Vince Prevost - Off The Leash Video Edition (2024)

Profile and significance

Vince (Vincent) Prévost is a Québec freeski rider from the Laurentians whose strongest footprint is in street and night-park culture. Active since the early 2010s, he showed up in Montréal’s film scene via crews like Brotherhood/ESK and made noise with a run of contest-clip crossovers that mirrored the province’s urban DNA. His breakthrough for many viewers was a win at Sommet Saint-Sauveur’s community-driven park challenge in 2015, followed by a local-to-global moment the next winter when he earned a wildcard invite to a downtown Québec City urban showcase backed by Red Bull. In edits and event weeks alike, Prévost’s skiing reads at half speed: calm setup, patient pop, early grab definition, and square-shoulder exits that keep speed for what comes next.

Today his lane is film-first and scene-facing. He mixes segments with friends, park laps around the Laurentians, and periodic roles behind the camera or on judging panels at Québec events, helping translate the province’s street language for the next wave. It’s a profile built on clarity rather than hype, which is why coaches and everyday park riders still pass his clips around a decade after he first appeared on local big screens.

Competitive arc and key venues

The résumé traces a distinctly Québec route. In March 2015 Prévost won the Mont Saint-Sauveur Challenge, a local proving ground on the Laurentians circuit at Sommet Saint-Sauveur. In February 2016 he was among the wildcard selections for the inaugural ReDirect in Québec City—an urban-course battle hosted by Red Bull that combined invited pros, locals and Stairsmaster picks under a jam format. In early 2017 his name surfaced again in Stairsmaster’s entry slate as the Jamboree week returned downtown; while that series is rider-judged and video-based, it tests the same rail timing and speed honesty the streets demand.

Recent years show him toggling between appearances and curation. Prévost has been part of the off-season and early-winter orbit around Shawinigan’s Vallée du Parc, where a new school of street-inspired events has grown. He has also spent time around Québec City’s resort axis, including the XL-park lines and night sessions at Stoneham Mountain Resort, whose Parc XL 418 is built for big-deck timing and busy rail gardens. Those venues, plus Saint-Sauveur’s SnoPrk at versant Avila, explain how his contest cameos and film parts keep the same cadence.

How they ski: what to watch for

Prévost skis with economy and definition—the two traits that make slopestyle and urban/street skiing teachable. Into a takeoff he stays tall and neutral, sets rotation late, and locks the grab before 180 degrees so the axis breathes on camera. On rails he favors square, unhurried entries; presses and backslides held just long enough to be unmistakable; quiet surface swaps; and exits where the shoulders remain aligned so momentum carries into the next hit. Landings read centered and inevitable—hips over feet, ankles soft—so even when difficulty creeps up, the shot looks like one sentence rather than a series of rescues.

Resilience, filming, and influence

Québec’s scene is edit-driven, and Prévost embraced that model early. He stacked park-plus-street clips with Brotherhood/ESK during the iF3 era, then used short, replayable parts to stay present while friends cycled between work, school, and winter storms. A hallmark of his recent seasons is community stewardship: showing up at sessions, judging when asked, and helping riders organize speed and spot work so their tricks read clearly. That feedback loop—film, watch, refine—keeps his influence tangible even without a tour of podiums.

Geography that built the toolkit

Place explains the movements. The Laurentians corridor gives him density: the restricted-access Main Park at SnoPrk on versant Avila turns calm entries and square exits into habits by sheer volume of laps. East along the river, Stoneham adds long decks and mixed light, which punish rushed takeoffs and reward late, patient sets. Downtown Québec City has hosted scaffold big-air and urban builds, sharpening wind reads and speed choice. And in Mauricie, Vallée du Parc supplies compact, crowd-close setups that demand clarity. Stitch those maps together and the fingerprints show up in every clip.

Equipment and partners: practical takeaways

Prévost’s recent tags include skis from Faction, optics and helmets from Giro, boots from Phaenom Footwear, outerwear via O’Neill, winter accessories from Kombi Canada, and regional support through Québec City’s Radical Shop. For skiers trying to borrow the feel, the hardware lesson is simple. Choose a true park twin with a balanced, medium flex you can press without folding; detune contact points enough to reduce rail bite while keeping trustworthy grip on the lip; and mount close enough to center that switch landings feel neutral and presses sit level. Keep binding ramp angles from tipping you into the backseat so hips can stack over feet. More important than any single product is the workflow he models: film a lap, check shoulder alignment and hip-to-ankle stack, then repeat until patient pop, early grab definition, and square-shoulder exits become automatic.

Why fans and progressing skiers care

Fans care about Vince Prévost because his skiing is legible and durable. The same language—calm approach, late set, defined grab, centered landing—shows up whether the backdrop is a night lap at versant Avila, an XL session at Parc 418, a riverside street setup in Shawinigan at Vallée du Parc, or a city build in Québec City. Progressing riders care because those choices scale to ordinary features and weeknight parks. If you’re looking for a blueprint that turns modest terrain into confident, stylish freeskiing, his clips—and the venues that shaped them—are a practical place to start.