12-03-2025 11:02 via powder.com

Skier Shatters Reality With Double Flip on XC Skis

As a rule of thumb, a skilled user can make any pair of skis work on the slopes, whether they’re long, stiff, short, or soft.
 Cross-country (XC) skis, though, which explicitly aren’t designed for downhill or aerial use, are an exception to that rule. Or, they were, at least, until freeskier and Norwegian Olympian Birk Ruud came along.Check out Ruud’s wild double cork 1080 with cross-country skis below. He claims its the first double cork 1080 done on skis. POWDER has
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