Freeskiing Museum

Tag: Low Pressure Podcast

  • Jamie MoCrazy & Jeanee Crane-Mauzy

    Episode #241

    Release date: November 9, 2023

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    In 2015 during the WSI World Tour Finals, Jamie MoCrazy suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI)  so severe that she really shouldn’t be here today.  Fast forward 8 years and Jamie is here with her sister Jeanee to talk about their new film, “#MoCrazyStrong”,  which documents almost a decade of recovery and what the MoCrazy family learned through the process.

    It has empowered them to form their charitable MoCrazy Strong Foundation with the purpose of raising awareness of brain Injuries and teaching methods to help encourage whole-body recoveries.

  • Daniel Hanka

    Episode #186

    Release date: April 8, 2021

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    Daniel Hanka is a pro Skier from the Czech Republic.  We talk about his love of music and driving his unique 1968 Wildcat Muscle Car through the tiny streets of Europe.

  • Alex Hall

    Episode #239

    Release date: October 26, 2023

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    Alex Hall is an Olympic Gold Medalist for the USA in Slopestyle.  Last year, most of his winter season was spent travelling and competing with the national team.  He managed to find the time to connect with his friend, Hunter Hess, to produce the third instalment of their award winning ski film series, Magma.   Alex tells us that dedication to the project can sometimes come at the expense of family holidays, but in the end, is absolutely worth it. In addition he gives his thoughts on “Spin to Win”, skiing Urban in the Mid West, the Eileen Gu effect and lots more.

  • Chris Turpin

    Episode #177

    Release date: February 24, 2021

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    Chris Turpin is here with a great conversation with a tonne of stories. He’s been living in China, coaching the Chinese National Team leading up to the Beijing Olympics, at the beginning of the pandemic in Wuhan.  We talk about buying an island property with Mark Abma, sight unseen,   hitting a bear on his motorbike, the recent X-Games and a lot more.  Enjoy!

  • JF Houle

    Episode #233

    Release date: March 2, 2023

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    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.

  • Taylor Lundquist

    Episode #176

    Release date: January 28, 2021

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    Taylor Lundquist has been raising the profile of women in street skiing for the last 5 years and shows no signs of slowing down.  In the past year she won “Skier of the Year” at the inaugural NewSchoolers Awards,  she was featured in the all female shred-fest “SKIVAS”, and she will be the first female to compete in the 2021 Edition of XGames Real Ski.  On top of that she is working to raise awareness of the LBGTQ community within action sports after publicly coming out in 2020.

  • Birk Irving

    Episode #229

    Release date: February 2, 2023

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    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.

  • Sammy Carlson & Yu Sasaki

    Episdoe #223

    Release date: December 16, 2022

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    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.

  • Sammy Carlson & Yu Sasaki

    Episode #223

    Release date: December 15, 2022

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    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 kids and started a successful food truck business all while competiing on the Freeride World Tour.    Sammy tells us about his terrific new film, “YUP”, how the soundtrack came together, how the two started to ski with each other and lots, lots more.

  • Grete Eliassen

    Episode #220

    Release date: November 24, 2022

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    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.