Freeskiing Museum

Tag: The Mayrand Podcast

  • Jason Arens

    Episode #30

    Release date: July 26, 2022

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    Discussion with skier, FIS judge and Surface skis / Joystick poles marketing director, Jason Arens.

    Jason is heavily involved in the ski industry as he’s been travelling the world judging the biggest events for years now. Some of those include Dew tour, X Games, world cups and recently the Olympics in China. Aside from that, Jason is a great guy who is extremely passionate and knowledgeable about skiing. We talked about his youth and how he made his place in the ski industry. We then talked about competitions, judging, X Games, World cups, the olympics and much much more. We had so much stuff on our plate that our discussion will be split into two parts.

  • Parker White

    Episode #46

    Release date: December 20, 2024

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    Discussion with freeski legend and X-Games medalist, Parker White.

    Parker is a freeskiing legend. He has now been a pro skier for over 15 years, cumulating legendary film segments with level 1, in X Games’ real ski competition, through his web series The big picture and more recently with his trilogy of films ( nothing nothing new and something). Last season , Parker led the charge for a level 1 full movie comeback . In their movie Wasteland parker produced a banger segment split between street skiing and Alaska skiing.

    In this episode we talk about a bunch of stuff ranging from the production of Wasteland, getting back into the streets after a 10 year break, filming in Alaska for the first time and much much more.

  • Jason Arens

    Episode #31

    Release date: August 5, 2022

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    Discussion with skier, FIS judge and Surface skis / Joystick poles marketing director, Jason Arens.

    Jason is heavily involved in the ski industry as he’s been travelling the world judging the biggest events for years now. Some of those include Dew tour, X Games, world cups and recently the Olympics in China. Aside from that, Jason is a great guy who is extremely passionate and knowledgeable about skiing. In this part 2 we continued our discussion around judging, his experience going to Beijing for the Olympics, His job over there as a trick caller, some judging controversies over the years, the current golden age of women’s comp skiing and his role at Surface skis/Joystick poles.

  • Henrik Harlaut

    Episode #32

    Release date: September 29, 2022

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    Discussion with freeskiing GOAT, 13x X Games medalist and Olympics medalist, Henrik Harlaut.

    The man needs no introduction but lets still go ahead. He has won 13 x games medals including 8 gold medals. He won or podiumed at every major competition there is. He created and starred in one of the most influential web series of all time with the B&E show with fellow legend Phil Casabon. Since 2008, he gathered legendary movie segments with companies such as 4bi9 media, level 1productions, field productions and many more. In the recent years he also self produced movies like 2014’s road to zion, 2018’s the regiment and 2020’s salute. Henrik is one of the GOATs of freeskiing and it was a pleasure to chat with him.

    We talked about his 2022 season and everything that went into it. His approach towards an olympics year, missing x games due to covid, the current state and future of big air competitions and much much more. Our talk will be split into two parts so be ready for part 2 where we talk about his film projects and his brand Harlaut apparel.

  • Henrik Harlaut

    Episode #33

    Release date: October 6, 2022

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    Discussion with freeskiing GOAT, 13x X Games medalist and Olympics medalist, Henrik Harlaut.

    The man needs no introduction but lets still go ahead. He has won 13 x games medals including 8 gold medals. He won or podiumed at every major competition there is. He created and starred in one of the most influential web series of all time with the B&E show with fellow legend Phil Casabon. Since 2008, he gathered legendary movie segments with companies such as 4bi9 media, level 1productions, field productions and many more. In the recent years he also self produced movies like 2014’s road to zion, 2018’s the regiment and 2020’s salute. Henrik is one of the GOATs of freeskiing and it was a pleasure to chat with him.

    In this 2nd part of our discussion we talk about more and more skiers staying relevant in the industry in their 30’s, Getting his first shot at filming with a production company with 4bi9 media, starting his own clothing brand ‘Harlaut apparel’, producing their first team movie ‘Wun’ in 2021, working on a new team movie in 2022 in which he filmed some of his best shots ever and much much more.

