The Mayrand podcast

Discussion with Freeski legend and street skiing GOAT, Cam Riley Cam is one of the most prolific film skier of his generation. He starred in movies every year from 2005 to 2020, Filming with Stept productions, poor boyz productions and TGR. His streak of segments from 2010 to 2015 were some of the best street skiing segments of all time. Cam is also unique being not only a skier, but also a filmer...

Discussion with legendary freeskier and 8x X Games gold medalist, Kaya Turski Kaya is one of freeskiing's GOAT. She pushed women's freeskiing during her whole career, by dominating the sport for years earning a total of 10 X Games medal. We talked about the end of her career and the impact head injuries had on it. The sochi olympics and the huge challenge of getting back from a knee inju...

Discussion with freeski legend, 2x X Games gold medalist and recent inductee to the Newschoolers’ Hall of Fame, Phil Casabon We talked about his 2020-2021 season coming back from a knee injury. His mindset being hungry but also having to deal with continuing covid restrictions. Producing the web series ‘‘prospecteurs’’ chasing powder in Québec with friends. Producing ‘‘the spirit of the thing’’ a...

Discussion with pro skier Keegan Kilbride & pro filmmaker Cam Willis Cam Willis has been working in skiing for years making ski films, including winning an X Games medal with Émile Bergeron in 2020 for the real ski contest. Keegan is a pro skier known for his epic segments in Level 1 movies , producing some of the best segments out there since his superunknown win in 2016. Keegan also won an X...

Discussion with pro skier and street skiing king , Sam Zahner Presented by J skis Sam Zahner is a skier from NJ who made a name for himself with his top-tier rail skills and his banger urban segments. After many years putting out quality content with his online edits, self-produced movies, X Games real ski video and Strictly movies, Sam is now widely considered as one of the best street skier of h...

Discussion with freeski legend, X Games gold medalist and pretzel man, Tom Wallisch The man needs no introduction but let's still do it. Tom Wallisch is one of Freeskiing's GOAT. Multiple times X Games medalist, style icon and tech god, Tom has starred and pretty much every major production ski film company like Level 1 productions, 4bi9 media, Field productions, Sherpas Cinema, Matchsti...

Discussion with freeski legend, X Games gold medalist and pretzel man, Tom Wallisch The man needs no introduction but let's still do it. Tom Wallisch is one of Freeskiing's GOAT. Multiple times X Games medalist, style icon and tech god, Tom has starred and pretty much every major production ski film company like Level 1 productions, 4bi9 media, Field productions, Sherpas Cinema, Matchsti...

Discussion with pro skier, X Games gold medalist and Olympian, Alex Hall Alex is one of the best and most well-rounded skier in the world right now. He made a name for himself with his unique skiing that blends technicality with style and creativity and is now one of the biggest name in skiing. For most, winning X Games gold is a career goal and at 22 he has already won gold in 4 different X Games...

Discussion with legendary filmmaker Jeff Thomas We talked about his upbringing in Vancouver playing a lot of baseball while being a weekend warrior.  Getting into skiing in his teens and being hooked on freeskiing when he first when to High North summer camp in Whistler. Going to film school while starting his own company, Theory 3 media, with which he produced 6 movies. Joining Poor boyz producti...

Part 2 of a discussion with X Games medalist & olympian pro skier Alex Bellemare In this second part, we discussed Alex's progression leading him to be one of the top slopestyle skier on the planet. Having a knee injury right before the Sochi olympics and having to miss out. Achieving a childhood dream of winning an X Games medal in 2015. Trying to stay at the top of an ever progressing s...

Discussion with pro skier, X Games medalist and Olympian Alex Bellemare. We talked about Alex growing up in a small town in Québec. Being influenced by JP Auclair and Phil Casabon. Skiing as much as he could, which led him to eventually make a name for himself by dominating the Québec scene for a couple of years. Traveling to whistler, Mt hood and Colorado to take his skiing to the next level. Eve...

Discussion with ski industry legend Félix Rioux We talked about Félix's upbringing in Montréal and how he got to work in the ski industry. The early days of freeskiing with the snowblade and inline skating influences. Traveling the world with the best skiers as a professional photographer. Co-founding D-structure shop and IF3 festival. Working as a marketing director for various companies and...

