Remco Kayser

Geneva, Switzerland | Active: 2012-present public ski record | Discipline: Creative Freestyle, Street, Backcountry Freestyle and Park Skiing | Public markers: SuperUnknown XV, Buldozlife, Black Crows, Level 1 Romance

Riksgränsen Slush And A Perfect Spring

The snow in northern Sweden had softened into spring slush, the kind that makes every landing sound wet and every side hit look possible. Remco Kayser and Jacques Summermatter moved through Scandinavia with friends, meeting The Bunch, crossing paths with Keesh, and turning signature Scandi spots into a loose, playful film language. Everything Is Perfect, released through Downdays in 2025, did not need a podium or a scoreboard. It showed the clearest current version of Kayser: a Geneva skier still chasing texture, timing, friends, edits, and the strange joy of making freestyle look like a game with no fixed rules.

Geneva With Dutch Roots And Alpine Access

Kayser’s official FIS profile lists him as Swiss, from Geneva, born in 1994, with a non-active competition status. Black Crows describes him as an inhabitant of Geneva who started skiing with his parents, then kept reaching the mountains through local non-profit organizations that helped city kids ski. That origin matters because his skiing has never looked like it came only from a formal resort academy.

Blackmail’s interview adds another layer: he was born in Geneva to Dutch parents, began young, then joined regional teams before reaching the Swiss national freeskiing setup. Geneva sits close enough to the Alps to make skiing possible, but far enough from resort life to keep a different perspective. Kayser’s later style carries that split: alpine access, city habits, street imagination, and a refusal to treat skiing as only competition.

World Cup Bibs Before Buldozlife

Before the films, Kayser spent time inside the standard slopestyle system. In his Blackmail interview, he said he joined the Swiss national freeskiing team and spent time on the World Cup slopestyle circuit before becoming tired of the pressure, athletic structure, and robotic direction of competition. That part of the story is important because his creative turn was not caused by lack of ability.

The competition years gave him useful tools: switch takeoffs, rail timing, corked rotations, grab discipline, jump-line speed, and the ability to manage a full slopestyle course. The later Kayser style uses those tools differently. Instead of building a run for judges, he puts the same body control into wallrides, odd takeoffs, long rails, backcountry landings, butters, side hits, and film parts where the trick has to fit the mood.

Winter Park And The SuperUnknown XV Crown

SuperUnknown XV in 2018 changed the scale of Kayser’s career. The finals were held at Winter Park Resort in Colorado, and the Level 1 archive lists him as the men’s winner that year. Newschoolers described him as a skier who did not seem driven by the usual professional script, but whose love for skiing and urban-influenced approach had pushed him to the professional level.

The win carried extra force because SuperUnknown has a particular place in freeski culture. It rewards video presence, personality, park creativity, feature use, and peer respect. Kayser was not winning a standard FIS event. He was entering a list connected to film-driven skiers, then using that moment to step into a wider North American scene. Winter Park gave him the door that Geneva, Buldozlife, and his own edits had been pushing toward.

EGO-TRIP Across Mammoth And Colorado

After SuperUnknown, Kayser turned the trip itself into a project. EGO-TRIP by Remco Kayser appeared on Newschoolers in November 2018, with locations listed as Mammoth, Winter Park, and American landscapes. The description framed the video around a road trip with fellow finalists Simon Bartik and Jessy Desjardins, plus Carlo Mion, Philippe Clairoux, Philippe Gaucher, and Kevin Desjardins.

That edit fits Kayser’s profile because it refuses to separate skiing from travel, jokes, friendship, and the feeling of being somewhere new. Mammoth gave him large spring park features. Winter Park gave him the SuperUnknown finals. The road gave him the story between tricks. For a European skier who had dreamed of skiing Mammoth, the trip became more than a contest reward. It became a personal archive of the moment his career opened.

Romance Put The Rookie In Level 1’s Last Chapter

Black Crows states that Kayser’s SuperUnknown win led to a segment in Romance, the final movie from Level 1 Productions. In a later Blackmail interview, he explained that he had skied in two Level 1 films in different ways: a few shots in ZigZag after joining the crew in Canada, then a real part in Romance. That sequence gives his film career a clear turning point.

