Dane Tudor is an Australian / American 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...

 born in Sydney, Australia. Dane spent his time growing up between Palmer, Alaska

Palmer, Alaska

Palmer is the borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the state of Alaska, USA. It is part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 5,937....

 and Rossland, British Columbia

Rossland, British Columbia

Rossland is a city in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia.Tucked high in the Monashee Mountains, Rossland is at an elevation of 1023 metres . Population today is approximately 3500; a number that fluctuates from season to season. The population is at its peak during the winter...

. He still resides in both 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...

 and Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

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Skiing career

Dane is very unique in the ski industry in that he excels in both Big Mountain / Freeskiing

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...

 and Freestyle

Freestyle skiing

Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...

 skiing. Dane started skiing at 2 years of age and was ski racing by age 4. He continued to compete in ski racing until the age of 17 before switching full time to the fast growing sport of Freeskiing

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...

. He continues to be one of the top placing competitors in the sport.

Sponsors

• 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...
  
  
• Scott
• Red Mountain
• Skullcandy
  Skullcandy
  Skullcandy is a Park City, Utah-based company that markets headphones, earphones, hands free devices, audio backpacks, MP3 players and other products. The company was founded in 2003....
  
  
• Discrete Headwear
• Mons Royal

Filmography

Dane has appeared in many ski films for 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...

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• The Grand Bizarre - 2011
• Revolver - 2010
• Every Day Is A Saturday - 2009
• Journal - 2008

Competition Results

• 3rd - 2011 Red Bull - Cold Rush, Silverton, Colorado
• 1st - 2009 Canadian Open Freeskiing Championship, Rossland, BC
• 2nd - 2009 Tignes Airwaves, Tignes, France (Part of Team North America)
• 1st - 2008 Canadian Open Freeskiing Championship, Rossland, BC
• 3rd - 2008 US Extreme Freeskiing Championship, Crested Butte, Colorado
• 4th - 2008 Red Bull - Cold Rush, Rossland, BC
• 1st - 2007 Lake Louise Smith Optics Junior - Big Mountain
• 1st - 2007 Fernie Junior Freeskiing Championships
• 2nd - 2007 Junior Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships
• 4th - 2007 Lord Of The Parks, Slopestyle
• 2nd - 2007 Ontic Rail Jam
• 2nd - 2007 Industrial Surf Triple Crown, Slopestyle
• 3rd - 2007 New Zealand Armageddon, Slopestyle
• 1st - 2006 US Junior Extreme Freeskiing Championships
• 1st - 2005 US Junior Extreme Freeskiing Championships
• 1st - 2004 US Junior Extreme Freeskiing Championships
• 1st - 2004 BC Provincials, Slalom (Canada)
• 1st - 2004 BC Provincials, GS (Canada)
• 1st - 2004 BC Provincials, Overall Champion (Canada)

Industry Awards

• 2011 IF3 Awards - “Best Male Performance - Nomination”
• 2010 ESPN Movie Awards - “Best Male Performance In A Leading Role - Winner”
• 2010 Powder Video Awards - “Breakout Performance - Winner”
• 2010 Powder Video Awards - “Best Male Performance - Nomination”
• 2010 IF3 Awards - “Best Male Performance - Nomination”
• 2009 IF3 Awards - “Best Male Performance - Winner”
• 2009 Powder Video Awards - “Best Male Performance - Nomination”

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