Frederik Højgaard
Denmark | Active public record: 2011-2019 | Known for: Danish slopestyle, One&More, Ferda, Danish freeski film culture | Current: former FIS-listed skier and scene figure
Vännäs Cold And A Rookie Fifth
The park in Vännäs, northern Sweden, carried the dry bite of a Scandinavian training hill: rope-tow laps, hardpack takeoffs and young Danish riders trying to make limited home terrain translate into real slopestyle. Frederik Højgaard Larsen entered that world through ski school, not through a classic mountain-town pipeline.
Riders.dk first framed him publicly in 2011 as a 17-year-old Danish freestyler studying at Vännäs gymnasium in northern Sweden. The same article noted that he had just taken fifth in slopestyle at the Danish Championships as a rookie. That early detail remains important because it shows the structure behind his skiing: Denmark at home, Sweden for training, and competition as a way to measure progression against a small but serious national field.
The FIS Page Under The Fredrik Spelling
The official FIS record lists him as Fredrik HOEJGARD LARSEN, representing Denmark, with FIS code 2531142 and birth year 1993. The profile is now marked not active, and the documented discipline is freeski slopestyle. That record is compact, but it confirms that Højgaard’s ski identity was not only local media or film culture.
His FIS profile includes a January 20, 2013 slopestyle result at Vaennaes / Umea, where he placed 24th. The result does not make him a World Cup-level athlete, but it gives the page a clean official anchor. Højgaard should be read as a Danish park skier who reached FIS-listed competition while remaining more culturally important through film and scene-building.
Denmark Needed A Different Route
Højgaard’s path only makes sense when Denmark’s terrain problem is kept in view. A Danish freeskier cannot simply grow up lapping a large alpine resort every afternoon. Progression depends on travel, foreign schools, camps, dryslope sessions, indoor training, Scandinavian road trips and the willingness to build a scene around limited access.
That is why the Vännäs detail matters more than it would for a Norwegian, Swiss or Canadian skier. Studying in Sweden gave Højgaard daily exposure to a real winter park environment. The move put him closer to jumps, rails and repeated laps than he could have found at home, while still keeping him connected to Denmark’s small freeski community.
One&More Started As A Scene Repair
The strongest chapter in Højgaard’s public record is One&More. Riders.dk reported in 2015 that the project was started by Danish skier Frederik Højgaard and producer-filmer Anders Von Holck, backed by Be Profound and partners including écart and Icelandair. The goal was not only to make another edit; it was to rebuild energy around Danish ski and snowboard culture after several quiet years.
That motive gives the film its place in his biography. Højgaard was not only appearing on skis. He was helping initiate a national ski-and-snowboard film at a time when the Danish scene needed a gathering point. The title itself carried the idea: snow sports can look individual from outside, but the real culture depends on crews, shared travel, spot work, film nights and the people behind each clip.
The Jazzhouse Premiere And The Five-Year Gap
When One&More went online in September 2016, Riders.dk described it as the first new Danish ski and snowboard film after a five-year drought. The same article reported that the film had premiered at a sold-out Jazzhouse in Copenhagen before being released digitally. That detail turns the project from a private crew edit into a public scene event.
The cast list around One&More included Frederik Højgaard, Sune Buschmann, Thomas Trads, Simon Houlind and others. The film’s 29-minute format sat between local documentation and higher-production ambition. It used skiing and snowboarding to reconnect Denmark’s freestyle community, while also giving viewers a record of what Danish riders were trying to build beyond their home country’s lack of mountains.
Sweden, Iceland And Austria On Film
The Danish Adventure Film Festival program placed One&More across Sweden, Iceland and Austria. That geography matters because it shows the type of skiing Højgaard helped package for a Danish audience: Scandinavian urban and park clips, Alpine travel, and larger mountain sections reaching toward heli-skiing and cat-skiing in Iceland.
For a country without alpine vertical, that spread was part of the story. Danish riders had to move. They had to turn trips into proof, then bring the footage back home. One&More gave that travel cycle a polished format. Højgaard’s role as co-director and skier makes him more than a rider in the credits; he helped create one of the clearest media documents of that Danish freestyle period.
The D.A.F.F. Seal In 2016
One&More gained its strongest outside validation at the Danish Adventure Film Festival. Riders.dk reported that the film was nominated in the Danish action-sport film category and won “Årets danske actionsportsfilm 2016.” For Højgaard’s profile, that award is a bigger cultural marker than any single mid-field FIS result.
The win showed that Danish freeski and snowboard film could stand inside a broader adventure-film space. It also confirmed that the project reached beyond a closed ski circle. Højgaard’s importance sits there: not as a global contest name, but as a Danish freeskier who helped turn a small-scene problem into a finished film with national recognition.
Ferda And The Next Danish Film Wave
Højgaard appears again in Ferda, the 2019 Danish ski and snowboard film by Jakob Ebskamp and Mikkel Hjort-Pedersen. Riders.dk described Ferda as a 40-minute project filmed in Switzerland, France, Finland, Norway and Chile, with a cast including Simon Storgaard, Rune Bach, Lasse Lehwald, Thomas Trads, Frederik Højgaard, Andreas Secher, Joachim Clausen Hansen, Jakob Ahlers and others.
That appearance places him inside the next wave of Danish ski-film culture after One&More. The leadership changed, but the logic stayed familiar: Danish riders traveling to foreign snow, filming with friends, mixing park and mountain terrain, and making the national scene visible through shared projects. Højgaard’s presence in Ferda connects the 2016 One&More chapter to the later Danish crew movement.
DM Slopestyle After The Film Moment
The 2018 Danish Championship slopestyle results add a later competition marker. The official results list Frederik Højgaard, born in 1993 and representing Københavns Skiklub, seventh in the men’s ski qualification and fifth in the final. The same final field included names such as William Roer Madsen, Simen Markussen, Andreas Secher, Rune Bach, Simon Storgaard Oksen and Jakob Ebskamp.
That result is useful because it shows Højgaard still present in the Danish slopestyle scene after One&More’s release. The placement should not be overstated. It was a national championship result, not an international podium. But it completes the profile: early rookie DM final, FIS-listed slopestyle, film leadership, and later national contest visibility.
How To Frame His Skiing
The verified record supports park, slopestyle and film-culture language. Højgaard’s skiing should be described through rails, jumps, Scandinavian park training, slopestyle lines, travel-based film clips, and the Danish need to create progression abroad. There is not enough reliable source material to assign him a detailed signature trick list inside the article.
Claims about sponsors, exact long-term partnerships or “first” trick records should only be added if supported by stronger primary sources. The safest version is already strong enough: a Danish freeskier with an official FIS identity, documented national slopestyle results, a Swedish ski-school development route, and a central role in One&More, one of the most visible Danish ski-and-snowboard films of the 2010s.
The Højgaard Legacy In Danish Freeski
Frederik Højgaard’s profile belongs between athlete biography and scene history. He was not an Olympic finalist, World Cup podium skier or X Games figure. His relevance is more specific: he helped represent a Danish generation that had to leave home to train, then bring the culture back through films, premieres, magazines and small national contests.
The strongest current angle for skipowd.tv is clear. Højgaard is a former Danish FIS-listed slopestyle skier and One&More co-creator whose public record links Vännäs, Danish Championships, One&More, D.A.F.F., Ferda and the wider Danish park-film ecosystem. Future updates should focus on verified archival clips, interviews, film credits or confirmed current activity, not on inflated contest claims.
