Hold up. Ranking the biggest backflip on skis ever is like ranking the best street hotdog. Or the best piece of thin-crust pizza. There are different types of street hotdogs all over America (at least) and different types of thin-crust pizza all over the world. So like pizza and hotdogs, there are a lot of f****** skiers out there doing a lot of crazy things. Stick chasers and bump skiers and freeskiers and pipe skiers and big air skiers. And there are a lot of skiers doing backflips.
That’s why it’s hard to believe there’s no frickin’ Shane McConkey or JP Auclair anywhere in this edit (put together by the random YouTube channel, Internet Skiers). So a better title than “Top 10 Craziest Backflips of All Time” might be “Best Backflips Over the Last Half Decade or So.” That would be a long title and obviously there’s no real way to rank such a thing, but it does make for good discussion and these are all pretty insane. Candide is always a favorite as is Josh Daiek’s Tahoe-area huck (Seth Morrison is probably ranked a little low here as well). But there are some goodies, nonetheless. Enjoy with a storm on the way.
