Thomas Trads

Denmark / Norway | Active Public Record: 2014-2021 | Known for: Danish slopestyle, World Cup starts, Sierra Nevada 2017, Ticking Bomb, Hafjell clips, Capeesh Supply | Current: former FIS athlete and ski-lifestyle brand figure

Bokwang When Denmark Reached The Test Event

The slopestyle course at Bokwang in South Korea carried Olympic weight before the Games ever arrived. Cold air, blue rails, a jump line built for 2018 pressure, and Thomas Trads standing in as athlete, traveler and one-man Danish operation. His run needed to connect rails, unnatural spins, switch takeoffs and doubles without the safety net of a large national freestyle machine.

That 2016 World Cup test event remains one of the clearest images in his competitive story. Trads did not leave PyeongChang with a result that changed international slopestyle. He left with experience, proof that a Danish skier could enter that arena, and a public record that still separates him from most riders in countries without a deep freeski infrastructure.

Haugaard Thomas Trads On The FIS Sheet

FIS lists him officially as Haugaard Thomas Trads, representing Denmark, born in 1994, with FIS Code 2531868. His public competition record runs from 2014 to 2018 and covers freeski slopestyle and big air. The status is now listed as not active, which fits the shift from contest starts toward creative and brand work later in his public profile.

The early FIS trail began at the 2014 Junior World Championships in Chiesa in Valmalenco, where he finished 31st in slopestyle. He then moved through Norwegian FIS and national events at Skeikampen, Kirkerud, Drammen Skisenter, Oppdal and Hafjell, building a Scandinavian contest base before World Cup starts became the main reference point.

From Norwegian Parks To Danish Slopestyle

Trads’ development is unusual because Denmark has no alpine training culture comparable to Norway, Sweden, Switzerland or the United States. His skiing had to be built through travel, camps, Scandinavian parks and repeated exposure to better infrastructure abroad. That is why names like Hafjell, Hemsedal, Drammen, Skeikampen and Cardrona matter in his record.

Riders.dk described him in 2016 as the defending Danish slopestyle champion and one of Denmark’s strongest skiers at the time. That framing is important. He was not entering World Cups from a major national pipeline. He was carrying a small-country freeski identity into events where most competitors came from much larger programs.

PyeongChang And The Run That Would Not Link

In his Riders.dk interview after the Bokwang Olympic test event, Trads gave a detailed breakdown of the run he was trying to land. The line included rail tricks, an unnatural 900, a switch double 900 and a double 1260. The key failure came on the switch double 900, which he said he had not done in a long time and missed in both runs.

That honesty gives his profile a useful technical anchor. The level was real, even if the execution failed that day. The planned run shows a skier working with modern slopestyle demands: unnatural rotations, switch doubles, rail combinations, blind exits, pretzels, and the need to carry speed from feature to feature without losing the rhythm of the course.

Cardrona Before Sierra Nevada

Cardrona gave Trads his strongest official FIS placement. In September 2016, he finished seventh in an Australian New Zealand Cup slopestyle event with 86.40 points. That result matters because Cardrona has long been a major Southern Hemisphere training and contest venue, drawing strong international fields during the northern off-season.

The following year pushed him into a larger World Cup and championship schedule. His FIS record shows World Cup starts at Silvaplana, Cardrona, Stubai and Font Romeu in 2017, plus the 2017 World Championships at Sierra Nevada. He did not reach finals at that level, but the calendar itself shows a full attempt to chase the senior slopestyle pathway.

Sierra Nevada With The Field At Full Strength

The 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada were the highest-profile official event in Trads’ record. FIS lists him 33rd in men’s slopestyle, after a qualification appearance in a field that included the main international names of that period. For a Danish freeskier, that start is one of the strongest markers in his archive.

Sierra Nevada also shows the limit of the profile. Trads was not a finalist, medal contender or repeat World Cup podium athlete. His importance is more specific: he reached the championship and World Cup level from a smaller ski nation, while also remaining connected to the Scandinavian park-video world that shaped his style.

Hafjell With Killi, Ulsletten And Fineid

Trads’ video record gives the competitive story more texture. His Newschoolers upload HAFJELL//Closing Day lists Max Larsen, Stian Killi, Petter Ulsletten, Jeppe Solberg, Knut Fineid and Thomas Trads, filmed at Hafjell. That lineup places him directly beside a strong Norwegian park generation.

Hafjell matters because it was more than a contest venue. It was a Scandinavian training and filming environment where skiers could lap jumps, rails, tubes and spring features together. For Trads, those sessions help explain the bridge between Denmark’s limited terrain and the level required to ski World Cups. The crew around him was part of the infrastructure.

Ticking Bomb And The Norwegian Film Orbit

Ticking Bomb 2015 adds another film reference. The Newschoolers listing credits Trads in a cast with Emil Larsen, Kristian Vereide, Øystein Bråten, Christopher Strande, Jens Johnsen, Christian Nummedal, Magnus Solheim, Christer Mathisen, Max Larsen, Vegard Hokkstad, Herman Fjøss, Edvard Strand and Lars Tynes.

That cast sits close to Norway’s competitive and creative freeski core. Bråten and Nummedal would become major names in international slopestyle, while others stayed central to Scandinavian park culture. Trads’ presence in that film shows that his public identity was never only a federation entry. He was part of the same regional media and park network.

How Trads Skied The Slopestyle Line

The safest technical reading comes from the event record and his own PyeongChang run description. Trads’ skiing was built around slopestyle structure: rails first, jump line after, with switch doubles, unnatural rotations, blind rail exits, pretzels and enough aerial confidence to plan a double 1260 at World Cup level.

That technical profile is different from a pure street skier or freerider. Trads needed course management. A slopestyle skier has to land one feature with enough balance to reach the next, control speed through rails, hold grabs cleanly in the air, and stay composed when a single missed takeoff can collapse the whole run. His best public record sits in that contest-based park language.

CopenHill, Capeesh And The After-Contest Chapter

After the active FIS period, Trads’ public footprint shifted toward Capeesh Supply. Public company pages list him as a partner at Capeesh Supply AS, a ski and lifestyle clothing company connected to Joona Kangas and the Scandinavian freeski scene. His LinkedIn post also described Capeesh presenting its first clothing line on top of CopenHill in Copenhagen.

That chapter fits the arc. Trads moved from being the Danish skier chasing World Cup starts to someone helping build a ski-lifestyle project around the same culture: clothing, CopenHill, Scandinavian riders, edits, parties and the link between skiing and streetwear. It keeps him inside the sport, but through community and brand identity rather than bib numbers.

Where Thomas Trads Fits Now

Thomas Trads’ profile is strongest when framed as a Danish slopestyle athlete with a Scandinavian creative afterlife. The verified trail runs through FIS Junior Worlds, Norwegian FIS events, the Bokwang Olympic test event, Cardrona, Silvaplana, Sierra Nevada 2017, Stubai, Font Romeu, Ticking Bomb, Hafjell and Capeesh Supply.

He should not be inflated into an Olympic finalist or major X Games figure. His value is more precise: a Danish skier who reached World Cup and World Championship slopestyle fields, filmed with strong Norwegian crews, and later helped carry ski culture into clothing and events through Capeesh. For skipowd.tv, that makes him a useful archive subject between competition, Scandinavian park media and post-athlete scene building.