Morten Grape

Åre, Sweden | Active: late 2000s-present public ski record | Focus: park skiing, coaching, park building, creative sessions | Current: Swedish freeski assistant coach and ParkLabbet founder

Åre Bräcke With ParkLabbet On The Side

Åre Snowpark’s Bräcke line sat under flat northern light, takeoffs chalky, rails clicking as the first skis hit metal. Morten Grape stood close enough to read speed, shape, and timing before dropping into the same park language he now teaches. His profile is unusual because it does not rest on a medal shelf. Grape belongs to the Swedish freeski layer where riding, coaching, feature design, national-team work, and creative edits overlap. The public record shows him as a former contest skier, a park skier, a film-session name, and now a coach in the Swedish system.

European Open Heat With Bråten And Tjäder

One early competitive marker came at the European Open slopestyle qualifiers, where Newschoolers listed Grape first in a heat ahead of Laurent De Martin, Øystein Bråten, Jaime Puigdengoles, Nicolas Vuignier, Oscar Wester, Jesper Tjäder, Lucas Högland, David Wise, James Webb, and Victor Prieux. That start list gives better context than the result alone. It places Grape inside the European park scene before slopestyle became fully standardized by Olympic qualification and national-team structures. The field mixed future Olympic athletes, film skiers, pipe specialists, and Scandinavian riders still finding their place between contests and video.

Åre Freeriders And The Swedish Team Role

The Swedish Ski Association now lists Grape as assistant coach for the national freeski A-team. His federation profile gives 1992 as his birth year, Åre as his residence, Åre Freeriders as his club, ParkLabbet as sponsor, and Cork 360 as his favorite trick. The same official page states that he has one year in the national team as a coach. Sweden’s Olympic media guide for Milano Cortina 2026 also names him as a coach. That role changes the reading of his career. He is no longer only a skier appearing in edits. He is part of the structure around riders such as Henrik Harlaut, Jesper Tjäder, Oliwer Magnusson, Axel Burmansson, Liam Liljenborg and Victor Knutsen.

ParkLabbet And The Builder’s Eye

ParkLabbet describes Grape as founder and leader, with a career that includes high-level competition, ski-movie appearances, coaching, and snowpark projects. That is probably the clearest current identity. Park building is not separate from skiing in his case. A coach who still rides can see whether a rail line is too slow, whether a takeoff has enough pop, whether a landing punishes progression, or whether a side hit invites the wrong speed. ParkLabbet places him in the practical middle of freeskiing: not just telling athletes what to do, but helping shape the terrain where they learn it.

Andorra Rails With Henrik And Isaac

Freeskier’s 2020 Andorra rail sessions clip put Grape beside Henrik Harlaut and Isaac Simhon in early-season metal. That setting fits his public ski image. Andorra park laps reward exact rail pressure, switch entries, butters, 270s, flat-down timing, and enough edge control to keep the line relaxed. Sharing a clip with Harlaut also places Grape near one of the most influential style references in modern freeskiing. The value of that edit is not a contest result. It shows Grape inside the informal training and filming culture where coaches, pro riders, and friends trade tricks outside bibs and start gates.

WUN With Harlaut Apparel

Grape also appeared in WUN, a Harlaut Apparel video filmed during the 2020-21 season around Europe. Newschoolers lists Henrik Harlaut, Noah Albaladejo, Eirik Moberg, Morten Grape, Hugo Burvall, Valentin Morel, and Isaac “EZ Panda” Simhon in the project. That cast gives the clearest creative context for him. These are skiers whose work often depends on style, body position, rail rhythm, and strange feature choices more than formal contest rankings. In that environment, Grape’s role is not framed as a headliner. He is part of a European style circle where skiing stays alive through sessions, filming, and shared trick language.

World’Up Laps In Laax And Aspen

The recent World’Up edits with Valentin Morel show Grape still connected to high-end park culture. Downdays documented Laax footage with Morel, Remco Kayser, Julius Champion, Simon Bartik, Grape and others after the Laax Open period. Another World’Up edit from Aspen in 2025 listed skiing by Morten Grape, Valentin Morel, Axel Burmanson, Martin Nordqvist, Colby Stevenson, Alex Hall, and Herman Valo Orheim. That kind of cast matters because it joins coaches, current competitors, Olympic medalists, and style skiers in public-park laps. For Grape, it supports the same identity: a skier-coach still moving inside the scene he helps train.

Close To The Edge With Wester

Grape’s name also appears in Jacob Wester’s Close To The Edge, an episode of Jacob Wester Adventures involving steep terrain and a difficult mountain situation. The listed skiing includes Jacob Wester, Tom-Oliver Hedvall and Morten Grape, with André Dalkarl and Adam Müller also tied to the episode context. That credit broadens the profile beyond groomed park laps. It does not make Grape a full big-mountain film athlete, but it shows range: a skier whose public record includes rails, slopestyle history, style edits, and time in terrain where line choice and judgment matter more than trick count.

Cork 360, Coach Timing, And Small Details

The technical reading should stay modest because Grape does not have a widely published trick-by-trick athlete profile. The reliable clues point toward park fluency: cork 360, rail approaches, switch skiing, slopestyle speed, side-hit awareness, takeoff shaping, and the ability to ride with athletes whose skiing is built around grabs, butters, 270s, and relaxed landings. As a coach and park builder, those details matter more than one signature trick. He has to understand how a skier sees the feature before takeoff, how speed changes through a rail line, and how a park can invite progression without forcing unnecessary risk.

The Value Is Transmission

Grape earns a 2/5 importance rating because the verified public athlete record is real but not built around major podiums, Olympic starts, X Games medals, or headlining film parts. His strongest value is current and cultural: Swedish freeski assistant coach, ParkLabbet founder, Åre-based park skier, and recurring name around European creative sessions with Harlaut Apparel, World’Up and Jacob Wester. That makes his page useful when written at the correct scale. Morten Grape is not a superstar profile. He is a transmission figure: the skier who keeps riding, building, coaching, and connecting the park line between older Swedish style and the next start list.