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Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino was Managing Editor at TNW. He's no longer with the company, but you can follow him on Twitter. Matthew Panzarino was Managing Editor at TNW. He's no longer with the company, but you can follow him on Twitter.
There’s something about skiing that just feels a bit detached when it comes to danger and thrills for me. Unless it’s a Bond movie and baddies are coming after you on snowmobiles with machine guns, or you’re outrunning an avalanche, it generally doesn’t excite me.
This video, shared by Jason Kottke, is a different beast entirely. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time as freestyle skier JP Auclair bombs down a run comprised entirely of city streets, cars, overhangs, gravel and other normally un-skiable things.