Maximilliam Smith

Sweden / Oslo, Norway | Active: 2011-present public ski record | Focus: creative street skiing, park, butter lines, urban films | Current: ON3P and Oslo Jib Club-linked skier

Oslo Concrete With Snow In The Seams

The Oslo street spot looked half-finished, snow pushed into the seams of concrete while the rail waited under city light. Maximilliam “B-Mack” Smith rolled in without trying to make the feature look normal. A butter came before the trick, then a redirect, then the kind of sideways exit that makes viewers rewind because the movement does not fit the usual rail formula. That is the core of Smith’s profile. He is not a medal-table skier, and his official FIS record ended early. His importance sits in a stranger place: The Bunch, ON3P, Oslo street culture, and a style that helped make “weird” skiing feel like a serious creative language.

Väst Alpin And The Short FIS Window

FIS lists Smith as a Swedish freestyle skier from Väst Alpin, born in 1992, with FIS Code 2530175 and competition status marked not active. His official results are compact but useful: a 14th place in slopestyle at the 2012 World Cup in Jyväskylä, 21st at the 2012 FIS Junior World Ski Championships in Chiesa in Valmalenco, and 29th at the Swedish National Championships in Åre. Svenska Skidförbundet also wrote in 2012 that Maximilian Smith had been selected for the national team, Junior Worlds and World Cup, placing him in the early Swedish slopestyle system beside names such as Frej Jönsson, Christopher Hjälmeby and Robin Björklund Jenssen.

Åre, Soft Pipe Walls, And The Swedish Scene

The same Swedish federation archive gives a small but telling contest scene. At Åre in March 2012, warm and rainy weather shifted into sun and snow showers, leaving the halfpipe soft with steep walls. Frej Jönsson won the men’s class, while Smith, competing for Alpin Väst, skied steadily enough for second ahead of Lucas Stål Madison. That podium is not a global career result, but it places Smith inside the Swedish freestyle generation that later fed very different creative paths. Lucas Stål Madison became central to The Bunch. Hugo Burvall, Magnus Granér, Kim Boberg and others helped make Swedish freeskiing less predictable. Smith belonged to that same cultural turn.

The Bunch Before The Rules Fell Away

The Bunch gave Smith the setting where his skiing made the most sense. His Far Out full part appeared through The Bunch in 2014, with Newschoolers listing Sweden and America as locations. The Bunch’s trilogy page for Finito later listed Smith among riders including Pär Hägglund, Magnus Granér, Jens Nilsson, Lucas Stål Madison, Tobias Sedlacek, Leo Björklund, Sakarias Majander and others, with locations across Sweden, Norway, America, France and Russia. That crew did not present skiing as a clean trick catalog. It used travel, music, humor, repetition and strange movement to make skiing feel more like a self-portrait than a standard action edit.

Mt. Hood When The Jump Became A Side Hit

Downdays’ 2018 interview with B-Mack gives one of the best descriptions of his creative shift. The writer met him at Mt. Hood, where Smith was skiing the Palmer Snowfield and living the summer glacier life near Government Camp. A sunset jump session was expected to produce normal photos, but Smith built a small side hit on the jump and started buttering along the ridge used as a landing. That moment became a shorthand for his skiing. Instead of treating a feature as fixed, he changed the line around it. The takeoff, landing, ridge and speed check became part of one moving idea.

Zermatt Digital Zooms And The Bunch Style

Freeskier documented Smith and Lucas Stål Madison at Snowpark Zermatt in 2016 through the edit Digital Zooms of Zermatt. The short piece framed both Swedes as creative skiers working inside The Bunch language, with Smith pushing especially hard in the final shots. Zermatt matters because summer and glacier parks can make skiing look repetitive: rails, jumps, glacier laps, reset. Smith’s value is that he resists that flattening. He uses nose pressure, tail drags, butters, late redirects, awkward takeoffs, slow rotations and off-angle landings to make a familiar park look slightly misread on purpose.

Oslo Teaching, Night Streets, And Krypto

By 2018, Smith told Downdays he was living downtown in Oslo, working as a ski teacher and skiing city streets when time allowed. He mentioned the Oslo homies, Trashparty, ratnation, kitboys and frequent sessions with Eirik Moberg, better known as Krypto Skier. That Oslo period is central to the modern B-Mack image. It moved the style from Swedish crew films into a city-street environment where snowbanks, rails, concrete banks and small transitions could be treated like a skatepark. The job as ski teacher also adds texture: he was not simply chasing pro-athlete infrastructure. He was working, teaching, then going back into the city to film.

SNØ Indoors And The ONEP Joke

What the F*#k is ONEP?, published through Downdays in 2022, placed Smith and Eirik Moberg inside SNØ, the indoor ski facility near Oslo. Indoor edits can easily feel limited, but the piece was presented as unusually energetic, with both skiers turning a controlled rail-and-jump setup into something loose and strange. The title plays with ON3P, but the skiing is the real point: redirects, rails, small transitions, switch movement, butters, wall contacts and timing tricks squeezed into artificial snow. Smith’s creativity works well indoors because the space is constrained. When there is less terrain, every unnecessary movement becomes more visible.

ON3P Seven From Estonia To Japan

ON3P 7 gave Smith his strongest recent film anchor. iF3 describes it as a street film with ON3P team skiers Forster Meeks, Eirik Moberg, Maximilliam Smith and Andrew Branch, traveling through Estonia, Japan, Canada and Norway to find street spots. Downdays went further, writing that Smith carried both the opener and ender, including a front cork 630 lead safety off a stone ledge. The film matters because it puts him in a current international street context, not only as a nostalgic Bunch figure. He is still active in clips where spot choice, weird takeoffs and visual rhythm matter as much as trick naming.

ON3P Eight And The Retaining Wall Era

The ON3P thread continued with the eighth in-house film in 2025. Downdays listed Smith with Jake Mageau, Oscar Weary, Eirik Moberg, Forster Meeks, Andrew Branch, Aleksander Kongelf and Leo Bergström, and credited him with additional filming alongside several riders. That detail matters because Smith’s role is not only in front of the camera. He belongs to a crew process where filming, spot reading, skiing and editing culture overlap. The article described the team hitting redirects, wallrides and transition finds, which fits the direction his skiing has taken for years. A retaining wall, bank or weird concrete shape is not background. It becomes the feature.

Riksgränsen With Oslo Jib Club In Spring

Downdays’ 2026 tag coverage brought Smith into another setting: Riksgränsen’s late spring backcountry with Emil Larsen, Vilmer Ivarsson and Freddie Grann under the Oslo Jib Club banner. Riksgränsen has a specific spring feel: long light, soft northern snow, wind-formed terrain and a culture where park, freeride, snowboarding and odd side-hit skiing blend easily. For Smith, the move from streets to Riksgränsen does not feel like a discipline change. It is the same visual habit applied to a different surface. Look for a lip, change the expected approach, use the landing as part of the trick, then leave the line with a movement that feels slightly too casual for the difficulty.

B-Mack’s Rating Lives In Culture, Not Podiums

Smith earns a 3/5 importance rating because his official competition résumé is short, but his cultural record is stronger than a basic core profile. The verified anchors are FIS World Cup and Junior Worlds starts, Swedish national-team selection, The Bunch films, Far Out, Finito, Zermatt edits, Oslo street projects, SNØ with Krypto, ON3P 7, ON3P 8 and recent Oslo Jib Club footage. A higher rating would overstate the record because there is no Olympic start, X Games medal, World Cup podium or major contest title. His value is more specific: B-Mack helped make creative, swerving, butter-heavy street skiing feel like a complete artistic position, not a mistake between proper tricks.