If you find your time away from the slopes too long, then you might want to know where you can watch skiing and snowboarding on the TV.
What’s the longest you can go without thinking about skiing? If you are like us, it might not be very long.
So in the long months between spring and winter, we have to get our fix online and on TV.
Here are some of the best places to find and watch skiing and snowboarding on TV and online.
Skiing and Snowboarding on Netflix
If you have a Netflix subscription, you probably won’t find your ski fix here but can get a small dose of alpine life watching the documentary Mountains. There are some feel-good ski based movies to watch such as Chalet Girl and Eddie the Eagle.
There is also The Chalet a revenge thriller where a group of friends head to a chalet in the French Alps for a wedding, or there is The Frozen Dead a police crime investigation mystery based in the Pyrenees.
Skiing and Snowboarding on Amazon Prime
Prime subscribers have a wider selection of more traditional ski and snowboard movies that feature actual skiing and snowboarding. For the race fan, there is the documentary Streif about putting on the classic Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbuhel.
Other ski films include White Wedding, Antagonist, Gunni Season and Japow.
For snowboarders, there is a little less to watch on Amazon Prime with just Yugen and Travis Rices’ Roadless of note. However, there is MXP: Most Xtreme Primate a film about a snowboarding chimpanzee and few episodes of Paw Patrol that feature the pups boarding.
Skiing and Snowboarding on Redbull TV
For anyone looking for a serious does of incredible skiing and snowboarding movies and TV shows look no further than the free online and digital channel from the energy drink company.
This is the media house that brought the world the game-changing Art of Flight, also on the channel are all of Rices’ other movies including The Fourth Phase.
There are load of ski films on there too, as well as live streams and replays of events like the Kings and Queens of Corbets. Dig deeper and find athlete session and behind the scene clips. There is also a documentary about an alpine search and rescue team called The Horn.
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/discover
Skiing and Snowboarding on YouTube
Obviously, there are endless ski, and snowboard viewing opportunities to be found on YouTube but to save you searching too much here are three recommendations.
Quicksilver: The clothing brand has a great channel with some seriously good snow flick in amongst the surfing.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Quiksilver/videos
FIS: The FIS has a channel for everything, from alpine to freestyle, Each channel has a combo of run replays, comp highlights and athlete interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/user/FISAlpine
Echo Boom: If your looking for some stylish snow films to drool over check our this YT channel. It has a huge selection of free and paid-for movies.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFw1qLNT4tw321EyssMXC8w
Freeride world tour on Facebook
During the winter the Freeride world tour is streamed live on various platforms including Facebook. And they also leave them there so you can watch full competition whenever you fancy.
https://www.facebook.com/FreerideWorldTour
Skiing and Snowboarding on Eurosport
Don’t forget Eurosport. During the season it shows wall to wall winter sports events live. Many homes will get the channels free with Sky or Virgin media.
It is also available on smart TV and online for £39.99 a year.
When you are ready for some real skiing, give us a call or check out all our chalet holidays in Meribel and La Tania.