Emile Bergeron

Lac-Beauport, Quebec, Canada | Active: 2012-present | Focus: street skiing, park, backcountry freestyle, ski films | Current: Picture Organic Clothing, Armada Skis and D-Structure-supported skier

Quebec Concrete After The Snowplow Passed

The handrail in Quebec sat half-buried after the plow went by, snow packed into a short run-in and concrete showing through at the landing. Emile Bergeron waited while the filmer checked the angle, then stepped back into the street rhythm that shaped his career: shovel, speed check, drop, metal, impact. His skiing belongs to that hard Quebec environment where a clip is earned through weather, friends, and patience. Before X Games Real Ski put his name on a medal list, Bergeron had already built a reputation in streets, parks, and video projects where style mattered more than a contest bib.

Lac-Beauport And The Quebec Street Map

FIS lists Emile Bergeron as a Canadian freestyle skier, born in 1995, with FIS Code 2531101 and a competition status now marked not active. Event coverage around Stairsmaster identified him from Lac-Beauport, a town just north of Quebec City. That location matters because Quebec has one of skiing’s deepest urban histories. Spots around Quebec City, including the Montmorency Falls “Red Ledge,” have been used by generations of riders who treated winter architecture like a skatepark. Bergeron grew inside that language, after JF Houle, Phil Casabon, Charles Gagnier, JP Auclair, and other Quebec skiers had already made street skiing feel local and global at the same time.

SuperUnknown Before The Bigger Calls

Bergeron’s early public trail runs through Level 1’s SuperUnknown. Vimeo pages list him as a SuperUnknown IX finalist in 2012 and a SuperUnknown X finalist in 2013, placing him inside the long-running video talent search that helped expose skiers through clips rather than formal rankings. That stage fit him well. SuperUnknown rewarded skiers who could show personality, trick depth, and spot choice in a short edit. Bergeron’s path was already bending toward filming, even while he still had an official competition record. The format also placed him near the wider North American up-and-comer layer, where a strong minute of footage could matter more than a full season of mid-pack contest results.

World Cup Sheets And Nor-Am Stops

Bergeron’s FIS record is short but useful. FIS lists a World Cup slopestyle start at Copper Mountain in January 2013, where he placed 88th, a Nor-Am Cup slopestyle result at Aspen in February 2014, and later slopestyle starts at Waterville Valley and Le Relais in 2018. The strongest listed FIS placement is eleventh at Waterville Valley on February 15, 2018, followed by twelfth the next day and sixteenth at Le Relais. These results do not define him as a contest athlete. They show the bridge: a skier capable of entering slopestyle events, then choosing a stronger identity through street projects, films, and creative crews.

Stairsmaster At The Quebec Jamboree

The 2017 Stairsmaster win gave Bergeron a clean street-contest marker. Snowboarder reported that he won the ski category at the fifth edition of the event during the Quebec City and Stoneham Jamboree period, earning $5,000 for his one-minute urban segment. The contest invited riders to film existing urban structures, with Charles Gagnier judging the ski side. Gagnier praised Bergeron’s technical moves, style, amplitude, trick variety, and use of the features. The setting was important: the videos were tied to the larger FIS Snowboard and Freestyle Ski World Cup week, but the winning material came from the streets, not a prepared slopestyle course.

Come Around And The Quebec Street Part

By 2016, Bergeron’s name was moving through ski media as a street specialist. Freeskier published his highlight reel with the nickname “BMile,” pointing to tree-bonk-to-ledge movement, up-rail-to-wallride direction, and wallride-heavy skiing on metal and concrete. Forecast Ski later framed Come Around as a Picture Organic Clothing project, and The Rider Post described the same street direction in French media. The details are consistent across coverage: Bergeron was not just sliding rails. He was using walls, ledges, takeoffs, roof-like drops, and rough city landings in a way that connected Quebec’s older street tradition with a newer, smoother park-influenced style.

Picture Bus, In Gora, And The Wider Terrain

Picture Organic Clothing brought Bergeron into a broader mountain-film context. The In Gora rider page listed him alongside Léo Taillefer, Janne Lipsanen, Jules Bonnaire, Thomas Delfino, and Sandy Collet, with the Nomads Bus traveling through Europe and meeting other Picture riders at their homespots. That project helped show him outside the strict Quebec street frame. In a 2018 Newschoolers interview, Bergeron spoke about trying backcountry skiing, filming in Quebec with Phil Casabon and Brady Perron, and wanting to touch streets, parks, and powder. The transition was not a brand reset. It was an expansion of the same freestyle control into less predictable snow.

