WSKI 106 Trailer (2005)

Profile and significance Eric Iberg is one of freeskiing’s defining storytellers—a skier-turned-filmmaker and event producer whose eye, curation, and mentorship helped shape what modern park, street, and film-driven skiing look like. Raised in Minnesota and connected early to the Midwest’s rope-tow rhythm in Edina, he surfaced on the global scene with his 16mm debut “Royalty” (2001), a tightly focused portrait of seven innovators that made urban rails and park style read clearly at full speed. He followed with the culture-shifting “WSKI 106” (2004), a Tanner Hall/Eric Iberg production that blended athlete personality, hip-hop, and progressive tricks into a coherent, rewatchable package.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Philip “B-Dog” Casabon is a Canadian freeski icon from Shawinigan, Québec, whose style-first language—presses, butters, nollies, reverts, and shiftys that breathe—reshaped modern park and urban skiing. He rose through night laps at his local hill, Vallée du Parc, and became one of the most influential riders of his generation by proving that creativity, definition, and flow can outweigh brute force. His cultural footprint is matched by hardware: back-to-back gold medals at X Games Real Ski in 2018 and 2019, plus the 2018 Fan Favorite nod, cemented his status as a peer-elected standard.... Read more on the Athlete page

Kalispell, Montana / Park City, Utah, USA | Active: 1999-present | Known for: 11 X Games medals, seven X Games golds, athlete-founded Armada era, park-to-freeride influence | Current: film-driven big-mountain skier, FIS inactive, still central to Armada projects including ORNADA and selected for Natural Selection Ski in 2026 The scream under Chad’s Gap never left the sport. Spring light in Little Cottonwood can make a huge jump look clean when it is anything but. Tanner Hall came into Chad’s Gap in 2005 with the kind of confidence that had already made him the loudest young force in freeskiing.... Read more on the Athlete page

Brand overview and significance Armada is widely recognized as skiing’s pioneering athlete-founded brand. Launched in 2002 by a crew of influential freeskiers and creatives, it set out to build equipment around how modern skiers actually ride—park, powder, streets, and big, natural terrain—rather than filtering innovation through traditional race heritage. The brand’s identity has remained anchored in rider input and film culture, with a product line that mirrors the creative, playful approach that reshaped freeskiing in the 2000s and beyond.... 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