  • Megan Oldham

    Episode #34

    Release date: October 27, 2022

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    Discussion with pro skier, Olympian and 5x X Games medalist, Megan Oldham.

    At only 21, Megan has already cemented her place as one of the top freeskiers in the world. She has been on the world cup circuit for 4 seasons now. In that time, she earned 1 crystal globe, 5 X Games medals and recently went to the Olympics in Beijing for both slopestyle and big air competitions. At only 21, she already cemented her place.

    We discussed her freeskiing start as a teenager after many years of gymnastics and figure skating, getting into competitions and quickly going up the ranks, finding quick success and getting on the world stage pretty fast, winning the crystal globe on her first year on the world cup circuit, getting great results at X Games, going to the olympics and much much more.

  • Max Moffatt

    Episode #35

    Release date: November 24, 2022

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    Discussion with pro skier, X Games medalist, Olympian and all around style boss, Max Moffatt!

    Max is a Canadian skier from Ontario who has been on the world stage competitions since 2017. He made a name for himself with his super technical rail and jump skills mixed in with a top tier style. After many years making his place as one of the top skiers in the game, Max had his big break last season by winning his first X Games medal in slopestyle in what was a super successful season with podiums in 2 world cup events and a first Olympics participation.

    We talked about the process going into winning his first X Games medal, his first olympics participation and everything that was involved: a stressful selection process, a false-positive test leading to a 36hour lockdown in his hotel room, being part of the first ever Olympic big air competition and the disappointment of not landing his slopestyle run perfectly. We also touched on his times competing in SLVSH games, his recent move from Liberty to Armada and his plans to put efforts into video projects in the coming season and much more. Note: this episode was recorded before Max’s signing with Red Bull so the subject wasn’t discussed.

  • Alex Hall

    Episode #20

    Release date: June 4, 2021

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

    Alex is one of the best and most well-rounded skier in the world right now. He made a name for himself with his unique skiing that blends technicality with style and creativity and is now one of the biggest name in skiing. For most, winning X Games gold is a career goal and at 22 he has already won gold in 4 different X Games events (Slopestyle, Big air, Real ski and Knuckle huck).

    It was a really great talk with Alex discussing many different subjects. We talked about his 2021 season, skiing in mammoth and riding some halfpipe, going to the Olympics in 2018, filming for his self-produced video projects ”Magma” and ”Magma 2”, the current state of slopestyle skiing, the mindset and strategy going into events like X Games and filming street for his incredible 2021 real ski video.

  • Harald Hellstrom

    Episode #36

    Release date: December 28, 2022

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    Discussion with pro skier and member of the Forre crew, Harald Hellstrom.

    Episode presented by SURFACE skis!

    Harald is part of the infamous Forre crew who have been putting some incredible ski films in the past few years. The creative approach to his tricks and spot selection mixed in with his eagerness to go big makes him standout as one of the best street skiers in the world right now.

    In this episode we discussed his youth and how he got into park skiing. How the Forre crew came to be. All of the Forre movies up until their most recent one, ‘CAST’. We also went deep into street skiing talk and some of his most iconic shots.

  • Tom Wallisch

    Episode #21

    Release date: November 12, 2021

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    Discussion with freeski legend, X Games gold medalist and pretzel man, Tom Wallisch.

    The man needs no introduction but let’s still do it. Tom Wallisch is one of Freeskiing’s GOAT. Multiple times X Games medalist, style icon and tech god, Tom has starred and pretty much every major production ski film company like Level 1 productions, 4bi9 media, Field productions, Sherpas Cinema, Matchstick productions, Good Company and more. Now in his 30’s Tom is still producing top-notch movies while also announcing events, judging competitions and putting together events.

    We talked about so many interesting subjects ranging from producing Fresh Squeezed with Good Company, looking back on his superunknown and filming with level1, getting the world-record for the longest rail slide at 424ft, Announcing at events like X Games and much much more. Tom was a super guest to have on, a must listen to discussion with a legend of the sport who is still more relevant than ever going into 2022.