Parkite mogulist Nick Page may have just wrapped up his 2024-25 season Friday over in Engadin, Switzerland, but the 22 year old is already back in the gym at the Center of Excellence. At the World Championships in Engadin, Page posted his career-best championships result, finishing fourth in Wednes day’s solo moguls event. Page also finished 14th in Friday’s dual moguls. “The fourth was definitely bittersweet,” Page said. “It was nice because I was able to put forth a run that I was really happy with at the time. … But I was then bumped off a podium.”Page finished the season ranked third in the world in solos and fifth overall. He and his team thought it best to waste no time in preparation for next season — he won’t compete in this weekend’s U.S. National Championships. Page will be shooting for gold in next season’s Olympic Games. He finished fifth in Beijing in 2022 and knows he can compete with any of the world’s best. Page missed out on the bronze by less than a point to South Korea’s Daeyoon Jung. Page’s two close friends, Ikuma Horishima and Mikael Kingsbury, finished in first and second, respectively. Nick Page makes his way down the Engadin course last week, where he finished fourth in the solo moguls event. Credit: Photo courtesy of Mita Matavz/FISNarrowly missing out on the podium is an experience Page is working to eliminate. Kingsbury is the greatest man to ever strap on skis and Horishima has followed tightly behind him in the sport for the last several years. “It was kind of a nice wake up call,” Page said. “There are big things that I want to address now as we head into the off season. … Nothing in what I’m doing right now is broken, but everything needs to get better.”Page will look to add speed, sharpen his jumping and tighten up his skiing before next season. He and his team are already considering gym sessions now the beginning of the 2025-26 season. Page will ski as much as possible through May. He’ll then hit the gym a bit more, finding snow where he and the U.S. team can, and in the fall, he’ll look to put it all together. Page said ski coaches Bryon Wilson and Steve Desovich, and trainer Hannah Kearney, will continue to be instrumental in his development. “It gets exponentially harder,” said Page on continual improvements at the top of the sport. “I finished my first year on the tour 28th in the world, and my second year, I finished ninth in the world, and looking back to that jump now feels like it was a cakewalk. I went from finishing fourth in the world two years ago to third in the world this year (solos), and that was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It’s only going to get harder now to go from third in the world to first.”Page is finally in a place where he’s built a solid physical base. He can now go out onto snow and chase the minutia of improving his skiing.Page can also take solace in the fact that he knows he’s not skipping any steps along the path to greatness. Being good friends with Kingsbury, Horishima and others, he learns the tricks to their trade: There’s really none. Just hard work. As for his life off skis, Page fancies himself a pretty strong golfer. He said he’s ready to hit the links again this summer but assured it’s not a priority less than a year out from another Games. “I’d say it’s probably priority number two,” said Page. “I’ll definitely be playing a lot. My golf coach is in town this week, so I signed up for a lesson.”The post Nick Page already preparing for next season appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less