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1st edition of B-DOG's "Off The Leash" in Shawi.

Shot & Cut by
Raph Sevigny

Additional Filming by
Louis Lefevre

Music
Redman - Let's get dirty

Skiing by
Édouard Thériault
Rudy Lépine
Ferdinand Dahl
Alex Bellemare
Phil Boily-Doucet
Mat Dufresne
Kim Lamarre
Olivia Asselin
Thomas Galarneau
Jérémy Gagné
Vincent Gagnier
Vince Prévost
Dylan Deschamps

Street

Alex Bellemare

Alex Bellemare is a Canadian slopestyle skier from Québec whose career helped shape the modern era of park skiing through a blend of technical clarity, reliable contest execution, and media presence. Rising during the 2010s, he established himself on the North American and European circuits at a time when slopestyle courses were becoming larger, faster, and more demanding in terms of axis control and line strategy. His skiing is associated with clean approach lines, decisive takeoffs, and held grabs that make rotations readable from any angle. That combination earned him a place at major invitationals, consistent World Cup starts, and appearances on the sport’s most visible stages. Bellemare’s competitive identity has long been built on repeatability under pressure. Judges and fans took note of how he carried speed into jump lines without scrubbing, set his axis early, and landed with hips and shoulders aligned so he could flow directly into the next feature. On rails, he developed an economy of movement that favored precise surface swaps, locked presses, and pretzel exits that demonstrated true edge fluency rather than trick lists overloaded with unnecessary spins. Course to course, he showed the ability to recalibrate trick selection to wind, temperature, and feature geometry, a professional habit that preserves consistency across long qualification mornings and late afternoon finals. Progress in slopestyle requires more than difficulty. Bellemare’s training approach emphasized foundations that travel well between venues. He invested in single leg strength for explosive pop, trunk stability to manage off axis rotations, and mobility work through the hips and ankles so edge changes remain smooth on icy inruns and softer afternoon landings. Trampoline and air awareness drills allowed him to break complex tricks into components, rehearsing set, grab timing, and spotting separately before recombining them at full scale on snow. That method reduced guesswork, shortened learning cycles, and limited the toll of repetitive high impact attempts. Equipment literacy has been another theme of his career. Bellemare treats skis and boots as instruments that must match intent. He favors a mount point that balances swing weight and landing stability, edges tuned to keep rails viable in cold morning conditions, and a flex profile that pops cleanly without punishing landings. His feedback loops with technicians and product teams focused on base speed for modern lips, torsional support for rail accuracy, and predictable rebound that helps a skier keep shoulders quiet through impact. For younger athletes watching his process, the message is clear: setup is part of skill, not an afterthought. Media and community work have amplified his impact. Bellemare has appeared in training edits and film segments that spotlight the details of his technique. Viewers notice the way his grabs frame the rotation, how he uses knuckles and side hits to maintain rhythm, and how he sequences rails so a line reads as one coherent sentence rather than a string of unrelated words. He is also known for open communication during camps and off season sessions, breaking down approach speed, set mechanics, and fear management into practical cues that other skiers can apply. That transparency has value in a sport where progression is often accelerated by shared knowledge and patient, deliberate practice. Injuries are a reality in big air and slopestyle, and Bellemare’s career includes periods of recovery that required patience, planning, and disciplined returns to volume. His rebuild phases prioritized progressive exposure to impact, careful load management, and visualization that restored confidence before committing to full speed attempts. The professionalism he brought to those phases helped him reestablish consistency and remain part of finals conversations even as younger generations entered the field. As slopestyle evolved toward larger features, more technical rail sections, and judging that rewards both execution and difficulty, Bellemare continued to align his trick set with those targets without abandoning the clarity that defined his name. He has represented Québec and Canada with a style that resonates across audiences: precise, balanced, and composed. Looking ahead, his influence endures through the athletes he has mentored, the product insights he helped formalize, and the catalog of filmed skiing that remains rewatchable for its elegant fundamentals. For fans and aspiring riders, Alex Bellemare stands as a model of how to build a lasting slopestyle career on detail, discipline, and an aesthetic that reads cleanly on camera and in person.

