Tereza Korabova
Profile and significance
Tereza Korábová is a Czech freeski rail specialist, street skier and X Games medalist who has become one of the most influential jib-focused riders in Europe. Born in 1998 and originally from the north of the Czech Republic, she grew up far from big alpine resorts yet managed to carve out a path to the very top of urban and park skiing. Her career blends heavy street footage, creative rail contests and standout performances at global events, capped by a silver medal in Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck at X Games Aspen 2025 after placing fifth in the same event in 2024. That result made her the first woman from the Czech Republic to win a trick-discipline medal at the X Games and confirmed that her style, forged on small hills and city rails, belongs on the sport’s biggest stage.
Beyond X Games, Korábová’s name is tightly linked with some of the most respected projects in contemporary freeskiing. She won Level 1’s prestigious SuperUnknown contest in 2022, a watershed moment that shifted her from underground favourite to widely recognised talent. She has played a central role in the all-FLINTA Bucket Clips films, spearheaded her own all-women urban and backcountry project “Relentless,” and co-headlined the Midwest street short “Mud Pit” with fellow Surface Skis rider Cat Agnew. Her film work, together with podiums at events like Dew Tour streetstyle, Rock A Rail Ski and Absolut Park’s Spring Battle, has given her a rare dual status: both a decorated competitor and a culture-shaping street skier.
Academically, she graduated from Charles University in Prague in 2021 and now lives in Innsbruck, Austria, placing herself in the middle of the European park and street scene while staying closely connected to her Czech roots. She rides for Surface Skis, where she was turned pro and joined the very small group of women with their own pro-model park ski, and she is part of the Czech brand Vagus, which reflects her offbeat, DIY attitude toward skiing and mountain life.
Competitive arc and key venues
Korábová’s competitive story starts at home. On the Czech domestic circuit she rose quickly through events like the O’Neill Czech Freeski Tour, ultimately winning the overall tour title in the 2019/20 season. Articles from the Czech Ski Association and national freeski media highlight further wins and podiums at the O’Neill FIS Cup events in the Matylda snowpark, where she battled regularly with other Czech rail standouts. She soon stepped onto the international stage, scoring an eighth place at a European Cup slopestyle in La Clusaz in 2020 and continuing to mix FIS contests with more creative street-driven sessions.
The next big leap came at Dew Tour 2023 in Copper Mountain, where she was invited to the women’s streetstyle event: a rail-focused format that mirrors the kind of riding she does all winter. Against an invited field of twelve riders, Korábová advanced out of her heat with a clutch final run, then bowed out in head-to-head rounds to Lisa Zimmermann but left a strong impression with solid spins on and off the rails. FIS later recorded a European Cup podium for her at a rail event in Den Haag in 2024, reinforcing that she could turn her street instincts into structured results when it mattered.
Her biggest competitive headlines, though, come from the X Games and the rail-jam tour scene. In Aspen 2024 she finished fifth in Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck, becoming the first Czech woman to compete in an X Games trick discipline. One year later, at X Games Aspen 2025, she elevated that performance to a silver medal in Knuckle Huck, using a mix of nose-butter rotations and hand-drag variations that matched the event’s emphasis on creativity and style. The same year she also placed inside the top ten in Women’s Ski Street Style, proving once again that she is comfortable when the entire course is rails and wallrides.
On the European side, 2024 and 2025 have been a streak of dominance on metal. At SnowFest Innsbruck, on the city rail structure used for Rock A Rail Ski, she won the women’s category with technical and imaginative lines. Across the Rock A Rail Ski Tour she finished the year as the overall women’s champion, and at the Absolut Park Spring Battle 2025 in Flachauwinkl she claimed the Women’s Freeski Best Rail title with a 94-point score. These events, combined with earlier appearances at Scandinavian Team Battle on Copenhagen’s CopenHill and at SnowFest The Hague, position her as one of the defining rail riders of her generation.
How they ski: what to watch for
Watching Tereza Korábová ski is an education in modern street and rail-focused freeskiing. Her style is compact and purposeful: low stance, quiet upper body and a constant search for new ways to interact with a feature. On down bars and kinks she favours technical spin-ons and spin-offs—270s and 450s that are locked in rather than flailed—often linking them together over multiple rails so that the whole line feels like a single sentence instead of individual words. She is especially adept at using side hits, wallrides and odd angles, which makes her runs at events like Rock A Rail or Dew Tour streetstyle stand out from riders who stick to the most obvious options.
In knuckle-focused events, the same creativity moves from steel to snow. Her X Games runs highlight a toolkit built around nose-butter entries, late rotations and hand drags that stay stylish rather than desperate. Instead of simply hucking large spins, she plays with approach and takeoff: buttering into the knuckle, delaying the spin, tweaking grabs and sometimes dragging a hand or tail through the snow for extra texture. The judges at Aspen have rewarded that approach because it fits the knuckle huck spirit perfectly—original, playful and still technically precise.
For riders trying to learn from her, the important details lie in speed and intent. Korábová rarely looks rushed on approach; she sets a deliberate line into each feature so that once she leaves the snow, everything unfolds calmly. Her skis land flat or on edge where they should, rather than getting slapped down at random, and she is quick to recover from small bobbles without sacrificing the flow of the run. That combination of strong basics and fearless feature choice is a big part of why she can move seamlessly between contest courses, hand-built street spots and backcountry step-downs in projects like “Relentless.”
