Jon McMurray was a player on the freestyle skiing scene all the way up until he left the sport to focus on his rap career as a member of the Loose Canon Playaz. During the height of his ski career, McMurray was always a bit of a, well, loose cannon. He did lots of crazy stunts on and off snow, and helped pioneer flips onto and off of rails. He may have been the first to backflip onto a rail (either him or Paul Cotter, I think), he was the first to ask "Where My Belvy At?," and now, after his annual brief summer return to skiing, he's the first to do a flip in the middle of a rail transfer gap. Pretty sick. I mean, like, pretty sick.
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