Mark Abma is a professional freeskier

Freeskiing

Freeskiing or Newschool skiing involves tricks, jumps, and terrain park features, such as rails, boxes, jibs, or other obstacles. This form of skiing resulted from a combination of the growth in popularity of snowboarding as well as the progression of Freestyle skiing...

 from Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. He has won numerous awards, including the Powder Video Award for Best Male Performance in 2007 and 2005. Abma was first known as a mogul and park skier, but moved on to the back country and heliskiing

Heliskiing

Heliskiing is off-trail, downhill skiing that is accessed by a helicopter, not a ski lift. Heliskiing is essentially about skiing in a natural—albeit highly selected—environment without the effort or gear compromise required for hiking into these areas as in ski touring or ski mountaineering.Most...

 later in his career. He has been featured in many extreme skiing

Extreme skiing

Extreme skiing is skiing performed on long, steep slopes in dangerous terrain. The sport is performed off-piste.The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s...

 movies.

Projects

Recently, Mark has started up an advocacy group called One Step, whose goal is to help skiers and ski resorts reduce their carbon footprint.

Moreover Abma helped Salomon

Salomon Group

The Salomon Group is a sports equipment manufacturing company that originated in Annecy, France. The company was started in 1947 by François Salomon and his wife and son. In 1997 it became part of the Adidas group. On 2 May 2005, Adidas-Salomon announced that it had agreed to sell the Salomon...

 to design their ski called the "Shogun".

Career achievements

Competition results:

• 4th 2003 U.S Open Big Air
• 5th 2003 U.S Open Slopestlye

Awards

• 2010: Powder Video Awards - Best Natural Air (In Deep, Matchstick Productions)
• 2009: Powder Video Awards - Best Powder (Claim, Matchstick Productions)
• 2007: Powder Video Awards - Best Male Performance (Push, Matchstick Productions)
• 2005: Powder Video Awards - Best Male Performance (Yearbook, Matchstick Productions)

Filmography

• The Way I See It (2010) by Matchstick Productions (MSP)
• In Deep: The Skiing Experience (2009) by MSP
• Everyday Is Saturday (2009) by Poor Boyz Productions
  Poor Boyz Productions
  Poor Boyz Productions is a skiing film production company. Since the 1990s, they have released a number of freeskiing as well as wind surfing films. Poor Boyz Productions sponsors and films freeskiers including Tanner Hall, Sammy Carlson, JP Auclair, Dane Tudor and the late C. R...
  
  (PBP)
• Claim (2008) by MSP
• Reasons (2008) by PBP
• Seven Sunny Days (2007) by MSP
• Push (2006) by MSP
• The Hit List (2005) by MSP
• War (2005) by PBP
• Session 51 (2005) by Warren Miller (WM)
• Yearbook (2004) by MSP
• Impact (2004) by WM
• X = 10 (2004) by PBP
• Ready, Fire, Aim (2003) by PBP
• Focused (2003) by MSP
• Abma appeared in a lot of Salomon Freeski TV episodes

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