There will probably be very little argument with the fact that professional skier Maddie Jones is a certifiable badass. The Australian spends most of her year on two sticks, chasing snow around the globe. Check her Instagram. She can ride park, she skates well, she’s well traveled. And oh yeah, she throws picture-perfect backflips without a stitch of clothing on save for a pair of skis and boots (like she did here, at Perisher to bid adieu to the season down under).
And all to honor one of the most badass naked back flippers in the history of back flippers, Shane McConkey. Jones, it seems, has perfected the art. “It was a bit of a homage to the man himself,” Jones said of a naked backflip she pulled at Breckenridge in 2016 that got everyone at the Colorado resort in a huff. But Jones is a wise woman. And she has some sage advice, not just for those looking to add the naked backie to their repertoire, but to living life in general: “Do whatever you want. You wanna do a naked backie? Fuckin’ send it. You don’t want to? That’s fuckin’ cool too. Do whatever you want and whatever makes you happy.”
Read more about the Australian shredder, here.
