Hello and welcome! My goal with this post is to inform you of the new direction my website is taking. Right now I’m deep into my winter season and won’t be making any changes until summer hits. However, here is the plan for the changes coming this summer! I’m getting rid of my store There will be no more isaacfreeland.com/shop. Why? I’m trying to inspire you! Not run a store. For those who are interested in what gear I use I will be creating a web page that will outline what I use and trust from the backcountry to the resort and even into the summer. It will have affiliate links so that you can support my endeavors while also getting the gear you need to have the best time possible on and off the mountain! I’m bringing back the blog I’m going to become more active on this blog. Nothing crazy, I’m not turning […]
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Isaac Freeland’s Road to Recovery x Freeski Arnica
#1 – Introduction In the US there are roughly 8.6 million sports-related injuries each year (US Department of Health) Odds are you’ve probably had an injury. Isaac trained all offseason, implementing innovative workouts, like parkour, to keep his ski legs strong and ready to defend his crown on the FWT. In Engelberg Switzerland, while preparing for the @freerideworldtour, @isaacfreeski had a miscalculated landing that tore his meniscus and ACL. Our goal is to inspire others to live active, healthy lifestyles, But… Unfortunately, the likelihood of injury increases when playing sports It’s the chance we take to pursue what we love. Isaac’s surgery 2 weeks ago was successful and when we caught up with him he explained his mindset by paraphrasing the legend Jeremy Jones – Don’t waste an injury. In other words, use injuries as a positive, a time to reflect, recenter, and get stronger. Follow @isaacfreeland as we detail his road to recovery 🤙 #RecoverLikeAPro #PracticebeforePlay
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The Day I Double Backfliped Chads Gap
1.5 years ago Kevin Nichols and I walked up to Chads Gap on a clear but cold spring morning. We both hit it and I ended up landing a dub back. We both left that day overwhelmed by the fact that we had achieved one of our biggest goals in skiing. However, I’ve never really told the full story. And now that it has kinda resurfaced I figured this is as good a time as ever to tell it. The dirty secret is, while I did land the trick, I didn’t ride away. In fact, Chads was not hit and ran out clean once that day. But I’ve never told people this because I put all my energy and soul into hitting this jump that day and I still wasn’t good enough to ride away from it. I didn’t want people to say things like, “He didn’t ride it out so it doesn’t count”. This […]
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A Week of Trekking Under Melting Faces
It was 6:30 am and my friend Jonnie Merrill and I woke up to the sound of our alarms going off in Revelstoke BC. It was early January and we were meeting a group of guys at Golden Alpine Holidays at 9:30 in order to get a heli bump up to the Sunrise hut. We got up, eat a quick breakfast and headed out to the car to find about 10 cm’s had fallen overnight. Stoked on the week to come we brushed off the car and headed over Rogers Pass to catch the heli. We lost service coming over the pass but about an hour later as we reached the other side I got a text from the trip organizer, Jay Dash, “You close?”. We were about 3 minutes away. Then another text followed “You realize there was an hour time change from Revi”. Jonnie and I panicked, “We missed the heli?” Jonnie said. […]
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