Freeskiing Museum

Tag: The Mayrand Podcast

  • Troy Podmilsak

    Release date: December 22, 2025

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    Discussion with pro skier and X Games gold medalist, Troy Podmilsak Troy is a pro skier, X Games big air gold medalist and part of a new generation that is pushing the boundaries of big air skiing. He blew up onto the scene as a grom showcasing great promise through his online videos. As a teen, Troy climbed the competition ladder and eventually made it on to world cups as part of the US team. Ever since he made in the big leagues, Troy has been progressing and cementing his spot as one of the best big air skiers in the world. His accolades include winning both slopestyle and big air at the 2022 FIS Jr world championships, Winning the 2023 FIS world championships big air and winning the 2024 X Games big air. In this episode we talked about troy’s upbringing and how he got into park skiing. His rise in the competitive scene of freeskiing and the challenges of making it in such a dominant country. We went deep into the big air scene with the new tricks, the trends, the airbags, the training, the strategies, the different comps, jumps and formats. We talked about his relationship with his coach being freeski legend TJ Schiller. We talked about last years x games where the level was insane and where troy placed 4th with a perfect trip 21 mute and almost landed a trip 23 mute. this was a great talk with one of freeskiing’s most dominant big air skier side note this episode was recorded before the first 2 big air comps of the season, which troy ended up winning. Troy ended up winning the secret garden and steamboat big air world cups and is now qualified for the olympics.

  • Luca Harrington

    Release date: April 26, 2026

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    Discussion with pro skier, X Games gold medalist and olympic medalist, Luca Harrington

    Luca is a pro skier, X games gold medalist, Olympic medalist and currently one of the most dominant comp skier in the world. In this episode we talked about Luca’s upbringing in New Zealand and how he got into skiing. We talked about his inspiration from past legends from New Zealand and what’s in the water over there that creates so many pro skiers. We went deep into his meteoric rise within the competition scene in the past 2 years. Where back to back world cup wins in Kreischberg and Klagenfurt started a run of 8 world cups podiums, 4 x games medals, 1 crystal globe and 1 olympic medal. We talked about the intricacies of slopestyle and big air comp skiing as well as the judging behind all of it. We also talked about this season’s Milano Cortina Olympics and the accomplishment and disappointment that came with it for him.

    We also went into many other subjects including but not limited to bringbacks, cindy grabs, esco grabs, being a x games alternate, having your brother as a fellow pro skier, having a US citizenship, choosing to focus on slopestyle and big air despite promising results in halfpipe and much much more.

  • 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.

  • Alex Beaulieu-Marchand

    Episode #8

    Release date: February 12, 2021

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    Discussion with pro skier, 5x X Games medalist, Olympic medalist and street skiing legend Alex Beaulieu-Marchand aka ABM.

    We talked right after the 2021 Aspen X Games about the event and his experience with the whole the covid restrictions, dealing with back pain and finishing 4th in both slopestyle and big air. We also discussed skiing more backcountry and his 2019 realski part.

  • Phil Langevin

    Episode #9

    Release date: February 19, 2021

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    Discussion with pro skier and 2022 olympic hopeful for the Canadian ski slopestyle team, Phil Langevin.

    We discussed how phil became a pro skier, the current state of slopestyle skiing and its progression, his first experience at X Games making finals at 17, dealing with a series of injuries and getting back to skiing this season aiming to be at X Games and the Olympics next season.

  • Nick Martini

    Episode #10

    Release date: February 28, 2021

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    Discussion with ex-pro skier and filmmaker Nick Martini.

    We talked about his whole story, starting with how he got into skiing, becoming a pro skier. His days as a competitive skier and filming with the biggest production companies in the business like Poor Boyz productions and TGR while also running his own production company, Stept. Talking about Stept, we also discussed how it started by filming his friends when he was 12 years old, became one of the most influential production company in skiing and is now based in LA working with some big time brands like Nike, Oakley, Ford and the NFL.

  • Pär ”Peyben” Hägglund

    Episode #11

    Release date: March 5, 2021

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    Discussion with swedish pro skier and filmmaker Pär Hägglund aka Peyben.

    Peyben is a 3 times X games medalist, one as a skier and the other two as a filmmaker. He is super creative on both sides of the lens and has shown it through videos with Level 1 productions, The Bunch and more recently through the X Games realski competition.

    We talked about his 3 realski videos, filming with a crew like The Bunch, the dedication it takes to film street projects and a whole lot more.

  • Paul Bergeron

    Episode #12

    Release date: April 9, 2021

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    Discussion with Canadian ex pro skier, now filmmaker Paul Bergeron aka ”B-Paul”.

    Paul is an ex pro skier who made a lot of waves in the ski industry with his unique style and world-class skills. He quickly made a name for himself filming with Quebec crews NSF productions and ESK media. Later on, he cemented his position as an influential skier competing on the world stage and filming with crews like Stept and Inspired media. With a series of injuries, Paul transitioned towards filmmaking. He since worked on projects such as JF Houle’s HOULIGAN movie & 2016 Real ski silver medal video and Émile Bergeron’s 2020 real ski silver medal video.

    We discussed his whole career. His youth growing up in Lac-Beauport, Québec. His influences in skiing and what led him to get his first sponsors. The rise from a local guy to a skier known as one of the best in the world. The struggle of living the pro skier lifestyle in an era where the Olympics changed a lot of things. Dealing with multiple injuries and finally transitioning into filmmaking.