Freeskiing Museum

Tag: The Mayrand Podcast

  • Félix Rioux

    Episode #16

    Release date: May 7, 2021

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    Discussion with ski industry legend Félix Rioux.

    We talked about Félix’s upbringing in Montréal and how he got to work in the ski industry. The early days of freeskiing with the snowblade and inline skating influences. Traveling the world with the best skiers as a professional photographer. Co-founding D-structure shop and IF3 festival. Working as a marketing director for various companies and much much more. Félix has been around the block since the inception of freeskiing and it was really interesting to get to chat with him.

  • Phil Casabon

    Episode #1

    Release date: Nov. 28, 2020

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  • Alex Bellemare

    Episode #17

    Release date: May 14, 2021

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    Discussion with pro skier, X Games medalist and Olympian Alex Bellemare.

    We talked about Alex growing up in a small town in Québec. Being influenced by JP Auclair and Phil Casabon. Skiing as much as he could, which led him to eventually make a name for himself by dominating the Québec scene for a couple of years. Traveling to whistler, Mt hood and Colorado to take his skiing to the next level. Eventually making a name for himself starting in 2011 by filming his classic Afterdark segment with Level 1 productions. Having his dream come true of becoming a pro skier in the following year with back to back results at Dew tour and X Games.

    Alex was a great guest who had great behind the scenes stories and insights, this one is a must listen to!

  • Alexi Godbout

    Episode #2

    Release date: December 13, 2020

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    Discussion with pro skier Alexi Godbout ranging from his early days getting picked up by Salomon, to his competition days traveling the world competing in the world’s biggest events, and his focus to backcountry and big mountain skiing since 2015.

  • Alex Bellemare

    Episode #18

    Release date: May 21, 2021

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    Part 2 of a discussion with X Games medalist & olympian pro skier Alex Bellemare.

    In this second part, we discussed Alex’s progression leading him to be one of the top slopestyle skier on the planet. Having a knee injury right before the Sochi olympics and having to miss out. Achieving a childhood dream of winning an X Games medal in 2015. Trying to stay at the top of an ever progressing sport where tricks get gnarlier every year. Winning the Olympic world cup test event in 2016 and eventually qualifying for the Canadian team and going to the 2018 PeyongChang olympics.

    Great talk once again with Alex who had great stories and insight into the ups and downs of being a pro athlete.

  • Vincent Gagnier

    Episode #3

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    Discussion with pro skier, X Games gold medalist and style master Vincent Gagnier.

    Subjects include his current 2-year movie project with the SLVSH crew, dealing with back-to-back knee injury in 2017 and 2018, breaking his back in 2014, the current state of competitive skiing and much more.

  • Jeff Thomas

    Episode #19

    Release date: May 28, 2021

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    Discussion with legendary filmmaker Jeff Thomas.

    We talked about his upbringing in Vancouver playing a lot of baseball while being a weekend warrior. Getting into skiing in his teens and being hooked on freeskiing when he first when to High North summer camp in Whistler. Going to film school while starting his own company, Theory 3 media, with which he produced 6 movies. Joining Poor boyz productions to work on their classic ”Everyday is a saturday” and ”revolver”. Then, working for multiple years with Mike Douglas on Salomon freeski TV and more recently working a lot with the Blank collective crew. It was a really great chat with Jeff talking about skiing, filmmaking and a bunch of other stuff.

  • Mikael Kingsbury

    Episode #4

    Release date: January 11, 2021

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    Discussion with Pro skier and olympic gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury.

    We talked about his upbringing and how he got to be as dominant as he is, the current state of mogul skiing, his experience at the 2018 olympics and his plans for the future.

  • Phil Casabon

    Episode #5

    Release date: January 18, 2021

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    Discussion with freeski legend Phil Casabon.

    Following our discussion about his 2020 season, Phil Casabon and I discussed his entire career. From his youth all the way up until now. We talked up all his major projects including bdog gone wild, X games, the Olympics, Refresh, Eye trip, the B&E show, The education of style, The Inspired demo tour, Let it flow, Keynote skier, BE inspired and Tempo. With so many things on our plate we left out the X Games real ski to dedicate an entire episode to it in the future.

  • JF Houle

    Episode #7

    Release date: February 4, 2021

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    Discussion with pro skier, X Games gold medalist and freeski legend JF Houle.

    We talked about JF’s new step in his life, coaching the Québec slopestyle team and how he uses his passion and experiences to teach the new generation of freeskier. We also talked about the X games realski competition, how it is being a competitor and also a judge as JF won the silver medal in the 2016 edition and has been a judge for the competition for 2 years now.