Dylan Deschamps

Dylan Deschamps, born in December 2002 in Quebec City, is a young Canadian freeskier specializing in slopestyle and Big Air. A member of the national team since 2022, he quickly made his mark on the Nor-Am circuit with multiple podiums, including a third place in slopestyle at Winsport and a second at Stoneham in 2023. He then proved his talent internationally by winning a gold medal at the Chur Big Air and two bronze medals at subsequent events in Chur and Beijing in 2024. Sponsored by Faction Skis, Oakley, and D-Structure, Dylan is seen as one of Canada’s top freestyle prospects, admired for his smooth style, creativity, and technical precision. Outside competitions, he actively contributes to local video projects and series like RAW, showcasing his artistic vision of freeskiing.

Édouard Thériault - Edjoy

Édouard “EdJoy” Therriault is a young Canadian freeskier born in 2003 in Lorraine, Quebec. He gained attention for his creative street and big air style, blending technical tricks with skate-inspired flair. A junior world champion in slopestyle in 2019 and silver medalist in big air at the 2021 World Championships, he recently stepped away from FIS competitions to focus on video projects and backcountry skiing. EdJoy embodies the “frequenski” spirit, merging creativity, music, visual arts, and skiing with a free-spirited approach.

Ferdinand Dahl

Ferdinand Dahl, born July 17, 1998, in Oslo, Norway, is a highly skilled and creative freestyle skier specializing in slopestyle and big air. Rising through the freeski ranks, he made his World Cup debut in 2017 and quickly became a podium regular, finishing second overall in the slopestyle World Cup rankings in both 2018 and 2021. A standout at X Games Aspen, he secured bronze in 2019, silver in 2021, and bronze again in 2023 in the slopestyle discipline. Dahl also represented Norway at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang 2018 (8th in slopestyle) and Beijing 2022 (slopestyle and big air participants). Beyond competition, he's a trendsetter in ski culture—co-founder of Capeesh Supply (ski apparel) and organizer with JibLeague, enriching the freeski scene with creative ventures.

Jérémy Gagné

Jérémy Gagné, born in 2004 in Stoneham, Quebec, is a freeskier specializing in slopestyle and Big Air. He began skiing at age 3 and joined the Stoneham Acrobatic Ski Club at 6. Since 2023, he has been part of Canada’s national team and has stood out on the Nor‑Am circuit with several podiums, including silver and bronze in slopestyle and Big Air. In the 2024‑2025 World Cup season, he delivered strong results, including 13th place finishes in slopestyle at Mammoth and Big Air in Chur. Sponsored by D‑Structure, Vulgus, and Armada, he represents the rising Canadian skiing talent, blending passion, consistency, and exciting style .

Kim Lamarre

Kim Lamarre, born May 20, 1988, in Quebec City, is a Canadian freestyle skier specializing in slopestyle. She made her mark at the 2014 Sochi Olympics by winning a bronze medal, securing Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal in women’s slopestyle. Kim later competed at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, finishing 22nd in the final. Before her Olympic successes, she had already claimed a bronze medal at the X Games Europe and placed 4th at the 2011 World Championships, overcoming several serious knee injuries throughout her career. Inspired from an early age by her grandmother, who was also an Olympian, Kim consistently showed remarkable resilience and boldness, becoming a role model for young Canadian freestyle skiers.

Mat Dufresne

Mat Dufresne, also known as “Mat Douff,” is a Quebec freeskier born in 1999 and based in Montreal. He gained attention for his distinctive approach to urban skiing, blending fluidity, creativity, and unexpected line choices. Mat has featured in standout video projects like MTL, MTL 2, and Word To The Wise, directed by Xavier Mayrand, which earned recognition at street ski film festivals. Beyond his filmed segments, he actively supports the local scene by coaching workshops and mentoring young skiers at Sommet Saint-Sauveur, sharing his artistic take and passion for freeskiing. His style is often highlighted as emblematic of Quebec’s new generation of riders, driven by authenticity and inventiveness.

