Jeff Brockmeyer

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Event coverage doesn’t need to be your standard fare.

This year the Snowboard Magazine team decided to take a different approach to how we portrayed the X Games. It was our goal to present you with the deeper story, focusing on how the events and people surrounding the X Games affect our world of snowboarding. It began with how Danny Davis’ monumental run in the superpipe marked a turning point in how that discipline is portrayed to the masses. Then we dove into the ramifications of triple corks, 14-year-old Chloe Kim’s achievement of women’s superpipe gold, and the importance and historical significance of the 900 in women’s slopestyle, which was sparked by Spencer O’Brien and the botched commentary of the X Games announcers.

We like to think about snowboarding differently so we assigned the same task to photographer Jeff Brockmeyer, who took our editorial direction to his visual depiction of the event. In this special edition of Focal Point, experience X Games through Jeff’s lens in a way that isn’t shown on television or a web cast. This is what it’s like to stand on the 22-foot-tall halfpipe deck among the crowd, to see through the competitor’s eyes, and unique perspectives to a feature already being photographed by countless lensmen, both professional and casual.

Read and watch all of our X Games 2015 coverage right here.

See more Focal Point photo essays here

About Focal Point:

This photo essay series was designed to exhibit the countless photos that do not make it into the incredibly competitive pages of snowboarding magazines. Photos can be published or unpublished, taken 10 years ago or last season. Photographers are given up to 17 photographic categories to meet, each with the goal of showing a different aspect of life in snowboarding. All captions are written by the photographer.