Jossi Wells

Jossi Wells

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In the eras of triples, Jossi Wells' signature zero spins make a compelling case for simplicity and style. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of style in the ski disciplines of halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. While it might not directly translate to contest wins, style earns and keeps fans. And fan favorite Jossi Wells exemplifies clean style. From his black-and-white Instagram account to his custom-built motorcycles to his Olympic slopestyle run in which he famously zero-spun the entire jump section, Jossi stands out from the pack and skis by his own rules. In the last dozen years, without compromising, Jossi has earned X Games medals in halfpipe, slopestyle and big air and represented his home country of New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where he placed fourth in slopestyle. The oldest of four boys, Jossi paved the way for his brothers to become professional skiers and X Games competitors. Jossi learned to ski at Cardrona, where his father was a ski patroller and his mother worked in the childcare center, when he was two years old and ski raced until he was 15. The “platter” lift that services the Superpipe is named after the Wells family. When Jossi competed in Aspen at age 16, he was the youngest ever skier to compete at Winter X Games. He earned his plane ticket by playing violin outside his local grocery store. Ten years later, with five X Games medals already to his name, he won X Games slopestyle gold, only two years after a breaking his neck. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Jossi was the only skier to compete in both slopestyle (11th) and halfpipe (4th). Jossi is building his ski mountaineering skills with dreams of skiing big peaks around the world. But during the 18 months leading up to the 2022 Olympics, you’ll find Jossi training Slopestyle and Big Air as he goes for Olympic gold one once more.

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Deviate
Take a sneak peek at 'DEVIATE,' the first backcountry project from legendary shredders Torin Yater-Wallace and Jossi Wells, featuring the duo alongside some of the heaviest hitting rippers in the industry.
The Free Man
Freedom is defined as the power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity. To reach that level of liberty is a physical and mental endeavor that many will risk their life to obtain. Is life worth risking for the feeling of conquering fear and becoming free? Olympic Freestyle skier, Jossi Wells, meets extreme sports performing artists, The Flying Frenchies, to find out what it really means to be free and what drives individuals to chase such a powerful right. Directed by Toa Fraser, this is the story of men who push themselves to the point of no return. There is no going back when death is at your door and you realize that this is the most important moment of your life because it could be your very last.
Hurt So Good
Hurt So Good is the latest collaboration between freeskiing gang (and housemates) Legs of Steel and Canadian cinematographer Andre Nutini. Made with the assistance of the Red Bull Media House, Hurt So Good promises more of the same, only we can expect the action to be even more intense. The housemates are joined by the usual array of freeskiing pals in tackling self-built obstacles up various mountains to a pumping hard-rock soundtrack.
Wintervention
Himself
Do people think you have a problem? Can you just not get enough of winter and skiing? Don’t worry you’re not alone, follow skiers and riders like Jossi Wells, Andy Mahre, JJ Thomas, and others who all have the same problem as you. From the North Pole all the way down to the South Pole watch an epic ski journey that will help you realize that the only cure to your ailment is a good Wintervention.
Revolver
Jossi Wells
Revolver, the 2010 film from Poor Boyz Productions, presented by Salomon focuses on the progression and the factors that have coincided with many great advancements of the sport of skiing. (Over the last decade skiing has exploded into what we know it is today. But skiing has had many trying moments long before the end of the 20th century.) This season Poor Boyz Productions plans to showcase today’s raw talents of skiing in a high action, retrospective, yet progressive look at what things are pushing the sport today.