Discussion with pro skier, freeski legend and X Games medalist LJ Strenio This was an in-depth discussion about street skiing. First discussing the 2021 edition of the X Games real ski contest where LJ was a judge. Then discussing his 2017 real ski video that got him a bronze medal. In between these two main subjects, we got to talk about everything street skiing, the progression, injuries, workin...

Discussion with pro skier, engineer and entrepreneur Giray Dadali Super interesting discussion with Giray Dadali where we talked about a 1000 subjects including growing up in western New York, skiing at a small hill, being influenced by legends like David Crichton, The east coast scene in the 2000's, filming with Meathead Films, moving to Utah at 18, Competing in all types of events, dealing...

Discussion with Canadian ex pro skier, now filmmaker Paul Bergeron aka ''B-Paul''. Paul is an ex pro skier who made a lot of waves in the ski industry with his unique style and world-class skills. He quickly made a name for himself filming with Quebec crews NSF productions and ESK media. Later on, he cemented his position as an influential skier competing on the world stage and...

Discussion with Canadian ex pro skier, now filmmaker Paul Bergeron aka ''B-Paul''. Paul is an ex pro skier who made a lot of waves in the ski industry with his unique style and world-class skills. He quickly made a name for himself filming with Quebec crews NSF productions and ESK media. Later on, he cemented his position as an influential skier competing on the world stage and...

Discussion with swedish pro skier and filmmaker Pär Hägglund aka Peyben. Peyben is a 3 times X games medalist, one as a skier and the other two as a filmmaker. He is super creative on both sides of the lens and has shown it through videos with Level 1 productions, The Bunch and more recently through the X Games realski competition. We talked about his 3 realski videos, filming with a crew like The...

Discussion with ex-pro skier and filmmaker Nick Martini We talked about his whole story, starting with how he got into skiing, becoming a pro skier. His days as a competitive skier and filming with the biggest production companies in the business like Poor Boyz productions and TGR while also running his own production company, Stept. Talking about Stept, we also discussed how it started by filming...

Discussion with pro skier and 2022 olympic hopeful for the Canadian ski slopestyle team, Phil Langevin We discussed how phil became a pro skier, the current state of slopestyle skiing and its progression, his first experience at X Games making finals at 17, dealing with a series of injuries and getting back to skiing this season aiming to be at X Games and the Olympics next season Episode presente...

Discussion with pro skier, 5x X Games medalist, Olympic medalist and street skiing legend Alex Beaulieu-Marchand aka ABM We talked right after the 2021 Aspen X Games about the event and his experience with the whole the covid restrictions, dealing with back pain and finishing 4th in both slopestyle and big air. We also discussed skiing more backcountry and his 2019 realski part. Episode presented...

Discussion with pro skier, X Games gold medalist and freeski legend JF Houle. We talked about JF's new step in his life, coaching the Québec slopestyle team and how he uses his passion and experiences to teach the new generation of freeskier. We also talked about the X games realski competition, how it is being a competitor and also a judge as JF won the silver medal in the 2016 edition and h...

Discussion with Freeski pioneer and ski industry legend Jason Levinthal We discussed skiing in the east coast, entrepreneurship in skiing, the evolution and trends in skiing and much more. Episode presented by Axis boutique , Treefort lifestyles and J skis

Discussion with freeski legend Phil Casabon Following our discussion about his 2020 season, Phil Casabon and I discussed his entire career. From his youth all the way up until now. We talked up all his major projects including bdog gone wild,  X games, the Olympics, Refresh, Eye trip, the B&E show, The education of style, The Inspired demo tour, Let it flow, Keynote skier, BE inspired and Temp...

Discussion with Pro skier and olympic gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury We talked about his upbringing and how he got to be as dominant as he is, the current state of mogul skiing, his experience at the 2018 olympics and his plans for the future. Episode presented by Axis boardshop and Treefort lifestyles

Discussion with pro skier, X Games gold medalist and style master Vincent Gagnier Subjects include his current 2-year movie project with the SLVSH crew, dealing with back-to-back knee injury in 2017 and 2018, breaking his back in 2014, the current state of competitive skiing and much more. Episode presented by Axis Boardshop & Treefort lifestyles