Resilience, filming, and influence
If contests gave Korábová a platform, films are what turned her into a reference point for street skiing. After years of stacking clips in Europe and North America, she helped anchor the Bucket Clips film series, an all-FLINTA freeski mixtape that gathers heavy segments from women and gender-diverse riders worldwide. Coverage from festival programmes and ski media repeatedly points out how stacked her segments are, and how she helped push those projects from idea to finished movies. At the same time she stepped into a director and organiser role with “Relentless,” an urban and backcountry film built around a girl crew that spends a winter hunting rails and pillows together. The finished movie, full of crashes, hugs and serious spots, underlines her willingness to take on the unglamorous work of building, shovelling and coordinating in addition to skiing.
In 2024 she added “Mud Pit” to her filmography, teaming up with Cat Agnew and filmmaker Cal Aamodt for a short shot in the American Midwest with barely any snow. The project, released through Downdays, showcases her ability to adapt to rough, low-coverage urban features and still produce standout shots. She also appears in projects like “Slav & Friends” and in multiple Rock A Rail and SnowFest recaps, reinforcing the sense that wherever there is a creative jib setup or a new women’s street project, there is a good chance she is involved.
Recognition has followed. Ski media have described her as one of the most passionate European female freeskiers, and Newschoolers’ 2025 awards coverage highlights how SuperUnknown, Mud Pit, Bucket Clips and her pro-model promotion with Surface all combined into one of the strongest seasons any woman street skier has ever put together. For younger riders—especially from Central and Eastern Europe—her trajectory from Czech rail contests to global awards and a pro model is a powerful message that you do not need to grow up in a mega-resort to shape the direction of freeskiing.
Geography that built the toolkit
Korábová’s skiing is rooted in the small mountains and cities of northern Czechia. Local rope-tow hills and modest snowparks taught her to make the most out of limited vertical and creative but imperfect features. As her riding progressed, she spent winters chasing setups in both Czech and Austrian parks, a rhythm described on her profile with Czech brand Vagus: always on rails, jumps or tubes, always surrounded by a crew of friends. That constant search for fun, even on small or icy features, hardened her into the kind of rider who can show up at a new street spot and immediately see several lines.
Relocating to Innsbruck placed her in one of Europe’s main hubs for park and street skiing. From there she has easy access to urban spots in the city, to glacier parks like Hintertux, and to contest venues such as the Rock A Rail setup at SnowFest Innsbruck. Trips to Absolut Park in Flachauwinkl for Spring Battle, to CopenHill in Copenhagen for Scandinavian Team Battle, and to SnowFest The Hague for in-city rail events further expanded her geographical range. On the film side, “Mud Pit” shows her adapting to North American urban terrain, while backcountry shots in “Relentless” reveal that she is equally at home building jumps in the woods when the opportunity arises.
All of these locations—Czech rope-tows, Tyrolean city rails, Austrian glacier parks and North American back alleys—feed into her ability to read any feature quickly. For viewers, understanding this geographical background helps explain why she looks so at ease whether she is dropping into a steel cage in Innsbruck, a knuckle in Aspen or a handrail in a nearly snowless Midwest parking lot.
Equipment and partners: practical takeaways
On the hardware side, Korábová is closely associated with Surface Skis. After years on their team she was turned pro, and the brand now offers a pro-model park ski built to match her riding: full twin-tip, durable edges and a flex pattern that is sturdy enough for urban abuse yet lively on smaller jumps and transitions. For skiers inspired by her, the lesson is not that they need her exact model, but that a street-focused setup should be predictable on rails, supportive on big landings and comfortable skiing switch into and out of features.
Her partnership with Czech company Vagus covers helmets, goggles and outerwear pieces that fit her “ride all day, party with friends” approach to the mountains. She often appears in their communication as the archetypal freeski vagabond from the north of Czechia, spending winters between Austrian and Czech snowparks and treating skiing as a lifestyle rather than a job. Together with filming projects led by creatives like Laura Obermeyer and the Bucket Clips crew, these partnerships show how equipment, media and community can align around a rider whose focus is style and substance rather than pure results.
For progressing jib skiers, the practical takeaway is clear: a solid, symmetrical park ski, reliable protection and outerwear you are happy to thrash on rails will free you to focus on line choice and creativity. Korábová’s career demonstrates how far that combination can go when paired with persistence and a willingness to put in the hours shovelling stairs and testing new ideas.
Why fans and progressing skiers care
Fans care about Tereza Korábová because she represents the cutting edge of women’s street and rail skiing while staying true to a grounded, crew-oriented lifestyle. She is an X Games silver medalist, a SuperUnknown champion, a Rock A Rail tour winner and a European Cup podium finisher, yet her most memorable work often happens far from big contest finish corral banners, on dimly lit handrails or in deep-snow woods with a small camera crew. That balance between accolades and authenticity has earned her respect from core skiers and mainstream audiences alike.
For progressing riders, especially women and FLINTA skiers, her path is a detailed blueprint. Start with whatever hill and rail you have access to. Film with your friends, enter local tours like the Czech freeski series, and be ready when invitations arrive for bigger stages like Dew Tour, Spring Battle or X Games. Korábová’s runs at Aspen, her leadership in projects like “Relentless” and her pro-model with Surface all show that it is possible to build a career that gives equal weight to style, community and competition. Watching how she approaches a rail, how she reimagines a knuckle and how she celebrates with her crew afterwards turns her skiing into both inspiration and a practical guide for the next generation of jib-focused freeskiers.
