Peter Johnson (skier)


Peter Johnson is a former World Mogul Skiing Champion, United States Technical Delegate for the International Ski Federation and founder of the Pro Mogul Tour.
His skiing career spans the early days of hot dog skiing, where in the early 1970s, the sport began as a free spirited form of expression, quickly gained worldwide recognition under two organizations, Professional Freestyle Associates and the International Freestyle Skiers Association and evolved into the Olympic sport that it is today.
As his signature move, performed at the end of every mogul competition, he created and named the Zudnick, a jump where the upper body leans forward toward the tips of the skis. Zudnick has hence gained infamy as an FIS recognized aerial maneuver, subject of the Warren Miller ski film Black Diamond Rush with Zudnick the Wonder Dog and inspiration for the jacket from Columbia Sportswear Company.
When The International Ski Federation recognized freestyle as a sport in 1979, he became one of the first United States Technical Delegates and Chairman of a three-man international jury to oversee all World Cup Freestyle competition in Canada.
The early days of FIS Freestyle Skiing set the stage for the International Olympic Committee to select Freestyle Skiing as a demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Mogul skiing was added as an official medal event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, and the aerials event was added for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
In 1981 he organized a team of young Americans to ski the three highest mountains in Mexico including El Pico de Orizaba. The team included Craig Sabina and John Harlan III.
While attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, he started the University's first freestyle ski team, now the CU Freestyle Ski Team and the Pro Mogul Tour.
He has served as Director Sportiff for the Swiss National Cycling Team, Director of Special Events for the Coors International Bicycle Classic, founded and co-directed the Look Freestyle Camps in Bariloche, Argentina and has executive produced over thirty made-for-television skiing, mountain biking and wind surfing events for ESPN, ESPN2, Prime Sports and Liberty Media.
In 1994, he created the StorageTek "16 in One" to benefit Junior Achievement - setting a world record by skiing sixteen Colorado ski areas in one day, utilizing StorageTek's S-76 Sikorsky helicopter for the Fall reconnaissance and two Bell 212s for the event helicopters.
His Boardrider Project, documented the social commentary of skateboard art on contemporary American culture with the collection of over 200 skateboards from Think, Girl, Chocolate, Alien Workshop, Sector9, Fuct, World Industries, Powell Peralta, Krooked, Toy Machine and Zoo York among others. The project culminated in a "The Underside—Skateboard Art Revealed" a retrospective exhibit at the University of Denver School of Art and Art History.
In 1996, he started the and the International Outdoor Festival that brought outdoor enthusiasts together with some of the world's foremost athletes including Ed Viesturs, the first American to summit all 14 8,000m peaks without supplemental oxygen, Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind person to have climbed the "Seven Summits," the tallest peak on every continent, Eric Simonson, whose 1999 expedition found the remains of George Mallory on Mt. Everest and many more.
IOG is the recipient of numerous awards for multi-partner and integrated marketing excellence from the American Marketing Association and Promotional Marketing Association and 2008 the Oregon Chapter of the American Marketing Association awarded IOG Integrated Marketing Campaign of the Year.
In 2011, among the legends of freestyle, he was recognized as a Pioneer of Freestyle Skiing by the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame.
On 5.2.15 he launched around the idea that the right photograph, when viewed on a grand scale, completely transforms the experience. Representing a single, large format, open edition photograph from each of 52 invited photographers from around the world each season. At the end of Season 5, Captured52 repositioned as the most unique collection of large scale photographs in the world—260 original photographs from 227 photographers in 47 countries. In 2018 he launched and C52 Concierge to meet the growing demand for turnkey art services in residential markets in Portland and Seattle.
Today, Captured52 is recognized worldwide for unconventional curation, personalized service and museum quality work at a fair price. Each Season Captured52 showcases a single, large format image from each of 52 invited photographers from around the world—selling to collectors, designers, architects and advisors in North America, Asia and Europe. calls Captured52 "an ultra cool art seller with an extremely unique platform. The online store invites some of the world's most talented photographers to sell their work on their site–and that's where things get interesting."
As Founder and Managing Director of the he serves as President of the Board leading an effort to redesign a center city waterfront park as an iconic destination of world class art, entertainment, technology, sustainability, architecture and landscape design to generate economic development and cultural tourism as Portland's new landmark.
World Trophy Tour Results
References
zudnik

http://wiki.fisski.com/index.php/Zudnik

https://web.archive.org/web/20120422070531/http://community.freeskier.com/photos/photo.php?photo_id=7129

http://www.columbia.com/Product/1/Mens/110/Jackets/8649/Zudnik-Parka.aspx