Kimbo sessions 2017
đ 28/04/2017
đ KlĂ€ppen Snowpark
Kimbo Sessions 2017 was a spring freeski gathering held at KlÀppen Snowpark in Sweden in early May 2017 | Disciplines: park skiing, jumps, rails, quarterpipe features and creative transfers | Notable rider choice: Magnus Skotte-NÞrstreng | Format: invite based session week with rider voted recognition rather than formal judging
KlÀppen Became The Style Lab Of May 2017
Kimbo Sessions 2017 took place in early May 2017 at KlÀppen Snowpark in Sweden, using the end of the Scandinavian winter to turn a purpose-built park into a creative freeski laboratory. The edition was not a standard contest with heats, bibs, scores and a public podium. It was a rider-focused session week organized around Kim Boberg, a rebuilt spring park, filmers, photographers and a stacked international crew. The format gave skiers time to repeat ideas, chase transfers, find strange feature use and build tricks that would not always fit a normal slopestyle run.
No Podium But One Rider Choice
Kimbo Sessions 2017 Rider Choice â May 2017
Recognized rider: Magnus Skotte-NĂžrstreng (NOR)
No official top three podium, scores or discipline-by-discipline ranking should be attached to Kimbo Sessions 2017. Freeride and Newschoolers both describe the edition as a session rather than a conventional competition, with the riders voting at the end of the week for the person who stood out most. That recognition went to Magnus Skotte-NÞrstreng, often referred to as Mags, whose flow through the KlÀppen build made him the rider choice of the week. For an archive page, that is the only safe result line to publish.
Harlaut Casabon Ollila And Stevenson Filled The Edits
The 2017 rider list explains why the edition still carries weight. Freeskierâs coverage of the first 2017 edit named Henrik Harlaut, Phil Casabon, Antti Ollila, Colby Stevenson and Kim Boberg among the featured skiers. Newschoolers added a wider picture: B&E, The Bunch, Keeshlife, Torin Yater-Wallace, Aaron Blunck, Alex Ferreira, Jake Carney, Charlie Lasser, Johan Berg and the Norwegian crew around Magnus Skotte-NĂžrstreng. That mix made the session feel less like a national park week and more like a gathering of the freeski style network.
Spring Snow And Eighteen Hour Light Changed The Rhythm
The conditions shaped the footage. Newschoolers described the first week of May with warm sun, a cooling breeze, long light and enough snow for a large feature build. The park included a top hip, quarterpipe action, pyramid-style flow sections and a booter big enough for heavy tricks. Emil Granbom sparked sessions with flatspin movement, Hugo Burvall worked nosebutter frontflips, Alex Ferreira landed a double rodeo 1080 on snowblades, and Harlaut kept returning to the jump lap. Those details matter because Kimbo Sessions 2017 was not about one winning run. It was about feature density and the number of different ideas the same park could hold.
Fredrik Angelsen And Björn Eklund Made The Record
The public memory of the edition comes mainly through video. Fredrik Angelsen released the main 2017 edits, while Björn Eklund produced a teaser and continued to shape the visual identity around the event. Freeride noted that many photographers and filmers were present, which fits the whole purpose of the session. Kimbo Sessions was built for the kind of skiing that lives through rewatches: synchronized jumps, pressed rails, switch landings, unusual grabs, transfer lines and style choices that become clearer when slowed down or replayed. That made the 2017 edition especially useful for a video-first ski archive.
Armada Monster And The Session Culture Around Kimbo
Armada sits naturally inside the 2017 story because Boberg, Harlaut, Casabon and other creative park skiers connect the brand to the KlÀppen style world. Monster Energy also appeared in the event environment, with Newschoolers describing KlÀppen and Monster helping provide the chalet setup that supported the week. Those details should not turn the page into sponsor copy. Their value is cultural: Kimbo Sessions worked because skiing, housing, editing, food, video review and late-night rider debate all happened inside the same small ecosystem.
Where Kimbo Sessions 2017 Fits In The Archive
Kimbo Sessions 2017 should be indexed as a freeski session edition, KlĂ€ppen park gathering and style-first anti-contest, not as a formal slopestyle event. The verified archive core is clear: KlĂ€ppen Snowpark, early May 2017, Kim Bobergâs invite-based build, edits by Fredrik Angelsen, a heavy international rider list and Magnus Skotte-NĂžrstreng as rider choice. The page should avoid invented podiums and focus on what made the edition useful: a spring park week where creative skiing mattered more than scores, and where the footage pushed KlĂ€ppen deeper into modern freeski culture.
