Kim Boberg

Älvdalen, Sweden | Active: 2000s-present | Focus: street, park, ski films, Kimbo Sessions | Current: Armada athlete and Kimbo Sessions host

Kläppen Slush When The Week Opens

Kläppen Snowpark softened under the April sun as skis hissed through wet spring slush. Kim Boberg stood near the features, reading speed, shape, and crew energy before another rider dropped into the line. That scene captures the center of his skiing better than a podium sheet. Kimbo Sessions, the gathering he hosts at his home resort in Sweden, is built around shared park time, unusual transitions, heavy rail choices, food, filming, and late-season snow that rewards touch instead of force. Boberg’s own skiing has always worked that way: street strength without stiffness, park creativity without contest polish, and a taste for features that look simple until someone tries to copy the timing.

Älvdalen Roots And The Swedish Jib Line

Kim Boberg comes from Älvdalen in Dalarna, Sweden, a place far from the commercial center of North American freestyle skiing but close to the Swedish park culture that shaped a generation. FIS lists him as a Swedish freestyle athlete, born in 1991, with competition status now marked as inactive. That official record only tells a small part of the story. Boberg’s career did not become defined by Olympic qualification or World Cup chasing. His name grew through video parts, crews, hand-built park weeks, and a style that made Scandinavian street skiing feel both loose and deliberate. Sweden already had Henrik Harlaut, Jacob Wester, Jesper Tjäder, Magnus Granér, Pär “Peyben” Hägglund, and other recognizable names; Boberg became one of the culture carriers inside that wider scene.

Field Productions Before The Armada Years Took Shape

Boberg’s early film path ran through Field Productions, the Norwegian production house that helped connect Scandinavian park, glacier, street, and backcountry skiing. Field Productions documented a Folgefonna, Norway shoot with Tom Wallisch, Aleksander Aurdal, Jesper Tjäder, Kim Boberg, Johan Berg, Anders Backe, and Torstein Horgmo on a large park feature at the summer ski area on Norway’s west coast. That setting matters because Folgefonna was a classic training and filming zone: glacial snow, long summer light, and a crew built around repeated attempts rather than contest runs. Boberg’s involvement placed him among riders who could blend technical switch skiing, rail comfort, and jump control across a European filming environment.

Oil And Water In The Streets

Armada’s Oil & Water arrived in 2014 with a cast that included Phil Casabon, Henrik Harlaut, Mike Hornbeck, Riley Leboe, Kim Boberg, Tanner Hall, JP Auclair, Jacob Wester, and Oscar Harlaut. The film framed Armada’s team as a group with a different approach to skiing, and Boberg’s segment gave that idea a practical shape. His skiing in that period leaned into urban setups: rails, wallrides, roof jibs, tight landings, and features where the run-in might be worse than the trick. The appeal was not only trick difficulty. It was the way he moved through awkward space, using pop, foot pressure, and upper-body calm to make heavy street spots look less forced than they were.

Zig Zag And The Wider Map

Level 1’s Zig Zag in 2018 placed Boberg inside one of the broadest ski-film maps of that season. The production listed locations including Eagle Pass Heli in British Columbia, Sunshine Village near Banff, Mt. Baker in Washington, Sweden, Gran Masta Park in Switzerland, Hokkaido, Moscow, Helsinki, Whistler, Colorado, Montana, Michigan, and Minnesota. Boberg appeared alongside riders such as Parker White, Laurent De Martin, Sämi Ortlieb, Will Wesson, KC Deane, LJ Strenio, Peyben Hägglund, Oliver Karlberg, Tanner Rainville, Duncan Adams, and Ahmet Dadali. For Boberg, Zig Zag made sense because Level 1’s aesthetic left room for strange lines, urban patience, park looseness, and riders whose identity did not come from a single discipline.

The Bunch, Color, And Matching Socks

Boberg’s connection to The Bunch fits the same pattern. Color, released online in 2019, listed him with Pär Hägglund, Alex Hackel, Oliver Karlberg, Magnus Granér, Lucas Stål Madison, Forster Meeks, Lauri Kivari, and Hugo Burvall, with filming in Sweden, Russia, and Japan. Is There Time For Matching Socks, listed by iF3 for 2020 and published online in January 2021, included Boberg among skiers such as Magnus Granér, Alex Hackel, Emil Granbom, and others. The Bunch’s films are not built like standard trick reels. They use music, pacing, location shifts, and odd visual decisions to turn skiing into a larger mood. Boberg belongs in that language because his riding already treats the feature as part of the joke, not just a technical obstacle.

