
Evelina Nilsson's passion for skiing is woven together with her lifelong journey through spirituality. She and her siblings were inspired by their father's enthusiasm for skiing, in their home town of Luleå tucked right under the Arctic Circle, where she started ski racing at the early age of 6. At the age of 12, Evelina's life would take a serious detour as she developed a "severe" eating disorder. She explains how through hospitalization, support from her family and leaning into her spirituali...
CMH President and COO, Rob Rohn, is the third guest of a three part conversation series with the some of the important people who are in charge of giving you a next level experience when visiting a CMH Lodge for a Heli Skiing trip. In this case, the Bobbie Burns Lodge. Rob Rohn started his career with CMH as a guide in the winter of '84/'85. He became the area manager of the Bobbie Burns in '91 for about 10 years before moving into the "office" on the operations side of the business. CMH has an ...
Area Manager and Guide, Matt Dellow, is the second guest of a three part conversation series with the some of the important people who are in charge of giving you a next level experience when visiting a CMH Lodge for a Heli Skiing Trip. In this case, the Bobbie Burns Lodge. We speak about the culture of having the staff and guests integrated in lodge to create a casual and welcoming atmosphere. His lodge, The Bobbie Burns, has recently completed a multi-million dollar renovation. He tells us abo...
Lead Guide, Lindsay Andersen, is the first guest of a three part conversation series with the some of the important people who are in charge of giving you a next level experience when visiting a CMH Lodge for a Heli Skiing Trip. In this case, the Bobbie Burns Lodge. Even as a teenager Lindsay knew she wanted to be a guide, often skipping school to go skiing. She started her career ski patrolling at Lake Louise around the same time she was entering local freeride comps. She was even featured in t...
Sam Cohen and I met up in Golden BC as he was about to join his Scott teammates for a couple weeks of skiing and stacking content. We talked about his upbringing in Alta, and how being the son of legendary ski photographer Lee Cohen had a big affect on the routes he took in his own skiing career. We talk about planning big adventurous ski missions and the toll they take on the body and mind, specifically his recent film project, Finding Fury. Sam also talks about adapting to life after the loss ...
The FWT Podcast Returns! We are covering the big news: The FWT has been aquired by FIS. FWT Founder and CEO, Nicolas Hale Woods, joins the show to tell us how it happened and what that means for the tour moving forward. We review the highlights and important moments of the 2022 season, we clarify the new titles and structure of the FWT Pyramid and hype up the new season! Enjoy! Freeride World Tour - https://www.freerideworldtour.com/ Presented by: Peak Performance - https://www.peakperformance.c...
We had such a good time with Sammy Carlson and Yu Sasaki, we kept it going. This is an extention of PART 1. In this one we tell some good stories about getting into car accidents on the same day, keeping wild animals as house pets and going to crazy Japanese festivals. Sammy shares why he skis on King Pins and tells us about the huge amount of footage that we haven't seen yet. That then leads into a conversation on the current changes taking place in ski culture and content. Watch on YouTube: ht...
Sammy Carlson and Yu Sasaki have been skiing and filming together in their adopted home town of Revelstoke for the last couple years. We all met up at Sammy's log cabin in the woods to record a mega episode. This is part 1. Yu tells us about originally moving to Whistler when he graduated highschool and working in a sushi restaurant because that was one of the only jobs for a non- english speaking Japanese skier to find. He decided that Canada was where he wanted to stay and got married, had kid...
The Sister Summit is a gathering of all female mountain guides, filmers, photographers, editors, skiers and snowboarders to foster female empowerment in the snow sports industry. Co-founded by our guests Hedvig Wessel and Fanny Avril, alongside Leanne Pelosi and Lexi Dupont, the inaugural event is the start of something which has been needed for a long time. Inspired by, "Formation", an event within the mountain bike industry, the Sister Summit is a place for women in the snow sports to collabor...
Alex "Army" Armstrong returns to the LPP! Very few people in this industry work harder than Army and she is now seeing the fruits of her labour. She tells us about her iF3 nominated, 3 part, web series, "Skier Rich". She produced it for only $3000 and shares how that lead to her shooting for this year's Blank Collective Film "Feel Real". Alex also had the opportunity to develop a brand new ski for RMU and is able to tie that into her allyship for indiginous rights. We round out the episode talki...
Grete Eliassen Returns! The last time we spoke Covid had just reared its ugly head and we connected over Zoom. Grete is in the LPP studios this time and tells me that our conversation was big confidence boost in her return to the ski industry. A lot has changed for her since then including a big move, with her family, to BC. Her favourite place to ski. WATCH on YouTube: https://youtu.be/I2ad4MfaZUE Everything LPP: https://linktr.ee/LowPressurePodcast Our Awesome Partners: CMH Heli Skiing and Sum...
Tom Peiffer spent three years competing on the Freeride World Tour. Now, the Whistler resident is shifting his skiing to more of adventure based approach. He talks about his transition away from competition and his current attempts to juggle a ski career, a real job and finding time to work towards a university degree. We also learn about his first big mountaineering mission to climb and ski a peak in Nepal. Unfortunately, that turned out to be a failed attempt but none the less it was a learnin...
With their film, A Part of US, Jacob and Sofia Wester seem to have made the first, true-love story told within a ski film. The two, long term partners wanted to create a more relatable film that showcases real vulnerability and the true emotion that we all experience in the mountains. The two talk about how their long relationship has evolved to them working together on these projects and the importance of communication and understating. WATCH on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yBRBmGaa2bM Everything ...
Shannon Corsi is the Executive Producer and Director of this season's most talked about ski film, Nexus. Nexus is a narritive driven project featuring four specific stories of women in the ski industry. The overwhelming majority of cinematographers, photographers and editors working on Nexus were female. Who better to tell women's stories than female creatives? Shannon tells us how she, as a relative outsider to the ski industry, managed to raise a tonne of money, curate a handful of intriguing ...
Amy Jane David visits the LPP Studios! Aside from being an excellent skier, she's also a very well-rounded human being who has a long range vision for her life and career. The native of Wyoming, who now makes her home in Idaho, tells us about her achivements in snow science, as a teenager, while growing up in a family of ranchers. She shares her ideas for future film projects, her ski goals for the season as well as plans to continue with guiding courses that accompany her work with snow safety ...
In his very first podcast we welcome Eric Pehota, the freeskiing pioneer and undeniable ski legend to the LPP. We sat down in his shop in Pemberton BC alongside one of his sons and friend of the show, Logan, who just happens to be one of the best skiers on the planet right now. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. WATCH on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ckIzzrfVTFw Everything LPP: https://linktr.ee/LowPressurePodcast Presented by: CMH Heli Skiing and Summer Adventures Peak Performance Fat Tire R...
