Canada needs more FWQ stops

Canada always has major issues with insurance so we can never have any fun. I would love to see an east coast FWQ stop, logically at a place like Sugar or Jay Peak with compatible terrain.

I think with the tour in the current state it is in, Resorts in Canada can't justify holding events. Freeride World Tour seems to be becoming the European Tour. Which majorly sucks... Seems like its all going backwards with the split of the FWT and FSWT

zbphotoCanada always has major issues with insurance so we can never have any fun. I would love to see an east coast FWQ stop, logically at a place like Sugar or Jay Peak with compatible terrain.

The problem with the east is the lines arent long enough, have enough options and generally can not handle the traffic that would generate on an already probably pretty sketchy area.

Insurance is a big thing...unfortunately no one cares enough about big mountain slaying. Big gnarly lines don't appeal to non-skiers with very little knowledge of what it takes to ski them. Park and pipe gets more attention because it brings out the "wow factor" and appeals to a much greater audience.

You're right about Canadians killing it but before you rattle off names of guys getting video segs, you need to look at how few of them came up through the FWT ranks.

Pettits - both came up as young guns in the park
Abma - park
Bushy - park
Petersen - park and family history
Flahr - FWT
Mcintosh - IFSA/FWT

Just browsing through the ranking from last year, for the men only 2 in the top 37 are Canadian and for the women I only found the top 10 and none of them are Canadian.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see way more big mountain comps in Canada but I highly doubt we'll ever see it get anywhere near the attention that park skiing is getting. In the meantime, we'll have to settle for the Monster Enemy Lines comp

Reds comp was never officially part if the tour, the last few years though, the winner got a spot on the tour.

They had problems with not enough people signing up for it though and they decided to scrap it. Probably didn't help that it was far more expensive than any other comp in the country. I hope one day it will come back, but as of right now it doesn't look good.

Pipe_MunkyInsurance is a big thing...unfortunately no one cares enough about big mountain slaying. Big gnarly lines don't appeal to non-skiers with very little knowledge of what it takes to ski them. Park and pipe gets more attention because it brings out the "wow factor" and appeals to a much greater audience.

You're right about Canadians killing it but before you rattle off names of guys getting video segs, you need to look at how few of them came up through the FWT ranks.

Pettits - both came up as young guns in the park
Abma - park
Bushy - park
Petersen - park and family history
Flahr - FWT
Mcintosh - IFSA/FWT

Just browsing through the ranking from last year, for the men only 2 in the top 37 are Canadian and for the women I only found the top 10 and none of them are Canadian.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see way more big mountain comps in Canada but I highly doubt we'll ever see it get anywhere near the attention that park skiing is getting. In the meantime, we'll have to settle for the Monster Enemy Lines comp

Fair enough that these athletes didn't come up through the ranks of FWT. But thats also an immensely good reason for more stops and tour involvement in Canada.
If you want to try to make the jump from amateur to pro skier in america, you have a plethora of good options to make as your home base, where you can make friends who are also into the comp/film scene. numerous cities in Colorado, Utah, and Washington are skiing hubs where its easy to meet other up-and-comers/pros and establish exposure for yourself. In Canada there is really only one option for the up-and-comer, and that is Whistler, which is often too expensive and far away for most ski bums. More FWQ stops will help establish places like Kicking Horse, Revy and Whitewater as permanent places for the comp skiers too, not just as places for film companies to spend 10 or 12 days in once a year.

Essentially what I'm trying to say is that there is more to Canadian free ride than the whistler scene. And I think it needs some exposure.