Real Ski Under Concrete Pressure

X Games Real Ski 2019 gave Boberg a different kind of stage: a short, urban video contest judged by the density of filmed skiing rather than a single run. ESPN hosted his entry with filmer and editor Andreas Olofsson, and the field also included Henrik Harlaut, Phil Casabon, Pär Hägglund, Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, and Jake Mageau. Real Ski suits skiers who can turn city architecture into repeatable footage: down rails, ledges, kinked handrails, wall contacts, redirects, and impact-heavy landings. Boberg’s participation placed him among a small group of street specialists who had both the body control and the patience to turn winter cities into ski spots, often after shoveling, testing speed, and absorbing failed attempts on metal and concrete.

Kimbo Sessions From Ten Riders To A Culture Week

Kimbo Sessions began from an Armada shoot during the Oil & Water period. In a Downdays interview, Boberg explained that one rebuilt jump at Kläppen turned into a highly productive week, and the crew wanted to bring that atmosphere back. The first version had around ten skiers. Later editions grew toward invited fields of roughly 70 riders, with Boberg describing the spring slush, soft parks, good weather, and end-of-season timing as central to the session’s feel. That growth changed Kläppen’s place in freestyle skiing. The resort became more than Boberg’s home hill; it became a yearly meeting point where North American, European, and Scandinavian skiers could share lines instead of competing for scores.

Kläppen’s Park Becomes The Format

The structure of Kimbo Sessions is as important as the rider list. Freeskier’s 2024 recap described an April 28 to May 5 edition at Kläppen, with damp weather early in the week, a spring build, and riders traveling from North America, Europe, and beyond. The videos were filmed by Andreas Olofsson and Björn Eklund, with Eklund editing, and event partners including Monster Energy, Oakley Skiing, Armada Skis, Tyrolia Bindings, Kläppen Ski Resort, Winn Marketing, Snowpark Consulting, and Arsenic. Kläppen’s own 2026 event page added Kimbo Open, a public-facing session where the winner could earn lodging, meals, and a place at Kimbo Sessions. That detail shows how Boberg’s project has expanded without losing its park-session core.

Butter, Press, Blunt Grab, Tail Drag

Boberg’s technical identity is easiest to read through small movements. He uses butters, presses, nose pressure, tail drags, blunt grabs, rail transfers, switch takeoffs, and sideways speed checks as rhythm tools, not decoration. Powder’s interview around the Armada Kimbo pro model made the design connection explicit. The ski was built with squared-off tails, a tighter turn radius, full-wrap edge, and a flex meant for butters, presses, quick turns, and stability on larger jumps. Boberg said the fourth prototype gave him the light, quick feel, easy nose engagement, and slightly stiffer tails he wanted. That ski design mirrors his footage: old-school visual cues, modern park utility, and enough edge to carve or press without feeling locked into one lane.

Ornada And The Current Armada Thread

Boberg remains tied to Armada’s team identity. The brand lists him as a longtime athlete, connects him to Field Productions, Oil & Water, and Kimbo Sessions, and credits his role as an ambassador for freeski culture. Armada’s 2025 team film ORNADA continued that thread. Freeskier described the project as a two-year Armada movie with street skiing, big mountain, powder, park, and freeride, with Boberg listed alongside Tanner Hall, Dani Bacher, Olivia Asselin, Mike Hornbeck, Sammy Carlson, Quinn Wolferman, Henrik Harlaut, Rell Harwood, Keagan Supple, Kuura Koivisto, Toby Rafford, Todd Ligare, and Phil Casabon. For Boberg, the film connects past and present: the same brand family, newer riders, and a format broad enough to include park builds, street setups, and dreamlike production.

The Screen Still Runs Through Kläppen

Boberg’s current relevance is practical, not nostalgic. Kimbo Sessions returned in 2026 after the 2025 edition was canceled because of poor conditions, with Freeskier listing Open Jam dates from April 24 to 26 and the main session from April 26 to May 3. Kläppen also scheduled Kimbo Open on April 25 with a rider meeting led by Boberg. His FIS competition record may be inactive, but the work remains active: park design, crew gathering, Armada projects, ski testing, filming, and a Swedish spring session that still gives freestyle skiing a reason to meet in one place.