Blood on the Rails
After stomping this 450 disaster, LJ could have quit for the day. Instead he wanted to make a bigger disaster and ended his season. Photo by Abbott.
“I hate when I fall asleep and I think I’m not going to remember today. I’m sitting here right now, and I’m tucking this away. I’m going to remember today.” It’s sometime after midnight, and LJ Strenio is lying on his back in a small bed at a hostel in Helsinki, Finland. His left leg is raised up, encased from ankle to thigh by an enormous cast. Twelve hours before, his life was different. “My whole life was get as many shots as I can right now. Push it. Then get ready to compete again, and then film again. Send it, send it, send it. Now my whole life is 180 degrees different.” continue reading
This article originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of Freeskier Magazine
LJ Strenio 2012 Season + Injury
The 11/12 winter season was on track to be the greatest season of LJ Strenio‘s life filled with fun park sessions in the US, powdery heaven in Europe and a trip to the urban rail mecca of Finland with Level 1. As we know too well with all this fun there is the possibility of injury & consequence. A shattered kneecap in Finland sidelined LJ for the rest of the year and through rehab, determination and the great attitude that LJ is known for is back for more!
LJ Strenio Half Season Update
It’s been a wild season back so far with no time to habituate back to life as a full time skier. This fall was jammed packed for me: I graduated from college, Traveled to New Zealand, Australia and The Virgin Islands with the TC friends and most importantly began skiing again.
Get learnt kids!
TC documents everything: epic pee in NZ
swimming with wild dolphins in the US VI
After getting home from our travels I worked hard all day everyday to get my knee back to 100% finishing PT just in time to film another episode with the traveling circus.
rehabing hard with TC
In early december I headed back to the motherland of Vermont for the annual rails to riches competition with a bunch of friends and ended up on top of the podium along with Good friends and fellow Line team rider Giray Dadali and Full Tilt team rider Steve Stepp.
Rails 2 Riches // 2012 // Skiers from Matt Stambaugh on Vimeo.
Rails to riches
After rails to riches there was no time to catch my breath as I headed straight to stockholm sweden to hit rails with the level 1 crew for 2 weeks before heading home to Vermont for christmas.
family shred!
After Christmas I headed to Colorado for the U.S. Grand Prix where I started jumping again ending up in 26th in a field of 150. Now the season is in full swing and all is well in the cosmos! enjoy the shred!
LJ Strenio’s Beastly Season Edits
For the past couple seasons LJ Strenio has continued to solidify his reputation as one of the hardest working, fearless, fun loving & naturally talented skiers around. Unfortunately LJ hurt his knee this winter and only got to film til’ January. Here’s to the best pre-February segment of the year and putting his Stepups and Bacons to good use!
Part One
Part Duex
Line Skis Mixtape Edit 2011
LJ Nabs Mag Cover
Considered one of the hardest working freeskiers around, LJ Strenio is pretty much everywhere these days. That’s why we weren’t surprised when we saw LJ’s Chronics on the cover shot from skiing Magazine over in Europe.
WAY TO GO LJ!
Jackson Trip with LJ Strenio
A month ago Will Wesson, John Kutcher and myself all had a week with nothing going on, a rarity for a single skier much less three in the middle of the winter. Rather than catch up on sleep or shred around our local mountain of Park City we decided to skip the break and go on another adventure. I had been meaning to visit my sister in Jackson Hole, which coincidentally had been getting dumped on all week so we sent it northbound. With the help of my older sister Jacki and our friend Julie Weinberger who is now the Social Media & Marketing Coordinator for Jackson Hole, we were able to squeeze in a few days of some of the best skiing of the season, pure ski bum style. After three days of sleeping on couches, dollar store candy, early ups, epic pow and Corbet’s Couloir, we topped it all off with a wild St. Patty’s Day on our final night right in Jackson! After a spontaneous week of roughing it we hopped back on the calendar to finish our busy seasons. Check out the epic photos and edit from our trip, Thanks to Julie Jacki and the whole Dual exhaust crew for having us! Enjoy that spring skiing! – LJ
Will Wesson backie
Will Wesson takin off
The Crew preparing for our daily warm up run into Corbet’s Couloir
Tucking one up
Robot will learning to fly
Pillow Blast!
3ing a hollywood hit
Kutcher tweakin one out
Kutcher under the white curtain
John Kutcher sending a big one
LINE @ the Denver Big Air
Yep! We’re in it with a stable of ponies primed for world domination! Utah’s Joss Christensen, youngster Mitch Gilman and big air master LJ Strenio will make up the LINE Team at the first Denver Big Air comp this Tuesday, January 25th at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado. Be there or be square (or just not here, you can watch it online). Click here for all the details and we look forward to a very fun event! Go Line!
LJ Strenio’s January Update
The last month has been more uneventful then I would have hoped. After a somewhat useless visit to the doctor to tell me my ankle’s not broken I continued to lay low missing out on my first opportunities of the year to film with the Poorboyz crew as well as the Meatheads crew. After a couple of mellow days at Park City my friends and I headed off to Lake Tahoe in California for the inaugural North Face Open competition at Northstar. Though the jumps were a little small the course was very well built and very smooth with a wider variety of features than most slopestyle runs. The weather was “ahh California, beautiful” all weekend and with the help of a little Tylenol and a lot of Ibuprofen I ended up in second place in the slopestyle competition just missing the coveted X-Games spot by 1 place to Chris Logan who not only deserved to win, but deserves to be in X-Games as he was killing it literally all weekend including the practice day. After the finals I once again bailed on my plans to film with the Poorboyz crew to try to allow my ankle to rest for the week leading up to second dew tour stop in my home state of Vermont! Winter continues and until next time! – LJ
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