Max’s Best Skiers

By: Max Burgoyne

#5 – Max Moffat

Max Moffatt is a Canadian freestyle skier who joined the national team in 2014, specializing in slopestyle and big air events. He secured his first World Cup gold in slopestyle in 2019 and earned a silver medal at the 2022 X Games in Aspen. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Moffatt placed ninth in slopestyle and 20th in big air, marking a strong debut on the Olympic stage.

#4 – Miro Tabanelli

Miro Tabanelli is an upcoming big air skiier who just landed a worlds first; a doubles cork 2340. A double cork 2340 consists of doing 6.5 full roatations while simultaneously doing 2 flips. He landed this in the 2025 XGames big air and took home gold with this mind blowing trick.

#3 -Matěj Švancer

Matěj Švancer is a Czech-Austrian freestyle skier in slopestyle and big air. He is known for his mind blowing tricks such as multiple switch quad corks (shown in the first clip in the below video) and crazy technical rail tricks.

#2 – Jesper Tjader

Jesper Tjader is 31 years old and is one of the oldest but best professional skiiers in the world. He is known for his insane technical tricks in the streets and in the park. Recently, he has taken the ski world by storm with his new street edit, “Jesper Tjäder Street Video”. It’s shown below.

#1 – Luca Harrington

Luca Harrington is 21 years old and an upcoming big air and slopestyle skier from New Zealand. He recently won gold in XGames slopestyle 2025 and got silver in XGames big air with a triple cork 2160, a stunt that hasnt been seen with that grab or that perfectly landed. He also received gold in big air at the world cup. More recently, he landed a switch quad cork 1620 at the 2025 Swatch Nines.