The Tour is Back in Town!
The Tour is Back in Town!
Join pro freeskiers as they make their way to Holiday Valley for a day of park
Competition in skiing - no matter the discipline - runs high; just tune in to any of the X-Games coverage. One athlete goes big, the next wants to go bigger. With this mentality sensationalized in the media, the Tell a Friend Tour takes a different look at the amazing sport of freeskiing.
The Tell a Friend Tour will return to Holiday Valley on Wednesday, February 2nd from 3:00-7:30 pm. Meet up with pro freeriders to tour the resort, hang with them in the parks and get high fives … and pizza! FREE!
Creator and director, Andy Parry, started the tour because freeskiing hadn't had a non-competitive event series in a long time. “I wanted to create something that included as many people as possible, and was free. I saw an opportunity to help being part of making lifelong skiers by creating a fun event.”
Parry is originally from the outskirts of Rochester, NY and grew up skiing the Western New York terrain. Now a professional freeskier living in Portland, OR, Parry is the co-creator of Line Traveling Circus - the OG web series of freeskiing running 15 years strong. Check it out at https://lineskis.com/en-us/traveling-circus.
Entering into the 10th year of the tour, Parry told eNOW, “So far we have done over 220 stops in North America and the UK. We have also handed out well over $150,000 in product over that time and have ate wayyyy too many pizzas.”
ONE-ON-ONE WITH ANDY PARRY
CROFT: Why is it important to get kids involved in this sport at a young age?
PARRY: I think outdoor recreation is good for everyone and it's important to get them hooked on being outside.
CROFT: The x-games are finishing up? Favorite athlete or someone to be on the lookout for?
PARRY: Alex Hall is the skier to watch, and is my favorite for winning the slopestyle in the Olympics.
CROFT: What is one thing you’d tell your younger self?
PARRY: Keep skiing!
CROFT: One thing you’d tell a kid just getting into the sport?
PARRY: Never be shy or nervous about what other people think about your skiing, or trying new tricks. Be confident and never half commit to a trick.
CROFT: This is some fantastic advice and really applies to any aspect of skiing. You’re a major pizza connoisseur; what’s your go-to pie toppings?
PARRY: I like to keep it simple so I'd say it's pepperoni.
CROFT: There is a tight knit community in the race world that I’ve grown up with; is it the same in the slopestyle world? How has your network shaped you?
PARRY: It’s definitely a tight community, everyone mostly knows everyone. I think that having a common interest makes it really easy to make new friends and that's awesome to have. Mostly every friend is a skier or snowboarder, including my fiancé!
CROFT: Sometimes people have a bad image of slopestyle events; how has that perception changed?
PARRY: I think that image was true with the older generations towards freeskiing. However, now it's been around for a couple decades and kids that skied park when it was becoming popular in the early 2000s are starting their kids off freeskiing. They have a different idea of what skiing is than the generations of the past.
“They have a different idea of what skiing is than the generations past.” I got goosebumps hearing that. The Tell a Friend Tour is an awesome event for all ages. Be sure to mark your calendar and ‘Tell a Friend!’ Get full details at https://www.holidayvalley.com/activities-events/calendar/.