Phil Casabon, Harlaut, And The Crew Effect

Bergeron’s style is often discussed through the people around him. Freeskier described him as a regular accomplice of Phil Casabon and Henrik Harlaut film shoots, while also noting that his own skiing had a distinct identity. That comparison is useful because Casabon and Harlaut shaped modern street and nose-butter language with a strong emphasis on grabs, press balance, sideways rhythm, and unusual feature use. Bergeron took influence from that world without becoming a copy. His skiing leans toward large street impacts, wall contacts, tree bonks, dub rotations, rail-to-wall combinations, and a calm upper body that keeps heavy tricks from looking rushed.

Kimbo Sessions And The Spring Style Laboratory

Kimbo Sessions gave Bergeron a different surface for the same instincts. Downdays listed him among the skiers at the 2018 edition in Kläppen, Sweden, where Kim Boberg’s spring gathering had grown from an Armada shoot into one of freeskiing’s defining creative park weeks. Kläppen’s soft April snow, roller features, challenge rails, up-rail combinations, and peer-heavy atmosphere reward skiers who can improvise rather than simply repeat contest tricks. Freeskier later pointed to Bergeron’s 2018 highlights from Kimbo Sessions and a spring shoot with Harlaut. The event fit him because it sat between park, street, and jam culture, with enough freedom for hand drags, nose butters, transfers, and strange feature decisions.

Real Ski 2020 And The Silver Part

X Games Real Ski 2020 became Bergeron’s headline result. ESPN hosted his entry, filmed and edited by Camron Willis and Paul Bergeron, in the all-urban video contest. Newschoolers reported the final judged results: Jake Mageau gold, Bergeron silver, and Alex Hackel bronze with Fan Favorite. The field also included Jesper Tjäder, Noah Albaladejo, and Sam Zahner. Newschoolers later wrote that Bergeron had spent two years shadowing Phil Casabon before earning his own Real Ski invite. That context matters. The silver medal did not appear from nowhere; it was the judged outcome of years learning how to build, film, and survive street spots with a crew.

That’s! With Jacob Bélanger

After Real Ski, Bergeron and Jacob Bélanger released That’s!, a mini-movie documenting the process around the medal-winning project and including Bélanger’s footage, offcuts, and the wider street mission. Newschoolers described it as a film made with Bergeron, Bélanger, and Cam Willis after the Real Ski result. Planks Clothing summarized the idea directly: a short film following Bergeron and Bélanger as they worked together to get Emile onto the Real Ski podium. The project is important because it shows the unseen side of urban skiing: spot searching, missed attempts, shared motivation, and the relationship between a medal edit and the crew labor behind it.

Picture, Armada, D-Structure, And The Support System

Bergeron’s sponsor picture is best documented through multiple sources. In his 2018 Newschoolers interview, he thanked Picture Organic Clothing, Armada Skis, and D-Structure. Picture’s own athlete page lists Emile Bergeron in its ski family. D-Structure’s history piece on Newschoolers also named Émile Bergeron among the Quebec athletes supported by the shop, linking him to a much older freeski support structure in the province. That support system matters because street skiing is expensive in ways spectators do not always see: travel, broken skis, broken boots, long filming windows, shoveling time, camera work, and enough local trust to keep returning to difficult spots.

The 2025 Thread Still Runs Through Quebec

Bergeron’s profile has not frozen around the 2020 medal. Downdays’ 2025 tag coverage placed him in Found My Niche, a B-Dog edit shot by Raph Sévigny with Phil Casabon, Frank GP, Bergeron, and friends at the Off The Leash zone. Downdays also listed him in a 2025 project from The Bunch, alongside skiers such as Magnus Granér, Pär “Peyben” Hägglund, Hugo Burvall, and Alex Hackel. The current line is clear: Bergeron’s FIS record is inactive, but his ski identity remains active through Quebec street culture, Picture support, Armada-linked crews, and film projects where the snow is only half the obstacle.