Homeboy’s Skiing Blog

It is now official: skiers go bigger than snowboarders… Well, all joking aside: at least for now and in quater pipe especially. (Genarally the skiers vs. boarders debate is pretty useless and very 90’s, in my opinion) No-one can disagree that Simon did the record with style and difficulty though: a 35 feet high cork 900 tail grab. That’s about [...]

27-year-old Freeskier John Nicoletta has died Friday due to injuries sustained during a fall. John Nicoletta was competing on the first day of the Freeskiing World Championships at Alyeska Resort, Alaska. Nicoletta was 47th skier of the day. Local ski patrol reached Nicoletta quickly and evaluated his injuries before transporting to Alyeska Aid Room. John Nicoletta [...]

Finnish alpine skier Kalle Palander, who won the world championship in slalom in 1999, released his biography yesterday in Helsinki, Finland. Kalle Palander’s book opens up many surprising episodes from his private life. According to the book, Kalle Palander was jailed due to drinking and driving in Monaco 2002. Kalle Palander had been dining with his [...]

Miracles do happen. A while ago Marko wrote how this season has seen couple of really sad events for skiing - the death of freeskier Billy Poole and the horrible crash of Matthias Lanzinger. Downhiller Scott Macartney had another scary fall in Kitzbühel but was very lucky to survive with minor injuries. But this time one [...]

In February we gave away a great ski DVD value-pack that included Seven Sunny Days and Believe ski DVD’s. We have now set a new contest with a new prize which is a book written by W. Timothy Gallwey. The book is called Inner Skiing and it is probably one of the best instructional skiing [...]