Olivia Asselin

Olivia Asselin, born February 24, 2004 in Quebec City, is a Canadian freestyle skier specializing in slopestyle and big air. She joined the national team at age 15 after success on the Nor-Am circuit and placed in the top 10 in four of her five World Cup events during her rookie elite season. In 2022, at just 17, she claimed bronze in Big Air at the X Games Aspen and finished 8th in Big Air and 11th in Slopestyle at the Beijing Olympics. She continued her rise by winning gold in Street Style at X Games Aspen 2025 and taking first place in slopestyle in a World Cup event. With a background in moguls and precision work in parks, she is celebrated for her fluid, creative style across all terrain.

Phil Boily-Doucet

Philippe “Phil” Boily‑Doucet, born in 2000, is a rising Quebec freeskier from the Laurentians. He gained attention on the Canadian freestyle scene through technical and creative segments, especially in films made at Bromont and Tremblant with Redsky Films. He’s featured in major urban projects like MTL 2 alongside Mat Dufresne and Paul Vieuxtemps, and regularly shows up in series such as B‑dog Off The Leash, showcasing his jib and park prowess. Competing at the FIS level in slopestyle and Big Air, he has participated in Nor‑Am and World Cup events in Quebec and the U.S. His style is defined by his dedication, steady progression, and commitment to the local and underground freeski culture.

Philip Casabon

Philip Casabon, known to skiers around the world as B-Dog, is a Canadian freeski legend from Shawinigan, Québec, whose influence on street and park skiing spans more than a decade of groundbreaking video parts, signature products and era-defining style. He emerged in the late 2000s and early 2010s as a rider who could make complex tricks look effortless, pairing technical precision with a relaxed body language that reads clearly on camera and in person. While many athletes built careers around podiums, Casabon built a catalog around originality and storytelling, proving that progression in freeskiing is measured not just by spin counts, but by ideas, rhythm and the way a skier uses terrain. Casabon’s breakthrough years were intertwined with a creative partnership with Henrik Harlaut under the B&E banner, culminating in invitational events that showcased style, flow and unconventional features. Those projects amplified a philosophy that still guides his skiing today. Lines are designed like sentences with a beginning, middle and end. Approach speed is chosen to preserve cadence rather than to force difficulty. Takeoffs are decisive and axes are set early so rotations remain readable and landings ride away clean. The result is footage that ages well and remains instructive for younger riders studying how to combine rails, walls, gaps and banks into coherent sequences. The contest world eventually embraced video-based formats, and Casabon became a benchmark there as well. In X Games Real Ski he delivered all-urban segments that balanced heavy enders with subtle touches: nose and tail presses that carry real weight, surface swaps performed on imperfect steel, redirected spins that treat walls and banks as extensions of the rail line. Those edits demonstrated mastery of spot selection, logistics and risk management under tight timelines. They also highlighted a symbiosis with filmer and editor Brady Perron, whose eye for pacing and framing magnified Casabon’s skating-inspired approach to edges, balance and transitions. Equipment is a central part of Casabon’s story. His signature park and street skis became known for playful flex in the tips and tails, supportive underfoot platforms and shapes that feel neutral on unknown landing angles. He is meticulous about mount points that keep swing weight balanced without sacrificing landing stability, and he is vocal about edge durability, torsional support and base speed on contaminated snow. In boots, he gravitated to progressive designs that preserve ankle articulation and rebound for presses and quick recentering after surface changes. This product literacy turns gear into a creative partner rather than an afterthought, and it informs a steady stream of feedback to designers who translate rider needs into shapes and constructions that withstand urban abuse. Casabon’s training habits reveal why the style looks so effortless. Off snow he emphasizes hip and ankle mobility, single-leg strength for efficient pop on short run-ins, and trunk stability to manage off-axis rotations without letting the upper body flail. Trampoline and air-awareness sessions break big tricks into components, rehearsing set mechanics, grab timing and spotting before full-scale attempts. On snow he builds lines from low-consequence moves, scaling them patiently into heavy features once speed, angles and snow texture are predictable. That incremental method reduces injuries and preserves longevity in a discipline where impact tolerance is often mistaken for progress. Storytelling is another thread that runs through his career. Casabon treats each project like an album rather than a single, choosing music, color and pacing that serve the skiing. He shows the process in behind-the-scenes moments: shoveling and salting to control speed, testing inruns at dawn when light is flat but traffic is light, cleaning spots and restoring environments out of respect for neighborhoods. This transparency sets a standard for urban filming etiquette and keeps doors open for future crews. It also explains why his films are rewatchable; they offer both the satisfaction of heavy tricks and the narrative of how those tricks were made possible. Community impact rounds out his profile. Casabon mentors younger riders by translating complex technique into simple cues: align early on the inrun, commit to a clean set, keep shoulders calm through impact, and ride away with purpose. He is honest about fear management, using visualization and measured increments to turn nerves into information rather than noise. In camps and informal sessions he shares the small adjustments that create big gains, from binding ramp angle to edge bevels that keep rails viable on cold mornings. As freeskiing continues to evolve, Casabon remains a reference point for authenticity. He releases tightly curated video parts, appears at select events, and collaborates with brands in ways that preserve the integrity of his style while pushing product design forward. His legacy is not confined to medals or one winter’s highlight reel. It lives in a generation of skiers who learned that creativity can be systematic, that style is a skill built on fundamentals, and that a line that reads beautifully will always matter. For fans and aspiring riders, Philip Casabon stands as proof that street skiing can be both refined and raw, both disciplined and free, and that the most enduring progression happens when craft, culture and community move together.

