Summer training options for the world’s best freestylers have taken a major leap forward this week as Sakai Town, Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan announced the official opening of its towering 25‑metre Big Air jump. Standing at a scale believed to be unmatched anywhere else, the new Big Air ramp has been built entirely with Snow Monkey’s dry‑slope materials engineered to

Snowtrax’s annual Pond Skim, sponsored by Goodr Sunglasses, exploded into its biggest, loudest and wettest edition to date, perhasps helped by temperatures in the mid-high 20s. More than 90 skiers and snowboarders shot down the slope and across the water in full tropical fancy dress as crowds packed the banks from first drop‑in to final splash. The 2026 event brought

A series of concept designs released by Skitrax’s Innovation LAB outlines how modern dry‑ski mats could transform unused urban spaces into multi‑sport winter hubs. The study positions dry‑slope infrastructure as a sustainable alternative to snowmaking, enabling skiing and snowboarding without reliance on cold temperatures or high‑energy systems. One proposed model reimagines hotel rooftops as compact slopestyle parks, complete with lighting,

Snowboarding legend Shaun White made an unannounced visit to Wy’East Mountain Academy in the US this week, dropping into a summer snowboard camp session and drawing a crowd of excited campers at the Mt. Hood, Oregon facility. The academy operates year‑round training programs and June–July summer camps built around trampolines, skate facilities, mountain‑bike trails and one of North America’s largest

The SheelCool Huangpu Riverside venue is the first location in Shanghai equipped with a standardized professional dry ski slope big air, with other locations offering ski simulators only. Open at 10:00–22:00, open year-round, Snow Monkey delivered the project as a complete turnkey solution, covering planning, venue design, proprietary dry ski slope, safety systems, and on-site installation. The facility features Snow

Malaysia’s Petaling Jaya, a city that’s part of the Greater Kuala Lumpur area, has quietly entered the global dry‑slope map with the launch of a new indoor skiing and snowboarding facility inside a neighbourhood mall, a first for Malaysia and one of only a handful outside China in Southeast Asia. Slope Master, located at Hextar World Empire City mall, features

Construction on lakeside leisure development Phoenix Park in Preston, including a dry ski slope, that was first granted planning permission almost three years ago, appears to be edging closer to getting started after the group planning to build it secured the required funding to complete it. The rare new dry ski slope is set to become one of the headline

Switzerland’s Tanguy Nef’s Olympic Gold in the Alpine Team Combined event at the Milan-Cortina Olympics was helped by training on in the controlled environment of a SkiMachine. But before the world watched him deliver the slalom run of his life, Nef used precise, high‑frequency training sessions at Loco Ski Academy in Saillon, Switzerland, where a SkiMachine allowed him to repeat