Armada Skier, Todd Ligare, on Big-Mountain Skiing, Ski Racing, & His New Films: On the Hunt Part 1 & 2
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan talks with Todd Ligare about his career in big-mountain skiing; his background in ski racing; movies & marriage; his two new 5-minute ski films, On the Hunt Part 1 & Part 2; Sammy Carlson; Mikaela Shiffrin; the current world cup ski racing season; & more.
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Blister Rec Shop: Gear West (3:46)
BLISTER+ Get Yourself Covered (4:25)
Todd @ the Blister Summit (7:11)
Todd’s 2 New Films: On the Hunt (8:45)
On the Hunt, Part 1 (13:12)
On the Hunt, Part 2 (14:49)
Movies & Marriage (19:12)
Inception on Blister Cinematic (27:24)
Ski Racing & Big-Mountain Skiing (30:11)
Growing Up & Getting into Racing (35:08)
Favorite Disciplines? (39:13)
What Were Your Aspirations in Skiing? (42:39)
Who Did You Look Up to in Racing? (47:08)
From Ski Racing to Freeriding (50:17)
10 Years on Armada (59:19)
Gear Nerd (1:05:16)
Sammy Carlson’s Style (1:11:20)
World Cup Ski Racing (1:18:14)
Mikaela Shiffrin (1:22:09)
Marcel Hirscher (1:26:30)
Ways to Improve World Cup Ski Racing? (1:29:28)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything. |
| 0:11.9 | We're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.7 | Our guest today is professional big mountain skier Todd Liguerre. Todd has been skiing for Armada |
| 0:24.7 | skis for about a decade now, and given Armada's incredible brand history in park skiing and |
| 0:32.3 | freestyle skiing, Todd's strong background in ski racing makes him look, well, a bit different from the rest |
| 0:41.6 | of the Armada team. |
| 0:43.9 | So that is part of what we are going to be discussing here today. |
| 0:47.7 | Todd's move from ski racing to becoming one of the most respected big mountain skiers out there. |
| 1:02.9 | We also talk about movies and marriage and Todd's lovely fiancé and my occasional blister cinematic co-host, Amy Engerbretzen. |
| 1:06.2 | Hi, Amy, you're the best. |
| 1:08.4 | Remember that, even maybe while I'm cracking a few jokes in this conversation |
| 1:13.2 | about you, but no, seriously, Amy is the best. And yeah, Todd and I, you know, it's just a little |
| 1:18.1 | light conversation about movies and marriage. You'll see. It's fine. It's all good. Okay, |
| 1:23.4 | quickly moving on here. Todd and I also talk about his time in the mountains with |
| 1:27.9 | Armada teammate Sammy Carlson, who is a mind-blowingly good skier, but somebody whose style, |
| 1:36.6 | we might say, is almost opposite of Todd's. So I wanted to ask him a bit about that and |
| 1:43.4 | what it's like being out in the mountains with |
| 1:46.0 | Sammy. We are also talking about the two short films that Todd just dropped. It's called |
| 1:51.6 | On the Hunt, Part One and Part Two. These are beautiful five-minute films that are definitely |
| 1:58.3 | worth checking out either before you listen to our conversation |
| 2:01.9 | here, or I actually think you can listen to us first and then go watch the films. |
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