The Wild Indians | ABM | FULL FILM

Canada's first men's slopestyle Olympic medalist Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, known in the contest world as ABM, is the first Canadian man to win an Olympic medal in ski slopestyle, capturing bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Born on March 3, 1994 in Quebec City, he started skiing at age two under the influence of his grandfather and discovered slopestyle at twelve after a friend introduced him to terrain parks. From those early laps, he built a contest career that eventually took him to two Olympic Games, multiple X Games podiums, and a world championship medal — a résumé shaped as much by repeated injury comebacks as by raw talent.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Émile “Bmile” Bergeron is a Québec-born freeski original whose reputation rests on memorable street segments and a benchmark X Games result. Raised in the Lac-Beauport / Québec City corridor, he moved from early park edits into a film-first path, earning a silver medal at X Games Real Ski 2020 with a part that mixed high-consequence architecture, meticulous speed control, and clean, readable landings. Years of clips with Quebec crews and frequent cameos in projects anchored by Phil Casabon and Brady Perron had already put him on the radar; Real Ski confirmed to a global audience what the core scene knew: Bergeron is a case study in readable difficulty.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Jean “Jean-Spag” Prince, better known in ski credits as Jean Spag, is a core Quebec urban freeskier whose name is woven into one of the most influential street eras in modern skiing. As part of the WFProductions crew from Quebec City, he appears in the full-length movie “Le Grinch,” a 2012 film that follows the WFP family through a winter of handrails and night missions, and later in the urban project “The Wild Indians” alongside Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, Émile Bergeron, Jérôme Vallée and Paul Bergeron. These projects, premiered at festivals and shared by major freeski media, helped define how Quebec street skiing looked in the early–mid 2010s: gritty, creative, and set to reggae and hip-hop soundtracks.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Jérôme Vallée is a Quebec freeskier whose name is closely tied to one of the most interesting eras of urban and park skiing from eastern Canada. Active through the late 2000s and early 2010s, he grew from posting small personal edits online to riding in full-length ESK Media movies alongside some of Quebec’s most respected street and park skiers. Those films—especially “Interlude” and “Souvenirs”—put him on the radar of core freeski fans as part of a tight-knit crew stacking creative spots in Québec City, Montreal and beyond, at a time when the province was a global hotspot for progressive urban skiing.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Paul “B-Paul” Bergeron is a French-Canadian freeski original from the Québec City area whose style-first park and urban skiing helped define the late-2000s and early-2010s film era. Coming up through Le Relais in Lac-Beauport, he made his name with Québec crews like NSF and ESK before linking with North American outfits including Stept Productions and the Inspired Media family. His parts—often cut from night sessions, compact parks and hand-built city setups—showed a movement language that riders could study and copy: calm approaches, long-held presses, clean swaps and on-axis spins that read clearly on camera.... Read more on the Athlete page

Overview and significance Montréal is not a ski resort in the classic sense, but for freeskiers it functions as one of North America’s most important urban hubs. The city sits on an island in the Saint Lawrence River in southern Québec, surrounded by the Laurentian Mountains to the northwest and the Eastern Townships to the southeast. Within roughly one to two hours’ drive you can reach a dense ring of ski areas, from night-ski specialists like Sommet Saint-Sauveur and Bromont to destination mountains such as Mont-Tremblant.... Read more on the Location page

Brand overview and significance Monster Energy is a global beverage brand that became a fixture in freeski culture by backing athletes, contests, and film projects across park, pipe, street, and big-mountain skiing. Launched in the early 2000s by the company now known as Monster Beverage Corporation, the “claw” logo migrated from motocross and skate into winter sports and quickly showed up on helmets, sled decks, and banners at major venues. In skiing, Monster’s value is less about hardware and more about platform: funding rider-driven media, supporting athlete travel, and amplifying edits so lines and tricks reach audiences far beyond a single premiere.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Brand overview and significance Oakley is one of skiing’s definitive optics and protection brands. Founded in California in 1975 by Jim Jannard and part of the EssilorLuxottica family since 2007, Oakley moved from moto grips to goggles and sunglasses, then expanded into snow helmets and technical apparel. The company’s impact in freeski culture is simple to trace: Oakley standardized high-contrast snow lenses for variable light, built intuitive quick-swap systems for lens changes on storm days, and backed athletes across park, pipe, street, and big-mountain segments.... Read more on the Sponsor page