Rudy Lépine

Rudy Lépine is a Quebec freeskier from the Laurentians, now living in Whistler, British Columbia. He rose to prominence through his creative and technical street skiing segments, featured in underground films like SIMPLE, his web series Psychoactiv, and his standout 2024 project Delirium. As part of the ON3P team, he is known for his raw, committed style that blends skiing with editing and directing, often working alongside filmmakers like Tristan Steen. Having moved to Whistler at just 17, Rudy quickly climbed the ranks of the freeski scene with his authenticity, artistic vision, and DIY approach to urban skiing.

Thomas Galarneau

Thomas Galarneau, born in 2003 in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, is a young freeskier specializing in slopestyle and big air. As a member of Team Quebec, he has stood out on the Nor-Am circuit, notably finishing 7th in slopestyle at Stoneham in 2022. Alongside competitions, Thomas is passionate about street skiing, taking part in creative video projects like Metamorphosis and SuperUnknown, which have gained recognition at festivals such as iF3 and within the Newschoolers community. Primarily based in Avila, he represents the new wave of Quebec riders who blend contests, urban skiing, and artistic expression, all while showcasing a smooth and committed style.

Vince Prévost

Vince Prévost is a Quebec-born freeskier active in the urban scene since the early 2010s. He first gained attention through his segments in films like Groundwork and on Newschoolers with urban clips such as “Space Edgecut” filmed at Mont Avila. A familiar face at local video challenges, he regularly competes in the Summit Challenge at Mont Saint‑Sauveur, often alongside Alex Miglierinia. His style combines fluidity, creativity, and precise jib technique, contributing significantly to the growth of street skiing in Eastern Canada. He also collaborates with production studios like Brotherhood Films, solidifying his status in Canadian street riding culture.

Vincent Gagnier

Vincent Gagnier, born July 21, 1993, in Victoriaville, Quebec, is a Canadian freeskier renowned for his performances in Big Air and slopestyle. After securing several silver medals on major circuits, he claimed gold in Big Air at the 2015 Aspen X Games—a remarkable feat considering he was coming back from a vertebra fracture just months earlier. Vincent is celebrated for his unique style and inventive tricks, such as his famous “Venom,” drawing inspiration from rollerblading and skateboarding. He also achieved a World Cup Big Air victory in Boston in 2016. Coming from a prominent Quebec freestyle skiing family, with his brothers Antoine and Charles also champions, he represents a generation of riders who place creativity and originality at the core of their skiing.

Vallée du parc

Vallée du Parc is a family-friendly alpine ski resort in Shawinigan, Mauricie, founded in 1972. It features 33 runs (including 4 green, 8 blue, and 20 black slopes) served by 6 lifts (2 quad chairlifts, 2 T-bars, and 1 conveyor), with a vertical drop of 160–168 meters. The area spans about 8 km of trails and includes a terrain park, a ski school, and a 2.5 km alpine luge run that can be used day or night. The resort also offers winter activities like snowshoeing, fat biking, and tubing. With its warm atmosphere and location just 30 minutes from Trois‑Rivières, Vallée du Parc is an accessible and welcoming destination for families and beginners.