Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Active: 2016-present public archive | Known for: Edmonton street skiing, Rabbit Hill laps, LIARS HELL, 4west SESSIONS, rider-filmer work | Current: 4WESTCO-connected Alberta street and park projects
The Edmonton stairs in LIARS HELL looked cold enough to hold every scrape. Snow was packed into the run-in, metal rails cut through the frame, and John Smigelski moved through the city with the calm pace of a rider used to short approaches. His public ski profile lives in that space: Alberta street spots, Rabbit Hill repetition, Edmonton Ski Club clips, 4WESTCO sessions, and camera work that keeps the crew’s winters visible. Smigelski is not documented through a World Cup pathway. His value comes from showing up in the footage, helping film it, and keeping a local scene readable from the outside.
Smigelski’s early public trail runs through Rabbit Hill, the Edmonton-area hill that shows up repeatedly in Alberta park edits. FACTS, published on Newschoolers in 2016, listed him among riders at Rabbit Hill with Kohl Stadler, Curtis Hiller, Chris Boggs, Nevin Tarnowski, AJ Visser, and Wyatt Klimczak. Two years later, Goodnight Rabbit Hill placed him in another short park clip with Mateo Esposito, Riley Lewis, and Parker Guimond.
That context matters because small local hills teach a different kind of freestyle movement. The in-runs are short, the features arrive quickly, and the best clips depend on speed checks, centered balance, locked-in rail slides, and clean exits. Smigelski’s later street work still carries that Rabbit Hill rhythm.
The clearest archive around Smigelski comes through the tesla.coupe Newschoolers account, which maps much of the Edmonton crew’s output. Blue Comet, released in March 2023, credited him alongside Layne Dalke, Nevin Tarnowski, Kohl Stadler, Matt Engle, Sean Andrew, Elena Paskavich, Brock Marzolf, Eli Black, Erik Cislo, Ryan Kennedy, and Riley Hozz.
The same video page shows him in Year of the Rabbit, a March skiing edit at “rablab,” and then in LAZY MARY, the crew’s first street project filmed over the 2022/2023 season. That project listed Tristan Leduc, Layne Dalke, Erik Cislo, Kohl Stadler, Jordan Plemel, Parker Guimond, Jack Slobodan, John Smigelski, Ryan Fonseca, Nevin Tarnowski, and Cal Carson.
LAZY MARY gives Smigelski one of his stronger early street markers. The project was not framed as a solo part. It was a crew record, which fits the Alberta scene around him: many riders, shared spots, one winter of searching for features, and enough filming discipline to turn local sessions into a coherent release.
Street skiing changes the job completely. A park rail exists for skiing. A city rail has to be made skiable with shovels, speed tests, and patience. Smigelski’s presence in LAZY MARY places him inside that process before the later LIARS HELL release gave Edmonton street skiing a cleaner skipowd.tv marker.
temporarily away on business, published in January 2024, is one of the key credits because Smigelski appears on both sides of the session. The Newschoolers listing credits Tristan Leduc, John Smigelski, and Parker Guimond for filming, with Parker Guimond editing. Smigelski is also listed among the riders with Sean Hay, Elena Paskevich, Parker Guimond, Layne Dalke, Eli Beeler, Erik Cislo, Eric Law, Ty Kargus, Riley Lewis, Nick Saunders, Nevin Tarnowski, and Kohl Stadler.
That dual role should stay central to his page. A rider-filmer shapes more than personal clips. He helps decide the angle, the timing, the rhythm of the session, and which attempts are worth keeping. In a regional street scene, that work can matter as much as one trick.
The 2024 edits keep the Edmonton map tight. 8th wonder of the world was filmed at ESC, with Parker Guimond and Smigelski credited for filming. The rider list included Liam Ochicken, Liam Svisenec, Elena Paskavich, John Smigelski, Nevin Tarnowski, and Layne Dalke. RABSPRING24MIX followed at Rabbit Hill, again crediting Parker Guimond and Smigelski for filming.
Those clips show the practical foundation behind larger street releases. ESC and Rabbit Hill sessions are where rail timing, switch landings, presses, grabs, and exits get repeated until they become automatic. The footage may be short, but it explains how the bigger street clips become possible.
Smigelski’s name also appears around the PBR session world. Can you roll me one of those cowboy?, published in May 2025, was described as the final PBR video and credited Parker Guimond for the cut, with filming by John Smigelski and Parker Guimond. Newschoolers also named Smigelski with Kohl Stadler as “Alberta’s next top models” in its 2025 Newschoolers x 4West pants release.
That does not need to be overstated as a major sponsorship biography. It is more accurate as a scene connection: 4WESTCO, Newschoolers, Alberta park events, Sunshine Village sessions, and a crew that mixes skiing, clothing, filming, and local identity without separating them into clean categories.
LIARS HELL, published in 2025, is the strongest current street marker for Smigelski. Skipowd.tv lists it as a 10:11 street video set in Edmonton, with technical rail slides, wallrides, stairs, concrete transitions, and heavy landings documented across the city. The credited athletes include Elena Paskevich, Eric Law, John Smigelski, Kaileb Torrie, Layne Dalke, Mark Valtr, Matteo Esposito, Nevin Tarnowski, Wyatt Beaudoin, and others.
The edit places Smigelski inside a full Edmonton crew rather than a lone rider page. That is the correct frame. His skiing should be viewed through local spot choice, metal handrails, compact run-ins, urban stairs, speed control, and the trust needed when one filmer is tracking another rider’s attempt in freezing city conditions.
4west SESSIONS, published in April 2026, gives Smigelski a more focused skipowd.tv entry. The video is listed as a 3:54 park edit, filmed and edited by Parker Guimond, with additional filming by John Smigelski and Liam Macgregor. Skipowd.tv lists Smigelski as the athlete attached to the page.
The setting shifts from Edmonton street to park skiing, but the same movement vocabulary applies: locked-in rail slides, smooth rotations, clean landings, short approaches, and filmed laps built around a crew weekend. That makes the project useful for his profile because it shows him in a cleaner park format after the rougher street texture of LIARS HELL.
Smigelski’s skiing should be described through fundamentals rather than inflated contest language. The public archive points toward rails, wallrides, switch approaches, compact takeoffs, speed checks, locked-in slides, park jumps, Rabbit Hill laps, ESC sessions, PBR filming, and Edmonton street spots. His profile does not show a verified FIS record, major podium list, or large individual sponsor résumé.
The accurate value is scene-level consistency. He appears across multiple years, contributes filming, and stays connected to riders who keep the Alberta street and park archive moving. For skipowd.tv, the strongest tags are John Smigelski, Edmonton, Alberta, Rabbit Hill, Edmonton Ski Club, 4WESTCO, LIARS HELL, 4west SESSIONS, LAZY MARY, temporarily away on business, RABSPRING24MIX, PBR, Parker Guimond, Layne Dalke, Elena Paskevich, Nevin Tarnowski, rail skiing, wallrides, street skiing, park skiing, and rider-filmer culture.
