Calgary Freeriderz is Canada’s premier competitive freestyle ski team, specializing in Slopestyle, Halfpipe, Big Air and Freeride skiing. Driven by a passion for skiing, we help athletes safely progress their skills while building confidence, friendships and a tight-knit community that lasts a lifetime.
Our Mission
To develop the next generation of freestyle skiers by providing the coaching, training, and community they need to reach their highest potential, on and off the hill.
Not only do we create great skiers, but we also foster a passion for skiing and community amongst our athletes that will keep them skiing, working hard and having fun long after their time with Freeriderz is done.
Our diverse training program exposes athletes to every aspect of freeskiing. Whether it's a sliding a rail, airing the pipe or dropping a cliff, our athletes will learn a diverse range of transferable skills that will make them more well-rounded freeskiers.
Our Program
We are a high performance Slopestyle and Halfpipe team built on a strong Big Mountain foundation. We have fun, we work hard, and we get results. Because why do something if you don’t love it?
We offer year round training employing all the tools of our sport. Our off snow training includes trampoline, air bag, water ramp, and strength & conditioning, while our on snow bases are at Lake Louise and Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.
We compete at levels from the Alberta provincial series events up to and including the North America Cup tour. At the highest level, our athletes on the NAC tour are working to earn their spot on the next team in the pathway - the Canadian National Team.
Our passionate and knowledgeable coaching staff (many are former Freeriderz athletes themselves) are experts in the all things freestyle skiing.
Our intimate training program allows for one-on-one coaching with every athlete, personalized training plans based on the unique goals of each of our athletes.
The coaching staff work to ensure a safe, fun and inclusive training environment for everyone, allowing our athletes to realize their full potential.
Progression meets creativity. We train and compete in Slopestyle and Big Air progressing tricks safely through strength training, trampolines, airbags, and on-snow sessions, giving athletes the tools to build confidence, master new tricks and take their skiing to the next level. We provide a pathway from Provincial events all the way up to the NorAm circuit and beyond.
Build skills. Find your flow. Our Halfpipe training focuses on technical skiing skills, airtime, grabs, rotations and linking tricks together to build competitive runs. We build skills on the jumps park and then transfer them into the halfpipe. Our athletes develop their skills through focused coaching in the pipe and targeted trampoline, airbag and strength training. We support athletes from their first laps in the pipe all the way up to the Canadian National Team.
Where it all started. Freeriderz was born from a passion for freeride skiing and a desire to combine the creativity and progression of park skiing with the freedom of the mountain. Now an Olympic discipline and one of the fastest-growing areas of freestyle skiing, freeride is all about creativity, technical skiing and making the mountain your playground.
Calgary Freeriderz offers a progressive pathway for passionate young freestyle skiers. The Core Team builds strong fundamentals, competition experience and a love for freestyle and freeride skiing, while the Performance Team provides a proven pathway for athletes pursuing Canada Cup, NorAm and National Team goals in Slopestyle, Halfpipe, and Big Air.