Level 1 mattered because the company’s movies shaped freeski style for years. A part there was not the same as a casual web clip. It placed Kayser’s skiing beside a larger archive of park, street, backcountry, and travel-based freeskiing. For an athlete who had stepped away from the World Cup circuit, Romance gave the creative path a formal stamp.

Buldozlife And The Swiss Backcountry Joke

Buldozlife is the crew name that keeps Kayser tied to Switzerland. Downdays’ 2020 page for Gore-Flex lists him with Yohan Lovey, Gilles Tinguely, Sampo Vallotton, Benjamin Copt, J-B Michel, Isaac Simhon, and friends. The film was framed around Swiss backcountry, sticky powder landings, and intentionally low-quality outerwear humor.

That tone suits Kayser better than polished athlete branding. Buldozlife lets the skiing be technically serious while the presentation stays loose. Backcountry freestyle can become heavy quickly: avalanche conditions, snowmobile or touring access, hand-built jumps, blind landings, and long days for one shot. Kayser’s crew keeps the pressure from flattening the footage. The skiing still carries corks, grabs, spins, pow landings, crashes, and commitment, but the mood stays human.

Swiss Dams, Wallrides And From Switzerland With Love

From Switzerland With Love gave another precise location for Kayser’s creative lane. Downdays reported that Laurent De Martin invited Kayser and Will Berman into the project’s street segment. With no snow in the cities, the crew moved into back valleys where dams and infrastructure created a Swiss version of street skiing.

Kayser’s own comment in that feature described wallrides and long rails in small towns as the kind of spots he grew up hitting. That sentence explains a lot. His skiing is not only about finding perfect park features. It is about recognizing skiable shapes in local terrain: concrete, metal, road cuts, dam walls, rails, side banks, and mountain infrastructure. That Swiss street-backcountry overlap is one of the reasons his footage reads differently from standard park edits.

Board The Captis Train With Anttu Oikkonen

Board The Captis Train, released through Black Crows, paired Kayser with Anttu Oikkonen in Switzerland during spring. Newschoolers described warm valley weather, slushy snow, and terrain that made skiing feel fun rather than over-engineered. Nick Meilleur and Corey Grant were connected to the media side, giving the project a clean Black Crows visual frame.

The edit fits the brand relationship. Black Crows does not present Kayser as a medal-chasing contest skier. It presents him as an all-terrain creative skier who can make the Camox, Nocta, or a spring setup look playful across park, slush, and natural features. The sponsor story is therefore technical and aesthetic at once: skis that can butter, slash, land, turn, and survive the strange lines he chooses.

Still Can’t Cork Beside Lake Geneva

In January 2025, Newschoolers published Still Can’t Cork, a two-year project by Maé Biedermann, created with Tyndall Wells and Remco Kayser. The short movie was filmed in the Swiss mountains next to Lake Geneva during the winters of 2023 and 2024. That setting brings the story close to Kayser’s home region again.

The title is playful, but the project fits a real creative thread. Kayser has become part of the Swiss and European scene not only as a skier in front of the camera, but as someone helping shape edits, stories, and collaborative projects. That role matters for a 3/5 profile. He is not a global contest superstar, but he is more than a one-video name.

The Accurate Shape Of Kayser’s Influence

Kayser’s importance sits at 3/5. He does not have Olympic finals, X Games medals, World Cup podiums, or a dominant competition record. The verified value is different: Swiss national-team background, SuperUnknown XV win, Level 1 Romance part, Buldozlife films, Black Crows ambassadorship, From Switzerland With Love, Board The Captis Train, Everything Is Perfect, and Still Can’t Cork.

The strongest version of his page is therefore a creative biography, not a results résumé. Kayser represents a skier who passed through the contest system, stepped away from it, and built a more personal route through Swiss infrastructure, backcountry jumps, spring slush, Scandinavian road trips, crew films, edits, and brand-supported projects. The current endpoint is concrete: still filming, still tied to Black Crows, and still making freestyle feel less like a ranking table than a shared trick between friends.