Sam Lobinsky

Centerville, Minnesota / Trollhaugen, Wisconsin | Active: 2018-present public video record | Focus: park skiing, rails, edits, terrain-park culture | Current: COLAB rider profile and Trollhaugen Park Crew listing

Trollhaugen Blue Steel At 1 A.M.

The blue and yellow rails at Trollhaugen sat cold under floodlights, metal ringing through the Wisconsin night as Sam Lobinsky slid another lap past midnight. The hill is small, but the tempo is not. Trollhaugen’s park culture is built on fast rope-tow repetition, odd features, late sessions, and crews who treat a rail line like a shared language. Lobinsky’s public profile comes from that world rather than a major contest résumé: video parts, home-park edits, Quiksilver Young Guns visibility, and the Midwest-to-Utah path followed by many technical park skiers.

Centerville To The Trollhaugen Loop

COLAB lists Lobinsky from Centerville, Minnesota, with the nickname Lam, skis as his mount, and Troll as his home hill. That profile also lists affiliations with ON3P Ski Co, Pinewski’s Ski and Boardshop, and Marker Bindings. Those details give the most reliable base for his identity. He is not documented as a World Cup regular or a major film headliner. His ski record sits closer to the grassroots park layer: local shops, independent edits, small-hill repetition, and a home resort whose blue-and-yellow steel has become recognizable far beyond its vertical drop.

Whistler Young Guns And The Popular Vote

The first wider marker came through Quiksilver Young Guns in 2018. Forecast Ski listed Thibault Magnin, Sam Lobinsky, Konnor Ralph, and Simon Hillis as the finalists who reached Whistler Blackcomb after Instagram voting rounds, then skied for a week with Sammy Carlson before the final choice was made. Newschoolers later wrote that Lobinsky did not win the main prize but took the popular vote. That detail matters because it shows where his visibility came from: peer and viewer attention around style, clips, and trick selection rather than a formal points table.

Lucid And The Trollhaugen Season Edit

Lucid, published in 2018, is one of the cleanest early video anchors. Lobinsky’s own description placed the edit at Trollhaugen and described nights lapping the park until 1 a.m., sliding the blue and yellow rails with friends. Freeride.cz later framed his 2020 season edit as the work of a Trollhaugen local already familiar to viewers of the Human Being series. The article pointed to his rail and jump ability, especially jib combinations that made the short edit worth watching. Those sources put him firmly in the Midwest park-video lane.

Home, Reflection, And Short-Form Progression

Newschoolers hosts several Lobinsky edits that build a compact filmography. Reflection, published in 2019, thanked ON3P, Pinewski’s, COLAB, Trollhaugen, and the friends who kept him progressing. Home, published in 2020, kept the format short and direct, again crediting ON3P, Pinewski’s, COLAB, and the filmers around him. You & Me, published in 2021, described a trip to the “mecca of skiing,” with vertically filmed clips presented in a 4:3 format. These are not major movie parts, but they are enough to show a consistent self-published path.

Winter Park On The FIS Sheet

FIS gives Lobinsky a small but useful official competition record. His profile lists him as a United States freestyle athlete with FIS Code 2537967, born in 2001, tied to Park City Ski & Snowboard, and marked not active. The results page shows a fourth-place slopestyle finish at Winter Park Resort, Colorado, on March 19, 2021, with 29.43 FIS points, followed by a 47th-place slopestyle result at Mammoth Mountain on March 23, 2021. That record is too brief to define him as a contest skier, but it confirms that his park background did reach FIS competition.

ON3P Homegrown With Nick Schoess

HOMEGROWN - SAM x TROLL, published by ON3P in 2022, brought the story back to Trollhaugen. Newschoolers describes the piece simply: Lobinsky getting comfortable at his home park, with Nick Schoess filming and the edit credited to Schoess and Lobinsky. The special thanks named Marsha Hovey at Trollhaugen, Kian Barrett, Valerie Schoess, Marty, and Utah. That small credit list says a lot about the lane he occupies. His skiing is tied to a crew network, a ski brand that values independent park style, and a home hill where filming, riding, and building overlap.

Max Moffatt Lines And Snowboard Influence

The Newschoolers interview gives the clearest technical clues. Lobinsky named Max Moffatt as his favorite style influence and said Trollhaugen snowboarders had shaped parts of his own skiing. That combination fits the footage environment: rail slides, butters, presses, switch takeoffs, corked rotations, transfers, slow-looking landings, and tricks held long enough to read. His style should not be described like an Olympic slopestyle run. It is closer to small-hill fluency, where a skier learns to make limited terrain feel fresh through line choice, body position, and repeated experimentation with friends watching from the side.

Park Crew Work After The Edit Cycle

Ski Area Management’s 2025 Terrain Park Contest article confirms that Lobinsky remained connected to Trollhaugen beyond his own clips. The Trollhaugen Park Crew section described the resort’s “blue and yellow steel” and named Sam Lobinsky among the people whose work shaped the 2024-25 season build. That is an important current marker. For many creative park skiers, influence does not only come through contest medals. It comes through building, testing, reshaping, filming, and giving the next skier a better feature to hit after school, after work, or under lights.

The Profile Is Real But Still Core

Lobinsky earns a 2/5 importance rating because the public trail is legitimate but narrow. The reliable anchors are Quiksilver Young Guns, Trollhaugen’s Human Being ecosystem, Lucid, Reflection, Home, You & Me, HOMEGROWN, a short FIS slopestyle record, COLAB support, and a 2024-25 Trollhaugen Park Crew listing. There is no verified X Games medal, World Cup podium, Olympic start, or major full-length film résumé. The best page angle is therefore specific: Sam Lobinsky as a Midwest park skier whose value sits in Trollhaugen laps, ON3P-era edits, rail style, and the terrain-park culture that shaped him.