Real Ski 2019 X Games

Real Ski 2019 was the X Games all-video urban freeski contest released through World of X Games in late February and early March 2019 | Discipline: street skiing | Notable winners: Phil Casabon, Pär Peyben Hägglund, Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, Jake Mageau | Format: 90 second video parts judged for medals plus public Fan Favorite voting

Six Street Parts Replaced The Start Gate

Real Ski 2019 was the X Games street-ski video contest released through World of X Games in late February 2019, with medal results announced in early March. The format had no single mountain venue, no course inspection and no live final. Instead, six invited skiers filmed 90 second urban parts with dedicated filmers, then submitted edits for X Games judging and public voting. The field was unusually strong: Phil Casabon - B-Dog, Henrik Harlaut, Kim Boberg, Pär “Peyben” Hägglund, Jake Mageau and Alex Beaulieu-Marchand.

Ninety Seconds Made Street Skiing Judgeable

The Real Ski format matters because it gives street skiing an X Games medal without forcing it onto a resort course. A skier has to find spots, manage weather, shovel run-ins, absorb slams, work with a filmer and make the final cut feel complete in only a minute and a half. That is a different skill set from slopestyle. The best edit is not only the hardest trick list. It needs spot variety, pacing, music, camera placement, risk, style and enough replay value to survive after the first watch. In 2019, that tension made the judges’ podium and the fan vote split especially important.

Casabon And Brady Perron Repeated Gold

Phil Casabon won Real Ski gold in 2019 with filmer and editor Brady Perron, repeating their 2018 victory. That back-to-back result gave B-Dog one of the strongest formal competition records in street skiing, because Real Ski was one of the few X Games formats built around the exact terrain where his style is most influential. Casabon’s edit was not based on large rotations alone. It leaned on slow control, odd rail use, body position, low-speed balance and musical timing. The medal confirmed that his way of reading spots could win when the contest language was built around urban skiing rather than amplitude.

Official Medal And Fan Favorite Record

X Games Real Ski 2019 — March 2019
Gold: Phil Casabon (CAN) with filmer Brady Perron
Silver: Pär “Peyben” Hägglund (SWE) with filmer Emil Larsson
Bronze: Alex Beaulieu-Marchand (CAN) with filmer Antoine Caron

Fan Favorite — 2019
Winner: Jake Mageau (USA) with filmer Oliver Hoblitzelle

The medal list should stay separate from the Fan Favorite result. Casabon, Peyben and Beaulieu-Marchand made the official judged podium, while Mageau won the public vote. That distinction is central to the archive because many viewers saw Mageau’s edit as the creative surprise of the contest. The result created debate, but the clean record is straightforward: judges awarded medals to Casabon, Peyben and ABM; fans chose Mageau.

Peyben And ABM Gave The Podium Two Different Directions

Peyben’s silver medal gave the 2019 podium a Swedish street-ski shape rooted in The Bunch style language: strange spot use, low-impact creativity, awkward rails and tricks that look almost improvised until the landing proves otherwise. ABM’s bronze brought a different profile. He was already known as an Olympic and X Games contest skier, but Real Ski showed how well his technical control could translate into urban footage. The two medals made the podium more interesting than a single-style result. Casabon represented Quebec street rhythm, Peyben represented Scandinavian weird-spot creativity, and ABM represented a high-level contest skier proving himself in the streets.

Jake Mageau Turned The Fan Vote Into The Story

Jake Mageau’s Fan Favorite win became one of the defining talking points of Real Ski 2019. His edit with Oliver Hoblitzelle did not land on the judged podium, but it took the public vote and generated a large reaction across ski media. The appeal was easy to understand: Mageau skied with a physics-bending style, using transfers, strange takeoffs, balance tricks and spot choices that made viewers rewind. That gap between official medals and fan response is exactly why the 2019 edition remains memorable. It exposed two different value systems inside street skiing: what a judging panel rewards and what the core audience wants to rewatch.

Armada And Faction Framed The Brand Layer

The 2019 field also connected strongly with ski-brand culture. Armada sat at the center of the edition through Casabon, Harlaut and Boberg, all riders tied to a creative freestyle identity rather than a purely federation-driven career path. Faction also belongs in the wider Real Ski conversation through Mageau’s later street-ski reputation and the kind of creative trick language his edit helped push forward. The brand layer should not replace the athlete story, but it helps explain why Real Ski mattered commercially: the contest sold style, film parts and skier identity as much as medals.

Where Real Ski 2019 Fits In The Archive

Real Ski 2019 should be indexed as a major X Games street-ski video contest edition, not as a resort competition. Its permanent facts are clear: six invited riders, 90 second edits, World of X Games release, official medals for Casabon, Peyben and ABM, plus Mageau as Fan Favorite. The edition’s importance comes from the debate as much as the podium. Casabon’s second straight gold confirmed the value of B-Dog’s street language, while Mageau’s public-vote win showed that the audience was ready to reward even stranger spot use and creative movement. For skipowd.tv, that makes Real Ski 2019 one of the cleanest archives of late-2010s urban freeski style.