We caught up with Bruce Oldham, pro freestyle skier for Team Canada, content creator, and Corbetts sponsored athlete for a post ski season interview. Bruce talks on his skiing journey, training routines, winning NorAMs, Olympic dreams, and how he balances skiing, content creation, MMA, and so much more!

Read time: 10-15 minutes | 36 Questions

Where are you at right now?

BRUCE: I'm in Whis, Enjoying some spring skiing. Trying to get it while it's here.

What do you got going on out there?

BRUCE: After the contest season, I came out West for the last month of spring skiing, kind of just to really focus, and get that last little bit of training in. We have fitness testing out here as well. Kind of just do that last little bit and try to get as much time on snow before the summer off, but it's kind of nice this time of year to kind of start to tone it down because contests are over. You're still training and skiing, but it's like a different mindset and kind of vibe. It's more training, but you're skiing and having fun with your friends and enjoying that aspect as well.

What are your plans for the summer off-season besides kicking it out West?

BRUCE: So, for the summer I've moved to Montreal right now just because it's the only place in Canada that has an airbag. They're looking at building one at Horseshoe, but I don't know if it'll be done this year. But, for the most part I'm going to be living in Montreal and just training on the airbag, at the gym, doing lots of MMA training and getting ready for the upcoming winter season.

That’s at Maximise right? What do you think of that space there?

BRUCE: It's a great facility to have and to be able to train all these tricks we do on the jumps and rails in a safer way throughout all the year is really huge. I'm sure you know coming from Ontario that our seasons are really short. So, when I first found out that all my friends from BC had like an extra 3 months of skiing each year. I was like what the heck but now to be able to train throughout the summer effectively is huge. It makes a big difference, and it also makes a big difference just for general safety because if you get to try these tricks in a manner where if you mess it up and you don't break something. It's pretty handy, you get like a couple of freebies before trying it on snow. It's definitely been huge for sure.

You were recently at The Nines in Switzerland. What was that like riding that course?

BRUCE: The Nines in Switzerland was probably one of the craziest things I've seen with my own eyes, definitely the craziest thing I've seen with my own eyes when it comes to skiing or snowboarding. When you ski down this cat track and you get your first look at it every morning, it just blows your mind. It's so much bigger than it looks in videos and it's just crazy. I don't understand how they are able to make snow stay in a position like that. It literally looks like those professional sandcastle builders you see at the beach. It was just a really, really, really fun event to go and ride. I was super lucky to get to go this year. The town where it's held is so crazy. It's like a village with no cars up on a Cliff in Switzerland you have to take a gondola up to. Craziest thing I've rode and seen.

So overall, how was this past ski season for you?

BRUCE: The past ski season for me was really quite good. The focus for a lot of us is competing on the NorAM circuit, which is the North American circuit, mainly just because spots for the World Cup for Team Canada is pretty small. We have 12 athletes, and we get three spots per event depending on the event. So, to get your own spot outside of that, you kind of have to win the North American Cup. So, there's quite a bit of us competing on that circuit this year and my goal for this year was to win that circuit and be able to have my own spots to the World Cup next year. I started out the year winning an event and kind of got the mood right for the year and kept it going through the year. Yeah, it was pretty good.

And you won first overall for the NorAm, what do you get from winning that?

BRUCE: Well, first of all, no money ha-ha. But I have all my own personal World Cup spots, so I can go to every World Cup event without taking anybody else's spot. It's basically like getting the Canadian team an extra spot, but I get to use it. There's a lot of events next year that are Olympic qualifying events before the games, and you have to get results in World Cup events to qualify for the Olympics. So now I have to focus on coming into next season super hungry and getting ready to get some results to hopefully qualify for the games.

So, there's a potential you can still qualify for the 2026 Olympics?

BRUCE: Yeah, there's a potential for sure. It's definitely a little bit of a long shot. But it's definitely possible.

Let's take it back now and get a little background on Bruce. What first got you into freestyle skiing and how did it evolve into a professional path?

BRUCE: I kind of first got into freestyle skiing like, not in the traditional way. We would go skiing with my family and family friends like a couple times a year. Not skiing insane amount or anything like that, but once I figured out how to ski around the mountain, I was always very bored of the groomers and doing runs. So, I was looking for any kind of little side hit, or tree run or bump I could jump off. I then started trying to do little grabs or like a 180 or whatever and it kind of grew from there. I remember at one point I was skiing down this one mountain and we took a turn and all of a sudden there was a terrain park. But at the time I didn't know what a terrain park was. I was like, Oh my God, they actually build jumps and features for this? I remember going through it and having so much fun and trying to impress my friends. Then as I got older, I started skiing a little bit more and I started going to Mt. St. Louis Moonstone