Jib League Season 1

Jib League Season 1 was the inaugural rider-voted freeski tour held in 2023 across Nordkette, Crans-Montana and Myrkdalen | Disciplines: creative park skiing, rails, jumps, knuckle features and transfer setups | Notable winner: Joona Kangas | Format: three-stop jam session series with peer voting

Nordkette Crans Montana And Myrkdalen Built The First Map

Jib League Season 1 ran through the 2022-23 freeski winter as a three-stop experiment that quickly became one of the most watched alternative contest formats in park skiing. The first event took place at Nordkette Skyline Park above Innsbruck in February 2023, followed by Crans-Montana in Switzerland in April and a season finale at Myrkdalen, Norway, at the end of April. The season was not built like a FIS slopestyle tour. It used rails, jumps, knuckles, channel gaps and transfer features as a moving test of style, awareness and trick choice.

Peer Voting Replaced The Score Sheet

The central rule change was simple: no conventional judging panel. Jib League put invited pros and open-jam qualifiers into session-based riding, then had the skiers review the footage and vote for the riders who stood out. That made the result feel closer to a crew decision than a scoreboard decision. Technical tricks still mattered, but they had to survive a different kind of pressure. A trick could win attention because it used the feature correctly, carried a strange body position, found a clean transfer or made the whole session react. In Season 1, the format proved that competition skiing could still feel like a session.

Joona Kangas Became The First Crowned Jibber

The clearest verified result line from Season 1 belongs to Joona Kangas. His own contest record lists him as Jib League Season 1 Champion, first at Season 1 Episode 1 in Nordkette and second at Season 1 Episode 2 in Crans-Montana. That result fits the way Kangas skis. He does not need a giant slopestyle jump to make a run feel complete. His strengths are nose butter control, rail timing, sideways landings, knuckle movement, corked takeoffs and tricks that hold shape without turning into rotation math. Season 1 gave those details a scoring language.

Verified Season One Result Line

Jib League Season 1 Overall — 2023
Champion: Joona Kangas (FIN)
Confirmed stop result: Joona Kangas (FIN) won Season 1 Episode 1 at Nordkette
Confirmed stop result: Joona Kangas (FIN) placed second in Season 1 Episode 2 at Crans-Montana

Crans Montana Turned Alaia Parks Into A Mansion Stop

The second stop moved the crew to Alaïa Parks in Crans-Montana, where the cast included James Woods, Ferdinand Dahl, Finn Bilous, Jackson Wells, Dani Bacher, Sampo Vallotton, Joona Kangas, Alex Hall, Nico Porteous, Olivia Asselin and Edouard Therriault among others. The location gave the season a different tone from Innsbruck. Nordkette had the in-city skyline and compact alpine park identity; Crans-Montana added a Swiss resort layer, an action-sports training culture and a more enclosed “mountain mansion” feeling around the session. It showed that Jib League could travel without losing its core: the feature mattered, but the room of skiers mattered more.

Myrkdalen And Open Klasse Closed The Proof Of Concept

The final stop went north to Norway and connected with Klaus Finne’s Open Klasse atmosphere in Myrkdalen. Downdays described three feature setups for the finale: the “Klaus Fin,” a channel gap and a transfer-ready jib setup. That variety mattered because it pushed the season beyond a rail-only identity. The finale gave riders different ways to show control: pop over gaps, patience on transfers, creativity through knuckles and confidence on awkward transitions. By the time the final episode ended, the format had enough evidence behind it to feel like a real series rather than a one-off experiment.

Dahl Woods And Braten Put Taste Back In The Room

Jib League was created by Ferdinand Dahl, James Woods and Øystein Bråten, three skiers with enough Olympic, X Games and World Cup experience to understand what formal contest skiing can do well and what it can flatten. The Season 1 format answered that problem directly. Instead of asking riders to optimize a single standardized run for judges, it asked them to ski features with personality in front of peers. Monster Energy supported the project early, but the lasting identity came from the founders’ taste: handheld edits, open jams, strange tricks, peer pressure and a visible rejection of over-polished contest language.

The Season One Archive Is A Format Record

Jib League Season 1 should be archived less as a conventional podium page and more as the first complete proof of a new freeski competition structure. The verified core is strong: three events, nine jam sessions, Nordkette, Crans-Montana, Myrkdalen, rider voting, no standard judges and Joona Kangas as the first overall champion. A complete public top three for every stop is not reliable enough to publish, so the page should keep the result section focused on confirmed lines. Its value is still high because Season 1 changed the conversation. It gave park skiers a format where style, feature reading and peer respect could decide the winner.