Telluride, Colorado, with its steeps, backcountry access, and lack of a halfpipe, is better known for breeding mountaineers than park skiers. But for 22-year-old Gus Kenworthy, who snagged the third spot on the men’s Olympic slopestyle ski team for the USA—and was just a few points away from a spot on the halfpipe team, too—growing up in that southern Colorado hub of big-mountain skiing has made him creative, unafraid, and ready to step up to Sochi.
Kenworthy is, by the numbers, the most well-rounded freeskier on the planet. He’s won … More
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The fourth installment of the “NOOKturnal” series is Luke Callahan. Luke is the Assoc. Editor of Transworld SKATEboarding. Between everything involving Mag, Web, Interviews, Edits, you name it Luke puts it down. Busy days with a little lunch shred involving switch 360 flips down the gap at work (TWS park) that most pro’s don’t really step to and evening DTSD shreds keep this Canuck sharp as F*ck on the board. Enjoy the edit, he put this one out probably the quickest thus far in the “NOOKturnal” series. If you get the chance to meet him, you’ll be stoked. Genuine and hilarious, Tisnal is his regular. Thanks Luke, this was so much fun to film and edit.
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What looked to be a gold-medal battle between three former Olympic gold medalists turned out to be yet another surprise in Sochi. Torah Bright (AUS), Kelly Clark (USA), and Hannah Teter (USA) all were looking good to add another gold medal to their collections, but the night belonged to Olympic rookie Kaitlyn Farrington. A long shot to make the U.S. Team and a longer shot for Olympic gold, Farrington, 24, put together a technical combination of tricks, including a switch backside 720 to backside 900 combo, to snatch her first Olympic gold medal … Pictures and more
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